Hallie Ephron on the Never Tell a Lie

Writing is a family industry for Hallie Ephron. Her sisters Nora, ... and then marketing copywriter. Go to yard sales on weekends. Love old houses. Those didn’t sound ... to me at a yard sale. It was at a huge Victorian house that had been recently renovated. The new owners [more...]

Date: 2009-01-08 16:41:41

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Property Mangement Companies - What to look for

property-management-companies We haven’t fully given up selling our house, but we’ve entered into a contract with a property management company.  Our old house is for sale and for rent at the same time.  The really good news ... that take care of  “land lording” and marketing your rental house for you.  They do this in exchange [more...]

Date: 2009-01-14 12:02:41

Chair Porn

In my old house I had a beloved assortment of unmatched chairs that had been carefully collected over the years from flea markets and yard sales ... do not own.) I like the idea of mixing colors and prints in a very careful way. And in my new house ... now, and lately I've been fantasizing about what chairs will be in my next house. Somehow [more...]

Date: 2009-01-14 18:00:13

Clara's Perfect Mystery

There's no better way to get a read on what concerned people in the past than to look at the classified ads in old newspapers - they can tell you about what kinds of jobs and houses people wanted, things they had lost, what was for sale ... Times on 1855 that struck me. I'm planning to use it in my NaNoWriMo Victorian mystery, and I thought [more...]

Date: 2009-01-16 14:26:00

Blue House in a Clearing in the Trees, Impressionist landscape painting

This little blue house sits across the plaza from my art studio in Old Town Spring, Texas ... Vernita Bridges Hoyt"painting the sauce of Texas"animals • flowers • people • placesBlue House ... to get to the comments section.NEW STORE! Giftware and Prints for Sale to Help AnimalsThe Animal News BlogArt Helping [more...]

Date: 2009-01-15 14:38:00

Madonna’s Puss is for Sale

madonna-naked-pictures A (NSFW) thirty-year old full-frontal photograph of Madonna and what appears to be a small yak is now available to the ... highest bidder, thanks to Christie’s auction house in New York. People Magazine says The head of Christie’s photography department says Madonna was a financially strapped 20-year-old dancer [more...]

Date: 2009-01-19 15:30:34

No Time like the Present: Repurposing Christmas Decorations

It may be a new year, but that doesn't mean there's nothing to salvage from the old one! ... , and plans ahead. So today I thought I'd show you a few of the post-Christmas sale finds I'd gotten ... seemed just right at home in my house...Here are a couple of purple and silver tree-topper-type stars [more...]

Date: 2009-01-04 12:00:00

Change has come to the White House

The White House Website has a new look, complete with blog.   white-house-website.jpg Also noticed that the infamous porn site whitehouse.com seems to be legit now. Turns out that the old owner got married and decided to put the site up for sale when his kid was going into kindergarten. He was making about a million a year off [more...]

Date: 2009-01-21 06:03:59

Former Hotel, Possibly Haunted, For Sale in San Francisco

Click here to see more images of the of 2220 Sacramento Street in San Francisco ... to what allegedly is—or once was—a haunted house for $4.25 million. The three-story house ... from different guest rooms.” People who reported these incidents, added Mr. Pritikin’s 45-year-old son Scott [more...]

Date: 2008-12-23 16:28:39

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