At Home with Kim Vallee

OFF topics | October 25, 2009

Career Success Can Be Measured in Many Ways

As I was reading several articles on the NY Times about the gain of women in the workplace, it reminded me how far my career goals changed over the year. I believe that it is because I grow as a person. At university, I dreamt of being the chairman of a large corporation. I am [...]

OFF topics | May 31, 2009

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Blog Out Loud event and My Integrated Brand | Quick Links

You may have noticed a change to the main navigation bar of At Home with Kim Vallee. There is now a Live section where you will find my tweets and live blogging posts. What will be these live blogging posts? It will be made of several things. But mainly, there will be quick links. For a while [...]

MEDIA buzz, REVIEWS | May 11, 2009

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I was On Yesterday’s Gazette

A quick note to tell you that I was interviewed last week by Susan Semenak for an article she did for the main English speaking daily newspaper in Montreal, The Gazette. I shared my knowledge about moms who blog. If you are into it, read the different points of views of a group of moms [...]

ENTERTAINING, SPECIAL occasions | March 20, 2009

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Touch and Feel of Karim Rashid’s Globalight Champagne Cooler

I introduced last April this exquisite Champagne cooler. I got the chance to see many in person at the Interior Design Show of Toronto. Do not look in the exhibit; it was only accessible to VIP guests. I have the chance to be a good friend of Harry Wakefield, the founding editor of MoCo [...]

HOME + GARDEN, HOME decor | February 26, 2009

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Best of IDS09 from the eyes of Ready2Spark

I spoke last weekend at my PodCamp Toronto session about the lack of videos in the women design blog. Tonight, I noticed that my friend Lara McCulloch-Carter of Ready2Spark did her first video blog while attending the Toronto Interior Design Show. We met at the show and sit together at the Design Blogger Panels with Maxwell [...]

MEDIA buzz | February 10, 2009

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A Great Day for Women and Mom Blogs

A big news in the Quebec blogosphere was a Quebec Web celebrities list made in response to The Web Celeb 25 by Forbes. The Christiane Charette radio show on the French channel of Radio-Canada hosted this Top list. How they did it? Michelle Blanc, Bruno Guglielminetti and Dominic Arpin compiled their own list of 25 Web celebrities [...]

OFF topics | February 8, 2009

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Meeting Bloggers at IDS 09

The Design Trends by the Minute session with the panel of 3 design bloggers was awesome. I got the pleasure of meeting Maxwell Gillingham-Ryan of Apartment Therapy and Grace Bonney of design*sponge plus a chance to chat more with Harry of Moco Loco. I will tell you what I learned from these amazing bloggers on [...]

MEDIA buzz | February 2, 2009

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Talking about Women Blogging

This post is a little bit of self-promotion but I wish to share with you the good things happening in my life. In the News First, Deena Waisberg interviewed me a few months ago about women blogging. Her article is published in Reader’s Digest. Deena introduced the world of blogging through the eyes of a [...]