by Helen Kain | Apr 2, 2024 | Home, Organization, Recipes By Season, Recipes By Type
It was time. On my computer is a list of recipes cooked and photographed since I published the first book, Entertablement—The Four Seasons. But as the number of publications grew, it became increasingly difficult to remember where they’d been featured. On the...
by Helen Kain | Mar 24, 2024 | Cape Cod House, Recent
At last, we have finished the kitchen and laundry room renovation in the Cape. We’re all unpacked and thoroughly cleaned, with carpets down, furniture back in place, and pictures hung—utter bliss. Let’s start with a kitchen before and after. Here is where...
by Helen Kain | Feb 25, 2024 | Cape Cod House, Organization
The Cape Cod kitchen and laundry room renovation proceeds. How do you like it so far? Yup – that was our “camping” set-up while waiting for the kitchen. Four weeks ago, it looked like this. A week later… We got the final coat of varnish on all the floors...
by Helen Kain | Jan 28, 2024 | Ancaster House, Organization, Recent
It was time. Lover of classic design, though I am, there is a difference between gently worn and scruffy. I realized the house looked a bit shopworn when we returned to Canada in the late fall. Nothing drastic was needed, but a good spruce-up was in order. We had...
by Helen Kain | Oct 13, 2023 | Black, Grey and Pewter, Halloween, Orange, Organization, Recent, Storage
Back in the Stone Age, when I was a child, we waited with delicious anticipation for the annual screening of It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown, on TV. Hard as it is to fathom today, it was shown once; if you wanted to watch it, you had to show up in front of...
by Helen Kain | Sep 13, 2020 | Clementine, Dundee, Organization, Pets, Storage
We are back in Canada, safe and sound. Three cats, three dogs and a carload of baking/cooking equipment accompanied us on our nine-hour journey. Much to our relief, Clementine seems to have outgrown her car-sickness. We used to begin the journey with her on my lap,...