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Hop to it! Easter is just a month away and ChinaSprout has some eggcelent new products for the holiday. Visit our Easter page to find items for Easter baskets, as well as decorations and festive spring attire. You'll continue to find great bargains during our Spring Sale, which also includes New Year products so you can stock up for next year's festivities. This week, our shipment from China includes apparel, books, home decor, and toys -- many great things for the Easter holiday!

Celebrate Easter

ChinaSprout's Easter page is a wonderful place to find gifts, decorations, and apparel for the Easter and Passover holidays. Imagine your children's joy on Easter morning when they find their baskets brimming with fun toys, books, craft kits, stuffed animals, and stickers that celebrate their Chinese heritage. Visit our Easter Basket page to find many great items to tuck into your children's baskets and celebrate the holiday in ChinaSprout style!

Spring Sales

Take advantage of our Spring Sale and receive great savings on appareal, accessories, home decor, arts & crafts, toys, and books. You will also find many Chinese New Years products such as calendars, cards, and decorations so that you can stock up for next year.

FREE Peony Gift Box

Great for spring, you can use these boxes as gift boxes or just use them to store up your treasures! You will receive one FREE Peony Gift Box when your order totals more than $75. To apply the coupon to your order, enter the coupon code 1173118577 in the coupon box on the Shopping Cart page and hit the "Apply Coupon" button. After the coupon is successfully added to your order, you will see the message: "Coupon Applied." Offer good while supplies last.

Peony Cotton Mandarin Dress

Dragon Table Set

Asian Baby Nursery

Chinse Matching&Memory Game

Apparel

ChinaSprout's newest dresses and jackets will have little ladies looking like a colorful spring garden. Peonies take center stage, and our other blossom prints are equally as adorable. For adults, we have two stylish new Olympic T-shirts and a baseball cap, which are perfect for a spring morning walk.

Home Decor

Brighten up your home for spring. Our newest dragon design table set can be matched with a basket, bottle holder, table runner, and cushion cover. These boldly colored pieces will liven up any room or celebration. If you are planning a party, set out our pretty spring floral napkins and elegant chopsticks as a lovely Asian accent.

Toys

Fill their Easter baskets with fun toys and games from ChinaSprout. We have many new toys for imaginative play, such as the sushi slicing box, acrobot dragons, Asian baby doll, pig bender, and dragon puppet. For family time, consider a fun game of Chinese Checkers or an afternoon of kite flying.

Books

We have Chinese language products for everyone from toddlers to elementary school students to college learners -- board books, memory games, popular culture references and more. For craft lovers, we have a new Chinese knotting book so that you can learn this ancient Chinese art.

The San Francisco Chronicle wrote, “Letha Hadady, one of the nation’s leading experts on natural Chinese remedies, is leading a quiet lady-like revolution to bring herbal medicines from the Far East and elsewhere into everyday use in American homes.” Read the latest on her blog Letha's Health Secrets.

Barbie and the Moon

I felt there was something special about today. It is spring in New York! Ever since returning from Florida a couple of days ago, I’ve been thinking about something Paul said at The Grove Inn.

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The China Related TV list is compiled weekly by Kirby Bartlett-Sloan. Kirby, an adoptive parent of three Chinese girls, has one of the most comprehensive TV listings of programs on China and from China that are in the English language.

Buff Brides: The Bridal Challenge - Linxiu & Melanie

Bride-to-be Linxiu wants to shape up her figure for not just one, but two wedding dresses-a traditional Chinese gown, and a Western gown. Melanie Selwyn also wants to go from flab to fab and lose the weight she put on in college before her big day! Thursday March 08, 2007 3:00pm-4:00pm on FITTV - Series/Home/Garden

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Trying to Crack the Hot 100

NY Times March 4, 2007 - LOS ANGELES There are Asian-American stars in sports, movies, television and classical music. But the “Asian thing” is what Mr. Lee and many other aspiring Asian-American singers say largely accounts for the lack of Asian-American pop stars.

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"Lack of patience in small matters will bring destruction to overall plans."- Quotations from Confucius

It is tempting to be impatient when things go wrong. However, if we learn to overcome frustrations when small setbacks occur, we will be on the road to succeeding at our larger goals. We wish you great successes at finding calm in order to reach your highest aspirations.

Your Friends,

The ChinaSprout Team

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