Interesting products
Where all the good toys are
This will only matter to the small sub-set of blog wanderers who a) have kids AND b) live in the Ottawa area. We’ve just made a discovery that left us a little overwhelmed: Less than 1km from our home is a giant, unadvertised “teacher supply store” called All About Kids. (Be forewarned that their site [...]
Muppet Whatnot?
We’ve been going through a muppet stage around here. For most toddler-families, that would involve copious amounts of Sesame Street. But alas, not for us. Or at least, not yet anyway. We’ve been watching lots of the first season of the Muppet Show, and Bear in the Big Blue House on DVD. I highly recommend [...]
Metal for Monsters (yet another long-winded story)
We’ve been keeping a secret. And well, because we’ve been outed by a couple of people, we figured we’d break down and do a little mini-announcement here to all four of our blog readers. ;)
Earlier this year, Eric and I went out for coffee at our local Tim Horton’s. (That’s not the secret).
It was a [...]
The guy’s take on virtual window shopping
In the continuation of a theme, I’ve decided to do my version of Vivian’s post yesterday, where she showed our “flowerish” engraved jewelry matched with a summer outfit.
For the guy’s outfit, we’ve got a “smart casual” look. Starting from the top-left corner and going clockwise, the outfit is made up of:
small tiger coral pendant [...]
Virtual window shopping
I would have said Windows® shopping, but our PC has decided not to connect to the internet so we’re almost exclusively Mac-surfing now.
I’ve been wanting to do a little shopping, but it seems whenever we have the free time to go shopping, it’s usually past closing time at the mall. Instead, it’s virtual shopping for [...]
From Teeny to Tiny
Unlike all the misleading sizes of Starbucks coffee, the Tumbleweed tiny house company’s houses are well… teeny and tiny… as described.
Since we last posted about the Tumbleweed tiny house company, they’ve completely revamped their site and they will be adding a whole slew of new tiny houses (can’t wait!). Their biggest house now stands at [...]
Drooling over a backsplash
I don’t mean literally, since I’m not sure that that’s physically possible. Gravity would make it really difficult anyway.
We’re considering updating our kitchen from its oh-so-chic late 1980’s look. Its functionality is horrendous too– some of the precious little counterspace there is is rendered useless by microwave that looms less than a foot [...]
Cuboro marble runs
I found the cuboro blocks a while back and I lost the link along the way. It took me minutes! (which I think is long for google-searching) to find it again, and I think I had to luck in on a search for “wooden cubes ball run“. (This reminds me I should work on [...]
Bike riding with the wee one
We plan on spending our day today doing a bit of biking, since in Ottawa, the National Capital Commission has Sunday Bike Days, where the area’s parkways are closed to motorized traffic.
As a means of introducing our son to the joys of biking, we bought a WeeRide bike seat (retails for about $80-$90 CAD).
We specifically [...]
Be green(er)
Happy Earth Day!
It seems that everyone nowadays is trying their best to be a little bit greener. With Blend Creations, we try and use off-cut materials whenever possible, we recycle all of our scraps, and part of the reason we chose to work with stainless steel was because it is both a recycled and [...]
