My Favourite Articles This Week

These icebergs are floating art.

How to use your brain’s delete button.

These status and tributes to dogs around the world are so sweet.

On friendship with older women.

How to be the guest that gets invited to every dinner.

My Favourite Links This Week

A veggie-filled weeknight supper is on deck with this easy roasted cauliflower and sweet potato taco dish. I love that it’s basically everything roasted together on a sheet pan, and while there’s a detailed recipe for the sauce, honestly I find that you can get great sauces premade from the grocery store these days so I go for that over making my own every single time. Super easy – veggies, avocado, corn tortillas, and some creamy cilantro lime sauce (or siracha mayo sauce would be amazing, too!) Find the recipe here.

These coffee blondies are a perfect weekend treat – the coffee adds great depth of flavour to the deliciously nutty and chocolatey bits, all crammed into squares of goodness. I think, if you like weekend baking for a great cold weather treat, these will likely be just the thing you’d like to treat yourself with this weekend. Recipe can be found over here.

The gin and tonic is my favourite cocktail by far- it is a lighter alcohol, and I find that you can make them pretty gentle (or stronger!) to the level you prefer, and there are so many ways to dress them up! This pomegranate version is perfect for the holiday and winter season, should you be looking for some winter cocktail ideas. Find the how-to right here.

This is a great stashbusting knitting pattern for you sock knitters- these ankle socks are so cute and would be amazing to work through leftover bits of fingering weight yarn. You could even stripe them! Find the free pattern here- click the black bar that says to download the pattern to get it.

I know that many people are against novelty yarn, but look at this freaking adorable owl!!! Quite possibly the cutest owl I’ve seen! it’s mainly crocheted with a faux fur yarn, which you could find in larger craft stores or local yarn stores that also stock some novelty yarns. Perfect for making toys and stuffies, don’t you think? Find the free pattern for the cutest owl ever here.

I hope you have a wonderful weekend, everyone! It’s been a busy start to November- with no signs of it letting up any time soon! I am excited to be a maker at the Craftadian Hamilton Market, and I’ll be there December 4th (Saturday!). This is my first time doing this, so I’ve been prepping not only kits but doing things like getting display materials, figuring out show specials, getting a banner made that has my logo on it, and all those things. I’m hoping that this will be the first of many, so if you know of a craft show (for 2022, I won’t have enough product to do more than one big show before the holidays!) please send me a message and let me know so I can put it on my radar for next year. Oh, and if you are in the Hamilton area, you can get tickets to attend here. I’d love to see you, of course!

Have a beautiful weekend, friends!

xo  Julie