If you carry more than a few bottles of vintage ports, you may be interested in devoting an entire (climate controlled) room to storing and tasting wine. A wine cellar is great for increasing the value of your home, and looks spectacular when done as well as the Wine Cellar featured in the Ski Magazine Dream home designed by Utah's favorite Michael Upwall.

Get that James Bond feel for your home by adding mystery via a hidden passage way to a uber cool wine cellar. Creative Home Engineering is a company bent on disguising anything to reveal portals to secret areas. See a video of some of their amazing hidden passages by clicking here.

But does it get any better than this 16 meter tall wine tower? The Raddison Blu Hotel in Zurich features a "wine angel" whose soul job is to retrieve your selected bottle of wine or Champagne from their vast selection of 4000 bottles. So much more entertaining than the bartender heading down to the basement.

We celebrated the long weekend with BBQ's and playing in the sun with our now toddling toddler. There is just something about this hot weather that has me breaking out the fun colors! These four mouthblown tumbler glasses have such a fun shape! Aptly named the Hula Tumbler glasses, they roll and swirl as playfully as their colors imply.

After a lovely visit to the incredible spa at the Muskoka resort; Red Leaves, I am looking for a beverage server like the ones they had dotted conveniently around the spa rooms. Cool iced water with fresh fruits like citrus and strawberries is served ever so graciously in glass beverage servers.

The stylish GG Collection Beverage Server from Horchow has an attractive hammered glass look and rustic metal base. What better way to play hostess?

Having a casual fete? Check out these super beachy 2.75 gallon Ceramic Beverage Dispensers. At just $65 each, they can add a great pop of color.

The warm weather has been unseasonably generous lately, the flowers are blooming and I see two birds outside my window today who seem to be seriously considering to build a nest in my growing red maple tree. Few other creatures have been ornamented with such gorgeous colours and vivid plumage! Welcome all my feathered friends, this one is for you!

The fresh colors of the "Chirp" dinnerware by Lenox is a bold watercolor blast of color to get you out of the winter doldrums. Oh robins' egg blue and flushed corals can get me right back into Spring.

This fabric by Duralee has very similar coloring and features a fun bird and botanical print.