Life's a Stitch

And more recently life’s a creative adventure with some travel thrown in.

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  • Nine Years of Searching

    After nine years, this is another installment of interesting google searches that have ultimately reached Life's a Stitch. Nine years, has it really been nine years? I've tried to give this up as have many of the finest, but my daughter won't let me.  I'm OK with that so here we go: The five recent…

  • Jingle Off!

    Jingle Off! is anther name for my organization's new annual Christmas fundraiser. Fundraising can be the bain of an Executive Director's worklife, but a necessary evil it is, many involving a tangle of committees, caterers, entertainment and charitable receipts. This one was relatively painless, enjoyable even. The Jingle Off Christmas Caroling Competition has been a…

  • My boy, the artist

    Our family knew it anyway, the boy is officially an artist as evidenced by this "Artist's interview." And I, still learning, am one informally. In my college days, rejected from the art program because my portfolio was deemed too commercial, I met a successful entrant. He painted a spectacular watercolour autumnal leaf. Wow, my 17-year-old self…

  • What’s the best camera?

    As Blogless Marsha says, "the best camera is the one you have with you." I understand this as I was having difficulty toting my digital SLR despite its light weight, and ended up selling it as it was not much good to me. I still have my Canon bridge camera and my favourite small Sony.…

  • Labors of love and friendship

    Hardly a lover of knitting or crochet would deny that their work is a labor of love…especially when it's one of those one step forward, two steps back type of project:    This is normally a two evening project, but I somehow lost my rhythm, considering I've previously made two of these without incident. And…

  • Can you take one more barn?

    Actually it's a house, an old homestead in British Columbia's Nicola Valley. My watercolour teacher has a fondness for these and I'm hooked as well. When we make a "mistake" we joke in class that we can always turn it into a winter scene – it's nothing that a little snow can't cover up. This…

  • Perfect combination: Autumn soup and knitting

    The sky was blue, the air was crisp, both the inspiration for a pot of soup and a progress on a scarf on the needles. Not the one you think, although the colours are right. I might have to call that my Autumn Soup Scarf. First the soup recipe: Autumn soup, a combination of two…

  • Aloha on a budget

    Hawaii is expensive. A single scoop ice cream cone at the famous Lapperts was priced at over $6 in Princeville! Veggies in the grocery store average $3.50/lb. Here are some tips: 1. We rented condos listed directly through owners and usually find deals on a car rentals through Hotwire or Priceline. Both condos came with…

  • Eating in Paradise

    I agreed to go the land vacation route if C would be my room steward, making my bed daily and that if I cooked, it would be cleaned up afterwards. My travelmates came though for me, so I cooked my heart out. Who wouldn't want to in a kitchen like this one: The out of…

  • Photography challenge

    I read an article that challenged you to take a photo, paying attention to the composition and settings, no after click touch ups allowed. No cropping or photoshopping, what you click is what you get, the simple truth. Here are a few examples, my favourite shots of Kauai: