The past couple weeks have been moving very fast. Time for a catch-up.  First up – I had a birthday and Bea made a cake. I've been keeping up with my walks at the botanic garden and also the weekly photos of this spot. Bea and I went down into the city for a members…

I decided to go a little retro by covering our tree with tinsel this year. Sparkley!

Here are some photos of all the same things I photograph every week. But they're not the same really because everything changes with every bit of weather through every season. And I can't seem to not take photos of all the plants that are so interesting to me. Today there was frost covering anything in…

I made a shirt to try out a new dress pattern. Of course it's a pattern from Liesl + Co. For 99% of the sewing I do I use her patterns. I don't want to waste my time on a pattern that doesn't fit at the end. Or even worse a pattern that is completely…

The end of last week was lovely and warm and I tried to pick as many flowers as I could before a hard frost came.   I made Mark Bitman's pear upside down cake. Lots of maple syrup flavor and it was yummy warm, with a big dollop of whip cream. I finished painting the…