Wednesday, October 29, 2008

SPA NIGHT AT CHILL

It is the time of giving!

CHILL (Burton's non profit foundation to get under privileged children snowboarding) held it's 3rd Spa Night.

So I spent the evening with girlfriends, chatting, nibbling on appetizers, sipping on some wine and having spa treatments!

There was even a big raffle with lots of donated prizes.

H - what a result?!, A - a little golf?! L - another jacket and trousers - now you have to learn to ride!

Thanks to all of the donations and here's to raising some money for the program and the children!

Tomorrow is the life auction for United Way - remember there are some great prizes! If you need to call me to bid then do - 802 399 4502

- Stella Abraham, REALTOR

Coldwell Banker Hickok & Boardman Realty
346 Shelburne Road, Burlington, VT 05401

Greasy Rider: Two Dudes, One Fry-Oil-Powered Car, and a Cross-Country Search for a Greener Future

What a brilliant hour and a half!

I went to hear Greg Melville talk about his book Greasy Rider at St Michael's College.

He was extremely entertaining, thought provoking and made me LOL!

I am off to buy the book today - your plug worked Greg!

- Stella Abraham, REALTOR

Coldwell Banker Hickok & Boardman Realty
346 Shelburne Road, Burlington, VT 05401

Tuesday, October 28, 2008

United Way Hickok and Boardman Auction List

Here is a final list of the auction items for the United Way Auction hosted by Hickok and Boardman. If you would like to donate to the United Way Campaign and bid on one or more of these items please call me 802-399-4502.


- Stella Abraham, REALTOR

Coldwell Banker Hickok & Boardman Realty
346 Shelburne Road, Burlington, VT 05401

Monday, October 27, 2008

United Way Soup Drive!

We had a very successful fundraiser lunch today, a lot of people brought ion there favourite soups and we sold tickets for an all you can eat soup lunch. All in all we raised over $500 for the United Way Campaign.

I brought in my favourite recipe which is called Mulligatawny Soup which is an Anglo-Indian chunky spicy soup. Look out for my recipe in a future post.

- Stella Abraham, REALTOR

Coldwell Banker Hickok & Boardman Realty
346 Shelburne Road, Burlington, VT 05401

Sunday, October 26, 2008

Oak Creek Drive Video Walkthrough



- Stella Abraham, REALTOR

Coldwell Banker Hickok & Boardman Realty
346 Shelburne Road, Burlington, VT 05401

Support the United Way Campaign and get a "Great British Escape"

Come and support the United Way Campaign with a live auction hosted by Hickok & Boardman Realty.
For one of the auction lots, I will be providing a night away for 2 in Stowe for a Great British Escape! It will include High Tea, a 3 course dinner, a suite in the Bluff House and Engligh Breakfast all at the Ye Olde England Inne in Stowe.
The live auction will be the finale of a week packed full of fundraising lead by Hickok & Boardman. The auction will be held on Thursday Oct 30th, 4-6pm at the Sunset Ballroom at the Holiday Inn on Shelburne Road.

I hope you can attend and support a great cause. If you are unable to attend but really want to bid on thsi item or any other item please call me on 802-399-4502. A full list of auction items has been posted in the foyer at Hickok & Boardman, click here for a map.

- Stella Abraham, REALTOR

Coldwell Banker Hickok & Boardman Realty
346 Shelburne Road, Burlington, VT 05401

Thursday, October 23, 2008

$429,900 - 26 Oak Creek Drive, South Burlington




A Contemporary house situated in this great neighborhood. This home offers 4 bedrooms and 4 bathrooms. There is a master suite with an indoor balcony that offers mountain views. Stunning vaulted ceilings. Heated in-ground swimming pool.

$429,900




- Stella Abraham, REALTOR

Coldwell Banker Hickok & Boardman Realty
346 Shelburne Road, Burlington, VT 05401

Women's Rape Crisis Center and Zonta



After being involved with the spelling bee a while back, I recently joined the local 
Zonta club and we had a really interesting speaker last night.  Catherine Slocum spoke from the Women's Rape Crisis Center.  I know it is not the most joyful of topics to blog about but they really could do with some volunteer help.  

They are having a clothes swap on the 8th of November at Avenue Bistro at 1127 North Avenue, Burlington 10am - 3pm

Email Catherine for more details or call 864 0555 x 25

Teach our girls and boys to know their strengths.
Help them to be independent.
Tell them the truth.
Arm them with knowledge.
Encourage, advise, empower ad listen.
Be thoughtful, kind and...generous



- Stella Abraham, REALTOR

Coldwell Banker Hickok & Boardman Realty
346 Shelburne Road, Burlington, VT 05401

Friday, October 17, 2008

Beautiful leaf colours remind me of a superb talent!


I am not sure if everyone knows about this gentleman. He is extrememly talented! All of the colours around Vermont at the moment remind me of him. He is so creative and best of all, his work is all created with natural materials - Andy Goldsworthy has some beautiful books and an extrememly interesting DVD.

- Stella Abraham, REALTOR

Coldwell Banker Hickok & Boardman Realty
346 Shelburne Road, Burlington, VT 05401

Sunday, October 12, 2008

A beautiful Vermont Weekend

What a beautiful weekend it has been here in Vermont. Absolutely perfect!

I have not listened to the radio all weekend and have spent alot of time outside!

Charlie (my 80lbs of chocolate lab) and I spent Saturdy morning in the hollow in front of our house. We went for a yomp (british slang for a bloody good walk!) for a couple of hours and the colours were absolutely spectalcular. The sky was blue and it was just perfect yomping weather!

I then watched Callum at his football jamboree. He is such a grown up little boy now; running around the pitch chasing the ball! Euan has spent the past 6 weeks being the coach and it was superb to see them out there together doing what they like to do best! Funny to see them together like that as they are such peas in a pod!

We then spent the afternoon doing jobs and tinkering around the house. It was nice to spend some time at home with my boys. The one negative of my job is that weekends are often spent with clients!

Today started with another yomp for Charlie and I; another perfect morning in the hollow. We then spent the afternoon with my friend Melissa Brott who took some pictures. For Euan's Birthday in July, Callum and I gave him a certificate for a family photo session at Indian Brook which has been one of our favourite finds here in Essex. I am looking forward to seeing the pictures. We then had our first walk through a corn maze at Lang Farms - not a typical English past time!

To top off a perfect weekend, we stopped off to get ingredients for Callum's favourite - a sushi dinner. Euan made me my favourite Hiyayakko and we had quite a feast!

Icing on the cake, I had someone who would like to see one of my listings this week so all in all a perfect weekend!

Here's to a good week..............

- Stella Abraham, REALTOR

Coldwell Banker Hickok & Boardman Realty
346 Shelburne Road, Burlington, VT 05401

Friday, October 10, 2008

Fallen in Love!

Yes, I am a Realtor and I will admit that even in the higher price range, not every house I see on the Multiple Listing Service is the house for me. That is why this business is so fantastic; there are houses for everyone.

When I am looking with buyers, I always tell them that there will never be the perfect house - no matter what the budget! When you are looking for a house you have to have a list of what you want and what you need. You then need to know that the house you end up buying will not have everything you want but will hopefully have most that you need.

I have seen lots of beautiful houses since I started working in property in 1998. Since I have been in Vermont, I have not really seen a house that I would buy and not need to alter in some way. Until now! I have now found a home that I could just move in and plonk my suitcase. I have found a home that has most things that I want and more than I need!

Stella's perfect house


My colleague Brian Boardman has just listed this spectacular home. This home is a perfect fit for "The Abraham Family"! There is very little that Euan and I would do to this house if we were to buy it. The attention to detail is spot on! There is even a child's size toilet in one of the bathrooms for Callum. Even the walk in closet is my favourite colour purple! I could walk to work and so could Euan!

So why are we not going to buy it?.....not in our budget!......another reason not to ever look at houses that you can not afford!

- Stella Abraham, REALTOR

Coldwell Banker Hickok & Boardman Realty
346 Shelburne Road, Burlington, VT 05401

Banksy is in NY!

I am sure everyone has heard of Banksy the English Street artist......well he has opened a pet shop in NY city....there have even been people going in to the pet shop to buy pet toys!

Click here to read more about it!

- Stella Abraham, REALTOR

Coldwell Banker Hickok & Boardman Realty
346 Shelburne Road, Burlington, VT 05401

Thursday, October 9, 2008

Overseas Wives Club

As many of you know, I am a member of an Overseas Wives Club. It is a club that meets once a month. We meet for a couple of hours and have tea and biscuits. There are about 16 members and the majority of the ladies have been members of the club since the 1950's. Most of the women are British and came to VT after the war having married men in the Service. They have been friends for a long time and this little group keeps them in touch with each other and helps them to not feel too home sick.

The ladies are all very sweet and most are over 55 - it is like having 16 grandmas!

Last night was a meeting at my good friend Victoria's house. There was a really good turn out with 14 women attending. We had a tipple of wine - very unusual as it is normally tea and biscuits!

We also had a silent auction last night to raise some money for charity and we managed to raise $154 so that was a pretty good showing.

We then all had alot of chocolate cake, some biscuits and of course tea!

I have taken on the duty of finding a location for the annual Christmas banquet this year so I shall be busy this month trying to find somewhere locally that will host our dinner. Last year we ate at the Vermont National. It seems a lot of the women are a little concerned that with the current financial situation that there will not be anywhere prepared to host a dinner on a Wednesday evening for 30 people. If anyone knows of anywhere then let me know!

Also if anyone knows of any older ladies who are not from here who are in need of a little companionship then let me know. We would love to have some new members!



- Stella Abraham, REALTOR

Coldwell Banker Hickok & Boardman Realty
346 Shelburne Road, Burlington, VT 05401

Wednesday, October 8, 2008

Wow – what a week we are having!

Wow – what a week we are having! I know that lots of us don’t want to listen to the radio at all……even opting to listen to “Musical High School”

If you would like to hear the news in a different accent and maybe even a different take on things then click here and listen to the BBC…..the accent might sound familiar!!

BBC iPlayer

- Stella Abraham, REALTOR

Coldwell Banker Hickok & Boardman Realty
346 Shelburne Road, Burlington, VT 05401

Monday, October 6, 2008

A superb blog that I stumbled across!

I have been following this blog for the past few weeks. I absolutely love it’s intention, taste and style. I know that for some of you, the style is a little modern but it has definitely got a theme that we all must appreciate and that is the fact that they are trying to be as green as can be!

Take a quick look!

http://www.greenhousevt.blogspot.com/

- Stella Abraham, REALTOR

Coldwell Banker Hickok & Boardman Realty
346 Shelburne Road, Burlington, VT 05401