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You’ll Be Her Favorite With These Unique Mother’s Day Gifts

Friday, May 4th, 2012 by admin

I have another beautiful and trustworthy place for you to go to shop for Mother’s Day gifts. I was given a gift card to shop at Red Envelope and I spent 1 ½ hours poring over what to order. It was so much fun!!

We have ordered from this company for years and have always been delighted with their service and gorgeous quality of the jewelry we have received from them.

I ordered a unique mother’s day gift for someone special but I have to keep it a secret as I know they read my blog. I will tell you about the delivery and packaging. It came in a box within a box promptly on the day it was scheduled to arrive which I was very happy about. You can also choose to have a gift card included. The gift I received is gorgeous and unique and I can’t wait to give it to them.

I actually ordered two gifts and the one is back ordered. They sent me an email saying they were refunding the $13.00 postage for this item because of any inconvenience this caused me. That has never happened with any other company before.

Red Envelope isn’t just about gifts for mom it is a wonderful resource for any occasion, men’s, baby , kids, jewelry, and home and garden. Check it out, you too may fall in love with a new site or rekindle an old friendship.

Little Glass Box Steals My Heart

Wednesday, May 2nd, 2012 by admin

For the second day in a row I am ooing and awing over the gift I received at my front door this week. I was given a gift card for an on line store called Personal Creations. I was asked to use my gift card quickly and tell you all about my experience. First of all they have beautiful and unique Mother’s day gifts. Celebrate this Mother’s Day with personalized gifts and let her know how much you care. They have birthstone jewelry and family keepsakes.

After searching their fun and unique gifts from apparel, kitchen & home, garden, jewelry, keepsakes, photo gifts & frames, and wall frames & décor I chose this gorgeous glass box. My original idea was to choose something for a gift. When it came I found that it was so beautiful that I am keeping it for myself. I am going to keep my favorite earrings in it.

I ordered on Tuesday Morning and it was delivered to my door on Friday morning. This is what I call excellent service. Your mom (or other important woman in your life) will love anything you get her, and Personal Creations have gifts she will cherish.

Do you have big plans for Mother’s Day? Did you know that traditionally this is the busiest day for phone calls?

Say It With Flowers

Tuesday, May 1st, 2012 by admin

My fingers are tingling to tell you about this wonderful on line company called Pro Flowers.

I was given a gift card to order something and then share my experience with you dear blog readers. This Monday I guess we can say our focus is thinking about Mother’s Day gifts.

I poured over Pro Flowers online catalog for the longest time trying to decide what beautiful flowers or luscious gourmet gifts I wanted to buy. I finally decided on the sweetest Polk-a-dot tea cup with an orchid. I have been told they are easy to grow so we’ll see.  I ordered Monday night and it came on Thursday. I was notified by email every step of the way where it was in its journey. I am soooo excited to have this little cutie. It is beautiful and arrived in lovely and perfect condition.

I also ordered a gift basket from their gourmet section.

Look at the cute basket it will come in along with Country Ketchup, and three mustard’s. I am a mustard gourmet, the stronger the better. I can’t wait to get this. Now for the reason I haven’t received it—and it is a good story…..

After my orchid arrived I had another delivery truck pull up in front of my home. (I love getting packages). It was a big box that kind of confused me as I didn’t think mustard and ketchup would take up so much space. But no my friends, they had delivered to me by mistake a BEAUTIFUL fruit basket! I can’t find the very one they sent but it was something like this one, only better. (Wouldn’t you know I forgot to take a photo before I took out all the fruit. It had oranges, red and green pears, pineapple, kiwi, a mango, several cuties and dried fruit in a large attractive basket. The fruit is delicious!

I thought maybe I pushed the wrong button when I ordered (which would have been impossible) and I got this basket instead of the other one. I looked up my order and then I called Pro Flowers. Let me tell you, they have the nicest customer service people working their phone lines. It was answered immediately; I was given an apology and told to keep the basket as it was their mistake. I was blown away. My ketchup and mustard will arrive next week. I told her there was no hurry as it was not a mother’s day gift—or any other gift except for me as far as that goes.

Gift cards can be included. I had written me a silly message and signed it “myself”. The gift card comes on plain white paper.

I suggest you check out Pro Flowers for yourself and see what very reasonable prices they have on their flowers and other products. Besides great Mother’s Day gifts they also have Mother’s Day plants and flowers and other unique gifts for mom—and for you too.

By the way Mother’s Day is May 13 in the U.S. and Mothering Day is what they call it in the UK. I checked my England calendar and it isn’t listed, someone please tell us when it is in the UK and in whatever country you live in if you have a Mother’s Day.

4 Rock Solid Tips To Clear Clutter

Monday, April 9th, 2012 by admin

Monday’s Clear Clutter Focus:

My calendar tells me yesterday was Easter Monday in the U.S., Canada, the UK, Australia and NZ. I hope if you celebrated Easter that it was a beautiful and glorious day. Mine was as I spent the day with a daughter that I only see about once a year as we live on opposite sides of the country.

Now Easter is over it is time to put away the decorations. A simple way to clear clutter is to put away holiday decorations after the holiday is over. Or at least have a plan to put them away within a couple of weeks of the holiday being over. (That’s my plan because Easter was early and I enjoy my bunnies being out of their boxes a bit longer).

  • Keep only the decorations you enjoyed having out, donate the rest.
  • Repair any that are broken or have paint chipping etc.
  • Wrap fragile pieces in bubble wrap or tissue rather than just placing in a bin.
  • Clearly label the bin so you don’t have a mystery bins taking over.

How long do you wait to take down decorations after a holiday is over?

MERRY CHRISTMAS

Sunday, December 25th, 2011 by admin

Merry Christmas to you and your family ! I hope you have a wonderful day and that it is filled with delicious memories and tons of happiness.

All Ocasion Glass Markers Make Clearing Clutter A Snap

Friday, December 23rd, 2011 by admin

I love getting packages in the mail and this year I got the most creative product I have seen. What a great way to cut clutter! My daughter Janice sent me glass markers. First I received the ones for the Christmas Crowd and a day later along came the Party People. These are cute little shapes that have tiny suction cups that adhere to glass. They stick around longer than most guests. They are food approved but not suitable for children under 3 years.

Janice had dinner with friends who used these and immediately she knew I had to have them for our glasses. When my family comes home—no matter what time of the year—we are always trying to figure out how to mark our glasses. We have used masking tape (has to be reapplied after washing), and we have put different colored rubber bands around the glass.

These little guys are really cute and would be a great way to cut clutter but they didn’t stay on our ceramic mugs (we really didn’t need them on those as they are decorative so are easy to identify). They have also not clung real well to our glass glasses. They are so cute we will keep trying to figure out how to get them to cling.

You can find them on Amazon or at www.jellyrivers.com The name on the box is vacu vin. The price is $2.49 to $4.99 at Amazon. These will certainly help with clearing clutter on the counter because everyone won’t be using a new glass every time they get a drink of water.

Each little marker has fun names also. Names like sneaky, deep, curious, macho, naughty, veggie and mysterious to list a few.

Fun Clearing Clutter Christmas Idea

Wednesday, December 21st, 2011 by admin

“If you don’t know where you are going, you can never get lost.”

—Herb Cohen

I don’t know who Herb is but this made me laugh, it is a different twist on an old saying.

However, if you want to get rid of clutter I suggest “If you don’t know where you are going how are you going to know when you are there?”

Right now I am focusing on Christmas coming and my company coming and getting ready for them. I have scheduled out things that need to be done every day so I am not over whelmed—it works beautifully.

One thing we aren’t doing this year is baking and that has saved us a lot of time and calories. I enjoyed the photos of Cindy Bee’s cookies over on her blog but I can’t look too long or I start wishing I could just reach through the monitor and snatch a few.

Van Dyke Nails it–Or Does He?

Wednesday, December 14th, 2011 by admin

“It is not the gift, but the thought that counts.”

–Henry Van Dyke

I am not so sure about this, if the gift is so tacky that it was just thrown together without thought on the givers part is it really the thought that counts?

If you only think about getting rid of clutter but never do any thing about it does that count?

I hope you are having fun planning the gifts you are giving and sending them off in the mail or those you are placing under your tree I hope you are finding the time to get them wrapped.  I love this time of year!!

Clutter Control Idea To Light Up Your Holidays

Monday, November 28th, 2011 by admin

Monday’s Focus:

We got out our Christmas decorations and the trees right after Thanksgiving.  As I was decorating the tree there was some ornaments that just don’t light me up anymore so I didn’t put them on the tree.

One ornament made by the kids back in 1974 dropped and broke. Is it worth gluing back together? I am not sure if it is worth the time, it really has no personal meaning for anyone. Hum, I have to think about that for another second.

I bet you have guessed the focus for clutter control —as you get out your decorations donate or throw away those you don’t like anymore. Fix the ones that are broken within the day so you can hang it on the tree.

Part of my precious tiny nativity from Brazil my daughter sent to me when she lived there was broken—it is the leg from the crèche which is no bigger than the end of my thumb. Can you tell me what glue I should use to glue it back together? It is made of blown glass.

Clutter control starts with getting rid of things that doesn’t light you up—and that includes holiday decorations of all kinds.

Happy Thanksgiving

Thursday, November 24th, 2011 by admin

HAPPY THANKSGIVING!!

Thanksgiving isn’t only about being thankful—which of course it is.  That is the Thanks part. The second part is Giving. I heard this in a talk earlier this week and I thought this was very interesting and so true. I had never looked at it like that before.

I am thankful for you, my friends for reading my blogs, my articles, watching my videos and purchasing my products—which I make to enrich your life. Thank you for being you!

I will be back on Monday with a thought and a smile.