Recipe- Crepes

My love for crepes began in Paris, when I was there on vacation in 2008.  We were lucky enough to be staying just two blocks from the Eiffel Tower, where I sat for each of the three nights we had in Paris waiting for the lights to turn on, and ate my crepes.      I ate them in cafes, from crepe-wagons, and anywhere else I could get my hands on them.  I liked the chocolate ones, but to be honest, the plain sugar ones were my favourite. My aunt has a crepe maker, a small paddle like pan that you plug in; when it’s hot, you dip it in the batter and magically your crepe is made.  I’ve looked them up online, but...

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mmmmm strawberries!

Summer is by far my favourite season.  I love the summer flowers, days at the beach, and oh, those summer nights! (shameless reference to the best musical of all time…) One of the great things about summer is the food! Sweet peaches and cream corn, fresh peas picked off vines taller than you, and the strawberries! We’ve been blessed with an early growing season, so the berries are plentiful (we still have to wait for the corn and tree fruits).  I’ve been a little hooked on strawberries (and watermelon, but that’s another post); I’ve been making crepes in my new crepe pan nearly every weekend and going through a quart of Ontario strawberries...

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My favourite flower

Hydrangea. That is my favourite flower. I have a blue Hydrangea blossom tattooed on the inside of my right ankle. I love the blue Hydrangea the most, but the white is so pure an innocent; the pink so fun and flirty; and the deep purple so royal. As part of my photography classes’ final assignment (weeks ago) we had to take pictures of something blue. I went on a walk about in the city and found my favourite flower, lining the sidewalk outside of a downtown florist. Here’s the same photo edited in PSE. I’ve been thinking about taking some of my photos and creating some photo cards to sell. What do you think? Happy Monday,...

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Ketchup

Hello strangers! This is my sad attempt at catching up for neglecting my little piece of the blog-universe.  Work has been crazy, what with staff summer vacations, the G20 summit in Toronto and general all around craziness that is working in health care/insurance.  I started my learn to row session here at the local rowing club, and am really enjoying it.  It’s a pricey sport, so I haven’t decided if I’m going to continue…and you typically sign up with a group that way you can go out in a 4-person boat, so it depends on when they would want to row, and…of course…work. In my somewhat spare time, I’ve been addicted to watching...

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Texting part 2

Here’s another wedding card using the same Text paper and stamp set from yesterday; I think I like this card even better! The layout of this card is very similar to yesterdays, but I didn’t add as many layers, and used the card base as the background. I really like the feel of the Kraft paper and the text, it feels very ‘shabby chic"’ and I think is very different from some other of my cards…but I love it! I don’t know if I’ll be able to recreate this feeling, or if it was just a fluke, but I’m going to enjoy it while it lasts. The great thing is that two cards will ever be alike because of the text on the paper. It’s always more special...

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Texting

And not the cell phone kind…although I am a fan of that too. I’ve always been envious of the effect that text, whether it be a stamp or a page ripped out of a book can add to a card.  I didn’t really think I could adapt it easily into my ‘style’ (which seems to change daily), but I guess it’s all about finding the right text. I spotted this text-paper at my LSS and loved it immediately. Coincidently, all the text is about love, and I was due to make some wedding cards for the summer.  With a few coordinating pink papers and ribbons, I’m very happy with how the cards turned out. Here’s the first one I have to share: Isn’t that...

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Father’s Day cards with Stampendous; Part 3

Hey friends, sorry for the delay on more Father’s day cards, that darn job of mine keeps getting in the way;) Here’s another card I made with the Father’s Day set from Stampendous, “Thanks Dad”. This card uses the sentiment as the focal point, instead of the tie image that the set includes. I really love this “Dude” paper from Paper Loft!               I roughed up the edges with a Tim Holtz paper distresser, then inked the edges with some SU Chocolate Chip.       I used SU Very Vanilla for the sentiment and found some BG buttons that matched the colour scheme perfectly,...

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