I’m quite excited about this “best of” post for two reasons. Well, more reasons than that, but I’m only going to post two of them. First: It’s “take 4” — i.e., this blog has been going for a month — and I’m really excited about how things are shaping up! I spent several hours
Month: February 2011
My sister in law Debbie is a fabulous cook; her salads are seriously amazing. She is also a wonderful person. Shortly after the hubs and I announced we were getting married, Debbie started on a project, which resulted in what was far and away our most thoughtful wedding present.* *Thoughtful wedding presents can be great…
I learned this morning that my beautiful friend Jasmine Wallace (nee Jasmine Styles) lost her courageous battle with cancer yesterday. All my love goes out to her husband Jeff, her family, and her friends, near and far on this day of sorrow. Jasmine Wallace February 19, 1982 to February 24, 2011
I discovered Gabrielle of Honest Fare’s recipe for Beer Bread in a roundabout way through pinterest. (Yet another reason why I love pinterest). I’ve never made bread before, unless standing around while my best friend’s mom made bread with her bread maker counts… At the best of times, I’m not much of a baker so
We have a teensy tiny little closet in our teensy tiny bedroom. The closet is so teensy tiny, in fact, that the hubs’ clothes live in our front hall closet; furthermore, its folding mirrored closet door is too big and makes it very hard to get into the back of the closet. Plus,
Ready for this week’s round up of stuff I love on the web? This week, a “find” of a “find”. Meghan of mustard and sage posted these sweet succulents from Etsy seller Tortoise Loves Donkey and they are amazing! All week I’ve had my eye on various succulents and these are just perfect. Wouldn’t those
The hubs and I started dating in April of 2004. We got married, almost 6 years later, in January of 2010. It was December of 2010 before we had to pick which family (in Edmonton or Ottawa) to spend Christmas with. Let me explain. Though we were in a long distance relationship in 2004, it
In April 2006, before our round-the-world trip and while we were still living in Vancouver, the bf-cum-hubs and I came across the little soup cookbook at a garage sale. Despite it being a balmy spring day, I was in a soup kind of mood and – after a little bit of haggling – the lovely
On Monday night I arrived home to the hubs, a beautifully set table, our complicated dinner recipe well on the way to completion, and the news that his laptop stayed overnight at the office. It was the best valentine a girl could ask for. Well, other than this one: (You may recognize that lonely bottle
Happy Valentine’s Day Lovers! Head on over to Allison Suter Photography and check out a super sweet couple’s shoot to warm your hearts this Valentine’s Day!
This week’s “best of the interwebs” post features some awesome blogs and a bonus category, “inspire”! I kind of like it… that one might stick around. I (and thousands of others) love Angela’s blog, “Oh She Glows”. It documents her transformation to a healthy lifestyle. Last year when I was training for my first half
It was about 2 hours before I planned to go to bed and I had a craving for freshly baked warm peanut butter cookies. Big time. It was a cold and dark night and we’d had a dinner that I had found less than satisfactory (more on that later). I had a case of the
I get very very annoyed spending $1.99 a week on a bunch of cilantro, $1.99 a week on a bunch of italian parsley, and $2.99 a week on a teensy tiny little bag of chives. That’s about $7 a week that is mostly going to end up in a mushy mess in the garbage. So,
As you may know, when I’m not blogging, photographing or cooking, I’m lawyering — actually, given the time commitments involved, it is probably more appropriate to say when I’m not lawyering, I’m blogging, photographing or cooking. I graduated from the UBC Faculty of Law in 2008 amongst 200 bright-eyed and bushy-tailed ready-to-take-over-the-world-almost-lawyers. While my peers
If you’ve checked out the “about me” page on the blog, you know that I am an aspiring photographer. In the last 14 months I feel like I’ve really started to come into my own as a portrait photographer; as soon as I have a subject in front of my camera, I relax and I