Accessories

Rah rah for pennants!

Thanks for your sug­ges­tions on what to do with my col­lec­tion of pen­nants after I posted about it a few days ago. And spe­cial thanks to loyal reader Debb, who sent me a lovely photo of her own pretty cot­tage pennants:

These flags came from Hol­land, where Debb’s mother was born and raised, and likely have great sen­ti­men­tal value […]

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Accessories

An alarm clock to chirp about

I often look at design*sponge for inspi­ra­tion (it’s on my blog roll, just a wee bit down this page on the right, FYI). Yes­ter­day I saw the cutest thing there, and it’s right up our cot­tage ally. UK com­pany Lucky Bite has designed an alarm clock that will have you think­ing spring even on winter’s darkest […]

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Accessories

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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News

All quiet on the blog!

I’m sorry that I’ve been so silent these last few days. We are just fin­ish­ing up our April issue, the first issue of 2010! It’s a good one, and I hope it will get every­one excited about the upcom­ing spring/​​summer cot­tage sea­son. I know I’m ready for it after a week of sub-​​​​zero temps here in Hog­town.
One of the […]

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Accessories

How to make a pennant garland

Here’s one rea­son why my boyfriend is a killer catch—his charm­ing lit­tle col­lec­tion of old pen­nants.
Pen­nants are a fan­tas­tic cot­tage acces­sory; they add so much his­tory and char­ac­ter. And although I love these ones, I’d love to be able to dis­play them in a less clunky way. Sure those push pins stuck through the dry­wall do the trick, but […]

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Behind the Scenes

Unhappy Hipsters

I love see­ing homes that are thought­fully designed, even ones that aren’t to my per­sonal tastes. But some­times I look at the sub­jects of mag­a­zine design sto­ries per­fectly posed in their beau­ti­fully arranged homes and I think Who ARE these peo­ple??!? Their homes look so sorted and pris­tine. Where are the scream­ing kids? The end­less scraps of […]

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Artwork

Quilts on display

A dis­cus­sion of my visit to an exhibit of antique quilts, Kalei­do­scope, at the Tex­tile Museum of Canada.

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