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DIY Project: Button Flowers by Ink & Button
Filed Under faces & places, guest bloggers | February 24, 2010
We asked Lisa from Ink & Button to share this fun, springtime craft with us! Last May, I created a few bouquets of “button flowers” for the cupcake table at our wedding reception. Before the wedding, I brought my project to a babysitting job and was surprised how much fun the kids had helping me [...]
olympic gâteaux
Filed Under faces & places | February 22, 2010
We couldn’t resist posting this photo of the Inukshuk cake that cookbooker founder and dad Andrew Gray recently made for his seven-year-old’s birthday party. His goal was to make something vertical but alas, chocolate cake isn’t strong enough for building upwards so he has to settle on a two dimensional cake. Check out his feature [...]
sleep glorious sleep
Filed Under faces & places, guest bloggers | February 16, 2010
Is there anything more talked about by new mums than sleep? Here guest blogger and local yoyo afficionado Erin Jeffery talks about being a sleep deprived new mum with a lucky twist! In the last few months of my pregnancy, during the July and August heat wave of ridiculousness, many people asked me how I [...]
dinner a deux
Filed Under parenting | February 11, 2010
It can be harder to manage a night on the town for Valentine’s Day once you have tots, so when I was sent this recipe which works for both the day or love and Chinese New Year I wanted to share it as I’m always on the lookout for new recipes to try and I’m [...]
baby you can drive my car…
Filed Under eco friendly | February 9, 2010
Last weekend I was invited to take a little test drive of the Chevy Volt, an electric car that has, and I quote, an “instantaneous torque engine that can keep pace with any traditional or hybrid car on the market while travelling up to 64 km without a single drop of gas.” A cluster of [...]
my (long) road to loving lunapanties
Filed Under eco friendly, live and learn, things | February 3, 2010
So this has to be a blog post rather than an article as there’s simply too much backstory here to fit into 300 (ish) words and anyhow I suspect that I might need more than 300 words to convince you to join me in my newest love affair. So when I first heard about Lunapads, [...]
