cleaner…

swapped the hibiscus and the mandevilla… the mandevilla has been looking very sad, possibly because of the cold air coming in when the front door opens…

took a few moments to shake off the dead leaves, and then sweep them all up…

the hibiscus didn’t really want to move, even though it is on a rolling platform…

the mandevilla rolled across the floor without any problems…

fingers crossed that both of them will be happy in their new locations…

pace…

25 Sunday Jan 2026

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the weather has been crazy cold and I’ve been hibernating in the house… so I finally finished the first dishcloth…

it ended up being a bit on the large size, lol…

so now I’ve started on the next one, which I am making smaller…

my fingers get a bit uncomfortable if I work on it too long, so I am having to pace myself…

feeling very crafty 😊…

enamoured…

22 Thursday Jan 2026

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last week, when I visited Fleurs de Villes WONDER at The Leaf, for the first time, I was completely enamoured with the Aurora Borealis display…

it was filled with some of my favourite colours and just touched me immediately…

I was on a volunteer shift and got to see it in daylight (I started at 3, ended at 6), and under the lights…

since then I’ve watched a video about how it was made and learned more about it…

I also put up a photo on IG and got a note from Christine at Silver Heights Florist, the artist who designed and carried out this piece with assistance from others, advising she had a bouquet for me…

I picked it up yesterday and it has all the colours of the original display in it…

what a treat;-)…

if you have a chance you really should go and check out WONDER before it leaves…

laughs…

21 Wednesday Jan 2026

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had a wonderful time today with friends at The Leaf…

we travelled together and had a lot of laughs in the process, then checked out all of the displays, and had one of the volunteers take our photo…

ended the day with a lovely lunch and visit at Gather;-)…

dropped off one of us and had a short visit…

what a fun time we had;-)…

WONDER…

20 Tuesday Jan 2026

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had a lovely visit to Fleurs de Villes WONDER at The Leaf…

for Christmas I had given my buddies tickets to the show… such a great gift which adds another celebration for everyone…

we had lunch at Gather to celebrate our January birthday woman before the tour;-)…

we had dropped our birthday person at the back entrance, which is much closer for anyone with walking issues and then drove around and parked at the front…

for this visit, we skipped the Tropical biome and moved right into the Mediterranean biome to see the fifteen displays…

every time I walk through the area I spot details I hadn’t noticed before;-)…

I’ve volunteered twice, and visited three times so it is quite astonishing that I keep discovering new things…

the group enjoyed all of the displays and it was fun as each person made their choice of favourite piece…

I keep vacillating between three, lol…

striploin…

19 Monday Jan 2026

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had lunch at Gather Craft Kitchen & Bar before checking out Fleurs de Villes WONDER in the Mediterranean biome with my BS buddies…

it was nice to be inside after the -30°C walk from the car, lol…

I had the gyro – beef striploin gyro, grilled naan, cucumber relish, arugula, garlic tzatziki… I have had this before and, as previously, it was tasty…

other items at the table included the classic burger, the pasta with shrimp, and the house salad…

everyone enjoyed their meal and there were a few desserts afterwards, lol…

it was rather busy, so it did take a little longer than usual for our meal…

always a treat;-)…

phases…

14 Wednesday Jan 2026

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one of my Advent calendar items was a phases of the moon one page calendar…

it is very cool and it has taken a while to decide where to put it…

it finally went on the bathroom door…

it is the one place that I pass all the time…

step-stools…

10 Saturday Jan 2026

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spent a little bit of time in the kitchen…

went upstairs and brought down the regular mugs and changed them out for the holiday ones…

next, with help from my housemate, I changed out the dinner plates and saucers… it is always a bit of a process as one set comes down from the top of the cabinet and the other goes up…