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Do Drink The Punch

February 2nd, 2011
FEBRUARY 2ND, 2011 Do Drink The Punch You’re well acquainted with the perk a little spiked punch can offer, but have you sampled the alt-pop pep Honeymoon Punch provides? The new album from PEI-born, Haligonian songstress Jenn Grant is an aural antidote to winter blues. With the fiery red hair of Florence Welch and a flirtatious, infectious song style akin to Leslie ...

Win it: A 5-day ski trip with 7 friends!

February 1st, 2011
February 1, 2011 Win it: A 5-day ski trip with 7 friends! With winter in full force, there’s no better way to enjoy it than entering to win* a 5-day BC ski trip. Just think of it: you and 7 friends, with the freedom to choose 1 of 13 award-winning mountain resorts in British Columbia. Your 5 free days on the hill will be made even better when you’re trained by 2 Olympic Gold Medali ...

Coveting the Coveted

February 1st, 2011
FEBRUARY 1ST, 2011 Coveting the Coveted As fashion filles we envied Cher Horowitz’s closet in Clueless, as designer dames, we’d like to walk away with the wardrobe of Joanna Hillman from Harper’s Bazaar. We can’t steal it, but we can steal a few glances, thanks to new website The Coveted, the creation of Toronto t-shirt maven Erin Kleinberg and her pal Stephanie Mar ...

Rock The Boat for Valentine’s Day

January 31st, 2011
January 31, 2011 Rock The Boat for Valentine’s Day If you spent last Valentine's Day eating take-out Chinese because someone forgot to make dinner reservations, perhaps this no-brainer getaway can inspire your significant other to greatness. BC Ferries Victoria Valentine’s Getaway features all the charm of historic Victoria and all the romance you’ll want on Cupid's day. Starting from ...

Eye Stop Time

January 31st, 2011
JANUARY 31ST, 2011 Eye Stop Time Cher couldn’t turn back time, so what makes us think we can? Dermalogica’s new Age Reversal Eye Complex, that’s what. The cream combats puffiness, dark circles and, with a touch of Retinol, crow’s feet too. Smooth as silk and speedily absorbed, a little dab will do ya. While we’re going back to the future, we’d like the long, shiny ...

Dinner Winner

January 30th, 2011
JANUARY 29TH, 2011 Dinner Winner There's no use crying over spilled cereal—unless it spills in your Prada. Grab a pack of eco-friendly Wean Cubes ($25/4 pack) and you'll never have sweet pea puree at the bottom of your purse again. Designed for food storage, the containers are made of durable glass with an airtight silicone-sealed lid. Safe and portable, these li ...

Vote for BC’s Best Young Designer

January 28th, 2011
January 28, 2011 Vote for BC’s Best Young Designer A few months ago, the search for BC’s Best Young Designer was launched. Six finalists made the cut and were given a budget of just $10,000 and five weeks to decorate a suite in South Surrey’s Morgan Crossing village. A panel of judges (including VitaminDaily.com’s Editor-in-chief, Sarah Bancroft) will award one finalist the title BC’s ...

What’s Your Beef?

January 28th, 2011
JANUARY 28TH, 2011 What’s Your Beef? Local and all-natural Pemberton Meadows, preferably. Wrangle yours at Big Lou’s Butcher Shop. The boys behind Two Chefs And A Table have combined cleavers to put meat on your table. When we stopped in there was also a slew of Sloping Hills pork—ribs, roasts, with dry rubs or without—and some Polderside lamb too. While you choos ...

I Wanna Be Sedaris-d

January 27th, 2011
JANUARY 27TH, 2011 I Wanna Be Sedaris-d Bronté sisters, Coen brothers, Olsen Twins—there’s a slew of talented siblings out there. But our vote for funniest familial twosome goes to David and Amy Sedaris. We’ve sung praises for the former, a humorist known for his self-deprecating short stories, but haven’t yet confessed our adoration of his sister, the kookier o ...

Money on the Mint

January 26th, 2011
JANUARY 26TH, 2011 Money on the Mint We spend coin almost as fast as the Royal Canadian Mint makes it. Now if only our system for monitoring where it all goes was as well-organized as Mariah Carey’s shoe closet. That’s where Mint comes in. The online program with bank-level security pulls in all your accounts and automatically tracks what your money is spent on. ...
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