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Bunk bed storage

Seems that I have a whole lot of bunk on the brain lately. Last week, I posted about these Murphy bunk beds, raving about their clever design. But even those beds couldn’t solve the problem that anyone who has ever tucked in on a top bunk has surely experienced: What to do with your book [...]

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Illustrated shower curtain by Mike Perry

Part of what I love about working at a magazine is the exposure I get to up-and-coming artists. The art team here is always on the lookout for new contributors and have turned me on to some amazing talents. Illustrations seems to my uneducated mind like an outrageously competitive field, so when I start noticing [...]

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Eve’s Little Earthlings

Thanks to reader Sue Richards who tipped me off to the cutest little wool toys and pillows I ever did see. Handmade in Guelph by artist Eve Geisler from reused and felted wool sweaters, Eve’s Little Earthlings make the perfect gift for a favourite little cottager or object of whimsy on your cottage couch. Here [...]

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My tale of Turkish delight

Many thanks to our new editorial intern, Emma Tarswell, for blogging over the last few weeks. I’m hoping that she’ll continue to contribute to the blog over the summer (pretty please Emma?). I’m sorry for abandoning you all just as the cottage season opens, but I had a great excuse: Rich and I took a [...]

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Easy DIY dock tray

Is there any better place to be than on the dock at 5pm on a sunny summer day, a beer and a bite before you? It’s hard to find a cottager who doesn’t love happy hour and any decor/food maven worth his or her own Kosher salt will have an always-growing collection of trays on [...]

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Cottage Life Show roundup: Shaw’s Creek

As a new homeowner, I couldn’t possibly have come away from last month’s Cottage Life Show without at least a few little items to decorate my place. Since there’s no pressing need for a dock at my city home, I thought I’d focus on something smaller, so snapped up a few of these for my [...]

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Watermelon bowls

I’ve been MIA for much of this week. No excuses really, other than the game of catch up I was playing after the big Cottage Life Show last weekend. The show was a huge success, and I managed to find a lot of goodies to share with you over the next few weeks, so stay [...]

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Vintage mirrors

On the weekend, I took a few hours off of watching Olympics to noodle around in the vintage furniture and thrift shops on Queen Street East, here in Toronto. I’m looking for a 60s/70s-era telephone table for the front hall of my apartment, something that I can spend some time fixing up. (With spring looming, [...]

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