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Behind the Scenes

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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Adventures in cottage country

Hope you all had a great weekend! I’ve just returned from a glorious, relaxing visit to Bruce Beach, Lake Huron, south of Kincardine, Ont. If you’ve never spent time on Lake Huron’s eastern shore, or heard about it’s world-famous sunsets, you should pay a visit, no matter where your own cottage is. If you hit [...]

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Hot Spot: Sauble Beach Antiques

I’d bet that there are more than a few downtown Toronto residents who are still mourning the loss of Red Indian Art Deco, the long-running antique outpost on Queen West that specialized in art deco and mid-century decor. It closed its doors a few years ago and did what so many cottagers dream of doing: [...]

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Metal tray message board

Here’s another great idea courtesy of loyal reader and St. Joseph island cottager Maggie Algie. Taking inspiration from the Farm Chicks, Maggie found a funky old metal tray and transformed it into a magnetic message board simply by super-gluing a metal hanger to the back to act as a hook. Dead easy, right? And very [...]

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How to make a pallet bed

There’s a little daybed in the screened porch at our cottage that is my favourite place for a mid-afternoon nap in the summertime. (Mid-afternoon nap in the summertime. I think that’s my favourite sentence.) The porch is built right next to the water so you can hear the water lapping up the shore as you [...]

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Cottage Life visits Aberfoyle Antique Market

I wrote about Aberfoyle Antique Market, an outdoor antique market near Guelph, a few weeks ago. I asked you to send me a report if you should make it there one weekend and was delighted to hear from one of our own: Cottage Life staffer Hilary Drennan. Hilary, CL’s marketing solutions manager extraordinaire, hit up [...]

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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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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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