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Festive Fun: DIY Shirley Temple Kit
Shirley Temple Kit with?áhomemade grenadine! ?áWhat could be more Christmasy than the Canadian version of the Shirley Temple drink? ?á2 parts ginger ale and 1 part orange juice, over the rocks and with a splash of grenadine? ?áLose the?ámaraschino cherries, unless you can find some without artificial dye (FD&C Red 40) and garnish with pomegranate…
Kept It Simple: More Fire Than Ice
?á Fire and Ice… that’s this month’s theme for our Facebook Friends’ Photos!?áIf you “like”?áFleurbain on Facebook,?áyou can upload pics to our wall on the theme of “Fire and Ice”. We’ll announce a new theme every month!
a bitter DIY gift idea
I made this bottle of bitters so that folks in my family would have a “just in case” digestive boost to carve through the season of excess otherwise known as Christmas. ?áThe small bottle of bitters in the middle of the above photo illustrates the type of approach I like to take for labeling things…
December 6th.
December 6, 1989. Fourteen bright young women were singled out and killed in Montreal’s Ecole Polytechnique.?áI, personally, will never forget that day. Today I look out at Montreal’s snow, and think about?áour loss of those women and?áthe violence that persists against women all over the world. We have to remain strong and support each other,…
DIFY (Do It For You) Gift Ideas
Something tells me that I might want to do a little shopping in the next few weeks.?áIn my world, gift giving is fairly important and my peeps love giving gifts at Christmas. ?áI like to give consumables, such as special foods or the DIY gift ideas I am sharing with everyone this month. These are…
It happens. You shop for wool, but end up finding bi?¿re.
This is what we found one day on our way to buy some wool to make felted soaps. Les D?®lires du Terroir – bi?¿res, fromages et gourmandises du Qu?®bec. It is at 6406 rue St. Hubert, just below Beaubien. The cheese and gifts looked nice and so did the beer. We had no idea that…
got the chills?
An olde fashioned favourite tea that is used for sudden chills, chills from a feverish state or fevers is equal amounts of mint, elder flower and yarrow. If you happen to have a copy of Matthew Wood’s Earthwise Herbal, you will read that “mint tea was used during the terrific grippe epidemics of 1838 and…
