Tired of your dull old business cards? Ready for a change? Or perhaps your business focus has changed and your old cards just don’t communicate all of your abilities? Luckily Uprinting and thriftymommastips are here to help. I love business cards and stationery. I am forever recreating and tweaking my business as a digital media professional because that is frankly the nature of our business – ever evolving. So what happens when I need to communicate a change of focus to what I do? Well I end up hunting for new cards and shaping a new design. Is it time…

Hi fabulous readers and parents looking for fun ways to hang out in the kitchen with your kids. So my oldest child went to her aunt’s house for the weekend, and while there she made even more yummy recipes. See, it really is fun for all the kids in your life to get involved in cooking in the kitchen. There is so much to learn there and so many memorable experiences to be had. Making fun hands on experiences out of food preparation helps our children grow interested in what they eat, it also helps to learn about health and…

The Prologue: (This is my first shopportunity. So what is a shopportunity, you ask? Well recently mama signed up with Collective Bias and Social Fabric. I was curious to see what they were all about. Here is my Google plus story about it. My first job was this week, so let me tell you a little bit about that experience. The shopportunities combine a passion for brands, blogging and shopping. And for this one, a little bit of kitchen skill. Once upon a time there was a lady who liked to shop, write and bake.  That’s her – on a good…

Welcome once again to my Thursday feature bloghop. This one is all about Cooking with Kids, or baking with your children, or generally messing around in the kitchen and having fun together making snacks, meals, food, treats, candy, dinner, or whatever great recipe you want. My kids love to cook with me. It’s an easy hands on activity. It’s fun for me too. Together time. In years gone by, we used to have other kids, neighbours, friends, kids I looked after before and after school, come to our house and one thing I noted repeatedly was that they all loved…

The Play is the thing, in more ways than one this March Break. This year my kids and I are doing the staycation thing. We’ll be right here in London, with a band of swashbuckling pirates and a somewhat odd chocolate maker named Will Wonka. I was thrilled that thriftymommastips was chosen again in this second year of the #KinderMOM promotion with Mom Central Canada to talk about the importance of play and how we incorporate that into our daily life. This time of year we are so keen to get through the days and weeks leading upto the March…