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Great selection of jewellery and accessories for men

July 8, 2007 by Tricia

When you think of jewelry you probably usually think of women’s jewelery – rings, necklaces and earrings and so on. Men wear jewelery too and I’ve just been to a website called Purple Cufflinks that has some beautiful jewelery for men – particularly their Cufflinks designs.

As a former jewelery myself I can tell you that I’m quite impressed with the designs. Their cufflinks are quite funky.

Two pair of cufflinks in particular caught my eye. One set is of the blue wedge style which is made of stainless steel with a blue enamel wedge across the top with a clear center stripe. It’s a lovely style that a man could wear at the office or while out on the town.

The other cufflink set that I enjoyed was the round pair made of abalone shell. It has an alternating striped pattern of green jade that compliments the abalone shell and stainless steel beautifully.

If you’ve been looking for a gift for your spouse, your father or a male friend you should visit Purple Cufflinks and have a look at their many stylish items.

Along with cufflinks you’ll find a tasteful selection of ties, pendants, bracelets and rings. Apparently their online store will be expanding their selection to include wallets and belts. It will be a one stop shop for men’s jewelery and accessories.

Purple Cufflinks is located in Australia but they ship their products worldwide so feel free to browse through their items and make a purchase if you find something that would be perfect for yourself or a special man in your life.





Filed Under: Fashion, Gifts, Home and Lifestyle, Jeweller/Jewellery, Shopping Tagged With: abalone shell, accessories, beautiful, belts, bracelets, center stripe, cufflinks, design, enamel, gift, items, jade, jeweller, jewellery, jewelry, man, men, online store, pendants, Product, Products, rings, shop, stainless steel, stylish, ties, wallets, website

Yeah Right, Whatever – it’s a scam

July 6, 2007 by Tricia

I just opened some snail mail that I received earlier today. It was one of those letters that said I’d won something. Hmmm what could it be I asked myself.

Obviously I wasn’t that curious about it because I waited about four hours before I opened it.

The letter proclaimed on the front that I was a “Grand Slam” winner.

I’ve apparently won the Grand Slam in our Canadian Lotto 6/49 lottery. All I have to do to claim my prize is send $10 to an Australian address.

The letter doesn’t say how much I won. I’m supposed to trust them and send them my money with no idea if I’ve apparently one a dollar or a million dollars.

Trouble is, our lottery doesn’t function online and there’s nothing called a Grand Slam in the 6/49 lottery.

Sounds like a scam eh? A quick Google search confirmed that it is indeed a scam.

The letter came from Singapore but I’m to return it to Haplin Data Services in Runaway Bay Australia.

Sure … sure I will.

Filed Under: Finance, Home and Lifestyle, Money Tagged With: Australia, canadian, google, Grand slam winner, Haplin Data Services, Lotto 649, Million Dollars, Money, no winning amount, online, scam, singapore, winner

I wonder what our house is worth

July 6, 2007 by Tricia

I’m starting to think that I should call our real estate broker and get our house appraised!

Every week we receive a few promo flyers from the various real estate agents or companies that work in our area and the prices of houses around here have just gone up and up since we purchased our home in June of 2001.

One of the real estate flyers we got today is for an open house for a detached home less than a block away from my house. I know exactly which house it is, and even though it’s detached (small walkway between houses – which means no driveway, no garage etc) there’s no way that this house is any bigger than my own. In fact it might even be smaller.

Plus, we have a shared driveway. This house doesn’t even have a driveway! We’d have to share our drive with our neighbor if she had a car with maybe one of us parking on the street every second week or something, but at least we have a driveway and space between our houses!

Take a wild guess how much the asking price is?

$499,000! Uh huh. Really.

We bought our house 6 years ago for less than 200,000 and at that time it was a steal because the rest of the houses in the neighborhood were going at $250,000 plus. The owners needed to sell the house to move into their new retirement home by a certain date. That’s why we got such a great deal on a solid house – new roof, new windows, new water pipes. There was nothing we had to do to fix up the house.

So I figure our semi-detached house would go for about $400,000 – perhaps even without or reno complete!

Not that we are planning on moving anytime soon. I mean, if we moved we’d more than likely end up purchasing a house about the same size in the $400,000 + range since the market is high right now. We’d gain, but the new house would be expensive.

Still it’d be nice to get our home appraised just to see what it would be worth on todays real estate market. Unless a prospective buyer hates yard work of any kind I’m sure our landscaped front and backyard gardens would help set the price a bit higher too.

Have you ever had your home appraised just for the heck of it to see what it would be worth if you decided to sell?

Filed Under: Home and Lifestyle, Real Estate, The Neighborhood, Toronto Tagged With: backyard, garden, high market, home, home for sale, house appraisal, moving, neighbor, open house, plants, prices, prices going up, Real Estate, The Neighborhood

So many phone calls!

July 6, 2007 by Tricia

I can’t remember how long it’s been since we’ve received so many calls from family members in one day. The day isn’t even over yet! Two of my brothers have called, Chris’ cousin’s husband, his aunt and my cousin have all called.

Luckily no one’s sick or anything. They were all just calling either to say hello or update us with some news.

My brother that was visiting from Vancouver a few weeks ago, and has been traveling all over the world since that time called to say hi and to let us know that they booked an Orlando vacation rental for October. He wanted to know if we’d like to join them while they are there. So nice. Maybe we will.

My other brother that lives just outside of Toronto called to let me know that my nephew who just graduated from the Ontario College of Art is having an art show this weekend. He’s an excellent photographer and I’m definitely going to see his work because he normally doesn’t show his work to anyone! Not even his parents! Apparently he’s so good that he won two or three awards upon graduation, and his photos are being published in book with a very select few top well known photographers. He’s gotta be good!

My cousin and Chris’ cousin both just want to get together with us since it’s been a while and Chris’ aunt was calling because it’s Chris’ birthday on Sunday.

I’ll bet that we hear from Chris’ parents or his brother from Chicago this evening too since his brother is supposed to be coming North today or sometime this weekend. I’ve forgotten the dates since they’ve changed two or three times already.

I might have to leave the phone unplugged to get any work done around here!

Filed Under: Family, Great Sites, Home and Lifestyle, Life with Chris, Photography, Recreation, Socializing Tagged With: aunt, Birthday, brother, Canada, chicago, Chris, college, cousin, Family, husband, Nephew, Orlando, phone calls, photograph, photos, rental, show, telephone, Toronto, travel, vacation, Vancouver, visit, visiting

A beautiful bloom

July 5, 2007 by Tricia

I didn’t get around to getting the photos I took yesterday off my new camera. I still have to upload the software onto the computer and figure out if I have to convert raw mode photos to jpg or if the camera will do it on it’s own when I transfer the photos.

However, I did promise that I’d post a photo from my garden and I thought you might enjoy this beautiful clematis flower. I grow this clematis on a bamboo arch at the entrance to my backyard garden. The clematis is quite large and quickly grew to cover the whole arch by the end of May.

I also grow a rose called Breath of Life on this trellis and it’s blooms are a pale peach. Picture this flower blooming at the same time as pale peach roses … lovely isn’t it?

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Oh, did I tell you that this is large clematis? Each bloom is about five inches wide! They’re huge!

BTW if anyone loves this clematis it’s name is – clematis hybrid Seiboldiana. Also, if you enjoy this one you’ll totally fall in love with the velvet like clematis that I have a photo of on my photoblog!

Filed Under: Hobbies, Home and Lifestyle, Photography, Recreation, Tricia's Garden Tagged With: backyard, beautiful, bloom, blooming, blooms, Breath of Life, camera, computer, digital camera, flower, garden, new camera, photo, Photography, photos, picture, plants, post, rose

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