STORIES

To me, the best way to put together a memorable meal is to build a menu that draws on creativity and uniqueness, combined with the perfect touch of familiar, classic ingredients. When you take the extra time and effort to prepare a home-cooked meal, you’re reflecting how important the time is that you’re spending with the people around you.

Come Olivia Tortolo, a self-taught illustrator who coincidentally found the need for change only two months before the beginning of the pandemic.

Wedding flowers or kitchen flowers? We talk all things finances and planning when it comes to the wedding day or a couples first home, and why some may have a hard time choosing between the two.

The long hours of sunshine increases Vitamin D in the body, boosts serotonin levels and mediates biological rhythms allowing the body to feel rejuvenated after a long winter lacking the sun.

Creative thoughts are subjective to the curator and are up for interpretation by the viewer. That being said, the pressure and constraints felt as a creative can be exhausting for the mind.

The use of our senses - touch, sound, smell, look, and feel are those that physically connect us with space, and through that connection, open our ability to form meaning from these experiences.

“In my experience, people have the answers to their most pressing challenges or problems – they just haven’t been challenged in the right way or been asked the right question. The right question can change your life if you’re open to it.”

Routine, as Brianna Weist defines it, is the ability to silence our cravings and prioritize our long-term desires, writing, “most things that bring genuine happiness are not just temporary, immediate gratifications, and those things also come with resistance and require sacrifice.”

To continue the support of our local shops, we’ve compiled a list of a few local e-store favourites to make sure you’re getting all the goods, even mid-pandemic.

Perhaps the last year paved the way for MERIT, a minimal beauty brand's success. The pre-existing need for five minute makeup no doubt expanded in 2021 for those of us who only reach for our makeup bags when we have a Zoom meeting.