Arm candy has been on trend for about a year. In case you've been reluctant to dive in, now is the time to dig out your old charms, heirloom bracelets and resurrect your friendship bracelets.

When it comes to layered bracelets, the more the merrier! And if you don't have enough in your jewelry box, check out our wide selection of...


As crisp morning air chills our toes, still firmly in flip flops, I know that fall is on the doorstep of our beach-front Maine rental. Summer is coming to a close.

The husbands have gone home. I see the mothers – some of our old childhood friends – still carrying beach bags, still watching their kids wave jump, still building sand...


This summer Beaumaris Yacht Club (BYC) invited me to sell jewelry at their annual cocktail party.

One look at Lake Muskoka made me take a deep breath of gratitude. I had a quick flash back to my own childhood - summers spent on our lake in the Laurentions and camp too - a simpler and happy time.

This is where I get to go to work...


Summer dressing is often about how to remain stylish in unbearable heat. While the fall and winter seasons give room for experimental layering, summer calls for creativity in other ways.

Your favourite leather jacket, your favourite jeans, and your go-to boots are all hiding in the back of your closet leaving the spotlight on your...


My "space" used to be a little office under the stairs in our unfinished basement. My "space" has expanded to a larger office with big windows beside my front hall - where clients drop in daily by appointment.

My real office "domain", however, is online.

My entrepreneur group, through The Mogul Mom...

Suetables jewelry video with Lauren Lee Smith


We wanted to design wedding gifts with a lasting impression. So, Suetables teamed up with Christine of CDF Fowers http://www.cfdfloral.ca/ to create some unique gift ideas. Together, we designed stunning yet simple mother-of-the bride corsages and bouquets that are also treasured keepsakes.

We’d...


I can’t say that I wasn’t properly warned.

I told our New York Suetables’ jewelry rep, Jen, http://pinterest.com/pin/244390717249395524/ that I was going to South Beach. She loves going there and, gleefully and seriously advised me, “bring your 6” heels and bikini and just work...


We wanted to design wedding gifts with a lasting impression. So, Suetables teamed up with Christine of CDF Fowers http://www.cfdfloral.ca/ to create some unique gift ideas. Together, we designed stunning yet simple mother-of-the bride corsages and bouquets that are also treasured keepsakes.

We’d...


My father spent his lifetime seeing the bright side of things. He found the upside to every downside. For example, when he could no longer eat food (due to the tumors that lined his digestive tract), he said that it gave him more of his limited time to focus on his loved ones.

My father simply chose not to focus on the negative - in...


Did you know the woman who founded Mother’s Day was childless and never married?

Anna Jarvis had spent many years looking after her ailing mother and preferred to remain single. When her mother died in Philadelphia on May 9, 1905, Anna missed her greatly and felt children often neglected to appreciate their mother enough while the mother...


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