Top 10 Lists for 2020 are filling up our social media feeds this season with everything from hit music and flicks to the Best and Worst. We’ve gone a more literary route, with Top 10 Books chosen by four very different sources: BookNet Canada, People magazine, the LA Times, and The Wall Street Journal. Not-so-surprising …
This is a different kind of holiday season for everyone. Online shopping has soared in popularity with the ease of buying and shipping offered all in one place. However, if you’ve been relying on the big selling engines like AMAZON, please remember that your local businesses are also turning to online selling or phone-in orders with curbside pick up and delivery. Check out what’s available in your own neighbourhood and support those small business operators who’ve relied on walk-in traffic in the past.
The Christmas season is all about bringing people together and spending time with loved ones, which makes Housekeeping by American author Marilynne Robinson a perfect must-read modern classic for the season. Written in beautiful poetic-prose, Robinson’s novel takes place in the small, isolated town of Fingerbone where two young orphans, Ruth and Lucille, live with their strange, …
Two new books by Muskoka writers have arrived in time for the holiday gift giving season: Paul Feist’s Broken Anchor and Square Wheels by David Bruce Patterson. Both historical, both set in Canada, these funny, tragic, coming-of-age novels offer readers poignant takes on the struggles we all face in striving to do the right thing.
This holiday season we’re having fun re-gramming a few of our favourite things. In the weeks leading up to Christmas 2020, we’re re-posting items that caught our collective eye in Summer 2020. From art and food, to fashion and fun, all items are either made in Muskoka, or add to cottage life in a meaningful way. We’re especially fond of gifts you can shop local, or that support artists and writers endeavouring to stay afloat during these odd times we’re living through. Looking for gift ideas? Catch up with @MuskokaStyleMag on Instagram for ongoing inspo, or check back (regularly!) here.
Pattern and colour fuel the creative fires for award-winning Muskoka stained glass artist Maureen Haines.
Just as we cozy down this fall to wait out the pandemic, Bracebridge Public Library has released a YouTube reading series to keep you company. Tall Pine Tales, The Covid Edition, is a collection of stories written and read aloud by 17 Muskoka writers, including MuskokaStyle contributors David Bruce Patterson, Wendie Donabie, and Lori Knowles.
One World – that’s how artist Michelle Vyn sees her world and her art practice. She views life in all its diversity as entitled to equal respect and treatment. Through her creations, the artist brings a message of concern for all life, a need for humanity to acknowledge responsibility to care for the planet and …
Paint your own paddle by following these six easy steps—created for MuskokaStyle by artist and author Wendie Donabie. Materials: Wooden paddle – unfinished or varnished Acrylic paint and foam applicator or brushes Painter’s tape 150 or 180 with grit Sandpaper or a palm sander Spray on clear varnish Instructions: Sand the varnish off the portion …
Read moreHow To Paint A Paddle: Art at the Cottage in Six Easy Steps
We’re playing DJ with the sounds of Summer 2020: Smooth and easy, breezy songs that ride the waves and sift through the maples as you sit on the dock or watch the flames snap in the campfire. Check back often, this playlist may be small now but it’s growing. If you have a request, speak …
Read moreSummer Playlist 2020: Songs for the Dock, Beach, Boat & Campfire
