What a great couple of weeks! Hope yours have been good as
well. We
celebrated my birthday, but that's not all...
My husband and I celebrated our 20th wedding anniversary!
So, we went
out on a romantic sunset dinner-dance cruise
and dreamed of another 20 years
together...
(And guess what...we didn't even break the bank on this outing
because
we used a buy one-get one free coupon from, you guessed
it, the Entertainment
Book of coupons). So what did we do with
the savings? We went out for ice
cream afterwards, of course!
One of my other passions.
And what of the store? Giftsprings is going full steam ahead!
We keep
adding great items for you and keep making positive
enhancements for your
shopping convenience!
Like what?
We've added an express shopping feature that you can use to
order
quickly by code numbers if you have one of our catalogs
or if you browse one
day and write down item numbers that
you plan on ordering on another day- you
can just add in item
numbers to your basket and they'll pop right in there
now. You
can find this feature on the Basket Contents page.
And, we moved the search field top and center for easier
searching by
item name (for instance, so you can type in
horse when you're looking for any
horse related gift or home
decor item). We also added a new section for
safari home decor.
We're also pleased to share that we've opened up a new
Wholesale Support
Center for our partnering retailers and
wholesale distributors. We'll be
adding and expanding that area
more in the coming months and notifying
wholesale customers
of more details related to this soon.
Whew! See, we've been busy.
But... we also have plans to reorganize the shopping categories
of the
website in the next few months as well! This will be a large
undertaking but
will improve ease of finding products for you,
so you can browse and shop in
a variety of different ways.
By the way, we are looking for sales reps in various locations
to call
and visit shops in your area to acquire new retail accounts
that will carry
our products. So contact us about this if you have
experience doing this and
would like to represent our offerings.
I hope you'll read on below because we're featuring some great
sale
items this week, many are new arrivals and there's a really
interesting item
I'd love to hear your reaction to. You'll see what
I mean if you go look at
it.
Keep on smiling because it's still summertime! So after you read,
work
and shop ... go play a little! :)
Liz Hekimian-Williams
Send your comments, questions, and anything you'd like to see
shared in
this ezine here:
mailto:Lizrhw@giftsprings.comUse
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2.
Inspirational Thought For Your
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There's this kid's Christmas sing-a-long song
where this snow creature
is getting a lesson on
how to change for the better one step at a
time...
I found myself humming the tune today... so
here's your
inspirational thought for the day...
" Just put one foot in front of the other, and soon
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3.
Giftsprings Featured Sale and Bargain
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Get this
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33778 Cauliflower Cow (You must SEE this novelty
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but maybe it'll become the next craze
LOL)
SALE price now $6.75 (msrp $ 9.95)
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5. Readers
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Marg,
Take care,
Liz
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7. Feature
Articles - "Home of the
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Home Of The Year
By David Leonhardt
We were gathered 'round the television, where Little Lady
was watching
an episode of Stuart Little. The kids had
entered the mother for a Home Of
The Year contest sponsored
by some fancy magazine, but she had fallen ill
just before
"The Committee" was to visit.
I turned to my wife with yet another one of my
way-too-brilliant ideas.
"Why don't we enter the Home Of
The Year contest?" I asked.
My wife looked around in horror. "What? With this place?"
Little Lady, just over two years old, was looking for the green
crayon.
"Sure," I replied, obviously missing something.
"Why not? It's a great
home."
"This place is a mess," my wife said in frustration, as she
started
slipping the videos back into their sleeves. "What
magazine would call this
home of the year? Dump Monthly?
Trash Can News? Oh, I know - Bad
Housekeeping?"
Little Lady emptied the crayon box on the floor. "Oh come on,"
I
answered. "This is a wonderful home full of love and joy. See
all the
drawings taped to the wall?"
"In the Home Of The Year, there are no crayon drawings taped to
the
wall," my wife explained with just a hint of patience. "There
might be an
original Rembrandt or Van Gogh, or perhaps an
exceptional imitation. It would
be placed in an elegant frame."
Little Lady found the green crayon. Now she needed a sheet of
paper on
which to draw.
"I don't know," I hesitated. "Rembrandt and Van Gogh don't
sound very
homey. I suspect you might find them in the Museum
Of The Year
contest."
"Just look at this dust!" my wife cried. She blew on the top of
the
television set, which temporarily vanished into the haze.
Little Lady emptied her bookshelf with one fell swoop, but still
could
not find paper on which to draw.
"OK, so it's dusty," I admitted. "If we dusted more frequently,
we would
spend less time together and it would be less of a
home."
"The Home Of The Year contest Committee really does not care
whether we
spend time together," my wife said. She headed
toward the kitchen in search
of iced tea, nearly tripping over a
bag of clothes along the way. "They just
want to see a spotless
house with all the classiest decorations."
Who needs paper, anyway. Little Lady found a blank spot on
the wall, and
started applying her green crayon.
"Well, that might make a good House Of The Year, but a home
is a place
to live in. It needs to exude love and comfort, not
cleanliness," I
said.
Apparently, I was still clueless. "Homes of the year never
exude
love, and certainly not comfort," she explained,
picking up a copy of
Good Housekeeping from the floor.
"They are showcases of a woman's
ability to keep a house in
immaculate condition with absolute precision
... despite
the presence of a male creature around."
Ouch. Little Lady gleefully switched to the red crayon.
"Well I don't know anything about keeping a house tidy, but
if
that's what the magazines want, why don't they call it
The
Janitorial Olympics?" I asked.
"I don't know. Maybe it's too hard for them to spell," my
wife
replied, smiling. "But they don't, so just get used to
reality. We
simply do not have even the slightest, tiniest,
most minuscule hope of
ever winning the Home Of The Year
contest."
By then, Little Lady had drawn three stick figures on the
wall. My
home," she shouted, running to give Mommy a big hug.
I didn't need a magazine to tell me we already lived in the home
of the
year. And if the dust doesn't kill us off first, we will
live there every
year.
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14. Sales
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Elsewhere:
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Review of Cleverisland.com Service, offers a free gift card
etc...
If you go to Cleverisland.com
http://www.cleverisland.comyou
will likely be offered a deal like "get a $20 Target
Gift Card" free
and get a two week free trial to
Cleverisland.
Well, I bit because I wanted to check it out and was looking
for
something for my younger daughter. Upon review of the
details of the
offer it seemed reasonable enough for a
trial.
Here's the scoop though.
There's a slight misleading that I didn't care for in that
you have
to actually pay $1 by credit card to get the free
trial, but then
I figured it was worth it for two weeks of
learning and
entertainment for my youngest daughter.
It has turned out to be just that. There's a catchy tunes,
good
characters in short movies which keep her attention
enough, load in
reasonable time frames (we have high speed
cable though so I don't know
how it would be on a phone
line), a lot of games and areas to explore
and learn with
and the best test ... my daughter spontaneously asks
to
play it almost every day.
However, here's what you need to keep in mind. This is
geared
towards kids only in the 3 to 8 year old range
(Cleverisland even
admits that), though I'd narrow it even
a bit more to say it will
appeal most to kids in the 4-7
age range. And, it costs somewhere
around $70 for the year,
but they will prorate refund you for unused
time depending
on when you cancel. They say it's only a few bucks a
month,
but be prepared that they will charge you the entire
year's
fee once your free trial period is over.
All in all I give it a rating of Good to Very Good for kids
4-6 years
old.
But... are you sure you want to start sharing your computer? :)
Liz HW
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