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DEAR Mattie: What should I wear to work? Styling in Edgemont Dear Edgemont: This is a very exciting time for a professional wardrobe. The look this season is made up of many separates that, put together, look like a modern suit.

IT'S finally starting to look like spring around here, so what better time to experiment with colour in your makeup routine.

Jen Pospiech (left) and Kylie Nabata participate in the recent Tanning is Out event at Handsworth secondary, as part of the Tan Free Grad Challenge, for which students pledge to be tan free for graduation and prom. Info: www.cancergameplan.ca.

Elena Grant, owner of Sofiabella boutique in Edgemont Village, will be going shoeless on ethical footwear brand Toms fifth annual One Day Without Shoes event, next Tuesday, April 10.

- Jam Making Month-By-Month, by Mel Sellings. Published by The Good Life Press, 192 pages, $27.95. MEL Sellings' version of jam making is not done in a pristine white kitchen where all stains are banished.

PEANUT butter offers great nutritional bang for your buck as an excellent source of protein (eight grams per tablespoon).

THE first time I wrote about the importance of seeking out wild salmon over farmed - about a decade ago - I got an interesting reaction. One reader emailed me and told me not to bother writing about things I didn't understand.

Parents in my groups often talk about the struggle to agree on how to raise the kids. It's not always easy to be on the same page.

I find the best home ideas always come from friends and family. It seems there are all kinds of ways to shrewdly store our household items these days.