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Diamonds and Gemstone rings for your right hand too!

September 15, 2007 by Tricia

Engaged? Married? I bet you have a beautiful ring, don’t you? What about your other hand? Do you wear rings on both hands or do you mostly only wear your friendship, engagement or wedding rings on your left and leave the right unadorned?

As a former jeweller I’d run across people that didn’t believe that they could wear diamonds or fancy gemstones on their right hand. Especially if they weren’t engaged or married. It was as if they feared that if they bought a diamond ring they’d have to wear it on their left ring finger and they couldn’t do that as men would think they were engaged and they’d lose their chance of meeting Mr. Right. I’d explain to them that there were no rules against wearing a ring on their right hand.

Abazias Diamonds has a beautiful assortment of right-hand rings. Their selection includes delicate diamond rings, such as the one to the right, and rings with sapphires, emeralds, amethyst, garnet, rubies or a mix of diamond and gemstone in styles from delicate to bold.

For most designs you can choose between yellow or white gold. You can also choose from pave diamond settings, bezel set stones and more depending upon the style of ring that catches your eye.

I’ve always been partial to sapphire rings myself, probably because the sapphire is my birthstone. I’d be happy to wear a sapphire ring such as the one I’ve included to the left on my right hand. It’s beautiful isn’t it?

Isn’t it time you dressed up your bare right ring finger?

A new partnership

August 30, 2007 by Tricia

If you read my other blogs you might have noticed that my blogs As the Garden grows and Tricia’s Musings are part of the Glam Network. I was invited into the network and accepted into their special advertising partner network.

One benefit of the Glam Network, other than my sites being listed on their sites, getting some extra traffic and occasionally having posts featured is that my contact there occasionally writes to members of the network with special offers. Sometimes it’s advanced news about movies or new products, big events that sometimes include celebrities or even other advertising opportunities.

A couple of months ago my contact wrote to me to tell me about a company that was looking for advertising partners. I responded and within the next few days I’ll enter into a special advertising partnership with this company.

Naturally this partnership is yet another way for me to earn a little bit of money. Hopefully it works better than some of the other things I’ve tried. I think it will since it’s a special partnership.

I don’t want to say which company it is just yet. You’ll know when it happens though. This company has some great items for the home, garden as well as clothing and fashion accessories. I do hope that you like the products as I’ll occasionally discuss items that interest me on this site and some of my other blogs.

Wish me luck?

Thousands of coupons to be found at the Deal Locker

August 11, 2007 by Tricia

If you’re on a tight budget I’m sure you have a keen eye for great deals. Even if you aren’t on a budget there’s nothing more satisfying than knowing you saved some money when you’ve made a purchase. Am I right?

If I am then you’re going to love the Deal Locker. This is a site where you can find coupon codes for tens of thousands of items. There’s also listings for savings at thousands of well known stores.

Considering that there are so many free online coupons and printable coupons listed at the Deal Locker it would be a shame not to visit the site before you begin shopping. Wouldn’t it be disappointing to find out after you’ve spent your money that you could have saved an extra 15%?

When you visit the Deal Locker site you can type in the name of the item or store that you’re looking for, or you can use the tabs across the top to search by store or category. It can take as little as a few seconds to find a great deal and begin saving money.

One thing that I really like about the Deal Locker is that it’s interactive. If you sign up for a free account you can add coupon codes that you’ve found on the internet and you can also rate coupons that you use on the site as to whether they worked properly or not. It’s certainly nice to search through the site and know that the majority of the coupons on the site have been rated by fellow users and that they are most often marked as having worked well.

As you probably already know Chris and I have been busy renovating our house. Soon … I hope … we’ll be thinking about purchasing new furniture and other home decor type of items to add that extra touch to our newly renovated rooms. So I decided to take a look at Deal Locker to see if I could find any Home Decor coupons or even some home improvement coupons and I found several coupons that I can use now or in the near future when the renovations are finished.

I was able to find Ace Hardware coupons and coupon codes for other well known hardware or handyman type home improvement stores, and home decor stores.

All in all I was quite pleased by how easy it was to find some coupons that I could use. I’m in Canada and yes there are listings for Canadian stores, US stores, as well as stores in the UK, Germany and even Australia.

Visit the Deal Locker. I’m sure you’ll be pleased by what you find. I know I was! I’ve bookmarked the site already.

Turn a photo into a canvas wall hanging

July 27, 2007 by Tricia

I don’t know how many of you read my other blog Tricia’s Musings but I’ve been talking about a great company called Canvas On Demand on that site.

Why? Well I visited their site and discovered that I could use their service to have one of my favorite photos printed on canvas.

When I saw the site and read more about their service I thought to myself “Wow, getting wedding photos printed on canvas would make great anniversary gifts”, not only that, any kind of favorite photo printed on canvas would make a great gift for friends or family or it could be used in your own home.

So I uploaded one of my favorite photos and in less than 10 days they sent me my new canvas! Take a look:

Canvas on demand - Monarch butterfly

Isn’t that gorgeous? I’m thrilled!

The company is great too! They emailed me and kept in touch with me throughout the whole process. I’m very happy with their service and their product.

Now I just have to decide where to put my new canvas!

Get a Beach Cruiser of your own

June 24, 2007 by Tricia

I would absolutely love to have one of these beach bikes. Don’t you just love the look of them?

The bikes are just simple one speed bikes but their design makes them great for riding – especially on sandy beaches.

I’ve actually been a fan of Beach Cruisers for a while now but I’ve yet to purchase one. However, looking at their 2007 line up of bikes I might just take the plunge and get a new bike.

There are so many different styles it’s mind boggling.

I love the low rider beach bike that is shown on the 2007 bike line up page. It looks so cool! You can get beach cruiser bikes for women, men, stick to the classic beach cruiser line, or show off your appreciation of design and style by getting one of their chopper cruisers.

If you want a bike for racing these bikes probably aren’t for you. They are designed for leisure riding. That’s why I think they’d be perfect for one of my favorite types of biking adventures.

You see, here in Toronto we have a fantastic beach area. There’s a boardwalk and bike bath that runs along Lake Ontario in the West downtown core of the city. It’s a lovely area, and because it’s so crowded you can’t really race along on a bike.

Since these bikes are designed to be ridden on slightly rough terrain like a sandy beach they’d be perfect because there is a large beach area beside Toronto’s board walk too.

The bikes are priced reasonably too. That low rider that I pictured above is only $155 dollars, and the yellow womans beach cruiser that I showed above and linked to is only $95. I’d actually swear that the prices have gone down since I last looked at this website. Even better if they did.

The bikes are shipped 80% assembled so there won’t be much work for you to do once your new bike arrives. They ship using FedEx and they do ship worldwide so no matter where you are you could be a proud owner of a beach cruiser.