Well. It's that time. Time to sign off. With over 1000 posts and a surprising 8 years, it's time to say a real goodbye. This blog ...

Wishing everyone a bright and beautiful 2016! xo

That's right, I'm taking 1 photo, everyday, for 100 days to document our summer. There will likely be plenty of puppy and food shot...

I thought the delivery of my intended early birthday present was not until the end of this month but look what arrived 2 days ago! My fanc...

What a fun way to break in a new set of watercolours! Make 100 colours. Or 60, in our case, as we only had small watercolour paper on ha...

Oh my. How did this happen?

Earthy-themed  word search colouring page  is up for grabs. Help yourself.

We've been going through a lot of these Hundreds Charts lately so I decided to whip up one of our own. Click here to download the pdf. ...

Water-themed word search colouring page  that is yours for the taking. Enjoy!

Not by design, completely by fluke, today's lunch turned into an array of oranges and greens. So I had to photograph it!  We're n...

Spud's piano teacher of almost 4 years is leaving us. With much sadness. But she's off having twins which is super exciting and we a...

Our son just launched his own tween blog, Flying Lightbulb , where he will post all his creative pursuits and interests. His first stop ...

Merry Christmas! Grab the pdf here . You will find it under "HOLIDAYS". Have fun!

We are big Vi Hart fans over here so this fun little video on making unusual paper snowflakes make us very happy this holiday season.

Coffee filters make the best snowflakes . They are already round and symmetrical. Simply fold in half, then in thirds, and then in half ...

Spud wasn't keeping track so this year's  St. Nicholas day  was a big surprise! St. Nick must have grabbed his shoes for him. This m...

TRAVELS WITH KID  |  NIAGARA FALLS We propped up our little iPhone on the window sill of our hotel around 4 pm and let it shoot period...

Paper weaving. Classic paper craft that for some reason, Spud and I have never done together before. I used to love this kind of acti...

Twelve weeks of walk / run interval training! Over 750 minutes of just running. Ending with a bang: the 5K Neon Run . It was a blast finding...

So this hits two of our bucket list items: Grow something and Make Freezer Jam. Well it turns out we were growing a LOT of wee grapes in our...

Lazy days of drawing and learning new skills — that's what Summer days are made of. Some might think that summer is over, now that schoo...

Where have you been all my life you adorable, heavy-duty,  Stoneware TV Dinner Tray ? Seriously. I love you. TV Dinners are a memorable...

We didn't have a lot of rainy days this summer. But there was one. And that's when we played Monopoly. Spud's choice. Totally fu...

Deep Cove is a beautiful place to rent a kayak. Aside from cute little islands to explore and beautiful scenery, the boys got right up clos...

So, I am taking this course called " How to Learn Math " through Stanford University's online offerings and it's been, wel...

EATS  |  VANCOUVER, BC We have loads of gelaterias in our town. Loads. Good ones too. But we really wanted to take Spud to the crazy on...

I found 2 fun sites that Spud used to learn some Morse code here and here . After he played around and practiced for a few days I busted ou...

Lucky to have summer babies as friends! Happy birthday N! This year's outdoor pool day was full of games and other fun with friends AND...