The primary focus of HotZest will be the fresh and exciting stores - those that offer something a bit different in the products they sell and the service they offer. Stores that make shopping a real pleasure and leave you feeling pleased that you’ve discovered them.

As well as the directory, there’s also the HotZest Shopping Blog which will highlight special offers, deals, products and sites that have particularly grabbed our attention.

We hope that you enjoy using HotZest and that it will lead you to your own shopping discoveries. Please do contact us with any comments and suggestions about the site - we want HotZest to be centred around you and your input will be important in the way that it develops

The Man Upstairs and Other Stories is a charming and witty collection of short stories by PG Wodehouse - author of the famous Jeeves and Wooster books.

Each full hunter design pocket watch in this new range features a spring-loaded flip-open cover with a full colour picture of a popular breed of dog; Border Collie, Rough Collie, German Shepherd (Alsation), and Rottweiller are currently in stock with more on the way soon.

These battery powered pocket watches are supplied in a metal gift tin and have plain backs which is ideal if you want to get them engraved for a special occasion. They come complete with a snake chain albert which can be fastened to a belt loop, lapel or button hole.

Dog Picture Pocket Watches: £9.99 + P&P available now on Fractalz Bazaar and in our eBay Shop

Over time we’ll be adding eBooks of classic texts for you download free, enjoy and share.

At FractalzBooks we’ll be going for quality rather than quantity. We’ll select the books we ourselves enjoy, format them for easy reading, add covers and useful links and so on.

The first title, Erewhon by Samuel Butler is available now and we have more in the pipeline.

We hope you enjoy this new Fractalz.net venture and would love to hear your comments, either here or over at FractalzBooks

As a special bonus to visitors to the Fractalz Blog we’re offering you the chance to save £1.00 on any order over £10 (excluding P&P). Just enter the following code when going through checkout and the discount will be applied automatically. Feel free to pass the discount code on to your friends and family too!

Discount Code: FRACBONUS01

This code expires on 1 May 2008 - check back then for May’s Bonus

The great news is that we’ve negotiated a special deal with the manufacturers which means that you can now buy them even cheaper than they were last year - welcome news indeed at a time when prices elsewhere seem to be only going up.

Prices start at just £9.99 and each pair of sunglasses comes in a clip-on case complete with an Indian branded cleaning cloth and a certificate of authenticity/guarantee.

At Fractalz Bazaar, as with our eBay Store we will be offering a great choice of original gifts and best-selling watches - all at down-to-earth prices with payments securely handled by PayPal. And, of course, everything you buy is backed by our 14 Day No Quibble Return Policy.

We hope that you enjoy our new site and would love to hear your comments and suggestions. Feel free to contact us or leave a comment on this post.

These enchanting and strikingly beautiful Night Fairies each represent one of the signs of The Zodiac. They are made from resin with metal wings that attach to the back of the fairy with a magnet. Each statuette has been carefully hand painted in rich earthy tones.

They all come boxed ready to be given as a gift.

Capricorn Dec 23-Jan 20	Aquarius Jan 21-Feb 19	Pisces Feb 20-Mar 20	Aries Mar 21-Apr 20
Taurus Apr 21-May 21	Gemini May 22-June 21	Cancer June 22-July 22	Leo July 23-Aug 21
Virgo Aug 22-Sep 23	Libra Sep 24-Oct 23	Scorpio Oct 24-Nov 22	Sagittarius Nov 23-Dec 22

Is your favourite quote or saying missing from this list? Then please feel free to add it in the comments.

1. The art of mothering is to teach the art of living to children.
   Elain Heffner
2. A man’s work is from sun to sun, but a mother’s work is never done.
   Author Unknown
3. There’s nothing like a mama-hug.
   Adabella Radici
4. A mother is not a person to lean on but a person to make leaning unnecessary.
   Dorothy C. Fisher
5. God could not be everywhere, so he created mothers.
   Jewish Proverb
6. A mother’s love for her child is like nothing else in the world. It knows no law, no pity, it dares all things and crushes down remorselessly all that stands in its path.
   Agatha Christie
7. The phrase ‘working mother’ is redundant
   Jane Sellman
8. Most of all the other beautiful things in life come by twos and threes, by dozens and hundreds. Plenty of roses, stars, sunsets, rainbows, brothers and sisters, aunts and cousins, comrades and friends - but only one mother in the whole world.
   Kate Douglas Wiggin
9. There never was a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him asleep.
   Ralph Waldo Emerson
10. Sweater, n.: garment worn by child when its mother is feeling chilly.
    Ambrose Bierce
11. Youth fades; love droops; the leaves of friendship fall; A mother’s secret hope outlives them all.
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
12. Sometimes the laughter in mothering is the recognition of the ironies and absurdities. Sometime, though, it’s just pure, unthinking delight.
    Barbara Schapiro
13. I cannot forget my mother. [S]he is my bridge. When I needed to get across, she steadied herself long enough for me to run across safely.
    Renita Weems
14. A little girl, asked where her home was, replied, ‘where mother is.’
    Keith L. Brooks
15. One good mother is worth a hundred schoolmasters.
    George Herbert
16. A man loves his sweetheart the most, his wife the best, but his mother the longest.
    Irish Proverb
17. All I am, I owe to my mother.
    George Washington
18. A mother’s happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but reflected also on the past in the guise of fond memories.
    Honoré de Balzac
19. A father may turn his back on his child, but a mother’s love endures through all.
    Washington Irving
20. All that I am or ever hope to be, I owe to my angel Mother.
    Abraham Lincoln
21. I love my mother as the trees love water and sunshine - she helps me grow, prosper, and reach great heights.
    Adabella Radici
22. A mother holds her children’s hands for a while, their hearts forever.
    Anon
23. My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it.
    Mark Twain
24. Some mothers are kissing mothers and some are scolding mothers, but it is love just the same, and most mothers kiss and scold together.
    Pearl S. Buck
25. A mother understands what a child does not say.
    Jewish Proverb
26. Motherly love is the fuel that enables a normal human being to do the impossible.
    Marion C. Garretty
27. A mother is the one who is still there when everyone else has deserted you.
    Author Unknown
28. Sometimes the poorest woman leaves her children the richest inheritance.
    Ruth E. Renkel
29. The hand that rocks the cradle is the hand that rules the world.
    William Ross Wallace
30. Motherhood: All love begins and ends there.
    Robert Browning

Every cat in the UK designed Cat’s Whiskers collection has been crafted from fine quality materials with real attention to detail resulting in a set of adorable felines that have bags of charm and personality.

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof	Have a Purrfect Day	Ship’s Cat
Birthday Cat	Fat Cat	Cool Cat
Scaredy Cat

Cat’s Whiskers Figurines: £6.49 each + P&P available now in our eBay Store