Random Thoughts about life in general, living in the big city of Toronto
I love this little rose plant. It’s called Morden Sunrise and it produces the most lovely multicolored roses.
Morden Sunrise is a fairly compact rose plant. Mine has never reached more than 2 to 2.5 feet tall, yet it produces a number of bright blooms regularly throughout the growing season. It’s also a hardy rose so those in cool climates would do well with this rose.
Gardeners, Plant and Nature lovers can join in every Sunday, visit As the Garden Grows for more information.
I’ve been trying to think of what to get my youngest niece for Christmas. She’s almost 10 years old and she’s a real girly girl.
It can sometimes be hard to buy gifts for kids when you don’t have any of your own. There are so many trendy items that are hot one month and dead the next. It’s hard to keep up.
I’m pretty sure that she’d love it if I could get her High School Musical tickets. It looks like the Ice Tour is here in Toronto all through the week of Christmas. Surprisingly they even have a show on Christmas day!
Do you think that that’s something a 10 year old girl would really like to get for Christmas? Any other ideas?
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I love growing these annual celosia flowers in my garden each year. They’re short plants, maybe 5 to 6 inches in height, but with their vibrant colors they pack a punch in the garden.
Now that we have a dog that will be sharing our garden with us we’ll have to remove a few of our plants that are known to be extremely toxic. I have no idea if celosia is toxic or not. I guess that will be another one I’ll have to look up.
I always find that it’s during the cool months of Autumn, Winter and early Spring that I concentrate on my house I sometimes start small renovation projects or I’ll move the furniture around to give a room a new look and often, I’ll buy some new accessories for a room.
I believe it was last year that I got new curtains for my kitchen. I’m not sure what I’ll change this winter but I’m sure I’ll find something that needs replacing. I know I need new blinds for the basement windows, perhaps that will be one of my projects this year.
If you have been thinking of getting new blinds for your home you might be interested in visiting Terrys Fabrics. They have a lovely selection of blinds in both traditional and modern styles. As I was implying above, even a simple change such as new blinds can change the look of a room. Considering that Terrys Fabrics has such a wide selection of blinds I’m sure you’ll be able to find ones that will complement the furnishings within the room you place them in.
Terrys Fabrics carries Roller blinds, Roman Blinds, Roman Blind Kits, Venetian Blinds, Wooden blinds and vertical blinds. Their Roman and Roller blinds come in a variety of colors, plain and patterned fabrics as well as bamboo and Jute. Their Venetian blinds come in metal, a variety of woods and even leather!
All of the blinds at Terrys Fabrics are offered at discount prices, but don’t let the low prices make you think they are low quality. Each blind carried by the company must meet their exacting standards.
Visit Terrys Fabrics to see their wide selection of blinds. Most of their blinds are in stock and are able to be shipped out quickly, so take a look and perhaps you’ll have some new blinds for your home soon.
Well I think I can say that our house is a lot cleaner these days than it usually is!
Last week when we’d decided that we were going to get a puppy we got busy cleaning up the house in anticipation. I knew the pup would probably be into everything so it gave me a good excuse to pick up a few things that had been lying around and the whole house looks tidier as a result.
You might remember that I’ve said several times that our house has very few closets and the ones we have are pretty small. There is no closet on the main floor at all! We used to keep at least one pair of shoes each on the mat at the front door. Now our shoes are kept outside in the front porch! Talk about getting cold feet before going outside!
In the first few days that the pup was here she made quite a few messes on the floor. Remember she was sick and had loose stool and diarrhea. It wasn’t her fault but we had to clean the floor a number of times. I think I mopped the floor at least 5 times on Monday alone! She’s doing better now about accidents – she’ll go on her puppy training pads or outside for the most part now, although she’s still have the occasional accident in other areas of the house.
Of course she’s still finding things to get into and as she finds things we’ve tried to find a new place to put these items. Like I said we only have a couple very small closets – so we don’t really have any space to put the items we have to move so many of these things are ending up in the basement. Our basement is already cluttered though as it was already a big storage area.
I think I’m going to have to look into getting some shelves or some type of storage system to put on the main floor for the things that we use occasionally and don’t want to store in the basement or hide away in an already stuffed closet.