My Favourite Articles and Links This Week
Everything I need to know about planning my life I learned from The September Issue. A surprisingly accurate reflection on how the fashion documentary has a lot of good ideas on how to pull of something big and wonderful.
We all need to have a bit more fun, but everyone’s idea of fun is a bit different. You aren’t going to have fun if you aren’t doing the things that YOU find fun.
A truly funny look at how a couple goes about making a second baby. Hilariously accurate, and funny even if you aren’t a  parent (possibly excellent birth control, if you aren’t a parent).
Guys, there’s a movie coming out all about modern knitting and crocheting, showing international fiber artists and crafters. It looks so freaking awesome!!!
My Favourite Pins This Week
This Tex-Mex ground turkey and rice skillet comes together quickly for an easy 1-pan weekday dinner. I love rice based meals, and ground turkey feels like a nice change sometimes from ground beef (although Guy definitely prefers to use ground beef anywhere that ground chicken or turkey is called for). Pinterest link is here, and the original recipe is here.
Having some people over for  barbecue or dinner sometime soon? May I recommend you serve this as dessert? It looks super fancy but it dead easy – get some nice eclairs, cut in half, fill with your favourite ice cream. And now you are a hero. Pinterest link is here, and the original recipe post is here.
So….. apparently on the exact same day I past on my blog my zipper woes for James’s adorable hoodie, Tanis posted on her blog a fantastic step-by-step tutorial on sewing zippers into knits. Pinterest link is here, and the original post is here.
I love these pretty felt flower hair pins! I don’t actually think I’d wear them in my hair, but I think they would be amazing as gift toppers or as decorations on a doll or even as a summer  brooch. Pinterest link is here, and the original post is here.
I’m already thinking about some of my outdoor plants and how they will need to come inside to winter. These adorable animal pots look so cute! Way better than the plastic planters they are in outside. The giraffe is my fave! Pinterest link is here, and the original link is here.
Have a great weekend, everyone! I hope you all get to have a little time for yourselves, doing the thing you love most.
Looks like I’m going to have to get my hands on The September Issue, those were some great takeaways! That skillet meal looks fantastic too-my family is the opposite of Guy, we only have ground beef a couple times a year, and the rest of the time we love our ground turkey!
I wish we ate more ground turkey, I prefer lighter meats, and there are much bigger environmental impacts for raising beef than there are for raising chicken and turkey. I think The September Issue documentary is on Netflix, and I want to re-watch it again now, too!
FUn is a personal thing. I like to: scream in wave pools
( I havent’ in years..hmmmmm)
Laugh while reading (jen Hatmakers books)
Win at family games or try hard to win and laugh
Snort when I laugh, then I know its a really good laugh
haha, I totally snort when I’m really laugh hard too! or do a weird seal bark sort of laugh…. that’s how you know it’s crazy funny!!! 😉
Those planters remind me of some of the containers we used to use for baby arrangements when I worked as a florist. I acquired a few of them because they were so damn cute, and used at least one of them as a pen cup for a while. If I had any skill at keeping plants alive, they would obviously be good for that too. I know I still have the giraffe, and I think I might still have a dinosaur. Maybe it’s time to send them to someone who might actually get some use out of them… The one I have looks basically like this: https://www.wholesaleflowersandsupplies.com/ceramic-zoo-animals-giraffe.html A little cutsier than the Anthropologie ones, but if you’re interested, let me know.
Oh my gosh those are so cute! I had no idea they had baby arrangement planters like that…. I’ll see if they have some in Toronto, otherwise the shipping for something breakable from the US to Canad is…. pretty nuts.
Those planters are amazing! Crown + Flora (based on Parkdale) do similar ones with neon dinosaurs, but these ones feel like they’d be easier to have in multiples.
What!! I will check out Crown and Flora, that sounds so fun!!!
What a thrill to see my tutorial here. My mom will be so excited! great round-up. I got such a laugh out of the making a second baby anecdote. Also, yes to everyones idea of fun being different! My idea of fun is sitting home on a Friday night watching makeup tutorials on youtube and knitting…
Of course!! I loved the tutorial, and the timing was good. 🙂 Make up tutorials on youtube! You are the third friend to tell me this is a big hobby of theirs recently, I’m clearly missing out on the make up skills to be gleaned from the vloggers out there.
That Tex Mex skillet looks so good, I will be making it once the busy school year comes around and oh my goodness, those animal planters are pretty much the CUTEST! My daughter loves them! I do too!
I’m a fan of the one-pan dinners, that have everything you need and come together in less than half an hour. And animal planters-I’m a sucker for them, too!
From The September Issue “Life isn’t fair”. When S and D were young and complained that they didn’t have something other children had and it wasn’t fair I’d tell them,
“Life is unfair. That’s why we live here and not in *enter name of latest disaster zone in the news*!”
They didn’t appreciate it at the time, but they realise what I was getting at now. Don’t know whether it’s made them less susceptible to advertising but . . .
Is Yarn to be screened anywhere in the UK? I know there are several yarn shops which would be interested.
I might just try that Tex-Mex turkey recipe.
And as for those cute animal planters . . .
Thanks for another great round-up, Julie.
I don’t see any UK screenings in that huge list, which is weird. I bet they will add some, but perhaps someone in the UK needs to get in touch with them about setting it up. And so true- life isn’t fair. when things are good, and when things are bad. 🙂
I loved the second child attempt link, hilarious. And a movie about Yarn : oh yeah, yarn is mainstream now. Soon there will be people looking at you knitting and thinking you’re just following a trend
Haha, you are so right- it’ll become trendy and then it’ll look like a fad! Finally, we get to say we were into something BEFORE it was cool.
Lots of great items; I love The September Issue, great movie. As soon as I saw “everyone’s idea of fun is a bit different” on your post, I immediately thought of Gretchen Rubin. Her book The Happiness Project definitely clarified some things in my life. And I loved your pictures of James 🙂 (Funny comparison to Oprah.)
I don’t know about the yarn movie, though; if you’re into reading subtitles about knitting, have you seen Slow: Knitting on Netflix?
I love Gretchen Rubin, her books are fantastic and I’m hard pressed to think of anyone that wouldn’t benefit from the insights she finds. I haven’t seen slow knitting on Netflix! I’m intrigued by the ones they have, I just need to find time to watch it….
I like the idea of a one pot dinner. I’m reminded I forgot to buy ground turkey on our last Costco trip. I’ll be checking out that zipper tutorial for fun for now and the Hawaiian flower pins. My hair is too short to wear one I think but I faintly recall there may be shorter bobby pins sold at Target?
I’m all about one pot dinners- who needs more dishes to do? I haven’t seen those shorter bobby pins, a fun idea! Do you ever wear hair accessories? When i had short hair, i did all the time, but it was the late 90s. Every now and then I think about cutting it again!
Great round up! The article on ‘what’s fun’ came at the perfect time for me! Thanks!
I think that’s something too easy to forget- that we all have different ideas of fun! Unless we’re knitters, of course. We all know knitting is super fun! 😉