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1) Freshen Up

Wished you had a designer who could rearrange a room, spruce up your decor or help you pick paint colours to liven up your living space? This item is for you. Glen Peloso, the star of Renovate your Closet and Restaurant Makeover and owner of Glen Peloso creates a space that is truly a reflection of who you are. He comes to your house and reworks an existing space making best use of space, light, and decor. He will then work with you to create a new colour palette for your whole house. Take advantage of over 10 years experience and give your home a fresh look.




2) Best Dinner Party

Hosting a dinner party is always fun but don't you wish you had more time to spend with your guests? Wish too that you had time to match each course with the perfect wine? Wish no more! The head chef from The Art of Catering will plan a tasting menu for your next dinner party (of six people). He will come to your home prepare and serve dinner for you and your guests. A master wine maker from the Mark Anthony Group will select and supply the perfect vintage for each dinner course. Your wine maker will also come to your house to pour and introduce each wine and to discuss with you and your guests wines and winemaking.




3) Live Green. Go Local.

Wish more of what you do was "home made"? Many home arts are being lost. Thankfully JK Kitchens honours local producers and celebrates our local harvests in their catering, restaurants and through the art of preserving. Jamie Kennedy's ew kitchen at King and Parliament welcomes you and five friends to a private class on the art and science of preserving. Your group will process start to finish three different batches of preserves from fresh local produce. Depending on the date you may can tomatoes, strawberries, peaches, beans, cherries.... You and your friends each take home the fruits of your labour! *ll learn safe easy methods for canning that you can then do at home.




4) Queen West Arts!

Artist Liz Pead, takes a group of eight on a gallery crawl through the wilds of Queen West-West. Ideally your tour is in September with the kick-off of the fall exhibition season, but if you prefer a trudge through the snow, we can arrange a time that suits your posse. After visiting some of the best and the brightest Toronto has to offer, the group gathers at Liz's Studio in a secret location near the Gladstone for a nightcap and victuals. Liz Pead grew up in New Brunswick with water and trees but somehow landed in Toronto just before Y2K. The world DIDN'T melt down so she realized her life-long dream of playing hockey. Armed with an obsession for the Group of Seven and the great game of hockey, she explores ideas of Canadian identity and the sites that we use to form it. Liz graduates this year from OCAD as the Medal Winner in Drawing and Painting. She lives in the into Toronto's Annex neighbourhood with her husband and son. To compliment this package - a one-year subscription to Canadian Art magazine for you and each of your guests and a one year membership to the newly renovated AGO.




5) A Decadent Garden

Your Deck Co., specializing in the design and construction of quality custom decks helps transform your backyard into a dream space for outdoor entertaining and relaxing with a gift certificate for $750. The Your Deck team is professional, they show up when they promise, keep a clean work site, are committed to top quality workmanship, and they leave customers with a well built, top quality deck. They have been featured in Canadian Home Workshop, and Canadian Gardening and have appeared on the HGTV show 'Pools, Patios and Decks'. Once installed add the finishing and decadent touch from Yorkshire Gardens a wonderfully elegant container and a matching pedestal filled with greenery and plants valued at $625. Visit www.yourdeck.ca and www.yorkshiregardenservices.com for more info.




6) California Dreamin'

"The perfect use of space can literally change your life." California Closets have mastered the art of spatial design, creating custom storage solutions for every room of your home in a variety of combinations, finishes and styles. California Closets will create a custom space solution to meet your every need. Book your in-home consolation and get ready for your dream closets. Redeem your $2,000 gift certificate at any one of their many showrooms.
www.californiaclosets.com