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I like to think of myself as an adventurous eater, but being vegetarian I tend to sign up for fairly tame foodie adventures. Lately it’s been bothering me that I’m not trying more exciting new foods, so I decided to try something different. I went to a little Korean place called Kimch’i in the gorgeous historic district [...]

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My mom is one of my favourite people, especially because she enables my accumulating vintage books and housewares. This spring she lent me one of my favourite items yet, The Canadian Bride’s Reference Book that was given to my grandmother when she got married. I love the etiquette notes and vintage ads the best. Relationship [...]

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summer colour love

June 24, 2010

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I’ve been running around working on projects & jumping from lunches to birthday parties this week (last night I was definitely out late on a ‘school’ night!), but I’ve completed one of my summer missions and I needed to share! I’ve been on the hunt for summer nail polish colours lately, looking for a yellow [...]

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If I could wish a frivolous wish, it would be for a vintage style hair salon. Everything would be in pinks and yellows and blues, bright coloured sorbet would be served in old fashioned pyrex mugs while you waited, and we could sit under dryers chatting and laughing over the din. If you could open [...]

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Last winter Mister and I decided to move from just buying wine here and there to building up a stocked bar in our house. Talk about good decisions! While it started out with martinis that I couldn’t even moderately enjoy, my mixology skills have increased by leaps and bounds since then, and finding fun drinks [...]

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