Nicole’s Favourite Things: The Hygge-Chaka, Hygge-Hygge-Hygge-Chaka Edition

I can’t stop this feeling, deep inside of me, January you just don’t realize what you do to me…when you are cold but it’s getting more light you let me know everything’s all right… Ever since I read The Little Book of Hygge, I’ve been a bit obsessed with the concept: winter in Calgary is […]

Nicole’s Favourite Things; The I Love December Edition

I love the month of December. It just feels so magical; objectively it’s a cold and dark month, but it doesn’t feel that way to me. I mean, it IS dark, it IS cold – it is minus 21 this morning! – but I don’t mind. I mean, yes, I would rather not spend ten […]

Nicole’s Favourite Things: The November Beauties Edition

I know many people loathe the month of November, but I do not. It’s generally a grey/ brown, chilly, windy month, true, but it has its own kind of beauty: We don’t all have to be flashy to be beautiful. November is also a good month for me because the first three weeks are the […]

Nicole’s Favourite Things: The Spooky Season Edition

OH MY GOD YOU GUYS. LOOK AT THE GRUESOME SCENE THAT WE DISCOVERED ON OUR FRONT STEP LAST NIGHT. I guess the mystery of the missing gourds is solved – it’s a case of cannibalism! I don’t know WHO is responsible for this carnage, but a) I love it and b) I have my suspicions! […]

Nicole’s Favourite Things: The “It’s My Bag, Baby” Edition

Once in a while I’ll meet a person who casually mentions that they never carry a purse, and I am completely struck speechless. If a person doesn’t carry a purse, how do they carry all the things? Or do they carry no things? Or do they rely on pockets? Just…how? And am I carrying too […]

Nicole’s Favourite Things: The “I Love My Garden” Edition

Well, as I write this it is 7 degrees Celsius and we had a huge hailstorm this weekend that mushed flat all my garden beds and flowers. Prior to this, with the heat and the no mosquitoes, I was thinking what was wrong with me all these years, Calgary is not so bad, look at […]

Nicole’s Favourite Things: The Life-Changing Edition

Okay. We all know that my half-Scottish ancestry, coupled with my somewhat austere Norwegian ancestry, has made a strange consumer of me. Whereas I have more yoga clothes, black footwear, and black sweaters than you could literally shake a stick at, there are a few items that I am so reluctant to purchase that the […]