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? Peels, cores and slices all in one easy operation with minimal waste. Perfect for apples or potatoes used in pies, canning, salads, etc. Quality cast iron construction with stainless steel blades provide years of trouble free service. Suction cup base steadies the unit when in use.
List Price: $29.99
Amazon Price: $23.09
Customer Review: nice product
My grand children loves peeled and cored apples. Grand Paw hates to peel them! Enter this product, now the kids line up to peel and core their own apples. Works great, lot of fun. Just try to get apples and potatos that are a uniform size, works better…………..great solid construction.
Customer Review: It really works!
Hard to believe, but this peeler/slicer really works great. It will peel a potato or apple and, if you want, also slice it. You need to adjust all of the spring loaded arms for maximum effect. After my husband did the necessary adjustments, it works like a charm. Highly recommended.
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List Price: $20.00
Amazon Price: $15.38
Customer Review: Poor representation
The picture on the seed advertising show little pots to grow seeds in….no pots cam with the seeds.
Customer Review: Prepare the grave markers
Watch Video Here: http://www.amazon.com/review/R33BA8SGBP6B88 I tried this twice. I still have flashbacks, whenever I see dead crops in the field.
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Lena Anderson and Christina Bjork have turned their popular children’s book into a charming, simply animated introduction to the work of Impressionist painter Claude Monet. Linnea, a vibrant little Swedish girl, is intrigued by the paintings of gardens she sees in a book in the home of her friend, Mr. Bloom. Together they go to Paris, where they visit the Marmottan, a little-known museum with an exceptional collection of Monets. Linnea discovers the familiar paintings are just “blobs and smears” up close, but become recognizable flowers when seen at the proper distance. Mr. Bloom explains that Monet sought to suggest the play of light on water and foliage, rather than recording it in detail. The next day, they make their pilgrimage to Giverny, to walk amid the scenery Monet painted. Linnea is bright and well-mannered but never priggish; her relationship with Mr. Bloom suggests mutual affection and respect. The animation itself is fairly minimal–comparable to Saturday morning cartoons–but the story and well-photographed paintings make up for its limits. Linnea could easily be expanded into a series that would teach children about the life and work of other important artists. –Charles Solomon
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Used Price: $0.75
Customer Review: Recommended
This is exactly the sort of DVD I wanted for my kids. No violence, no lowbrow humor, no hyperactive pacing, no obnoxiously noisy soundtrack that attempts to artificially excite the ADD generation of children. The artwork is beautiful, the soundtrack matches it perfectly, and the storyline isn’t addicted to the usual tedium of marching the viewer through one predictable cliffhanger after another. This is a film of discovery rather than adversity. I rate this with as many stars as there are to give.
Customer Review: A heartwarming film for adults too!
This film is precious and will help you appreciate Monet’s art even more. Part of the “animation” includes real life photographs of Monet’s paintings and his home which is a museum now. The conversations and experiences of the young girl and her elderly friend are touchingly realistic and often humorous. The background music is also delightful. Now, I long to go to France if only for a picnic and a tour of Monet’s garden!
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Zero 7, aka Sam Hardaker and Henry Binns, are back with a gorgeous new album, The Garden. It was produced by Sam and Henry and mixed by Phil Brown, who has worked with such luminaries as the Rolling Stones, Brian Eno and Talk Talk. It features vocal performances by Jose Gonzalez, Sia Furler and Henry Binns. The band’s previous albums, Simple Things and When It Falls, were critically acclaimed and rooted them firmly alongside Royksopp & Lemon Jelly as leaders in their field. The Garden sees Zero 7 take a fresher, more upbeat musical direction while still maintaining their trademark sound, and could well turn out to be the soundtrack to the summer.
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Amazon Price: $13.99
Used Price: $7.38
Customer Review: How Does Your Garden Grow?
Zero 7’s first two albums embody the warmest melancholy I’ve ever heard, the musical crack when a frown is bent into a smile, the slight hum when the sighs of the heart are torqued from end to end into a bass and treble clef. Fans of the UK-based duo will know what I’m talking about: never has distant sun seemed so cool, never have lonely breezes brushed so warm. “The Garden” is an interesting turn for the group. They’ve traded in Simple Things for a complex cornucopia of backyard flora. Their normally cascading melodies have each been caught When It Falls and planted into sunny soil, well-watered, loamy, rich, healthy. The result is certainly beautiful, even if it doesn’t sway with the same sweet bitterness that made the first two records such deep, soulful successes. You still have the duo’s uncanny ability to mold a tune, and Shia’s unmistakable pipes are still present, but now there’s an almost Playskool type of playfulness to songs with lyrics and titles that are less than sunny. “Waiting To Die” sounds like an adult’s nursery rhyme. “You’re My Flame” is a brassy, brash digi-pop ditty. “Throw It All Away,” with its muted trumpets and synthesized swoops, is about as groovy as Zero 7 gets, with a smirk thrown in to boot. And “The Pageant of the Bizarre”? It sounds exactly like the name implies; like a circus calliope that’s been retro-fitted with a few extra pipes. The group’s usual simmer isn’t gone. “Crosses,” “If I Can’t Have You,” “This Fine Social Scene,” and “Futures” are all reminiscent of the early years of Zero 7. But in keeping with this new, deep-rooted direction, the tunes all bristle with a new, restless energy. The trademark instrumentals suffer some under the buzz (”Your Place” gets a bit big-bandish), but the vocalized songs flourish under this brand new solarity.
Customer Review: a lapse…
As a long-time fan of Zero7, I – like many others – was very anxious to see what lay in store in their third outing; the cover art and name reving up my expectations of something incredible. My experience, though, was one of fairly great disappointment. Z7 has always been a sort of categorical doppelganger to Air, in my eyes (and ears). Both pioneers in the chillout genre, both Duos, and both usually releasing albums within close proximity of each-other. Air has always been the more experimental group, traveling through avant-garde circles. Zero7 has served to balance the spectrum by providing very accessible albums that you can simply put on and listen to in almost any situation, while also appreciating the sophistication and artistry in their work. They (joined only by Thievery Corporation) have been almost sonic-diplomats, helping to bring this style of music to those on the fence who would never listen to the more polarized musings of, say, Goldfrapp. All of that said, I just found this album to be boring and unrewarding. Some reviewers have made comparisons to both 60’s and 80’s music, but if anything I think most of the songs here suffer from a very 2-dimensional assemblage of tired disco beats and surprisingly vacant lyrics. In fact, about the only song I enjoy listening to is “Futures”. For some, the more up-beat nature of ‘The Garden’ may be exactly what they needed to get into Zero7, as Simple Things and When It Falls contained very hushed and intimate soundscapes. I’m not one of those people. It felt contrived (although sincere in concept), and more than anything, annoying. The change of vocalists could have been done interestingly, but they failed at this, and produced a very flat sound. Change is vital in the growth of any good musician, but in that process there are always missteps, and to me that’s exactly what ‘The Garden’ is. But I do hope they will change course again before the next album, or I won’t be buying it either.
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