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The Winnie The Pooh Store – a collectors dream

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Almost every child receives a teddy bear as a gift when they are a baby, and some children end up with collections of teddy bears and soft toys that they continue to build upon well into adulthood.

One of our close friends is a teddy bear collector. She’s actually devoted two whole rooms of her large house to her collection as it’s just that huge. She must have more than 1000 bears of all sizes!

If you are a collector of Teddy Bear and or Winnie The Pooh related products, or perhaps would like to purchase a Winnie the Pooh bear gift for a small child and encourage a child’s love of all things teddy bear, you might be interested in visiting Beartoday.com.

Bear Today specializes in traditional teddy bears by Steiff and Gund and carries the whole Winnie The Pooh collection of Teddy Bears, soft toys and games. Bear Today has offices in both the USA and the UK.

I’ve been a Winnie the Pooh fan since childhood, but surprisingly I don’t believe that I ever had a Winnie The Pooh teddy bear. Perhaps it’s time I got one? I’m sure kids today love Winnie The Pooh teddy bears and his companions Pigglet, Tigger, Eeyore and other characters that are scattered throughout the classic animated shows and books as much as I did when I was young and in fact, if I must confess, still do today.

If you visit beartoday.com you’ll find that you can purchase the whole line of licensed Winnie The Pooh products. You can find classic and vintage Winnie The Pooh items on the site. I’ve found the prices range to be quite reasonable, and the products are all high end and of the highest quality made by respectable and well known “teddy bear” manufactures such as Gund.

You’ll also find that Bear Today carries other classic teddy bear collectibles such as Paddington bears, as well as giftware, stationary, greeting cards, birthday cards, posters, books and other items.

I’m actually quite amazed at the expanse of their collection. Not only can you find quality Winnie The Pooh products, but you can also find items from Humphreys Corner, Max and Ruby, Dora the Explorer, Sesame Street, Beatrix Potter, Disney and many others.

Just browsing through the collection brought back great childhood memories of all the things I used to love when I was young.

Visit the store if you need gift ideas for a baby, child or a bear collector.





Putting Chris to bed

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I just had to coax Chris to go to bed. All week he’s working the early shift so he’s got to get up at 5 a.m.. Yikes! Of course, Ottawa and Anaheim are playing the fourth? Stanley Cup finals game tonight.

He would have stayed up to watch the whole game if he could have, and when Anaheim took the lead in the 2nd period he wanted to. I was keeping my fingers crossed that Ottawa would tie up the game because I knew I’d be able to coax him to get to bed if the game was at least tied.

Ottawa did tie it up so he’s in bed now. That’s a good thing too ’cause Anaheim just took the lead again!

Yes you read that right. I actually left the hockey game on even though Chris has gone to bed. I don’t know why … well other than the fact that I hope Ottawa wins this game too! Hey, it’s my home town, I gotta hope the Sens win!

Adding video content to more of our sites

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I’m totally loving The News Room. See the post I wrote below about it.

I’ve been going over the News Room site and I found some great video of Paris Hilton going to jail that I put up on Celebrity Scoop. I can really see having a daily entertainment video feature on my celebrity website.

Now I’m going through the site to see if I can find items that Chris can use on Odd Planet (ie weird news) or his music and guitar related site Guitar Licks.

The content that we can put in our sites by using the News Room is fantastic. I’m so happy I joined the site.

Before I go hog wild on this let me ask you something:

If you visit a website that has video on it are you as likely to watch the video if it appears to be something that interests you as you might be to read a plain text post?

Trillium Grandiflora

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White Trillium bud

I took this photo a few weeks ago.

This is a trillium flower. The trillium is Ontario’s provincial flower, and Ontario is the Canadian province that I live in. It’s illegal to pick or dig up wild trilliums here. Why? Well, it takes forever for them to grow. They do not reproduce easily.

This of course is a trillium in my garden. It’s not a wild trillium. No, it’s a cultivated or hybrid trillium.

It’s supposed to be white but when it blooms the flowers are a deep maroon, almost brown in fact. Perhaps it was labeled wrong at the nursery and isn’t a true Trillium Grandiflora. I do have photos of it’s bloom but they are still on my camera. I’ll have to upload them to my computer soon!

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My neglected Garden

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Thirteen Things about My Garden  

This is Thursday Thirteen #38

1…. I love my garden. It’s where I go to de-stress and or collect my thoughts.

2…. My garden is also where I get one of the best workouts! Cutting, bending, digging, squatting, standing up, bending down, amending soil, adding mulch, lifting heavy bags or shovel fulls of soil … for hours on end? Yeah, that’s a workout!

3…. I’m still not feeling well due to the Crohn’s so, while I say the garden is a workout, I haven’t gotten much of a workout lately as I’ve been ignoring the work that needs to be done in the garden.

4…. I still need to prune at least half of my roses. I have more than 60!

5…. I bought some veggie seedlings and annuals a week and a half ago and I still haven’t planted them.

6…. The cucumbers, tomatoes, lettuces, beets, carrots, beans, and annual flowers need to be planted soon!

7…. Once I’m done planting the new plants, and likely buying more since I only bought a few, I’ll have to get busy putting the red cedar mulch down.

8…. Ok, I told a fib a minute ago, I haven’t totally ignored the garden – I have been keeping an eye on it.

9…. Lately my visits to the garden my include my camera.

10…. Each time I go into the garden I must take at least 100 digital photos of the flowers that have been blooming. I’ve been showing off some of those flowers on this blog, my gardening blog and my photoblog.

11…. We live in a fairly small house, so we created our garden and use it as additional living space.

12…. By this I mean, we entertain our friends in the garden, we have barbeque’s and dinner parties, or just use that lovely space to relax. I even bring my laptop out to the garden at times and do some of my computer/internet work while in the garden.

13…. My favorite time in the garden is coming soon. The roses and other scented flowers will soon bloom and it’s almost intoxicating to be in the garden surrounded by so many beautiful scents all at once. I can’t wait.

Wow, I didn’t realize how long it’s been since I’ve done a Thursday Thirteen Post. It’s about time that I did one isn’t it?

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