I received Dishing with style by Rori Trovato for my birthday from a modish girl friend and her husband. She knows that I prefer cooking books with lots of beautiful pictures. I am visual girl after all. I read the book this morning. Wow, Dishing with style fits like a glove into my entertaining philosophy. [...]
ENTERTAINING, PARTY ideas + decor | May 29, 2007 | by Kim Vallee
My husband and I both have our alumni meetings one week apart. He will go to his high school reunion. Mine is with my fellow friends of the actuarial department of Concordia University. Before I became a designer, I was surrounded with probabilities and expected values. I got tired of it pretty quickly due [...]
BABY showers, ENTERTAINING | May 28, 2007 | by Kim Vallee
The newest trends towards men-only baby shower party and the even more popular parent baby shower party has contributed to the popularity of the dad diaper bag in the wish list. Modern dads take care of their babies. But& men do not want to be seen with a female design diaper bag. So why not [...]
ENTERTAINING, EVERYDAY entertaining | May 27, 2007 | by Kim Vallee
Fans of this cute Canadian-Italian male will be pleased to learn that a David Rocco’s Dolce Vitae CD will be available in stores across Canada June 12th, 2007. If you get the deluxe CD, you get is over 50 pages of photos from the TV series, 17 track hits and selected featured recipes. The standard [...]
May 26, 2007 | by Kim
The first rule when you having guests over at your house is to have a clean, well presented house. On the style [...]
May 24, 2007 | by Kim
I want to share a smile or two with you. This is not really about at home entertaining but we are around [...]
May 24, 2007 | by Kim
This hot and sunny day inspired me to write about party essentials around the pool or at a lake. I am taking [...]
May 23, 2007 | by Kim
I said it before but let me repeat the principles behind successful design. What you need to do is to create several [...]
COOKBOOKS, FOOD + DRINK | May 30, 2007 | by Kim Vallee