Happy New Year!! Tourtiere..yum..

I hope you had a wonderful Christmas.  Its hard to imagine it came by so quickly….and slipped out quickly too.  Ours was really lovely.    We were all at my mom’s for Christmas Eve which is when we celebrate.   It was wonderful for us all to be together and it was so cute watching Madeline getting [...]

Merry Christmas & Happy Holidays

 
 
I am off work now officially on Christmas vacation until  January 5th.   Today we celebrate our family Christmas at my mothers.   She lives about an hour north.  I am cooking the turkey here this year and when its done we’ll grab it and the Love Bunny and I will be on our way.  We are [...]

Cookie Exchange

 
 
 
 
 
 
We had a cookie exchange at work today.  There were 9 of us participating.  So on Sunday morning I baked 9 dozen  White Chocolate and Cranberry.  This is the recipe:
Mix together until well blended:
3/4 cup butter
3/4 cup brown sugar
3/4 cup white
Add 2 eggs and 1 tbsp. vanilla and continue mixing.
Combine 2-1/4 cup flour and 3/4 [...]

Blue Monday – Christmas Buddies

Its Blue Monday hosted by Sally from SmilingSally.   Be sure to click on Sally’s blog to see her Blue Monday and all the other participants.   The list is growing so take a visit through all the wonderful Blueness and don’t forget to leave a comment.   They’ll all be so happy to know you’ve been there!  [...]

About Christmas This and That…

Oh my on Saturday it was -18C and you know we were off work for the afternoon because of the snow on Friday?  Well this morning I drove about 40 minutes southward to the next closest Pier 1 looking for another 2 of the red and white bird plates.  The roads were white and shiny [...]

Glycerin Squeaky Clean

Its almost Christmas and I don’t have one bar of soap to give to any of the family this year!  Thats a good thing and a bad thing actually.   I make handcrafted soap and always give my family soap.  This year I reduced the usual quantity thinking maybe I could guestimate a smaller  amount.   Well that [...]

Snow Day and New Plates

Brrrrrr its a snowy, blustering, blowing kind of day out there!  AND we got a snow afternoon from work.  Our office closed at noon and I’m home with a free gifted Friday afternoon.  Love it! 
I wanted to show you the new plates I picked up at Pier 1 last night while on my way to [...]

My Paint Job

I told you I did a bit of painting in my kitchen to include the walls and cupboards  a couple of weeks ago.  My kitchen is very small so the pictures only show bits and bites instead of the big picture but at least you’ll see some fresher changes.  The whole picture looks good.  Here [...]

Time for Blogging and Angelica Pickles

It has been a busy couple of weeks and I know you have all been busy getting ready for Christmas and the holiday season.  Its a lot of fun doing all those extras but I was falling behind in it all.

With the painting in the kitchen and making the soaps and bath products and basket [...]

Hello…

I have had a busy but nice week because it was a productive week and weekend and now its Tuesday already.   Since the end of last week I’ve now had some computer connecting glitches and I hope I’ll get those sorted out on Friday.  I sure hope so.  I have some pictures but at home in [...]