Three Loves

This pillow would look fabulous on my sofa! 

 I am inlove with this Yummy Mummy bag....consider it found, loved and sold!

How cute are these..Lovie!

Stephanie

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Weekend To Do's - Music and the Season

Are you gearing up?  Are you getting ready? Do you have everything wrapped?
If you answered yes to any of those, you are well ahead of me.  I'm terrible this year and I'm behind.  I have tomorrow night.   Really, I know that sounds a bit off, but I really just have tomorrow night. I'm free, no plans, my loving wife is out of town, so I need to take advantage.  Suggestions... ....?

If you're all done, and you have free time, lots to do in the city.  Pretty solid music weekend from a couple of big acts.  If you're a country girl, or your girl is a country girl, or maybe you're a guy who just likes country girls, Carrie Underwood is playing the ACC. 

If you're into a mellower, less firework(y) kind of concert, Dave Matthews Band is returning once again to T.O. and you can catch him and his band on tonightt.  It was years ago now, but I saw them at the ACC and it was such a great show.  

Feeling the holiday spirit? Here are a quick three for you. First, Christmas by Lamplight - Black Creek Pioneer Village. Live music, food and activities.  Second, The Christmas Story at The Church Of The Holy Trinity.  Bit of a Toronto holiday tradition.  There are a number of show times, at least one will work with your busy schedule. Lastly, a little something to do with the family, visit the Elves workshop at Casa Loma and build an ornament together to bring home for your own celebration.

Whatever your plans, whatever your spirit level at his point in the season, have a good one. Enjoy your weekend, relax and shop if need be. But try to stay away from the malls, thats just for your own safety.  

Bill

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Dreaming Of....

...A White Christmas.  Only fifteen more days till I go home and Christmas really begins for me!!!

Sigghhhhh....Let the countdown begin. 

Stephanie

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Baby, I'll Never Let You Go - The New Addition Edition

A few of you know, but generally outside of close family and friends, we've been keeping it pretty tight. Just like Stephanie's big news from a few weeks back, Mel and I are expecting a stork to fly in through the window! 
Come spring, we'll be carrying around a little swaddled bundle. 

Now dear readers, for those of you who don't know me, you're probably thinking, "Wow, congrats, but what does this have to do with the blog?"  Well, it means that I'm going to try to share a project with you, from start to finish.

The project? The nursery of course!

A little background on the space.  We live the condo life and we're fortunate to have a pretty a good sized space to do it in.  This isn't our forever home, but we like the size and the ease to leave without worry about a furnace or a water-pipe breaking down.

It is however, not an endless space.  There is no basement rec-room. We don't have 4 bedrooms and 3 1/2 baths. We have 2 beds, 2 baths.  Bringing another member into the family will be a bit of a challenge if we want to be able to entertain, and have guests stay over (not to mention the challenge of raising a little person!).

Do you see where I'm coming from? I need to make this room baby friendly and baby cozy but I need to keep it comfortable and be able to convert it for last minute guests.

Forgive the quality, iPhone composite

As you can see, the room is being slightly neglected. We know we're updating it, so we've been using it to store some new items, both Christmas (hey, 'tis the season!) and Baby.

The Needs:

• Colour Scheme
• Layout
• Crib
• Change Table
• Rocker
• Sleeper Sofa 

We're not finding out his/her gender, total surprise come baby time, so colour scheme will be largely neutral. We plan on adding a little femininity or masculinity depending on who we get to meet when the time comes. 

Some of my neutral favourites.

You can't help but love the Restoration Hardware vibe, these are really beautiful rooms, but I think I'd like a bit more "life". Now some Resto pieces? One of these cribs? Sure!

A little closer? I think so.  But maybe a bit too formal. Simple closer scheme though.  Fun, but still adult too.

These last three are a little more to my liking. I've been wanting to work a grey space into the condo, but one with some colour.  White works well with everything, Chantilly for the trim?  Maybe Old Soul for the walls? 

So please, stay tuned, more to come.  This should be a lot of fun writing about, and a lot of fun sharing with you.

Bill

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Girl in the Big City aka Big Girl in the City

I'm kind of sick of thinking and talking about my dining room wall  (here and here). It's still begging me for some sort of wall paper or paint. Aren't you tired of hearing about it?

So I'm scrolling through my Pinterest page and I come across this pic and it hits me!  I love it when a creative idea practically hits you in the face!  My wall is calling for a skyline!  A skyline I say! If I could do it with a cord like they did above that would be amazing.  Check out the rest of their work here.

 The first skyline that came to mind was Chicago.

Chicago is such a beautiful city, it would be perfect for my wall.  But as I always do, I start thinking about options.

Paris, London or maybe New York.

I'm loving that skyline rug of London too!

Or maybe I could do a mixture of all my fav buildings in one painting.  That would keep me from second guessing which city.  I promise I will have finished photos of my condo in the new year!

images via 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9


keri
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Monday Morning - Coffee Edition

Always.

Bill

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Insta-weekend

Santa and Mr Peanut in my hood in one day! Woohoo!

Chillin on my day off!

Have a great Monday!

keri

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