November Resource Section Notes

UFC Resource Section
November 20, 2008
NOTES

GIFT IDEAS
HOUSE & GROUNDS
FURNISHINGS
FINANCE & LEGAL
BOOKS, LEARNING, ON-LINE RESOURCES
CLOTHES AND ACCESSORIES
PLACES TO EAT/Drink
MEDICAL, HEALTH & BEAUTY
OTHER ITEMS
REQUESTS
BELOW


Late breaking information: A website about saving money and shopping, from the Nov 26th, New York Times, http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/27/technology/internet/27coupon.html?em#

Toolate for the Crocker Art Sale which ended yesterday but still time to shop online for our very own Sara’s beautiful jewelry http://www.saradjewelrydesigns.com/aboutus.html and next Weekens is the Annual Holiday Sale at the Davis Art Center. Not to be missed!

GIFT IDEAS
Herbal Animals –Great baby gift. Small stuffed animal comes cuddled nicely in a box for easy wrapping.. The one we saw was Abra K Zebra and it was lavender scented. Can serve as a lavender scented pillow They cost about $17 and are available locally at the Davis Food Co-op.

HOUSE & GROUNDS
Powell’s Countertops. – Marty Powell, 21 E. Edwards St., Winters,
(530) 795-3251. Reasonably priced. One of our members was looking for a countertop for her bathroom vanity and used Powell’s and was very pleased. Comments were made on Kitchen Mart who does good work but much pricier.

Plumber – Poot & Scoot Drain Cleaning and Plumbing, David White, 756-7883 – reasonable and did good job. Came back and didn’t charge or complain but was pleasant.

Plumber – Ray Moran – (530) 758-2173, license # 546110 does service, repair and remodels. old school – does great job and is reasonable

Sears Appliance Center - Woodland

FURNISHINGS
Artfulhome.com - 15% off through 11/25 (oopppsss) Ornament a day giveaways -- promo code Fifteen 118

FINANCE & LEGAL
Amanda Mason (707)927-6291: Not only does mortgage but she does Real Estate investments, as well.

BOOKS, LEARNING, ON-LINE RESOURCES

Books – One of our members brought in books that she received from signing up on the website she mentioned last month (see October’s notes). Some of us took a book or two and will bring them back for others to enjoy.

Ahab’s Wife, Sena Jeter Naslund
One Fifth Avenue , Candace Bushnell
Second Glance, Jodi Picoult

CLOTHES AND ACCESSORIES
Zappos.com – great source for shoes

Nordstrom Rack – Sacramento, Sample shoe sale usually size 6. You will receive a postcard if you are on their mailing list. Designers: Stuart Weitzman, Donald Pliner, Marc Jacobs. $89 for boots originally $635.

PLACES TO EAT /Drink
Scott’s Seafood Restaurant in Sacramento on the river – good review

Tassina Bistro on Main St. in Woodland – good review

25 Degrees, formerly Brix Restaurant – closer to Davis on Hwy 29, about 45-50 minutes. Four star review.

Bogle Winery – Located in Clarksburg. Just a lukewarm report: nice store, nothing like Napa.

Castello Winery – near St. Helena, great review

MEDICAL, HEALTH & BEAUTY
El Macero Pharmacy – Carol Angius, skin care therapist. (530) 231-6520. Will set up make-up session for our group and her rep at Jane Iredale and we will get free samples. Yahoooo!!!

OTHER ITEMS:
Midtowngrid.com – guides with maps and names of restaurants, stores and art galleries in midtown Sacramento. There are three different guides: Eat the Grid, Shop the Grid and The Art Grid. Those at our November meeting received two of the guides. The information is available online.

Handmade Christmas Gifts - Pence Gallery, Crocker Museum, Davis Art Center.

3rd St. Warehouse Sale – San Francisco Saturday December 6, 2008. They will have a huge sale and offer any number of items, south of Market

Art Foundry – Sacramento (See UFC Sept. ? 2008 newsletter),

Rumplestiltskins – Sacramento R St. wonderful yarn shop
Great tea shop in same building and wonderful jewelry store.

Hanlee Toyota – Davis --- one of our members had a great experience buying a car. Yes, you read correctly, with Grant Lyon – no pressure. Also one of our members learned some car buying secrets form a finance class and will share them with us.

Photos & Calligraphy
Renee Liston member and past president of UFC offers a similar service. She is making a DVD for me to use at my dad’s memorial service. I’ve given her photos and names of songs and each photo is shown for 2-3 seconds. The average DVD has about 100 photos and lasts about 10 minutes. Contact Renee for more information. Renee Liston at: rgliston@pacbell.net

Scan Café – scancafe.com – an online source for having slides, negatives ie photos scanned. . They also do photo restoration.

Calligraphy – our own member Deanna Lee does beautiful calligraphy at a reasonable price.


REQUESTS

Radio Stations – see attached and if anyone has any suggestions please send them in

Kid friendly restaurant near community center for December 14th

Looking for a kitchen cabinet painter