Easter Weekend

~a loving gift from my sweet boy~

I'm {hopefully} recovering from a killer cold that left me voiceless for about a week. In spite of that we had a lovely long weekend. I hope yours was lovely as well.

sunshine coast

This past weekend my sister and I took a little trip up the sunshine coast for a couple days. It was laid back and relaxing and just a great time as usual. We are great travel companions. We enjoy seeing and doing the same things which makes for a lot of fun.

We arrived in the rain but that didn't slow us down. We're west coast girls after all, rain is kinda the norm around here

Warming up with some green tea and Japanese food. It was possibly the best Japanese food I've ever had. If you ever find yourself in Gibsons on the sunshine coast of BC Ichiban Sushi is a definite must.

A boathouse garden


rocky shoreline

Our second day was unbelievably sunny and beautiful. A perfect day to get in on the first market of the season.

my pretty sister




Hi!

Pretty, vibrant orange door to our cabin. each cabin door was painted a different colour. So charming.

Lunch in Gibsons again on our last day. Again, excellent food.

See? this was my crab and shrimp sandwich on toasted sourdough. Yum!



street art

headed home on the ferry

All in all a fabulous weekend!

yarn along

Spring always leaves me restless for new, fresh recipes and so I've been drooling over the pages of this book for the last few days. whenever I'm in a dinner rut the photos in this cookbook are a guarantee of inspiration. It's broken up by season which I think is brilliant!

some colour for a spring yarn along

I'm working on finishing up another shawl that I started last spring. I had hoped to have it finished in time to wear on my little getaway this past weekend but that just didn't happen so I brought it along to work on in our downtime. the pattern is a little monotonous but the yarn is the most stunning shades of deep teal and bright aqua that it's spurring me on to get it finished.

During my little break from knitting a few weeks back I finished up Pride & Prejudice and read Mansfield Park for the first time. I went into blindly, knowing nothing about the plot or characters and I really enjoyed it! I couldn't put it down. It may be one of my favourite books I've read and to be perfectly honest I'm not much of a reader so it takes a lot for me to say that.

Hopefully in the next few weeks I'll have some more knitting to share as I've got a bunch of projects in the wings.

ETA: for those of you wondering the yarn is by Sweet Fiber Yarns and is even more stunning in person and the pattern is lacy baktus

this weekend with instagram