At Home with Kim Vallee

ENTERTAINING, HOLIDAY entertaining | October 25, 2009

Three Awesome Halloween Craft Projects by Eddie Ross

If you are looking for eye catching ideas to dress up your Halloween tabletop or buffet table, you must check these 3 craft projects realized by Eddie Ross. The guy is impressive when it comes to styling. The experience he acquired working for Martha Stewart serves him well. His craft project explanations are simple and [...]

ENTERTAINING, PAPER goods | October 15, 2009

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Nice Package is Open for Business

On my agenda today is shopping for ink stamps and rice paper at my local stores. I need that for my husband’s birthday party. I bought 100 tiny clothespins, 250 French fries bags, food boxes and natural paper sandwich bags in bulk yesterday at Distribution Alimentaire Aubut. Find everything on the same roof saves us time. This [...]

ENTERTAINING, HOLIDAY decorations | October 8, 2009

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Haunted House Paper Models for Halloween

Cutting and building a paper model is a great activity that you can do with the kids. There are a lot of free patterns on the Web. You may wish to stop first at a printer for a better printing job on cardboard. Keep an extra copy in case you ruin a piece while building [...]

ENTERTAINING, TABLESCAPE | September 24, 2009

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Rustic Tables for the End of Summer Cottage Season

Fall officially arrived. In a few weeks, the cottage on the lake season will close for many of us that live North. Wood slice trays are nothing new but I still like them. Plus, using handcrafted organic elements to contrast modern pieces is one of the 4 trends for Christmas 2009 (more on that later). Wood slices [...]

ENTERTAINING, HOLIDAY decorations | September 23, 2009

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Easy Halloween Pumpkins

Carving pumpkins is great but we do not all have the talent of making complex design. And if you have young kids at home, they will prefer simpler images. What you need our a few printable carving templates and stencils. You do not have to carve the pumpkins, you can simply paint a silhouette or do [...]

ENTERTAINING, HOLIDAY decorations | September 22, 2009

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Hand-carved Ink Stamps for Halloween

Stamps and craft punches are great tools for making gift tags, buffet tags, place cards, and to decorate your goodies bags. The possibilities are endless. I spotted on Art vs Craft the hand-carved work of TC Witchcraft Factory. They sell their stamps on etsy. These are produced by T&C, an Asian couple living in Twin Cities [...]

ENTERTAINING, HOLIDAY decorations | September 16, 2009

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Halloween Pumpkin-Carving Ideas

I recalled how many of you looked for pumpkin-carving ideas last year. Do not worry, I will bring you more inspirations until Halloween starting with these wonderful pumpkins that I found on Martha Stewart. The key is to decide on a theme. You get an extra WOW when you create a vignette. One thing that Martha taught [...]

ALL occasions, GIFT IDEAS | September 9, 2009

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Pincushions and Bowling Pins

These two items were to cute for not mentioning them. First, the cutest pincushions I have seen. Renilde was inspired by a small fishing village theme to create this series. Her needlework plays with basic forms in red, white and blue. The pincushions are available at Mieke Willems, a small shop in Belgium. Renilde has [...]