Peaches and Cream in Paris Ah Paris! What an amazing city. Vibrant and diverse with a seemingly endless offering of culture, art, history and food. We have been lucky enough to visit Paris a few times now, even meeting up with family to endlessly walk the arrondissements until we collapsed from exhaustion. Fanning a pile […]
365 Project – week 50
Food, food, food It would be easy to assume by the photos below that all we did this week was cook and eat, you would be partially right. This week was spent taking food photos, baking for an annual silent auction and bake sale benefiting Harmony House women’s shelter and hibernating during a major snow […]
Tipsy, Tired and “Visiting” Florence
The following is a guest post courtesy of Mathieu Bolduc. “Do you know where we are?” Marie-Joelle asked me as we stumbled down a small cobble stone piazza. “Sure! It’s this way!” What I didn’t tell her is that I had only chosen the street that looked least likely to host an Italian version of […]
365 Project – week 49
week 49 This one was spent experimenting with felt and trying out the techniques I learned last week, doing some more baking, seeing doctors, going to a Christmas craft fair and attempting to read a book. How did you spend your week?
A World of Cookies – PFEFFERNUSSE
Tradition Christmas and the holidays are filled with tradition. Every year around this time our home overflows with smells of Scottish shortbread and French butter cookies. This year we changed it up a bit and added a few others to our regular mix, Middle Eastern date & almond triangles and German pfeffernüsse. Pfeffernüsse There are […]
365 Project – week 48
Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow This week was spent learning how to felt a stocking, at an event at the children’s museum, eating cake at Oh So Good and baking Christmas cookies. How did you spend your week? Don’t forget to Like us on Facebook, follow us on Twitter or subscribe to […]
365 Project – week 47
This week we made a great pho after a shopping trip to Chinatown, spent a fun evening at Nature Nocturne at the museum of Nature and got our first little snow storm, our second is expected today (30 cm). How did you spend your week?
Passports with Purpose
Today is the kick off for Passports with Purpose’s annual travel bloggers’ fundraiser, exceeding their goal of $100,000 last year to fund five water wells in Haiti through Water.org, this year’s goal is even higher at $115,000, the beneficiary being buildOn, their aim; to build three primary schools and fund three Adult Literacy Programs in the Sikasso Region of […]