My Favourite Articles This Week

These bears in a swan boat.

A beautiful essay about taking selfies with your kids. And your friends.

How to be a good listener, and a good friend.

How to handle negative feedback.

Farm animal family photos. These are so charming!

How to find out what your friends do for a living.

My Favourite Pins This Week

This delicious and easy pasta dinner idea is great for spring- lemon and basil feel like just the right notes to add to a dish at this time of year! Plus it’s such a satisfying pasta dinner, too. It calls for peeling tomatoes,  but I’ve never done this in my life and I’m not about to start now. Feel free to skip that step! Recipe is right over here.

These are like a peanut butter blondie! If you love peanut butter, these are going to be the perfect weekend baking treat.  The icing feels like the little extra thing that takes these to the next level! Find the recipe here.

A little self promotion here- I designed a new stick & stitch pack for embroidering these flowers on your knits with either laceweight yarn or embroidery floss! You can check out the page that shows how to do this (It’s not a free download but it can be really neat to see in progress photos!), and my Ravelry page with info on the sweater that I embroidered is right here. And you can buy the pre-printed stick and stitch design (hard copy or downloadable pdf) here.

How adorable are these super quick, stashbusting crocheted cuties?! I feel like this would be a really fun ‘just because’ gift for a friend.  You need to subscribe to the newsletter to get the free pattern, but I think that’s a pretty small price to pay, and you can unsubscribe at any time. Find the details here.

 I love mocktails, and this easy formula from Ina Garten is perfect for crafting really good ones! Read the details here, but the guide is pretty self-explanatory in the cute graphic above. But read all about them here!

The daffodils are blooming here in Toronto, and we’ve had plenty of rain to make them happy! I hope the flowers are blooming wherever you are, friends.

xo Julie