Valerie's Variety Pod

March 3, 2020January 29, 2021

Twenty Twenty: Eat-Read-Create – e83s2

episode 83 season 2

Happy New Year!

Welcome to SEASON TWO of Valerie’s Variety Podcast for 2020. I’m looking forward to hunkering down into a theme, if you’ve been listening this whole time – Thank you, if you new welcome! Previously, I’ve been a random show a variety show and I’m going to continue this BUT with a theme EAT – READ – CREATE to explore.

This year, I’d like to narrow my focus and stay true to me, my passions and loves. I hope you’ll stick around. One of my previous guests Valora Douglas said she has a theme each year so I’m kind of leaning on this thought.

Welcome back to Valerie’s Variety Podcast with your host me, Valerie Moss, this show is about Eating – Reading – Creating. How these 3 things influence us everyday and the people that make this happen – isn’t it you?

How these 3 things influence us everyday – they make us TIC and THINK and LOVE

We will review our favourite recipes & favourites places to EAT.
We will review our favourite books and what we love to READ.
We will review our passions and what we yearn to CREATE.

So think about the things you are passionate about, a good meal, a great love story and DIY project. I’m passionate and will aim to convince you to read, try the next thing and have passion in what you do. This show drops on Tuesdays Check it out and subscribe and ReVIEW below check out the website for details ValerieMoss.ca

She Shoots She Scored!

It’s funny as I thought about sharing my goals with you way earlier in the year I was sort of apprehensive because I wanted my goals to come true but I didn’t want to share them and not follow through with them so now that I accomplished my goals. I said to my hubby my goals came true that I set for this year and I showed him my hand drawn sketch of these, check it out:

Yellow Belt check
Orange Belt check
One big trip – check
Pay off MasterCard – check
100 episodes on the podcast – not checked but I didn’t miss an episode either and 100 episodes would have meant extra ones 😉
you can check out my doodle sketch soon at my blog for review..

You know what else? When you write your goals down – they come true! They remind you they push you – you want to impress yourself – it worked for me, make it work for you WRITE THEM DOWN!

Top 4 Goals for the Show in 2020

Passions Unfolded, I’m talking about hobbies that we love, quilting stitching, scrapbooking, CREATING, musicality, and the people who love them!
Reading a good book and also listening to audio books – more audio books in production now…What are you reading, what’s your favourite book? Your favourite author.
Making a good meal (salmon with a side of spaghetti and seafood) or trying a new restaurant (Point Sushi) I’ll still likely run my reviews altho there’s so many reviews out there – I might just do U must try this!

I’m dedicating this year to people like you who have a love for trying something new like me starting Karate at 40, or my friend Amber who started fly fishing or my husband who loves to capture an emotion in a photograph or my daughter who has to trace our hands with hers all the time to draw her picture. I’m talking about a hobby that keeps you up for days on a DIY project like beading a quilt project with 25,000 beads. This type of passion.

EAT – READ – CREATE

A new story PODCAST

I’m also going to tell a story, a true story about a house that was haunted and the legend it became. Each episode I’ll fill you in on another chapter, week by week, chapter by chapter. The story is set in the early 1940s – in Indiana, stay tuned for this it’s a side job for me and I’m in love with it – even my husband is interested and as you know he barely listens to this show! He may have a word or two on the show.

Are you interested? I’m looking for creative talent for my cover art, voices to add – I have an actor from Vancouver who will be part of this – this will be separate from my podcast BUT will be an original Valerie Moss production.

I’ll continue to update you on this, so stay tuned! It’s building and I’m so excited to share this progress with you. I’ve amalgamated almost 30 actors, podcasters and voice over producers for this work also…

Think – Bricks flying through windows that no only one person sees, sounds of scissors sheering – but do they really? A voodoo dolls that looks like someone – all this and more in this upcoming book – soon to be revealed.

What else? Did I hear you say?

Skeletons in my Closet, interviews with a Calgary detective turned Writter with his co-arthur – we delve into his book and his job
More Valerie InterViews, these amazing women keep connecting with me – and why our names are amazing & rare.
I’ll share my recipes if you share yours
I have a new mascot, she yips in the night, there’s many breeds across the world, she has heavy eyeliner & soon she will have colour and be watching me on my studio desk – who do you think she is?
Calgary Cold Case update – Patsy and Eva, comment left on my website but so far no response back – being added to case evidence.
Audio Book ReViews: Buddhism, Hypnotism, Bed Time Stories – I’ve been busy on this front, sometimes life has to be organic and adaptable, so my podcast voice is getting noticed, producing over a dozen books now for audible and a book deal to produce a collection of 6 book in a series – I’ll tell you all about this!

So, please stay subscribed, please keep in touch and share my show with your friends, family and colleagues. Follow me on Instagram and join my Facebook group – it’s growing and building.

Email or text me at Valerie@ValerieMoss.ca and share your goals for 2020…

My new Show Music is called GIRL and it’s by Text Me Records/Leviathe, Intro is recorded by London Moss, and cover art and production is by me, Valerie Moss.

Thanks for listening.

December 24, 2019January 29, 2021

Ornaments – Recipes – Chain Letter! – e82s1

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episode 82 season 1

Welcome back for this Christmas special episode. Giving thanks, setting goals and a personal story.

Me, Valerie Moss and my special person London sharing a moment after decorating is completed! — Me, Valerie Moss and my special person London, Merry Christmas Everyone!

This year when we my hubby Jeff and I were discussing Christmas and where to spend it, we planned a trip to Mexico before the holidays, which I will share after when we get home. We were sitting around discussing this and Christmas is such a different time of year for me, When I was a kid I loved getting together and being with family – like emmersed in and around family, being busy with family. Since growing up and having a family of my own it’s just different. London, my eight year old made me feel so good…as we were discussing plans for the holidays and possibly heading out of town for Christmas Day…she said,” Mom, I like being home, I like when you decorate the house with your Christmas quilts, I like opening my gifts and stocking up here” Man do kids every make you feel good. This did it we are staying home and for once I’m looking forward to it on a big scale.

What are you doing for Christmas? Who do you like to be with and what do you like to celebrate. Do you have special baking. Special Songs and movies that get you in the spirit? Is it playing the Yule log on Netflix while reading a good book in bed, like The God’s Chair?

New Traditions Anyone?

Christmas Tree Ornaments

here’s the hand pressed paper used for the back, it’s parchment and has little designs

Love the layering, coffee sleeves, stickers, parchment and scrapbook paper, plus the hanging strap!

This year I started a new tradition, well only made it once so far BUT it’s a keeper…so before I tell you what I did I’m going to tell you what I’ve done in the past. At the beginning of the school year, London gets school pictures like most of the kids – typically I send these out in a Christmas card with a note. Well once the kids get older they like to help with everything and now that London and read and write she’s helping with this also.

So, I made her write a family list of names for the cards but instead of cards we made ornaments with her school photos. I used parchment paper, stamped with live flowers and pinched in certain ways creating designs like flowers, as the backing. I have these little cardboard frames, I collect coffee sleeves to use in scrapbooking, batches of Christmas stickers and started to layer and play with this. Check these out! they turned out so well. London write a small note telling almost all of the recipients that they were awesome and she loved them in her amazing 8 year old hand writing. Stuff these into an envelope and sent these off.

Christmas Chain Letter

First Swain Chain Letter - I wonder if this is going to work? — Christmas Chain Letter, starting with my letter, and instructions for the next people

The other thing I did was create a Christmas chain letter…I know right? I had this idea, I wanted to have the feeling of family as when I was a child I loved having my Auntie Kathy’s home to go to surrounded by my moms side of 5 siblings plus their kiddies and my dads side 7 siblings plus their spouses and kiddies at Christmas. So, since this doesn’t happen anymore I thought we should do a chain letter…this is how it worked:

Don’t forget to include details and your love note to YOUR Family!

First, I wrote a note with instructions (you read my letter, you write your note and update all of the family on your best things, then I wrote my letter, along with the instructions then I inserted blank paper and stamps to help encourage the next person to write their note, include it with mine and send it to the next family member. I included a list of people/family aunts uncles and cousins for ideas. At the end, send back to me (my address included) and I’d post this on socials for all to see…What do you think? Have you done something like this before? I’ll let you know how it goes.

My Top 5 Christmas Recipes

Best of Bridge Cookies, Mona’s Mother’s Mother’s Best Friend’s Favourite ( I add coconut and oatmeal)
Best of Bridge Cookies, Whipped Shortbread (I’ve made these with cinnamon chips, and also with rice flour and whole wheat flour as well as the traditional all purpose flour)
Jeff Moss, Chocolate Drop Cookies
Poppy Cock
Oakhart Rum and EggNog – the only eggnog that.I like is by Lucerne sold at Safeway only.

Best of the Best: my GO-TO guide for good meals

Chocolate Drop Cookies (haystacks) one of my traditional favourites! — Chocolate Drop Cookies – I love a receipe in someone’s else hand writing

Poppy Cock — Got this one off Food.com and it’s a keeper

Whipped Shortbread, one of the best shortbread cookie recipe out there! — This recipe I’ve been making for 20 years, always a good one, soft and powdery cookies

A new find this year and it is a well worth it try - give it a go! — Only tried this one for the first time this year – an excellent cookie!

Moving into the new year, there’s a few things that I’m changing on the show first I want a theme so for 2020 my theme is going to be: Hobbies and Food with a focus on passion. Instagram @ValerieJMoss Pinterest @VJMoss Facebook @ValeriesVarietyPod

The music for this show is performed by London Moss, as previously she recorded for my show last year, she again is my background for this show. I’m in awe of her confidence at such a young age to feel open and courageous to be on a microphone singing her heart out. She feels proud and I’m definitely proud of her.

December 10, 2019January 29, 2021

The Secret in the ‘V’ – e81p3s1

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episode 81 part 3 season 1

Todays episode is part 3 and the final part in this interview with Valora Douglas and man did I enjoy myself and I sure hope she did too. She turns the tables on me asking about the signs and what they mean – being in the signage industry I do have a lot of knowledge on the meaning of signs for figuratively and literally.

my thoughts and sketch dedicated to Valora Douglas & our time together

Episode 81

Welcome back to Valerie’s Variety Podcast with your host me, Valerie Moss this show is about ReViews, InterViews and my Daily Views. It’s a story podcast about my life in Calgary, WhatEVER | WhenEVER. The show drops every Tuesday. Instagram @ValerieJMoss Pinterest @VJMoss Facebook @ValeriesVarietyPod

Valora Douglas on ‘Valerie’s Series’

Check out Part ONE

Check out Part TWO

a book that Valora Douglas loves and can totally relate to.

Todays show she asks me about Signs – I often here this song playing and often thought of having these lyrics printed for my hard hat.

The Five Man Electrical Band 1971

Signs Signs Everywhere a Sign by The Five Man Electrical Band, 1971

Valora Douglas and me, Valerie Moss...comparing notes over a glass of vino! — Valora Douglas and me, Valerie Moss..have a good laugh

Get to know Valora check out her linked in and her venture with Evoke Sales Communication. She’s also a self published author with 2 books under her belt now – more on the horizon). Check out these awesome thoughts here

Valora L Douglas on Linked In

Valora L Douglas on Pinterest

The shyest dog, what’s she thinking about – why won’t she look? by Jeff Moss

London doing math, my current phone background

Know a Valerie or are a Valerie

If you know a Valerie (tell me about her) or are a Valerie, please get in touch with me. I want to get to know you! We might drink wine together (white or red?) or have a tea (do you like London Fog’s) just hang out become more acquainted. I’ve had so much interest into this right from early on.

Anyway, thanks for hanging out with me today leave me a comment, rating on iTunes would be amazing and stay tuned we have some exciting shows coming up! Talk to you next Tuesday.