Beauty, Holiday Secrets, Lifestyle, Shop My Style

DAY 5: PACKING HACKS + HOLIDAY ESSENTIALS!

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When I travel, I NEVER check luggage. Never. Ask any of my friends. I only carry on and it is the best thing of life.  Trying to navigate through a different city with a giant suitcase, let alone somewhere in EUROPE or ASIA or AUSTRALIA, is my idea of torture. It’s such a damper. News flash, your days of checking bags and paying fees is over. I’m finally sharing my VERY SECRET packing tips so that you will NEVER check a bag again.  It’s the holidays, 90% of us are travelling to see family, friends, or even to get the heck out of the snow and onto a beach somewhere. Every year I do the whole Calgary – Edmonton – Winnipeg – Calgary trip so […]

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Beauty, Holiday Secrets

DAY 4: HOW TO TAKE TIME FOR YOURSELF DURING THE HOLIDAYS

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I usually post something like this closer to the big day, December 25th. This year, when I sat down the plan our 12 days of giveaways, I purposefully scheduled this earlier on. The holidays can get overwhelming, hectic, exciting and stressful all at the same time. Then it’s over. Just like that. It is SO important to take time for yourself during the holidays and actually ENJOY every single moment. Yeah I know, between baking, wrapping gifts, creating cocktails, basting a turkey, who has TIME for themselves?!?! Well I’ve created some tips and tricks to make it a reality this holiday season. Since this post is coming earlier than usual, we have TONS of time to implement these tips so we can have the best […]

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Food, Holiday Secrets

DAY 3: THE NEW HOLIDAY PARTY….THE BEST BRUNCH IN TOWN.

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We’re officially in the holiday season. Which also means tons of gatherings to stuff into 4 weekends, which can be somewhat overwhelming. Thank goodness I have a solution for us.  Brunch. But not just any brunch. The best brunch in town.   It can be difficult getting everyone together in the evenings but honestly, send out a group text, organize to meet at Cleaver for brunch and I guarantee you there will be little to no scheduling conflicts.  Now let’s get to the goods. S’mores & Nutella French toast, challah bread, strawberry, maple syrup. Smashed avocado on toasted sourdough, bacon, poached egg, hollandaise. Buffalo chicken benny, hot sauce, celeric slaw. Fried chicken, sausage gravy, fried egg, buttermilk biscuit. Are you drooling yet? The bennies are […]

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Holiday Secrets, Home, Lifestyle

DAY 2: 4 Tips That Will Simplify Your Life During the Holidays

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This is probably the most HELPFUL post of the entire year. I have 4 tips that will simplify your life during the holidays. Now these are tips that EVERYONE can use. I cannot even describe to you how much more efficient I’ve been as soon as I started implementing these tricks into my life. + Honey STOP WHAT YOU’RE DOING. I found the craziest life hack ever. This site is called Honey and it saves you time AND MONEY. Okay so what you do is download the “Chome Extention” from their site {or whatever web browser you use; Safari, etc.} and it will automatically download onto your web browser. From then on, EVERY time you shop online and go to check out, Honey will AUTOMATICALLY […]

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