I have tried varnish and tung oil and both only looked good for a season. Unless it is really good outdoor wood (like teak) they just don't weather well with that type of finish. The last two c...

I would love a Tansu step chest from Green Tea in Toronto: http://www.greenteadesign.com/living-room-tansu-st...

I really like camping in a shady place close to water, preferably without bugs. If car camping I make it pretty high style but if motorcycle camping it is pretty basic but I so much prefer either...

If you can stand a casual sort of look there is the beautiful Hudson's Bay Point Blanket in Scarlet

I don't like black flowers. I guess to me flowers are cheerful and bright and although 95% of my clothes are black I prefer my flowers to be the spots of colour in my place. Somehow the photos a...

joss - I counted 53 :-)) I have more than 100 especially if I count camping equipment, sewing and knitting supplies but it all fits into my tiny apartment with no clutter anywhere but in the sto...

There was a B & B I stayed in with a teddy bear theme - they had over 2,000 teddy bears, plus wallpaper, napkins, light fixtures etc. etc. I wish I could nominate it but it was in Canada and I th...

Brilliant - I hate having a box full of this sort of stuff that I just know will be dry and have to be tossed next time I try to use it.

I buy them for special times but they are expensive. There is another company (also from Vancouver) that makes wonderful crackers for wine . . try them if you see them.

I hope the link below will work but in case not, it is from Ikea and called Leding - super cheap ($16.99 in Canada) and looks good. I replaced a wall fixture in a bathroom with one once and it wor...

If that is your actual mirror against your actual wall colour, I like it the way it is.

I was thinking about a thread like this the other day. Love camp cooking. Most of what I do is already mentioned but it is worthwhile to pre-cook bacon so you don't have all the fat to deal wit...

Ignore comment above - I just saw the post about the problems.

Is anyone else having problems with the slide show not working?

I grew a beautiful one many years ago but it outgrew our house so I gave it to my niece - it is huge - at least 8 feet tall and very wide. I like to visit it. It must be at least 20 years old.

There appears to be a core family of 5, plus I am sure extended family but a staff of 600! It is all obscene in my opinion.

One cheap option if you don't want to do the entire alarm thing. Depending on how your windows open get something to block them. My windows slide and I had lengths of thick dowl cut, two length...

I think with that much wood, and it being a rental, I would wait for the next place to go with your preference for modern and for this place embrace the "cabininess" of it - I think Ralph Lauren ...

I have to boast that I have met the architects - they do beautiful work indeed and are also very nice people

How nice for that man that he kept it! I have a tea pot that was my grandmothers and there was some question as to whether it was silver plate or sterling silver and it turned out to be sterling...