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Spring Has Sprung, and We’re Giving Away a Kitchenaid (and more)! #BornOnTheFarm

April 26, 2016 By Food Retro

It’s funny. Although it has been a mild winter compared to last year, this year seemed rougher. February in particular was a dark and dank month. The weather was unpleasant, people were isolated, and  it just. Dragged. On. But hey, the sun is coming back, the grass is green, and the weather was even tolerably nice…

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Filed Under: Beauty(ful) Things, Life With Food Allergies, The Answer is 42, The Urban Homestead

Give Your Bakers Happy Holidays with Lee Valley Tools

November 20, 2015 By Food Retro

I was a happy baker slacker over the summer with the excuse that it was mostly too hot too heat up the house, but winter, it’s a-comin’. When the house feels chilly, baking is one of my favourite past-times, cause it gives me an excuse to linger in a nice warm kitchen with a cup of…

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Filed Under: Beauty(ful) Things, The Urban Homestead Tagged With: Health & Home, Kitchen Chemistry, sponsored, t

Decking the Halls (Literally) with Shop.ca

November 10, 2015 By Food Retro

Decking the Halls (Literally) with Shop.ca | Shopdotca 800 sq ft collection | FoodRetro.com

It’s “Tis-the-Season” time, and that means two things: gift buying, and entertaining, both of which usually mean shopping, something that can be a bit of an exercise in stress if you’re a socially-awkward person like myself. I can easily craft a menu to feed fifty, but being as I’m a female married to a tech-geek person even…

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Filed Under: Beauty(ful) Things, The Urban Homestead

What You Need to Know Before Buying an Older Home #RBCFirstHome

August 12, 2015 By Food Retro

What You Need to Know Before Buying An Older Home

Buying our first home in 2002 was an interesting experience. As first-time buyers, my hubs and I knew squat about buying a house, much less about buying and renovating an older home. A much older home. The object of our focus was a 100-year-old double-walled brick home in downtown Hamilton, converted to a barely-legal duplex with shared utilities, home-run electrical…

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Filed Under: Beauty(ful) Things, The Urban Homestead Tagged With: giveaway, The Urban Homestead

Kitchen Gadgets I Can’t Live Without (Guest post by @TheEuropeanMama)

February 16, 2015 By Olga

As much as I love making things from scratch, I also very much appreciate all technology especially designed to make my life easier. And sometimes said technology helps me make things from scratch, which is kind of ironic. For a long time, we lived in rented apartments so I used what was available, but once…

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Filed Under: Beauty(ful) Things, SLIDER, The Urban Homestead

3 Ways to Wrap Gifts (and Ditch the Dull Bag)

December 12, 2014 By Food Retro

Somehow the Christmas Paper Wrapping Fairy missed me when she was handing out life skills, and I’ve been struggling into my adult years with trying to wrap a present beautifully correctly without making a disaster of the whole thing. A good wrapping job, for me, involves not having any of the underside of the paper…

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Filed Under: Beauty(ful) Things, Crafty Things, SLIDER, The Urban Homestead Tagged With: Christmas, giveaway

Win The Most Awesomest Adult Onesie PJs EVER #CampAndCabinCozy #Giveaway

December 7, 2014 By Food Retro

I firmly believe that, to survive coexistence with one another, men and women need to have their separate spaces (and the kitchen does not count as the women’s space, by the way). I made the living room, fireplace and all, into my space. Hubs and I built a ginormous bookshelf that took up one wall….

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Filed Under: Beauty(ful) Things, SLIDER, The Urban Homestead Tagged With: giveaway, sponsored

Win Tickets to Disney Live! at Hamilton Place Theatre #DisneyLive

November 30, 2014 By Food Retro

Disney’s coming back to town, and we’re so excited! I wanted to say a whole lot more about this show to pump everybody up, but honestly, I can’t. While I’ve been to the parks a lot over my 35 years of existence, I’ve actually never been to a Disney performance before. We’re going to rectify…

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Filed Under: Beauty(ful) Things, SLIDER, The Urban Homestead Tagged With: Disney, giveaway, sponsored

Win if You’re Canadian! (v 2.0) with Penny Lane #Canwin

June 20, 2014 By Food Retro

Did you like the other Win if You’re Canadian? Good! Cause Jennifer vanOosten of YouPinspireMe and I are doing it again! So if you’re a Canadian, enter to win and get some great products from Penny Lane! We’ve got two to give away… 1 gift bag with Suncare lotion + 2 lip balms (value $26) and…

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Filed Under: Beauty(ful) Things, The Urban Homestead Tagged With: giveaway

TWITTER PARTY! RSVP for #Whishparty, June 17, 7PM PST/10 EST!

June 9, 2014 By Food Retro

Do you love a good party?  Be it a BBQ, or birthday, WHISH.ca has the answers.  Join us at a light-hearted and fun twitter party on Tuesday June 17th, 2014 at 7PM PST/10PM EST to get all your party planning questions answered and learn a little bit about the best tips for hosting (or attending)…

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Filed Under: Beauty(ful) Things, SLIDER, The Urban Homestead

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