I finished this sweater about a month ago but I didn’t want to post it online until it was gifted. It turned out pretty great except there is one little twisted stitch right in the front, a couple rows below the digger’s tracks. Boo. I didn’t even see it until I was photographing it. I…
Month: December 2009
Cookie day with Alice
Alice and I busted our butts baking today (say that five times really fast). We made my standard gingerbread cookie recipe, which is really more of a gingersnap recipe, but one that is fabulous because the only sweetener in it is the molasses, which is great because the icing adds lots of sweetness. We made…
I has a shaky cam
Olympic Torch Relay comes to Bradford, Ontario from Sarah Mulholland on Vimeo. This is really the first time I’ve operated the new camera to take video. Because Chris has been working on a series of video modules for a client, he’s become an over-night expert in Final Cut Pro, so he’s now my official video…
Olympic dispirit
Late on Wednesday night I got word that Hank was going to be running in the relay today, at 2:40 p.m. in Bradford, Ontario. That’s only about 45 minutes away from Toronto so I decided to take the day off so I could go see him. I was so excited about it, not only at…
Christmas shopping, done.
Anyway, it was great, and I bet it was a fabulous experience for her!
Wendy gets to carry the Olympic Torch!
I mentioned several weeks ago about our friends Hank and Wendy who are working the Olympic Torch Relay for over the course of four months, traveling all across Canada driving the Eco trucks, part of the sponsorship by RBC of the relay. We just heard that Wendy is being honoured by her team mates by…
Foraged from my front lawn
For months now I’ve been courting the idea of making quince jam or quince jelly from “the bush” on my front lawn. First, I have to explain “the bush”. As I think I’ve mentioned before, we’re living in the house that Chris’s great aunt once lived in, and along with her badly neglected flower beds,…