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Friday Specials

The last weekend before Christmas – less than two weeks until the new year!  Time does fly…Our tree is up, our ornaments are hanging, our gifts are wrapped and family is coming to town tomorrow. I’m looking forward to days at home, sharing a good meal and the joy of company. I started sharing my …

Friday Specials

It’s December and it seems like the holiday season officially kicked off. We attended our first Christmas party last weekend, we have a date night planned for Saturday and next weekend is fully booked. But, the good news is that we can enjoy all of the gatherings with full intent because I managed to write …

Friday Specials

Holiday cooking has begun in our house. In addition to the Red Pepper Jelly and the savoury shortbread, I also made cookies for our bakesale and have been leafing through my other cookie recipes I gathered last year in my little baking book. I’ve also bookmarked a couple of beautiful but easy cake ideas that …

Friday Specials

This was the first week I was really cold – brrr, those temperatures really dropped for a bit. Looks like this weekend will be lovely though, so I hope we get to spend some time outdoors. On the blog we finally added an email subscription field. If you want to be notified of new posts, …

Friday Specials

Last week I did this little branding exercise. Inspired by House of Brinson’s Styling class I wanted to figure out the colour palette I was subconsciously using in my photographs. I had consciously decided on my actual blog colours (logo, titles, text, sidebar, social media), but I had not paid specific attention to my photo …

Friday Specials

Today I’m particularly excited that it’s Friday. We have tickets* to the A Taste of Kingston & The County experience at the Ottawa Wine & Food Festival – a 4 course tasting menu with Chef Clark Day. It’s going to be a unique culinary tour, perfectly paired with premium wines from Prince Edward County. Not only …

Friday Specials

This week has been somewhat relaxed – just going through our routine. The temperature dropped this week and we got our first frost. The kids were happy to rummage through the Halloween decorating box and we started adding a couple of creepy things here and there. We’ll be decorating for Halloween this weekend and maybe …

Friday Specials

This has been a great, whirlwind week. We started with Canadian Thanksgiving Monday, which kicked off the week with a lot of food. I continued with a little extra food on my birthday and I have a couple of shoots planned this coming weekend – which means extra things to eat around the house. But …

Friday Specials

I’ve been under the weather the last couple of days, so I hope to have a relaxed weekend with great weather. It’s been very sunny and quite warm and we’re enjoying a lot of time spent outdoors. I hope it’s nice where you are and that you get a bit of time to relax and …