Creativity is Not a Hobby; it's a Way of Life!
I can’t believe it. My grandson turns 1 in 5 days. Where has the past year gone? It has flown by but it has been amazing. He has such a fun personality and every day is made better because he’s here. I absolutely cannot wait to see what the future holds for him! The other […]
Hello and welcome back to another weekly meal plan! Can you believe it’s September already? I don’t have a school aged child but still, with two adults in the home who both work in education, I’ve got that back to school/back to routine kind of feeling anyway. You might have noticed that I’ve started publishing […]
I love gnocchi so much that I bought myself a gnocchi paddle for Christmas. What’s funny about that is that I never even tasted it until maybe 3 years ago. I had been intrigued by it for a while but finally, bought some at the grocery store to try. I was hooked. Since then, I […]
Yikes. This is the last week of August. How did summer fly by so fast? We have spent most of August with not so summery weather but this week is making up for it. It’s hot and humid! I guess August decided to go out with a bang. Are you ready for fall? I’m of […]
With summer superfoods being perfectly ripe for the picking, you can beat the heat with a nutrient rich and colourful superfood salad recipe by Gopi Chandran, Sopwell House’s Executive Head Chef. Superfood Salad Recipe Serves 4. Ingredients: 1 cup Quinoa red and pearl 2 cups of vegetable stock Dash of olive oil 100g Tenderstem broccoli, […]
Hmm. I don’t have much of an update this week. We honestly haven’t done much out of the ordinary. Walter is doing well and growing like a weed. Seriously. He outgrew quite a few outfits pretty much overnight! I can hardly believe that we’re less than a month away from his first birthday. He has […]
Being an introvert, I have a love-hate relationship with entertaining. I do enjoy having some friends and family over now and then but what I don’t enjoy is making such a big fuss that then I can’t enjoy spending time with them. That’s why when I have a party, I really like to serve foods […]
Are you kids crazy about making crafts? My daughter always was and the holidays were a time when she was pretty much desperate to craft all the time. (I wonder who she got that from?) Of course, I was always testing ideas for my art lessons at school too so it was a win-win situation […]
Welcome to the happiest time of year – appetizer season! Okay, okay, I’m joking – kind of. But I do love holiday entertaining time because appetizers just make me happy. I’ll choose savory over sweet 99% of the time and often make whole meals of just appetizers. So, all the tasty little tidbits served over […]
To say that I collect nutcrackers would be an understatement. I have over 100 of them. It all started when my dad (Walter) took me to the ballet and I became immediately enchanted. It’s one of the things I shared with my students at the beginning of each new school year as we got to […]
