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I love how my neighborhood changes from season to season

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I’ve been taking a close look at several of the houses in my neighborhood when I take my dog out for a walk each day. It’s interesting to see the changes the houses go through each season. Many houses are decorated for the houses right now and the neighborhood is quite pretty at night.

One thing that I’ve noticed that several houses who have done some landscaping have done is to get a really nice address plaque. Some of my neighbors have built their address plaques into their stone edging surrounding their property. I’m sure I’m describing it properly but lets say the stone surrounds the property like a short fence and the number plaque is embedded in the stone. It’s very nice when it’s done well. I like the look of some of the address plaques so much that I went looking for some and I found a address plaques from addressplaques.net that I really like, I just have to decide if I want to buy it for our house now and where I might put it.

Do you have a nice address plaque on your house or just plain numbers? Oh and do you change the look of the outside of your home depending on the seasons? By this I mean do you decorate for the holidays or plant flowers outdoors in the spring and summer?





I want to make some home made wine

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I think it’s been at least a year since I signed up to several sites like Groupon and Social Living. I love getting the emails that tell me about local deals even though I rarely buy into any of the offers.

One of the offers that I wish I’d bought into, that I’ve seen a few times in the past but haven’t seen for months, is from a wine making company. It was a deal to make something like 40 or 50 bottles of wine for about $50. Sounds too good to be true – right?

So now I’m watching every email that comes in from all of these daily deal companies hoping for a wine making deal. I just haven’t seen one for quite a while. It’s so odd. I even priced out a wine chiller for when our wine would be ready if we managed to get a bargain.

Have you made wine at at wine making company? Did it go well, did you enjoy the wine you made?

Seaweed shampoo – yep it’s real

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I was visiting my hairdresser recently – getting my hair cut and having a visit with her and we got talking about the type of products she uses in her salon.

You see, I started seeing my hairstylist about a year ago and from the very first visit I realized her salon was quite different from most of the other salons that I’ve been to in the past. You see she uses all natural products. Her shampoos and conditioners have herbs and essential oils in them and prior to doing anything to me she always gives me a scalp massage with a soothing oil such as a lavender oil. It’s really quite an experience. I actually like going there, it’s so relaxing.

On my latest visit we got talking about Seaweed shampoos. You see I occasionally suffer from psoriasis and apparently this kind of shampoo can help so she told me to go to seaweedbathco.com for seaweed shampoo so I did and I was surprised at the variety of products and I suppose – flavors? there. Unfortunately it doesn’t seem to be sold online, but the next time I do a little over the border shopping I’m going to look for it.

Do you ever discover new interesting products at your hair stylist?

Trying to find something to do with my time

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Now that the weather is getting cooler I find that I’m indoors more and I’m starting to get quite bored. It doesn’t help that my husband has been working quite a bit of extra hours lately as well which has left me home on my own. I need something to keep me busy!

I’m thinking of joining a club or two. Something to get me out once or twice a week, maybe meeting new people, keep me busy. Obviously I love gardening so joining a gardening club would be good. Of course they tend to slow down in the winter time. So … perhaps a photography club or if not a club maybe I’ll try taking a photography course.

Any suggestions?

On a slightly related note I came across a really cool site. They make personalized coins. Why I say it’s related is because if I were to join some kind of club it would be cool to have custom made coins made for the club.

We’re having a halloween party

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It’s almost Halloween! You’d never know it on my street. Almost no one decorates their home for Halloween in my section of my street. It’s so strange.

At first, when we first moved into the area ten years ago, I thought it was because most of our immediate neighbors were elderly and they just didn’t want the bother of Halloween, but now a lot of the older neighbors have moved and younger ones have moved in and it’s still the same – no decorations for Halloween or sometimes even Christmas. As I said it’s odd.

I think we’re still going to decorate this year. Either way, I know for sure that we’re having a few friends over and we’re going to have our own Halloween party. I’ve been getting some ideas from Personal Creations at their facebook page and tomorrow I’ll be making a few recipes that I found online for some Halloween treats – for the party – not kids.

It’s been a while since I’ve had a party on Halloween. We get a lot of kids coming to the door around here so it will be interesting seeing all the kids and having a party going on at the same time. I’m sure our dog will be barking the whole time too.

What are you doing for Halloween?

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