in the city

Recap: The Original Wedding Soirée

While the original wedding “soirée” was held in the daytime rather than the evening, as the name purportedly means, it was a beautifully fanciful event. An immensely better experience than my first wedding show experience a month or so ago, this event had 100% more classy, tasteful and relevant information for me and my style. I [...]

March 18, 2013

Weekly Photo Challenge: My Neighbourhood

I haven’t done one of these in a while and Daily Post’s Weekly Photo Challenge this week is the first “Phoneography Challenge” where we must use our phones to capture the week’s theme. And this week’s theme is: My Neighbourhood. I picked various photos I took over the last few months from around my neighbourhood [...]

March 14, 2013

Recap: Scarlet Book Tour with Marissa Meyer

Showing up at Indigo Yorkdale this past Saturday just after 10am, I thought that would be plenty of time to get a good spot before Marissa Meyer’s 12pm signing. Little did I know that Wendy and I were certainly not the first to arrive! We spotted Ardo (A Wordsmith), Siobhan (Conversations of a Reading Addict), [...]

March 11, 2013

Recap: The Lives We Lost Book Launch Party

Met up with Sara (Geek Girl’s Book Blog) and Christa (More Than Just Magic) to head to Megan Crewe’s book launch party for the sequel to last year’s The Way We Fall. On our way to No One Writes to the Colonel (love that name!) in downtown Toronto, we realized that it had already been [...]

February 21, 2013

Recap: #BreathlessReads / Faze Magazine party

The initial announcement of the #BreathlessReads tour making a stop in Toronto was met with a lot of excitement among the bloggers on Twitter. Quite a few were going to make the journey from out of town to see Morgan Rhodes, Andrea Cremer (who ended up not being able to make it, so the lovely [...]

February 18, 2013

Upcoming Author Events: the Breathless Reads tour, Megan Crewe & Marissa Meyer!

Toronto’s going to be pretty busy in the next few weeks with some exciting YA author events! First one is this Sunday, where Razorbill is teaming up with Faze Magazine to host the Breathless Reads tour stop at the Opera House in downtown Toronto. Come out on February 17 from 2-5pm to see: Andrea Cremer, [...]

February 15, 2013

Recap: Random House of Canada’s Blogger Lovefest 2.0

The day after the big “Snowmageddon”, a bunch of us bloggers headed into the city to attend Random House of Canada‘s second annual blogger lovefest (aka #RHCBloggerLove 2.0!) Andrea (Cozy Up With a Good Read) and I met on the train and soon met up with Christa (More Than Magic) and bumped into Jenn (Lost [...]

February 12, 2013

Recap: Frugal Girl’s Bridal Show

When my good friend Jennifer shared a link to the Frugal Girl’s Bridal Show, a free wedding show by the airport, I was all ears. This would be the first wedding show I would attend and was pretty excited to check things out (even tho I already have a bunch of details planned as it [...]

February 10, 2013

TIFF welcomes Books on Film series!

Presented in association with Random House of Canada, TIFF launches its third season of the Books on Film subscription series at the TIFF Bell Lightbox on Monday, February 11th 2013. This is a great series for those who love amazing cinema and the brilliant books that inspired it. Eleanor Wachtel from CBC’s Writers and Company [...]

February 8, 2013

Recap: X-Men Master: Gordon Smith Exhibit

Being a huge fan of the X-Men movie franchise, I knew it was only a matter of me finding time to go and check out this free exhibit at the TIFF Bell Lightbox in downtown Toronto. The X-Men Master: Gordon Smith exhibit opened in August 2012 and I kept putting it off thinking I had [...]

February 6, 2013