Grandma's Weekly Specials

THE 15th PARKINSON'S UNITY WALK WILL TAKE PLACE IN
CENTRAL PARK, NY on SATURDAY, APRIL 25, 2009


The Parkinson's Unity Walk is the largest grass roots event raising Parkinson's awareness and funds to find a cure for Parkinson's Disease. 100% of all donations raised goes directly to Parkinson's Research.

Our family attends the Parkinson's Unity Walk each year in Central Park New York City.Our team is The Turtle Gang. We wear a yellow t-shirt that has a picture of a turtle crossing the finish line of a race leaving the hare behind. Our slogan is Hare Today, Cure Tomorrow.

If you live in the New York area we would love you to join our team and help us find a cure for Parkinson's Disease. You can find us at:The Turtle Gang

This week Grandmas' Shoppe would like to offer a special 10% discount on any purchase made on our website from March 31st-April 26th. We will reimburse the amount after the purchase has been made (not including shipping). We will then donate that amount to The Parkinson's Unity Walk.

Hope you can join us!
Robin

Wednesday Blog Recommendation

Vanessa lives in New Jersey with her husband and three children. She maintains three different blogs, Chefdruck Writes, Chefdruck Reviews, and Chefdruck Musings and freelances for a variety of blogs including Traveling Mom, Savvy Source, and Jersey Bites.

Chefdruck Musings keeps readers up to date on her latest outting with her 3 children, movie and television show reviews, and every Tuesday she offers a delicious recipe in her "Chefdruck's Tasty Tuesday" column. Each recipe includes simple instructions and photographs. I appreciate the photographs as I'm not a great cook and I like to see that my recipe is progressing the way it should!!

This week Vanessa visited the new Fairway Market that just opened in Paramus, New Jersey. This is the first Fairway to open in our area and being a fellow New Jersyean, I can't wait to visit. Like Vanessa I often shop at the Fairway in New York City.

Being a book lover.Vanessa has created Chefdruck Writes. A blog dedicated to indepth book reviews. At times I'm not sure what my next read should be and I've found this a perfect blog to search out my next book.

Vanessa contacted Grandma's Shoppe and asked if she could review one of our products. After looking at her blog it was an easy decision. Of course we would love to be included on such a fun, warm, and informative blog. Chefdruck Reviews, "Saturday Giveaway", featured a review of our Grandma Rocks CD in February. Check out her current review and giveaway.

Take a look at Chefdruck's blogs and tell me what you think!

Robin

Grandma's Weekly Specials

Sweet Treats for Spring!

We can't think of a better way to celebrate Spring than with custom decorated sugar cookies. Grandma's Shoppe is now carrying beautifully decorated sugar cookies. We're offering an Easter Gift Box and Delux Spring Favors. These cookies are so beautiful that they can be used as a table decoration and make perfect party favors.

W'ere offering a spring special!!

10% off of our scrumptious sugar cookies from March 22- March 29.

The discount will be refunded back after the purchase has been made.

(off of retail price not including shipping).

HAPPY SPRING!

Robin

Wednesday Blog Recommendation

Last week I started sharing and writing about some of my favorite blogs. I enjoy searching out blogs that I find interesting and only subscribe to those that I feel will be fun to read and offer pertinate information and advice. I talked about the blog entitled, Thrifty & Chic Mom. I decided to try the endhilada recipe on the blog and loved the way they came out. My teenage kids loved them too! (This is unusual for my two teenage daughters to both like the same recipe!)

Another blog that I have come to love is Retail Minded. The philosophy behind Retail Minded is to support the small business owners. Whether you are a wholesaler or retailer, there is information on this blog that is very up to date and informative. Nicole Leinbach Reyhle founded Retail Minded in 2007. She has a strong background in both retail and wholesale.


She features articles about wholesalers, online retail stores, along with information on pricing, inventory, merchandising, and this week she has an article entitled: Going "Green" In Your Store Space & Initiatives.

As a retailer I find her articles timely, informative and quick to read; which is important to me due to my crazy schedule.

Leave a comment and tell me what you think!

Wednesday Blog Recommendations

Reading Blogs has opened up a whole new world for me. When Meg, our web designer, asked if we'd like to have a blog as a part of our website we said sure. Not really knowing what a blog really was.

I started asking our vendors to share their favorite blogs with me. I began reading the blogs and found out that each had it's own special niche. Whether it offered special coupons, free merchandise, insight into family events, and other fascinating information. There was a blog for everyone.

Which blogs would be right for me? My children are teenagers now so the blogs offering baby advice might not be a good fit. I started surfing the Internet determined to find blogs that offered something that would spark my interest. Perhaps recipes, coupons, or business advice. One that I could relate to and enjoy reading.

To date I have found many that I'm enjoying and I've started to subscribe to my favorite blogs. I find myself looking forward to the updates that arrive in my e-mail.

Every Wednesday I will share a blog with you that I'm enjoying. Please feel free to submit your favorites.

Today's Blog Recommendation is Thrifty & Chic Mom Living Life Spending Less. This blog is written by Ellen, a young stay at home mom with two children. Her philosophy is to live life to its fullest while staying on a budget. It contains, weekly deals at stores, coupons, yummy recipes, lots of fun give-a-ways and family updates. I find it well organized and easy to navigate.

Tonight I'm going to try the Chicken Enchilada recipe. (scroll to bottom of page)
I'll tell you how it comes out!!

Robin