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Unique selection of customizable wedding invitations at MyGatsby

September 17, 2007 by Tricia

After seeing my nieces at our family reunion over the long weekend I suspect that it won’t be long before at least two of the girls will be getting married. Each of my nieces brought their boyfriend to meet the family. That’s a big deal!

In fact, my brother paid for the air fare for his two daughters boyfriends so that they could visit with us. Airfare, hotel and meeting the family? Yes, I’m certain there will be weddings soon. Lucky me! An excuse to head out West.

Do you know anyone that’s getting married soon? Perhaps you’re planning your own wedding?

Maybe you’re looking for the perfect wedding invitation? If you are, you need look no further as I’m sure you’ll be impressed with the wedding invitations from MyGatsby.com. You might also like the fact that you can get up to 30% off the price of Wedding invitations at MyGatsby.com as well.

There are so many choices at MyGatsby.com. You can select from top quality name brand invitations from manufacturers such as Paper Prince, Rytex Weddings, Inviting Company and Anna Griffin or you can create your own custom wedding invitation using MyGatsby.com’s by mixing and matching over 100 different colors and patterns.

Clients can use the Design Studio at MyGatsby.com to choose the typestyles; Foil, letterpress, engraving and thermography ink colors and paper colors when creating their custom invitations.

On a budget? What wedding isn’t? You can also take advantage of the printable wedding invitations from the MyGatsby.com collection. These invitations come in lovely coordinated colors and designs. Purchase your favorite designs unprinted and then once you have your order delivered you can use laser or ink jet printer to create your unique personal invitation from the comfort of your home or office.

Using the MyGatsby.com website is easy. You can click on any of the category links or you can search for wedding invitation by style, brand or even price range.

Do you see what I meant when I said there are so many choices? I think I’ll be sending a link to MyGatsby.com to my brother and sister in law. I’m fairly sure they’ll be helping their two daughters plan weddings soon!

Cool Parents Buy Bedding by VisionBedding

September 13, 2007 by Tricia

This is the time of year when many of us start to think about gifts for the holidays. Not only that, since we are indoors more often many of us begin to think of ways to redecorate our homes too.

If you are a parent you might be thinking of ways to change the style of one of your kids rooms. Perhaps you want to redecorate the baby room in a style more appropriate for your young child, or maybe you have a pre-teen and you’d like to give their room a more mature look? Certainly replacing the bedding will give a room a new fresh look.

Whenever I decide to give one of our bedrooms a new look I start with the bedding. I pick out a bedspread, or duvet with a lovely design and then I pick out accessories and even the wall color, if I’m repainting, using colors that I’ve picked from the new bedding. That way everything is beautifully co-ordinated.

One great place to visit when looking for bedding for teens is VisionBedding. They have a wide variety of unique designs from which to chose.

The bedding designs at VisionBedding are unique because it’s photo bedding. That’s right – photo bedding. There are several pre-made designs to chose from like the coral bedding included on the right, or you can personalize bedspreads, duvet covers, throw pillows, pillow shams and blankets with your own favorite photograph.

Wouldn’t you just be the coolest parent if you re-did your teenagers bedroom with some of the fantastic pre-made Teen Bedding designs from VisionBedding that reflected your teens favorite things such as sports, hobbies, animals or something else they really enjoy?

Some of the pre-made teen bedding designs include car, BMX, basketball, butterfly, Asian, artistic, flower, race car, football, surfer, heart, horse, landscape, and teen girls bedding plus many more great styles.

If the pre-made bedding designs aren’t enough to chose from you can always upload a high quality digital photo or photos and have VisionBedding create custom bedding for you. You might choose from a collage of photos or one single photo to create a beautiful design on a bedspread, duvet or sham or pillow cover.

VisionBedding states that they strive to offer designs to fit anyones’ hobby, personality or style. With the ability to create your very own designs that statement has got to be true.

VisionBedding ships throughout the USA and yes even Canada. Since many of their products are custom design they are made one at a time as the orders come in so you can be assured of the quality.

So what are you waiting for? Go visit VisionBedding. Don’t you want to be one of the coolest parents around?

I can’t believe that Halloween is just around the corner

September 11, 2007 by Tricia

Can you believe it’s already almost mid-September? The kids are back to school, summers almost over and it’s getting cooler. Well, it’s getting a bit cooler here! The leaves on the trees will soon turn red, orange and yellow, lovely in their glorious flaming colors, then they will fall to the ground right around Halloween.

Yes, Halloween. It’ll soon be here, and if you enjoy celebrating the holiday it’s time to begin thinking about what kind of halloween costumes you and your friends or family might want to dress up in.

The last couple of years I haven’t done much for Halloween. Oh, we decorate our house. Some years we decorate more than others, but there’s always some decorations. We buy candy and treats to give out to the kids and occasionally we’ll dress up for Halloween.

I get a kick out of some of the kids Halloween costumes. They are so cute when they come to our door, often in groups of two to twelve! Yes, they do roam the streets in little packs, often with a parent or two in tow. Some kids are really shy and others quite bold. All seem to be quite pleased with themselves if you compliment them on their costumes.

I’ve noticed that some of the parents coming around with their children occasionally have infants with them. A few collect candy for their infants – which I don’t really understand since their babies are too young for most of the treats that are given out. Often when a parent has an infant with them on Halloween, usually while walking with an older child of course, their babies are dressed in infant Halloween costumes. I think those are the most adorable costumes of all. I’m certain that I’ve seen some babies dressed up as lady bugs and sunflowers. I love those costumes.

So what are you planning to dress up as this Halloween? Have you purchased costumes for your kids yet? Are you getting excited?

I wonder if I’ll live in a house or a condo when I get older?

September 7, 2007 by Tricia

The other day when I was walking with my brother after we’d finished our boat cruise my brother surprised me by saying that he and his wife were thinking of moving to downtown Toronto. They currently live outside of the city in a small, but very nice town called Aurora. They’ve been busy renovating their home over the last few years. Modernizing it and just making it more comfortable for themselves.

I guess that’s why I was so surprised when he said that they, well his wife, had been thinking of looking at some condominiums in the downtown area. Of course they’re not thinking of doing this immediately. They’re getting older and as my brother said, some day they might not want to maintain a large house. A condo might be easier to manage. Plus they’d be in the city and free to do some of the things they love to do such as attending live theater and musical performances.

I’m not sure that I’ll want to live in a condo when I get older. Prior to buying this house I lived in a very tiny apartment for over a decade! I loved the neighborhood, but hated the small apartment. I’m not sure that I’d want to live in an apartment style home again when I’m older. Perhaps when that time comes I’ll settle for a one story house. No stairs to climb, everything on the same floor. I think that would be easy enough to manage. I’d also still be able to garden if I was able to – I wouldn’t be able to do that in a condo!

Anyway, I recalled this conversation when I happened upon a website called 55+ communities which lists 55 different communities across the US that have been developed especially for aging baby boomers and retired folks. If you’ve been thinking of moving to a more manageable home have a look at the site. There’s some very nice communities highlighted there.

A whirlwind of a weekend!

September 4, 2007 by Tricia

Sorry that I haven’t been posting over the last few days. We had our family reunion from Friday until earlier this afternoon and I’m just exhausted!

On Friday we went to see the Blue Jays play a game of baseball against the Seattle Mariners. Of course the Blue Jays won the game. 10 of us attended the game that day.

That day I’d wanted to get downtown a little earlier because some of the cast of Heroes was in town and they were doing some presentation at Dundas Square. I didn’t make it to that, but much to my surprise the four cast members that were in town went to the baseball game! I took some photos and I’ll be making a post on my Celebrity blog shortly with a few of the photos included. So I did get to see some Heroes after all. Pretty cool.

The next day we, 15 of us, went on a dinner boat cruise on Lake Ontario. We had a great meal and I’ve got some fantastic photos of the cities skyline at sunset that I took from the boat. Just beautiful. If you ever come to Toronto I highly recommend going on a dinner boat cruise. It was a lot of fun.

On Sunday we went to my brothers in Aurora, Ontario for a BBQ. I think there were 24 or 26 of us that day. I’d lost count by that point! We had a great day together. My niece brought a game called Washer Toss with her to the BBQ. It had been my parents washer toss boards that we’d always played with when visiting them in Ottawa. Most of us hadn’t played for at least four years so it was an interesting tournament! My sister in law and my nieces husband ended up being the big champs of the day, but my nephew and I came in second. Yes I can throw washers! LOL

Lets see, I’m so tired I’m trying to remember just what we did yesterday … Oh yes … My brother from Vancouver, his son, and his daughter and her boyfriend went to the Hockey Hall of Fame while my sister in law came over to our house. Chris and I took my sister in law to Toronto’s beach area and we had a great time walking on the boardwalk, watching volleyball games and eating ice cream.

Later that evening we all met up again at a downtown restaurant for dinner. Man that restaurant had huge servings! Every single thing I ordered I only ate part of and brought the rest home in a doggy bag. We had my left overs for dinner tonight.

Today was the final day that any of us could get together. My brother from Vancouver, his wife, son, daughter and her boyfriend were going back to Vancouver at 7 pm this evening, but they had the day to get together with whoever was available. Luckily Chris had today off work so we met up with them and went to an art gallery where one of my nephews had some of his photos on display. Since that was around lunch time my sister who lives and works in the downtown area was able to get together with us to see my nephews work and then we went and have some coffee and tea together before dropping her off a her office again.

We then went to the beach area again so those who didn’t go yesterday could see how lovely the area was. Around mid afternoon we had a nice lunch on an outdoor patio on the Beaches – complete with more left over food to bring home. Why do restaurants have such huge servings?

After that we lead my brother towards the highway so he could head back to the airport area to return their vehicle and check in to await their flight.

Can you see why I’m tired? I’m totally wiped out! I have to recover though ’cause my birthday’s on Thursday and I’m sure we’ll be doing something that day too.

I’ll be processing all the photos that I took over the weekend (probably 500!) on the computer and posting some soon. Stay tuned as there are some spectacular shots!

What did you do over the holiday weekend?

Unique selection of customizable wedding invitations at MyGatsby

Cool Parents Buy Bedding by VisionBedding

I can’t believe that Halloween is just around the corner

I wonder if I’ll live in a house or a condo when I get older?

A whirlwind of a weekend!

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