So This Is Christmas

Merry Christmas is such an infectious feeling I like to feel that way all year around.

So if you are visiting just before Christmas, just after Christmas or even here on Christmas day I am sure you will find something of interest for you and in the spirit of Christmas.

It may be said that Christmas is no longer a celebration but this must be spoken by people that have never had trouble closing their eyes on Christmas Eve in an expectation of what maybe left for them on the carpet under the tree.

I continue to look forward to the surprise on my Grandchild's faces to this day at Christmas events.

Merry Christmas - Merry Christmas - Merry Christmas

Saturday, March 14, 2009

Advance Wellness Research Deals Information

By Linda Kemp

Advanced Wellness Research, Inc. is dedicated to bringing you, our customer, a wide array of innovative and pioneering wellness products that will both enrich and extend your healthy years of living.

We do this by searching the globe for hidden jewels in personal wellness to find revolutionary products. We then conduct extensive research to determine the products effectiveness and safety.

Only after this lengthy process, will Advanced Wellness Research bring the item to you for consumption. It's your body and your life... we won't ever carry a product that we wouldn't give to our own families.

Testing - our products are thoroughly tested for effectiveness and safety. Unlike other "snake-oil" products on the market today, our products have actually shown measurable results.

Free Trials - most of Advanced Wellness Research products come with a Free Trial. Don't just take our word for it, try our products for free before you commit to bring them into your daily lives.

Convenient Auto Delivery - once you have tried one or more of our products and determined it's for you, we will enroll you in our monthly reorder program designed to ensure that you always have our products available for consumption.

Before we bring you any product and make certain promises about products, we make sure that these products are thoroughly researched and proven effective for most user. While we do not claim to have created each and every product we sell, we can assure you that a lot of thought and analyzing went into selecting the product among many others.

At the present time, Advanced Wellness Research, Inc. is researching some products in weight loss, detoxification, skin care and general wellness. Provided that these items pass the stringent tests we require, we will begin introducing these products in 2009.

You owe it to your health to try Advanced Wellness Research. With the risk-free policy and cancel-at-any-time shipping, you have only superior health to gain.

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Factors to Consider When Comprising a Home Theater System

By Matt Thames

When deciding on your optimum surround sound system, you need to keep in a mind a couple things. You will definitely need to know how large the room is that you will be putting the system into. Also, how much power will be needed. There are a variety of sizes and set ups out there, depending on the size of the room and power. You do not want to be left with a loud system, or one that is not loud enough.

You need to have in mind how much you can spend on a system. A smaller room can be outfitted for a couple hundred dollars. For that cost you can get a subwoofer, and four to five satellite speakers. Lately, the DVD players that are included in the packages are upgrading, meaning they will make your regular DVDs sound an look more like high def. You can spend all the way up to six hundred dollars on a system.

A lot of the newer systems are coming equipped with Ipod or mp3 player docks built in. Higher end and a few middle end systems are also including wireless rear speakers. Combine all of these things together and setting up your system is so much quicker an hassle free.

5.1 Dolby digital surround was the standard in surround systems. Newer systems are now 7.1 digital surround sound. This means that there are more speakers put in the set up. If you have a larger space then you will want to spend more money on a system.

There are home theater systems in a box that you can buy, and these offer convenience for a lower cost. But, if you are wanting a true home theater experience, you will probably want to spend the money an buy the components separately. This will ensure you get exactly what you want as well as what you need for your purposes. This can cost upwards of thousands of dollars, but it is well worth it.

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What Fashion Careers Are Available?

By Julia Van Horne

Are you passionate about fashion? Perhaps you even make your own clothing designs, or maybe you are the person friends turn to for fashion advice. Have you considered making a career in the fashion industry? If not, you should take a moment to consider the option. It's a common myth that a fashion career is very difficult to achieve, and that it takes more than ambition and determination to succeed.

What different sorts of fashion careers are there? In many cases you would be working for a company or contract your work out to others. In other jobs, you would be running the business yourself. One thing to consider is which type of job is more your style and will work best for you. To see what kinds of job options are available, continue reading.

The career of fashion designer is probably the most highly sought fashion career. Fashion designers design clothing and fashion accessories, like handbags, and jewelry. It's normal for fashion designers to start out as hobbyists that make clothing and fashion accessories for friends, family, or themselves. However, many continue on to start selling their lines of fashions. The great thing about being a fashion designer is the different options you have for how you would like to work. You can continue making your own lines of fashions, or you can hire a manufacturer to do the work, and stick to creating the designs. You could also sell your designs online, or in local boutiques.

If selling fashion accessories or clothes is appealing to you, another career you could consider is owning a fashion store. There are many different varieties of fashion stores. Some focus on a niche, such as clothing for kids, while others have a broader range of inventory. You could carry lines by other designers, carry your own designs, or a mixture of both. You could operate as an online store, and offline store, or both.

The possibilities for a fashion career don't stop there. You could also be a fashion consultant. This is an especially good choice if you are keen to keep up with the latest in fashion trends. Fashion consultants advise clients on what to wear for any given occasion. For example, you might have a client that is not sure what is appropriate for a job interview, a date, or a wedding. If you can't stop yourself from sharing your expertise, then this could be the perfect career for you.

One of the more unique fashion careers is the job of a fashion show organizer. Every year, local boutiques and fashion designers hold thousands of fashion shows in the United States, and someone needs to organize the events. That someone could be you. As a fashion show organizer it would be your job to book the show place, hire models, design the stage, hire all needed contractors, and anything else that is needed to make the show a success.

If you want a fashion career, but do not have the skills of a designer, that is okay. You can still do plenty of different jobs in the industry. There are many jobs that you can use your skills for technology, research, or interpersonal skills. The only limit to what kind of job you can choose in fashion is your own creativity to think of a way to use your skills to work in the fashion business.

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How to buy bags on internet shopping site

By seohyun

Online consumers spend billions of dollars each year, and as online shopping becomes more and more favored, the major reason why there are still some people who would rather not shop online is shopping security. Here are some guidelines, which you could use to make sure that your security, privacy and rights will be protected when shopping on the internet.



1. Make sure that you are aware of the currency exchange rate before purchasing any international merchandise.

2. Know the delivery cost and time frame before you even place your order. A lot of shopping websites make use of couriers in the delivery of goods. Also, overseas delivery could be expensive.

3. Before placing a bid on eBay, make sure that you will be checking the feedback of the buyers and sellers. Make this your standard as you go on eBay.

4. Always, always, always read the FAQs of the website carefully.

5. If the company or individual you are buying from asks for cash as payment, say no. Using your credit card for payments would be able to protect you from fraudulent transactions. This is because credit card companies are able to issue refunds if there would be any proven fraudulent activity on your account.

6. View the contact page of the buyer. Verify if their postal address is on there. If it is not, do not do business with them.

7. If you have questions, ask. Genuine sellers are helpful and there are even shopping websites that have customer feedback forms.

8. Read twice the company's terms and conditions, as well as their privacy policy.

9. Try searching the company in Google or any search engine to know more about the company from comments and reviews from other consumers.

10. If you still feel unsure on shopping online, then you could probably try shopping the conventional way. You need not force yourself on something that you are uncertain of. However, do not shy away from online shopping altogether. Eventually, you would realize that it could provide a truly worthwhile experience.

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Knowing The Correct Way To Care For Saint Augustine Grass

By Jeff Henderson

Saint Augustine Grass is one of the best types of grass to grow in warm, humid areas, and is very popular in Florida. It can grow well in a variety of soil types, as long as you know a few basics about how to properly take care of it. During dry times, water the Saint Augustine lawn for around a half or an hour with sprinklers two times a week. When it is the wet season of the year, only water the grass when it is needed. You will be able to tell that the lawn needs watering when the grass begin to wilt. The individual blades will begin to fold, and turn from green to a more bluish-green color.

When it is time to mow your Saint Augustine grass, put the mower on a high setting. If you set the mower to cut the grass too low, it will damage the grass and reduce the grass's root growth. When you mow the lawn, go ahead and leave the extra grass clippings on top of the grass. These clippings actually put nutrients back into the soil, keeping the grass healthy. Leaving the clippings also can reduce the need to fertilize the grass. If there is too much grass and the clippings are in piles all over the lawn, then just let the clippings dry out and then scatter them over the lawn.

Approximately two weeks after the beginning of springtime, it is a good idea to apply a low-phosphorous fertilizer to the grass. If you do a good job of fertilizing your lawn, it will greatly increase the overall health of your lawn. Proper fertilization can even reduce Saint Augustine's susceptibility to weeds, insects, and disease. However, if you over-apply the fertilizer, or the fertilizer does not actually get to the grass, there is a possiblity that the fertilizer will leach through the soil or runoff the grass and go into the sewer system.

You can apply the fertilizer again anywhere from once to five times through the fall season. You do not need to do this, but it will make the lawn greener. Even with the best of care, however, Saint Augustine grass is generally not able to stay green throughout the winter months, but should become greener again after fertilization when it is springtime.

If you begin to notice that your lawn is getting brown patches with bare roots showing throughout, it probably means that you have a bug problem. The kind of bug that causes these brown spots are called chinch bugs. You will need to purchase insecticide that is specifically labeled to kill chinch bugs to get rid of them.

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Advanced Wellness Offer

By Linda Kemp

With the popularity of the acai berry growing each day and more and more people adding this incredible berry to their diet, the question of where this berry comes from and exactly what it is is starting to pop up more and more. Since this berry practically took the country by storm without having even been previously known, most people probably have no idea where exactly this supplement is from. The claims about the acai berry are pretty tremendous and people are really exclaiming about how it has helped with every conceivable health problem. What you may not realize is that the history of use of this berry goes way back and people have been using this berry for health and wellness purposes for centuries.

The acai berry is a small fruit that is found growing native only along the Amazon River in South America. The fruit itself is extremely small, about the size of a blueberry, yet it grows at the very top of the acai palm tree- a tree that can reach past seventy feet in height! Getting these coveted berries down to the ground has involved sending the best climbers up to these towering heights in order to harvest the berries. However, the long climb and what would seem like a nerve racking decent are well worth it. Natives to the regions where these berries can be found have used them as a food source and as a health aid for many thousands of years.

While native peoples have been using the acai berry for thousands of years, outside interest in this berry is relatively new. The fact that people from other regions are interested in procuring this berry and in paying for the privilege has made it possible for people living in the acai palm tree's growing regions to find a new source of income from the forest. This is a positive experience for both the native people selling the berries and the people who are able to finally get the health benefits that the acai berry allows.

Once the acai berry is picked from the tree, it starts perishing. This makes it essential for this berry to be free dried or otherwise processed as soon as possible. By processing this berry, all of the nutrients such as the antioxidants, vitamins, and minerals can be preserved and the full health value of the berry realized. For this reason, it is very important for anyone considering using this berry as a supplement to make sure that the product they choose is of the highest quality and retains full nutritive power. Processing of this berry also allows the concentration of the most nutritive parts of the berry, as much of the berry is actually inedible and must be separated and discarded.

The surging popularity of this berry is a good thing for the people who are starting to depend on this product as a source of income and for the people who are coming to depend on it as a healthful supplement that can improve well being. Here in this country, we are able to get high quality acai berry product, such as through Pure Acai Berry, which has all of the benefits that the people of South America have been enjoying for millenia. Pure Acai Berry is a completely pure product that contains only instantly preserved acai berry for the highest nutrition possible.

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Fill a Gift Basket With Cookies and Make Them Smile

By Nancy Fair

Has someone been sweet to you? Return the favor by giving them a cookie gift basket. Cookies are a universal favorite, beloved by all ages. The variety of cookies available is endless and you'll have a lot of fun arranging and decorating this tasty treat.

You don't have to be close to someone to give them cookie gift baskets, so it makes a great present to show your gratitude to your children's teachers, your hair stylist, the mailman, or the newspaper carrier. But it's easy to personalize a cookie basket for a friend or relative by getting just the right cookies and wrapping them up with a personal touch. Both approaches are certain to bring a smile to the recipient's face.

You'll want the cookies to be fresh-baked, so either make them yourself if you're a talented baker, or purchase them from a quality bakery or gourmet cookie shop. The hardest decision in making your cookie gift basket will likely be what kind of cookies to choose. If you don't know the person well, an assorted variety is the best way to go. If the gift is for your favorite "cookie monster", and they're crazy for chocolate well, you know what to do.

Pick out a pretty cookie tin or basket, then place your cookies in a nice arrangement. You can wrap your basket in colorful cellophane or gift basket bag, and top it off with a nice big bow. You'll want to add a little handwritten note. Your thoughtfulness will show through in these small details.

When decorating your cookie gift basket, why not choose a theme? A birthday present calls for brightly colored wrapping and some party favors tucked into the basket of cookies. At Christmas time, select red and green packaging and bows in rich fabrics like satin or velvet. For Halloween, make up a basket of pumpkin or ghost shaped cookies and decorate it with orange cellophane and black ribbons.

Similarly, you can choose a certain flavor of cookie depending on the occasion. Christmas brings to mind spices like cinnamon and ginger. For Thanksgiving and Halloween, pumpkin is the way to go.

Some people have special dietary requirements and can't eat a sugary treat or anything containing gluten or wheat products. Look for a supplier that has cookies that are suitable for people with diabetes or other needs. Or you can find a recipe that fits the requirements and make your own. There are sugar substitutes available that can be used in baking just like sugar.

You can have a lot of fun making up a cookie gift basket, with all the cookie varieties and decorating options. And the recipient is sure to have a lot of fun eating it up.

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Express yourself with Gratitude Jewelry

By Deanna Collins

Gratitude brings a new perspective to your life. See the glass as half full and realize that you are beginning to change for the better. The world opens up when seen through the eyes of a gracious heart. Challenges in your life become manageable and little inconveniences seem unimportant when the focus is on an attitude of gratitude.

There are many ways to express gratitude. A journal is perhaps the most common method and is a great start, but gratitude jewelry is a fantastic way to take what is a once a day gratitude routine and make it part of every moment.

Why Gratitude Jewelry?

Many different items can be used to fashion jewelry. Jewelry can be used to enhance your beauty but also to remind you of the positive elements in your life.

Gratitude jewelry is symbolic. Every time you put a piece of gratitude jewelry on, whether it is a pair of earrings, a necklace or a bracelet, you recognize and appreciate the symbolism.

Wearing gratitude makes you constantly aware of what you have. A gratitude journal is a great daily exercise, but it can easily become a task and simply another thing to do on your to do list-that takes away some of the benefit of expressing gratitude. The power is in feeling gratitude, not in simply sitting down and doing something you should do. Wearing a piece of gratitude jewelry is effortless, it makes you feel good and gratitude becomes a part of your entire day.

Earrings, Necklace, Bracelet or all Three?

How do you choose the type of gratitude jewelry to wear? Consider where you'd like to focus your attention and what area of your body feels the most powerful. Many women love to feel earrings dangling. They're proud of their necks or hair and earrings just make them feel good.

Bracelets draw attention to themselves. They are shiny and make a lovely sound as they move along your wrist. The sound and the beauty of them is a constant reminder of your commitment to being gracious everyday.

Necklaces have always been a favorite adornment for hundreds of centuries. The metal or beads draw attention to the length and beauty of the neck. It makes a woman feel powerful and in control of her being.

Of course, matching sets have the power of giving you a complete set and saving you from having to make a potentially difficult choice. On those days when you know you're going to be facing a challenge you can wear all three and have faith in yourself and the situation.

Learning to express your gratitude in life will change you and your circumstances. Gratitude is a positive life energy that makes you thankful for each moment you have been given. Gratitude jewelry can help you continue to focus on the positive each day.

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