Showing posts with label top 10 lists. Show all posts
Showing posts with label top 10 lists. Show all posts

Thursday, May 07, 2009

What do you love?

"We are shaped and fashioned
by what we love."
-Goethe
(from Canadian Living, May 2009)


Photo - one tiny section of the greenhouse we visitied earlier this week

Right now I'm loving:
- studying God's word
- Nestle's Noir Easter Eggs
- homemade granola
- visiting greenhouses 
- grilled meat and roasted veggies from the barbecue
- time to read
- the new rug in front of the sink in my kitchen 
-getting caught up on laundry
- lots of happy mail
- clean countertops

(I have no idea why Blogger thinks it needs to underline this part of the post!)

Friday, December 19, 2008

Top Ten at Christmas

One of the things we love to do at Christmas time - or any time we get together - is to play games with family and friends.  There are some pretty fierce competitors in our family now and every game session is intense, especially with Tyler and Jerry trying ( and often succeeding) at beating Bob!!  Here are 10 of our game favourites in random order:

1.  Jack Attack - also known as Sequence

2.  Mexican Train Dominoes

3.  Chinese Crib

4.  Spoons or Donkey

5.  Dutch Blitz

6.  Buzzword

7.  Scattergories

8.  Marbles - which we learned from Jonathan - his family plays this game for keeps - no mercy shown!

9.  Bid Whist - my Dad's favourite

10.  Uno - which Bob's mom taught to our kids and woud play with them by the hour when they were little

Some of these might even be under the tree for some people this year!!!

Thursday, December 18, 2008

Top Ten at Christmas

Today, after a half day of subbing in social studies 10 and 30, I'm in the kitchen doing a little baking.  So here is my list of favourite cookies.  I likely won't get all of them baked this year but hopefully I might get to taste the others somewhere else (hint, hint to my Mom!).  In no particular order:

1.  Whipped Shortbread

2.  Peanut Blossoms

3.  Gingersnaps

4.  Fudge Cups

5.  Peppermint Cookies (Pioneer Woman has a good recipe for these)

6.  Oatmeal Raisin (Bob's favourite)

7.  Almond Raspberry Stars

8.  Snowball Cherry Cookies

9.  Fruit Drops

10.  Cranberry Nut Swirls

I wish you could all drop by for tea or eggnog and cookies!

Tuesday, December 16, 2008

Ten on Tuesday

For today's Tuesday column, I thought I'd share 10 fun online sites where I found some great Christmas gift ideas.  I know it's too late to shop most of these places now but you can check them out and maybe have them on tap for another time.  

1.  The first shopping I planned was for my favourite charity, Compassion International.  You can sponsor a child, give a one time gift, donate to the Global Food fund or help in a whole bunch of different ways.  

2.  If you are a scrapbooker - or know one :)) - and are thinking of hybrid or digital designing (which I love but have no clue about!), Designer Digitals has the oh, so creative Ali Edwards on their team and she has some amazing templates and word art over there.  There are a ton of other creative people with great products too!

3.  Stubby Pencil Studios have kid and earth  friendly art supplies.  I know some little ones who would love these things.  

4.  You can find beautiful fabric, patterns and tons of ideas at Sew, Mama, Sew.

5.  There are lots of jewellery designers selling wonderful little pieces through their Etsy shops.  Check Heather Ann Designs for cool beaded pieces. 




6.  For the outdoor enthusiast, Mountain Equipment Coop is a dream site!






7.  Anything for your home can be found at Home Outfitters.  Love this chocolate jug! 

8.  Books to get?  Go straight to Chapters and receive sweet free shipping if your order is over a set amount (which is never hard to achieve!).


 9.   Maybe you have a mom-to-be on your list - check Motherhood for some great ideas for her.




10.  Baby Gap has everything you could want for kids - like this dress coat -


or a onesie that would be great on any little boy -



or cute dresses for the little girls in your life!

Sorry I couldn't give you more images - Blogger is having issues!

I hope your shopping is nearly completed and that you've enjoyed planning and purchasing for those you love.  Have fun wrapping and cherish the joy when they open their packages.  I'm off to wrap some things so I hopefully won't be up until 3 a.m. one night!

Sunday, December 14, 2008

Top Ten at Christmas

I think I'll do some listing this week to share a sample of favourite things that I love about this time of  year.   One thing that really makes this season special is the music so today I give you some songs that we enjoy listening to.  I think you can find all of them on YouTube.  And we don't have our tree up yet so instead I offer some fantastic trees that you might want to consider for your own home :))
 
1.  Amy Grant - "Gabriel's Oboe"

2.  Josh Groban - "Thankful"

3.  Celine Dion - "The Magic of Christmas Day"

4.  Diana Krall - "Count Your Blessings Instead of Sheep"

top of a turquoise tree, decorated with peacock feathers

5.  JoDee Messina - "A Joyful Noise"

6.  Reba MacNeil - "Late December"

Photo - "Baby's First Tree" in pinks and blues

7.  Psalm 150 Music - "Child of Peace"

8.  Barenaked Ladies - "Do They Know It's Christmas"

9.  Andrea Bocelli and Celine Dion - "The Prayer'

10.  Charlotte Church - "Panis Angelicus"

I've left the traditional carols for another day.

Pictures shared from Remodeling My Space.