heirloom roses

• Chic and Cheap

... the bouquet, but it works well with roses, carnations or chrysanthemums -- any flower with s...He likes to mix heirloom pieces with inexpensive new containers: a new teap...

• Winnipeg Free Press
• January 17, 2011

• Celebrating Chocolate & the Dead

Discovered by the indigenous people in the 6th century, the Hispanic drink is a fusion of corn, cacao seed, mamey fruit and three different wild flowers," our guide "Koko" Alvarez told us. "It was so delicious they called it 'tejate', the drink of the gods." Even today it's considered to be a magical drink that imparts wisdom and energy. For my next visit to Oaxaca, I'm heading for the mountains. There's a forest up there nestled among the mountain peaks that, in [Koko]'s words, is "mysterious, so cold and humid and dark." Mushrooms, lichens, orchids, Spanish moss and ferns thrive in its cloud-covered environs more than 2,000 metres above sea level. "It's one of the most scary places I've been," he says. "The sensation... I didn't feel comfortable. Trunks of trees have formed like they...

... baby shoes, embroidered cloth bags, tubs of roses and lilies, and barrels of every kind of chili wer... acquired not one but two treasured heirloom rugs. In Santa Maria Atzompa, we were to have atte...

• Winnipeg Free Press
• December 16, 2009

• Theatre / Arts

Fake spiritualist Madame Flora's last séance turns dark and deadly, Oct. 25 to 27, St. Boniface College's Salle Martial Caron Theatre; $20, available at McNally Robinson Booksellers. The juror for this year's show is wildlife artist Clarence Tillenius, 2 to 9 p.m. tomorrow, 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday and noon to 4 p.m. Sunday, St. Andrew's Anglican Church, 2700 Portage. Warhol: Larger than Life, over 150 paintings, drawings, prints, sculptures, photographs and films spanning four decades, until Jan. 6; Cities, by John Hartman, to Nov. 4; Into the Collection: Will Gorlitz, to Nov. 8; PostSecret, homemade postcards revealing deeply personal secrets, to Feb. 3; Inuit Games, sculpture, prints, and drawings, to March 9; Around Here: Scenes of Manitoba from the Historical Collection, to Nov. ...

...Signing Sixty-five Roses, a memoir, 7 p.m. Monday, McNally Robinson, Grant ... on treats and view handmade quilts in heirloom patterns, plus teacup readers will tell your fortu...

• Winnipeg Free Press
• August 21, 2009