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There are now two options for buying online from us. One gives the best choice the other best price.

On the main store we now have 2,570 items listed, and growing, giving you a real choice and loyalty points toward gift cards.

A few weeks ago we started Sava Sundays on our facebook store. The facebook store gives a discount over our regular price , but does not have the range of products.

Our latest addition is to the facebook store is the popular line of wooden sculptures from Ebenisterie De Beauce, who took over the studios of Yome Lebel.

Tell me if you like it and I hope you are liking our Sava Sundays – http://www.facebook.com/aboutCanadaBanff?sk=app_138996027389

Below I have included a sample of the line of wooden carvings from Ebenisterie De Beauce

Bear With Attitude

Bear With Head Over

Beaver Sitting

Moose With Attitude

Polar Bear With Attitude

Trophy Moose Key Holder

          

I hope that you found the Christmas gift ideas series helpful. If you can not get into the store then the only way now of receiving goods for Christmas is by Express Post. So for our final idea we can give you the postage for free.

Gift Idea number 10

The final gift idea is our gift card this can be used in store or online at About Canada. Which makes it an ideal gift whether you are in Alberta or the Netherlands.

As an extra bonus we are giving free Express Post shipping if you order a gift card worth $100 or more before midday (Mountain time) on Friday.

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So that concludes this years Christmas gift series, I enjoyed bringing it to you. Let us know if you liked it.

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We took in a painting at About Canada, Banff that really tickles me.

Octavian Florescu, an artist with an international reputation as a surrealist painter, decided to produce some pieces just for us in Banff.

The fun piece is Golf Bears. From now on how can you ever hear of golfers seeing a bear on the golf course without coming up with this image.

He has also produced a line called Banff Eagles which you can see online.

In the Banff Eagle Octavian mixes his surrealist geometrics with a natural scene including Mount Rundle in the background.

In the Banff Eagle Series 2 Octavian produces a more sraightforward depiction of an eagle flying through the Bow Valley with Mount Rundle in the background.

The Octavian Florescu Banff Eagle Series 3 sees Octavian again depicting eagles in a surrealist style as the eagles escape their original painting.

In the Eagle Banff Series 4 sees Octavian again producing a more sraightforward depiction of an eagle flying through the Bow Valley with Mount Rundle in the background.

The Octavian Banff Eagle Series 5 sees Octavian again depicting eagles in a surrealist style as the eagle swoops down in the Bow Valley. In the valley bottom is a teepee (in Octavians geometrically impossible style) upon a native drum base.

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You may not have seen golfing bears before but tell us what you have seen on the golf course.

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We went to some friends for a barbecue this weekend. It was really neat as, though I don’t have a musical bone in my body, most of the attendees were musicians and they were jamming away for most of the evening, ranging from folk songs to Beatles numbers. It was a really good night.

One big surprise was a tiny visitor, in the form of a hummingbird. I thought the hummingbirds had long since gone. Usually they are pretty timid but this one just went to the feeder in the middle of the crowded deck.

The hummingbird is one of the favourite images that we sell in the store at About Canada, Banff .

One of the suprisingly popular lines, in this modern age, is the range of cross stitch patterns. We they are bought by young and older alike.

The publishers have just released a new image in the line, Sue Coleman’s Rufus Hummingbird

Have a look at the One of the suprisingly popular lines, in this modern age, is the range cross stitchcomplete range of patterns available.

          

At About Canada, Banff we have taken on the work of Carol Bortenlanger in the form of a “Western Legends Series” that she has created for us.

The Western Legends Series is a collection of limited edition prints of graphite drawings from Carol Bortenlanger. These depict three legends of the Alberta west.

Namely:

Chief Crowfoot, who was a chief of the Siksika First Nation in the late 1880′s. He was a fierce warrior but tried to obtain peace instead of warfare. When the North West Mounted Police came west to keep order he negotiated for peace with the other chiefs then signed Treaty 7 with Colonel Macleod in 1877.

Bruno Engler, who came to the Rockies from Switzerland in 1939 as a mountain guide and photographer and became a legend in his mountain career. He taught mountain warfare to the Canadian army, worked as a ski instructor, mountain guide, actor photographer and was one of the Canadian Rockies’ great story tellers and enduring characters.

Sam Livingstone, who was a very colourful pioneer in the 1880′s and has been called ‘Calgary’s first citizen’, as he was one of the first to build a house in the Calgary area. He is famous for his involvement in the Gold Rush, buffalo hunting, fur trading, bringing new ideas to farming and ranching and was the largest cattle dealer at the time.

Originally from Saskatchewan, Carol now resides in Calgary. She showcases our heritage through portraits of western and mountain legends, as well as rodeo themes, using primarily graphite and charcoal. Carol is a member of the Canadian Institute of Portrait Artists and has been asked to exhibit at the 2008, 2009 and 2010 Calgary Stampede Western Art Gallery / Art Auction.

Who would you add as a Western legend?

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We are producing posts that we hope will be of interest.

We carry mostly Canadian made items at About Canada, Banff. In the posts so far I mainly try to highlight some of the items that I think are neat and that people will like to read about.

I enjoy writing the posts but are we getting it right?

Tell us in your comments if there is anything that you would like to see different or if there is something you want to know more about.