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Design your own Logo and Business cards

May 29, 2008 by Tricia

If you’ve been thinking of creating business cards to promote your website, online business or company you might want to visit LogoYes.

I just tried out the free logo design demo on their site and within just a few minutes I had created a logo for Tricia’s Musings. Take a look at what I created:

musingslogo.jpg It was easy! LogoYes has a simple step by step proceedure that’s foolproof. You can even go back a step or two if you change your mind about what you are creating!

The first step is to choose the type of image you want your logo to portray – High-tech, bold and flair are the three choices. I picked flair for my logo style.

Once you’ve selected your style you’ll need to decide which industry your business or website falls into. This is a fairly general blog that discusses a number of topics so I had a bit of trouble choosing my “industry”. I eventually decided to go with health and beauty as I discuss health topics quite often.

Step three involved picking a symbol (image) from my industry of choice to use in my logo. As you can see I picked a flower bouquet. There is a wide variety of images to choose from so you’ll be sure to find a symbol that will depict your website or business quite well.

Step four and five were the most fun steps. This is where you can chose the colors of your logo and add text to it as well. I choose to simple add the name of my blog – Tricia’s Musings. I then decided to make the bouquet a red color and matched the text of Tricia’s Musings as closely in color as I could to the main green colors of my blog.

What you see above is the logo I created.

I then went on to create a simple business card by going through two additional steps:

musingscard.jpg

Now i have a logo for my site that closely matches the style of my blog. This of course is known as branding. If I order these business cards those who visit my site after receiving a card will see that the cards colors and logo are similar to that of the site.

I’m quite pleased with how my logo and business card turned out.

LogoYes also does custom Logo Design so if you can’t find a Do It Yourself logo that works well for your company you can inquire about having a custom logo made for your business.

This was actually a fun process to go through. Anyone could design their own logo using a system such as this. Give it a try.





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Shop for the best deals at Shopping.com UK

May 25, 2008 by Tricia

I don’t do a lot of shopping online, but when I do it’s because I’m either looking for a hard to find item, something I can’t easily buy at a retail store or something that’s out of stock locally and of course, I’m looking for the best price I can find.

One of the sites that I visit when I’m looking for the best deal I can get is Shopping.com. You can search for just about anything on the site – clothing, shoes, handbags, jewellery, furniture, garden products, computers, cameras and many more items.

Shopping.com has product listings from thousands of online retailers. You can use the site to shop and compare prices and then once you find the best deal your taken directly to the online retailer’s website. I love it. This site saves a lot of time.

I know that a number of my regular readers are from the UK so I’m happy to let you know that there’s a United Kingdom branch of Shopping.com. Perhaps you already knew about it, but if you didn’t, visit the site and start shopping for some deals.

Saving money is always a good thing!

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Buy and sell Panama real estate at Encuentra24

May 25, 2008 by Tricia

Have you ever thought of living in an exotic local? Sure we all dream about living on an island or perhaps somewhere in South America, but few of us act on those dreams. Why?

I say why not? It’s a global world, there are several jobs that can be done from home – a home located anywhere in the world.

If you’ve ever thought of moving to Panama or perhaps you might be moving there due to your current job you might want to visit Encuentra24. It’s the leading Panama real estate listing service provider in Panama.

Features of the site include a large database of properties both for sale and for rent as well as images of most of the properties.

Perhaps you are in Panama right now and would like to sell or rent your property? Just visit Encuentra24, register and list your property. It’s that easy. Your ad will be seen by up to 800,000 prospective buyers and renters.

Along with being the largest Real Estate in Panama website, you’ll also find a variety of classified listings at Encuentra24. You can buy or sell cars and vehicles, find or list jobs, buy or sell items or find trade services to do work on your property.

I tried searching for properties on the site and I found the site easy to use. I was also pleased with the number of listing and their quality. The ones I found included pictures and even video of the properties.

If you are looking for property in Panama do check out the Real Estate Tips article. The article discusses how to buy real estate in Panama, discusses Panama real estate taxes, and among other great tips you’ll also learn which areas are the best areas to buy property in Panama.

I’m fairly happy here in Toronto, but sometimes during our long winters I dream about living in a place without snow. Who knows, maybe even I’ll move to a place like Panama someday. Hey, these days my job is on the internet – why not?

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Diamond engagement rings at great prices

May 13, 2008 by Tricia

Many of my regular readers probably already know that I used to be a jeweller. I wasn’t a retailer, I actually made high end jewelery to be sold in jewelry stores. I had my own business but I eventually closed it down to pursue another career. I don’t regret my choice, but I still have an interest in the jewelry trade and of course unique designs.

Now I know that many of my readers live in the UK. Perhaps you’ve been thinking of getting engaged and are currently searching for just the right diamond engagement ring? Look no further! 365-diamond.com has a wide selection of Engagement rings. They also have a lovely selection of Wedding Rings too. This company is based in the UK and their prices are 50% lower than for comparable jewelry on High Street.

If you’ve purchased jewelery lately or if you’re about to make a major purchases – ie perhaps you’re looking for Engagement rings you’re probably aware that the price of gold has gone up quite a bit lately. Even though the prices of gold and other precious metals and gems have gone up 365-Diamond is still able to offer incredible deals.

What I like about the site is that when you search the Engagement rings section you can choose whether you want to look at round brilliant cut diamond rings or engagement rings with other settings such as princess, diamond set shoulders, marquise, emerald cut, pear, oval, heart shaped or a cluster style diamond ring. Just find the style and ring that interests you and once you’ve done that you can choose whether you want the engagement ring to be yellow gold, white gold or perhaps even platinum. You’ll also be able to choose the diamond size and diamond quality.

As you look at the engagement rings that interest you you’ll be able to see the ring at several different angles. I like this idea. You really get a good idea of what the ring really looks like and perhaps even how it might look on your fiance’s finger.

Another great reason to buy from 365-Diamond is that when you buy one of their certified diamond rings you’ll receive a diamond certificate which will help you verify the quality and weight of the diamond. This is a great thing to have as you’ll likely be interested in insuring the ring. Every purchase comes with a 30 day return policy so if you aren’t satisfied you can always return it.

One last, yet important thing that I like about this online jewelry store is that they only sell conflict free diamonds.

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Miserable today

May 13, 2008 by Tricia

I haven’t been feeling well today at all. My Crohn’s is acting up and my stomach has been cramping all day.

Last night I fell asleep on the couch and slept pretty much straight through ’till 6 a.m.. Chris happened to get up in the middle of the night because he couldn’t sleep. I can remember him having a cup of warm milk at about 3 a.m. but as far as I know I just looked at him sleepily and went back to snooze land.

I tried to go back to sleep but I couldn’t. I was in too much pain. However around 2 pm a huge wave of tiredness hit me. Midnight was snoozing on the living room floor so I got her to go into her crate and then I lay down on the couch for a short nap. You know what time I woke up? At almost 7 p.m.!

This type of thing has been happening quite a bit lately. I guess I’ll have to go back to the specialists office and see if he can adjust my medications. I just have to start feeling better.

Laying around so much has actually made me gain a bit of weight. I can’t eat a lot with the Crohn’s, but when you feel so ill that you aren’t all that active you can still gain weight. Luckily it’s not too much. I did once consider trying diet pills, but that’s not the way to go for me. I just want to try to get more active. That’s one of the main reasons we got the puppy in the first place.

I hope that I start to feel better soon. Today is just intolerable. I might just go back to sleep and hope that I wake up feeling better.

Filed Under: Chronic Pain, Great Sites, Health Fitness and Beauty, Home and Lifestyle, Inflammatory bowel disease, Recreation, Shopping Tagged With: acting up, Chris, couch, crohn, crohns, diet, diet pills, fell asleep, huge wave, inactive, living room, lying on couch, medication, medications, Midnight, miserable, nap, pain, puppy, sick, sleep, specialists office, stomach, tired, tiredness, warm milk, weight, wiped out

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