Photos from Deborah Burns ~ Seattle Real Estate Agent
Three Tree Point at the curve looking south, and off the distance shoreline is Normandy Park.Located in: Burien, WA
Besides the Display Gardens....that would be the Marketplace !
Shopping or browsing at the Northwest Flower & Garden Show ( NWF&GS ) in the Marketplace is one of the highlights of my annual visits.
I always make sure to visit my "old friends" and meet some new ones after seeing the display gardens, so off to see the Ravenna Gardens booth!
Every year I enjoy seeing what beautiful garden things they will have to tempt me....
The Chocolate Flower Farm which SMELLED wonderfully from the candles, I succumbed and bought!
Stone Manor Lighting which had a wonderful display, very moody with it's twilight atmosphere.
The Home & Garden Art LLC in Ballard featured whimsy with it's scrap metal sculptured animals.
On the Skybridge straddling over Pike Street by a couple of stories are the Container Garden Displays, great place to get some ideas for a patio or balcony garden. Here are a couple of my favorites.
To see my blog post on my Favorite 5 Display Gardens, click here
This year I was a Guest Blogger for the NWF&GS, click here to read my post.
Next year the Northwest Flower & Garden Show will be February 4th to 8th, 2009, plan to come and be inspired for Spring!
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I Love Seattle! For more information about Seattle and Seattle Real Estate, please contact:
Deborah Burns
206-618-0565
BRIO Realty
Deborah.Burns.Seattle@gmail.com
Please visit my blogs at:
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If you are Relocating to Seattle and thinking of Buying a Seattle Home, please contact me. As a Relocation Specialist I would be happy to help you make Seattle your new home.
If you are already living in Seattle, and thinking of Buying or Selling your Seattle Home, I would be happy to meet, and talk with you about the service I provide my clients as a Seattle Real Estate Agent.
We are lucky here in Seattle that we have a way to mark the beginning of Spring...
The Northwest Flower & Garden Show !
The gray, cold drizzle will all go away when you come to the Washington State Convention Center this week, February 20th thru 24th, 2008, to walk around the fabulous display gardens, and see all the wonderful new "STUFF'' for sale to help turn your yard, patio, or balcony into your own private garden retreat. Come and get some ideas to improve your home's curb appeal, or just come for a stroll through fantasy gardens. You can also attend the many lectures to learn more about gardening, but for me, it's all about the display gardens...I'm going on Friday....
Check out last years Northwest Flower & Garden Show , I had a wonderful time (as usual!) there were so many wonderful ideas, and last year one of my favorites was actually a bathroom! I have lost count of how many shows I have gone to, but I know I went a few years before I bought my Seattle home in 1997, I couldn't wait until I owned my own home to plan and make my own gardens.
Above is a garden from my 2006 visit. Yes....I would love to enjoy dinner at that table in that garden!
So come in out of the gray and the cold, and take a peek at what Spring can bring to you!
* Banner image courtesy of the Northwest Flower & Garden Show website
Note: I counted it up....this should be my 14th visit!
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I Love Seattle! For more information about Seattle and Seattle Real Estate, please contact:
Deborah Burns
206-618-0565
BRIO Realty
Deborah.Burns.Seattle@gmail.com
Please visit my blogs at:
I am also a contributor to:
If you are Relocating to Seattle and thinking of Buying a Seattle Home, please contact me. As a Relocation Specialist I would be happy to help you make Seattle your new home.
If you are already living in Seattle, and thinking of Buying or Selling your Seattle Home, I would be happy to meet, and talk with you about the service I provide my clients as a Seattle Real Estate Agent.
Today, February 7th, 2008, marks the Chinese Lunar New Year, Year of the Rat . There will be a celebration this Saturday, February 9th, 2008, , in the International District to welcome the New Year and to celebrate the Grand Opening of Seattle's New China Gate
The New China Gate is a HUGE Red Gate that spans South King St, faces Fifth Avenue South and marks a Grand entry into the International District. The ceremonies for the China Gate begin at 10AM. The Lunar New Year Celebration in the International District begins at noon and continues until 6PM.
Time to celebrate the Year of the Rat...
Happy New Year!
*** It's 2008! ***
Seattle celebrated the New Year with Fireworks from the Space Needle , an annual event that this year enjoyed a beautiful, unusually clear night with no rain! While the weather cooperated, the Firework's computer program did not.
This year's theme was a tribute to Hollywood, and the film scores, broadcast on Star 101.5 FM went on with the show, but the Fireworks computer program did "break-a-leg" and while the music played on, crowd watched a silent and "dark" Space Needle. The technicians had to lend a hand and re-boot twice, when that did not work, they manually triggered the Fireworks and then the Space Needle >>> burst <<< with brilliant displays of rockets, light, and sparkles!
Okay, so the carefully choreographed music and Fireworks were no longer synchronized, but it was still glorious!
Okay, confession...I was not there in person and watched it on TV...but I was there in SPIRIT!
Happy New Year!
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I Love Seattle! For more information about Seattle and Seattle Real Estate, please contact:
Deborah Burns
206-618-0565
BRIO Realty
Deborah.Burns.Seattle@gmail.com
Please visit my blogs at:
I am also an occasional contributor to:
If you are Relocating to Seattle and thinking of Buying a Seattle Home, please contact me. As a Relocation Specialist I would be happy to help you make Seattle your new home.
If you are already living in Seattle, and thinking of Buying or Selling your Seattle Home, I would be happy to meet, and talk with you about the service I provide my clients as a Seattle Real Estate Agent.
I went to Ballard the other day to hunt down some unique items for Christmas stocking stuffers...because there is no better place to find the weird, the unusual, and wacky "popular culture" items than at Archie McPhee!
This holdout for the wacky and wonderful is celebrating it's 25th year making shoppers giggle, snort at the silliness, guffaw at the absurdity, chuckle at recognizing a favorite toy from long ago...walk in the door and you are 9 again and are in a treasure shop of fun!
Devil Duckies, Black Lung Bubble Gum Cigarettes, Pink Flamingos, Potato Guns, Bacon Mints, Glow Squish Brains, Wiggley Hula Girl, Gummi Banana Slugs, Cowboy Lunch Box, Nun Punching Puppet, Windup Chattering Teeth, Beethoven Action Figure, Tub 'O Flying Cats, Tiara with Czech Crystals, Pirate Organizer...and the wonderment continues!
This is a place to let your inner child run wild when you enter the this fabulous emporium. If you don't live in Seattle, or plan on a visit, then through the magic of the Internet you can browse, shop and purchase in cyber Archie McPhee and give your inner child a thrill!
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I Love Seattle! For more information about Seattle and Seattle Real Estate, please contact:
Deborah Burns
206-618-0565
BRIO Realty
Deborah.Burns.Seattle@gmail.com
Please visit my blogs at:
I am also a contributor to:
If you are Relocating to Seattle and thinking of Buying a Seattle Home, please contact me. As a Relocation Specialist I would be happy to help you make Seattle your new home.
If you are already living in Seattle, and thinking of Buying or Selling your Seattle Home, I would be happy to meet, and talk with you about the service I provide my clients as a Seattle Real Estate Agent.
I love Seattle! As a Seattle real estate agent I help people Buy & Sell their Seattle homes in what I call "Urban Villages". Neighborhoods like Magnolia, Queen Anne, West Seattle, Montlake & more....
I love Seattle! As a Seattle real estate agent I help people buy Seattle homes in what I call "Seattle's Urban Villages". Neighborhoods like Magnolia, Queen Anne, Capitol Hill, Montlake, Madison Park, Madison Valley, Leschi, Westlake, Eastlake, Green Lake, Fremont, Wallingford, Ballard, West Seattle and more. When helping my clients sell their Seattle home we work together to make sure their property is presented, and marketed to attract the most potential buyers...which translates into higher selling prices. 
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There you will find additional information about Seattle's housing market, stories about the places that make Seattle and it's Urban Villages such wonderful places to live. I will also share with you Seattle Real Estate stories that will help you to have a better understanding of how Real Estate works from an insiders point of view.
Concierge Service....why would that be important to You?
Time....does anyone have enough? I offer Concierge Service as a Seattle Real Estate Agent because you may not have the time to learn, research, and follow through with all the aspects of such a complex and emotional process that is the finding and buying a home. Or as a Seller, getting your home "Market Ready", marketing, negotiating, following through with the transactional process of selling your home. I am here to help you, to put your interests first, to protect your investment in the buying and/or selling of your home when you choose me as your Seattle Real Estate Agent.
Trust...what you need is an ethical real estate agent helping you with what may be the largest investment that you will be purchsing or selling. By reading my posts on my blogs you can get to know me, and know that I am an advocate for my clients...it is my job to put my clients best interests above all others, including my own. It comes down to the Golden Rule...I will look after your interests the same way, as if they were my own!
For Buyer's: Assistance in developing the selection processes for a locating a home in a neighborhood that meets your short and long term goals, viewing homes and assistance in determining choice and offer price strategy, negotiating the purchase and sales contract process, managing the transactional /escrow process, following through to a successful closing and handing you the keys to your new home!
For Seller's: Analyzing the current market conditions (with regard to the previous 6 months) and determining the value range for your home, assisting with the pre-market preparation strategy for maximum appeal to Buyers, developing the marketing plan targeting potential Buyers for your home, negotiating the purchase and sales contract, managing the transactional /escrow process, following through to a successful closing and your receiving the proceeds from the sale of your home!
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