I’m sure a lot of you, like me, name your desserts.  Bill, Sue, Sally, whatever.  It’s no different than naming your baby other than the fact that you do not eat your baby, usually. How many times have you looked at […]

Never tell a lie, that’s what I always say.  I don’t say this to my friends because they abandoned me long in ago in favour of friends who are champion liars.  This “Never tell a lie” motto really keeps the […]

This is a sponsored post.  That means someone is paying me to write it.  So why read it?  Because it’s about a product that’s so great I contacted the company to ask them if I could do a sponsored post […]

It’s been a longggg time since I’ve updated everyone on the saga of Cuddles, the chicken that could. Here’s a little refresher. Last summer, Cuddles got sick. Chicken sick. Which means she almost died. Chickens tend to do that. When […]

  My niece asked me what I was doing this week and I told her, I’m teaching another online workshop. Huh. She said. What’s the class about this time? And so in a quick text message I explained to her […]

  This is where death happens.     Mainly centipedes, spiders, and the occasional salesman. Not the ones that sell Girl Guide cookies though. A guy selling birds door to door ended up down there.  Death of a quailsman.   […]

When last we met I shared my To-Do list with you.  Since I’m the only one doing stuff around here that to-do list applies to me and me alone.  HOWEVER here’s a quick tip for you, if you have someone […]

      Every year I have a Big Spring Project. Big. Usually really, really big. Things like getting chickens and building a chicken coop, turning my front yard into a vegetable garden or building a cob oven. This year for the first time […]

      That’s my monkey card.  How great is THAT? And the poor thing has been shoved in a drawer for years, forgotten all about until this post. I’ve always had a rule. If someone sends me a card […]

  Need a Mother’s Day idea? I have a bunch here. That’s all you need to know I think.     For the Art Lover Mother with ADD. At $5.99 This 24″ x 30″ print from Disposable Art Shop is […]

Mainly the greatest piece of advice you’re going to get from this post is that you do NOT Google “How to care for big hairy balls”. If you find that is all the advice you need for one day you’re free […]

  In my head, this is how last week’s Rose Cake post was going to go; publish post, wait for the comments come rolling in.  The comments would be:  the cake looks great and what an ordeal but that PEDESTAL! […]

2 weeks ago I knew nothing about the Myers Briggs test. I was a regular gal going about my day to day life, fixing things, figuring out stuff and eating potato chips. Sometimes I’d break for 5 minutes to pet my […]

  A month ago I started some sweet potatoes slips. You’re bored already aren’t you? That’s O.K.  I know that only about 5 of you out there care about growing sweet potatoes but since you’re the 5 smartest, prettiest, handsomest, […]

  It’s hard to tell from the picture but this cake was a failure. Fail.  Ure. It all started on a Monday at 5:06 p.m. Reader Christie mentioned in one of my Easter posts that her family ate Carrot Cake for […]

Did Aunt Jean get her iPad? Yes she did. In case you’re new around here or missed a few posts, Aunt Jean is  my Great Aunt.  In the past year she’s turned 100, lounged in the Cayman Islands and went […]

I’m sure you’ve seen them in the grocery store.  Eggs labelled as “Omega-3″ eggs. They’re bursting with goodness and health and nutrition.  They’re easy to identify from the other eggs.  They’re the ones that look like Dr. Oz if you […]

  Whenever anyone asks me what breed of chicken they should get I always tell them it depends.  It depends on where you live, it depends on why you want chickens, it depends on how often you plan on pulling […]

    Have you had a chance to see these beauti […]

˙uʍop ǝpısdn os ןǝǝɟ pןnoɥs ı ʍoɥ ɹo ʎɥʍ oʇ sɐ uoıʇɐuɐןdxǝ ɹǝɥʇo ʎuɐ ɟo ʞuıɥʇ ʇ,uɐɔ ı ˙pɐǝɥ sʇı uo ʇı uɹnʇ puɐ uıɐɹq uʍop ǝpısdn ʎɯ ǝʞɐʇ oʇ ƃuıʎɹʇ ɟo ʎɐʍ s,puıɯ ʎɯ ʇsnɾ sı ƃuıɥʇ dǝǝןs pɹıǝʍ […]

I bet you think I’m extroverted.  That’s a pretty reasonable assumption to make based on the fact that I’ve taken you along with me to my mammogram.  An introvert probably wouldn’t do that. Only I did.  And I am.  Honestly. […]

A quick note before I get into today’s post. Holy shit. You’ll have to excuse my language but I REALLY AM THE WORST BLOGGER IN THE WORLD.  I am an all caps, bad blogger. As it turns out The Art […]

    Reisetomate Every year I devote a portion of my garden to weird stuff.  You know … warty tomatoes, tiny cucumbers, those astronaut pens that write even when they’re upside down. I also try to keep up with the […]

First off, thanks to all the men who came out of hiding and commenting on Friday’s post.  It resulted in truly one of the most entertaining comment sections this blog has ever seen. Now … back to the way we […]

    My Uncle Jack reads this blog.  Uncle Jack is a boy.  A man really I guess, but even that’s up for debate.  He sometimes dresses up like a clown and has also been known to laugh at fart […]

Apparently we are not the only raging fans of Walker Za […]

Before I get into today’s post, just a quick note that my Seed Starting Course: Sow You Wanna be Startin’ Somethin’ costs $35, and that includes 3 packs of seeds from Laura at Cubit’s. As you were … onto the […]

  a mini-workshop  sponsored by Join the fun and learn to start your own seedlings in this hour and a half long quick and dirty workshop.   Have you always wanted to start a vegetable or flower garden from seed […]

  I’m having a LOT of trouble focusing on my posts these days. It happens.  As soon as there’s anything that can be grown, seeded, started, planted or propagated I can’t be trusted to do anything else.  I’ll pretend to […]

One of the shows I hosted when I was a famous television host who hosted things and was famous, was a makeover show called Stylin’ Gypsies.  A bunch of experts (and I) travelled around in a dilapidated RV giving women […]

Tip week continues with a tip that saved my life.  Not so much my life I guess as my reputation.  Which you may have thought was lost in highschool but was not because when I was in highschool I was […]

Before I get into today’s FANTASTIC post on cat pee, a reminder that I’m holding another workshop.  The Art of Doing MORE Stuff.  4 hour long classes of live, online video that will get your ass in gear.  I’ll teach you […]

Here are the questions and comments I get most often through either email or the comment section on this blog. How do you do so much? Do you ever sleep? You’re great. You do so much and your house is […]

I walked through the aisles of the shop, eyes cast down, concentrating on the shuffling sound of my feet.  If I did that I could block out the whispering voices around me. Addicts. They were addicts and I didn’t want […]

  If you’re interested in seeing a live demo […]

I don’t even know where to start with this post. This is a reader profile, but the reader is also a friend of mine. I’ve known Karen Cumming since I started out in television, although if you ask either one […]

I’ve been a bit of an emotional mess lately because of a little known condition, most recognized in first world countries, specifically during the winter months. It presents with generalized anxiety, restlessness, screaming, crying, and laughing until a tiny bit […]

Are you ready to change up the decor in your kitchen? O […]