Early autumn has found our household in a bit of scheduling tizzy. With Elliot in preschool every weekday afternoon, I’m still trying to figure out how to make lunch to take to the playground ahead of school, and make a decent dinner in the time allotted. To add to the confusion of the situation, our …
I popped round the Interior Design West show today, here are some highlights. Resource Furniture‘s extraordinary space saving beds blew my mind. I love the shelf that pivots as you pull the bed down. Style Garage is a Canadian furniture company, located in Vancouver and Toronto. Their tagline is ‘made-to-order & in-stock modern furniture’. There …
Ever since he received his Strider bike for his birthday, Elliot has been keen to be out and about. Every morning starts with ‘Mummy, bike ride?’ and continues until we go. Lately, we’ve been stopping to find horse chestnuts, or conkers, as they’re called in the old country. We line up all the conkers we …
My thrifted Ilse Jacobsen boots in action Last Sunday morning, I dragged my family down to a street corner on the edge of the Olympic Village, armed with all the pairs of kitchen tongs we owned. I had signed us up for the Great Canadian Shoreline Cleanup several months ago, and we were meeting our …
The first freelance assignment I took on after Elliot was born scared me senseless. It was ridiculous as it was from my old workplace, and it was an editing job I had executed without much fuss the previous three years in a row. It had been awhile since anyone had expected anything of me other …
