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Published date September 9, 2014
This was my fourth Vegetarian Food Festival, and my fourth year in Toronto, it’s one of my favourite yearly events, and not just because it also coincides with one of my second favourite events – the Toronto International Film festival. This was also the first time I didn’t have a...
Published date September 18, 2013
I’m getting a bit burnt out about weddings lately, I’ll admit it. Our wedding is less than a month away, and it feels like the final countdown music is playing. All urgency I had been feeling is gone, and I’m in this strange stage of acceptance and shrugging. Maybe this...
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Published date September 16, 2013
Continuing in my Vegan Wedding theme for Vegan MoFo 2013 – here’s a bit about my experience with caterers, and a few tips. P.S. It’s also less than a month before JC and I get married. Eeeee. update: click here to read about our wedding day, the good, the bad, the...
READ MORE Dealing with Caterers – Vegan Weddings – Vegan MoFo 2013
Published date September 10, 2013
It seems fitting to follow up my post on Vegan Wedding Dresses from yesterday and talk primarily about Vegan Suits. I don’t know about you, but I’ve never given much thought to suits. Any pant suit or dress suits I’ve had were usually made of polyester, cotton, or rayon (or occasionally...
READ MORE Let’s talk about Suits – Vegan MoFo – Vegan Wedding edition continues.
Published date September 2, 2013
Happy Labour Day and Happy Vegan Mofo! I just want to give a shout out to the people heading over to demonstrate at Marineland today. I can’t be there, but I support you 100%. Thank you to Marineland Animal Defense for their important work on this. Now, on with the...
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Published date October 9, 2012
So after yesterday, day of kitchening and cooking up a storm, I’m all tuckered out. We ate delicious leftovers for dinner tonight, and a cute little stuffed squash that I forgot to take a picture of. Since it still comes up sometimes, and I came across this video again today,...
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Published date October 8, 2012
I forget sometimes that Thanksgiving becomes a holiday entirely wrapped up in celebrating thankfulness around a big dead bird. Unfortunately, that’s just something I can’t get into. Most of the time when I think of Thanksgiving I think of the celebrating the harvest, which in Ontario is quite bountiful. I...
Published date October 4, 2012
I’ve done Things I love Thursday (aka TILT) posts before, and usually aim to do them at least once a month, otherwise, there is weekly list of things/people/etc on my twitterstream. The premise is to simply list or photograph or share things you love, and talk about them (or not)....
Published date October 18, 2011
Someone sent me an email regarding MoFo, asking me what was up and if anything was wrong. That’s the kind of nice VeganMoFo’ery that makes this such a great community. Yes, I’m okay. Everyday I write part of an entry and then get distracted with some other task. Bad MeShell....
Published date October 9, 2011
We did our small thanksgiving a little early (today), because J has his family’s one on Monday (the real day). I’m not a big fan of the smell of roasting turkey, to the point that it makes me pretty nauseous, so I’ll be skipping the big family event tomorrow and...