Squishy soft luxuriousness

No I’m not talking about the puppy, although all those adjectives could be easily used to describe her too. I’m talking here about some gorgeous new yarn that arrived in the mail today, destined to become a birthday gift for a certain Ecoholic.

Handspun merino by Off the Hooks's Ashley Marcus in Alberta

This handspun [...]

Our new mistress of the night: meet Luna

Well well well. It has been one heck of a week at la casa del Mulholland-Kebbel. And it’s only Wednesday! Where do I start? It’s kind of like we had a baby. A fury black one with razor sharp baby teeth and two speeds — full bore or all stop.

Luna, our little lunatic

World, [...]

The case of the mysteriously missing sign

The Sign

Now that it’s well into the new year (isn’t it nearly already Chinese New Year for goodness sake?) I’ve realized I wanted to post about the fabulous gift we got for Chris’s parents and the Coboconk (Coby) cottage. The gift that disappeared into the Canada Post ether, or so we thought.

Roasted Butternut Squash Soup

Roasted Butternut Squash Soup

I’ve had this lovely squash sitting in my fruit bowl on my counter for at least a month (I love how long squashes keep!) and I finally got around to doing something with it this week. I wanted to share this recipe because it’s so ridiculously simple and luxurious. And [...]

Cozy fingers

Tiffany mittens

I started these mittens back in May, of all months, and finished the right mitten all in one weekend at the cottage. But then I just never got around to knitting the second one, until after Christmas. I wanted a compact knitting project to take with me on our trip to Ottawa [...]

Deep, dark winter

I know, I know, it’s only the first week of January; we’ve hardly even scratched the surface of winter yet, but it certainly feels like it’s been going on a while. We spent New Year’s Eve in Ottawa with our friends Bruce and Youngja, where it snowed constantly. It was lovely, and beautifully seasonal, but boy [...]