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Advent Day 22: St. Lawrence Market Cheese Board

St. Lawrence Market Cheese Board This morning, we'll get up before dawn and travel to the amazing stalls at St. Lawrence Market, gathering the ingredients for our Christmas Dinner and...

Advent Day 23: Bûche de Noël

Today, we're making the Bûche de Noël for our Christmas Dinner! We'll either be making this amazing Chocolate Mint Buche de Noël or my all-time favourite Lemon Bûche de Noël with...

Advent Day 24: Christmas Eve Checklist

Here it is! The annual Christmas Eve Checklist! □ Go for a Brisk walk with our mini-schnauzer, Elvis! □ Make tons of Christmas cookies. □ Live stream Jon Solomon's 30-Hour...

Merry Christmas

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New Year’s Eve Film Fest: Train Movies

TRAIN FILMS!!! This year's New Year's Eve film fest will consist of movies that take place on a train or which feature a train scene as a main plot-point. Since...

Advent Love-To-Do List 2019 Goes Live

SSJ's Advent Love-to-Do List 2019 is now live! Check out the full post, here! And don't forget: SSJ'S 2019 Advent Calendar begins to populate on December 1, 2019! Follow along...

Advent Calendar 2019 Begins Tomorrow!

MY 2019 ADVENT CALENDAR WILL BEGIN TO POPULATE RIGHT HERE ON DECEMBER 1, 2019! FOLLOW ALONG DAILY BY CHECKING THE  2019 ADVENT CALENDAR MONTHLY VIEW OR HEADING HOME TO SMELLINGSALTSJOURNAL.COM ! IN...

Advent Day 1: Tree Trimming Party

It'sthe firstday of Advent!Time to trim the tree! First, we'll have to choose one!This afternoon, we'll trek over tothe local Scouts lot for a tall, slim fir. Then, we'll turn...

Advent Day 2: Design Bookplates

Design your own Bookplate! Today's Advent TBD is a MAJOR THROWBACK to our very first online Advent Calendar in 2011 ! The kids were too young to get involved, and...

Advent Day 9: Make Block-Printed Tea Towels

Make Block-Printed Tea Towels Anyone who knows me knows my obsession with tea-towels, especially calendar tea towels. If we’re going to have a good time this afternoon, DIY calendars may...

Advent Day 10: Donate to Forests Ontario

Donate to Forests Ontario Let's flight climate change, dozens of trees at at time!Today, we're making a contribution to Forests Ontario. How will you make a difference today?

Advent Day 11: Make Fried Chicken

Make Fried Chicken Last year's Advent Calendar started us off on a Fried Chicken tour of the city. This week in conquering our "Fear of Frying," we'll be frying chicken...

Advent Day 13: Spooky Santa Lucia

Spooky Santa Lucia Hold onto your stockings and ignite your candle crowns! It's the Feast of Santa Lucia AND Friday the 13th! Jinx! You can darn well bet we're going...

Advent Day 14: Christmas Canning

It's Christmas Canning Day And, last minute UPDATE, we've got a friend coming over who's never made jam before! So, grab your cross-back aprons, folks. It's going to be a...

Advent Day 16: Glam Cans 2019

Glam Cans 2019 Back when the kids were young, we took part in Well Preserved's Pimp Your Preserves Holiday Contests! We designed our own canning labels and really dolled up...

Advent Day 19: Toronto Christmas Market

Toronto Christmas Market Today, the ladies are heading out to Toronto's Distillery District for our annual luncheon and a loop around the Ferris Wheel. We'll also tour the booths and...

Advent Day 20: Dinner and Star Wars

Dinner and Star Wars I can't believe they're still making these films.....And, since there's always a new hope, we're still grabbing tickets months in advance. Tonight's the final installment, or...

Advent Day 21: Sketch a Winter Window Scene

Sketch a Winter Window Scene Last winter, Bea sketched the snowy view from her bedroom window. Today, we'll all sit down to sketch a winter window scene, whether that's a...

Advent Day 23: Reinvent the Bûche de Noël

Reinvent the Bûche de Noël Oh, look at sweet sweet Julia throwing icing sugar on her classic yule log cake, which has already been covered in meringue-mushrooms and lain in...

Advent Day 24: Christmas Eve Checklist

Christmas Eve Checklist 2019 □ START THE BRISKET: For a change, this year, we're skipping the Feast of the Seven Fishes and Making Bon Appetit's Red-Wine Braised Brisket   □...

Merry Christmas!

WISHING YOU A VERY MERRY CHRISTMAS! STAY TUNED FOR OUR NEW YEAR'S EVE MOVIE MARATHON POST! IN THE MEANTIME, HAVE A BROWSE OF ADVENT 2019! Advent Calendar 2019 Advent Love-To-Do...

NYE FILM FEST 2019: THE BEST HEIST MOVIES OF ALL TIME

After last year’s exceeds-even-our-wildest-expectations Train Movie Marathon, it took a long time to come up with a theme for this year’s New Year’s Eve Film Fest. Since we’re looking towards 2020,...

SSJ’s Advent Love-To-Do List 2020 is Live

SSJ'S ADVENT LOVE-TO-DO LIST 2020 IS LIVE! Check out the full deets here! AND BUCKLE YOUR SEATBELTS! SSJ'S OFFICIAL ADVENT COUNTDOWN LAUNCHES TOMORROW, DECEMBER 1ST! FOLLOW ALONG DAILY BY ACCESSING...