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Smelling Salts Journal

Spring Sewing Goals and Me Made May 2025

10 Spring-Forward Finds from the Spring 2025 One of a Kind Show

New Year’s Eve Film Fest 2024: Eccentric Families

FEATURES

Thermos Wassail

Winter Spiced Candied Pecans

Hot Honey

Spicy Pickled Green Beans

Cuccidati

Fig and Ginger Jam

SSJ’s Italian Leaf Cookies

SSJ Smoked Gibson Cocktail

Winter Spiced Plum & Cherry Preserves

Ginger Plum Jam [with Candied Ginger Bits]

Boozy Plum and Toasted Pecan Conserve

Balsamic Pickled Plums

Clover Club Cocktail

Festive DIY Painted Candles

Orange Cardamom Almond Crinkles

Easy Homemade Kahlua [Coffee Liqueur]

Frosted Almost-Cake Brownies

Advent Day 6, 2021: Make-Ahead Monday, Infused Vodka and DIY Gin Kits

Advent Day 1, 2021: Make Springerle

The Perfect Eggnog Cocktail for One

Vanillekipferl : Vanilla Crescent Moon Cookies

Soft Salted Caramels

Soft Gingerbread Crackle Cookies with Candied Ginger

Santa Baby Cookies a.k.a. Santa Babies

THE JOURNAL

SSJ Advent 2024 Roundup

Each winter, SSJ transforms into an Advent Calendar! Here's our roundup of all things #ssjadvent2024! #SSJADVENT2024 ADVENT 2024 RECIPES SSJ ADVENT 2024 ROLL CREDITS New ...

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Merry Christmas 2024

MERRY CHRISTMAS!Wishing You a Delightful Christmas and a Warm & Welcoming New Year!Here's a list of all of our SSJ Advent 2024 Posts Christmas Eve Checklist 2024 Colour-In Table Setting ...

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Christmas Eve Checklist 2024

Happy Christmas Eve! It's time for SSJ'S annual Christmas Eve Checklist, preceded by the 2024 Menu for our annual Feast of the Seven Fishes. After last year's epic F7F, we've decided to shift from an ...

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Colour-In Table Setting and St. Lawrence Market

St. Lawrence Market This morning, a couple of us will head over to St. Lawrence Market to procure the fishy goodness for our Christmas Eve Feast of the Seven Fishes and to grab a small ham and a ...

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Boardgame & Cookie Baking Marathon 2024

SSJ ADVENT 2024 BOARD GAME AND BAKING MARATHON Today, we're breaking out our favourite board games and heating up the oven for a marathon day of gaming and baking! We're tacking our favourite board ...

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Burning the Clocks: Solstice Sunrise and a Thermos Wassail

This morning, we're inviting the whole family to witness the solstice sunrise. Participation is NOT mandatory. But for those who accept, we're taking a thermos full of homemade Wassail and a couple ...

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Gallery Sketch Date

Gallery Sketch Date My husband and I had so much fun on our last Advent trip to the Art Gallery of Ontario that we've planned another Sketch Date for Advent 2024. I'm really excited to see the ...

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Distillery Winter Village

It's One of Our Favourite Advent Traditions! Today's the day my daughter and I travel to the Distillery Winter Village for lunch at a favourite restaurant. #TeamOysters&CocktailsThen, we'll ...

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Winter Bookstore Watercolours

Winter Bookstore Watercolours As part of our Sunday Indie Bookstore Crawl, I asked everyone to take photographs of their favourite bookstore windows all dressed up for the holidays. Tonight, we'll ...

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Rethink Breast Cancer

Today, we're making a donation to Rethink Breast Cancer. We have several friends and neighbours who have battled cancer or who are currently facing its challenges. Rethink Breast Cancer. educates, ...

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Candied Pecans and Canning Label Design

Candied Pecans and Canning Labels Just because we've extended Sunday's Indie Bookstore Crawl for an additional 24 hours, we haven't forgotten about Make-Ahead Monday! For this, our third Make-Ahead ...

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Indie Bookstore Crawl

INDIE BOOKSTORE CRAWL “O wonderful, wonderful, and most wonderful wonderful! And yet again wonderful, and after that, out of all whooping.” - As You Like It I've been waiting for this event ...

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Popover Practice and Many Hands of Euchre

Things we do with friends... I. Popovers One summer, I went to a friend's lakeside cottage and one of our hosts made us popovers for breakfast, served warm and steaming, with a pat of butter and ...

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Mad Cap Schiap: Stylish Holiday Films and Surrealist Collage

It's Friday the 13th & the Feast of Santa Lucia! We'd considered doing another "spooky" session of films, as we did in 2019. But we've decided to attempt something a little more sophisticated ...

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Arboreal Aufguss at Thermea Spa Village

Sauna Day! Today, I'm jumping on the GO Train and joining a friend at the Thermea Spa Village, Whitby* for a day of aufguss, cold plunge, and meditation sessions on repeat as well as a lunch on the ...

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