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Can’t wait for the flowers to grow? Buy a bouquet!

March 1, 2008 by Tricia

I think just about anyone that’s visited this blog a few times knows that I absolutely adore flowers. Hardly a week goes by when I don’t post at least one photo of the flowers I grow in my garden. I’m so thankful for the photos that I have considering that I live in such a cold climate! I mean, I can’t enjoy my love of flowers any other way during our long winter … or can I?

I could of course purchase fresh Flowers from a site such as e-florists-inc to get me through the next month or two until my own flowers are blooming. You could too if you wanted to brighten your home with a lovely bouquet. After all there’s nothing quite like a beautiful floral arrangement as the center piece on the dinner table when you’re having a romantic dinner with someone you love.

You can find some beautiful flower selections at e-florists-inc. You can shop by the type of flower or plant, or by the occasion as they have arrangements that are perfect for birthdays, the birth of a baby, for Mom or to say congratulations to a friend or co-worker just to name a few of the selections from which you can choose.

roses.jpg If you purchase one of their best selling arrangements you can get it for up to 50% off as they’ve already reduced the prices on their most popular bouquets and gift baskets. I really like the white rose and white lily arrangement that I’ve include to the right. Isn’t it lovely?

If you’ve been thinking of buying some flowers for your home or as a special occasion gift for someone do take a look at their selection. They have some lovely arrangements. Easter’s coming up soon, perhaps you’ll want some flowers for your home at that time?

I spent quite a bit of time browsing through the site since I’m just fascinated with flowers. If you’re as interested in flowers as I am or if you’d like to learn more about how a Blossom develops and how flowers have become masters at attracting certain types of insects in order to pollinate you should take a look at the Wikipedia article that I found. It will answering any possible questions that you have about blossoms!





Filed Under: Gardening, Gifts, Home and Garden, Home and Lifestyle, Home Decor, Recreation, Shopping Tagged With: arrangement, article, baby, beautiful, Birthday, bloom, blooming, bouquet, brighten home, buy, buying, dinner table, florist, flower, flowers, flowers for special occasion, friend, garden, gift, gift basket, home, Lilies, photo, plant, plant basket, plants, prices, purchase, rose, roses, shop, special, special occasion, winter

Gotta work on the new sites

January 29, 2008 by Tricia

Back in April of 2007 I bought 6 new domains and I had hoped to have developed all of those sites long before now, but sadly I’ve barely had time to do much with the new sites. Well, one of the sites was for my husband Chris. It’s his new Guitarlicksandtips.com music related blog. He’s done a good job of posting articles on that site (well he’s a bit behind lately), but the rest are languishing.

I’m hoping to set aside some time later today to get to work on two of my new home and shopping related blogs. I’ve already been looking around on the internet to find some products to talk about and I came across a great sale at Kohls.com that some of you might want to take advantage of. It’s a big two day sale where you can save 60 – 80% on a number of items. Hey stop by this site first get some Kohls coupons and you’ll probably end up saving even more money!

Anyway, it’s not like the new blogs are blank or anything, but I haven’t done all that much with them. Perhaps after I do some work on some of them today I’ll be willing to let you in on their urls so that you can check them out for yourself.

Filed Under: Appliances and Accessories, Coupons and deals, Decor, Fashion, Home and Garden, Home and Lifestyle, Home Decor, Recreation, Shopping Tagged With: article, articles, blog, blogs, Chris, coupon, coupons, develop sites, domain, guitar, home, Home and Garden, home and garden blog, husband, Internet, look, Money, Music, new blog, new domain, new domains, new sites, posting, Products, sale, shop, Shopping, shopping blog, sites, work, work on blogs

How to keep the dog from damaging our couch?

January 26, 2008 by Tricia

Lately I’ve been wondering how much longer our leather couches will look good. We’ve been letting our puppy get up on the couch so that she can sit with us, but occasionally she’ll try to bit the couch or tries to dig in the seats. I wonder what the couches will look like 6 months from now?

I’d love it if our basement was finished already. I’d move our couch, loveseat and lazyboy chair downstairs and use it like leather home theater seating set since we plan to set up a home theater in the basement if we go the rec room route.

I really don’t mind having the dog on the couch … well as long as our furniture can stand up to it.

Do you let your dog or cat on the couch? How do you keep them from ruining your furniture? Just keep telling them no when they are doing something that might damage the couch?

Filed Under: Great Sites, Home and Lifestyle, Home Decor, Our Puppy Tagged With: basement, biting, cat, chewing, couch, damage, digging, dog, dog on couch, downstairs, eating, furniture, home, home theater, home theater seating, leather, leather couch, pets, puppy, rec room, scratching

If you’re looking for a bathroom vanity your search is over

January 20, 2008 by Tricia

What a coincidence. I made a post earlier this evening saying that Chris and I had sat down earlier today to talk about how we were going to finish our current renovation project and to talk about renovations that we’d like to do in the future and then I come across a website with a great selection of bathroom vanities. Perhaps we will have a beautiful bathroom in our basement one day.

The website is called Premiere Vanities and they carry a wide selection of single bathroom vanities and double bathroom vanities, as well as linen cabinets.

As I said earlier, our basement is unfinished except for having a roughed in basic bathroom and laundry area. The only other bathroom we have in our house is upstairs and it’s a very tiny bathroom. It would be a major undertaking to make our upstairs bathroom larger, but we might do that at some point. So if we want to have a really nice bathroom – a good sized one – it will have to be the basement bathroom.

We also don’t think we’ll be in this house forever and with that in mind finishing our current renovation projects and having two very nice bathrooms in the house will make our home more attractive to potential buyers.

Since our upstairs bathroom is tiny we need to have a small sink area.

Actually the vanity has to be small simply because the plumbing is located just inside the door, and then the toilet is right behind the sink at the back wall of the bathroom. The bathtub/shower runs alongside the opposite wall from the vanity and toilet with only about a foot and a half of space in between. So we have just enough room to swing the door open and then a narrow space to walk between the vanity and the tub to get to the toilet. The entire bathroom is perhaps 9 feet long by 5 or 6 feet wide. It’s small!

g-208_mahagony_300_300.jpg A wall mounted basin vanity would be perfect. The vanity to the right is made of mahogany and it’s has a sleek modern design. Not only that – it’s quite small. It’s only 18 7/8″w x 14 5/8″d in size and that would be perfect for our tiny upstairs bathroom.

vanity.jpg Another single vanity that would be great for a small bathroom is this Birch Wall Mount Vanity with Cherry Finish. It’s dimensions are larger at 35.5″w x 19.75″d x 15″h but since it’s wall mounted it would give the illusion of not taking up much space and would help make a small bathroom look larger.

We can make our basement bathroom quite large if we want to and since it could very well turn into our main bathroom it’s possible that we’d want to put in a double vanity.

Perhaps one like this beautiful Double Porcelain Sink Vanity:

martin-paullo1800-1-300×30.jpg

There are just so many vanities to choose from! As you can see I’m partial to modern and basin style vanities. However, if you happen to be looking for a bathroom vanity to either spruce up the look of your current bathroom or perhaps you are totally renovating your bathroom and you’d like to take a look at the selection at Premiere Vanities you’ll be pleased to discover that they have vanities to suit just about any decor. They have wood, antique, contemporary and traditional bathroom vanities.

Naturally before I got too excited about a particular vanity I checked to see if Premiere Vanities shipped to Canada and it appears that they do. I think it’s safe to say that they probably have clients throughout the USA and Canada.

I think I’ll be spending some time taking a good look at their selection of vanities and linen cabinets. Feel free to visit PremiereVanities.com yourself if you’re in the market for a new bathroom vanity.

Filed Under: Appliances and Accessories, Decor, Home and Garden, Home and Lifestyle, Home Decor, Home Renovation, Shopping Tagged With: antique vanity, basement, basin, bath, bathroom, bathroom renovation, bathroom vanity, beautiful, Canada, contemporary vanity, Decor, design, double bathroom vanity, home sale, house, linen cabinet, renovate, renovation, sell home, single bathroom vanity, style, styles, traditional vanity, USA, vanity, wood vanity

It’s well past time to finish our renovation projects

January 20, 2008 by Tricia

Since it’s so cold out today Chris and I spent some time talking about the renovations we’d like to do to our home.

Since our Living room / Dining room renovation project stalled three years ago we’ve been living with a ceiling that’s ready to have it’s tin ceiling installed, and walls that need floor and ceiling molding and quarter round done. We’ve got all the materials … it’s just as I said since we both went through periods of severe health problems we stalled. Big time.

So number one on our list is to finish the living room dining room renovations. Then we’ll move on to renovate our basement. We’ve got a bathroom and laundry area down there right now, but other wise it’s an unfinished basement.

The bathroom is really just a roughed in bathroom with a tiny shower stall and toilet. The sink is outside the washroom in the laundry area. So yeah, a really nice bathroom downstairs would be very nice. I definitely want to have a bathtub shower, a sink and some probably Grohe faucets to complete the look.

We still haven’t decided if we’ll put in a spare bedroom or just keep the majority of the space open and use it as a den/rec room. I’d like to have the spare bedroom, but as I’ve said many times our house is very small and even in the basement we don’t have a lot of space to fool around with. I guess we’ll have to think on things a bit more before we get started. Luckily we have that other project to finish first!

Filed Under: Appliances and Accessories, Great Sites, Home and Lifestyle, Home Decor, Home Renovation, Recreation Tagged With: basement, bath, bathroom, bedroom, ceiling, Chris, cold out, Decor, dining room, faucet, home, house, install, living room, molding, problems, rec room, recreation room, renovate, renovation, shower, sink, small, spare bedroom, tin ceiling, toilet, tub

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