A couple posts ago, I was telling you about some of the great, personalized gifts you can find from Posy Lane.

Problem is, I didn’t show them to you and how cute they are.

I’m leaving little bread crumbs of hints for the things I’d love for a present…hee hee…

Isn’t their bath wrap adorable?

There’s nothing like having all those pretty spa-like accessories that make you feel so comfortable and fresh, right ladies?

Okay, maybe you’re like me and you’re more fond of a terry towel wrap. I find they’re much more absorbent and comfy. Equally as beautiful and yup, you guessed it, they’re also personalizable:

They’re available in 6 different colors.

Okay, I didn’t mention these before, but I’m really loving them. I love to cook and these would be fablous, especially for the Holidays when I give baked goods for presents!

Check out their personalizable ink stamps:

How fabulous would this one be on gift tags or labels?

They also have embossers, and you’re able to get monograms, return address stamps and the like.

There are many fonts to choose from and so many designs that it might be difficult to choose between the fabulous ideas. I think I might get one for each of my daughters.

I am an avid reader too, so I might get one that says “From the Library of” and my name. Other themes are “from the garden of” and “from the desk of”.

With these ink stamps and embossers from PSA, you can keep the stamp even if you change your address because they have a “peel & stick” quality where you can simply peel off the old one and replace it with a new one from PSA. Cool right?

Have fun with all the personalizable gifts from Posy Lane.

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I absolutely love shoes…

…I love looking at shoes and buy shoes for my daughters, but I can’t actually wear them anymore.

In fact, I still have a pair of my old snake skin pumps I used to wear because I loved them so much.

I don’t like just any shoes – I love shoes that make you say, “Wow”!

Jimmy Choo shoes and accessories make me do just that. I found this video of backstage at the Jimmy Choo for H&M fashion show – check it out:

I am unable to wear heels because of my arthritis in my ankles…So sad! However, I have a serious running shoe collection. Among my faves are Baby Phat!

What’s your favorite item from Jimmy Choo? Let us know by leaving a comment below…

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P.S. Since I can’t, get a pair of your own:

Jimmy Choo Designer shoes for women Black Patent leather (JCW02) Jimmy Choo Designer shoes for women Black Patent leather (JCW02) Materials: Leather Color: Black Heel size: 4.5″ Comes with original box and dust bag. 30 days return policy. Authentic Jimmy Choo, Made in Italy.

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If you want to get fabulous gifts for Christmas for the people you love, try getting them something extra special by personalizing their gifts…

…I don’t mean something cheap with a person’s name on it. I mean something of high quality that’s personalized and customized with whatever you want printed on it.

Check out this really adorable personalized duffle bag available in 22 styles by Mint!

I’d love one of these with my name on it. As you all may know, I love pink and animal print.

I think gifts like this are so lovely because it’s not something you can just pick off the shelf…You have to plan ahead and take care in choosing the gift. It makes it that much more unique.

Another cute idea, especially for college students, is a great laundry bag. They even have styles for guys:

Handy and necessary for those students! Why not make them smile every time they use something as simple as their dirty clothes bag.

Yes, these are customizable too. Maybe instead of putting their name on it, you could have their initials embroidered on these items. That way there’ll be no question who’s bags belong to each person, even in the dorms.

Don’t worry…The young ones won’t feel left out because there are styles for them too. Check out Posy Lane’s insulated lunch tote:

I think they’re really sweet and will make the young kids feel special as well.

Oh, and these aren’t the only personalized gift choices from this shop, they’ve got things like towel wraps, nap mats, backpacks and blankets, to name a few things.

I would absolutely love my very own terry robe that’s customized. What a great idea!!!

Do you have any other ideas of personalized gifts? Let us know by leaving a comment below…

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I’m so confused! Watch this and tell me what you think:

What do you think this video is all about? Let us all know by leaving a comment below…

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I love to decorate by decking the halls, trimming the tree and putting up lights outside.

I put the Christmas towels and tea towls out, along with the good China in the dining room.

I start wearing some of Christmas sweaters and the like, and have just discovered the wide array of  Holiday Fun Eyeglasses from Zenni.

Zenni is a site that I’ve ordered glasses from in the past and have had a great experience with them.

The thing that’s so fabulous about is that they have $8 Prescription Zenni Glasses.

That makes it a fabulous place to find glasses that are more fun because it’s so inexpensive to mix and match with your wardrobe. I just love choices!

Be sure to check out their New Arrivals too! Such cute glasses.

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This video is so funny!

Find out what happens after a wild and crazy bachelor party the night before the wedding:

How emabarrassing! Could you imagine if that really happened?

I sure hope they actually made it within an acceptable amount of time! LOL…

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P.S. Avoid mishaps like these and get your own Nokia N900 for yourself:

N900 WCDMA (UMTS) / GSM 5.0MP 32GB Memory SmartPhone – Black Experience the speed and raw power of the high-performance Nokia N900 mobile computer.

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Not only will it light up the way when you come home or are going to and from your vehicle in the driveway, but it can also be made to create an ambiance that makes the nightlife more fun, more peaceful and even more festive for Holiday seasons.

Aren’t these amazing? These would love marvelous outside of my daughter’s new home – maybe around their pool…

What I absolutely love is the wide variety of solar lighting now available from places like Outdora to not only save money on electricity, but to live in a more green way.

Some of them work on rechargeable batteries and on solar light to recharge the lights that shine. How pretty would these Chinese-style laterns be on a balmy summer evening as decorative lighting?

There’s no cords, they’re collapsible, portable and require no maintenance. I love these features. It makes decorating outside so much easier, quicker and much more fun!

Now, these are electric, but aren’t they so pretty? They would be a really classy and elegant touch for spicing up your yard with decorative lighting for the Holidays.

I just think these are so very stylish. Also, the electric cord is hidden beneath one of the legs. They can withstand wind and extreme temperatures. I might have to splurge and get some of these…I’m loving them.

Some unique outdoor lighting I saw there too were these gorgeous chameleon smart globes that cycle through different, vibrant colors that work through solar charging, so they cost nothing to operate.

These would be great to stake into the garden, place on a table or in a globe holder or float in a pond or fountain. I’m certain my yougest daughter, Kimberly, would love these as they’re installing a large fountain in the front of their new home…These would be beautiful floating in it…Wow…

What is your favorite here? Let me know by leaving a comment below…

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…at the inaccessibility of handicapped wheelchairs in stores.

Problems:
1. You have to make your way over to a service desk to obtain a key to use the chair.

2. When you’re done with the chair, you have to return it back to the place where you got it from and walk to key back to the service desk.

3. Most of the wheelchairs are in atrocious condition. The leather seats are cracked. The armrests catch your clothing. They’re very dirty. Many of them make as much noise as a lawnmower.

4. The aisles in the stores are so tight that, in many cases, you can’t get through. Also, the cashiers are so close together it’s difficult to get through, especially in grocery stores.

5. Half of the chairs aren’t charged and you get stuck in the middle of the store with a conked out machine.

6. The instructions are often not clear on how to make the chair work. They all start differently and it’s difficult to figure out. Some of them have long, retractable cords that won’t retract and you have to figure out how to wind it around something – the seat or handlebars…

7. There are times when I come into the store and there are no more handicapped carts available for me to use. Outside in the parking lot, there are a tremendous number of handicapped parking spaces, but only 2 chairs in a store to accomodate these people. Does this make sense? Also, there are times where there are people driving these carts in the store who are visibly not actually handicapped and don’t really need this service, while I’m trying to maneuver my way around the store in pain – or I simply leave the store and go somewhere else.

8. Some stores have a simple wheelchair without a basket that is manual. How in the world could I shop with this? Not only is it difficult to manually push myself around, but I can’t actually shop! I suppose the idea is to have someone else pushing you around. What good is that, though, if you can’t also push a cart at the same time. It’s useless…

9. When you’re ready to cash out, you actually have to get out of the chair and manually load your groceries out of your cart onto the conveyor belt. Couldn’t there be someone there to assist you? I’m not just here for a fun day out. They’re necessities you need and all the while, we’re in pain. All of us don’t always have friends or family available when we’re ready or in need of going shopping.

10. When you finally do get through the aisles and get your stuff paid for, you are not allowed to take the chairs outside to your car to load your bags. You are expected to take your bags and put them in a regular cart. Then, get that wheelchair back to where they belong, then return the key to the service desk, and if you’re alone, hope your groceries you already paid for and have in a cart left by itself are still there. Then, you have to walk that cart outside, usually by yourself, and load those groceries and return that cart to a recepticle.

11. Restrooms in stores do have a handicapped stall, but have you ever tried opening the door to get into the restroom in the first place. It must weigh 50 lbs…Now try maneuvering through it with your chair…come on – put one of those automatic buttons to assist us…

Solutions:
1. At the very least, the chairs should be clean and in perfect repair and charged.

2. The chairs should be where the keys for the machines are instead of a service desk that you have to search for and is further away. In our Niagara Falls, Ontario Wal-Mart, the chairs used to be located at the very back of the store in the layaway section…The service desk is up front…What’s going on here? I have 2 canes I walk with…Try organizing all of that – your purse, canes, wheelchair, keys, and your in pain trying to walk around to collect all of these items to get a chair for yourself.

3. It would be an appreciated courtesy if there was someone at the service desk who would at least ask you if you needed any help getting the wheelchair machine, assisting you with groceries because many of us cannot reach items above chest level seated in this chair, and if we need help transferring groceries into the new cart, loading your vehicle and returning the chair and the keys. “Are you in need of assistance today?” Simple!

4. People who are handicapped, and not just lazy, would have a handicapped sign for their vehicle, at least in Ontario…Bring that in to get y0ur wheelchair and prove that your are, in fact, handicapped. I am tired of having no machine to use and seeing people around the store who do not seem to be handicapped in the least bit using them while I’m hobbling around in pain.

5. Put one of those automatic buttons on the outside of the restroom door that will automatically open up the heavy door for us.

I represent a tremendous percentage of purhasing power among the mobility challenged people in this world. Please, give us some simple and equal consideration and some assistance if you want us to frequent your establishment.

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P.S. Need a motorized chair of your own? Check out this really cool model:

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Have you seen those beautiful, large Christmas ornaments available now?

How fun are these? I guess you’d need a very large tree to hang them in, if you wanted to hang them…

…but I think they’d look absoutely phenomenal if you bunched them together at different, strategic angles on your lawn, maybe at different levels of your landscaping.

How lovely would that look? I think that woud be perfect for our front lawn as we have a few different levels of our grass. It would be so festive and so unique compared to the traditional decorations.

Other large Christmas ornaments I’ve seen that I love are almost Victorian looking…my favorite decor of all-time! I love a Victorian Christmas and my tree reflects that…

I just fell in love with this Santa on a swing – isn’t that just so cute?

Also, I have 2 Victorian ornaments that look like this beautiful carousel horse, but it’s also one of those large Christmas ornaments from Outdora…Isn’t it gorgeous?

This carousel horse would be beautiful outside on your lawn, on your porch by the front door and even in a strategic place inside your home…

I’m also going to go natural and cut real, live, natural pine branches and put them in my empty urns in the front of my home. Fortunately, I have some holly and pine cones that I’ll put in there too to make a beautiful, winter arrangement.

Also, I have some beautiful gold and silver festive branches that I can add to make it more festive. Then, I will use white, twinkling lights that will accentuate that look. It will be very festive and beautiful…au naturel…

A few other urns, I’m going to add a few small obelisks and make them look like Christmas trees.

I think these will be perfect with the large Christmas decorations to give me a lovely, Victorian-type scene along with the crisp, white snow that is bound to fall.

I’ll have to os when it’s decorated…

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P.S. Ahh yes…I cannot forget my lifesize nativity set either!

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I’ve read this beautifully written novel by Tolstoy and enjoyed every moment of it…

I wasn’t able to put it down to eat and sleep – it was so entrancing.

The beautiful Anna, who finally finds love in the arms of Count Vronski, after living so many years in a loveless, expressionless marriage, becomes a victim of the chauvinistic separation & divorce laws which force her to give up her son in order to experience the comfort of her love.

Having been exiled to live in Spain, she longed for her Russian homeland and her son, Sergei, who had been told she was dead.

This twisted road lead her to disappointment, exclusion and deep depression which brought her to committing suicide under the horrific wheels of a train headed for Moscow.

I give the story a 5 star rating – it’s unforgettable and the characters are so authentic that the pain of their pain, their love, their joy touch you to your very soul.

I recommend this read and watching the movies to anyone, but the book has much more detail, depth and historic information and the backgrounds of each character are so much more tantalizing.

However, the sets, scenery and costumes in the movies are so beautiful and really bring this story to light.

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P.S. See the 1961 DVD version of Anna Karenina for yourselves:

Anna Karenina (1961) (DVD) Anna Karenina (Bloom), the young wife of Russian diplomat Karenin (Goring), is on a mission of mercy to help her brother Oblonsky patch things up with his wife after an injudicious affair, when she meets the dashing soldier, Vronsky (Connery). Anna is soon swept off her feet by Vronsky and begins an affair of her own. When Karenin finds out, he offers to forgive Anna if she will leave Vronsky, but she refuses, a decision which will have tragic consequences. Tolstoy’s novel of infidelity and its haunting aftereffects has been adapted for film many times but none so moving as this deeply poignant, neglected gem.

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