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Vacation Snippets: Southampton

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canada, macgregor point, Ontario, photos, provincial park, snippets, snow, southampton, Travel, vacation, winter

We took a mini trip up to Southampton, Ontario to meet up with our lovely friends for some winter R&R. We stayed at the lovely Chantry Breezes B&B (awesome rooms & breakfast), played lots of board games (isn’t it funny how monopoly starts out so great then gets so depressing?) and bananagram (so good!), went out for a lovely little walks down to the beach and on the boardwalk at MacGregor Point and had an awesome time just catching up with old friends.

p/s Snowy beaches always remind me of Eternal Sunshine, is that just me?

Winter Wonderland

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canada, Christmas, holiday, photos, snippets, snow, vacation, winter

This Christmas, we embarked on an epic trip back to Canada to surprise the boy’s parents. They had no clue we were going home and the look on their faces when they opened the door late on Christmas eve to find us on the doorstep was absolutely priceless. I still can’t believe we managed to keep it all under wraps for three whole months (thanks in part to J who was doing some serious reconnaissance over in Canada for us). We had a great trip – spent a lot of our time relaxing with family and friends and enjoying the winter wonderland (snowboarding, tubing, snowmen, winter walks)… Amazing!

 

 

Weekend Snippets

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baking, chinese, cookies, daily, everyday, life, new, photos, Singapore, snippets, weekend, year

Lovelies, I’m back!

I hope you all had a Merry Christmas and a Happy Happy New Year!

Between holiday celebrations in Singapore, our surprise trip back to Canada, a ton of baking for my little bakeshop and everything else, this past month has really been a crazy whirlwind. Thankfully, I am starting to get back into the groove of things here and hope to get things up and running on this little blog soon.

For now, the tiniest of weekend snippets…. the first of 2013. Hope you all had a great weekend!

Weekend Snippets

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daily, everyday, life, photographs, photos, Singapore, snippets, Wedding, weekend

This weekend was a whirlwind of activity – baking up festive orders for friends & family (complete with mini legs-up-the-wall breaks), baking a wedding cake, helping my brother out with wedding details, the wedding day preparations (complete with squeezing into a car packed to the brim), a beautiful wedding and to top it all off, a Christmas meal with lovely girlfriends. Now getting ready for the last push through this week – between baking up orders, yoga classes to teach, getting presents ready, Christmas dinner and what not, I think I’m going to need all the luck I can get.

 

Reception {Part 2}

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cafe, dinner, DIY, handmade, intimate, laidback, reception, riders, Singapore, Wedding

  

A few more little snippets of us and our friends & family having a blast at our Singaporean reception. Best times!

And if you haven’t, see our reception details or part 1.

{All photos by Ivan Tan Photography}

Reception {Part 1}

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cafe, dinner, DIY, handmade, intimate, photography, photos, reception, riders, Singapore, Wedding

We started the evening off with a simple Chinese tea ceremony for our Singaporean relatives who weren’t able to fly over to Canada. Then, a sit down dinner with some awesome courses. We love that the reception was intimate and  easy, people were walking around freely between and during courses, mingling and laughing with each other – that was totally the laid back atmosphere we were going for! We also left little packages for the kids, filled with disposable cameras, bubbles, balloons and other thingamajigs for them to have fun with.

A few more photos tomorrow! Also, reception details.

{All photos by Ivan Tan Photography}

Reception {Details}

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cafe, craft, DIY, handmade, inspiration, intimate, reception, riders, Singapore, Wedding

Between Christmas preparations, side projects and teaching, I am officially swamped this week… so I’ve prepared a few posts for your viewing pleasure while I go off to work on some other things! I realize that I never did post pictures from our little Singaporean reception in Singapore (just over a year ago now – how time flies!) so I thought it’d be nice to share some of our photos with you!

Starting off with a few small details at the wedding:

We had our reception at Rider’s Cafe, an intimate little cafe in an old colonial building (they had me at wood beam on the ceilings), surrounded by lush greenery and stables. We recycled a few things and ideas from our Canadian wedding, including thumbprint guestbook, straw flags and a photoline. We set the tables with glitter candleholders, fresh flowers arranged in glass jars (oh, those peonies!), chalkboard table numbers and little 3D crane place cards. And to top it all off, we made tape flags for the cupcakes and some tea favours for our guests.

More photos tomorrow!

{All photos by Ivan Tan Photography}

Weekly Inspiration

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NOTE: WEEKLY INSPIRATION IS A WEEKLY FEATURE ON WHIM & WANDERLUST. THE IMAGES BELOW ARE NOT MINE BUT ARE A COLLECTION OF IMAGES THAT INSPIRE ME OVER THE WEEK. ALL PHOTOS ARE CREDITED AT THE BOTTOM OF THE POST OR YOU CAN CLICK EACH INDIVIDUAL PICTURE TO GET TO THE ORIGINAL SOURCE. HAPPY VIEWING!

{1. Tullitha| 2. Metin Fejzula| 3. Staci Kennelly| 4. David Swailes| 5. dearclaudia| 6. Heiner Luepke| 7. Sara Lynn Paige| 8. Isabelle Dow| 9. Kevin Russ| 10. *Nishe}

DIY Hanging Ornament Advent Calendar

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activities, advent, calendar, Christmas, DIY, festive, glitter, hanging, holiday, idea, inspiration, ornaments, tree, washi

This year, our advent calendar is a little Christmas tree with DIY hanging ornaments that hold a bite-size portion of yummy treats. The boxes are wrapped and decorated with washi tape and outfitted with numbered stickers and a generous dusting of glitter. So pretty and sparkly! Also, perfect for people who live in smaller spaces – you can outfit with a strand of fairy lights and it’s both a Christmas tree and an advent calendar! 

Here’s the how-to: