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Travel: Hima Boutique Siem Reap
Hima Boutique Siem Reap is a delightful hotel with welcoming staff and a cooling pool. It’s fairly inexpensive – we paid about $29.00 Canadian per night and stayed 3 nights. Oh, and free breakfast, which is awesome. Fried rice with a sunny side up egg is a great way to start the day. If only I could make fried rice like that. Location The Hima Boutique is located on Taphul Street and is outside of the hustle and bustle of Pub Street or the ‘downtown’…
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Travel: 3 Days in Siem Reap
Three Days in Siem Reap Three days in Siem Reap are some of the best on our whole 23 day trip to Southeast Asia. Seeing temples, swimming in the hotel pool, cooking lessons, and riding bikes. Oh, and eating some of the most delicious food! Like really delicious food. Three days in Siem Reap is enough time, yet don’t spend much less time here. In all honesty, I could have spent 5 days here riding my bike and eating fried rice with a fried egg…
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Sewing: Week Thirty Eight: Flower Mitered Corner Placemats
Flower mitered corner placemats is this weeks sewing project. Mitered corners? What? Basically, nice clean corners that meet up. In actually, these aren’t true mitered corners, yet they are on the back side making a nice polished placemat on the right side. For this project I struggled with keeping the fabric true and working with only it and creating a hem; or picking out a backing and simply serging them and then just top stitching. All in all, I think the extra work of hemming…
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Recipe: Cheesy Dill Stuffed Peppers
Cheesy dill stuffed peppers are fresh and delicious. Oh, and these cheesy dill stuffed peppers are totally creamy and cheesy. Stuffed with feta cheese, cream cheese, fresh dill and spices, this recipe is sure to please. It makes a great accompaniment to chicken and rice or even as an appetizer on a Friday night when you have friends over. Either way, let’s get started! Ingredients 4 oz cream cheese 4 oz feta cheese 3 tablespoons of fresh dill 1/2 teaspoon of tarragon/shallot seasoning 8-10 mini…
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Movie Treats – Candy
Movie treats – candy. That’s right, it’s candy time. Oh, and most of it is gluten free, so that’s a bonus. In mid-August my brother and his wife visited us in Edmonton and it was so much fun. Hiking, shopping, corn mazes and escape rooms (we got out!!) just to mention a few highlights. One of the best parts, they got us a GC to the Keg so last Sunday we decided to have a little date night. Off to the movies to see War…
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Sewing: Week Thirty Seven: Leg Warmers
Leg warmers is this weeks sewing tutorial as part of the 52 weeks of sewing. It’s time for fall and it’s time to stay warm! On Friday I was at an event, outside, for about 6 hours and I used my knit leg warmers – they are grey – and I found myself thinking, I want white ones! Well, here we have some sweatshirt sewn white leg warmers, just in time for fall. Also, Yogalife started a early morning yoga pass, so I’m going to…
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Sewing: Week Thirty Six: Two-Toned Cowl Neck Sweatshirt
Two-toned cowl neck sweatshirt is the same pattern as last week with a bit of a twist. This week we just add some colour and a bit more structure to the cowl neck. Let’s get started on this fall two-toned fashion piece. What You Need 2 yardsof main fabric 1/2 yard of coordinating fabric serger pattern scissors pins First, get your pattern ready and cut out – then, gather your pre-washed fabric. You’ll want to cut out the cuffs, bottom hem and the cowl neck…
