It’s funny. Although it has been a mild winter compared to last year, this year seemed rougher. February in particular was a dark and dank month. The weather was unpleasant, people were isolated, and it just. Dragged. On. But hey, the sun is coming back, the grass is green, and the weather was even tolerably nice…
Give Your Bakers Happy Holidays with Lee Valley Tools
Decking the Halls (Literally) with Shop.ca
It’s “Tis-the-Season” time, and that means two things: gift buying, and entertaining, both of which usually mean shopping, something that can be a bit of an exercise in stress if you’re a socially-awkward person like myself. I can easily craft a menu to feed fifty, but being as I’m a female married to a tech-geek person even…
What You Need to Know Before Buying an Older Home #RBCFirstHome
Buying our first home in 2002 was an interesting experience. As first-time buyers, my hubs and I knew squat about buying a house, much less about buying and renovating an older home. A much older home. The object of our focus was a 100-year-old double-walled brick home in downtown Hamilton, converted to a barely-legal duplex with shared utilities, home-run electrical…
Kitchen Gadgets I Can’t Live Without (Guest post by @TheEuropeanMama)
As much as I love making things from scratch, I also very much appreciate all technology especially designed to make my life easier. And sometimes said technology helps me make things from scratch, which is kind of ironic. For a long time, we lived in rented apartments so I used what was available, but once…
3 Ways to Wrap Gifts (and Ditch the Dull Bag)
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…
Win The Most Awesomest Adult Onesie PJs EVER #CampAndCabinCozy #Giveaway
I firmly believe that, to survive coexistence with one another, men and women need to have their separate spaces (and the kitchen does not count as the women’s space, by the way). I made the living room, fireplace and all, into my space. Hubs and I built a ginormous bookshelf that took up one wall….