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Baking secrets from a pie-making mom

2019-12-17T14:15:17Z

Growing up, my mother was always baking for our family, neighbours, and friends. I remember waking up many mornings with the smell of freshly baked muffins luring me out of bed. Pies and cakes were always homemade. I have fond memories baking with my mom and sisters ever since I was young, and I remember it being the part of daily life I loved most.” — Marla Marla Boehr, owner of milkandhoneypieco.

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Why This Mom Swapped Modelling for Pie-Making

2019-11-15T14:35:24Z

As ex-magazine editors, Juliette and I have worked with a plethora of models, but few stood out like Marla Boehr. On-set she was professional, kind, and showed an appreciation for the yummy, catered food that was laid out for lunch. As a fellow food-appreciator, she was one of my favourite models. So, when we heard that she had launched a food blog milkandhoneypieco.com, we couldn’t wait to speak...

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Meet Our Latest Obsession: Crambé Skincare

2019-05-04T12:29:53Z

Today we’re featuring the behind-the-scenes story of Crambé Face Forward Rejuvenating Facial oil. In full disclosure, it’s a passion project launched by our longtime friends and colleagues and to celebrate Mother’s Day, they’re gifting us with an exclusive promo code, MOM15, worth 15% off and free shipping. Visit their website to learn more and shop now. Prince Edward Island possesses more than...

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How This Mom Returned To Her First Creative Passion

2019-04-26T12:38:24Z

Toronto-based artist Johanna Reynolds has spent her entire life turning ideas into creative businesses, investing two and a half decades playing music, curating her gallery, and building an artisanal cookie brand before finally recommitting to her first love: Painting. This road has been long and winding. Because of one particularly discouraging experience, it took Johanna years to regain the...

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#Momfinds: Holiday Survival Kit

2018-12-21T14:38:56Z

If only the Holidays could be as relaxing as an actual holiday. Here, I’m chilled out on a recent trip to Turkey (no husband, no kids…) Co-founder of LoveMom.ca, Tracey Ho Lung shares the essentials in her holiday survival kit that are helping her get through the holidays. The holidays can be—ok, who are we kidding—is always, a busy and stressful time, which is why I’m heading into it with some...

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Guest Post: Influencer Marketing & Your Small Business

2018-12-31T01:55:26Z

Vanessa Grant is the president of Mommyfluencer, a boutique branded content and influencer marketing agency that connects parenting and women-focused brands with stylish, influential moms. A trained journalist, Vanessa was a web producer and style editor before having kids. She quit full-time employment (and a dream job at The Kit) to freelance so she could be home with her first son Jackson.

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How She Succeeds: Natalie Dusome of Poppies & Peonies

2018-12-03T01:42:22Z

While Natalie Dusome lives in Penetanguishene, Ontario, her work experience stretches beyond the borders of her home town. She worked for Abercrombie & Fitch at the peak of their heyday (before the headlines took them down) and her biggest corporate gig was as head designer for Aldo. During her five years there, she regularly flew to the Montreal HQ for design meetings and scheduled in plenty of...

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Toddler Birthday Party Goals with Amy Burstyn Fritz

2018-11-19T14:37:05Z

Amy Burstyn Fritz followed the success of her daughter’s first birthday party — which we were thrilled to feature last year — with a bash that’s just as impressive. On the guest list: 33 two-year olds (nope–that’s not a missprint…). The challenge: Showing them a good time without a melt-down. “I didn’t plan to go so big but I had so much fun doing her first birthday,” says Amy.

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This Mom Says Break The Rules to Get Ahead

2018-10-29T15:12:33Z

Anita Gatto is the Chief Growth Officer of her own experiential marketing agency, Self Employed. Along with her business partner, Chief Branding Officer and new mom, Sarah Ivory, they’re forging a new way to find start-up success that embraces working motherhood, instead of stifling it like so many of their job environments did before. Anita has an impressive C.V. that includes in-house gigs with...

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Cannabis: Why This Mom Agrees With Legalization

2018-10-19T12:17:50Z

Guest post by Michelle Bilodeau Since I became a mom almost two years ago, my relationship with cannabis has changed, ever so slightly. I am very vocal about it IRL and on my social feed, because, for me, smoking cannabis helps to boost creativity, while CBD [blogger’s note: this is the chilled out ingredient that has a reputation as being less psychoactive than THC, the more popular ingredient...

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