Archives: Savvy Stories

New year’s resolutions – family style

January is a time to think about the year ahead. As I was cleaning up the Christmas decorations, I was thinking about where I was storing something..thinking about when I would ultimately be unpacking it next year. Then I stopped in my tracks and thought.

What to do with all those hair clips…

Apparently, I am not the only person in our house who finds our piles of hair clips and elastics frustrating and annoying. Surprisingly enough my daughters aren’t fans of the disorder either. Yes, I have purchased many little containers and bags to hold..

Simple hair clip makeover

Now that Christmas is behind us I thought that I could safely share a couple of simple craft projects I made as presents for my daughters this year. Every year I try and make them a few gifts…like the felt Christmas tree ornament I wrote about in Decemb

Turkey/Chicken Pasta Soup

At the beginning of the year our house always seems to accumulate a large number of calendars. They arrive by mail, from stores, as gifts and some simply appear on my kitchen counter. Some are from garden centres, some are fundraisers, some are for grocer

Family literacy and pancakes?

Friday, January 27th is Family Literacy Day, as created in 1999 by ABC Life Literacy Canada. ABC Life Literacy Canada is a non-profit organization who work with various organizations, businesses and communities to promote life long learning and literacy..

A dare, a promise and dessert

Sometimes we have quiet, restful and relaxing weekends and then other weekends the time flies past our eyes. This weekend was one of those super busy weekends. The best part was that the things we did were quite inspiring. 

We kicked off the…

Green Life – Animals in Winter

Back on Christmas Eve we put out loops of popcorn as a treat for the animals in our neighbourhood. A couple of weeks ago we put our Christmas tree in our backyard with a suet bird feeder for our winter birds. It is only logical that when we were at the…

Big Brother’s Rachel And Brendon On This Season Of The Amazing Race!

Guess who’s one of the new contestants on The Amazing Race bitches?!?! You totally said that in your best Rachel voice didn’t you?! The Amazing Race released its new round of contestants and CBS decided to capitalize on the popularity … Continue…

Demi Moore Is ‘Exhausted’

Poor Demi Moore – 2012 hasn’t started off that great for her, has it.  First she was humiliated by her lying douche bag of a husband who felt that it was ok to screw around behind her back on their … Continue reading »

Name The Supermodel Offspring

Can you guess who this girl is?! If you look really closely at her face you should be able to tell right away, since she looks exactly like her supermodel mom. Cindy Crawford’s daughter Kaia Gerber made her modeling debut … Continue reading »…