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Cash back when you shop online?

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I just found a site that you might be interested in if you like to get cash back that you can use to get other items. It’s called dealking.com. One of the best offers that they have right now is to use the cash back to get a free pre-paid T-Mobile phone.

I went looking to see exactly how Deal King works and it seems quite simple. All you have to do is register with their site, and then start shopping at the various stores that are listed on Deal King by clicking through to them with the Deal King link. Along with getting cash back on the items you purchase, Deal King also offers discounts, coupons and specials that you can’t find anywhere else.

I took a look at the list of stores that have partnered with Deal King and I see hundreds of store names I recognize easily – buy.com, Apple iTunes, Tiger Direct, Vonage and many more. Check it out for yourself.






Garden season ending- start redecorating

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Now that the active gardening season is ending here in Toronto my attention is turning back towards our house. As I’ve said before we’ve been slowly, very slowly, renovating parts of our home as we go along. Right now it’s the living room dinning room area that is in a state of renovation.

Last Fall and Winter it was our upstairs bedroom. We had some air leaks near the baseboards at the front of the house – in our master bedroom and we ended up pulling off all the baseboards and repairing cracked mortar and doing a very good job of sealing any drafty areas that we found. I ended up using some venetian plaster on the walls of our bedroom and now the walls have a marbled mirror like tone to them in shades of green. It’s lovely.

Naturally, this caused us to end up getting new curtains and to start looking at comforter sets that would look nice with the new room decor. We settled on a subtle floral pattern with the base colour being a very pale yellow toned background that just looks amazing with the wall and sheer curtains we selected. The room has a very romantic, modern feel to it now and it’s warmer in the winter too.

Also, as some of you might know we occasionally take in boarders – students from other Countries that are just here for a very short stay to learn English. Well, the room we put them in has a single bed. The room is very nice but I have my old teen bedding on the bed, the ones my mom actually made to match the style of my bedroom when I myself was a teenage. It’s nice, but I’m thinking of getting a warmer set of bedding for the room since many of our boarders come from warmer countries. Actually the first boarder we had brought a beat up looking electric blanket and I really didn’t like him using that in our house. I’m always afraid of fires and since his electric blanket looked like it was 20 plus years old I figured it was more of a hazard than anything. So maybe getting a warm comforter in a style that goes with the room decor might be in order.

You can see my brain never stops. I leave gardening in November and start focusing on my house- room by room. I hope we’re done renovating and decorating at some point in the next few years.

Fine Jewelry and Diamonds

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Wow, as a former jeweler I just found a site that I’m drooling over. Abazia’s Diamonds front page opens with a lovely selection of the many popular cuts of diamonds sparkling before your eyes.

If you are interested in purchasing jewelery or diamonds Abazias Diamonds features over 80,000 loose diamonds and a wide selection of jewelry at wholesale prices.. That’s right- you can purchase loose diamonds from them if you choose to. Why would you do this? Well, perhaps you already have an engagement right that has a solitaire diamond in it, but now that you and your spouse are doing well financially and perhaps a big anniversary is coming up you’d like to increase the size of the diamond in your ring. Hey why not- people do this all the time. Now you can select your own diamond with ease for this kind of purpose.

Another feature that I like on Abazias Diamonds is that you can design your own engagement ring using their 3D engagement ring builder. You can select the type of mount (ring) that interests you and then choose from a selection of diamond shapes and sizes to create your own unique engagement ring.

You can also choose from a wide selection of ready made engagement rings, bands, watches and all other types of jewelry. The designs are lovely and the prices seem reasonable. Check it out if you are thinking of becoming engaged or perhaps buying someone you love a nice piece of jewelery over the holidays.

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