Shook off my mob cap and pinny this weekend to check out R.E.M.’s new tour which kicked off in Deer Lake Park. They played a great mix of the tried and true, along with a number of songs from their new album, Accelerate. Great sound, plus intriguing light show made for an amazing concert experience. Opening [...]
Archive for May, 2008
Extra: Cottager and Wife rock out at R.E.M. concert
Posted in Modern Life, favourite things, music, tagged live concerts, music, R.E.M. on May 26, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Beware the Vomit-Seeking Monster!
Posted in Modern Life, cottage, family, kids, tagged camping, cottage, cottage life, family, Modern Life, parenting on May 22, 2008 | 1 Comment »
A long weekend and a great forecast had us heading to the cottage for three nights, where we were joined by some of our city neighbours for barbecues, campfires and lots of laughs. We have an enormous deck on the steep slope behind the cottage where a previous owner had a hot tub, and it seemed [...]
Succulent Mirrored Planter
Posted in community, cottage, garden, gardening, planters, tagged container gardening, gardening, succulents, wildlife rehabilitation on May 20, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The first weekend market was held in Gibsons Landing over the Victoria Day weekend, and I scored a hat trick when I found some great plants, supported a worthy cause and made a new friend. But I’m getting ahead of myself.
When I posted photos of the mirrored planter given to me by a neighbour, my cousins [...]
A Tale of Two Gardens
Posted in cottage, frugal tips, garden, gardening, landscaping, tagged cottage, gardening, landscaping, shade plants, westcoast garden on May 16, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
For the first time in my life I have fertile earth to play with. But not as much as I expected. Everything is growing so fast at the cottage, that instead of putting my own stamp on the garden with some of my favourite plants, I am really just thinning and weeding and discovering in the [...]
Feeling Inspired
Posted in Uncategorized on May 6, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I got a lot of great advice from the GardenWeb quilter’s forum and About.com’s quilter’s forum, and met some nice people too. I learned about adding perspective through shading, and definition by way of a machine free-quilting technique, ’couching’ (adding texture by attaching fibres with invisible thread), fabric painting, using netting, and much more. As a largely self-taught, trial-and-error sort [...]
About that quilt…
Posted in cottage, decoration, favourite things, quilting, tagged advice, Fiber Arts Festival, GardenWeb, quilting on May 2, 2008 | 8 Comments »
I started this quilt top in a fit of inspiration – but without any real plan – quite a few years back. It depicts my favourite view from the old family cottage porch. Those are my boys jumping off the dock, though they are quite a bit bigger now. And the chair in the foreground is [...]
