Tuesday, 8 March 2016
A Sampling of My Sister’s Amazing Collection of Vintage Treasures
Tuesday, 1 March 2016
A Handmade Purse for a Cute Kid
Keeping with the tradition of hand-making the gifts I send to my cousin Lisa's little girl Delilah, I crocheted the four year old a colourful kid-sized cross-body bag for Christmas. According to her mom, "the little purse is getting lots of use, she uses it whenever she wants to dress up "cool" when they play "rock stars"". I'll call that a win!
My cousin sent over these darling photos of Delilah with her bag ...
Tuesday, 23 February 2016
Out to a Concert : Lou Doillon with Andy Shauf at The Drake Hotel
Friday, 19 February 2016
Our Favourtie Cookie Recipe : Ginger with a Spicy Kick
No doubt about it, these are our favourite cookies!
They're nice and ginger-y and come with a spicy kick, thanks to the freshly ground pepper they contain. I've shared them with quite a few others and everyone has really liked them, so you and your people will probably enjoy them too!
The recipe makes about 40 cookies which is more than we usually need at once, so I like to bake a dozen as "drop cookies" (pictured above) when I first make the dough and then save the rest in the freezer, shaped into two tubes which we just slice and bake whenever the desire for fresh cookies strikes. Or, you can make even more dough to store in the freezer by doubling the recipe.
Note that the dough spreads out as it bakes, so make your tubes smaller than you'd like your finished cookies to be, and leave space between them on the baking sheet.
The last time I made the dough it was just before Valentine's Day, so I formed one tube into a heart shape before freezing it. But, that step is optional -- they're just as tasty in a plain old round shape! If you do choose to make them heart-shaped, make the dough the day before you bake them, and then store then in the freezer overnight, so that they'll hold their shape when you cut them.
Wednesday, 17 February 2016
Dancing Date Night : Opening Weekend at The (New) Velvet Underground
A few weeks ago (in this post) I wrote about a nightclub we've liked for ages, called The Velvet Underground, that closed down in October after over 20 years. We and a whole bunch of other fans were sad to see it go, but then in January found out the place had been taken over by a different group of people, Embrace Presents, and was to re-open.
Well, the grand re-opening was this past long weekend and we were there to welcome it back, at the dance party featuring DJ Lazarus, held on the Sunday night of a the three-day weekend. That happened to be Valentine's Day, so it was the perfect time for a night out.
The focus of it has changed, in that it had previously been a dance club with a live band every once in a while, and now it's become primarily a live music venue with a dance party every once in a while. We're happy with either format, as we're into both, live shows and dance nights.
They've spruced the place up and added a new stage and lighting and sound systems but, in all, it looked pretty well like the same place we knew and loved.
My sister, her boyfriend, and a group of old friends were out for the occasion too.
There was no place to sit down because the new furniture hasn't been installed yet, so we had no choice but to stand around or get dancing. We happily chose the latter. It was a blast. My feet were sore when I got home.
It was very dark in there, so my pictures aren't the greatest, but I'll post them anyway to give you a feel for what it was like.
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