This is how it looks from the kitchen today, and we’re expecting up to 25 or 30 cm (about 10 or 12 inches) by late tonight. I did my grocery shopping yesterday and don’t have to drive anywhere today, so I’m quite pleased with the weather. It’s pretty to look at, and makes me feel [...]
Some time ago, a friend who knows I knit gave me her late mother’s knitting needles. The needles were in a box along with a few other, presumably craft-related items. There is an old wooden-handled pattern tracing wheel, a French Ivory-handled button hook, some bodkins and sail-maker’s and glover’s needles — those things I could [...]
It just seems natural to be painting winter scenes while there’s all that snow outside. This little painting (5 x 7 inches) was done with a limited palette (pthalo blue, titanium white, burnt umber, mars black) and sketched in quickly with painting knives and then detailed with brushes. My painting class is going to publish [...]
This photo is of some of my spinning. Usually I spin fibres like sheep, alpaca, rabbit or silk; sometimes something truly exotic like camel or buffalo. Most times, the fibre I’m spinning is totally anonymous (very rarely do I know the name of the animal it came from, and only sometimes is it an animal [...]
Every now and then, Frank (my husband) likes to set me a cooking challenge. Since I love to cook, I enjoy this a lot. Sort of Iron Chef Ottawa, without any competition. Frank buys what he figures are weird and wonderful ingredients, and I make a meal out of them. The rules are that I [...]
Happy new year to everyone! Here in Ottawa the day is bright and sunny and fairly cold. Chickadees are all over the bird feeder by my window and the squirrels are cleaning up the seeds on the ground (and for once not fighting with each other). The grouse is still finding things to eat in [...]
