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.

Inspiring Books for Gardening and Learning to Hairstyle

The books Grow Vegetables in Pots and Grow All You Can Eat in 3 Square Feet are inspiring the decisions we are making this year for our garden. We love gardening, and over the years have learned many things about how to care for a variety of plants, and to landscape. We are expanding our garden space to accommodate more vegetables and trees this year.

DIY Ceiling Project with Fasade

We loved using Fasade ceiling tiles to personalize our space. This is a stylish, and a practical solution for our ceilings, walls, and back splash in any room of our home. We used the Fasade 2X2 glue up ceiling tile in the Cyclone pattern to transform our dining room ceiling. It was easy to glue the tiles up on the ceiling, which immediately brightened the space. The project only took a few hours. The beautiful interconnected swirls are punctured into a dynamic pattern, and this white series of tile designs are paintable. We left the original white it came in, to give the space a crisp and clean feel. 

Express Yourself By Winning Scotch Expressions Prize Pack

Scotch Brand’s Expressions Tapes are a fun, affordable tool to help add bright and glam colours to our home, and event décor. Expressions Tapes offer us creative, and easy ways to decorate our home whether it is used to create DIY centrepieces for a party, to add colour to glasses or planters, to do crafting with our children, or to update plain walls with a splash of colour. These Spring Planters are an awesome idea from Scotch to add some creative fun in our home. To make these, you will need... 

Using Washi Tape as Frames

We recently painted our children's room, and to personalize the space we wanted to display art work that my children did on the wall. I used Washi tape to frame around the canvas. This way we can remove and switch the painting as we want and update the wall display without a hassle.

Taotronics Bluetooth Shower Speaker

Ever wanted to listen to music or answer phone calls in the shower? Well, then your problems are solved because the TaoTronics TT-SK03 is a water resistant wireless bluetooth stereo shower speaker that is a great little device that does it all. I like this compact built, stylish device made with a rubbery material on the outside. It has a suction cup that we can use to attach to any slippery flat surface.

Welcome Spring By Winning a Cure Pink Ribbon Mat

Spring is in the air, and if you’re looking to brighten up your entry way, deal with all that mud from melting snow, or want to make a statement for a good cause, Carpet One's Welcome a Cure Pink Ribbon Mats will give you a chance do something nice for your home while you do some good to others. These mats are tough, functional and, depending on your choice, fun, whimsical, or stylish. The company has partnered with 12 well-known interior design experts, all of whom have added their flare for colour and home fashion to the mix of beautifully designed and durable indoor-outdoor mats.

TaoTronics® Desk Lamps

TaoTronics® Elune Dimmable Eye-Care LED Desk Lamp has seven levels that is operated with a touch slide. The dimming feature in this lamp has memory function, so we can set to the level we prefer the most. The adjustable arm helps with directing light, and the LED does not have dark area or glaring. The lamp emits white light that is perfect for our eyes because it is not overwhelmingly bright.

Completion of Our #KitchenReno and Painting with Para Paints

I am glad we completed our mostly DIY #KitchenReno project. We fixed the vent, tiled the floor, transformed the cabinets with Rust-Oleum, organized the drawers in the kitchen with Rev-A-Shelf, installed the Delta Touch2O Technology Faucet, and chose quartz for the countertops. I chose the coin silver grey from Para paints for the kitchen wall, and two different shades of white for the ceiling and trims.

Win Your Own HotelSpa® Ultra-Luxury 7-setting LED Hand Shower

We love this Hotel Spa Ultra-Luxury 7-setting LED Hand Shower. There are seven luxurious settings. We can use it either as an Overhead or Handheld shower. I like the lightweight, extra-large 4.25" chrome face of this hand shower. The 7 Settings include Power Rain, Pulsating Massage, Hydrating Mist, Mist/Massage, Rain/Mist and Water-saving Economy Rain and Pause modes. There is also a 3-zone Precision SpiralFlo Dial with Rub-clean Jets and Click-action Lever. 

Touch2O Technology in Our Kitchen

We trust Delta products and love the ease of installing their accessories, hand shower, and the Touch2O Technology faucet. Our experience with the fabulous Touch2O Technology in our bathroom geared us towards the same type of luxury in the kitchen when we were planning on our #KitchenReno. Once you get used to the features of the Touch2O Technology, I am sure you too will not be able to think of any other type of faucet.

Make Your Move With Jabra Move Wireless

It's the perfect time to make your Move by giving a Jabra Move Wireless for the music lover in your life. Whether your loved one is a music aficionado, tech junkie, or gym buff Jabra has you covered. With up to 12 days standby time, and 8 hours of music, talk time, and the added benefit of wireless control, the Jabra Move Wireless keeps music pumping no matter where you may find yourself.

Luxury Under The Canopy

I love how Under the Canopy embraces the planet with style. They offer a beautiful selection of bed and bath products that make a difference to human health, the environment, social justice, and future generations. All their products are certified organic cotton, and uses Low-impact dyes and RPET (recycled bottle) "EcoPure." Their products are made in the USA, and are GOTS and Fair Trade Certified. I have been using their bath products, and love how absorbent, soft and light the towels are even when it is wet. The kimono style soft robe instantly became my favourite because of how fabulous it feels and looks.