What are you doing on Thursday February 13, 2014? Are you coming to #LoveAHeart for The Heart & Stroke Foundation? Because you should be! I’m SO incredibly proud of the bachelors & bachelorettes we’ve brought together for this year’s event we’ve got reporters, actors, karaoke superstars, ad agency superstars and SO MUCH MORE! Let’s talk about the bachelorettes for a second…
Author: Shan
#LoveAHeart & Barefoot Wine & Bubbly
I love wine, I mean I LOVE wine. Nothing makes a bad day turn around faster than a big glass of red or a flute of bubbly champers. So when I approached Barefoot Wine & Bubbly with the idea of sponsoring #LoveAHeart this year I did so with hope and glee, literal glee. When they agreed to provide wine to…
#LoveAHeart Gets Pretty
Every year around this time I find myself asking friends, acquaintances and strangers to stand up on a stage and get auctioned off for a good cause; anyone who’s been on the #LoveAHeart stage in the past four years will tell you that it’s a blast but it isn’t always easy to get up on that stage. I think my…
Love a Heart & Rent Frock Repeat
For the past four years #LoveAHeart has had a lot of loyal sponsors but my favourite has always been Rent Frock Repeat; mostly because I LOVE dresses especially fancy dresses that would typically be out of my price range. Because of RFR I’ve worn designer gowns that retail for more than my rent and it always makes me feel like…
#LoveAHeart 4
It’s almost here, #LoveAHeart 4! I never could have imagined that an event that started as an idea in a coffee shop would last four years and raise more than $30,000.00 for The Heart & Stroke Foundation. It’s been an amazing ride and I can only hope that it lasts for many, many more years. This year, as always, we’ll…
Casual ‘isms’
“Isms in my opinion are not good, a person should not believe in an ism he should believe in himself.” – Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, 1986. This week has been the week of casual ‘isms’ from Facebook posts to inappropriate tweets this week has, for me, been a week of reminders that casual sexism and casual racism are not going…
VIP Pinot Grigio
I came home last week to a visit from the wine fairy, the wine fairy is literally my favourite fairy, when I arrived home there was a beautiful bottle of VIP Pinot Grigio waiting for me with concierge. I had tasted the VIP brand at the Charming Media Holiday Lounge last month but having an entire bottle to enjoy to…
Brazen Razor
I love trying new products, especially new beauty products, so when my friend Jeff asked if I wanted to try his pal Thea’s line of soaps and perfumes I jumped at the chance. As with my review on Soya Skin I really wanted to try the product before saying anything about it so I’ve been using Brazen Razor for a couple…
Citizens vs. Taxpayers
Every time the mayor opens his massive jaws I worry about what he will say next. Will he utter more hateful profanity? Will he talk about his sex life? Will he humiliate the city of Toronto in a new and unimaginable way? Or will he once again refer to Torontonians as taxpayers? The mayor’s favourite word is taxpayer; he constantly…
When NOT to Tweet…
This morning I woke up, hit snooze, wandered to the shower 10 minutes later than I needed to and eventually made it out the door; a completely mundane morning that I was able to enjoy because many years ago men and women put on uniforms and fought for what they believed in. As a social media strategist/community manager/citizen of the…
My Shananigans 