Happy Canada Day!!

It's Canada Day and we are going to enjoy all the usual festivities. We went down to the "riverfront" for the entertainment and fireworks...they were spectacular!! We will go to the parade, then off to a BBQ at our good friends, the MacQuarries. Hope everyone is having a great weekend and enjoying great food, great weather, and having fun with family and friends.

Happy Canada Day!!

Sophie's pool party...just for the fun of it!!

As you know, we have just put in an above-ground pool. Well, my little girl is so happy with it, I decided to throw her a little party so she could celebrate the start of the summer with a few of her little friends. Of course what better theme for a pool party is there than a Hawaiian theme? Oh yes- all my favorite colours, grass skirts, pink fizzy drinks with little umbrellas in them, funny bathing caps...lots of fun things!!

We decided to serve some "nuggets 'n' fries" in some cute take-out containers from Michael's. They were a dollar a piece and made the food look all the better. Lots of watermelon was eaten and we tried our hand at making snow cones with my new machine I purchased at Target. The girls loved cranking out their treat and I loved cleaning up the sticky syrup!! All in fun!!

Sophie had drawn the sweetest picture of herself and her friends swimming in our pool a while back, so I thought, why not use it as her invitation? We photocopied it and when I told her we were going to go around delivering them, she declared it the "best day ever". To me, every day spent with my little girl is my "best day ever!", even if it does mean cleaning up sticky syrup from my deck!!

***Next up for me, a surfing-themed "end of school party" for my youngest son and a "birthday party by the pool" for my eldest son. I'm going to be busy!!

Mirror, mirror on the wall...which is the fairest of them all?

A great mirror is kind of like a great chandelier, and you know how much I love chandeliers! It should have importance, sparkle, and reflect a lot of great light. There is a decorating rule of thumb that you should hang your mirror on the wall perpendicular to a window. This is to guarantee the greatest bouncing of light back into the room. Great rule...but what about those mirrors we hang just for the fun of it...

I love to see a great collection of mirrors on the wall. I'm not talking about those token mirrors put up strategically for the narcissists among us. No, the mirrors that are grouped together for the sparkly effect they bring to a room. Those are the best mirrors of all.

I have a proper number of mirrors in my home. The only problem is that I don't have any really good functional mirrors. You know, the kind that you are supposed to check on your way out the door to make sure your lipstick's not on your teeth, or your skirts not tucked into your underwear. That kind of mirror. I have pretty mirrors and they are basically decorative in nature. I bought them because I liked the look of them (as opposed to myself in them...). In fact two of my mirrors I should stay away from as they make me look a good 10 lbs thinner. Some might say that is a good thing, and it is when you're looking in it, but then I catch a glimpse of myself in the mirrors at the mall and plunge into depression!! I need to either get an "honest" mirror, or stay out of the mall!! My ego can't take the shock and letdown!!

Here are a few of my mirrors and a few that I thought I'd share that are so pretty they'd even distract you from your own reflection. Have a look, and see if you like what you see!!! The bottom photo is of a mirror from Restoration Hardware that costs a pretty penny. I found the identical mirror (beautiful quality, heavy as lead, identical) at our local Superstore (Loblaws). It went down to a mere $50 and can you believe I didn't get one? Silly maybe, but no more wall space!!