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INFINITE POSSIBILITIES: COULD I MAKE THIS?

Hi hi, hope you all had a nice weekend.  I’m getting this Monday started with an interiors itch – it’s been ages since I’ve tackled any project of consequence for our home and I could really use a dose...

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FESTIVE TABLESCAPE: THE CHINESE NEW YEAR GOES SOPHISTI-KITSCH

Or, what happens when two white girls in Collingwood decide they want to style an elegant but fun table to celebrate the Chinese New Year, and are forced to procure 85% of the items from a dollar store...

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HOW TO: THRIFTING SAVOIR FAIRE, PART DEUX

In Part One of our thrifting series, Gillian shows you how to navigate the wild west of thrift store clothes shopping.  Now, her guide to what to do once you’re back home… So, you’ve got the loot home....

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HAPPY BIRTHDAY, DEAR THEO

My baby turned three last week and we celebrated with a mermaid birthday party.  Theo’s original request was to “fill up the whole house with water” but she eventually settled for helium balloons and...

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THE SYMMETRIC VINTAGE RESORT OUTTAKES & EXTRAS

Way back in January, Gillian and I decided it might be fun to attempt to shoot a capsule collection of vintage resort wear, since I was going to be in Barbados on a family trip.  So we pulled some...

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COLOUR CODA

I think we’ve reached the dénouement –  don’t let that door hit your ass on the way out, winter. We’ve been diligently preparing for this moment by  putting out our maple syrup buckets, collecting the...

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BUILT-IN BOOKSHELF INSPIRATION

It feels like it’s been awhile since we tackled any major decorating projects in our house, but the time has come to whip out and make use of the many rooms I’ve pinned and then never, ever looked at...

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SUGARED FLOWERS

Since it’s now (officially!) summer and the days of pretending that I’m this cool, unencumbered babe who spends her days swanning around parks armed with nothing more than a pretentious novel and a...

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IN ABUNDANCE

Praise be to the late-summer harvest and behold the bounty that we have reaped. Tomatoes! More homemade pickles than any one household really needs! (In the interest of full disclosure, our cucumbers...

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AFTER & BEFORE: BASEMENT BOOKSHELVES

If I wait any longer to start showing you at least snippets of our very happy basement renovation, it will inevitably take a full season of the old hem ‘n haw game: me throwing pillows and magazines...

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