Archive for August, 2007

A cheap way to travel is to stay at vacation rentals instead of expensive resorts or hotels. But just where do you find vacation rentals located at top resort areas? The best way is to find listings of vacation rentals from the owners themselves.

Take for example you want to find San Diego vacation rental homes. You can check out the Going2Travel Directory of vacation rentals. The directory includes a write up of interesting places to see and visit for each location. Many of the listings come from owners themselves so its even cheaper that way.

Or if you are searching for Newport beach rental homes, you can key in “Newport” in the search bar and you will find many vacation homes and beach rentals to select from.

You can search for vacation rentals from any part of the world using the search tool. The listings are comprehensive with detailed write ups about the homes as well as slide shows and photos where applicable. Alternatively you can browse for vacation rentals by clicking on the world map for your destination of choice. 

I’ve just been tagged by Shooi. That reminds me I have a backlog of tags to do and have almost forgotten them as I have been writing lots of my own posts lately, no time for tags and memes. Anyway this one is easy peasy so I’ll let this skip the queue and do this first.

It’s a very simple tag. When this is passed on to you, copy the whole thing, skim the list and put a * star beside those that you like. (Check out especially the * starred ones.) Write your own blogging tip for other bloggers. Try to make your tip general. Tag as many people as you want.

1. Look, read, and learn. http://www.neonscent.com/****
2. Be, EXCELLENT to each other. http://www.bushmackel.com/****
3. Don’t let money change ya! http://www.therandomforest.info/******
4. Always reply to your comments. http://chattiekat.com/*****
5. Blog about what you know & love. http://sugar-queens-dream.blogspot.com/******
6. Don’t use filthy language-buy a dictionary. http://shinade.blogspot.com/****
7. Blog about something educational http://climateofourfuture.org/***
8. Be yourself; others will follow http://sfgirl-thealiennextdoor.blogspot.com/ ***
9. Don’t have too many blogs that will become a chore to maintain http://cubicledenizen.blogspot.com/***
10. Keep it simple, user-friendly, interesting and organised! http://erishaling.blogspot.com/ **
11. Keep the blog simple and sweet!! http://www.leslieho.com/ ***
12. Share with others your thoughts and don’t be shy! http://groovy-olives.com/blog****
13. Never ask for link exchange. Blog hop to increase traffic. http://www.jessieling.com/**
14. Don’t clutter your blog with ads all over the place. IT’S IRRITATING. http://oliviasy.blogspot.com/
15. Don’t comment for the sake of commenting. Some looked too fake and its a big turn off! http://sashablablabla.blogspot.com**
16. Share something interesting and you will gain more readers. http://judychow.blogspot.com**
17. Blog real and true story and never copy others posts. http://mylovelymummy.com

18. Don’t blog about things that you don’t want others to find out. You’ll never know who’s reading your blog. http://justmytots.com/

19. Don’t comment if you have not read the post in full. You’ll look stupid (and you are being insincere) to comment something that is irrelevant or out of point to what the blogger has been saying in their post. http://mumsgather.com

Now lets here it from:

Sesame, Doris, Kitty Cat, Shopping Mum and WMD..

Do you stop to smell the roses? Don’t have the time? Why not bring leisure to your home? You can do that with landscaping.

Adding a landscape design to your home and garden is the final and extra touch to your home decoration. It is just the thing to give your home and patio that extra oomph! Afterall your garden or patio is the first thing that greets your visitors when they come to your home. You can get the services of a professional landscaper if you don’t know where to start.

Don’t worry if you are too lazy or don’t have the time to maintain your rock garden, pond or fountain, you can leave that to the Landscaping Company. For a fixed monthly fee, a professional landscaper will do the maintenance work for you.

Thats another dream of mine. To get my home beautifully landscaped. That will surely be the perfect finishing touch. I’ve moved in for almost 8 months now and at the moment landscaping is what it lacks.

Hmm lets see. The last time I checked I had written…..

• 646 blog posts on my Parenting Times blog
• 230 blog posts on my Mothering Times blog
• 20 blog posts on my Quotes Station blog
• 224 blog posts on this blog

That would bring me to a grand total of 1120 posts altogether. Muahahahaha. Can write book already. 

I think I’ve got to join a “Writers Annonymous Club” to talk about my compulsion to write, write and write some more. Lol! Anyone wants to join me? Can share with me your stats anot? Hehe.

Here’s a unique wedding gift idea that may actually increase in value over time. Yes, thats right. A thoughtful gift that may increase in time makes the gift more memorable over time. You can get a single framed share of stock from Shareinaframe. This is a framed certificate of stock of a real publicly traded company. It’ll definitely be a gift talked about and remembered by the wedding couple in years to come. Forget about boring dinnerware or household appliances.

On the other hand, if you are the groom, you can choose to give this gift of stock to your groomsment instead. A share of stock in a frame will make a unique groomsmen gift for each of your groomsmen. You can choose the stock of any publicly traded company, perhaps one that matches the interests of your friend. Have fun selecting different stocks for each of your friend and have them compete to see whose stock rises in value first.

One year after the wedding is over, comes the first wedding anniversary. Did you know that the first wedding anniversary is sometimes called the paper wedding anniversary? It is symbolized with the gift of paper. Can’t think of a unique anniversary gift for your spouse? A framed paper stock certificate makes the perfect paper gift. Just pick your stocks, select the frame that you want and you can even add a personal engraving to your gift.

The stock certificates are real legal documents with professionally rendered artwork. It will be a nice way to tell someone how valuable they are to you. In fact it will make a unique gift for just about any special occassion you celebrate.