On my “travels” through the internet I came across an interesting website located in my country of birth Germany. The designer behind the stunning and beautiful light objects is Simon Brünner, an established multifaceted artist.
His portfolio includes amongst other things his position as Creative Director for labme, a new laboratory that explores innovative use of OLED technology.
Just let the pictures take you on a trip through new light worlds
Being an artist and totally addicted to interior design I am always looking for one of a kind pieces that make a space unique. This time I was on a hunt for unusual chandeliers or light objects and I will share with you what I have found so far.
“Would you like a homemade waffle? ” Well we still make them HOMEMADE, which means not from a mix out of a box but from an old fashion German recipe my mom and my grandmother before used to make.
The only change we introduced over the years was to make them with whole wheat or spelt and with cane sugar instead of white industrial sugar. But my mom would be proud of me still doing it the right way.
When making them we usually make a whole large batch of 15 to 30 waffles and freeze them so we have them handy when we have guests and heat them up in the morning with fresh fruits and yoghurt or cream; also real cream without sugar and not that pretend whipped cream out of a can , which doesn’t even have any real cream in it.
Homemade food means made from scratch
“What does homemade even mean anymore? So much of what we see advertised, or called out by local places are phrases like ‘baked on premises’ and ‘baked daily’. Even places that sell artisan bread often bring it in par-baked, then finish it off in the store. Shows like Sandra Lee’s ‘Almost Homemade’ annoy me! How hard is it to cook your own chicken for Pete’s sake? I guess if you heated it up on your premises it’s homemade.” By Nancy R Lowell
In the last 10 maybe 20 years the definition of homemade got a new “meaning”. The food industry made us believe that when buying a mix or pre-fab produce and throw it all in a pot to heat it up ….we can call the result homemade. But this is a far cry from what one can call home- or self-made. It is just the make-believe of homemade that we were trained to accept so we can ease our minds to feed something good to our kids and family and the food industry still has a say in what we put on our table. And of course don’t forget a say in what it all is supposed to cost us.
We also are under such an illusion when we think all of this is so much easier and faster to accomplish than cooking from scratch.
“If you want real homemade food though, you’re probably going to have to make it yourself! Steer clear of any box or jar that claims it tastes homemade, because it’s a big fat lie!I bet you’ve forgotten what homemade sauce tastes like, or how much better your own roasted chicken tastes than that over-salted, over-cooked rotisserie chicken from your local supermarket. This isn’t about fat and calories, it’s about real food, made in your house with the ingredients you added, not the flavor enhancers, and texturizers added by some food factory cranking out tons of food a day.
Did you see your mom (or dad) cook? If you watched them cook you learned how to do things in the kitchen. Your children may not know to ask, but you owe it to them to be able to watch you cook. They need to see you make simple easy stuff that your family can eat. They need to see what homemade looks like. Knowing how to make a meal for yourself and your friends and family is an important life skill, and unlike the dying art of cursive handwriting, eating real food made by real hands in a real kitchen is important. Knowing how to do that is important.
Commercial food producers, and chain restaurants have made a mockery of the word homemade, and it’s time to take it back! Progresso used to have an ad that proclaimed “Make it Progresso, or make it yourself!” I say we take them up on that! Bring back the true meaning of homemade!” By Nancy R Lowell
We will start a new email campaign to win a stay at the Abadin B&B soon.
Want to participate? Here is what you have to do:
Just send us your email address to our B&B email account and we will include you in our email list and you will receive further information.
The winner of the FREE stay will be announced on our FB page and by personal email on September 15th 2013.
We are so so sorry guys but this one is ONLY for the girls 🙂 We know you too like to be massaged, or like to have a nice hot sauna session or a good foot massage. Or would love to just sit and drink and eat
BUT
you are not invited ……..SORRY.
This time it is women only. But if you really really love your wife or your girlfriend you defenitely can score BIG time by sending her to us for a weekend of absolute relaxation and to be spoiled rotten by us and our two professionals. You will get a brand-new woman back.
The two ladies who will take care of your wife or girlfriend are highly trained and have many years of experience to know exactly what women need. (Read more about them on our website page – link below)
Sound good?
Tell your woman to relax, close her eyes and take a deep and freeing breath……. we will help her do the rest.
We attached the poster but if you can not open or see it just go to our website to check it out. http://www.bed-breakfast-montreal-ottawa.ca/spa-package.html
If you think this is not for you but know somebody who might like to join us PLEASE forward our email. Thank You!
Maybe this year you want to do something different? How about creating your own Valentines card and adding a beautiful poem? Since we are not all as creative as Goethe or Shakespeare I browsed through the internet to find poems for Lovers and Friends.
I hope this will inspire you and help you to a different and unforgettable Day of LOVE !
FRIENDS
Friendship doubles your joys, and divides your sorrows.
– Author Unknown –
Many people will walk in
and out of your life,
but only true friends will leave
footprints in your heart.
– Eleanor Roosevelt –
My Pink Heart
Friends are quiet angels who lift us to our feet
when our wings have trouble remembering how to fly.
– Author Unknown –
A friend is someone who walks in
when the whole world has walked out.
– Author Unknown –
Side by side or miles apart,
good friends are always
close to the heart.
– Author Unknown –
Good friends share good times,
but great friends divide pain.
– Michelle C. Ustaszeski –
Two may talk together
under the same roof for many years,
yet never really meet,
and two others at first speech
are old friends.
– Author Unknown –
Unlikely Friends
Once upon a sunny day
a ladybug and bright blue jay
discovered something most would say
unlikely, preposterous, impossible.
What others did not know
that in time these two would grow
they looked inside their heart and soul
felt trust, understanding, and laughter.
Alike sometimes but different too
some things can not be misconstrued
with love, a connection, a kinship.
And so they go from here to there
singing, laughing without a care.
A most unlikely amazing pair,
A ladybug, a blue jay,
FRIENDS!
– Sheryl Arbuckle Green –
Valentines Love
You’re the syrup on my pancakes
You’re the sugar in my tea
You’re the icing on my cupcakes
You’re the sweets in life for me
You’re the chocolate on my ice cream
You’re the sweet grapes in my wine
You’re everything I love in life
Will you be my Valentine?
– Dr. Don Stoltz –
Timeless Valentine
As time goes by from year to year,
One thing is surely true, my dear;
Though decades come and decades go,
Just seeing you sets me aglow.
Time shifts my body; I start to sag,
When I pass a mirror, it can make me gag.
My joints all ache; I can hardly move;
Still a smile from you, and I’m in the groove.
Getting older can be a pain,
But with you along, I can’t complain.
Despite the things that we go through,
I know I’ll never stop loving you.
Your loving heart turns life to play,
As we laugh at time from day to day.
So I write this poem, and I’ll hang my sign,
Saying, “Always Be My Valentine.”
– Priya Shroff –
Year Round Valentine
I love you all through February,
Not just on Valentine’s Day;
I cherish you when flowers of spring
Appear in the midst of May.
I adore you in the summer,
When the air is filled with heat;
Without you in my life each day,
I wouldn’t be complete.
I treasure you in fall,
When leaves are turning gold;
I loved you when you were younger;
I’ll love you when you’re old.
I prize you in the winter,
When colder days are here;
I love you, love you all the time,
Every minute of the year.
So I’ll give to you this Valentine,
But I want to let you know,
It’s not just today, but always,
That I will love you so.
– Joanna Fuchs –
It’s Valentines Day,
The day about love.
The angels are singing,
Loud up above.
Will you be my angel,
Want to be mine?
I love you so much,
You’re my Valentine!
– Jessica-Lynn Grandmont –
Simple Valentine
Hearts Are Red
Oceans Are Blue
The Perfect Day
Is Being With You
A Day Of Love
A Basket Of Flowers
Barefoot On The Beach
With You For Hours
Tossing A Blanket
Down On The Sand
Enjoying The View
While Holding Your Hand
It’s All About
Simplicity
You & Me For
Eternity.
– Brandy Fenner –
A Valentine’s Wish
To the one who owns this heart of mine
Comes this lovely wish dear valentine
That you’ll feel special all day through
Because I think the world of you!
– Joanne Griffiths –
Loved you yesterday, love you still,
Always have, always will.
– Author Unknown –
Love Poems
To The One I Love
Beautiful lady, lily of the field
You, my umbrella and my shield
Your adoration showers like the rains
And drowns all odds and pains.
Searching everywhere unto the crest
Clear you stood above the rest
For never in my dreams most sweet
Did I such a lovely damsel meet.
Mesmerised I am, dreaming all the while
Of when we shall walk down the aisle
To vows we take we shall keep
With our affection ever deep.
For eternity our love shall sprout
Though the world be in drought
A union most blissful, this I know
For we ever shall sparkle and glow.
– Robert Asom – When nights are long & friends are few,
I sit by my window & think of you,
A silent whisper, a silent tear,
I love you with all my heart,
I wish you were here
– Stephen Watson –
You are the sea that lulls me to sleep.
You are the treasure every pirate wants to keep.
You are the sun that gives life to my day.
You are the moon that lights the dark way.
You are the kiss that sets me free.
You are the embrace that comforts me.
You are the yin and yang of my life.
So I ask you now, please be my wife.
– Emily Krause –
Beautiful Lady
A beautiful lady with eyes on fire,
That sparkle and laugh, that can smile and cry,
I love your eyes so clear and true.
Beautiful lady I adore you.
A twinkling look that bubbles bright,
With a heart to care, and a heart to love,
With hands to hold, and hands to help,
Beautiful lady there to give.
Beautiful lady, a smile so bright,
So warm and gentle, so soft. A delight.
A voice so clear,
That calms and soothes, a voice that wipes all fears.
Beautiful lady,
I’ll give to you, my thoughts, my prayers, my hopes,
I offer you my heart, my strength.
My love is yours for ever.
Beautiful lady,
I love you as you are.
Beautiful.
– Graham R. Bryan –
Thoughts…
I thought that I’d seen beauty
I thought I’d witnessed grace,
I thought that I’d known love
‘Til I gazed upon your face.
I thought I’d felt my heart beat
I thought my knees were weak,
I thought I’d heard a songbird
Until I heard you speak.
I thought the rose was fragrant
I thought the sky was blue,
I thought nature wonderful
‘Til I first laid eyes on you.
I thought the sun was shining
I thought I’d seen it all,
I thought that I was standing
Until you made me fall.
I thought my eyes were open
Yet now I’m not so sure,
I think that I may be in love
Like I’ve never loved before.
I’ll hold on to these feelings
And keep them safe within,
Until the time they’re needed
And true love can begin…
– Ashley Peter Loasby –
If Only You Knew
In the darkness of the night, there is only me and you,
We are woven together in our very own cocoon.
I feel your heartbeat against my chest,
I hold you tight as we both rest.
I start to drift off to sleep,
And think of how I turned complete.
I am only complete when you are near,
To lose you someday is my biggest fear.
It takes two halves to make a whole,
My heart and yours we make one soul.
– Rahik Thamir –
Classic Poems about Love
Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. – Aristotle
Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage. – Lao Tzu
My bounty is as boundless as the sea, My love as deep; the more I give to thee, The more I have, for both are infinite. – William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet
How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. – Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Young love is a flame; very pretty, often very hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. The love of the older and disciplined heart is as coals, deep-burning, unquenchable. – Henry Ward Beecher
Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age. – Anais Nin
Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward in the same direction. – Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Love has no desire but to fulfill itself. But if you love and must needs have desires, let these be your desires; To melt and be like a running brook that sings its melody to the night. To know the pain of too much tenderness. To be wounded by your own understanding of love; And to bleed willingly and joyfully. – Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet
The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart. -Helen Keller
Love does not dominate; it cultivates. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place. – Zora Neale Hurston
Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. Everything is, everything exists, only because I love. – Leo Tolstoy
Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch it, and it darts away. – Dorothy Parker
I have learned not to worry about love; but to honor its coming with all my heart. – Alice Walker
I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you straightforwardly, without complexities or pride; so I love you because I know no other way than this: where I does not exist nor you, so close that your hand on my chest is my hand, so close that your eyes close as I fall asleep. – Pablo Neruda, “Love Sonnet XVII”
The Vankleek Hill Business & Merchant Association is pleased to invite local business owners and their employees to an important BUSINESS BOOSTER.
Monday, January 28
From 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. at the Vankleek Hill Community Centre
HERE’S HOW IT WORKS: Come find out what other local businesses are up to! Last year, the Vankleek Hill Business and Merchant Association members identified the importance of knowing what the business next door and down the street has to offer and it is also important that local employees know how to refer customers to other local businesses.
ENROLL YOUR BUSINESS to have a tabletop display at this fun event! The cost is just $30 per business (includes your table, white tablecloth and skirt). Bring what you need to share examples of what your business does and take advantage of a great opportunity to boost your business!
To book your table or for more info, call 613.678.3986 or email vankleekhill.bma@gmail.com
Not a member of the Vankleek Hill Business & Merchant Association yet?
Email vankleekhill.bma@gmail.com or call Lisa Henderson at 613-678-2002. First-year members pay only $50 for a one-year membership. That’s just one dollar per week to be part of a great business group!
HORS D’OEUVRES & REFRESHMENTS SERVED as part of this evening.
• Projects for 2013: Bring your suggestions! Existing and NEW MEMBERS are ALWAYS welcome.
Another valuable business event brought to you by the Vankleek Hill Business & Merchant Association.
Start 2013 by taking a step forward to promote your business and work with other business owners just like you!
A story about Pablo Picasso to demonstrate what talent and thought are really worth.
“Picasso, one of the greatest and most influential artists of the 20th Century, lived most of his adult life in France. A woman was strolling along a street in Paris when she spotted Picasso sketching at a sidewalk café. Not so thrilled that she could not be slightly presumptuous, the woman asked Picasso if he might sketch her, and charge ‘accordingly’. Picasso obliged and in just a few minutes, there she was: an original Picasso.
‘And what do I owe you?’ she asked.
‘Five thousand francs,’ he answered.
‘But it only took you three minutes,’ she politely reminded him.
‘No,’ Picasso said. ‘It took me all my life.’”
We do not charge by the hour we charge by the quality of service we provide !
Abadin Bed and Breakfast 