While it's been rather quiet here on my blog, I've been quite busy with my knitting needles. Two very exciting opportunities came...

It seems like Spring is starting almost everywhere, but in Montreal, we're not quite there. Today is blustery and below freezing. I cont...

A few things have come and gone in my garden this month, but my favourite so far are the poppies . These are annuals that I planted in early...

I've been sick, again (goodness, do kids ever bring a lot of germs home from school)! And I haven't felt much like knitting lately. ...

I just finished reading The Secret Garden, by Frances Hodgson Burnett. I loved this book as a child, and reading it as an adult, I've f...

Spring has quickly become summer here, and my free time seems to have disappeared! (I suspect this happens to most parents)  I hope you don...

That was a long and not really intentional blog break! Mr. Mitten had 2 weeks off from work to help out with a bunch of projects we needed t...

As the weather warms up here, and there are so many things to do outside, I will likely be writing here less and less. But I'm sure you...

We now own an adorable little stone house in a pretty neighbourhood of Montreal! Yay! I'll share pics as soon as we have some. However, ...

The new Festive Knits book is taking it's time coming together, but with hard work and some luck, we will be ready to order a test print...

While the calendar might say today is the first day of spring, it looks decidedly like winter outside. This is nothing unusual in Canada, un...

I hurt my left shoulder at work a few days ago, and is it ever making me a cranky girl. I'm not used to being sick or hurt, and I don...