Current favourite

This is my favourite recipe at the moment: G-Nut Special Sauce and Sweet Potatoes

Sorry I don’t have a photo of it*, but I assure you it is delicious, and also totally substitute friendly. Cumin spiced sweet potatoes, with spinach, and a delicious peanut butter sauce. It uses a couple more dishes than I would like, but it’s always worth it. We’ve tried it with squash too!

Love.

*but here is a gratuitous photo of Conor from this summer.

And I Walked Tape by Rob Ryan

I so want to order this tape by Rob Ryan, but I’m going to exercise self control. It makes me think back to so many winters past, walking in the cold and snow, thinking about life…

To purchase it, or check out more of Rob Ryan’s work, visit his shop here.

Found via Inside Out Blog.

Second Storie Indie Market 2009

is just around the corner! Please come and join us on November 28th, and 29th in Rochester, NY.

More details here.

Necessity is the Mother

I recently came across this beautiful handmade clothing shop, Necessity is the Mother, and I’m in love. Arielle was also recently a featured seller on Etsy.

I really love the new Nancy Drew series, especially the Nancy and the Mystery of the Winter Chill Jumper above. Check out more of her lovely creations here!

Rearranging

I rearranged our bedroom on the weekend. I moved out an extra dresser that we had no room for, and now it is so much more relaxing in there.

I have an ongoing goal of stripping our possessions down to the bare essentials (excluding artwork and pretty things). In our last apartment I felt like I got rid of sooo much stuff, but when it came time to move I wondered where did all of this stuff come from?

Furniture is always a problem, because most of it was given to us, and furniture can be expensive to replace, so I always want to hang on to it even when it is just taking up space and not really serving a purpose. Now I am fighting that tendency and saying goodbye to said dresser, and maybe more stuff soon.

Just need some art on the walls. The cats like it too!

Apple Yarn Drawing

Apple Yarn Drawing, originally uploaded by hello trees.

This is another one of my favourite photos from A Simple Book. My husband and I bought a full bushel of Cortland apples from a nearby orchard in Meaford in October, and we still have quite a few left. When I was photographing my little apple yarn drawing, it was the perfect setting. I love the combination.

I am also selling some of the yarn drawings from the book here, because they are really cute on their own too!

First Snow

I wish I had taken a picture…

Yesterday was the first snow of the season, and it stayed around until morning when I left the house today. It’s all gone now. I am drinking a pot of jasmine green tea to myself to keep warm this evening, and still thinking about wraps, and slippers, and mittens. I’m thinking of crocheting something warm.

P.S.
Also wish I had taken pictures at Canzine on Sunday, but I forgot to get my camera out the whole time. Fourtunately for you Blog TO has some pretty great coverage here.

Shop update!

I have added three new watercolour paintings to my shop! I’m trying to keep busy with making more things and accomplishing more tasks, but I tend to run into a lot of mental road blocks. That, and there never seems to be enough time to do all of things I plan to do. Part of those plans include writing more here in order to set deadlines for myself. Let’s see how it goes.

Today is a grey day in Flesherton. It’s been hailing, rainy, and snowing. As of right now, it just looks wet. It’s really nice heating the house with a woodstove though, because I can sit by it and be warm, but I’m also wishing for more warm sweaters and blankets and slippers. Upstairs in my studio is never quite as warm as sitting by the fire. We have to go pick up our share from our CSA today, but I’d really prefer not to leave the house at all! I must figure out how to get/stay warm.

I am going to start by making pumpkin pie later!

A concertina

I made this book the other day. It’s a concertina binding which I then added a coptic style binding to, to make the spine hold together.

Unfortunately, I didn’t take a picture of the spine.

My book binding inspiration (and instructions) came from this book. I’m going to try to make some more books this week.

A simple book

“A Simple Book.” Now available in my shop!