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A cute little craft site takes off

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My niece has been busy starting her own business. It’s a craft based business where she makes hair clips, earrings, metal art, knitwear, baby clothing and all kinds of things. Everything is adorable!

She came to me a month or so ago asking for advice on how to start a small business and once I knew what kind of business she was working on I suggested that she set up on Etsy. However things have just exploded for her in the last month and I hear that she might be looking into unsecured business loans soon! Yes … that’s how fast things are picking up.

I hope that her business takes off. Of course if it does she’ll probably have to hire a few people to help her out. Anyway if you love craft items or need to get some as gifts for friends or relatives check out Muench Love Creations.

Using coupons to save money while shopping online

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If you’re like me you’re always looking for deals and just about any way to save money while still getting the quality product that you want to purchase. Am I right?

It’s hard not to be like that when the economy has been so bad for the last few years. Even in good times it’s a good idea to watch for deals and to conserve your money.

I’m always watching for coupons online or in flyers that come to my door so that when I go out shopping I can use them to get the best deals. Likewise, I do the same when I shop online. If I know I’m shopping online at a particular store I often do a search for coupon codes to see if I can find some deals on the products that I’m looking to buy. I just recently came across a website that offers walmart coupons. I’m sure I’ll put those to use at some point in the near future.

Do you shop around for bargains and deals? Do you use coupons when you shop in stores or online? What else do you do to try to save money?

So happy that Spring is almost here

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It’s really starting to look and feel like Spring here in Toronto. It reached 14 Celsius today (57.2 F) which is pretty warm for mid-March. I can’t wait until it’s officially Spring!

This weekend my husband and I are going to go to the Canada Blooms Show downtown. I haven’t been to that Gardening show for a few years now. I’m going to bring my camera and my video camera and I expect that I’ll have lots of material for my gardening blogs after a day long visit! I’m sure I’ll also manage to find a few new plants to buy as well, as I always do at these kind of shows. Even though my garden is pretty much jam packed with plants!

While we’re downtown we might visit the jewelry district to look at watches. My husbands watch stopped working a while ago and he’s always liked momentum watches so maybe we’ll find him a new watch too.

Are you as happy as I am that Spring is almost here?

Thinking about getting an iPod Nano

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Over the last couple of weeks I’ve found myself looking at online stores for sales on ipods. Yep … I’ve seriously been considering getting an ipod. Can you believe that I don”t have one yet?

I can’t!

The iPod Nano is the iPod that most interests me. We have a large music collection – so I think the 16 gig model would be best — even bigger would be better, but 16 gig is a start.

Anyone have an iPod nano? Can you tell me how you like it? Pros? Cons?

Did you take advantage of New Year sales?

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The new year is here. How many of you took advantage of end of the year or even better – New Year Sales? Did you shop ’till you dropped in the last week of 2010 and the first of 2011? Or did you shop online?

We’re in a real budget crunch so I didn’t go nuts spending money at at any of the big sales. Oh and there was some good ones here in Toronto! Boxing day sales are the best! I really had to hold myself back from buying a new 8 mg flip camcorder when I saw it online for a really good price. A friend of mine wants a new rack mount lcd so I’m keeping my eye out for deals but otherwise I didn’t end up buying anything other than a Belgium waffle maker.

So .. did you buy anything at any of the big after Christmas or new year sales? What did you buy?

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