Spotlight on the Rideau

Our 4000 square foot retail store and commercial Art Gallery is open 7 days a week

Spotlight on the Rideau is conveniently located in Smiths Falls,the heart of the Rideau, a World Heritage Site, an hour’s drive from Ottawa or Kingston. Open 7 days a week, we offer two floors to explore the artistic works and products of over 170 artists, artisans, food producers, craftsmen, musicians and authors!

Gifts! Art! Books! Gourmet Food! All locally-made

From world famous carvers to international award winning gourmet food products, the tastes and talents of the Ottawa to Kingston corridor await your discovery!

Have you recently customized the decor of your home with granite countertops, marble or porcelain tiles, custom upholstery? Have you considered adding original works of art to your home? Complement your good taste with an ever better investment! Original art! With over 400 paintings in our gallery from more than 50 artists, you will be sure to find the perfect piece for your home.

Our gourmet food producers are second to none! Come discover the flavours of our region! Food products include the popular Village Treats Chocolates, Redhead Pantry hot sauces and barbeque sauces, Just Wing It sauces, Perth Pepper and Pestle red pepper jellies, mustartds, sauces and vinegars, Mrs. McGarrigles Mustards, local honey and Gibbons Maple Syrup.

Gift baskets are offered, including customized or personalized baskets for house warmings, retirements, guest speakers, birthdays, anniversaries, new baby, weddings, promotions, special occassions or events. Gift baskets may be created to suit any budget.

Bus Tours and Motorcoaches are welcome. Special parking spaces are offered on both the upper and lower level parking lots.

Those of us Rideau homeowners will know that whenever you own a house there are many times you need a step stool or something to climb up a couple of feet. Using the affordable Rubbermaid 3-Step Steel Stool is helpful for getting at hard to reach locations. This stool contains a broad platform making it safe to climb up on and it folds to 3 inches making it easy to store. The hand grip allows you to climb on and hold plus it features non-marring feet so it is not going to scratch your floors.

Provided that you have normal size ceilings, this stool is ideal for jobs, such as changing lightbulbs, cleaning the tops of cabinets, or even repainting your walls or even ceilings. This is not going to replace a regular stepladder because it is designed for small jobs inside the home. For interior jobs that are smaller, and tend to be on solid ground, they will function much better than a chair. You are going to think it is simpler to use this step stool instead of using your dining room chair when changing a bulb. An everyday chair has not been designed for people to climb up on so it’s not safe. You understand The Rubbermaid 3-Step Steel Stool pulls out really readily, and you are able to walk up it like going up the stairs.

In contrast to a stepladder, you actually have something to hang onto. It is best to not use this step on a soft surface since the feet are small and could sink into the ground. The 3-Step Stool is great for employing indoors especially if you are just climbing a few steps. It might not be the stablest course of action but you can stand on the top step without losing stability. This is great if you have to clean the top parts of your cabinets or windows. You can also utilize it to get to the top of window treatments or drapes.

Making use of the top step of the stool might make it easy for you to put up wallpaper. Once you obtain this stool, you’ll realize that you can use it for many situations around the house. It’s easy to tote around, and it folds out, and back in, just as easily. It takes up hardly any room, so storage isn’t hard to do. Because of this stool, you will not have an reason to not clean those hard-to-reach places. Regarding small jobs, this stool is much simpler to handle than a regular six-foot step ladder.

Additionally you find that the Rubbermaid 3-Step Steel Stool is much safer to work with when compared to a chair. The price is below $40, so it is a good investment for everyone who has to keep stepping up on a chair that is not sturdy to change a lightbulb.

Like the rest of the USA, we on the Rideau will soon have restrictions lifted on us with regard to certain online activities including poker and casino games, as a result of a forthcoming ruling from the Obama administration.

However, Reuters point out that this ruling could be at risk if a future president elects to reverse it.

Obviously the ruling opens up a whole world of opportunities to online game players. Whether you feel this is a good or bad thing from a social perspective, this will obviously be good for the nation’s economy as it will generate millions more in tax revenue which hopefully will be re-invested in projects which might benefit communities such as ours.

Although not everyone wins at online gaming, some people do, which means it can potentially be good for the individual. We’ll also have the opportunity to make money from various bonuses which players in other countries such as the UK have been enjoying for years.

How do these work? Well, the party poker bonus is a good example. It gives you the opportunity to get $500 free chips which can potentially be used to make a profit. Poker is a popular sport which we can watch on TV, play in Vegas – so why can’t we play it online? Well, now we can.

With regard to our community, I cannot see why this legislation would have any negative effect and as I mentioned earlier, the more tax dollars that go into our economy from the online gaming companies, the better off our nation should be.

After the long cold months of the US winter wonderland have come to an end, we can anticipate spring and the changes it can bring to our lives as well as our homes. Is your residence wanting some revitalization and could you benefit from a little more energy yourself? Following are a few simple, inexpensive things you can do to make it feel like spring at your house.

White is a great clean, invigorating color that can lighten your home, so you should add some. If the various other colors in the home are yellows or browns, try mixing them with a more creamy white shade. Green and blue spaces go best with clean, bright shades of white.

It’s also possible to introduce some light to a room by applying a more vivid shade of the room’s wall color on the wall that is noticed first when someone comes into the room. By making progressive changes, you can make the room brighter but still have the choice of repainting it with the previous color if the results are not to your liking. The main thing about color, it can change your frame of mind instantly, either for the good or for the bad. Boost the way you feel by utilizing color all over your home.

Together with applying paint, you have the potential for utilizing floral print fabrics to incorporate life to a room by integrating the main colors that are presently in the room. At the fabric store find a fabric with at least one of the primary colors, and more would even be better. You’ll be able to incorporate these colors by way of seat coverings, place mats, and pillow cases. For a custom coordinated look, you can combine it with a solid fabric color matching one already in the room.

Check out your local discount store for inexpensive colored glass items that you can utilize as vases and other accessories. If you will keep your house windows sparkling clean, your house won’t look so dull and dirty. Sparkling glass from the clean windows makes your rooms brighter and seem larger.

Make a visit to the garden center and pick up some houseplants to use in the house, such as pansies. Pick colorful ones that can cheer up any room, along with adding a pleasant aroma. Pick out some other green plants to help freshen the air in your home. Instead of having your walls cluttered with pictures and artwork, only use a few of the larger, more simple pieces. Select wall decorations that brighten and spice up the rooms. People who enter your home first see your entry way. Take advantage of vibrant spring colors in your entry way in the form of flowers or other plants.

A large number of these don’t cost much money but make your home pleasing and inviting. When you add brightness to your home, you’ll encounter a more pleasant mood and so will those who come to visit.