Chantel Simmons

Writer of novels, blogs and pretty notecards.

Emergency essentials

By Chantel Simmons on May 18, 2009

Lately, we’ve been obsessed with organization. Unfortunately, our busy schedules mean that we’ve haven’t been actually implementing the obsession.
Case in point: we remembered that we needed to buy our BFF a birthday gift on her birthday. And since she lives in a different time zone, after-work drinks weren’t going to cut it.
Then we discovered My [...]

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Bead by Bead

By Chantel Simmons on May 15, 2009

We heart Eat My Words, not just because they let us have our cake in oh-so-adorable mini-cup style, but also because they help others eat too (proceeds from their treat boxes go to the Stephen Lewis Foundation, to help ease the pain of HIV/AIDS in Africa).
So we couldn’t have been more excited with eat my [...]

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Night at the Museum

By Chantel Simmons on May 13, 2009

There’s nothing we love more than a bowl of cereal (sometimes even for dinner), which is why we were excited when we heard about the Kellogg’s Adventure Pass. In partnership with the Canadian Museums Association (CMA), the Kellogg’s Adventure Pass gives you $10 off admission to more than 500 museums, art galleries and zoos across [...]

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No Gym Required

By Chantel Simmons on May 11, 2009

A little while ago we met super-fit celebrity personal trainer Jennifer Cohen, and she told us a little secret: that getting fit didn’t mean we had to work out five hours a day. Or even go to a gym. (It was then that we decided we loved her). Instead, she explained that it’s the little things [...]

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Tea for two (or three)

By Chantel Simmons on May 8, 2009

We’ve done the pedicure party, the Fantasia party, the jewellery party. But a tea party?
Now that’s a party we can raise a teacup to. Especially when someone else does all the planning, serving and cleanup.
Like a Tupperware party, a Steeped party involves a representative, who brings all the fabulous loot to your home, so all [...]

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Snap Happy

By Chantel Simmons on May 6, 2009

I love taking pictures — but only when I’ve got a camera that’s small enough to keep in my coat pocket and cute enough not to make a big deal of taking pictures. So when I got sent the KODAK Zi6 Pocket Video Camera to test-shoot for a month, I was excited, and not just [...]

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