Winter walks

I love walking in the snow. The cold air, the sun sparkling off of everything ... so pretty

 

 

 More to come later C:

Home love

I've been all over the internet the past few days drooling over beautiful homes and getting inspiration for little things I want to do in our home. I am in love with this home  <3 everything about it feels so peaceful and calming and beachy.. I love the naturalness of every space. 
check out all the pictures of eileen peters house here!
But here are a few of my favorites.

Bird Stalking

We have had so many little birds on our back deck since it snowed. We always put food out for them so we have a lot of little bird friends now. Yesterday I took out my zoom lens and decided to get some good pictures of the cute little buggers. Birds are so awesome, I could watch birds for hours... and actually I almost did ! They must have though I was pretty crazy trying to sneek up on them, crawling around on my kitchen floor.. haha! Here's some of the pictures I got

Look at this little fatty! We feed them well

 

those last two are probably my favorite, that bird has such pretty coloring and markings. We are gonna get a bird book so I can figure out what kind of birds they all are!

Snow Day

I love waking up to the snow outside my window.. everything looks so bright. The best.
A few pictures from my wonderful snow filled day yesterday

    coming to wake me up :)

 creatures trying to keep warm. we give them lots of seed to fatten them up for winter

 from my backyard.

We kept warm inside playing video games, knitting and drinking tea. 

I cant tell you how amazing it is to have a wood stove. I love sitting and just watching the fire burn from big logs down to red hot embers... plus it keeps the house so warm even when its -10 out like it was yesterday! way too cold for around here I'm not used to it. Matts mom even got us a 1/2 quart of wood yesterday so we will be warm for weeks to come. and my wonderful boy went out in the -10 to cut and stack all the wood <3

And Today the sun has come out and started to melt the ice off the leaves on the trees. But its still cold. these are my favorite snow days, when the sun is shining and its cold and we can go for a long walk and admire it all. So beautiful! And every few minutes snow will fall from the trees and the sun will sparkle off the flakes and its magical.

snow love

We had our first snow the other day! Pretty early for around here!  I love snow more than anything, we dont get enough of it here if you ask me. I love seeing everything covered in blankets of white sparkling fresh snow, it feels like your looking at a brand new world every year. I'm like a little kid staring out the passenger seat of the window constantly in awe of how beautiful everything looks. We went for a walk in the snow this morning I didn't even mind that I don't have proper snow boots and my feet got soaking wet and frozen, I just watched as the flakes flew from the sky and tried to catch a few on my tongue.
So here's some snow love for everyone who is wishing for snow like I was :)

hopefully I'll get my camera out and take some pictures of my own tomorrow.

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cucunut curry lentil soup

This soup is so tasty and easy to make! I love soup on cold days, the best way to warm up :) I plan on making a lot of soup this winter. So let me know if you have any awesome soup recipes!

What you need

• two cans lentils (drained)
• I can coconut milk
• I carton veggie stock (I used this brand Kitchen Basics because its awesome and completely organic no preservatives and no added salt!)
• I large onion
• two stalks celery 
• two large carrots
• one clove garlic
• curry powder
• salt and pepper
• EVOO

 
Dice carrots, celery, garlic and onion and saute in pot with about a tablespoon evoo and salt and pepper until onions are soft.
Then add veggie stock, coconut milk and curry powder (I just added the curry powder until it was as curryish as I felt I wanted it)
Bring it all to a boil and then turn the heat down to low and let simmer for a few hours.
Add the lentils at the end before your read to take it off the heat. The canned lentils are already soft so they just need to be heated.

And that's it! Super healthy soup that tastes awesome.  you could add any other veggies you wanted too and I'm sure it would be good. I had a soup like this at a restaurant about two years ago and always said Id try and re-create it so I'm glad I finally did AND it came out great ! The version I had at the restaurant had kale in it too so I think I'll try that next time.

Happy soup making! Today is defiantly a soup day here, looks (and feels) like we could have our first snow any minute !

dressing

 hello!

A few outfits I liked this week.. taking pictures of what I wear helps me to actually get dressed and out of pj pants while I'm unemployed... haha its really true!

 

 

 

Maybe I will start remembering where I buy my clothes.. haha hmmm

I made some amazing coconut curry lentil soup yesterday I will share the recipe later :D