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Do you ever get the urge to redecorate a room?

July 23, 2008 by Tricia

I really enjoy decorating my home and picking out furniture and accessories. I’ve always been interested in decorating.

It goes back to when I was a young teenager. My mom was very handy and she decided that my room needed an update so she took me to pick out fabrics for curtains and a comforter for my bed that she would then make herself. We also picked out wallpaper for my room as well.

Once we’d made our decisions I helped my mom make the items for my room and paint and wall paper my room. Then it was my turn to decide where I wanted my furniture. Naturally with the room having a whole new look I put the bed and other furnishings in different areas than they had been prior to our re-decorating.

After that, at least once a year I’d move my furniture around to give the room a different look. That habit stuck with me when I moved out of my parents home and went on to live in my first apartment and now our house. I still move furniture around or buy new pieces to change the look and feel of the room.

I’m not planning on buying any new furniture in the near future – we still have to finish our renovations – however, the interior decorator in me is jonesing to re-decorate. So, I satisfy that urge by occasionally going out and looking at new furniture with friends or relatives that are thinking of redecorating their home, or I browse online in order to find items that I might want to use in our house once we are done renovating and I can finally start re-decorating!

One online store that I’ve visited a few times is Concept Furniture. They carry a large variety of styles of modern furniture. The majority of their furniture is made in Europe – Italy, Spain, Belgium or Germany – and I think their selection is absolutely gorgeous.

If you are thinking of redecorating a room or perhaps buying furniture for you new home why not take a look at Concept Furniture? You’ll find a large selection of furniture for bedrooms, living rooms and dining rooms including tables, closets, entertainment centers, tv stands and more.

If you are interested in tasteful quality decor visit Concept Furniture.





Filed Under: Appliances and Accessories, Decor, Home and Garden, Home and Lifestyle, Home Decor, Home Renovation, Shopping Tagged With: accessories, bed, bedroom, bedrooms, Belgium, buy, buying furniture, closets, comforter, Concept, concept furniture, Decor, decorate, decorating, decorator, dining room, Europe, furnishings, furniture, gorgeous, home, house, interior, Italy, living room, modern, modern furniture, new furniture, New home, new look, online store, planning, redecorate, redecorating, renovating, renovation, renovations, selection, Shopping, update, variety, wallpaper

Tiffany – a pretty name for a lovely rose

July 20, 2008 by Tricia

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My Tiffany Hybrid Tea rose is growing tall and doing better than it ever has in the past. I’ve been growing this rose for about five years and it never bloomed much at all. It would only give me one or two blooms at a time and only two or three times a year.

This year it’s a blooming machine! It’s taller than it’s been in the past and it’s literally covered in blooms, and such pretty blooms they are!

Cluster of Tiffany rose blooms

It’s such a pretty rose. I’m happy to finally see it doing well. I hope this continues!

Tiffany rose flower

I just wish it had a little more scent. To me – it’s almost scentless.

Gardeners, Plant and Nature lovers can join in every Sunday, visit As the Garden Grows for more information. GTS participants remember to check in at As the Garden Grows each week so that we’ll know you made a new post!

Filed Under: Gardening, Green Thumb Sunday, Photography, Toronto, Tricia's Garden Tagged With: blooms, delicate, doing well, full of blooms, garden, Green Thumb Sunday, GTS, Hybrid tea rose, no scent, pink rose, plant, Tiffany, Tiffany Hybrid, Tiffany rose

My blog wasn’t loading earlier thanks to a new plugin

July 19, 2008 by Tricia

If you tried to visit my site earlier today and had trouble it was probably due to a plugin that I just started using the other day.

I added the SezWho WP plugin to my site sometime last week. This plugin allows you to rate others comments and even see where else on the web they’ve been commenting lately. Likewise, the blog owner can be tracked on the web through their comment profile on SezWho as well.

I had been using the plugin on one of my other sites for a few months, but when EntreCard partnered with Sezwho last week I decided to add the plugin to two more blogs.

Unfortunately it seems that when you use the plugin your blog is connected to the Sezwho network and if Sezwho goes down or experiences server slow downs so does your blog.

After I got back from the beach I discovered that the sites using Sezwho weren’t loading properly and when I tried to access the Sezwho website I couldn’t reach it either. So I turned off the plugins. Problem solved.

SezWho appears to be up and running again now. Their blog says they had a Kernel crash this afternoon and that was the cause of the problems. Still I think I might just keep the plugins turned off for another day just to make sure they’ve corrected their server problem.

In other news … I’m still trying to find ways to supplement my at home income. Blogging and maintaining my websites brings in a fairly good income but I’m looking for other ways to earn a living from home. Anyone have any tips on good small business opportunitites – definitely not scammy ones please! I seem to be doing well with internet related opportunities so I guess I’m looking for something else to add to my internet earnings.

Filed Under: Blogging, Computers, Internet, Make Money, Software, Web and Technology, Wordpress, Wordpress Plugins Tagged With: beach, blog, Blogging, blogs, comment, comments, computer, Crash, earnings, EntreCard, Internet, network, plugin, problem, problems, profile, rate, rate others, server, SezWho, slow, small business, Technology, trouble, web, website

Another day at the beach

July 19, 2008 by Tricia

I’m so tired right now.

Earlier today Chris and I took Midnight to Petsmart to get some dog food and to get some new toys. Midnight’s a big chewer so she’s going through her toys fairly fast. I wish we didn’t have to keep getting her so many toys, but it’s better for her to chew on something like a toy than my stairs or the living room table leg like she has done in the past!

It was another hot day here in Toronto so we decided to take our Lab to Cherry beach so that she could cool off in the lake. I guess we were there for a few hours. Midnight had a great time playing with one of her new toys in the water (an orange training dummy) and did her best to keep the other dogs from stealing her toy. Most of the other dogs that were at the beach today weren’t big swimmers so Midnight was able to keep her toy to herself by swimming further away from shore than the other dogs dared to go.

She had a great time but I still think she had a better time two weeks ago when we first took her to the lake for a swim.

We’re all tired after our day out. Midnight is crashed out on our lazy boy chair. Chris is lying on the love seat and I’m stretched out on the couch. Midnight loves lying on the furniture – especially where ever we were just sitting. I really have to check out some furniture stores or pet stores to see if they have any dog style couches as I’m sure she’d love to have her own piece of furniture. She’d still steal our favorite spots too I’m sure!

It’s supposed to be warm here again tomorrow but it’s also supposed to rain a lot so I guess it’s good that we got outside to do some fun things today.

What did you do today? Did you spend any time outside? Do anything fun?

Filed Under: Home and Lifestyle, Our Puppy, Pets and animals, Recreation, the beach, Toronto Tagged With: beach, Cherry beach, chew, chewer, Chris, cool off, couch, dog, dog food, dogs, Food, fun, furniture, Lab, lake, Lake Ontario, living room, Midnight, new toy, outside, pet, pets, Petsmart, play, rain, shore, swimmer, swimming, the beach, tired, Toronto, toy, toys, water

We’re going to a Tom Cochrane concert next week

July 17, 2008 by Tricia

I got an email from my brother last night. Remember I told you last week that he told me that he was going to try to get Chris a free pass to the PGA golf tour? Well he managed to get two passes!

Now I’m not all that interested in watching a golf tournament, but I do believe that I will be going. You see at the end of each days rounds, well the last three or four days of the tournament anyway, there’s going to be a free concert. Our passes are for Saturday July 26th (at Glen Abbey) and that evening Tom Cochrane and Red Rider will be putting on a concert.

I love Tom Cochrane’s music. I guess one of his most famous songs is Lunatic Fringe or perhaps Life is a Highway. I like all of his music and I’ve never managed to see him play live so this will be a real treat!

I just hope that I’m feeling well enough to go that day. My tum has been causing lots of problems in the last two weeks. Darn Crohn’s. I’ve had terrible fevers and lots of abdominal pain, plus I’ve been losing weight. It’s like I’ve been taking Phentermine or something the way my weight is dropping. That’s the bad thing about Crohn’s, well one of the bad things – you can really lose a lot of weight very fast when you are in a flare. It’s bad.

The last time my Crohn’s flared really bad and caused a lot of weight loss I lost about 40 pounds that I did NOT need to lose in less than a month. I hope that’s not going to happen this time too.

Anyway, I’m glad my brother got us the passes and I’ll be resting up over the next week in the hopes that I can go to the golf tournament and concert.

Filed Under: Canada, Culture, Entertainment, Family, Health Fitness and Beauty, Inflammatory bowel disease, Music, Recreation, Sports, Toronto Tagged With: abdominal pain, band, brother, Chris, concert, crohns disease, day pass, Entertainment, free concert, free passes, Glen Abbey, golf tournament, July, life is a highway, lunatic fringe, Music, musician, PGA, rapid weight loss, red rider, Saturday, Tom Cochrane, Tour, treat, weight, weight loss

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