The Garden Grows Hat by Mamachee is a beautiful two-toned crochet hat that has a leaf and vine motif. To make the hat, I used a 4.00 mm hook and Cascade Yarns Heritage Solids in Limestone and Sage. I used the sage for the green leaves and the light limestone as the background. I bought this […]
DIY: Crochet Clover Hat by Kathy Merrick
The Clover Hat by Kathy Merrick is a fun patterned hat that I crocheted in a day. The clover pattern emerges as you crochet in the round with two contrasting colours. The pattern has a charted color-change pattern, with the color not used stranded across the back. Although I used two solid colours, the pattern recommends […]
Exploring Cartagena: Guillermo Piñeres Botanical Garden
One of the main sites we visited in Colombia was the Guillermo Piñeres Botanical Garden. Our parents, Karlos, and I woke up early one morning and took a taxi to the Guillermo Piñeres Botanical Garden. The drive was about 40 minutes, first through the bustling streets of Cartagena, and then a short way along the highway […]
Exploring Cartagena: Colombian Food!
We got a good taste for Colombian food during our week-long stay in Cartagena. Our favourite, perhaps, was all the beautifully ripe, perfectly fresh fruit! Vendors pushing wooden carts on wheels made the rounds and would pass by the front door of our airbnb. We would flag them down and buy deliciously sweet fruit; even […]
Favourite Swedish Pancakes
These Swedish pancakes are my favourite type of pancake! Our mom is German so she isn’t used to and doesn’t like the fluffy, American-style flapjacks that are the regular pancakes in Canada. While I don’t mind those, I prefer these thin, crepe-like Swedish pancakes. I find that these are more toothsome and less fluffy and […]