Learning

“The more I live, the more I learn. The more I learn, the more I realize, the less I know.”

~Michel Legrand

I’m learning that I may not always have time to post each and every single day.

The more I do, the more I want to post; but, there isn't enough time to cram it all in. 

I am going to try to get in at least one solid, wordy post per week. A Thought Post, if you will. A post that will require me to sit down and write.

Maybe tomorrow? 

Because tonight I made some home-made Granola and a couple more bookmarks.

Night night!! 

More Birthday Celebrations!!

“The way I see it, you should live everyday like it’s your birthday”

― Paris Hilton

I know, I know….a Paris Hilton Quote? Really? Yes. I love it. Even if she said it!

Tonight ‘I’ made supper! That is a HUGE deal, as it probably only happens once a year. It’s not that I am not capable, it's just that I have no patience for cooking and my hubby loves to; so why would I?

But tonight…tonight was a Birthday supper! My husband and one of his friends have celebrated their birthday together for years. We went on a pub-crawl over the weekend but they didn’t get cake, so I thought they should have their own special Supper WITH CAKE. So I made supper and the other birthday boy’s wife brought the cake!

It was a delicious evening. 

[don't mind the glare!]

Pecan-apple-endive-orange pepper salad, baked sole, sweet potato and home-made corn bread

Days go by

Everyday is something. We’ve just got to remember that.

~Anonymous

I’ve been wishing this week away like crazy! Today still feels like Monday and Friday feels like it will never arrive.

I’ve been complaining too much and I need to smarten up. You know when you just get stuck in a rut and can’t quite seem to pull yourself out of it? That’s this week.

Why is it that all of our days can’t be good days? Why can’t we jump out of bed every morning ready to face the world, with a smile on our face? Oh, right, because we stubbed our toe when we were on our way from bed to shower. Oops…. there I go, complaining again!

The thing is, when I experience times like these I seem to forget that these days will never be given back to me.

I need to remind myself that just because it’s getting cold out, doesn’t mean that I need to hibernate the happy side of my brain along with the bears behind the house. [Good one Natasha!] I just need to remember how to keep my energy up and spirits positive when the going gets wintery.  

I had coffee with a friend tonight and it was just nice to sit, chat and vent -Even if we had to sit on the world’s most uncomfortable bench in Crystal Palace; which is outside of Starbucks since their café area is way to small and never has any available seating. Having one of these so-called weeks, it was a much-needed coffee date. So, Thanks to her. Thanks also to my other coffee date lady out there. I’m a huge fan of these nights and I need them more than they know.

Nighty Night

~from little Miss Positivity, right?

But…

Ps- Did I mention I am going to open my own adorable Coffee Shop some day? 

Arts and Crafts Day

“Some people cannot see a good thing when it is right here, right now. Others can sense a good thing coming when it is days, months, or miles away.”

~Maya Angelou

Everyday is good; especially days like this…

A Saturday Art Course with my Mother-in-law

Starting out with plain canvas -adding little extra designs with stencils and putty

Covering with a few different colours rubbed on to combine

Darkening the corners to give it the antiqued look

Tracing the flower pattern and outlining with silver

Adding some shadows that will give the flowers some depth

Filling in the petals with 'Stained Glass"

Adding the little tiny beads to the centre of the flower [my Favourite part!] and the green "Stained Glass to the stems

All done! My Mother-in-law in the background working hard on her painting

Taaada!!!

How proud are we!? 

It was just one of those feel good days! 

Time Management

 “So many books, so little time.” 


~Frank Zappa

Tons of stuff on the go! Work is crazy busy, it’s too nice to not be outside as much as possible, I’m trying to run as much as I can, I need to get some reading done, I have 92 more bookmarks to knit before December 3^rd…the list goes on!

We had a busy but fun weekend. I finally had a weekend off from work but it was just so jam packed that come Sunday night, I was just as exhausted as I was Friday afternoon! 

I took an Art Class with my Mother-in-law on Saturday. I am hoping to post some pictures on that tomorrow night. It was so therapeutic and refreshing! I needed it for sure!!

I am currently [aka:still] reading The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern; it is AMAZING and I believe that’s why it’s taking me so long to read it. Normally, if I love a book, I devour it; this book though…I am trying to savor every single sentence. Read it. You’ll see.

The issue is RBTW is next week and The Night Circus is NOT this month’s selection. Needless to say, I have a lot of reading to do. 210 pages left of The Night Circus and 383 pages of The Lattern by Deborah Lawrenson. A grand total of 593 pages in 9 days. Let’s cross our fingers, shall we?

The cool fall air is lovely, isn’t it? It’s so nice to come inside after a long walk with a red nose and cold hands only to warm up with a cup of tea and some knitting needles.

Happy Monday! 

“The finest of pleasures are always the unexpected ones.”

~Erin Morgenstern, The Night Circus

Feeling like a little Pioneer

“A pioneer is not someone who makes her own soap. She is one who takes up her burdens and walks toward the future.”
~Laurel Thatcher Ulrich

This weekend was really great. I mean, it was extremely busy; but it was really great.

I may not be an amazing cook or have the patience to bake, but I LOVE pretending to be a little pioneer; who lives in a small cabin in the middle of the woods jarring preserves to survive. What?

No, seriously. I had so much fun cutting up tons of apples and waiting forever for them to turn into something ouber healthy and delicious. Not a lot of ingredients in these sorts of recipes but a lot of time that needs to be set aside to accomplish the yummy, rewarding outcome.

This week has been insanely busy at work, so I am somewhat slacking on the blog posts. I am overtired, overworked and overnotreadingenough! I apologize for my slackassness; but sometimes I’ve just got to take it easy! Though some of you had a nice relaxing long weekend, [not that mine wasn’t relaxing, well…no it wasn’t. It was fun though] I had to squeeze in work with all the fun stuff; so that definitely sucked the life out of me and I am suffering this week because of it.  I might not even be making sense right now.

I also discovered this weekend that I quite enjoy blogging with pictures. It was fun to document my apple butter process. It’s exciting to get to share with you guys the stuff I run into –like Mom’s coffee find at Winner’s. Seriously, that shit is getting me through the week!

So, here’s a HELLO from ME to YOU. This little Pioneer is hitting up the Bathtub!!

Nighty Night!

Quote Note: I’m both - the pioneer who’s making her own soap and working to be the pioneer who’s walking toward her future coffee shop.