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frankly frankensteined out
Filed Under faces & places, judgy mummy | October 31, 2010
So this weekend (in addition to Halloween) we threw our daughter a Halloween-themed seventh birthday soiree. She’d been inspired by The Little Monsters Cookbook and chosen a selection of spookily themed food from the book for the party’s menu. And here’s my guilty admission, we say we test everything we write about before we cover [...]
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Filed Under events | October 28, 2010
If you read us regularly you know we love, well, reading. So we wanted to share these spooky literacy tips from ABC Life Literacy. We just wonder if we can work scooping our favourite treats from our kids’ haul into tip #3 (without them noticing): Tell ghost stories on Halloween night. Make up your own [...]
get styled
Filed Under faces & places | October 26, 2010
We’re just starting our experimenting with video and still working on getting our reality to match our expectations but here’s a video of our wardrobe-altering experience with Michelle Addison from Jessie Carlson Wardrobe.
let the memories continue
Filed Under faces & places | October 25, 2010
With the colder weather setting in one’s thoughts naturally turn to thoughts of holidays in warmer, more carefree climes. Which is why I thought this was the perfect time to share more about my recent jaunt to NYC. At the end of the summer I was invited to lunch in New York in late September [...]
give me something good to eat
Filed Under eco friendly, faces & places | October 24, 2010
When we wrote our article last Friday on Halloween candy that’s still delicious, despite being free of artificial colours and flavours (and lots of other things) I hadn’t yet had a chance to troll the aisles of Whole Foods to see what options they had for healthier Halloween treats but I since have and I’ve [...]
we’re throwing a party. a virtual party that is!
Filed Under eco friendly, events | October 18, 2010
On November 10th from 8 pm – 9:30 pm (EST and PST) we’ve teamed up with By Nature to throw a fabulous potluck and we’d love it if you could come! All the details are on the Facebook Events Page (the more RSVPs we get the more savings there’ll be for you) but in a [...]
applicious
Filed Under faces & places | October 16, 2010
Today was our first of two days at the UBC Apple Fest and we had so much fun. Aside from the simply fabulous weather we meet heaps of new people and lots of old friends stopped by as well. In fact it was so busy I never actually got to see, let alone buy, any [...]
sponsored post: 100 mile diet made easier
Filed Under sponsored posts | October 5, 2010
Our family’s been part of the first Home Grow-In Grocer’s Buyer’s Club Co-op and we’ve loved it. Despite a few glitches as they got online ordering and pick up all sorted, the Co-op has mostly run smoothly and been a great way for us to incorporate different fruits and veggies into our daily diet – [...]
