Life In Pleasantville
Food, Travel, Life
I am currently in the process of Christmas-fying everything. The kitchen, the living room, the front hall, my phone…..yes, even my phone. I am a Christmas freak and so I say “why not?”. Christmas is only here for a short time, so if you’re like me, yule love these Top Ten Christmas Apps. Top Ten …
By Dee Brun Rosemount Diamond Shiraz This is one of my all time favourites. The whole Rosemount line up is FABOOSH, you will not go wrong with one of their wines. This is a bold wine with dark berry flavour, it goes down very smooth, sometimes too smooth. $15.95 Yellowglen PINK sparkling This is …
Christmas gifts for the Francophile and Anglophile in your family Every family has them; someone mildly obsessed with life on the other side of the pond. Whether they’re decorating their homes with all things Union Jack or serving up a different cheese every day of the year, the Anglophiles and Francophiles in your life …
By Don Chow When Candace asked me to come up with a top 10 list of gifts for the foodie, another friend of mine coincidentally forwarded me a foodie-themed “holiday gift guide” from Lou Lou magazine. While I found the all-metal cork screw pig, thermal all-metal coffee beans (presumably for blind baking pie shells …
And the Grinch, with his Grinch-feet ice-cold in the snow, Stood puzzling and puzzling: “How could it be so?” “It came without ribbons! It came without tags! “It came without packages, boxes or bags!” And he puzzled three hours, till his puzzler was sore. Then the Grinch thought of something he hadn’t before! “Maybe Christmas,” …
By Kelli Catana Christmas is coming and as usual there’s always someone on your shopping list that’s hard to buy for. But have you ever thought of giving a DVD box set of a great television series?! I mean, who doesn’t love TV? And with box sets you can find just the right gift …
By Brandy Reid As a former young adult librarian, putting a list together of my top ten YA novels to give this Christmas was quite a challenge. There are just so many fabulous reads out there that is was difficult to narrow it down to just ten. So, here you have a list of …
By Jodi Martin My BFF, Candace Derickx, has this fabulous little blog so geniously named ‘Life in Pleasantville’, and it is a true testament to how she (and likely most of us) would like to live our days. When Candace asked me to contribute to her blog with a list of the Top 10 Christmas …
