Our home has nice art glass – stained and leaded beveled glass – and I want to share what we have in the house and what we added when restoring our home. At the end of this blog are pics from some spectacular sample in Saint Awesome. I cannot strongly encourage you enough to snoop…
Author: Carrie Stevenson
Saint John’s Colorado Cowboy Survives Bullet in Head and Earns Diamond Encrusted Marshal’s Badge
I was recently invited to peer inside an Uptown Saint John home and decided to say thanks with some research for the family. In doing so, I stumbled upon these 1890 newspaper excerpts from our beloved Provincial Archives of New Brunswick (I put text in bold) and now I am obsessed with Robert Dwyer: “Robert…
Hoosiers – the unsung kitchen hero
I wanted to draft this blog for three reasons. First, I first learned about hoosiers from my Uncle Tim. He restored one that had been painted and neglected on my dad’s family farm. My uncle’s work was incredible – a pretty amazing feat and the finished product is a restored beauty which I have found…
Functional Foyer
When we lived in The Netherlands we made friends with a couple from Texas. They had a small and functional apartment where they made use of all their space. They shared with us that in Texas they had a huge home where they did not regularly use many of the rooms and they thought it…
Storm doors and some fun doorbells
We needed storm doors on 3 exterior doors to our home. The doors to the side of the house and the kitchen had ugly 1960s storm doors and one blew off during a severe storm [edit – to be clear it was one of the ugly 1960s doors]. The basement had a single door with…
Landscaping, lawns, and fences – an historical and environmentally friendly perspective in Saint Awesome
Landscaping is important, it makes our homes inviting spaces that are part of a neighbourhood. When I take a walk, of course I care about beautiful architecture, but what brings me back to a place is the vibe of the area. The plant life around a building is a necessary aesthetic. Good landscaping helps with…
Skip to the loo – enjoying our main floor bathroom with all its faults and beauty
I remember looking at a heritage home with my now husband in 2003 that we considered buying. I would have absolutely gutted the kitchen and the bathroom. Why? I was under the mistaken belief that renovating these two rooms were requirements when you bought a home. As I age and learn, I realize that there…
St. Mary’s Ukrainian Catholic Cemetery near Rosthern, Saskatchewan
Within a monument at St. Mary’s is a list of the people buried at St. Mary’s (children are located in many unmarked graves in the southeast corner). This page contains both a list I compiled, and a transcription of the list at St. Mary’s, but is organized by the list I made. There are some…
Pryma (St. John the Baptist) Cemetery near Smuts, Saskatchewan
Pryma (St. John the Baptist) Cemetery near Smuts, SK There are two cemeteries near Smuts locally known as Pryma. They are separated by a small bit of farmland and have a walking path connecting them, thus I chose to describe them as one cemetery. However, one seems predominately Ukrainian Orthodox and the other predominately Ukrainian Catholic,…
Ukrainian Catholic St. Ascension – Laniwci, Saskatchewan
Laniwci-Ukrainian Catholic St. Ascension SW1-41-2-W3 This cemetery has a special place in my heart. I have been to Laniwci in Ukraine where clearly this area in Saskatchewan was named after. And so many Ukrainian Saskatchewanians have family from Laniwci, Ukraine like me. LAST NAME FIRST NAME, MIDDLE NAME DATE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH ADDITIONAL INFORMATION…