Breville’s Die-Cast Smart Toaster is Stylish and Functional

I love Breville kitchen appliances because of the quality, functionality, and the sleek well thought-out designs of their products. The innovative products with intuitive features and efficiency will be loved by chef extraordinaire to aspirational cooks. For my family a toaster is a must-have appliance, especially for breakfast! 

William Ashley Warehouse Sale Celebrates 40 Years

Since I was a teenager I have been going to the annual William Ashley’s Warehouse Sale every year with my mom, and now continue the tradition with my family. The Warehouse Sale located at 111 Creditview Road, Vaughan, ON, L4L 9T1 is more spacious and has an ample amount of free parking. This year William Ashley celebrates its 40th annual Warehouse Sale, where shoppers across the GTA gather to take advantage of the fabulous prices on quality products.

Cleaning with the Easy Spin Mop

I like using the Easy Spin Mop to dust, as well as mop, as this mop can be used either dry or wet to clean a variety of different surfaces. It requires very less effort on our part to dehydrate the mop. All we have to do is lightly press it in to the spinner and the water squeezes out of the micro fiber mop head by rotating automatically. This makes it easy to control how much water we want in the mop, depending on the surface we want to clean. 

Win Your Own Welcome Mat from Carpet One

I am excited to partner with Carpet One Floor and Home Welcome Mat to bring awareness to the importance of cancer research. For the past decade, Carpet One Floor Home has raised almost a million dollars to support breast cancer research. 25 percent of the proceeds of each Welcome Mat goes towards the research.

The New Jabra Eclipse Review

Gone are the days where we run around like robots with bulky Bluetooth headsets wrapped around our ears. I know that most of us would shy away from using Bluetooth headsets because of their appearance and size. Jabra is known for its innovative sleek designs when it comes to headsets. With the debut of the Jabra Eclipse Wireless headset, Jabra has taken big strides in making a hands free headset look a lot stealthy and stylish with no compromises.

Detailed Papercut Lantern

I was inspired by the Paper Craft DK book to do this detailed papercut lantern project. This book has 50 fun and exciting projects that involves card making, gift wrapping, scrapbooking, and beautiful paper flowers. I love that the book includes templates that we can use to recreate the projects. I used the template for lanterns from this book, and scanned it on my Brother ScanNCut machine, which cut this intricate lantern design for me within minutes.

Craft Books: Homemade Interiors and Let's Knit

I love getting inspiration for crafts from colourful books. The DK Craft Boutique has lots of fabulous books that are inspiring to get us started. Since I love to do a variety of different crafts and always challenge myself to learn new one, I enjoy books that are easy to follow with step-by-step pictures and instructions. I also encourage my children to not only use their imagination to be creative, but also be observant on the variety of different material that they can incorporate for their arts and craft projects.

Homemade No-Knead Bread

Making Bread at home with our children is fun, and is totally satisfying. This simple, basic bread recipe is easy to make and is delicious that you will want to make bread everyday.
Here is the recipe, hope you try!

Stained Glass Art

I had lots of fun using glass stain on its own to repurpose a bottle and decorate it to use as a vase. However, I really found the beauty of glass stain only after I used it with the Glass Stain Leading. I used the black Glass Stain Leading to outline the designs and create custom, ornate, stained glass art. It was easy to use the leading similar to a pen because of its tip, so I had fun doing the design on each side of this somewhat square glass container that I bought. The different coloured glass stain I used really shows through this thick glass once it is filled within the leading, and is confined to each section. I love how the project turned out. I am looking forward to do more glass stain projects using both glass and clear plastic.

Portable Inflatable Solar Lights from MPOWERD for Travel or Home Decor

We have been using the Luci Aura and Luci Lux lights from MPOWERD Inc. in a variety of occasions. We can enjoy these bright solar powered lights for 6 to 12 hours after charging them in direct sunlight for 8 hours. It is fully waterproof with a IP67 waterproof rating. I like that we can easily inflate these shatterproof lights by mouth. The portable lights weigh 4 oz. and has a 150 square feet lighting area so we can use it in a variety of situations such as boating, camping, barbequing, as night lights, at pool parties or special occasions, entertainment, and more.

Ultramodern Steel Diaper Pail from Ubbi

Ubbi has innovative products designed with parents and children in mind. They have easy to use, unique, quality products that helps simplify the parents' lives while keeping babies happy and safe. This useful, ultramodern steel diaper pail from Ubbi is stylish and functional.

Vote for Our #LoveYourWood Convertible Gaming Storage Cart and Win

We are very excited to be part of the Rust-Oleum and Varathane #LoveYourWood Challenge. For this challenge, we were provided with a gift card to purchase our choice of wood and any other material we needed for the project. Our surprise package included a Varathane Top Coat, a Varathane Wood Stain, glass pebbles, cabinet door handle, hook, wire, and rope.

PC® Back-to-school and Fall Collections

I enjoyed checking out the colourful PC® Back-to-school and Fall Collections. The colour choices in their Life at Home and Everyday Essentials collection are really attractive. Adding these colourful pieces will quickly and pleasantly change the decor of any room suitable for upcoming entertainments and celebrations.

Papaya Juice & Colourful Entertaining Products from Trudeau

I love the new wave of bright colours and cool shapes of kitchen items for the table from Trudeau. These products with the beautiful timeless appeal and functionality truly celebrates colour. My family and I love using these products everyday, and I am glad they have used organically coloured glass and sustainable wood, which is also good for the environment. I love how we can match our decor with these vibrant hues and bring excitement to our summer entertainment.

Making a Trellis DIY Project

In spring, we made a v-shaped Trellis for our Clematis. It is cheaper to make a trellis with only a few materials compared to buying one. For this project, I haven't provided exact measurements because you can adjust the length of the wood according to where you want to place the trellis for example in a deep pot or against the fence etc. The measurements also depend on what type of plant you want to use the trellis for such as Clematis, Jasmine etc. Hope the pictures and the instructions below will inspire you to make your own trellis and save some money.

Decorative Vase Using DecoArt Glass Paint Marker

I love using DecoArt Glass Paint Markers. With some imagination these smooth flowing, quality fine-tip markers can be used for a variety of things. It is easy to use the markers to personalize gifts,  decorate, and create unique pieces of art. The markers have a glossy finish and it is available in 14 vibrant colours. I tried the Black, Fuchsia, Brown, Green, Gold, Silver, and Turquoise. It is simple to use the markers, all we have to do is shake it up, remove the cap, and initially press down on the tip for the ink to flow to the tip before decorating.

The Adventurous UE MEGABOOM

Say Hello to Logitech Ultimate Ears’ latest addition to its award winning line of portable wireless speakers, the UE MEGABOOM. It is designed to be a premium portable Bluetooth speaker in every way. If product packaging is an indicator of brand quality, the UE Megaboom’s packaging certainly makes its case. The speaker is enclosed in a large plastic cylinder with a carry on handle. Pulling the tab open from the side reveals the speaker and the bright yellow Micro-USB Wall charger. Since the UE MEGABOOM comes in different colours such as charcoal black, lava red, electric blue, and plum UE could have matched the colour of the wall charger with the speaker instead of standard yellow for all.

Join the Experts at the #RBCFirstHome Chat

From the time we think of buying a new home, I am sure we all have lots of questions. Getting our answers from experts before making final decisions is helpful, and it will make us feel confident in the decisions we make. I am glad RBC has invited a Lawyer, Realtor, Design, Home Builders, Home Experts, and Mortgage experts for their twitter chat on June 16th from 8:30 pm to 9:30 pm ET.

Win Your Own Copy of What Plant Where Encyclopedia

This time of the year, my family and I spend lots of time gardening, shopping for the garden, tending the plants, and weeding to keep our garden a clean and well maintained space. For us gardening is exciting, tiring, and relaxing. We love reading books about gardening, trying a variety of different plants and flowers every year, growing to love some plants more than others, talking about plants, recommending our favourites and our tips to family, friends, and neighbours. Recently, I got a wonderful book from DK that tells all about what plants go where in our garden.

Moms Will Love These Kitchen Tools

I love the innovative everyday kitchen products from Trudeau. Just in time for Mother's day, they have some fun and interesting new kitchen tools that will quickly become part of our everyday items.