It’s been 2 years since we closed on the condo, and it’s taken all this time to realize that it’s actually ours and we can do whatever we like with it :) So we’re starting the expensive and exciting reno-phase! This was the bedroom when…
Every Mother’s and Father’s Day I have the honour of celebrating 2 sets of parents – my actual parents and my parents best friends, who predate my existence by quite a bit. They are a fixture of every family event, where after a few drinks…
I won’t lie – they’re not even a little bit good for you. Not even if you ate them on, say, a bed of spinach. But….wow. They are chocolate chip, peanut butter, sea salt cookies. Easy. Tasty. Best cookies ever. I found them on Pinterest,…
…Entering my home. Apparently killing everything in it’s path, or at least rendering it blissfully unconscious.
My mom and I are both 5 foot 2. She may actually be 5 foot nothin’, but the fact remains that we are both small. One day she was chatting with Tito and I, and she dropped this gem: ‘Because short things come in important…
The Blue Brick has 500 followers! Watching the stats on this blog grow has been a very neat experience, we also just passed the 300,000 hit mark. I’ve been wondering about whether it was due for a refresher. When I post about crafts sometimes I…
So I haven’t blogged in super long time. Into that vacuum has come an incredible amount of blog spam for some reason… those telltale comments in obsequious tones and terrible grammar have been clogging my inbox. So to keep the blog alive and keep the…
This morning I found a snow drift high enough to attempt a vertical snow angel =D Of course, I had to take a bit of a run at it – which means it was less like making a snow angel and more like trying to…
Happy New Year :) I wish you all a happy healthy 2013! A few months ago I received this email: Dear Shireen, I’ve seen your magnificent blog and fell in love with Newfoundland. We are redecorating our house and had been searching for a living…
Last weekend Tito and I put our tree up. The putting up of the Christmas tree has been a long tradition in our family – my parents still have the same tree they bought in 1975 and we put it up every year! My folks…