Jennifer is a happily married mom of two sons born 15 years apart (yes, you read that right; and no, she’s not nuts), living in Hamilton, Ontario. A former crazy cat lady (apparently there are thousands of photos to prove it), lover of good books, lip gloss hoarder and aspiring chef, Jennifer also spends her days working in…
CoverGirl lip stuff from walmart.ca – or at least that’s what was supposed to happen…
I’ve been a brunette for more of my life than I’ve been a blond. (Except, of course, for that time I tried Sun-In. Then I was a ginger. But not in a good way.) So, to avoid mimicking a Robert Palmer Girl, I generally avoided wearing intense lip colours, and instead favoured the smokey-eye-and-pale-lips combo….
An official thank you to my unofficial #BlogHer13 sponsors
If you’ve ever gone to a conference on your own dime, you know that it gets stinkin’ expensive. Between flights, a few nights at a hotel, food and taxis, you could be talking thousands of dollars for what amounts to a long weekend. After attending my first blog conference last year, I knew that I…
Stokke Tripp Trapp
We had very happily been using IKEA Antilop high chairs for both kids when, one day, The K Man asked me to put his feet up on my lap while I was sitting adjacent to him. This continued – day after day – until I finally asked what the problem was. “I just want to…
Baby Butz diaper cream
I’m a sucker for a good story. Rewind to last fall. I’m at the BabyTime Show in Toronto, checking out all of the new baby and kid products (and basically salivating in my own personal shopaholic heaven), when I stumbled upon the Baby Butz booth. The founder was there and like any good entrepreneur-inventor enthusiastically…
Imaginetics’ Treehouse Owl Family magnetic playset (mini-review)
THE PRODUCT The Treehouse Owl Family magnetic fold-up playset from Imaginetics USA and International Playthings. THE GOOD The 33 pieces included promise hours of imaginative play, with many opportunities for varied storytelling A great activity for your child to do independently, with friends or siblings and with parents (seriously, this is one of those kid activities…
Barbie’s first-ever Mobile Tour is coming to Toronto (sponsored post)
I loved playing with Barbie as a little girl. I even inherited some dolls from my mom (though they’d had awful haircuts and some were even missing fingers by the time they went through her four younger sisters and reached me). For whatever reason, my parents never bought me a single Ken doll, so my…
Convertible car seat comparison: Diono, Safety 1st, Graco, evenflo and Britax
I’ve been busy testing four different brands of toddler and child car seats that ultimately become booster seats. Not all are “convertible” in the traditional sense that they each go from rear-facing car seats to forward-facing, but all convert in one way or another: Graco Nautilus Britax Frontier XT Diono RadianGTX Safety 1st Alpha Omega…
DidiPop’s “Bunny in the Moon” CD (mini-review)
THE PRODUCT Bunny in the Moon – a music CD for kids by DidiPop. THE GOOD Designed and timed to wind down after dinner and lead to bedtime, Bunny in the Moon starts with up-tempo songs about bathtime and toothbrushing and slows down as it suggests your child get into bed and fall asleep Didi…
I See Me! personalized birthday book for your child
I have a thing for personalization. The problem being, a lot of personalized gifts are just, well, tacky. Either it’s something engraved in a font that’s not remotely modern (or legible – yikes!), or it feels DIY or forced. Or both. I’ll never forget a book I got for what must have been my sixth…