'Tis The Season?!?

A few days ago I began a culinary adventure that I had never really planned on taking.  On October 30th I purchased a rather large and beautiful pumpkin from a local farm with great plans of carving it and displaying it on our front porch.  But, as things often go when you are in the middle of a renovations,  I just never got around to my great plans for my great pumpkin.  

And so, my pumpkin sat and sat and sat. Being nicely preserved in my garage the pumpkin was still stilling there (in perfect condition) when I came across it last weekend.  "So," I thought to myself "I guess I'm making a pie".

So I got to work  Googling and going through my cookbooks and cooking blogs; and Wednesday after our first snow storm of the season I tackled my great pumpkin.  I chopped and scooped and baked. . .

. . .and then I scooped and mashed and blended and strained myself to 9.5 Litres of pumpkin puree!

Needless to say this week has now become an adventure in how to put pumpkin in everything!

Anyone out there in blog land have any ideas with what I can do with this pumpkin? 

So far I have made Pumpkin-Apple Soup and Pumpkin-Cranberry Bread.  This weekend I'm planning on baking some Pumpkin cupcakes with Maple Cream Cheese Icing and maybe a pie or 4!

Baby it's Cold Out Side

Today is a "work from home" day due to the yucky road conditions;  so I thought it would be a good day for post number two.
To be perfectly honest, I started this blog in order to qualify for a design blogging course, but later found out that the course is not free like I had originally budgeted for. . .
So, I thought, on this snowy and blustery day that I would post some pics of the reason why I cannot afford to pay for a course on something that I can do for free :)

Enjoy!

The living room - please keep in mind that all the "stuff" in these pics belong to the previous owners of our house.

Living room II.

Dining room.

Kitchen I.

Kitchen II.

Office I.

Office II.  This is where I'm Sitting right now - for those of you who may be concerned by this nothing in these pictures looks like this anymore.  Thank God!

This photo was taken about a week or two after we moved in. . . needless to say this is one of the reasons we bought the house.

All of these pictures are of rooms that we have now renovated and completed.  I will try to take the after photos this week and I will post them shortly!

Happy snow day!

Lisa

Premier Post

Hello blog land!

I thought I should introduce myself in my very first post; so here we go!

I'm Lisa and I am a trained and accredited interior decorator based out of the Toronto area.

My husband and I have just moved into our first home and boy has it been an adventure! The house itself is a 1960's bungalow farmhouse located just outside the city. When we moved in, the house was in quite the state of disrepair and as we work through each area of the house I hope to share our progress and any learned advice with you!

I enjoy cooking, crafting, fashion, reading and music and hope to share new and exciting things I stumble upon with you as I go. I like to think of this blog as part Funny Farm part Martha Stewart.

Thanks for reading!

Lisa

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