NaBloPoMo

A series of daily posts for National Blog Posting Month.

Just In Case

Just In Case

I haven’t decided yet whether I will be participating in NaBloPoMo this year, but as I was sitting here weighing the pros and cons, I got an email from myfriendisKate.  She forwarded today’s Gourmet Weekly  pointing me to a little lex-flavoured tidbit which I completely, COMPLETELY, over-looked. (and I’m blogging about it just to cover my NaBloPoMo butt) Olympus has a new preset on some of their cameras – cuisine.  “The camera increases the saturation, sharpness and contrast settings to produce sharp, vivid images of the subject.”  Along with the 1cm super-macro on the SP-560 UZ this might be one…

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It’s A Banner Day

It’s A Banner Day

In celebration of successfully completing NaBloPoMo, and perhaps because I had a little free time from not posting yesterday, I decided unsweetened.ca need a little freshening up. Inspired by Junkii’s redesign of the CEOT banner (which will be up soon!), I introduce to you, unsweetened.ca‘s new banner: ,

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#100 Just Write aka Someone’s In The Kitchen with Lexa

#100 Just Write aka Someone’s In The Kitchen with Lexa

For my final NaBloPoMo post I thought it was time to share why I needed a bio.  Especially since… [drum roll please] I’ve been invited to be the Toronto correspondent for In The Kitchen, a Vancouver-based food blog published by Industrial Brand Creative.  You may remember my ill-fated brush with street meat on CBC’s Sounds Like Canada.  Well, one of the other panelists was Mark Busse, founding principal and Design Director at Industrial Brand Creative and a serious foodie/epicure/gourmand. A couple of weeks ago,  Mark hit town for a conference and asked if I’d be interested in meeting up for…

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#18 Spill Everything aka yet another Xmas post

#18 Spill Everything aka yet another Xmas post

My friend stampgeek who has just recently started blogging posed the question: Thinking of the Season? Then waited for my comment.  And waited. And waited.  Then he emailed asking “what gives”. It’s my own fault, I had set him up by commenting almost immediately on all his previous posts. After leaving a comment that was actually longer than his original post, I realized my comment could be my penultimate NaBloPoMo post.  So here it is, in all it’s raw glory with a little extra formatting and extra photos thrown in to make it prettier. The things that make me warm…

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Stranded At The Craft Show

Stranded At The Craft Show

After a creepy lunch w/ Venus where we decided the quote of the day was definitely “yours is wiggly”, I met up with Minty Fresh @ Bathurst Station for a little visit to the One of a Kind show. But once we arrived and had a quick visit with the in-laws, a sore leg caused me to abandon her at the show.  Luckily she’s understanding, tough and easily distracted by crafts! The cool thing is that she brought me one of her custom-made bike seat covers for the basketmobile!   One of the covers she’ll be selling this weekend at Ottawa’s…

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#98 Gripe

#98 Gripe

Not sure which I need more "…vent your pet peeves online and you may find that your annoyance gives your post a little punch." I get headaches.  All the time. Really bad headaches.  Incapacitating headaches.I have one now. The brightness of the screen hurts. The noise of the computer fan hurts. This sucks. Advil, advil, can't wait.Advil, advil, tastes great.Oooh, I love advil. And I buy it in the extended family sized bottle.

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One of A Kind

One of A Kind

 Quick post to fulfill my NaBloPoMo obligation (sometimes it’s hard to “have” to post rather than wanting to post.) We zipped down to One of a Kind at the CNE today to visit the in-laws and check out this year’s batch of Xmas Crafts. Many of our favourites were there: Thorpe Toys – I40 Colero Jewellery – E37 Lee Bee Art – B34 Cameron Lavers Monster Factory – G8 Kallisti Quilts - N24 Anemone Bags – U20 Rootham Premium Gourmet – D54 Tangled Garden  – D53 The Barber’s Daughter – I48 Artifice – K52 It’s well worth dropping by if…

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INFER(RED) Cup (aka #45 Ante Up)

INFER(RED) Cup (aka #45 Ante Up)

When Gerry saw Starbucks’ Red Cup promotion this year and he turned to me and asked if Starbucks had jumped on board with Bono‘s (PRODUCT)RED™ ** Now wouldn’t that be great!  Starbucks donating 10% of every Eggnog Latte, Peppermint Mocha and Gingerbread Latte.  What the heck 10% of every Venti Soy Mocha Half Sweet No Foam w/ toffee sprinkles. But sadly, no. Starbucks has been using the red cup for years to herald in the holiday season.  Quoting Paul Williams on IdeaSandbox "The red cup is a Starbucks tradition… In fact, each time Starbucks strayed from using the red cup…

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INFER(RED) Cup

INFER(RED) Cup

When Gerry saw Starbucks’ Red Cup promotion this year and he turned to me and asked if Starbucks had jumped on board with Bono‘s (PRODUCT)RED™ ** Now wouldn’t that be great!  Starbucks donating 10% of every Eggnog Latte, Peppermint Mocha and Gingerbread Latte.  What the heck 10% of every Venti Soy Mocha Half Sweet No Foam w/ toffee sprinkles. But sadly, no. Starbucks has been using the red cup for years to herald in the holiday season.  Quoting Paul Williams on IdeaSandbox “The red cup is a Starbucks tradition… In fact, each time Starbucks strayed from using the red cup…

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Xmas Music Rocks aka #77 Show Us your B-side.

Xmas Music Rocks aka #77 Show Us your B-side.

Half Baked Dudes I'm not one for pushing Xmas over the November border, in fact I rarely start shopping until Dec 22. However the combination of media prattling on about the consumerism of Christmas and ers' recent holiday toonage post got me thinking about my own love of holiday toonage. Yes, I admit it, I LOVE the Xmas Music.  I sing along in stores. I use to join in on the group carol sing every morning in high school (when PC still was a political party).  I tune into the Xmas radio station all of December and I dance around to it…

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#23 Define Your Inscrutables

#23 Define Your Inscrutables

Layers of Lex It's so easy to whip up a detailed life history of the annoying cashier who jams household cleaner on top of your lettuce.  To succinctly outline all the parental influences & progressions of damage that has made them the surly beasts they are today.  So why is it that when it comes to writing a short bio for yourself it takes 2 full days of hair pulling, calling in favours and pepto-swilling? Attempts to start included: Lex – foodie, blogger, x-geek, cheapeater… All the influences in her life conspired to make Lex a foodie… Lex was raised in…

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#68 Let Us Cheer You On aka Photojunkie’s one million giveaway

#68 Let Us Cheer You On aka Photojunkie’s one million giveaway

Check this out!  Photojunkie’s almost one million!  Visitors that is. The goal is to help push him over the edge before the end of the year.  [yes, you can sing the song now... Cuz he's - Close - To - The - Edge...] Sure, sure, by leaving comments or blogging about this or spreading the word like wildfire you can possibly win stuff but it is more about helping him hit the target! [More Details Here] Don’t get me wrong here, if the PJ wants to give me a photojunkie print or a camera (Rannie, it really is that order…

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