The Easiest Ways to Upgrade Your Home

We enjoy changing up the decor in our home often to keep it fresh and make it interesting. Without years of change to the decor or renovation, a home can loose its charm. Especially when we get busy, it is hard to stay on top of maintaining a home, but it is worth pursuing because, ultimately, it’ll have additional benefits to us. It’s not necessarily about transforming your home completely. It’s just about making smart upgrades. Here are some of the easiest ways anyone can upgrade their home.

Enjoying Authentic Worldwide Cuisine At Home

The world of food has become a lot more diverse in most countries over the last century or so. As the globe becomes increasingly connected, the cuisines that used to be restricted to small parts of it are readily available just about everywhere. Of course, though, this usually comes with some compromises, with foods from different places being given a spin makes them fall better in line with the options where they are being eaten. Here are ways we can enjoy a truly authentic experience.

Practical Ways to Enhance Your Home's Front Entry

The front entry gives visitors an impression of your home. An excellent entryway welcomes visitors and family into your home, while separating it from the outside world. These four practical tips ensure you have a terrific entryway.

Rummikub for Game Nights and Giveaway

There are a few go-to games in our family we enjoy playing during game nights and get-togethers, and Rummikub is one of them. Rummikub reinforces STEM skills like sequencing, pattern recognition and planning. 

Easy Ways to Make Your Home Smell Amazing

All of us want to live in homes that look, feel, and, yes smell great. So when you’re thinking about doing up the decor or focusing on those various little DIY projects that need to be done to make your home just perfect, don’t forget to think about making the place smell good too.

Celebrating Cultural Heritages and Giveaway

There are different months dedicated to celebrate and raise awareness about different cultures and heritages in Canada. It is important for us to know about each other's heritage and hold on to ours. There is much value in learning this to become people who have empathy and kindness, which certainly is lacking with recent events we have seen around the world despite the global pandemic.  

A World of Animals Book Giveaway

A World of Animals is a unique how-to-draw book that takes young readers on a journey around the globe. This book teaches how to draw more than 175 animals including critters from seven continents. There is a double-sided poster with a world map showing which part of the world the animals live in and the other side of the poster groups the animals by continents. There are a couple of sticker pages which would make young readers feel excited. 

4 In A Row Board Game Giveaway

We love playing board games! Classic games have been around for years because it is fun for everyone in the family. 4 In A Row is simple competitive game of strategy where two players at a time try to be the first to connect four colour disks.

Novel, Poem and Practicing to Draw

Finding inspiration from all around us isn't always easy. I am always grateful for anyone that inspires to see the beauty in little things, which sometimes gets lost between our everyday routines. This reminder to look beyond the surface of things was on a few books we looked at recently; poetry journal by Sabina Laura, the novel Misfit in love by S.K. Ali, and two drawing books from Step by Step Studio series.

Win this Inspiring Embroidery Book

I love embroidery work and enjoy doing them often, it is a satisfying and calming activity to do. Freshly Stitched Modern Embroidery for Absolute Beginners by Celeste Johnston is a colourful book that anyone who enjoys embroidery will find it fun to look through and get inspired to stitch the designs. This book combines my love for gardening and needlework, and I am sure it will inspire you too.