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New Chunky Cable Headbands now available on my Etsy site! Knit with 100 percent wool and available in Vanilla and Earth brown, these headbands will keep your ears warm this winter.

Its my first day back in the big smoke after a short but wonderful trip to Edmonton to visit the family before they (most of them) jet off to England for Christmas (slightly jealous!). So surprisingly i got up early this morning, took the subway with H on his way to work and went to St. Laurence Market on Front Street. I’ve never been and have been meaning to for quite some time. Well i think i have died and gone to heaven. The amount and variety of fresh meat, fish, veggies, fruits and cheese boggles the mind!! They have EVERYTHING!! the cheese selection is amazing, huge wheels of every kind of cheese imaginable stacked high and cut to your liking, self serve olive bars, stuffed peppers, fresh buffalo mozzarella and feta, hummus, pesto and antipasto galore. They have crab legs and scallops the size of your fist, multiple kinds of atlantic smoked salmon, red snapper, sole, shrimp and prawns bigger than your hand! Ten different kinds of sausages, every cut of meat imaginable (and some i don’t want to imagine), dried and cured meats, pepperoni, bacon, and ….hmmm quails eggs!! And to top it off alot of it is from Ontario and at least Canada. Due to my piddly bank account as a student i bought some lovely sausages for breakfast tomorrow morning, some multi-colour tomatoes, sprouting baby broccoli, a couple of figs for experimenting, some grapes, fresh rosemary and bread. St. laurence Market, i’m your number one fan! 

(oh i didn’t even mention the bakery and cakes! and macaroons! swoon)

PS sorry for the lack of photos (too distracted), and random photo of beautiful building on the walk home)

A visit to Edmonton meant a visit to the new and improved Duchess bakery, expanded in every sense of the word. Bigger space, tons of chairs and sofas, and more selection food….mmmmm yum!!

foxes!!! (or weird variations of foxes)……the best!!

pocketfoxx:

Here’s one of my favorite mammal gems: the maned wolf. They look like a fox and an antelope had a beautiful, but slightly awkward one-night stand. The one-night stand that everyone hopes and dreams about having…

(via arliss)

I finally finished knitting a scarf for myself! In between all the papers, reports and readings and knitting chunky cowls, scarves, headbands and hats for Bamboo Ballroom, Coal Miners Daughter, the Enjoy Centre and my Etsy…(phew) i have been working on this scarf for myself. Im referring to it as a sweater scarf because technically it’s knit tight like a sweater and its also a tube so it has no back side or front side. I just love the natural/neutral colours and random stripes and designs. Officially testing it out in Edmonton this week, time for a short pre-Christmas trip home. See you soon cold weather!

This just makes me smile :)

Snowball Fight, 1895-1897 (by cthutqitcnfrjd)