Creativity is Not a Hobby; it's a Way of Life!
When Online Labels partnered with me to sponsor this post, they asked me to come up with a fall-related creative idea, the first thing that popped to mind was pumpkin spice lattes. That’s how this indulgent skin-softening Pumpkin Spice Latte Sugar Scrub was born! First sign of Fall – Pumpkin Spice Lattes start popping up […]
The lazy days of summer have come and gone and it’s already pumpkin picking season! If you’re looking for some family-friendly fall fun, you don’t have to look very far. There’s so much right here in Southwest Ontario! Here are a few London area pumpkin patches you and your family will surely enjoy visiting! Kusterman’s […]
Can you believe it’s September already? Labor Day weekend is over and the kids are back in school and back to extra-curricular activities. This can make finding the time for family fun even more challenging! I’ll be honest. Sometimes our family time was simply spending some quiet down time together because we were just too […]
When you think of the holidays, what’s the first food you think of? Turkey? Shortbread? Candy canes? All of those hold true, but my first thought is always of cranberries. Nothing says holidays like cranberries! It’s not just the recipes – even the look of them is just so festive. I adore the smell of […]
I know, I know. It seems to be all about the pumpkin spice these days but really, the very first thing I have always done every fall with my family (and with my students when I was a teacher) was to go apple picking! It was always one of those days with a hint of […]
Everywhere I turn these days there’s another pumpkin spice recipe of some sort. Now, don’t get me wrong. I am a big fan of all things fall and fall foods, and that includes pumpkin. Well, it includes pumpkin except for pumpkin pie. I just cannot do pumpkin pie. It’s a texture thing. Anyway, I digress. […]
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 […]
