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Square wall panels
One of our first projects of the season is finally here to be shared. This accent wall in our living room was planned since we finished the dining room/fireplace makeover, and I couldn't wait to get my hands on it, since that wall behind the sofa was the last beige wall on the main floor and it was hurting our eyes.. Lol I didn't want to just paint in another colour and put a picture frame on it. Nothing wrong with that, but that wall was asking for something more special. I can't remember where I got the square panels idea from, but one afternoon, Alice and I took a…
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Art of home improvement | Expat skills
I’ve been feeling guilty for the past month, at least, for not coming more often to this space and not sharing the great projects that have been going on around the house lately. Never thought life would be so busy, working almost full time, having a threenager and a baby on the way and making our house feel more like a home to us. Unloading 55 boxes of flooring + extra materialsDiego’s muscles – 1 x 0 – boxes The idea of renovating your house yourself to make it a home you want is so appealing that I can’t help myself, but to drag Diego into it, and Alice…
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Wild Picnic
Earlier this month we had a picnic at Diego's company at his boss's house. Staff and their families were invited and the day cooperated, it was sunny (but not cracking) and overall very pleasant. But that's not what I came to talk about specifically. The most interesting fact was the activities for the children, such as trampoline and inflatable drainer, face paintings and a show of a reptéis zoo here in Ottawa. We never visited Ottawa Reptile Zoo (reptéis and other animals), but now has entered our list such the resourcefulness of our girl without fear to the pets brought to the picnic for a mini-show. Alice liked both the…
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Canada Day 2014
We're out of the Canadian capital this July 1st, but we couldn't help but congratulate our new country… by OGC
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Algonquin Park at the holiday…
Day 19 was Victoria Day holiday here and we took the opportunity to meet friends Carol and Luciano and another lively group of Brazilians and escape a little to the bush. Yes, we rent cottages on the edge of Little Hawk lake, about 40 minutes from Algonquin Park in downtown Ontario and about 3.5 hours from here in Ottawa. Diego and Luciano baptized the place by jumping into the lake on a morning that was 8ºC, eita courage! Algonquin Park is Canada's most popular provincial park and is home to about 2,400 lakes, 1,200 km of streams and rivers, mostly formed by glacier thawing in the last ice age. Still,…
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Travel with children | Long-haul flights
If you are someone who accompanies our page on FB, you may have seen that we have embarked towards Brazil this last week for a season of approximately 2 weeks. What you may not know is that Diego stayed in Canada for a while longer because of Dexter and his recovery (I still owe this post is not even) and because of that, Alice and I came alone, more than 32 hours of travel to our final destination (this counting 4 flights and a road trip). Today I tell you how to travel with small children on long-haul flights. Leaving Ottawa, we stopped in Detroit, then Atlanta, Rio de Janeiro…
