No Buy Month, Photos

Birthday presents for the year, done!

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After stumbling upon Jenn’s website and found a blog entry on an internet company located in the States that personalizes gifts for kids, I decided to create my own for my nephews in Ireland. Kelan (to the left) will be 3 in July, and Ruairi will be 2 in December. I’m thinking of just getting the gifts primarily for Kelan as he’s at the age now where he probably will be starting to spell his name — sooner or later right? Plus he’s a boy, and likes trucks at the moment, hence the fire truck below. They’re a bit expensive to ship to Canada ($14.95 for Standard to Canada), ugh but the present is well worth it. Hopefully it will be really appreciated and kept, for a long time to come.

So please ignore the watermarks on the photos, but this is what I’ve picked out for  my little buddy, Keely-koo! I can’t wait for his birthday! I’m not going to order these yet as I’m still in this No Buy Month (gosh, March seems soo long when you can’t spend anything), but his birthday isn’t until July and I’ll have plenty of time to mail it over to him.

(click the photos to go to the website)

Above is a Fire truck place mat, customized with his name … AND I got to choose any city for the Fire Dept. location. The second, which is my absolute favorite thing in the world right now is the customized book.

Oh I don’t think I’ve been this giddy in such a long time. I love getting “awesome” gifts for my guys. I hope they have as much fun with it, as I have just browsing the website.  I’m definitely ranked up there as the (only) favorite Aunt. haha.

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Daily, Geek Speak, Photos

Backlog

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Ever since purchasing my pro flickr account a few weeks ago ($25/yr to hold all the photos you’ve ever taken isn’t bad) I’ve been updating my flickr with really, really old photos. It even goes back as far as 2004. Before Flickr I used to use a free website called pbase but to my surprise, they have actually deleted a lot of my photos from 2002 and 2003. I was unimpressed to say the least and sent quite a few nasty e-mails to the company. Since I wasn’t a paying customer, they couldn’t do anything about it. So, rather than pay  after them loosing all my memories from back in the party days, I decided to pay Flickr instead. This is sort of a pointless entry, but I decided to update a few of you on here as some people who read this are my Flickr contacts as well.

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I have a question though regarding everyone’s Flickr plugin/widget (what is it?) on websites. Why does my flickr preview photos look so ugly compared to everyone else’s? I mean, the layout of them. All spaced out super weird, no standard thumbnail view. I may remove it all together! How annoying. Why am I computer illiterate?

Most of my photos aren’t viewable to the public, as Flickr actually gets a lot of creepers. But the ones I had on pbase were indeed, public and so once I’ve moved them all over to Flickr, I decided to still keep them public. You can view my flickr page here!

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Daily, Photos

Weekend Recap

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I was thrilled that the weather cooperated enough for my friend to be able to make it down after a 5 hour drive from Ottawa. It was snowing quite a bit on Saturday afternoon! We decided to go to a mall that I keep hearing everyone rave about. It really wasn’t that great! lol. wtf? Yesterday, we headed out bright and early (8:30!) to catch the earliest greyhound possible, to head into Toronto and do a bit of shopping. Unfortunately for both of us, mainly for my friend — it was uneventful. She came here to shop! There wasn’t much available at all. We went into a few of our favorite stores and at the back of the store most of the shelves were literally bare. I was all WTF. None of their spring stuff was out yet. (PS. Don’t we look cold, yet super stoked to shop? haha)

I knew I wanted a few things from Sephora, so we headed there after grabbing some lunch. I picked up Benefit Bronzer in Hoola for the first time ever. I’m not sure what I think of it yet as I’m used to the WHAM BAM Bare Minerals in Warmth (which seems like I get more for my money!), and I wanted NARS Laguna bronzer as well, but of course they were sold out. Instead I picked up some Sephora by OPI nail polish. I wanted a nice not–so–sheer, but sheer at the same time, whitish pink nailpolish. (shush). So I picked up some in the color Dear Diary. I’ve got it on my nails to the left (with & without the flash) nice huh? It’s not as sheer as I wanted, but I think I applied it too thick because I was impatient to do it slowly and correctly.

I’m super cold right now. I may pop in the kitchen and make myself a gourmet hot chocolate… oh yes. Too bad there aren’t any marshmallows! Drool.

Don’t forget to check out my recipe section! I added two new onesssss.

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