It Was a Rainy Night
As part of my job as a senior editor at Canadian L...
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Crafter Q+A: Melissa Lowry of Milon&Ben
Name: Melissa Lowry Location: Milton, ON Title: Cr...
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Touring Toronto's most inspirational gardens
The Toronto Botanical Garden‘s “Throug...
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Two easy ways to prepare rhubarb
I just love the tart flavour and subtle pink colou...
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Editor's pick: The best hair ties
If you’ve got long hair put your hands up, i...
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5 steps to your best bikini body
GUEST POST: Nicole Pulsinelli is a journalism grad...
easy projects
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Quick craft: The 15-minute eyeglass chain
There’s a moment in life when you realize you’re closing in on your middle years. And my moment has come. I’ve recently realized that my arms are not, in fact, getting shorter, but that I need…are you ready for it? Bifocals. Ugh. But since I’m a champ at denial, I’m not planning on getting any [...]
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Girly kids’ craft: sparkly barrettes
As a former tomboy, I am surprisingly fond of pink things. Pink pens, pink shirts, pink wine, pink nail polish – I love them all. Kinda like an 8-year-old might. So I thought I’d try out an age-old trick for dressing up plain-Jane metal barrettes, like these: The key to vivid colour and a little [...]
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Photo Tutorial: The 20-Minute Recycled Necktie Belt
My newfound workout regimen has left me with some looser-than-usual waistbands. (Yay!) Rather than shopping for new belts to break up the monotony that is my wardrobe, I thought I might try my hand at making a simple one. I loved Austen’s ribbon belt from last summer, and I love the preppy tie belts that [...]
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5 relaxing craft links
This week is all kinds of crazy around the office. Everyone (including me) is flying around, nailing the items on their to-do lists. Photo shoot planning? Check. February story editing? Check. Recipe developing? Check. I’ve barely had time to breathe, let alone spend some quality time with my appliqué in the evenings. There it sits, [...]
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Crossing Things off My Crafty To-Do List
You know how sometimes you lose your crafting mojo (for months, in my case), then suddenly it comes back, just when you didn’t think it ever would? Well, that’s how August has been for me. I’ve been sewing on bindings, binding off rows and blocking the daylights out of some of the UFOs that have [...]
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Toting Lunch in Style
My work lunch is almost always a brown-bag affair. Usually, assembling it involves sleepwalking through the prep – washing fruit, tossing baby carrots in plastic containers and making the obligatory boring sandwich. Then I scrabble around under the sink and drag out a plastic bag and cram said lunch into it. It’s usually not till [...]
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The Up Side of a Summer Cold
Summer colds are the worst, aren’t they? It’s beautiful outside – it’s sunny and everything is blooming. But I’ve spent the better part of this week sitting in a chair (or sitting up in bed all night) and wishing I could shake this stupid malady. You may have a tan, but I look like death [...]
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Knitting in Public
After a long hiatus, I’ve started knitting on the bus again. My Old Port sweater got a lot of concentrated stitching mileage before I grew weary of cabling and put it down indefinitely. I’m sure I’ll come back to it one of these days, but for now, I’m concentrating on smaller projects that don’t feel [...]
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Easy Laminated Bookmarks
Digging through some old cassettes (!) the other day, I was reminded of a great little crafting trick. Many of my prized mix tapes have laminated covers I made myself – with clear packing tape. Once I’d made a bunch of shiny, liquid-impervious tape covers, I expanded operations. Next up was homemade bookmarks. I have [...]
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Pip-Pip! Royal Wedding Craft Links
I can’t say Royal Wedding Fever has me in its clutches. I think tomorrow morning will be much like any other morning for me: coffee, cereal, sleepy shower and out the door. But I do know people who are setting their alarms for 3 a.m. so they won’t miss a moment of frothy, gilt-edged, ermine-draped [...]
