If you’ve been around here for a while, I’m sure you all know how passionate I am about supporting local communities and how much I love shopping local. While I know this isn’t something that I can always do, I do try to shop local as much as possible and when I can’t I try to make a conscious ...
Christmas Cranberry Sangria
It’s beginning to look a lot like cocktails! Cranberries are one of my favourite things to experiment in the kitchen with this time of the year – they’ve always just felt so festive to me! Last year, I created this Christmas cranberry sangria and shared it on my Instagram. I thought I would ...
Winter holiday decor – easy DIY Christmas pillows with Cricut
Holy moly, how is it already just 10 days until Christmas?! After making some fall themed pillows for my bedroom, I thought it would be fun to keep going and make pillows for every holiday/occasion! I originally made these DIY pillows with my Cricut in November and had every intention to blog ...
My favourite local shops and why I’m shopping local this holiday season – #ShopInDurham
If you've been around here for a while, I'm sure you all know how passionate I am about supporting local communities and how much I love shopping local. While I know this isn't something that I can always do, I do try to shop local as much as possible and when I can't I try to make a conscious ...
Round-up: my favourite gluten free holiday recipes and DIYs
Can you believe that Christmas is only 10 days away?! How is everyone feeling about the Holiday season? While I have all of my gift shopping done and the house is decorated for Christmas, I haven't had much time to do any festive activities. This year it feels like the holidays are just flying ...
DIY holiday paper crackers (free template!)
I don't know about you guys, but I'm one of those crazy people that picks a different "theme" every year during the holiday season – for everything from my decor, right down to our Christmas wrapping paper. Maybe it's the designer/branding specialist in me, but I just love when there is one cohesive ...
12 Last-minute gifts made easy with Amazon.ca
Have you finished your holiday shopping yet? I just finished shopping myself – and I’m someone who usually is done by November. If you’re anything like a couple of my family members, (I'm not going to call anyone out by name, you know who you are) you still have lots to do, are ...
Recipe: The Perfect Gluten Free Cut-Out Cookies
One of my favourite things to do around the holiday season is to make cookies! While my parents are partial to my peppermint chocolate chip cookies, my absolute favourite Christmas cookies has always been cut-out cookies. ...
Winter Style + A Christmas Giveaway with StyleWe!
First things first - Merry Christmas everyone! I hope you all are having a wonderful holiday and are enjoying some time with friends, family and furry ones. I really do love this time of year. We do our Christmas dinner on Christmas Eve, play board games and watch the polar express. On Christmas ...
Handmade Holiday: DIY Holiday PJs + FREE Cricut Cut Files
What would the Holidays be without some new PJs?! For today's festive DIY, I'm going to show you how to create your very own Holiday PJs for the whole family. Do you ever wonder who started the Holiday tradition of getting new PJs though? I feel like so many people I know have this tradition ...
Getting Cozy for the Holidays with Orville Redenbacher’s
Can you believe that Christmas is just a few days away?! It honestly just feels like I was getting ready for fall just a few days ago! I think I have just been so busy this season that I have had hardly any time to just enjoy the Holiday season. So this weekend, I forced myself to take some much ...
Handmade Holiday: DIY Cricut Gift Tags + FREE Cut Files
I honestly don't know how I survived life before having a Cricut. Seriously, it has made my life so much easier in so many ways, especially this holiday season. Is anyone else super obsessive when it comes to picking your wrapping paper for the year, or is it just me? I think its the ...