Over the last week there have been some great photos of the Northern Lights, due to the solar activity. By coincidence at About Canada we have received another delivery of Northern light paintings by First Nation artist Jasyn Lucas.
It is similar to one that came in, and sold immediately a few weeks ago. It makes me imagine lying in a clearing watching the Northern Lights above me.
Let me know if you like it and check out the others at Original paintings
The Blow Out Sale was very successful. However we had a number of people concerned whether it was a sign that we were closing. We are not. We are now in our seventh year and still growing the business.
We are now expecting the new stock and new lines, that we found at this years By Hand trade shows, to refresh the store. I will tell you about them as they come in.
One thing we are doing is updating the website. The home page now has links to the 9 most popular categories to make it easier to find what you want. Have a browse and let us know what you think.
The other thing that I hope you find useful is the review facility in each of the product pages. What did you buy, what did you think of it?. Let us know.
You can now earn and redeem loyalty points online. The fact that you are getting this email means that you have an About Canada account. If you don’t know your password then just put in your email address and click on the password reminder link. Your account allows you to set up wish lists, check your loyalty point status.
Family Day is observed in Alberta, Ontario and Saskatchewan on the third Monday of February. It’s a holiday to celebrate the importance of families and family life to people and their communities. (Manitoba actually officially celebrates Louis Riel Day, but many people call it Family Day.)
It is trade show time. The time that we go and meet new artists and find neat new things to bring in for you at About Canada.
However that means we have to find space to put things. We are solving this with a Blow-Out sale, starting this weekend.
Everything on sale has at least 50% off, a couple are reduced by 90%.
We only have a fraction of our products online, so far, but I have shown 6 sale items below. If you click on the Blow-Out Sale link then you can look through a whole range. (You can get the sale discounts online).
I came across Pinterest recently and have become a bit addicted. Its a sort of social digital scrapbook, thats growing like crazy, if you haven’t heard of it.
It is simple in that images you like, across the web, you “pin” and others can like, comment or repin to their own interest boards. It’s quite compulsive!
Anyway I have become so taken with it that I have added a pin button to each product page. Feel free to pin your favourite products to your boards.
This week we have been rearranging displays to fit in new stock (more about that later). One of the new pieces that we have taken on is the Sitka trees, from Canadian Metal artist Jack Willoughby. The Sitka spruce is an iconic west coast tree and one of the tallest conifers, it can attain heights […]
The golf course opened last Friday, much to the relief of a great number of p[eople who have been itching to get out. Here in Banff though you have to be careful. The natural hazards can chase you!. I have shown it before. However, on the subject of golf, I thought you might like Octavian […]
I mentioned it was Food and Wine weekend in Banff. We have just taken on a new original piece from Chris Derubis. It’s called I Love Wine. I love it, let me know if you do. Share on Facebook […]
This weekend is the Food and Wine Festival in Banff. It’s a really good weekend. This week we have made the store window along a theme of food and drink and I thought I would share with you a lovely new line that we picked up this year. It is hand built pottery from Nancy […]
For those of you that celebrate Mothers Day in two weeks, on the 13th of May, we have created a page of Mothers Day gift ideas (click here). If you have already had your Mothers Day then bookmark this page for the future. Some of the ideas that I like best are: A Mothers Love […]
I like reading the various wildlife pages. One of my favourites is the Highway Wildlife blog. A recent post of theirs got national media coverage for the photograph of a lynx on an overpass on the highway. However another photo on the same blog, that I really liked was the mystery of the lynx walking […]
In the Fall there is the Festival Of Eagles when Town of Canmore celebrates the migration of the Golden Eagle through the Canadian Rockies. In the spring there is no celebration but there is the reverse migration. This week there have been loads of eagles about. In fact on Wednesday this week, despite poor visibility, […]
The bears are coming out of hibernation. They were saying in the local paper that there have been three bear sightings over the last week. Despite the fact that it continues to snow this is a sure sign that winter is almost over. I thought you might like to see my 6 favourite bear products. […]
Earlier in the winter we took on a couple of giclee prints of marketing ski posters from the Canadian Pacific Railway archives. These are high quality prints on photographic paper and look really sharp framed up!. In fact they proved so popular that we extended the range. With all the snow we have had this […]
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