Global Citizen’s Guide to Holiday Festivities

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Welcome back to the 2nd week of The Holiday Workshop.  Holiday being the operative word here…by now you know I never pass up an opportunity to put on my hostess hat, sip Champers and fill the house with guests, and today I am touching on a few alternative ways to ring in the holiday’s with [...]

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Stress Free Fall Entertaining

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As you may have noticed, I am on a learning kick — first the Housewife 101 series, and now, with great pleasure, the Savvy Host Series.  Each month in the run up to the end of the year, The Savvy Host will be popping over to grace us with the finer points of entertaining.  I [...]

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National Toasted Marshmallow Day

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Before I shock you all into the reality that summer is fading and the autumn winds are near, I thought I would delight you with a favourite holiday in our home …National Toasted Marshmallow day  (yes, that is right, there is a day dedicated to this favourite of campfire past-times), so you have plenty of [...]

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The Birthday Survival Guide

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The Dutch have a proverb about birthday’s, they say, ‘we grow too soon old and too late smart’; my 17 year old self would disagree, however the woman who stares back at me in the mirror would raise her glass to the Dutch Golden Age Housewife and say ‘ I’ll drink to that’. Those who [...]

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Form a wine club, it’s the new black

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There are 2 kinds of book clubs, those with wine, and those without.  If you are anything like me you belong to the one with wine, and generally spend your time drinking rather than talking about the book – sound familiar?  If so, you should be tossing the book on your bedside table and inviting [...]

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