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Tag: summer
Cowyboy Up! {Calgary Stampede Style}
There’s plenty of things to be proud about the city of Calgary. No matter, how cheesy, loud or crazy it gets, the Calgary Stampede is one of those things! As a born & raised Calgarian, I still get excited every summer for the Stampede. I anxiously look for the booklet in the mail, mark out a day when we can go down {and hopefully catch the World Stock Dog Championship}, and daydream of mini donuts until the fateful day arrives. Are you this nuts about Stampede, or is it just me? It can’t be just me, not when attendance can crack 1.2 million people each year!! Anywho, I thought I’d just share some highlights from our adventure this year.
Weekly Colour Inspiration: Eye Candy
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Living With Essential Oils: Lemon Oil in the Kitchen
One day, while attempting to make a tasty salad dressing, I decided to add in a drop of lemon oil instead of the lemon juice concentrate we had in the fridge {we don’t often have fresh lemons in the house}. The result was wonderful! And since then, I’ve been playing with adding lemon oil, here and there, to some of our simple dishes. Read on, if you’re curious about how we’ve been using this essential oil in our cooking.
Weekly Colour Inspiration: Turquoise Accents
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Weekly Colour Inspiration: Summer Pink
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Strawberry Banana Muffins
I baked these tasty muffins up after discovering that we had too many ripe strawberries & bananas lingering in the house. I used my favourite recipe for Chocolate Chip Banana Coconut muffins {previous posted} as the base, with a few adjustments. They turned out super moist and even our picky-eater 4 year old devoured them!
Weekly Colour Inspiration: Summer In the City
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Summer Fun: Dino Ice Hunt
Sam and I spent many afternoons this summer on the back deck being paleontologists (dino hunters according to Sam). We froze some of his smaller plastic dino models in a block of water and used a toy hammer to chip them out of the ice. This is a pretty simple activity to get setup, it makes hot afternoons go a bit faster, and you get to cool down eating ice chips as you go. (more…)
DIY Fabric Flower Printing
This is actually an activity that Sam and I did last spring, but I never got around to blogging about it. With gardens full of fresh flowers, summer is the perfect time of year to give this fabric printing technique a try. And you heard me right, this is something you can certainly do with your young child, as soon as they show an interest in using a toy hammer.