Holiday

Rebecca Marshall decided to bring out all her fabulous boxes and bags to decorate her house for a good cause. Last weekend, this house was part of a tour of eight homes with all proceeds of the $10 tickets to benefit the Cyrus Centre, an inner-city resource centre responding to the needs of at-risk and homeless…

Elizabeth and I spent Saturday together Christmas Shopping on Robson Street in downtown Vancouver. Then at 6:00 pm, we decided to have dinner so we went to Cin Cin, one of our favourite restaurants. These are the stairs going up to the restaurant. You immediately feel like you’re arriving somewhere special, beautiful and european. Since…

Elizabeth and I shopped for ornaments and extra lights this weekend. We noticed that none of them were on sale. Isn’t it funny how this is pretty much the ONLY time of year we buy stuff at full price, all the while fully aware that in a week or two it’ll all be 30 –…

{Click on images for source} I am seriously, easily entertained. As many of you know, I live one hour and 15 minutes from downtown Vancouver in–gasp–Yarrow but it’s considered Chilliwack. Recently, I read The Happiness Project, an awesome book about. . . surprise, Happiness, I read it twice, back-to-back. I have NEVER done that in…

  Here’s my entry vignette to celebrate Thanksgiving. My neighbours were quick to compliment me on the colour since they are used to seeing all white flowers in my garden, haha. Every year when the fall magazines arrive on the newsstands it’s always fun to see how many ways a pumpkin can be decorated. Painted…

  source Every year my Mom tries to rally around and get us to sing Christmas carols and I’m not sure why we resist so much. Maybe it’s because none of us have a particularly gifted voice. source   source source So I was completely charmed when I read this post and saw this huge family gathering…

Thursday night we hosted a small gathering for my fabulous associate Irene Hill, her husband Kevin,  Cary Blackburn who manages my website for me and his wife Deanna. It was just Christmas lights and candelight when they first arrived, with a glass of Prosecco. Irene arrived in a fabulous cape so we had to take…

My beautiful white wreath, perfect for my already green door is from a GaBi, a local garden designer and reader of my blog. She emailed me a few weeks ago to say she had this lovely gift for me! Thanks so much GaBi! I set the tree up the in the family room since that’s…

Every day I step on this plywood step that was made by my contractor for the interim until the Spring when all the concrete will be removed. Every day I imagine what it will look like with a real stone step, bushes and a fabulous stone walkway from the house. Here’s what the exterior looked…

Last week after I decorated the mantle in my living room and then went over to my mom’s place to decorate hers I decided I was a garland expert. The fireplace before I added the garland. So when my friend Treya was having a Christmas cookie decorating evening with her kids and she invited me…

We live 5 minutes away from the Heritage Tree Farm where you can choose a live tree that you can plant in your yard after Christmas or cut down a fresh one. Elizabeth & Lea My sister Elizabeth and her family and my other sister Lea (There’s one more sister) arrived to get their tree…

It seems like Christmas is here so fast this year! By this weekend, we’ll only have three weeks left before Christmas, eeeeeek! I always decorate the house on the first weekend of December and now that we’re living in the country we can go to a Christmas tree farm to get one, so this Friday…

Why be the Same when you can be Different? (source) Do you bring toys when you take your kids on vacation? Well you might not know that there are companies that will deliver anything child related right to your hotel and it’s not expensive! Elizabeth and Bill always rent a box of toys from here…

If you really pay attention, you will notice that there’s not a lot of true red spaces in this blog because I prefer warmer orange/reds over blue/reds. So in honour of Love day, here are some red rooms especially for the red lovers:

I would like to be this person (all the time).