Delicious Bites, Style, Beauty and More at the National Women’s Show

DelectablyChic! will be covering this year’s National Women’s Show, to be held at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre starting this Friday.  In addition to celebrity appearances, cooking demonstrations, samples, fashion shows (including one featuring Toronto firefighters!), there are going to be over 450 exhibitors including Holy Cannoli, Sabra Dipping Co., Windfall Brides and more.  Montreal-based […]

New Year’s Eve: How Do YOU Celebrate?

What are your traditions?  When I was little, my (late maternal) grandmother would light candles with me.  I have NO CLUE where that came from.  She told me it was a “tradition” but I don’t know anyone who does it.  Maybe it was something she invented, but it wasn’t something I ever asked her.  It’s […]

National Women’s Show Tickets Giveaway! – CLOSED

Courtesy of the National Women’s Show, DelectablyChic! is giving away TWO SETS of four tickets to the National Women’s Show in Toronto, which will be at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre from November 7 to November 9.  This year’s event promises to be very exciting with an amazing guests such as Stacey Mackenzie and Toronto […]

Wearing Your Street with Address Apparel

Have you ever wanted a dress named after a familiar street?  If you live in Toronto, you got it.  Address Apparel, which had its fall preview recently, is a Toronto-based dress line that really shows the love for our city (get it?  A DRESS APPAREL and ADDRESS APPAREL??).  Each dress style is named after a […]

Cake Pops, Cocktails and Heels with eFashionista

Style event company eFashionista held this fun and fabulous event on August 16 which brought together some 15 of Toronto’s fashionistas all donning high heels and raspberry coloured aprons while learning how to make delicious cake pops and cotton candy martinis (and considering that the CNE recently opened, I guess you can say that we […]

Prostate Cancer Awareness at Brassaii’s Movember Event

The hip, happening locale of Brassaii took on a serious note with a special fundraiser for Movember organized by Arie Sibonney.  Movember is a “month for men across the country grow their wildest ‘mo’ (while women tolerate it) in an effort to acknowledge the victims of prostate cancer and raise awareness towards finding a cure.” […]

Condos, Three-Plus Units and Families

I’m a condo person.  I was raised in a house, but have lived in a condominium since I was 19 years old, first with my family and now with my husband.  I like the lifestyle.  No need to worry about shoveling the snow in the winter, raking the leaves in the fall or mowing and […]

TNT Celebrates Big Two-Oh With Special Guest, Nicole Richie

Toronto’s trendy fashionistas and special celebrity guest, Nicole Richie, celebrated  TNT The New Trend‘s 20th anniversary with an evening of shopping Thursday evening at its newly-expanded Hazelton Lanes location.  The new store is 18,000 square feet over two floors, and is home to brands such as Herve Leger, Theory, 3.1 Phillip Lim, Nicole Richie’s House […]

The Ranch at Live Oak in Malibu: Unplugged and Recharged

Within every generation there is a counterculture that seeks to challenge societal conventions. In the 1960s, psychedelic guru Timothy Leary famously urged young people to “Turn on, tune in, drop out” – that is, detach themselves from their surroundings with the use of LSD. It is hard to imagine this message resonating with today’s hyper-caffeinated […]

PlayBook Apps to include Music, Podcasting

While RIM still has NOT announced PlayBook’s release date (rumours are circulating that it’s April 10 or AFTER iPad 2’s release), they’re slowly letting the outside world know what one would find on the device.  Recently, they announced some of the media apps, whic include Music Store by 7digital as well as podcasting among other things.  […]