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Cunning Cannisters

November 14, 2010 By 2 Comments

I love happy little projects. The kind of activities where I find myself humming along while I dream them up, or while I start to put them together. For many years I have had a beautiful set of pottery canisters. They were made by Betty Warren of Texada Island, a potter who was a dear [...]

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Soup: Soul Satisfying Food

October 17, 2010 By 3 Comments

There is something about a pot of home-made soup simmering on the stove that gives me comfort. In fact soup-making is my one weakness, and it doesn’t take much in the way of motivation to get me started. I keep organic chicken stock in the pantry, and save and freeze veggie cooking water, and of course [...]

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Falling for Autumn

October 4, 2010 By 2 Comments

  It is already full dark and not yet 7 o’clock in the evening. Fall is upon us. As much as I lament the loss of summer, there is a sweet anticipation in the Fall, when the leaves turn and crackle underfoot and the air is chill and tainted with smoke. Not quite mittens, but certainly [...]

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Free Fall Advice: 4 Ways to Welcome Winter

September 6, 2010 By 2 Comments

Back from my late summer holiday and a short trip to the Okanagan Valley and I am tucking in for fall. What can I say about fall? So love the turning of the season – long, warm days getting shorter and turning into clear, cool nights… The vibration of excitement in the air: for some back [...]

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Fab Finds: Themes it Seems

August 31, 2010 By 2 Comments

Yes – it’s true. The birds are migrating. Summer is turning to fall and it is time that feathered friends head south for the winter. I love the reliability of these migratory patterns. I am reassured by them. I like watching the birds that stop off in our communal yard and compete with the squirrels [...]

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