Wednesday, 1 December 2010

In which we are just living our everyday life

I told you these were going to be just everyday life pictures. :) I love mason jars. And dried fruit. Especially dried apricots (right, Mum?) and prunes (yes, prunes). Oh, and brown sugar.

This is one of our kitchen cupboards. I took a picture of it... because I was quite proud of myself for a) the mason jars and b) the spices/ honey I got from bulk barn for screaming deals (take that, Sobeys and your overpriced-ness)

One recent Saturday afternoon Brian and I went on a Starbucks date. This is a cranberry bliss bar. It was good.

The view when sitting by the window of our local downtown Starbucks. There are 3 Starbucks stores in all of Newfoundland. I'm not obsessed with the place, but I would like to note that that is significantly less than in the city of Vancouver alone.

Mmm. Christmas drinks.

In which Brian is enjoying his Christmas drink

Us and the outside world
Making sugar cookies


Using pointy little knives as cookie cutters is serious business

Finished product... yummy.

This lovely gal is getting married in 16 sleeps! 

The beautiful bride to be Brianne and her Paris-themed cake

Lately, I have been learning about my camera while Brian works at his new desk (he built it from scratch? Nice eh?). So, I test out new photography techniques on him when he isn't looking. I think this was a longer shutter speed or something.

This was testing out the 'face recognition' setting- "Hey Brian, look over here for a minute". Serious faces only though.

We went to a Christmas Advent service at the Basilica, a beautiful Catholic cathedral just down the street. Didn't know any of the songs, but it was still pretty neat. The building is stunning.

Alex sent us a lovely wedding present. Vancouver coffee, Summerland jam and chutney, good chocolate, and spoon-fork-knife combos. Among other goodies. It was awesome.

Here's a blurry self portrait of us with the goods.

Enjoying the coffee smell?

There it is. Dear Vancouver, sometimes I miss your organic-local-fresh-hippyness. But that's ok. 

3 comments:

Lindi said...

I have two comments:

1) Cranberry bliss bars are amazing!
2) I miss Brianne (enjoy her wedding!)

Anonymous said...

Jen, wouldn't it be nice if they could somehow make a car freshener that smelled as good as that fresh coffee? I always like to smell Mum's coffee pot too...so good.
CB.

kiwiberg said...

Would love to go to a coffee shop with a view like the harbour of St John's!!