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The Settlers IV (PC)

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Fluid Mask 3 (Mac)
List Price: ?175.00
Amazon Price: ?166.00

Patchwork Gardening Apron
Price: $17.99

Better Homes and Gardens Home Designer Suite 6
Price: ?39.99
Customer Review: Excellent Home Design Software
The pack contains an excellent handbook with easy to follow tutorials. I was up and designing after only four or five hours practice. 3D views really good. Only two drawbacks: you can’t set the length of, say, a wall, you have to draw it and it can be a bit tricky getting the dimensions exactly right and the American appliances don’t have standard European dimensions. However, the latter is only a minor problem and the former is well worth putting up with for the sheer usefulness of the package as a whole. Which? rated it one of their two best buys. If you want an inexpensive and easy to use home design package, then this is the one for you.
Customer Review: Good product for the price
This is an excellent product for the DIY designer/Selfbuild person. It takes less than a week to master and there is excellent technical back up either online self help or very promt email reply, under 24hours. There is perhaps one major weekness. It is not possible to have different roof pitches on the same building. This has prevented me from producing a 3D view of six seperate buildings varying from 15 to 45 degree pitches. This has not prevented me from putting together full plans and elevations to accompany a planning application very quickly. There is a demo avaliable of the pro version which I am going to upgrade to.

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TS Tools (Train Sim Add On)

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Price: $24.95
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The Pink Garden Kit is a fantastic and vibrant alternative to all those standard green and wooden garden accessories and makes for the ultimate ladies garden set….
List Price: ?24.99
Amazon Price: ?16.99
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Increases seed germination time, Contains many vitamins and all 107 essential minerals, Improves crop quality & yield, Helps plants & flowers fruit, Completely Biodegradable, Leaves no residue on your wheatgrass or plants, Safe for all your indoor and outdoor plants, including sprouts, No contamination issues, Benefits both roots & leaves, Safe around pets & children!
Price: $13.95
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Imation Disc Stakka - CD/DVD Management Tool
Never waste valuable time searching for discs or files again. The Stakka is an automated carousel which stores, protects and retrieves 12cm optical discs including data CD’s, DVD’s, music and game discs.

Customer Review: Can go wrong just when you urgently need a disc
I bought a second one of these unfortuantely because I too was initially impressed with my first one. Howver, soon after buying the second one, I started having to open both of them to retrieve discs that the device couldn’t find - they lose track of where the discs are. Worse still discs regularly get stuck inside and can’t get them through the gate to eject. This is commented on now by many owners.

Opening up the device is a pain and once you open it you have to take all the discs out and put them back, one by one, which takes ages. The fact that I have two machines which don’t work, indicates that its not just one defective unit.

Finally, obviously don’t put any boot up driver discs in it for your computer because if your computer won’t start, you can’t access the discs!

To summarise starts off well but will let you down badly just when you need that important disc quickly! Anyone want to buy mine?

Customer Review: Good product if a little fragile
As storage devices these are excellent, though as others have pointed out they can be a little fragile, of the 5 I have one has been replaced and one is heading that way, as others have pointed out if it could connect via the PC to the www and pick up the details of the disc this would be a massive plus though I guess somewhat expensive.

I must add that I have found the support team very helpful when I have had the need to contact them.

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5 Lb Can of dried Green Peas. Sprout great using the jar method, tray method or by using a Sprout Sack. Nitrogen packed for long shelf life. Certified Organic.
Price: $15.95
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35 Lb. Re-sealable bucket of certified organic brocolli seed. These special sprouts provide a fresh and natural way to supplement your diet with sulforaphane, a phytochemical found in broccoli and related to tumor reduction according to John’s Hopkins research.
Price: $595.00
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Replacement Battery 400 mAh for iPod Nano - DIY Tool Kit + Instructions
# 100% new high quality generic (non-OEM) Li-Ion Battery for iPod Gen 1 Nano
# Quantity: 1
# Keeps the music playing on your first generation iPod Nano with this replacement battery.
# Comes with the necessary plastic tools to open up your iPod.
# This is a high capacity, rechargeable Li-Ion (Lithium Ion) battery with premium cell.
# Voltage: 3.7 V

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Bionic Gardening Gloves - Women’s XL
Designed by a world reknown hand surgeon, “Dr. Jim” [Kleinert], the Bionic Glove’s patented and patent pending features bring anatomy and hand function to the forefront of glove design. improving comfort without interfering with hand motion.
Now carries the Arthritis Foundation Ease-of-Use Commendation!
Protect your hands while enhancing dexterity!
Price: $40.00

Teach Yourself Basic DIY (Teach Yourself - General)

Material Girls (DIY): Fabric Makeovers for Your Home (DIY Network)

List Price: $14.95
Amazon Price: $11.21
Used Price: $7.99

Shibori: A Beginner’s Guide to Creating Color & Texture on Fabric (Diy Network)
List Price: $19.95
Amazon Price: $14.96
Used Price: $12.24
Customer Review: Wonderful and clear introduction to shibori
This book has many good basic sections of information on how to make shibori fabrics easily at home. It is clear and concise, with good illustrations. Very importantly, the author discusses different dye types and methods, which is very important in shibori because, let’s face it, we’re not all going to go out into our backyards and indigo dye the old fashioned way. I’ve been doing shibori for years but I loved this book and found it full of good ideas.
Customer Review: Shibori:A Beginner’s Guide
Very useful for new Shirori dyers. Simple to read and understand. Could have used more information, but a good place to start.

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