My Favourite Articles and Links This Week
I adore Sarah Stockdale’s newsletters, and this one about an experiment with men who were watching their calorie intake was mind blowing.
Hey, let’s check out some adorable little pandas at a zoo!
A zero-cost room refresh idea. In case you are getting a little tired of some of your space.
Want to write better emails? Slow down.
My Favourite Pins This Week
If you are looking for a meal idea that feels like spring, this is the ticket. The leeks and peas make this fresh and veggie forward, and baking it all together on a baking sheet makes it so easy. Delicious, fresh, and the frozen peas make it easy. I hope you try it! Pinterest link is here, and the full recipe is here.
How beautiful is this lemon and blueberry tart?!?! Be still my heart! I always love lemon desserts in ALL forms, but this is especially wonderful. Also, you can totally speed the whole process up by using a store-bought tart shell – I won’t tell anyone. Or go for it and bake your own from scratch! Whatever floats your baking boat. Pinterest link is here, and the full recipe can be found here.
Do you feel like when you make pom poms, they seem a little flat? This is a great trick for getting fluffier, denser pom poms, no matter what type of yarn! Pinterest link is here, and the full tutorial can be found here.
This is such a cool (ha, literally!) idea for dyeing fabric, or even yarn – snow and ice dyeing. If you already have yarn dyeing supplies kicking around, or potentially could do this with kool-aid as well- it would be a fun, crafty experiment for what I hope is getting to the end of winter. The results look so beautiful! Pinterest link is here, and the full tutorial is over here.
If your home is feeling like there’s too much stuff and not enough breathing room, it’s time to declutter. This is a great list of things to get rid of that don’t require a lot of agonizing, and you’ll feel sooo much better for clearing out the clutter! Pinterest link is here, and the full list is here.
It’s hard to believe this is the last weekend of February! In two weeks, it will mark one full year of living in Covid times for me. It’s funny to think that, depending on where everyone lives, we all have different time markers for when things changed signficantly – different rules in different regions and countries, when masks became the norm in this place or that place, how different the world feels. Here in Toronto, Lila and James are back at their school now that it is repoened for in-person learning, and I think that is doing them a world of good, in terms of their mental and physical health, as well as social skills. It’s been harder on James, a common refrain I hear from other parents of kids 5 and under, but it’s not doubt hard on everyone, regardless of age – young, old – everything in between. But hang in there. Let’s try some new recipes, craft some new things, read some good books, and keep looking for the good in people.
xo Julie
