Author: TheSweetEscape

  • {SPACES: 10 gallery walls that inspire}

    I love gallery walls so much. I think it’s because I’m such a collector and can be indecisive at times and a gallery wall let’s me show off of a bunch of my favourite things. Although there usually is an order to the madness but that part seems to come naturally to me. I know…

  • ENTERTAINING: 10 flower arrangements for your spring table

    ENTERTAINING: 10 flower arrangements for your spring table

    Besides being a reason to get together and celebrate with family, don’t you love that Easter is the perfect time to decorate a table full of spring colours? Whether you decide to go all out and invest in spring/easter table setting pieces  with napkins, name settings, crafts, candy, centrepieces etc. or keep it simple you…

  • PHOTOGRAPHY: vintage camera love

    If you stop by here or my Instagram regularly you know that I’m a vintage lover/hunter/obsessed/hoarder. Today I’m so happy to share with you a photo series I did with my talented photographer friend Maya Visnyei that showcases a small selection of one of my favourite vintage collections, my cameras. When it comes to collecting…

  • {SPACES: Therapy for your Apartment}

    I feel like my passion for home decor has been a little under represented on here lately. I think it may have something to do with me starting my weekly gig as a contributor for Apartment Therapy and that’s where most of my home decor love has been going recently. I just love admiring pretty…

  • GOOD EATS: Grill cheese with bourbon onions

    Isn’t it interesting how we’re nostalgic? You hear people say that a song or a smell can take them back to a specific time in their past. I also believe food has this power as well. There are a bunch of foods that take me back to my childhood and a grill cheese sandwich is…

  • GOOD EATS: colourful ice-cream sandwich treats

    Who doesn’t love ice-cream, seriously? (lactose free people, you don’t count). Ice cream sandwiches always remind me of my grandma. She was a very simple woman and her freezer was almost always empty except for a box of ice-cream sandwiches for when we came to visit. I thought I would try a special Spring colour…

  • STYLE: a perfect outfit for Easter brunch

    If you know me this may surprise you a bit but I was incredibly inspired by this beautiful natural palette. I know, I know. The colourholic is inspired by neutrals. There’s a first for everything. But I just fell in love with the subtle colours from this photograph of eggs. I especially love the pop…

  • MOTIVATIONAL MONDAY: work hard & Society6 sale

    It’s Monday y’all. Time to werk. I’ve had such positive feedback from my Hustle Harder desktop wallpaper and Society6 product that I thought I would start a little series. So now that you’ve been hustling, it’s time to work hard. PS: That’s just another way to say hustle. Here’s your Monday motivation to kick start…

  • GOOD EATS: 6 delicious chicken recipes

    Don’t hold me to this, but I think I read somewhere that food and recipes are the number one thing that people pin on Pinterest. I’m not surprised. Food porn is real people.  Sure, I love sharing my own experiments with you in the kitchen but let’s be honest, I’ll never actually try most of…

  • DIY: spring rosette candy jars for Easter

    I’ll be honest, Easter isn’t my favourite DIY holiday. It’s probably because I don’t have little monsters…errr I mean the sweet pitter patter of feet running around doing egg hunts. But when our friend’s at May Arts Ribbon generously offered for us to raid their ribbon selection for our monthly blogger DIY group, I thought I would…

  • {STYLE: it’s going to be a kimono kind of season}

    So even though the weather hasn’t totally caught up, the fashion world is definitely in spring/summer mode. It’s kinda nice to walk through the mall and see all the seasonal fashion, even if we’re not quite ready just yet here in Toronto. What’s up with that Mother Nature? Cruel punishment I say. But on a…

  • GOOD EATS + DRINKS: supper club

    I’m so happy to bring you the spring edition of Supper Club. Even though for us folks in Canada, Mother Nature seems to have missed the spring memo it sure felt like spring at our most recent Supper Club get together. For those that missed my previous event post, Supper Club is a dinner party…

  • {BIRTHDAY WEEK: thank you!!}

    Annnnnd our first year has come and gone. A big gigantic THANK YOU!! to everyone for all your kind words, support & participation in our birthday week celebrations. One year old’s are really missing out because it’s so much better when you actually can remember your first birthday and all the nice things people say…

  • PRETTY TECH: free desktop wallpaper download for spring to dye over

    PRETTY TECH: free desktop wallpaper download for spring to dye over

    Happy Monday all! Ok, let’s just pretend we’re happy it’s Monday. I’ll give you two things you can look forward to; first, tomorrow is April. Thank god. Second,  here is a shiny new free desktop wallpaper download for your tech. I loved the effect of the marker tie-dye DIY project I did a few weeks back…

  • PAPER PARTY: DIY watercolour gift wrap + free printable tags

    Here we are at the end of our birthday week. Phew, that was fun. Did you get a chance to enter one of our paper giveaways this week? You still have time for most of them so be sure to take a scroll backwards and check it out. I thought it would be nice to…