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Does the world of social media make your head spin? How can you best utilize your time online to make your business stand out in a positive way?
We are excited to send one lucky local reader to the ”Your Social Media Marketing Plan Made Simple” Workshop on Friday, May 11th.
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Well folks, bathing suit season is almost upon us – whether we like it or not! This year our goal is to be ready for it and with all the awesome, unique fitness classes being offered in the Fraser Valley, we intend to have fun doing it. This list of 5 Great Exercise Classes in the Fraser Valley should have you moving your booty before you have time to come up with an excuse! We promise most of these classes will be so much fun you won’t even realize you’re exercising!
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Despite our local weather’s behaviour trying to convince us otherwise some days, Spring has sprung here in the Fraser Valley and that means it’s time to think about planting this summer’s vegetable garden! Most local folks seem to plant late April – mid May, depending on the weather each year.
I built (my husband built) and planted my first vegetable garden just a few summers ago. We’d had pots of herbs and different veggie plants over the years, but finally took the plunge to a 10×10 plot in our yard and now join the millions of hobby gardeners in the annual excitement of planting the garden! I’ve outgrown the 10×10 plot and now have random vegetables growing all over the yard – it’s so much fun!
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On Monday, April 16th, Warner Bros. is hosting a special pre-screening ‘Ladies Night Out’ event to promote the upcoming release of The Lucky One. From 5:00-6:30pm, guests are invited to Milestones Grill + Bar to mingle with friends, enjoy tasty treats and enter for a chance to win a number of great gifts including a copy of the Nicholas sparks bestseller. Following this event, guests are invited to attend a special advance screening at Towne Cinema Centre at 7:00pm.
What a great way this will be to enjoy a fun night out with a bunch of local ladies and to check out this exciting new movie before anyone else!
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The 92nd Vancouver International Auto Show is coming back to BC Place April 3-8, 2012. We’ve got tickets to share!
This year, the Vancouver International Auto Show’s 3rd annual 2012 Dream Car Lottery offers the grand- prize winner the chance to drive away with TWO luxury BMW’s both the X5 diesel and Z4 28i roadster. Partial proceeds of the Dream Car Lottery, presented by the New Car Dealers Foundation of BC, support community organizations across the Province.
For ticket information and show hours, please visit www.VancouverInternationalAutoShow.com.
Please leave a comment below to be entered to win a pair of tickets to this event.
For an extra chance to win, please post the following on Twitter “I entered to win 2 tickets to @vanautoshow from @FVPulse http://ow.ly/9UzMW“.
Winners will be chosen at random and contacted on April 2, 2012.
Update: Our winners have now been emailed. Thank you to all who entered. This contest is now closed.
Vancouver International Auto Show
www.VancouverInternationalAutoShow.com
We love great coffee, especially when it’s served up in a comfy, unique coffee house. Lucky for us, and you!, the Fraser Valley has more than just a few unique coffee destinations that offer a lot more than yummy coffee. Our list of 5 Great Coffee Shops is a guide for coffee dates with your loved ones, gatherings with friends or solo working sessions. We promise even non-coffee drinkers will love these destinations, too.
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Restaurant 62 in Abbotsford is hosting their 1st Annual Seed Swap on Saturday, March 24, 2012.
From 9am – 1pm, hobby gardeners are invited to exchange seeds and gardening information with other locals. Seeds from plants, flowers, trees or vegetables – all are ‘welcome’!
Registration is not required, simply show up on the day of with your seeds and swap away! The event is free to attend, with an optional donation to Women’s Resource Society of the Fraser Valley.
We think this sounds like fun! Some of our team members have hobby gardens – it would be great to see what our neighbours are growing and to exchange tips/tricks with one another. What a great way to connect!
Restaurant 62 Seed Swap
www.restaurant62.ca
2001 McCallum Road, Abbotsford
We first discovered geocaching a few years back, but only really became interesting/involved in this fun family activity last year. In the time of too many TV shows, video games and computers keeping us indoors, we love this activity that gets the family out of the house, enjoying the fresh air and exercising your inner explorer.
Geocaching is an outdoor treasure hunting game played worldwide. Using GPS-enabled devices (handheld or even a smartphone with GPS capabilities), users track small containers called geocaches. The GPS leads you to the area of the geocache and that’s when the fun begins! The containers are usually the size of an old film container, up to maybe a large tupperware lunchbox. The caches are hidden in their surroundings – in a tree trunk, under a bench – and players must use their hunting skills to uncover the hidden treasures.
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Vancouver’s Dining Out For Life takes place March 29, 2012.
Dining Out For Life is BC’s largest restaurant fundraiser. Over 200 restaurants participate in this annual event which benefits Friends for Life & A Loving Spoonful.
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If you are planning to stop by the 2012 Fraser Valley Women’s Expo this weekend, be sure to check out this stage schedule. The stage is a busy place this weekend, with everything from fashion shows to cake decorating. Here’s some of the fun we have captured so far at this exciting event!
Gente Bella Hair Show
Saturday morning Gente Bella Salon & Spa put on an incredible hair demonstration for all sorts of braids, updos and punk rock styles! Students of the Gente Bella Beauty Academy showed off their skills by completing up to 3 different hair styles in less than 30 minutes. Creating cool hair styles that fast in front of a crowd of people? Now that’s talent!
DIY Wedding Tips
Magna Goerke from DIY Wedding Resource shared her best tips and tricks for planning your own wedding. She taught us that wedding planners aren’t always necessary if you stay focused on what your are doing! Her best tips? Keep all your information together in one place, and manage your expectations! Our biggest disappointments occur when our expectations do not match our realities. Just starting to plan your wedding? Magna says to focus on the Big 4: Date, Guest List, Venue & Budget to get your wedding planning off to a good start!
Newlove Decor & Design
Keeping with the wedding theme, Erin Newlove from Newlove Decor & Design took the stage next to teach us all about wedding decor & new trends that are popping up in the 2012 wedding season. She encourages couples to really make their wedding their own, and bring in unique ideas that really display their personalities. Great creative with favours (consider using homemade jams, salsas, recipes on spoons, etc), get whimsical centerpieces (bring in natural elements like wild flowers instead of formal arrangements, mismatch vases, etc) and don’t be afraid to mix styles! Vintage styles are very trendy right now, with lots of opportunities to mix and match items to create a nostalgic feel. Best tips to keep things affordable? Don’t be afraid to shop sample sales, wedding swaps and craigslist to find any decor & accessory items you may need.
Kick Ass Cakes
Who wants to learn how to decorate cakes like a pro? We do! We do! Natasha from Kick Ass Cakes took the stage to demonstrate how to use fondant on your homemade cakes to really make them pop. Even though she put on a fantastic demonstration, I think it will be a while before we are making incredible cakes like she does! Her best tips? Make sure to work quickly with fondant and gum paste and be sure to return it to their containers when not in use to keep it ready to use for the next time!
Passionate Home – Annie Sloan Chalk Paint Presentation
Shabby chic style is all the rage when it comes to home decor, and Carrie from The Passionate Home is an expert! During her presentation, Carrie demonstrated how easy it can be to refinish and distress furniture using Annie Sloan chalk paint (now available for purchase at the Passionate Home). Lucky for us, using it is as easy as painting on, letting it dry and rubbing with a damp cloth! No icky smells and no mess means you don’t need a garage to give your old dresser a facelift! Visit the Passionate Home’s website to learn more about this amazing product!
Hudson Madison Design Team
We loved the Hudson Madison Design Team’s spring time decoration ideas and pointers on how to bring the outside in! Whether your style is glam, natural or eclectic they recommend keeping that style in mind 90% of the time to keep everything pulled together. The other 10% of the time – have fun! It’s the accessories that tend to be the most memorable and make your room, well, yours!
Gina Silvestri – The Raw Food Muse
Fraser Valley Women’s Expo
www.fraservalleywomensexpo.com
44140 Luckakuck Way, Chilliwack
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