Where I live, in Manitoba, today is Louis Riel day! I’m loving the long weekend & today Jesse and the puppies and I are hanging around the house. I’m in one of my comfiest dresses, eating a late breakfast and then tucking in for a day of design work. I love the sleepy, calm mornings that an extra day of weekend brings.

It’s the perfect excuse to put on another pot of coffee and leave the radio on all day, or to curl up in a sunbeam for the afternoon- even if I have my laptop with me. Tonight Jess and I are braving the cold to have dinner at a new pub we’re in love with called The Grove, and on a cold day it’s one of the few places I’ll dash out to! Until then? It’s slippers and coffee and sunshine.

Speaking of sunshine, I had to show off a new trick that the puppies invented!

We have a big rocking chair in the summer kitchen, and when Mal & Ash are cold and want to come they take a seat on it and keep an eye out for their humans. It keeps their paws warm and because they’re so little you can’t see them standing at the door, so the extra height is the perfect solution!

These little gentlemen are all kinds of clever :)