Gorgeous spring weather and an increased amount of hours of sunshine makes me want to spend more time outside and less inside. Even as I do plan on being out of the house more often soon, I love to come home in the evenings and relax. It's not very restful to come home to a messy or disorganized home, though. ...
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Why Spring Cleaning Is Actually Good For You
You may have already begun your spring cleaning efforts for this year. With the right toolkit of spring cleaning products, you can slowly begin to dust away the winter blues in preparation for the summer months in Vancouver. However, sometimes it can be hard to stay motivated while spring cleaning, even though it has a range of benefits for both your personal wellness and home environment. If you do spring cleaning right, you’ll engage in some serious scrubbing, polishing, reorganizing and ...
Salt Spring in the City Vancouver Event Preview
What are you doing this weekend? You don't have to leave Vancouver to visit Salt Spring Island. Crazy, right? On March 27-29, Salt Spring in the City will bring the island’s bohemian lifestyle and fresh finds from its most awesome artisans to Vancouver’s Heritage Hall (15th and Main). From the modern to the rustic, chic to traditional — with over 30 unique brands to discover, there’s something for everyone! ...
Nice Try Allergens: I Have Allergy Relief #CBias
I am a member of the Collective Bias® Social Fabric® Community. This shop has been compensated as part of a social shopper amplification for Collective Bias and its advertiser. You may call it spring and summer, and generally think of the seasons as wonderful care-free parts of the year. For me? It's more like a months-long sneeze-fest. Allergy-sufferers, can you relate? That white stuff floating around in the air. . .it isn't snow. And my eyes don't look red because I've had too much to ...
Add a Splash of Colour for Spring
A bold, bright vase to welcome the sunshine. Vancouver in the winter is grey upon grey—lots of clouds, rain and buildings that have the required shade of glass, so that nothing distracts from the views of nature. When I am at home, I like to be able to glance at bright, colourful decorative items in order to cheer myself up. Luckily, the warmer months are here and the beautiful green vase I recently received brings the colour of the fresh grass and leaves on the trees indoors. I keep moving ...
Spring Self-Care Treats from LUSH
Since April is Earth Month, I thought I would share some of the Earth-friendly things about all things LUSH cosmetics. Packing (or lack-thereof) is one thing that likely comes to mind when you think about ways that LUSH is environmentally conscious. It's true that LUSH prefers to focus on what's inside the their products rather than what's on the outside: "Creating Naked and packaging-free products at LUSH is at the core of our philosophy. We use as little packaging in our LUSH shops as ...
Spring Cleaning List: My To-Do List
The (intermittent) sunny skies, along with changes in my living arrangements, have motivated me to do a massive spring cleaning in my apartment. It feels so great to freshen up my space after the long, dark fall/winter. I've taken care of quite a few things already, but I still have several (more time-consuming) things on my spring cleaning list. What I've done so far: put up curtains in my dining room and bedroom organized my bookshelves set-up my photo booth and lights hung ...
Celebrating Spring with Sodastream
Backyard BBQs, picnics, weekends spent at the beach, birthday parties and get-togethers — just a few things that I'm looking forward to, now that it's officially spring! Any good gathering of people has to have food and drinks. I think that's just a given. With spring here and summer not far off, I know I'll be entertaining guests more often — mostly outdoors or at the beach/park. Usually, I would be needing to run to the grocery store to pick up several litres of soda, in different flavours — ...
Easy Spring and Easter Crafts for Kids
It's March, finally! Things are starting to look up weather-wise. Yes, there is still tons of rain in our future, but at least I know it's going toward a good cause—green grass and pretty flowers. There are some exciting holidays coming up, like St. Patrick's Day and Easter—plus, Spring coming up is reason enough to celebrate! As a kid, I always looked forward to March Break to get to do some craft projects with my mom in our basement art studio. It was so great to have the space in our basement ...
Spring Break in Vancouver
When I went to the University of British Columbia (for many, many years), we had 1 week off in February, known as Reading Week. In 2010, because of the Winter Olympics, we got an extra week off (!!!), supposedly for students to be able to volunteer during the Olympics, which were (in case you have been living under a rock) held in Vancouver, Canada. The extra week off made a lot of sense, because Olympic events were being held on campus, and there were dorms and other facilities available for ...