We Walk 4Water
Last year, Spencer West climbed Mount Kilimanjaro ...
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Crafter Q+A: Maxine Chan of Tulle Box Designs
Name: Maxine Chan Location: Vancouver, B.C. Title:...
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How a creative community attracts savvy shoppers and diners
A creative community bands together to offer uniqu...
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Vietnamese Iced Coffee
If you’re anything like me, no blissful, hot...
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Guest post: Chic and easy DIY nail art
Sarah Feldman is a recent graduate of McGill Unive...
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5 keys to clean teeth, plus win an electric toothbrush
**UPDATE: This contest is now closed. What’s...
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Easy DIY wedding crafts
It’s wedding season once again. If you’re newly engaged or closing in on the big day we’ve found some pretty craft suggestions for you to do at home — or just to inspire you. We’d love to see how you modify them to make them your own! Customize your own floral arrangements by using different size [...]
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Feature craft: Make your own shadow box
I love shadow boxes for displaying memorabilia of all sorts. From postcards to jewellery, it’s a tasteful way to showcase something delicate in a contained way. Jill Buchner, our associate editor here at Canadian Living, took some coral and made a sophisticated tropical oasis out of her living space. Here’s how she did it: 1. Select [...]
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Crafter Q+A: Maggie Patterson of I Love Papercrafts
Name: Maggie Patterson, owner of I Love Papercrafts Location: South Mountain, Ontario How did you get started? Nearly nine years ago I had my son, and I was looking for something to do to fill my time as I was home at night and I was blessed with a championship sleeper. I was coming off a very [...]
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Calling all crafters!
Hello lovely readers, I’m the new web editor for style, home and crafts and I want to hear from you. Where do you go for craft inspiration? Who are your favourite Canadian craft or D.I.Y. bloggers? Are you a crafter who would like to be featured on Canadianliving.com? Are you into D.I.Y. decorations? Source: media-cache1.pinterest.com via Maia [...]
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Super DIY: Draft your own clothing patterns
I am often too impatient for the fussiness of finding and using a pattern to sew clothing for myself (and I often find myself deciding at 10 p.m. that I Absolutely Need Something New to Wear Tomorrow!), so I made my own basic shirt pattern. I didn’t use any technical procedure (in fact, I didn’t [...]
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Five for Friday
Hi friends, One of my favourite things about working on the craft blog is that it’s a place for me to collect and share the things that inspire me. Here are five things that I’m working on, thinking about, reading and enjoying this week. A quick knit I had a look at the weather report [...]
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I’m Slightly Obsessed With Paint-by-Numbers
I’ve never really collected anything — that is, until I recently rediscovered paint-by-numbers. At a family yard sale last summer, I picked up two forest scenes that I remember hanging in my cousins’ house when we were kids. It turned out that my aunt had also got them from a yard sale (so who knows [...]
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DIY Planners: The Answer to My Organization Prayers?
Hi friends, Last night, the internet helped me have a lightbulb moment. I’ve been looking for the perfect day planner for a long time, but until last night, it had never occurred to me that I could make my own. (Duh, Austen.) I started at Hanna’s blog, with a pair of posts (a personalized DIY [...]
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Festive Friday: We Made This for You
Hi friends, Yesterday was a very exciting day for us. After months of hard work and weeks of waiting, we received a Very Important Delivery. The pile of boxes doesn’t look too promising, but for us, finding these cartons stacked in the hallway was like an early Christmas present. Any guesses? Does this help? (I’m [...]
