Random Thoughts about life in general, living in the big city of Toronto
Wordless Wednesday
Malva Sylvestra Zebrina – that’s the formal name of this flower. what a mouthful for such a pretty striped mallow flower.
I love this dependable little plant. I grow Malva in front of my William Baffin rose bush er tree. The flowers bloom in front of the roses bare lower branches hiding it’s ugly “knees”. It makes a great combination along with some lavender and some phlox.
Twenty two days and counting. Halloween will soon be here!
Are you ready for Halloween yet? Do you have your costumes, party supplies, decorations and so on? No? Well what are you waiting for? You’ve got to have a costume for Halloween.
If you don’t have a costume for Halloween yet you might be in luck! Costumes Inc is offer a coupon which will give you 10% off all orders that are between $40 and $75, or if your purchase is worth more than $75 you’ll get 15%.
Costumes Inc has a large selection of Costumes for adults and children. They also carry just about everything else you need to celebrate Halloween such as decorations, costume accessories – wigs, makeup, props and party supplies.
I know that whenever I write about Halloween a number of people leave comments stating that it’s one of their favorite holidays. Why, of course it is! It’s a fun holiday. You can dress up as your alter ego, in fantasy costumes and pretty much be anything or anyone you can imagine just for the day.
You always hear about costumes at this time of year, but I’ve always though of costumes as a year round kind of thing.
I mean people have themed dress up parties all the time, and who hasn’t heard or perhaps even been to a college Toga party? I really enjoy costume parties and wish people had them more often.
If you are planning on attending a party on your own you might be interested in looking at some of the Sexy Costumes at Costumes Inc. While I’m sure that sexy nurse costumes will always be popular you can now dress up as a sexy pirate, Buccaneer Wench if you want to stand out from the crowd.
If you are married or otherwise taken you and your significant other could find costumes that compliment one another. Perhaps a group of your friends are getting together? There’s nothing wrong with finding costumes for everyone to match a certain theme or genre.
That’s the great thing about costumes. You can create your own unique look starting with a basic costume and add accessories such as wigs, hats, makeup and props or you can purchase a costume that comes with a few accessories to complete the look that you were aiming to achieve.
If you visit the site be sure to scroll down to the bottom of the page of each costume that you like as you’ll be able to see some of the suggested accessories for that costume.
The costumes come in a variety of sizes ranging from infant to Plus size costumes which means that you should be able to find a great costume for anyone at Costumes Inc.
So remember there’s only 22 days left until Halloween arrives so if you haven’t yet picked out your costume you should take a look at the selection at Costumes Inc.
So …. Did all my fellow Canadians have a great Thanks Giving?
We mostly did things around home this weekend.
On Saturday I ended up going out on yet another shopping spree! Our printer hasn’t worked for ages and each week it seems I’ve been getting someone asking me to sign and fax something back to them or when we purchase something like tickets to a concert the tickets are electronic and must be printed out. So we needed a printer.
I got an HP all in one printer. The all in one includes a fax, scanner and printing capabilities.
We actually had to use it as soon as we finally got it set up on Saturday because Chris bought tickets to see Saga play in a Toronto bar and of course the tickets were electronic and the only way he’d be able to get his tickets was to print them out. I was also able to print and sign our confirmation for our airline tickets for our Las Vegas trip and then fax it back to the company from which we’d purchased our travel package.
Sunday was just a lazy day. I wasn’t feeling well at all so I spent way too much time lying on the couch. Thank you Crohns. I did however pick out some new themes for a few of our sites and I will be updating this site and a few others sometime this week. Especially now that I really know how well widgets work. Perhaps I’ll finally get this site to load quicker! Yeahhhh! Oh yeah, the new theme will load the content first – not the sidebars first like this theme does. I hate that. I’m sure you do too.
Earlier today we went to my husbands home town and had Thanks Giving dinner with Chris’ family. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, my mother in law cannot cook. She bought preformed chicken breasts – you know those pressed boneless ones? Yuck. There was also sausages, milkless mashed potatoes, squished turnip and stuffing. Needless to say the only thing that I found decent was the stuffing.
I guess I’ll be cooking Chris and I a small turkey dinner sometime this week as I was really looking forward to turkey and what we did end up eating was really disappointing.
How was your Thanks Giving?
In my Green Thumb posts on As the Garden Grows and You are in My World Now I was talking about how we’ve had some strange weather here in Toronto.
Flowers are still blooming away as if it were August or September rather than October, as you can see from the photo that I’ve included of the Phlox that is growing in my garden and that it’s currently on it’s third set of blooms!
My raspberries are still producing fruit, and as I said on my gardening blog, some of my flowering vines have begun to produce berries of their own too. Berries that I’ve never noticed before.
It’s been a warm sticky weekend here in Toronto as well. We had air conditioning of all things on yesterday since it was so muggy! Crazy weather.
I hope that the weather in your area has been a little more pleasant than it has been here.
Any Canadians reading this? Happy Thanks Giving! Yes, here in Canada we celebrate Thanks Giving a little earlier than our American friends. Probably because the weather is usually a lot cooler in many parts of our country by this time of year. Not this year though … LOL
Gardeners, Plant and Nature lovers can join in every Sunday, visit As the Garden Grows for more information.
Last night around 6 pm as I was waiting for Chris to get home from work the phone rang.
I always look at the display on the phone to see who’s calling and if I don’t recognize the number I often don’t answer it as it’s usually someone trying to sell me something or lately one of our Provincial political parties asking “Can we count on you?”.
So I looked at the telephone display and I saw the words “the Jewelery Doctors”. At first I thought why is a jewelry store calling me? I’m not in the business anymore and the only reason I could think of was that maybe something happened to my sister who’s still in the jewelry trade and they were calling me to help her.
Then a little light went on and I remembered that the Jewelery Doctor was our friend old Bob. Chris and I used to work in the same building as him when we were both jewelers. That’s how we all became good friends.
If you ever need custom made jewelery you must visit Bob. His work is not just “designer inspired jewelry”. No, it is designer jewelry. He can make absolutely anything you can think of and his designs are amazing. I didn’t do the same kind of work as Bob. Chris’ work in the trade was closer to Bobs and I know he aspired to create beautiful pieces like our friend bob.
We had a nice talk on the phone. I probably haven’t talked to him for about a year since he’s a hard man to get a hold of. Chris, in fact, had been downtown on Tuesday when he went to submit our Passport applications to the passport office and he’d dropped into the jewelry trade building that we used to work in to visit with my sister and some of our old friends. Unfortunately Bob wasn’t around when he’d dropped in, but he heard that Chris had been there so he was calling to say hello.
Unfortunately Chris wasn’t home when he called and when Chris tried to call him back he’d already left the office.
It’ll probably be several more months before we all end up talking again.
That’s one nice thing about good friends. Even if you don’t manage to talk or get together often it’s easy to fall right back into place once you do get together.