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Project: Arm Knitting
Arm Knitting – have you heard of it?! It’s amazingly easy and beautiful ta-boot! One of the girls I work with walked in one day with this stunning chunky scarf. “Wow…that’s a great scarf” I said. She made it…WHAT?! Arm knitting – I’m intrigued. While she was on her break I watched her pump out a scarf in less than 45 minutes. Seriously? Seriously! Her suggestion, to watch a YouTube video. Within days I had stopped at Michael’s craft store and browsed YouTube. Audra’s tutorial…
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Recipe: Chimichurri Sauce
Chimichurri sauce time. What is chimichurri? Well, it’s a South American sauce that is used with grilled meat – and, it’s fresh and delicious! Try it today. I first saw chimichurri when I watched Master Chef this summer. It was the firefighter challenge and one of the contestants kept bragging about this awesome chimichurri sauce they could make that would compliment the NY steaks well. This beautiful green sauce is so bright and I love the vibrant colour. Plus, it tastes amazing, too! This recipe…
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Recipes: 12 Days of Cookies
Okay – Christmas is 5 days away…WOW!! Have you done any baking? Best get on it. Baking yourself is so much better than buying at the store – so warm and fresh. Don’t you just love freshly baked goods? 3ten.ca celebrated earlier this month with the 12 days of cookies, now, here are all the recipes, brought together. You can make them all in one day, like I did! It was a 14 hour cookie making day, so I don’t suggest that, yet it’s possible.…
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Photos: Holiday Christmas Card
Merry Christmas!!! This is our family holiday Christmas card – and, oh what fun it was!! First, the average temperature here in Norther Alberta has been right around -23 degrees C. Yucky. The couch is real – it’s really in the snow – no photoshop. The couch lives in our basement and well, this photo shoot took 6 hours, spread over 2 days (about 6 days apart). So, not only was this a photo shoot, it was also an arm workout, and well, I won’t…
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Recipe: Red Salad
Brighten up your dinner with a red salad! Radicchio lettuce, beets, and radishes – this salad dish is sure to please. Ingredients 3-4 beets 1 radicchio 2 red peppers 10 radishes 1 stalk of green onions your favourite vinaigrette (I used garlic) First – peel the beets and roast them for about 1 hour or until cooked but still a bit firm. Cut into matchstick pieces. Second, wash and cut the radicchio, slice the red peppers, radishes, and green onions. When you’re slicing the radishes,…
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Recipe: Short Ribs
What’s for dinner? Short Ribs! Sunday dinners are usually a family tradition…what better thing to cook tonight than short ribs?! It’s winter and they will warm your belly. The pack of ribs that I got is 2 pounds, so it’ll feed 2-3 people. Ingredients 2 pounds of short ribs 1/2 cup of ketchup 1 tablespoon of mustard 3 tablespoons of raw brown sugar 2 tablespoons of soy sauce 1 tablespoon of minced garlic Mix all the sauce ingredients together and then dice two white onions.…
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Project: Cuff Links
So – it’s about 5pm on a Saturday and my Christmas party starts at 5:30…and it’s a 15 minute drive. I’m ready…my husband is getting dressed. Cuff links? Where are they, I ask. The dry cleaner’s lost them. What!!?? He says it’s fine – he’ll just hide his cuffs in his jacket. I know Bryce well…after about an hour at the party he’ll be hot and want to take off his jacket, then realize that he needs his jacket to keep his cuffs in line.…
