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I’ve decided to use Glass tiles in my kitchen and bathroom reno projects

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I love watching home decor and renovation shows on TLC and the HGTV channels.

I always get great ideas for my own ever ongoing home renovation projects from these shows. If one of the shows is particularly good I’ll literally take notes – writing down product names, or visiting the shows website so that I can find out what products were used and then go on to visit those sites and bookmark them for future use.

I guess I’ve been working on a virtual home renovation scrapbook? Hey the information that I gather is good for my blog posts too of course. If I can’t use an idea maybe you can?

One of the products that caught my eye a while back when I was watching shows like Trading Places and that fun Australian group renovation show The Block is glass tile. I just love the look of it.

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I guess you can’t really tell from this photo how much different glass tiles are from standard ceramic tiles, but they are glossy and just have what I think is a very luxurious look to them.

Our kitchen and bathroom renovations won’t take place until sometime next year, but I wouldn’t be surprised if we end up using glass tiles in both rooms.

I mean, I’ve even gone so far as to look for online stores that sell tiles.

I actually found what I think might be a good site to purchase my tiles from. It’s called AnchorBayTile.com and they specialize in the sale of ceramic tile. I’m really happy I found this site and thought that if any of my readers might also be in the process of renovating your homes that you might also be interested in this site.

There’s quite a selection of tiles ranging from ceramic, glass, to metal and wood! Now, I’m not near ready for my reno project yet so I haven’t even begun to compare prices, but as far as I can see AnchorBayTile.com has great prices for quality products. I mean – you can’t find glass or metal tiles at very many retail or online shops and this store has a huge variety.

I’m definitely keeping this site in mind because I just know I’m be purchasing glass and probably ceramic tiles for my projects.






Now I’m stumped

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What the heck is this anyway?

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I thought I planted a clematis.

I’m sure it’s flowered for the last two years and that it produced flowers that look very much like a clematis’ flowers.

This is the first year that I’ve ever noticed berries on the vine.

I’ve even got another “clematis” growing with one of my honeysuckles and it too appears to be producing berries.

I tried doing a search to see if any clematis produce fruit or berries and I didn’t have much luck in my search. Does anyone know if this is a clematis and if it’s not what could it be?

This is so strange!

I’ve got to admit that whatever this is the berries are nice and plump and healthy looking.

I’d like to wish a Happy Thanks Giving to my fellow Canadian visitors. It’s a long weekend here and that’s one of the reasons why my GTS post is a bit late. I hope that those celebrating Thanks Giving are having a fantastic long weekend.

Gardeners, Plant and Nature lovers can join in every Sunday, visit As the Garden Grows for more information.

Trying to find that inner Zen

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Wordless Wednesday

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As was suggested by one of my regular visitors I’m trying to find a little slice of peace. This beautiful photo of a Tiffany Rose in my garden does help.

I lost my normal cool.

You see a post on another blog yesterday got under my skin. Well, I mean to say that I let it get under my skin. See my last post if your curious as to what made me blow my cool.

Deep breaths and a good sleep should help …

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