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New Ottawa Ikea Sneak Peek!

6 December 2011 Consumer culture

It was a dark and stormy night in Ottawa, but it was dry and bright with brilliant colours inside the new Ikea during the special media sneak peek last night! ZOMG, what an awesome, enormous store!! It’s laid out on two levels – if you walk the maze through both levels, you’ve traversed an impressive [...]

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Fisher-Price Holiday Gift Guide Part 1: Ages 6 and up

24 November 2011 Fisher-Price Play Panel

It’s only in the last year of blogging with Fisher-Price that I realized how many of the toys and product lines we already love come from them. One of my concerns when I first started blogging with the PlayPanel was that the big boys might feel excluded, as in my mind Fisher-Price had the best [...]

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Holiday countdown!

22 November 2011 Fisher-Price Play Panel

With the last of the leaves of the season finally (mostly) raked up and bagged, I could finally turn my attention to decorating the porch this weekend. I swear, I have as much fun (and take as much time!) decorating the porch as I do the inside of the house. It takes a long time [...]

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Keeping kids entertained on the go – and a giveaway from Fisher-Price!

11 November 2011 Fisher-Price Play Panel

We’re packing up the car again this weekend, heading down to visit family in southern Ontario. It’s been quite a while since our last road trip, and I cant’ wait to hit the road. I don’t know whether car trips are getting easier now that the boys are getting older, or whether they’re just becoming [...]

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And now a word from our sponsor…

2 November 2011 Reviews, promotions and giveaways

I promise, this is not a new direction in blog monetization, but when I was offered the opportunity to share this Mega-Important Message from the Executive Managing Director of Zellers, I had to agree for a couple of reasons. First, I think it’s a clever campaign. Also, I’m feeling personally ambivalent about the Zellers leaving [...]

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Gorgeous Giveaway: Mizdragonfly Funky Handmade Jewelry

28 October 2011 Reviews, promotions and giveaways

When I started back to work here, I noticed that more than one of my old friends were wearing these gorgeous crystal star pendants. I couldn’t help but admire them (oooo, shiny! — and you may have noticed I have a thing for stars) and I was delighted to find out that they’re hand-made by [...]

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Some random and rambly thoughts on Halloween

21 October 2011 Reviews, promotions and giveaways

It’s still 10 days away, but I have Halloween on the brain this week. (That may be in part a reaction to the sheer number of Christmas-related things that are asserting themselves into my consciousness this week — from a rack of holiday wrap and cards in the main aisle at Indigo to a Christmas-themed [...]

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On Blissdom Canada and the Fisher-Price Playpanel

13 October 2011 Fisher-Price Play Panel

I am very excited and more than a little bit overwhelmed today. I’m heading down to Toronto for the uber-cool Blissdom Canada conference to play with a whole bunch of bloggy friends, including the co-members of the Fisher-Price playpanel team. More on them in a minute. While I’ve been to quite a few academic and [...]

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Pretend play expands a child’s world

30 September 2011 Fisher-Price Play Panel

When I first started blogging for Fisher-Price, only my littlest boy was invited to the launch photo shoot. I got the impression that maybe there was going to be a big focus on baby and toddler toys during the playpanel campaign, and wondered if maybe some of the toys would be too simplistic for a [...]

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Terrific giveaway for Ottawa families: GCTC tickets and the Playtime Program

19 September 2011 Life in Ottawa

You’ve heard of the Great Canadian Theatre Company, right? They’ve been putting on great theatre in Ottawa for more than 35 years. The current performance, running now through October 2, is a musical called Amelia: The Girl Who Wants to Fly. From the description on the GCTC site: Be transported to the Golden Age of [...]

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