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14 May, 2014

New shoes and a night out

Posted by: andrea tomkins In: Giveaways and product reviews|Oh! Things!

Awhile ago I was contacted by the fine folks at Shoeme.ca, a Canadian online shoe store. They offered me a pair of shoes in order to try out their service. How could I refuse? And how hard could it be to pick a pair of shoes from a website? Turns out, it was harder than I […]

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02 May, 2013

The tragedy of fast fashion

Posted by: andrea tomkins In: Oh! Things!|Yaktivism

Some musings about the recent tragedy in Bangladesh. Will it change your shopping habits? Why or why not?

02 Apr, 2012

The trouble with tweens

Posted by: andrea tomkins In: parenting

My head is practically hurting from all the things I want to write about. So I will start with this one even though I know it’s going to come out in a big jumble. A few things inspired me to jot my thoughts down on the topic of tweens today, one of which was a […]

Making stuff out of old stuff!

An easy back-to-school craft for tweens: DIY pinback buttons.


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