Sara’s Bakery
Posted by smgrady on October 24, 2011 · 2 Comments
Autumn always means a hunkering down in my world; a little domesticity and coziness as the evenings lengthen and the light fades. In the last month I have possibly done more baking than I have in all the rest of the year put together. Let’s pretend it’s practice for Christmas instead of a sugary-carb overload … Continue reading →
Coveting Cookery
Posted by smgrady on September 8, 2011 · 2 Comments
I have many things I should be doing but today I am revelling in beautiful things. Reminding myself of the good stuff. Restocking my internal store. It involves much eye candy and daydreaming, which usually falls into one of the following categories: dishes housewares stationary dresses shoes books Today , it has included rather drool … Continue reading →
Filed under Crafts & Home, Food & Recipes, Starter for Ten · Tagged with baking, beautiful things, books, food, lists
Bookish Things
Posted by smgrady on September 7, 2011 · 2 Comments
We are back home. I have indeed ticked another one off my list of Thirty Things, but I’ll tell you about that another time. Today is for two of my favourite things: books and lists. As the launch of BookTalk is imminent, they linked to a GoodReads list about books. I almost never use my … Continue reading →
Filed under Art & Pop Culture, Starter for Ten · Tagged with being a kid, books, lists, nostalgia, projects
Nostalgic Nosh
Posted by smgrady on August 11, 2011 · Leave a Comment
It’s an old cliché that you are what you eat. In my case, I eat what I am. If you wanted to take the temperature of any given day in my life, you could do much worse than observe my food habits. Whatever I’m putting in my mouth is probably directly correlated to how I … Continue reading →
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On Your Marks
Posted by smgrady on August 1, 2011 · Leave a Comment
I am getting ready to be 30. Which is lame and uninteresting to the naked eye, I grant you. But I, in my extremely eccentric version of wisdom, have decided it is actually quite special. I am going to make it special. By doing 2 things, which I’ll tell you about later. In the meantimes … Continue reading →
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