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An atypical Easter dinner.

Well this was our second time hosting Easter for my husband’s family. Last year we settled on a more traditional menu of roasted baby carrots, sweet potato puree and pork roast. This time around I spent some time looking through my cook books and online at various recipes, waffling back and forth between a [...]

Hosting a wine tasting party.

While its no secret that I love to entertain I’ll admit when my husband threw out the idea of a wine tasting party as the theme for our next get together I had some serious doubts. For some reason it brought to mind a really stuffy and dull evening, but Dave is really into [...]

Something borrowed…something blue…

So I don’t consider myself a girlie girl, sure I like some pretty things but I equally enjoy football, hockey and getting dirty. I don’t like make up nor am I a slave to fashion but I do like bubble baths and shoes. Dressing up for me is a task best reserved for special [...]

2008…random reflections.

Well it was a busy year, some parts of it were such a whirlwind I can’t remember significant periods of time because so much was happening at once…in my life, in my business, with friends & family and in the world. Here are some successes, favorites, defeats, milestones and even fiascoes from the year [...]

Another calendar year coming to an end…

So again here I sit in a cloud of bewilderment…weeks of rushing, planning, buying, decorating not to mention all the to & fro-ing!!! And its over in the blink of an eye and all that’s left is the clean up and hopefully time for a well deserved nap. We had a fairly quiet [...]