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Dear Friends,

Welcome to week 28 of The Shopping Stop weekly newsletter!

Since my last newsletter, I have continued to make improvements to The Shopping Stop website.
We have a number of new stores and have made the pages more user-friendly with brief descriptions about each store so you have an idea of what the store offers without having to go there.
I have also added a Table Of Contents which makes finding a particular merchant much easier, by takes the guesswork out of finding the appropriate page/category.

The Home Page has the newest specials being offered by our advertisers for your shopping convenience.
I hope you will pay us a visit at The Shopping Stop .

Each week I will include gardening, landscaping and home improvement articles that I hope you will find useful, as well as special offers from our advertisers and links to new advertisers as they become available.

Hope you use them and enjoy!

Until next week...

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John Forrest

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In This Issue:

Gardening Tips
Landscaping Tips
Home-Improvement Tips
Recipes Of The Week

Advertiser Specials
Quote of the Week
Contact the Editor
Your Subscription Info

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1. Gardening Tips:

The Dirt on Dahlias - A well stocked garden really can make a difference to the amount of buyers who find your house appealing. A cared-for garden can indicate a cared-for house, and it also adds to the curb appeal of your home. For a really eye-stopping front yard, you cannot beat the beautiful and vividly colored dahlia.

Gardening - Tips and Techniques - One of the oldest hobbies known to man, gardening has withstood the test of time as a hobby. It is not only enjoyable but fruitful as well in more ways than one because plants actually bear fruits. You can grow your own flower and vegetables and even fruit. Gardening is...

Organic Gardening at Home: Why? - With rising food costs, less quality, less nutrients, and the many “scares” taking place of un-healthy and tainted foods, we are now paying more serious attention to the availability we all have of growing our own food.

The Science of Autumn - Everyone loves autumn colour, when nature performs a quick change from shades of green to vivid reds, oranges and yellows and reminds us that autumn has arrived and the nights are drawing in. But what, exactly, causes this transformation? Well it’s a complicated biological transformation – so bear with me for the next bit

Evergreens and Shrubs for the Rock Garden - Dwarf evergreens and dwarf shrubs will help to produce the illusion of naturalness in the rock garden to a greater degree than any other form of plant materials, if they are used in the right way. There are very few rock gardens, indeed, regardless of their size or character, which...

What is an Insect Identification Guide? - We encounter insects of different kinds in our daily lives. A guide on insects will provide us the necessary information about the type of insects we see lurking around us. When we study the various identifications of insects, we get overwhelmed because of its many types. The purpose of insect identification...

2. Landscaping Tips:

Green Lawn Care That is Chemical Free - If you want to live more green and be in harmony with the environment with your lawn care, you will need to give it some planning and forethought. Gaining a better understanding of weeds and grass as plants will help you to achieve your goal.

Smart Winter Lawn Care - As winter approaches, many people wonder how to best care for their lawns. They want to have beautiful lawns year-round. But many of us don’t think as much about our lawns during the winter. This is especially true for those that live in the North, where snow will be on the ground for most of the winter months! There are some smart winter lawn care things you can do to ensure a beautiful lawn for spring.

A Custom Wood Gate -- Six Ways to Inspire Great Things for Your Home - A custom wood gate can be an extremely essential part of your home's architectual appeal. In addition to providing important aestethic design value, a well-designed custom wood gate can offer a great deal of inspiration and mental relaxation for the home owner.
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Outdoor Water Fountains – be Creative With Your Outside Space - It can often be a homeowner’s nightmare of how you can brighten up the exterior of the property in a unique and modern way. Most gardens or outdoor spaces will have the usual array of plants and bushes with a patio space and or conservatory but some times it is nice to do something a little different.

Essentials of Front-yard Landscaping - Front-yard landscaping is one of the most important aspects of overall landscape design. Careful attention should always be given in landscaping the front-yard because it is the place that most people see very often—especially when they get to your house.

How to Build a Fire Pit - Learn how to build a fire pit from design and planning to picking materials, here are some helpful tip for the long term enjoyment of that outdoor living room and outdoor firepit. Items such as the type of patio furniture you are going to use are also important key factors when designing your oudoor firepits.

How to Prepare Your Lawn for Fall This Year - Learn all about lawn care during the fall season.

Consider a Custom Built Cedar Garden Gate In Your Landscaping Plans. Visit John's Custom Gates.

3. Home-Improvement Tips:

Remodeling or Building a New Home?

For Home-Improvement Resources, Visit: Johns Home-Improvement Page

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Framed Wall Mirror - Guilty or Not? - If you are wondering what I meant by this title, let me explain. What all home owners are looking for is that one piece that is exquisite yet functional. What they all yearn for is this main focal point for their decor as someone enters the room.
Click Here to see such a mirror built by Your's Truly- John Forrest

Home Remodeling: Things to Ponder on - The high density of the population has brought rise to the housing crunch that increased the popularity of smaller-spaced living units that prove far more affordable. But even with the limited space, you can make a home out of your NYC apartment, condo or townhouse no matter what neighborhood you are in. Home remodeling is the perfect solution to have a good dose of comfort and style injected into your everyday living.

How to Go About Your Exterior Painting Project - The New York climate alone should prompt home owners to have exterior painting done but this job also has other benefits like beautification. In exterior painting, the difference between a first-rate and poor job will eventually become very much evident especially in the case where a portion or in some cases the whole work is to be redone. Because this project is essential, home owners should think not about the costs as long as they are getting the best value out of their hard-earned cash.

Foundation Repair Choices - There are many solutions when repairing a foundation due to cracks, settling or heaving. Understanding these choices is the first step to saving money and getting your home fixed correctly. From choosing the correct contractor to hiring an engineer, arm youself with the correct information.

Remodeling Your Bath or Kitchen? Add Instant Hot Water! - If you have plans to remodel your kitchen or bathroom you should seriously consider upgrading your hot water system. By installing a hot water circulating or demand system you can get your hot water faster, and you won’t have to run water down the drain waiting for it to arrive. You will save time, water, energy, and money!

The Trouble With Granite - Your granite countertops are beautiful, and you were attracted to them because they are a natural product, but now comes all the news coverage of their potential health threat. How do you know if your granite countertops are giving off radiation?

Is it Time to Add a Garage? - Thinking of adding a Garage to your home? Learn from a leading remodeling expert and find out all the basics you need to know to plan and build a garage addition.

Installation and Refinishing Concrete Floor Project: Tips and Tricks That Save Time and Money - Now let's get started with tips on how to coat your floor with an epoxy or urethane floor paint.

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4. Advertizer Specials & Sales

Here are a few of the specials being offered this week
There are many more specials, which are too numerous to list here.
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5. Recipes Of The Week

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Pumpkin Bread Recipes and They're Suitable for Diabetics, Too! How About Trying Pumpkin Crescent Dinner Rolls! - Pumpkin-Walnut Bread, Pumpkin Nut Bread, and Pumpkin Crescent Dinner Rolls are all tasty recipes that diabetics can enjoy, too. Try one of these tasty treats; you'll be glad you did!

Enjoy a Tex Mex Diabetic Meal of Taco Style - Make your family a very tasty Tex Mex meal featuring Taco- Style Lasagna. Instead of lasagna noodles, this recipe uses flour tortillas. Add southwestern skillet corn and then cool down with tangy lemonade pie. This meal is also diabetic friendly but will be enjoyed by anyone.

Old-fashion Super Hamburger Soup and Fruity Cantaloupe for a Healthy, Quick and Easy Meal - These vintage recipes are perfect for a quick, easy, economical meal that is healthy and light. Super hamburger soup is chock full of healthy vegetables and the cantaloupe filled with fruit is another healthy choice.

Breakfast And/or Brunch Recipes (suitable for Diabetics, Too!) - Tired of the same old breakfast foods? Looking for something different for your brunch buffet? Try our Pork and Apple Breakfast Sausage, Easy Cinnamon Spread on bagels or toast, Cheesy Ham Nuggets, and Chopped Egg Casserole.

Old-fashion Recipes for Fun Snacks - Recipes for fun snacks from my vintage recipe collection. Elephant tracks, Caramel Corn and Rock Candy are fun old-fashion recipes to share with your children or grandchildren.

Crockpot Lite Chicken and Vegetable Soup and Microwave Apple Crisp for a Quick, Easy, and Economical Meal Suitable for Diabetics, Too! - For a very tasty, lite, quick, easy, and economical meal try this Chicken and Vegetable soup that is prepared in the crockpot. For dessert add a microwave apple crisp. It can't get much easier than this!

Old-fashion Recipes for Pago Pago (shrimp) Pasta Salad and Cloverleaf Potato Rolls - A delightful vintage recipe for a shrimp pasta salad perfect for lunch or a light dinner. Add cloverleaf potato rolls, they're delicious.

Old-fashion Homemade Bread Batter for White, Whole-wheat, Rye, and Herb Breads - One homemade white bread batter recipe with instructions on making changes to make whole-wheat, rye and herb breads. All from one original batter recipe. Make your own breads just like grandma used to make.

Jewish Coffee Cake - Now here is a coffee cake that will make you want no other coffee cake, and once you prepare this coffee cake and get a real working idea about this cake you can become very creative and use some different jams, jellies, fruits and so on. Always remember that there is a lot that you can do with a recipe providing you don't exceed the parameters of the original recipe.

6. Quote of the Week

Each time a person stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring, these ripples build a current that can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance.
— Robert F. Kennedy

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