Scratch Food with a Side of Geek Mom and Pop Culture.
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…
I was a happy baker slacker over the summer with the excuse that it was mostly too hot too heat up the house, but winter, it’s a-comin’. When the house feels chilly, baking is one of my favourite past-times, cause it gives me an excuse to linger in a nice warm kitchen with a cup of…
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…
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…
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…
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 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….
Disney’s coming back to town, and we’re so excited! I wanted to say a whole lot more about this show to pump everybody up, but honestly, I can’t. While I’ve been to the parks a lot over my 35 years of existence, I’ve actually never been to a Disney performance before. We’re going to rectify…
Did you like the other Win if You’re Canadian? Good! Cause Jennifer vanOosten of YouPinspireMe and I are doing it again! So if you’re a Canadian, enter to win and get some great products from Penny Lane! We’ve got two to give away… 1 gift bag with Suncare lotion + 2 lip balms (value $26) and…
Do you love a good party? Be it a BBQ, or birthday, WHISH.ca has the answers. Join us at a light-hearted and fun twitter party on Tuesday June 17th, 2014 at 7PM PST/10PM EST to get all your party planning questions answered and learn a little bit about the best tips for hosting (or attending)…