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Down Bedding Sale at DownDeals.com

April 16, 2007 by Tricia

I keep saying that spring is the time of year when I and many others start to not only do our spring cleaning, or begin home renovation projects, but it’s also the time to get great deals on some of the items that we can’t live without during the cool winter months.

Yeah, that’s right. It’s the time for clearance and closeout sales. Of course, DownDeals.com is no exception to this rule as they too are having closeout and clearance sales on their bedding items. If you like to sleep in comfort, be surrounded by cozy soft warmth you should check out their Down Bedding Sale. Shipping is free if your order is over $50, and there’s also a coupon code near the top of the main page that will save you 25% on your down comforter purchases.

Not interested? Do you think down comforters and other down items are too hot? I guess you haven’t heard that you can buy items that give different levels of warmth. You’ll never be too hot under a down comforter again if you select the right warmth level with the sites special search tool. You can also use their search tool to select the correct pillow density if you are interested in buying some down filled pillows for your bedroom set.

I haven’t had a down comforter in years, but with the fevers that I get all the time, and air-conditioning in the summer perhaps I should get a down filled comforter. I could use it year round whenever I feel chilly.

Down comforters, pillows and other bedding related items would make a great gift too, especially since these items are on sale now. Check it out.





Filed Under: Decor, Gifts, Home and Lifestyle, Home Decor, Shopping Tagged With: Down bedding, down bedding sale, down comforter, down comforter warmth level, down pillows, down sale, downdeals.com, pillow density

Spruce up a wall with a Wallhog

April 15, 2007 by Tricia

Have you guys heard of walhogs yet? Wallhogs are basically posters, vinyl or canvas prints that you place on your wall.

create_wall.jpg Wallhogs can be created from your own digital photos or images to create wall posters, large reusable vinyl wall hangings, and canvas prints in a variety sizes with the largest being up to 7 feet tall. If you don’t have great images of your own to use, you can browse through the wallhog image catalogue to chose a photo or image that suits your needs.

Imagine that? Think of how thrilled your child would be to have a photo or image of one of their favorite things, scenes or people on their wall? If you wanted to, you could probably cover one whole wall or the majority of a wall with one of the vinyl wallhogs. I know if I was still a kid I’d just love that.

When I told my husband about wallhogs we both immediately thought of using one in our soon to be refinished basement. I could take a photo of our garden, perhaps a view from the house looking out at the whole garden and we could put a wallhog on the basement wall that would be closest to our garden. Every time we’d go into the basement and look towards that wall it would be just like looking out into our garden. No more dingy dark basement for us. It would be alive with the feeling that our garden gives us when we are sitting in it.

Businesses could use wallhogs to display life size images of their products, logos or perhaps even corporate events that they are proud to have taken part in.

There are simply so many ways that home owners and businesses could use wallhogs it’ s unbelievable.

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Posters can be created in sizes from 24″ tall and 4 feet wide, or as large as 7 feet by 4.5 feet. Posters have a high gloss finish and just like any of the wallhog products, they are usually created quickly and shipped out within 72 hours of the time that you placed your order.

Just like posters, vinyl images can be created in very large sizes. They can be made in sizes from 2 to 7 feet in height, by 4.5 feet wide. That’s huge! You could certainly cover all, or a large portion of a wall with one of the vinyl wallhogs. Vinyl images are shipped out within three days of your order and like all of the wallhog products there is no minimum order. You can order just one, or as many as your heart desires.

The vinyl images are reusable too. You can install one on a wall very easily and if for some reason you’d like to take it down you can store it and then reuse it where ever you please.

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As you can see from this image they can remove the background from the photo in order to highlight the focus of the picture. Background removal is free of charge.

The third type of wallhog that you can create is a canvas print. Canvas prints can be create in sizes from 11 x 14 inches up to as much as 24″ by 36″. The inks and canvas material used are of high quality. Canvas images orders have a fast turn around and are often shipped on the same day.

As you can see wallhogs are quite versatile and they are simple to order too. To create a wallhog you just need to decide whether you’d like a poster, vinyl image or canvas print, pick an image from their catalogue or upload your own image, and then follow the easy steps to create a wallhog of the exact size and type that you’d like.

The prices are reasonable too. Going over the site the lowest price I saw was 19.99 for a 2 foot by 4 foot poster, and the highest priced item that I saw was the very large 84″ tall X 52″ vinyl image for $79.99. Don’t you think that’s reasonable for the versatility, size and quality that you’d get when ordering a wallhog?

If you are a photographer or artist you can upload your own images and sell them in the wallhog catalogue. Photographers and artists who sell their images in the wallhog catalogue are also offered a discount price on wallhogs of their own so that they can sell them to their customers through the wallhog reseller program.

I’ve posted some photos on my sites that some people have left comments on stating “that could be a wallhog”. So, I’ve been thinking of placing some of my images in the wallhog catalogue too. Why not? If people like my photos enough to leave comments suggesting that they’d make great wallhogs why not allow them to use them for that purpose and make a little bit of money too?

If you think that wallhogs are a great idea why don’t you go on over to the Wallhog.com website and see what you can create with your images. Browse through their catalogue while you’re there too as there is a wide assortment of images and I’m sure you’d find something that you’d enjoy using.

Wallhogs they have kindly offered to host a contest by supplying a free wallhog to the contest winner. The wallhog would be of the winners choice. If they’d approve my idea I’d love to hold a contest where my readers could submit landscape, cityscape, wildlife and nature photos. I’d hold the contest and allow my site visitors to vote on the images. The best 10 images would then go through a secondary voting process to pick the grand prize winner. If the people at wallhogs approve this contest idea I’ll let you know and we’ll have ourselves some fun.

If you’d be interested in participating in this type of contest please leave a comment so that the people from Wallhogs can see that the contest would be a great idea to host.

Filed Under: Decor, Home and Lifestyle, Photography, Services, Shopping Tagged With: Art, artists, canvas, Contest, create canvas prints, create posters, create prints, Digital, digital images, digital photos, free wallhog, image, photo contest, photograph, photographers, poster, print, sell photos, sell photos on wallhogs, vinyl print, Wallhog, wallhogs, wallhogs.com

Great gift ideas at Dennisis Gifts Shop

April 14, 2007 by Tricia

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If you enjoy shopping, or browsing sites with lovely items that you might treat yourself with or that would make fantastic gifts for someone you love then you should stop in and visit Dennisis Gifts Shop. The site has very nice products at reasonable prices.

You’ll find everything at Dennisis Gifts Shop from inspirational items, aromatherapy products, bath and body accessories, kitchen accessories, collectible statues, plates and figurines, and home and garden decor. If you are purchasing an item as a present for someone they also have gift cards.

The site is very user friendly with attractive and popular items listed in the top left menu, and just below this you’ll find the stores directory which lists the items that are sold at the gift shop by category. Each category page lists items with short descriptions, a small picture and it’s price. Click on the image to see a larger photo of the item that you’re interested in, and an in depth description of the product. You can easily order the product from it’s description page.

While you’re visiting the site don’t forget to take a look at their top selling products.

Right now they have a special. If you purchase any two items you’ll get 20% off your order. Just type in the promo code 103 when you reach the checkout and you’ll get your discount.

If you enjoy Dennisis Gifts Shop you might be interested in purchasing a copy of their biannual catalogs too.

Filed Under: Decor, Fashion, Gifts, Shopping Tagged With: Aromatherapy products, Bath and Body accessories, Collectible Statues. Home and Garden Decor, Dennisis Gifts Shop, Figurines, Gift Cards, Gift ideas, Gifts, Inspirational Items, Kitchen accessories, Plates, spa

Shopping spree

April 9, 2007 by Tricia

The other day after my doctors appointment my husband and went shopping. Chris always has Mondays off. It’s great for him. We always have a long weekend, plus if either of us needs to make appointments his having Mondays off is quite convenient.

I went on a shopping spree!

I’ve needed to get some new clothes for a while. Since I’m mostly at home I didn’t need to get anything fancy. I just wanted a couple pairs of pants and I wanted to get a new pair of pajamas … well ok a T-shirt nightie. Comfy stuff.

So we went to the shopping mecca called Walmart. They’ve built a new super store close to where the previous Walmart had been. It’s huge!

I ended up getting two pairs of pants, a few t-shirts, three nighties and uh a bra. I needed that stuff!

We also picked up some groceries. I’ve never minded picking up dried goods – cereals and packaged foods like that, or canned and bottled items, but this store is more like a grocery store now. The old Walmart had a freezer section along with the rows of packaged food items, but it didn’t sell fresh food. This one does.

This last time and the time before I didn’t hesitate to get some fruit, veggies and salad makings. They were in good shape, and the price was right. I have however been hesitant to purchase fresh meat from Walmart. You know there’s some stores that you just don’t buy fresh goods from. For me, one of them is a grocery store called Food Basics here in Canada. They have great prices but their meat sucks. It seems to be off a lower grade than in other grocery stores.

So … does anyone purchase fresh meats at Walmart?

I did notice that they had some name brands – possibly some those of you from the US and other countries might not be familiar with like Maple Leaf which a good brand maker of meat products. The prices were reasonable and the chicken, beef and pork looked fresh and of good quality. I was tempted, but hesitated. I thought it might be best to ask my readers opinion first. I hate to waste money.

Who buys meat at Walmart? Is it good? Have you been happy with the quality?

Filed Under: Decor, Dining and Restaurants, Fashion, Home and Lifestyle, Recreation, Shopping Tagged With: beef, chicken, comfy clothes, groceries, meat, pork, purchase meat, shopping spree, Walmart, walmart meat

Browsing Bestpricedfurniture.com for redecorating ideas

April 9, 2007 by Tricia

Spring has me in it’s grip and I think I’m starting to go stir crazy. I want to get out and work in my garden but we’ve had a spell of cool weather so I can’t really get out there and do too much just yet. Instead, my mind has started working on our reno projects.

With any luck we’ll have our living room and dining room reno finished this year. Yes, I said this year. I’d love to say it will be finished in a week or two but every time I do say that it doesn’t happen. However, it had better happen before the end of the year! LOL

Being optimistic that our living room and dining room will be complete soon, I’ve started to think about how I might redecorate. Co-incidentally I’ve been asked to write an article of an online store called Best Priced Furniture. Great timing!

I like the way that the Bestpricedfurniture.com site is laid out. It’s very easy to shop for different types of furniture or office items by browsing the categories listed on the left hand side of the page. You could also select any of the tabs at the top of each page to reach customer service, do an advanced search for a particular item, or browse the sites best sellers and clearance items.

One of the items that I’ve been keeping my eye out for ever since we purchased this house has been bar stools. We haven’t begun this portion of our living room/dining room reno, but we’d like to cut out a portion of the wall between the kitchen and dining room. I don’t know what you’d call that sort of design but I guess when it’s complete it would look like an open serving window between the two rooms.

If we do this I’d like to place a wide enough counter in the cut out area so that it could be used for serving dishes easily, and also to create a place where a couple of people could perhaps sit on bar stools and eat breakfast or brunch and perhaps even talk with someone in the kitchen as they work.

Now, one reason why we haven’t already picked up a couple of bar stools for this future serving area is because we’ve been very picky about the look of the stools. We just haven’t found anything that we’ve liked so far. That might have changed!

barstool.jpg Take a look at the Montello Swivel bar stool that I just found at Best Priced Furniture. The bar stools would be in the dining room and we have a 1920’s era dining room set – table, chairs, and buffet – and this style of bar stool would look lovely with the antique dining room set.

If you are thinking of redecorating a room, getting a new bed or bedroom set have a look at BestPricedFurniture.com. I’m certain that you’ll be pleased with the quality and variety of the furniture items that they sell. Oh and don’t forget – they don’t just sell furnishings for the home. You can purchase office furnishings at their online store as well as patio furniture and rugs.

Filed Under: Decor, Home and Lifestyle, Home Decor, Home Renovation, Shopping Tagged With: bar stool, bedroom, best priced furniture, Decor, decorate, dining room, furniture, furniture shopping, living room, office furniture, online furniture store, online store, patio, remodeling, renovate, renovation, rug, Shopping

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