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Gifts for your cottage valentine from Anneke van Bommel

Touch the Dutch is the Toronto-​​​​based design stu­dio of Cana­dian Artist Anneke van Bom­mel. You may recall her work from our June 2009 issue, where we fea­tured her moose antler rings. Her inspi­ra­tion includes more than just moose, how­ever. As she puts it, she is explor­ing “the themes of value, irony, mem­ory, home, Cana­di­ana, and […]

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Shopping

& Company, Port Stanley">Cottage Country Shopping: Joshua & Company, Port Stanley

It started as a retire­ment hobby: Judy Sheri­dan rented space in a mar­ket to run a flo­ral arrang­ing booth. Before long, she and another local busi­ness woman paired up to open home accents and fur­nish­ings retailer Joshua & Com­pany (194 Main Street, Port Stanley, 519–782‑5108), which Judy now co-​​​​owns with daugh­ter Tracy Sheri­dan. Located in the his­toric Har­bour House—a one-​​​​time […]

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Accessories

seen at the Spring 2009 Cottage Life show

Well, I sur­vived my first Cot­tage Life show. It was a lot of work but we had tons of fun, and it was great to meet so many won­der­ful read­ers! I spent some time on Sat­ur­day walk­ing the show and found some styl­ish goods to add to my shop­ping wish list.

Eldo Baumeis­ter at Muskoka Jew­elry, based in Parry Sound, […]

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Furniture

trend: true wood

I’ve been notic­ing a lot of fur­ni­ture pieces and acces­sories made from drift­wood, branches and logs lately. The whole faux bois trend turn­ing toward a “true wood” trend, if you will. Of course, there’s a stand­ing tra­di­tion of chairs, chan­de­liers and occa­sional tables made from branches and logs in cot­tage coun­try, but this lat­est devel­op­ment means wider […]

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