Tea of the Week - Pom Diggety

On my most recent trip to Davids Tea I was given Pom Diggety as a sample. It was so delicious I decided to impulsively buy 100 grams on the spot! I have no regrets. It's sweet, fruity and is great hot or iced. It's a black tea but has low caffeine, which is nice. It doesn't seem to get bitter like some black teas that I have tried. Besides black tea, Pom Diggety has hibiscus, rooibos, lemon myrtle, stevia extract, pomegranate seeds, natural pomegranate flavouring. If you are curious you can get this tea as part of David's Tea's Summer Iced Teas Collection.

Monday Goals (04-07-16)

I am going to try something new. A while back I did monthly goals. Recently some blogs I follow have been doing weekly goals and I am going to give it a try to see how I like it. Here are this weeks goals!

8 Cups of water - 2 Cups of Caffeine

I am not drinking enough water. My goal is 8 cups a day. I will use my phone's Health app to track this. I also want to limit myself to 2 cups of caffeinated beverages. After that It needs to be decaffeinated tea or coffee. My phone also has a section in the health app for tracking this.

1 Chapter a Day

I am trying to read more. I want to make progress on the Fifth Harry Potter book this week and I think 1 chapter a day is a reasonable goal for me.

2 Squares a Day

I haven't been making enough progress on my sock yarn blanket. This week I want to get at least 2 squares done a day. This should also help me achieve my overall goal of using up my yarn scraps.

What do you want to get done this week?

Thankfully (30-06-16)

This week I am thankful for:

-Dinner out with my knitting group (buffet!!)
-Puzzling with my husband
-Shopping with my Bestie
-Short work week
-Finishing (and hopefully wearing!) my sweater
-Deals at David's Tea (I got free shipping AND a free Summer Iced Tea Collection!)
-Pie
-Hilarious Snapchat filters

What are you thankful for this week?

Thankfully (23-06-16)

Crushing it.

This week I am thankful for:

-Bike rides (and ice cream!) with my Dad
-New storage in the apartment
-Weekend naps
-Special tea cups that make drinking tea that much better
-Crafting time with my Mom
-Campfires
-Air Conditioning in the apartment
-Manicures with the bestie
-Puzzles
-Knitting during lunch breaks
-Jam making with my family

What are you thankful for this week?

Currently (22-06-16)

Knitting... June Socks are finished! I am still working on my sweater Briquette by Alicia Plummer. I have both sleeves finished and I'm about half way done the hood. I'm hoping to be done this sweater within the next week or so.

I am finished a pair of thrummed mittens to send up to Nunavut later this year. I'm hoping the recipient finds them nice and toasty.

I started some projects to enter in some fairs this fall. Specifically, I am working on another Force Awakens hat, and I am going to try to make up a mitten pattern to match!

Spinning... Knit Picks Bare Roving. I have one bobbin plied, and I am hoping to do another one soon. I will then have 4 skeins for a sweater! I think I will probably need 6 before I dye it.

I also recently acquired a drop spindle. I have been spinning some purple alpaca-merino with it.

Crocheting... Crocheting has been taking a back seat lately. Someone asked me to make them a Dragon Ball Z hat, so I'll be crocheting that in the near future.

Reading... I am reading Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. I haven't made much progress. Hopefully soon I will get some more motivation in the near future

Drinking... Smoothies! We found a magic bullet on sale a few weeks ago and I have been using it at least once a day. Do you have any favourite smoothie recipes? I'm looking for more to try, so leave me a comment!

Cooking... I gave a new recipe a try yesterday and it turned out okay. A little too much work for a regular dinner and it didn't really wow either of us.

What are you currently up to?

Thankfully (20-05-16)

This week I am thankful for:

-Finishing all my current orders for star wars hats (one went to AUSTRALIA this week!)
-Good progress on my May socks
-Roller coaster tycoon (that game is addictive)
-A long weekend that starts today
-My mom (She graduated from her Masters of Theological Studies this week!)
-Hardly any traffic on the way to my mom's convocation ceremony
-Board games with my family

What are you thankful for this week?

Niagara Falls Getaway

I know Valentine's Day was a LONG time ago but I still wanted to share a little bit about our most recent trip.

Andrew and I decided to go to Niagara Falls for a few days to celebrate Valentine's Day as well as the start of reading week. We went on the COLDEST day of the year but it actually turned out really well because it was not very busy at all. we dressed in lots of layers and we were good to go.

We did mostly tourist things in the area and we walked most places so that we wouldn't have to pay extra for parking. Here are some of the highlights:

-Splurging 20 bucks on the arcade. Seriously, this was so much fun. We got to play games together for over an hour and in the end we got two heart shaped slinkies.

-Sharing a beaver tail.

-Seeing how much ice accumulated on the railings by the falls in such a short time.

-Solving a rubik's cube at the Guinness Book of World Records museum.

-Buying matching sweaters

-Valentine's Day Dinner at East Side Mario's

-Visiting Niagara on the Lake and going to a cute yarn store to get sock yarn

-Walking over 30,000 steps through the weekend (seriously, not even joking.)