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  • Ellen's Christmas Gift Guide - Day Six
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    Ellen’s Christmas Gift Guide – Day Six: Gifts for Your Holiday Hosts

Ellen’s Christmas Gift Guide – Day Six: Gifts for Your Holiday Hosts

Gift Ideas:
Specialty preserves, cheeses, treats and summer sausage from Kitchen Kuttings (or all of the above in a specialty gift basket!).
Who should you give it to? 
Foodies, men, hosts/hostesses, or – yourself!

Why I Love Them:
When I moved to Waterloo Region, I learned that there was a unique, cultural food experience I had no idea existed. Some […]

On Finding Real Courage {& a Giveaway!}

The last number of weeks has been really hard for a lot of people in our world. Really hard. Like, life-shatteringly hard.
One after another, I’ve received messages from people I love, walking through hard things.
One says, “I’ve been wanting to tell you, but didn’t know how.”
Another says, “I hesitated to ask for prayer, but […]

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    Ellen’s Christmas Gift Guide – Day Five: Christmas on the Coast with Island-ish

Ellen’s Christmas Gift Guide – Day Five: Christmas on the Coast with Island-ish

Gift Idea:
Fabulous coastal items from Island-ish.
Ideal Gift For:
Sisters, nieces, hostesses, or really any girlfriends in need of some relaxing “me time.”

Why I Love This Gift:
Whenever I go home to Nanaimo, I visit Island-ish. It reinforces my Island-girl roots in a big way. And… when I go, I plan to be there for a good […]

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    Ellen’s Christmas Gift Guide – Day Four: Decking the Halls with Ten Thousand Villages

Ellen’s Christmas Gift Guide – Day Four: Decking the Halls with Ten Thousand Villages

Gift Idea:
Christmas ornaments and bracelets from Ten Thousand Villages.
Ideal Gift For:
Moms, girl friends, and guys.

Why I Love This Gift:
My favourite Christmas pillows are from Ten Thousand Villages, and our tree is decked out with ornaments we have found there in years past. This year I got to test drive a few new ones as […]