On the Eighth day of Christmas my true love made for me… Fingerless Gloves We got hit with a nasty storm today. I walked to a restaurant for lunch today completely unprepared for the weather. It was raining sideways and…
On the Eighth day of Christmas
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On the Ninth day of Christmas
On the Ninth day of Christmas my true love made for me…. Needle Felted Ornaments I decided to try a new craft. I haven’t ever needle felted and saw the idea to make needle felted ornaments using cookie cutters as…
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On the Tenth day of Christmas
On the Tenth day of Christmas my true love made me…. Christmas Popcorn Today was the first day of Christmas vacation for our family. We spent it watching Christmas movies and eating Christmas Popcorn. Tomorrow will be more of the…
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On the Eleventh day of Christmas
On the Eleventh day of Christmas my true love made for me… Baked Brie This is a very easy appetizer. It only requires three ingredients, Brie, a package of crescent rolls and jam. Line a cookie sheet with parchment paper…
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Running for Research
On March 18th 2015, I was diagnosed with a brain tumour and it was life changing. I believe that no one should hear the words “you have a brain tumour”, but it will continue to happen. Which is why it…
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4th Crainiversary
August 7th was the fourth anniversary of my brain surgery to remove a meningioma tumour. To honour the occasion I try and do something that I couldn’t do 4 years ago. It’s not really that challenging because the day of…
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Twelve days of Christmas – Day Three
I’m taking a tiny break from knitting projects to show you an outside Christmas decor idea. These currently line my front porch stairs. I assembled these from cedar boughs, tree branches, plastic ornaments, wood plant stakes and metal pails. The…
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Twelve days of Christmas – Day Four
I make my kids at least one ornament each year with the goal of creating a tree full of decorations by the time they have their own trees. This year I made them knit stars. If you want to make…
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Twelve days of Christmas – Day Five
I saw this idea when I was shopping last Christmas. I took a picture with every intention of making them last year. Here we are a year later and I can finally delete the photo reminder. These are made from…
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Twelve days of Christmas – Day Six
For the last few years we have done one family ceramic Christmas craft. Each year gets a little less chaotic as the kids get a little more independent working with clay. This year we made gingerbread ornaments which were a…
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Twelve days of Christmas – Day Seven
I started running in January 2019. I’ve been at it for almost a year and have completed 2-5K races, 2-10K races and 1-1/2 marathon. I’ve run 570 kilometres this year and counting. I might try and slide in one more…
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Twelve days of Christmas – Day Eight
Eight years ago my youngest son was 4 months old I decided that I would learn to knit while on maternity leave because of these tiny trees. I didn’t know how to knit but I knew I had to make…
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Twelve days of Christmas – Day Nine
Who is gifting wine this Christmas. Send me a message I will send you my address. Let’s be friends. These “wine sleeves” used to be part of my husbands sweater until it had an unfortunate adventure in the washing machine.…
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Twelve days of Christmas – Day Ten
I was crafting with the kids today. We made gingerbread houses. We usually make one together but I decided this year to get them each one. I was super excited when we opened the kits and the houses were already…
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Twelve days of Christmas – Day Eleven
Today I dug our a few supplies to make wine cork trees. I sat on the living room floor and it was like I was magnetic. One kid came in and asked to make a tree, then the next one…
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Twelve days of Christmas – Day Twelve
Yippee, I made it through the twelve days of Christmas crafting. Today on day 12 I’m modelling my tall hibernating socks. Knit from a uneek sock kit, in colourway 60. I will be lounging in these socks over the holidays.…
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Third Day of Christmas
I might have a little issue and I don’t mean wine. No issues there, just pure enjoyment. This Cricut cutter is another story. Everything I own might have words on it soon. Cheers to new coasters!
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Fourth Day of Christmas
I have spent hours looking through keychains and other “named” products over the years searching for my kids names. I have never been able to find both of their names and there is no chance I will find my husbands…
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Fifth Day of Christmas
I decided this year I was going to change up out outdoor decor. What better way than to decorate with clothes hangers. I made some snowflakes out of white plastic hangers and wove in lights.
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Sixth Day of Christmas
Don’t mind me I’m just over here entertaining myself with fun candle names. The candles are soy, wood wick, and smell like lavender. I’ve been playing with candle making for a few months and I can’t seem to get the…
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