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Dancing racing … peppers?

September 8, 2007 by Tricia

Grab the Photo Hunt code.
Photo Theme. Visit participants.

This weeks theme is Music

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Usually it’s hot peppers making people dance, or well maybe dash off to the washroom, but in this case it was the peppers that we dashing, dancing and racing!

I think it was the 7th inning of the baseball game when, during a short break, three Ranchero peppers came out to entertain the crowd. I’ve seen them do this before so this must be a regular feature for “Ranchero dip” .

The music that was played during the “big race” was la Cucoracha (I think). It was amusing to say the least. There were three peppers racing in all, but the yellow pepper got tripped early in the race. As you can see in this blurry photo the green pepper was in the lead and he? won the race.





Filed Under: Entertainment, Games, Humor, Photo Hunters, Recreation, Sports, Toronto Tagged With: amusing, baseball, baseball game, dance, entertain, game, Green, Music, pepper race, photo hunt, photohunt, race, racing peppers, Ranchero

Time to add some divine metal wall art to my plain walls

September 7, 2007 by Tricia

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Summers almost over and if you live in a climate that cools down in the autumn you’ll soon be spending more time indoors. I don’t know about you, but during Fall and Winter I tend to look around my house and ideas start brewing as to how I can redecorate to make it look even nicer. I know I’m not the only one who does this – I know people who rearrange their furniture and put out new wall decor and accessories two or three times a year!

We’re renovating our living room and dining room and I’m getting antsy to finish the rooms with accessories that I’ve had stored in boxes in the basement. I’m hoping that sometime in the next two months I’ll finally be able to make these rooms my own. We have a lot of items to accessorize the living room and dining room but I’ve never really decorated the walls in this house or my former apartment. The main reason why we never put up wall art was that our apartment had concrete walls and it was just too hard to hang anything and well, in this house we’re in the midst of renovations so we just haven’t been able to decorate yet.

viborgmetalwallart.gif Now I’m busy looking for wall art. I happened to visit an online store called Wall Decor and Home Accents. This store has a lovely selection of divine metal wall art in a variety of shapes and sizes that would make any wall look spectacular.

I really like the piece that’s called Viborg Metal Wall Art. It’s the photo that I’ve included above – isn’t that interesting? Some might think that it has an abstract modern look and I’d agree, but the piece also reminds me of nature with it’s shades of brown. It reminds me of a tree – perhaps tree bark? What comes to mind when you look at that piece? Certainly it could be a conversation piece if placed on a wall in a room where people gather.

vantania.gif If you like wall art you really should visit the Wall Decor and Home Accents website and have a look at their selection. The metal wall art really is divine. I don’t think there’s a piece there that I don’t like.

I must be in a nature mood tonight as the second piece of metal wall art that I’ve added to this post is called Vantania and it’s most definitely tree like. It appears to be composed of panels, but I could be mistaken.

The online store also carries architectural pieces, wall clocks, wall mirrors, candle wall scones and wrought iron decor. Many of the pieces are on sale right now, so if you are interested in finding some pieces to brighten up a plain wall of your home take a look. If you buy now you’ll save some money! Oh and Christmas isn’t too far off, some of these items would make fantastic Christmas or even house warming gifts.

Filed Under: Art, Decor, Gifts, Home and Garden, Home and Lifestyle, Home Decor, Recreation, Shopping Tagged With: abstract, accents, accessories, architectural pieces, Art, buy, candle wall scones, christmas, christmas gift, conversation piece, decorate walls, divine metal wall art, furniture, gift, Gifts, home, home accent, house, house warming gift, idea, ideas, interest, metal wall art, modern, online store, rectangular, redecorate, round, sale, save money, shapes, sizes, square, style, wall art, wall clocks, wall decor, Wall Decor and Home Accents, wall mirrors, website, wrought iron decor

We’ll be having leftovers tonight

September 7, 2007 by Tricia

I can’t believe how many times I’ve eaten food from a restaurant in the last seven days! Five times! Five I say. That’s a lot.

Of course that’s unusual for us. The only reason we weren’t having home cooked meals over the last week was due to our family reunion. We kept meeting up in restaurants – what can I say!

Then last night, well … it was my birthday. I didn’t want to cook, and as I said in an earlier post my husband is NOT a cook. As much as I’m sure he would have loved to cook us a nice meal it wouldn’t have been a good one. So we ordered out.

A few months ago my husband discovered a very nice Italian restaurant in the area. I’m not really big on pasta dishes, but I must say the two times we’ve ordered meals from this restaurant I’ve been very happy with my meal. So – guess what I had for dinner last night? Yep, a very nice pasta dinner from our newly discovered restaurant. I had fusilli with Chicken. They include grilled peppers and eggplant in the pasta and it compliments it nicely. Chris had Fettuccine Alfredo, his favorite pasta dish. I swear he could eat that every day. We each ordered a slice of chocolate cake for desert, but we were too full and didn’t end up eating desert. We didn’t even touch the fantastic salad we’d ordered either.

In fact, we didn’t even finish our Pasta dishes. Are serving sizes getting even larger? I think every single restaurant meal I was served over the last week was far too large. I can’t eat a lot of food at one time because of my Crohn’s, but when Chris sets aside food for later or to take home in a doggy bag you know the serving was too large. Oh well, we’ll have some delicious leftovers for dinner tonight.

Have you found that most restaurant servings are far too big? Perhaps that’s how they justify the price they are charging?

Filed Under: Dining and Restaurants, Entertainment, Home and Lifestyle, Life with Chris, Recreation Tagged With: Birthday, chicken, Chris, crohns, delivery, dinner, doggy bag, eat, eating, Family, Food, home, husband, large servings, leftovers, restaurant, restaurants, take out

Thousands of lighting products at Farreys to choose from!

September 7, 2007 by Tricia

On Monday evening I got together with my brothers and sister, nephews and nieces for our last big dinner out together for this family reunion. We had decided to meet at the Pickle Barrel restaurant downtown. There’s an escalator near the main entrance that takes you downstairs to the restaurant and they have beautiful modern chandeliers hanging over the escalator. You can almost touch them as you travel down the escalator.

Seeing these beautiful lights got my mind going again as to how to decorate our living room / dinning room when we finally finish our renovations. We definitely need new lighting!

With this in mind I visited Farreys.com. They have a huge variety of lighting fixtures, lamps, outdoor lighting and so on. You name it and I think they’ve got it. They should since they apparently have hundreds of thousands of styles of lights!

The main page of the site has a long list of many of the different lighting manufactures who’s lighting products they sell. So if you want to look for a particular lighting manufactures lighting fixtures that’s the place to start. They carry lighting made by Ambience, fine art lamps, Quoizel, Sea Gull Lighting, George Kovacs, Hinkley Lighting, Minka Lavery, Kichler Lighting, Fontana Arte, Maxim Lighting, Flos, Murray Feiss and many more.

Naturally since I’m looking for a chandelier for our dining room I started browsing the chandelier category. You know, they aren’t lying when they say they have hundreds of thousands of lighting products. Just the chandelier section alone has pages and pages of different styles of chandeliers. There are so many styles to look at that I think I’m going to hold off and visit the site on the weekend when I have a bit more time to really go over the choices. Believe me – if I can’t find something I like at Farreys I’m way too picky! lol

Filed Under: Decor, Home and Garden, Home and Lifestyle, Home Decor, Shopping Tagged With: accent lamps, bath vanity strips, bathroom, beautiful, ceiling light fixtures, chandeliers, deck lights, Decor, desk lamps, dining room, Downtown, energy saving lighting, Farreys, Farreys.com, flood lights, floor lamps, flush and semi flush, kitchen, landscape lighting, light, lighting, living room, mini pendants, new lights, Outdoor lights, pendant fixtures, picture lights, pier mount lanterns, post mount lanterns, Product, Products, style, wall mounted fixtures, wall mounted sconces

Update on my use of Kontera

September 7, 2007 by Tricia

Do you use Kontera to monetize your site? I’ve been using it since sometime in July on the majority of my sites and over all I’m quite happy with the results.

I have been in contact with my representative at Kontera though, because my impression stats (and resulting income) for all the blogs on my Feverishthoughts.com domain are a lot lower than I expected. I’m comparing my results to the amount of impressions I’m getting on my main website (not a blog) which probably has a few hundred less page views per day than all the sites on the feverishthoughts.com domain combined. You’d think that the Kontera link impression numbers would be about the same, but their not. I’m getting four to five times more impressions on my website than on my feverishthoughts blogs.

I’m using Lucias KonteraControl wordpress plugin to control when the Kontera links are allowed to appear on my blog posts. Naturally I don’t want them in the posts that I do for my advertisers – at least not for whatever amount of time is required by each companies TOS. I don’t think the plugin should be interfering in the amount of impressions that I get in the posts that I allow Kontera in, but something is causing there to be less impressions.

We’re trying to figure it out.

If you are using the KonteraControl plugin are you getting the amount of impressions that you think you should be? Say at least 3 to 5 links per post?

Filed Under: Affiliates, Make Money, Money, Sales and Marketing, Web and Technology, Wordpress, Wordpress Plugins Tagged With: blog, blogger, blogs, domain, feverishthoughts.com, happy, July, kontera, link, links, Money, my sites, plugin, post, posts, website, Wordpress, Wordpress Plugin

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