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Almond Snowball Cookies Recipe
Don’t let their simplicity fool you. These little snowball cookies are jam packed with nutty almond flavour. Like throwing a snowball, you can’t stop at one. It’s impossible, I’ve conducted an extensive study. My Italian family makes very similar cookies, in fact you may see/hear them referred to as Italian cookies or Russian tea cakes. Those people don’t…
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Drink up: Holiday Sangria Recipe
So I admit it, my favourite part of the holidays is the shindigs – the good, the bad, the ugly, I love them all. It’s the only time of the year where you can actually wear those outfits you bought “for that time when I need to get dressed up” and over indulge on food…
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Hello Holiday Guide by Leon’s is here!
If you know me and haven’t seen me around for, ohhhh say, the last 3 months or so it’s because I’ve been pouring my blood, sweat and tears into this baby. It’s time to say Hello Holiday! with this guide for your happy holiday home by Leon’s furniture. It’s full of holiday home decor, DIY…
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A Weekend in Prince Edward County
I hope you all had a great weekend! It was the long Thanksgiving weekend here in Canada so today is really like a Monday for me. Posting on Tuesday has nothing at all to do with the fact that I’m soooo behind in blog world. The truth is that I have so much cool stuff…
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SPACES: Rooftop Vintage Summer Table Setting & Style at Home
I have something that I’ve been dying to share with you for 8 months. Last August I had the pleasure of putting together a vintage Summer table setting for Style at Home. Fast forward to the May issue and voila! Because of our weather here in Canada, it’s not uncommon to shoot seasonal outdoor stories…
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GOOD EATS: funfetti Easter Cake
When I was a kid, Easter was easily the next best thing after Christmas. Baskets full of candy and gifts, hunting for chocolate, frilly dresses, that was the life. Now as an adult it’s about the long weekend and the amazing homemade feast. I grew up in an Italian family so the feasts were definitely something…
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Merry Mag Summer Issue – Call for Contributors!
Fridays are already great but I have an extra Merry announcement for you today. I know it’s hard to think about spring & summer when it’s so freezing out but that’s what I’m talkin’ about. I’m super pumped to announce that after such a great response to the holiday issue of Merry Magazine that we’ve…
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KITCHEN MAKEOVER: How to make a DIY waterfall butcher block island
And we have crossed the finish line people! The kitchen is done! All that was left was the not-so-small job of making the waterfall butcher block island which I was secretly not looking forward to so there was some procrastination. Here’s what the island looked like before. I love the space it gives me but…
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Some thoughts & entertaining for New Years Eve
Welcome to the last day of 2014. What kind of year did you have? What are you looking forward to most in 2015? I’ll be totally honest – I decided to disconnect digitally for Christmas and I’m having a really hard time connecting again. I’m such a live in the present type of person, which…
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Happy Holidays!
I totally didn’t mean to be so MIA before today but I guess that’s what happens when you’re wrapping up work, presents and having a little too much spiked eggnog. I hope you’ve already had a great few weeks full of holiday ‘spirit’ (aka – drinkable spirits) with friends & coworkers. I’ve been going full throttle…
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TUNES: holiday play list
I feel like I was just apologizing for posting Christmas stuff too early and now it’s about 2 weeks away. Wow. Well if you’re like me you have a long list of Christmas chores. Ok, chores may be a bit too negative but as much as we love the holidays that’s how things start to feel as…
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DESIGN: personalized packaged handmade gifts
Spoiler alert if you’re on my gift giving list this year. I actually don’t have a really long list being a single 30-something. Obviously some of the really special ones will get a little something like calcetines personalizados as they say in Spanish which means face socks – but only to have a little laugh!…
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PRETTY TECH: free holiday desktop wallpaper download
Annnd…it’s December already. No idea how that happened!?! Well friends it’s been ages since I’ve done a free wallpaper download so let this be an early Christmas present. I just love this deer I have up this year so much that I want you all to enjoy him too. You may recognize him from his…
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Introducing Merry Magazine! A Handmade Holiday Guide
So I’ve never been pregnant but this is the closest thing to giving birth that I can relate to. Today I’m so excited to welcome into the world Merry magazine . She’s my baby. Merry is a 100 page online magazine packed with original and awesome handmade holiday inspiration from myself and some of my talented creative…
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MAKE IT: DIY holiday gift tags
If you’re like me and keep all your crafty scraps then you probably have a bunch of short pieces of ribbon tucked away that aren’t really long enough to be super useful, until now. This really easy DIY is a great way to use up scrap ribbon or gives you a reason to go buy…