Showing posts with label knitting. Show all posts
Showing posts with label knitting. Show all posts

Wednesday, October 26, 2011

100 Mile Diet Event - Part 1

I have had these photos on my camera for ages so it's about time time I got them posted!  We went to a 100 Mile Diet event close to our town and got the chance to meet lots of farmers, bakers, gardeners and more!


Our local chocolatier.

 

This farmer raises chickens and sells the eggs and meat.  His brother has honeybees and sells the honey...so he takes the beeswax and makes candles!


There were lots of great educational projects around the event. 


A woman who has sheep was there with her wool...


We got to see how she cards the wool and spins it into yarn!


She dyes her wool and sells it to all the local knitters.


I was tempted to ask her to knit me a birdseye sweater!

 

Produce galore!


One of my favourite cheese companies was there with samples!

 

Goat cheese samples!

  

These ladies had the most popular booth at the event!


Pies in every flavour imaginable!


Each booth had lovely autumn decorations.


Many varieties of apples were for sale!


Thanks to one of our local farmers we got a free apple!


Goat farmers had goat milk soap for sale and sample!



Everything under the sun was canned and ready to get us through winter!
Part 2 tomorrow!


Have a fabulous day!

Saturday, January 23, 2010

Friday Frivolity

I haven't done a catch up post in quite a while - I have just been so busy recovering from the holidays and getting on with January I have barely had time to think about what I have been up to! Last week I went out for lunch a number of times for birthdays and 'mommy needs a cocktail' days.

Our current tenant (the one who broke the lease then made threats when we got our lawyer involved) has managed to find a replacement so we are letting him out of his lease. The new tenant seems really great and his fiance is a sweetiepie! I cant wait to get rid of the old ones and move the new ones in! So that is a big relief for us because I was so tired of dealing with all of the drama. Yes it is just money and money doesn't have feelings but I was ticked off that this all happened during December and the holidays.

Since I got my Sony eReader for Christmas I have been spending lots of time with Jamie and Claire Fraser and the Outlander series. I am currently reading Echo in the Bone and I am dying to know what happens!

I love the scarf Patina has worn a few times in her OOTD posts. I think it came from J Crew and it is a gold knit. I searched all over for something similar with no luck - fortunately I can knit so I ordered some gold yarn (Vanna White Glamour Yarn in Topaz) and got to work! I now have a cute gold scarf to wear with just about everything I own! I have started a brown and copper scarf to go with my leopard print tops! Yes, photos are coming!

I hope you have a great weekend! I am fighting a little bit of something happening in my throat so I have been resting and drinking lots of fluids. I need to be better by tomorrow because we have a busy weekend lined up!

Tomorrow we are going to a beer tasting in a local pub. One of my friends organized it for all of us and a beer rep is coming to teach us a bit about some different types of beer. The chef will be making something yummy to go with each beer so it will be very interesting!

Tomorrow night I think I am going to a bestie's house to watch a movie - I should confirm that!

On Sunday we are going to a Frank Sinatra tribute concert. The Suburban Prince got tickets for Christmas so we have been looking forward to it for a few weeks now!

I will be taking photos of everything so I will have lots to share next week!

This week I have been busy sprucing up the living room. I have purple sheers at the front window and when the Suburban Prince put them up he didn't wait for me to get them shortened and steamed so they have looked awful for a couple of years. Yes, years. When you have a baby these sorts of things are forgotten or pushed aside until you feel like you are doing a bit better than simply surviving. I recently found a seamstress - not an easy feat in this area since people here don't think about things like tailoring so really the delay has been because of the lack of services - so I got the sheers down and got them shortened. They are once again hanging up and are now steamed! The Suburban Prince has been touching up the crown molding so the living room will finally be finished! I can get the furniture all polished and put back in place.

This coming week I will ship out my Soldier's Valentine's Day gifts and start thinking about what Valentine's Day will be like in our house!

Don't forget to enter my Valentine's Day giveaway! I will be picking the winner on Sunday evening so you have until then to enter!

In the meantime please visit Lily the Black Bear - she is in active labour right now and will have cubs soon! I have been watching her webcam for a few days hoping to see a couple of tiny bear faces soon!


Have a fabulous day!

Monday, November 23, 2009

I am back on the needles....


Knitting needles that is! 2 years ago I stopped knitting when my hands were too swollen to hold the needles. Since then I really haven't had the time to devote to my hobbies but a couple of weeks I was inspired! I dug out my favourite pattern, needles and some yarn and got to work!



A week later I now have a new pair of thick, cozy socks to get me through the winter! My next project is mittens for the Little Prince!


Have a fabulous day!