Scratch Food with a Side of Geek Mom and Pop Culture.
My morning muse for this morning is Jennifer of YouPinspireMe, who was recently crowing about how you know it’s Christmas time when your post about 25 Ways to Display Christmas Cards suddenly gets a ridiculous amount of organic search hits (no I won’t tell you how many, but I had to go cry over a…
I’ll be honest with you: I’m not Irish. Not even a little bit. I’m 1st generation Canadian and both my parents and all of my grandparents were born in Holland. But you know what we Dutch immigrant families eat a LOT of? Meat & potatoes, not unlike the Irish. And, let’s face it, both the…
I’m one of those people who hate the idea of a standardized exercise routine. I hate the repetitiveness. I hate having to carve a hole out in my day and to schedule it in. I hate having to figure out plans and goals and all the effort about it. Sweating. Jumping. Running in place like…
Somehow the Christmas Paper Wrapping Fairy missed me when she was handing out life skills, and I’ve been struggling into my adult years with trying to wrap a present beautifully correctly without making a disaster of the whole thing. A good wrapping job, for me, involves not having any of the underside of the paper…
I’ve been thinking about busting out my needles and yarn again… It’s been a while since I’ve done my crocheting. And some of these free patterns are totally adorable. Or maybe I’m just nesting. I am not sure. One thing is for sure, crocheting is something I can do, and all these other Christmas crafty…
I crave an elf on the shelf. But I do so for all the wrong reasons. 1 – I’d probably set the bag on the front stair and forget about it for three weeks, or until my kid snooped in the bag, saw the box, pieced everything together with his surprisingly logical little brain and…
I have to admit, I don’t do much in the way of crafts. Yeah OK that’s weird. I can do food, but I won’t do crafts. What can I say except that I know my limitations. What does pass for crafts in my book often look more like science fair projects. I was raised weird….
I’ve only recently started to come around to embracing the idea of using un-enameled cast iron. The biggest obstacle in my acceptance, like for many people, was the question of care. How do you take care of this strange beast, which can never be washed in a dishwasher, or with soap? And–oh em gee–what if you…
This is an amalgamation reposting of much of the information found on my site from last spring, and also part of the SIP 101 that I contributed to Homegrown.org. QUICK NAVIGATION Intro Important Notes Materials / Wood Cutting List Building Instructions Construction Photos Soilless Potting Mix Initial Fertilization and Starting Up Ongoing Feeding Pest control…
My friend Crystal Allen’s “Sew Creative Blog” is turning 1 and to celebrate she is giving away $375 worth of her very favourite craft and cookbooks! I am so not crafty. I could probably add a whole section to my blog about Pinterest and craft failing. But if you want to make cute things, Crystal…