We found that after a few months of using the chairs, they were starting to sag in the middle.  I don't even want to talk about how the spills and how the fabric was starting to tear!!

The solution?  Adding boards under the stuffing.  Three down and three to go - got to use up two different fabrics from my stash so far.

Gotta say, I'm loving the floral!  And so is Jupiter.

It started with the fudge - I've made this recipe many times but today it ended up looking like this.

Aside from the usual "burnt a few from the first batch", the cookies are great too, thanks to the bags of sprinkles from my friend's dad, who closed down his bakery.  These ones are refrigerator cookies from my favourite cookbook, The Pillsbury Cookbook.

I love the gorgeous white sparkly sprinkles - Christmas baking is well in hand!

I've made an advent calendar for my parents almost every year for quite a while now.  These have taken the form of daily goodies like candies, wrapped paper towel rolls in the shape of a Christmas tree and tiny wrapped packages.

This year cutting out gingerbread men for my son's kindergarten class led to the creation of this brown-paper wrap gingerbread dude.  I cut 25 out (just a bit bigger than my hand), then coloured different faces on them with numbered middle buttons and stapled a part so they would stay together.

The Hallowe'en costumes were a big success this year!  My oldest went as Harry Potter (after we finally convinced him he should TRY to at least read the first chapter - of course he was mesmerized until the end of the book). 

When we moved into our house 10 years ago, the former owners left a lot of things behind. Of note were wooden blocks for the wheels of their RV, various boards, tiles, pieces of laminate, unknown metal thingies in the shed, hanging basket holders and a cat.