Niagara on the Lake Ice Wine Festival

Niagara Ice Wine Festival 2012



Well it's that time of year again, horray!!  Love to participate in something fun and tasty during the cold winter.  We have not had much of a winter this year and that is just fine with me.  Hubby and I along with some friends popped down to the festival and enjoyed some very nice ice wine along with visits to wineries where we tasted some great wines.  Something to look forward to for next year if you haven't had a chance to go.  Of course there are many fabulous eateries in the area to enjoy a find dinner with of course, more vino.....

We did book rooms and stay overnight as well.

Here I am posing with some ice wine beside one of the great ice sculptures

We were in for a nice surprise when a light snow fell that day.  Really gave the event some of that winter wonderland mood without being too cold or too windy. 

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I want this one..

Ahhhhh..... lots of wine getting ready for bottling

 and again in one of the wineries where we participated in a special tasting of how to make drinks with ice wine and other types of the fun stuff

 Very serious about what we were learning about ice wine and how to mix it with other liquids to make great drinks!

Lovely bottle displays - just makes you want to buy more

Loved these displays...

I think I might get me one of these t-shirts.... really gets it out there!

A Great Dinner at the Charles Inn with great friends!! 

Oh what a wonderful idea - have a festival to sample wine.  I'll use any excuse to have a little of the grape...

Brentwood Designer Night 2012

Designer Night 2012 at Brentwood Classics brought out quite a group of Designers & Decorators to view the new product lines and enjoy refreshments, while we listened to the presenter Janette Ewen as she delivered her message on the Trends for 2012

and of course I had to say hello and pose with some of the stars attaending

Glen is always so gracious and friendly

Had to 'Strike a Post' with Nicholas another very friendly designer who also contributes to

 Dabble Mag

Brentwood has a lovely showroom and here we see some of the

Pantone Colour of the Year 'Tangerine Tango'

Thanks to everyone at Brentwood for a great evening!

The GTA West Chapter of CDECA 'Does Yoga'

As anybody who follows my blog knows, I am constantly updating you on the happenings of the GTA West Chapter of CDECA of which I am a member. We have great times and started 2012 off with a bang. Our January meeting was held at The Decorating Centre in Burlington, www.thedecoratingcentre.ca, which is a great supporter of all designers & decorators as well as a great affiliate of CDECA. We had an evening of Yoga, lead by our own Christina Mogk an established Yoga Instructor when she is not designing. In between our Yoga sessions, we had a discussion on our positive experiences of 2011 and what we learned from them.  This was led by Lin Munro, co-owner of TDC. What a wonderful, enlightening and energizing evening. We all went home and slept like babies.....

Here we are busy at work drawing our positive experiences

Decor-Rest Furniture Event 2012

Decor-Rest Furniture,  www.decor-rest.com which is a Canadian owned and Canadian made source to the trades has just celebrated 40 years and to start this year off they hosted a wonderful evening for designers, decorators, retailers and various trades which began with  their famous oven baked pizza, wine, cheese and other goodies.  A presentation on 'Colour Trends 2012' followed and was presented by Leigh-Ann Allaire from Benjamin Moore, www.benjaminmoore.com who is a delightful speaker.  Looks like we are going for lots of colour in small and large doses.  Among their many products they have the 'Steven & Chris' line www.stevenandchris.com and have added 'Cobi Style' www.cobistyle.com which offers colour in a big way.    Here are some photos of just a few of the fabulous pieces they offer..

 The lively Leigh Ann

A packed room of attentive listeners

 Gorgeous Furniture