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November 23I'm sorry for my week of silence. We had some staff cutbacks at the magazine, as you do during times of recession, ... here many weeks ago, and there was no reason to cancel my plans despite the layoffs in the company ... has been turned into a golf course, a spa, an equestrian center, a canoe house, plots of land on which people [more...]
Date: 2008-11-23 13:16:00
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Meals in Minutes
by Nicole Dean Kids need to eat. Three meals a day, every day. All moms know how important it is to have an arsenal of quick meals handy ... out on a platter with some ranch style dressing. I’ve seen the most dedicated vegetable-hater dig right ... Noodles: Every pantry should have an assortment of noodles at the ready. When dinner plans are unsure [more...]
Date: 2009-01-05 14:48:29
JY Wheeler
Today we are welcoming Joann from JY Wheller. I love eclectic artist. Those who will offer more than one art form ... . Porcelain Pin Cottage Style Yellow Flower (click on image to view listing) 3. What is your current ... using a special medium and then covered in liquid 24-karat gold. The painting is of Victorian style [more...]
Date: 2008-09-05 12:58:28
Your House Plan Fast, Easy, Affordable
What I like in internet very much is that many difficult things you needed to discuss only with a specialist before are completely automatized and ... ideas, look at Contemporary house plans that are combinations of different architectural styles ... home. You will surely like French Country House Plans created in respect of all the characteristics [more...]
Date: 2008-12-20 12:50:00
In for a penny, in for a pound! - a Christmas story.
Artist: Sue Kendrick Album: Through Our Eyes Title: Blue Bell Warriors Download this song here. This story. Third in my Bretherton mysteries trilogy has been on the arena. I offer it now as a Christmas treat. The late autumn sunshine spangled the frosted grass of the little churchyard on the morning they buried old Charlie Cotter [more...]
Date: 2008-12-18 19:21:57
Smells Like Holiday Spirit
Hello my friends and happy new year! My apologies for the rather lengthy holiday sabbatical ... in Santa Monica - in a manner of speaking. Our plans to drive north to Portland for Christmas ... photos of their snowbound home that finally convinced us a quiet holiday at home was preferential [more...]
Date: 2009-01-12 06:04:05
Fast Food At Home
By Nicole Dean Families need to eat and the hungry mouths never stop asking "what's for dinner"? ... them out on a platter with some ranch style dressing. I've seen the most dedicated vegetable-hater ... of noodles at the ready. When dinner plans are unsure, noodles will be there to pull off a family [more...]
Date: 2009-01-15 16:50:36
Florida Bed and Breakfasts - Without Breaking the Budget
by Jane Leisteiner Your New Year’s resolution to save money shouldn’t come at the expense of your travel plans ... . Francis Inn. The beach and other local attractions are a short ride away. Amenities include a full ... for home-cooked meals. The Cottage suite is perfect for sharing the cost of a room with friends. Free [more...]
Date: 2008-12-11 16:27:19
Florida Bed and Breakfasts - Without Breaking the Budget
by Jane Leisteiner Your New Year’s resolution to save money shouldn’t come at the expense of your travel plans ... House Inn should be on your list. A day at the beach is definitely in the cards here with complimentary ... in historic St. Augustine, has the perfect solution with the Cottage Suite. If you are enjoying a romantic [more...]
Date: 2008-12-11 16:25:54
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30Dec08~The New Year Is Bringing Change~ By Cindy Categories: Crafts, machine embroidery and primitive craftsTags: craft blog, machine embroidery, ... , but have decided no wedding plans until she finishes her schooling. She has one more year until ... hardwood floors. When we built our first house back in 1985, I decorated very prim country… [more...]
Date: 2008-12-30 20:07:58
A Bit of the Old West: Pasadena
by Fabian Toulouse Some time ago in Indiana in 1873, the place had been hit by the hardest winter ever recorded in history. Dr ... came up with a decision of purchasing the 4,000 acres of the San Pascual Ranch which was later ... Hotel located across the street from Barney’s place. The school house was located at Fair Oaks [more...]
Date: 2008-12-11 06:01:13
Pet News - Pet Advice - Pet Photos
When Owners Bark or Biteby Joe Schoenman - Las Vegas SunLied Animal Shelter’s intensifying struggle with visitors who lose their coolEmotions have always run high at Lied Animal Shelter, but outbursts and violence from angry pet owners there have gotten so bad that the shelter is planning to remodel its lobby to protect workers from the public [more...]
Date: 2009-01-05 12:10:00
East Coast Coast Destinations
New England Coast Destinations – Vacation with Friends School break is coming up and you and your friends are eager to travel to New England ... by these places. Yale University You may have no plans of switching colleges or universities ... satisfactory bed and breakfasts to solve your dilemma. 1886 House, Massachusetts You’re going to share [more...]
Date: 2009-01-12 17:21:47
Laguna’s ‘oldest home’ a $3.8 million bet
154 Pearl St. slide show Chester Alan Arthur, the nation’s 21st president, was in the White House when a small cottage sprang up at 154 Pearl St. in Laguna Beach, built in 1883 with driftwood floated in from boats and shipwrecks. Cuba ... board-and-batten residence less than a block from the beach. The new owners, who plan to renovate [more...]
Date: 2008-08-27 11:44:02
Build your dream home
I am planning to buy a new house and only then I realized how tough a job it is as it involves a lot of careful planning ... from. I have always craved for having Contemporary house plans. I bumped into houseplansandmore.com website where I found almost all types of house plans like Bungalow House plans, English Cottage plans [more...]
Date: 2008-12-30 04:50:45
The lies and crimes of 911 - A Canadian view of the War on Terror's origins
Prof. Anthony J. Hall Paper Presented at 'Edmonton Questions 9/11': Convention and Film, Stanley A. Milner Public Library Theatre on September 6, 2008.Framing the IssuesDuring this, the season of the seventh anniversary of 911, we must continue to increase the effectiveness of our transnational peace lobby aimed at extending the Nuremberg [more...]
Date: 2008-10-12 09:58:00
Seven Things- October
This Real Simple article on decluttering gave me some good ideas on how to tackle the downsizing of stuff ... , that were unfortunately moldy from being in the basement - put out for bulk 3 non-working record players ... out for bulk 1 rusty floor lamp left in the basement by an old roommate - put out for bulk 2 coats taken [more...]
Date: 2008-11-05 22:49:51
Curse of the perfectionist as novelist
Last year, I wrote a novel called "The Husband Habit," and sold it to St. Martin's Press for publication in the spring/summer of 2009 ... now. Same name. Different look, job, house, temperament. Much different voice. Much more grownup ... reflect this growth. The second is less about style [more...]
Date: 2008-09-25 22:46:00
Bits and pieces of decorating...
I woke up late this morning; not too bad since it was still before 7 but that is very late for me ... bigger by the time the day is finished. I am working on my goal of purging our house. We lost several ... the house. My stack of mail to shred has also gotten big and so I need to shred [more...]
Date: 2008-09-29 16:29:04
Why decorating?
This is an antique German armoire we bought at Carl Moore Antiques in Houston many years ago ... by her regularly.Next, we built our home in Virginia. I poured over hundreds if not thousands of house plans ... . We used to keep a television in it but now it is home to many of my old decorating magaizines [more...]
Date: 2009-01-05 15:16:00
Berbatov Is A Man After My Own Heart With Generosity For Children
Click Here For Link At three and a half, little Dimitar practises keepy-uppys with a basketball outside his parents' apartment - they could not ... house (one use only) The rest of the yard outside the flat where he grew up in Blagoevgrad, Bulgaria ... Grandparents Dimitar and Verka at home. Gallery image 4 Their house in the village [more...]
Date: 2008-09-14 04:19:00
Frida Berrigan, The Pentagon Takes Over (Part 1 of 3)
Tomgram: Frida Berrigan, The Pentagon Takes Over Here are words to pin to the Bush years like a wilting corsage: “We don’t know what we paid for.” That’s a quote from Mary Ugone, the Defense Department’s deputy inspector general for auditing, concerning massive Pentagon payments made during the occupation and war in Iraq for which there is no [more...]
Date: 2008-09-15 19:54:31
Free All-Puropose Shed Plans
Do you need a simple storage shed? How about a potting shed for Spring’s plantings, a lawn tractor shelter, or a cabana or backyard hobby shop? ... . You can purchase prehung doors and windows in any style, or build your own using the project plans. At 96 ... Articles Free Plans for Country Buildings (1) Barn Style Storage Shed Plans (0) Free Do It [more...]
Date: 2008-12-29 17:43:28
All technology predictions for 2009, and beyond
ICT A.J. Kohn, 2009 Internet and Technology Predictions on Blind Five Year Old 1. Facebook Becomes A Portal 2. Identity Systems Fail 3. Video Advertising Succeeds 4. Microformats Go Mainstream 5. Banner CTR Becomes Obsolete 6. RSS Adoption Spikes 7. Kindle 2.0 Flops 8. Google Search Share Stalls 9. FriendFeed Surpasses Twitter 10 [more...]
Date: 2008-12-30 12:24:00
Dallas Visit Recap
December 10, 2008 Filed under Family Tags: Dallas, Sixth Floor Museum, Texas 11 responses Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza The trip to Dallas went well. Thank you all for your best wishes! This is going to be a long post, but I had a very busy weekend! My trip started off well - I had the best flight ever! [more...]
Date: 2008-12-11 02:31:32
(672) Designing and Building a Storage Shed
It seems like homeowners these days never have enough storage space ... a great workshop or gardener’s potting shed. Other possibilities include a writer’s cottage or backyard ... larger items you plan to store will fit inside. Style: While many sheds mimic the style and color [more...]
Date: 2008-09-24 14:16:25
A lovely dinner
Delhi is the capital and has about 12 million inhabitants while it is the second biggest city in India after Mumbai ... of Rashtrapati Bhavan. At Vijay Chowk it crosses Sansad Marg and the Parliament House of India can be seen ... in Viceroy’s House. It is a quite and clean area with big lanes. They were preparing along the roads [more...]
Date: 2009-01-04 22:54:47
3 Tips in Landscaping your Garden
Landscaping is usually a fairly big task, consuming much time and energy ... you hundreds of dollars when you may be able to access free plans on the internet or at a nursery ... costly mistakes. 3. The style of your home must be taken into account. If you have a rural cottage [more...]
Date: 2008-12-30 07:55:43
Green Celebrities and Their Eccentric Eco-Islands
Photo by Kivanc via Flickr Who doesn’t dream of their own private island - especially one that’s eco-friendly and ... of the Bahamas, has belonged to Depp since 2005. The island features 6 private beaches, a cottage ... Estates in the Cotswold Water Park. The Orchid House seen here was recently purchased by an unknown buyer [more...]
Date: 2008-11-16 22:47:03
Economist Versus Idiot: And There Shall Be A Saucy Pick
Special Early Economist Update: Yes, they picked Barack Obama as their candidate. And while, yes, a lot of various news publications have picked their candidates, this one actually means something because, hey: the Economist is better then those magazines. Or worse. Hey, it all depends. [more...]
Date: 2008-11-01 21:27:52
Vlad the Impaler: Man More Than Myth
"Apa trece, pietrele ramin." "The water flows, the rocks remain." -- Old Romanian Proverb Bram Stoker's Dracula, published in 1897, continues to send shivers down the spine of anyone who reads it. It is dark Gothic at its best, a brilliant, imaginative and can't-put-down work of art [more...]
Date: 2009-01-03 20:31:00
2008, in Review
2008 was a year of BIG changes for me: I left my full time position at Glaxstar for the wonderful (and most-times stressful) world of freelancing; I moved 200 miles south from a shared house ‘Cherrytree’ in Walsall, West Midlands to Littlehampton, West Sussex on the south coast; And I proposed to my lovely girlfriend [more...]
Date: 2009-01-04 22:42:18
Florida Keys - Key West Events in 2009
Florida Keys - There’s always something happening in the Florida Keys & Key West, from festivals focusing on the area’s colorful history and quirky ambiance to events that celebrate the Keys’ underwater paradise. The Keys are Florida’s own little tropical paradise with something for everyone to enjoy [more...]
Date: 2009-01-01 18:20:31
Time Inc. Announces Major Reorganization Plans
Time Inc. will undergo a major structural overhaul in light of the current financial crisis effective Wednesday, ... Inc. will manage the News Business Unit. Style and Entertainment: the existing print and digital ... for this group so the Style and Entertainment Business Unit will report to me. Lifestyle [more...]
Date: 2008-10-28 23:05:42
The Perfect Vacation Cottage
by katie George If you are looking to purchase a place where you can simply get away from the world on your own little vacation, ... a vacation home. One of the many benefits of purchasing an older cottage as your vacation home ... . Another benefit of cottages would simply be their size. Most cottage style house plans [more...]
Date: 2008-12-26 09:44:57
House plans
I've been starting to think about my Small Stone Cottage for the Lyddle End 2050 project. Small-stone-cottage ... the ongoing energy/climate debate, I'm thinking my house will probably end up a little like this: Small-stone-cottage-modified Maybe I'm not thinking far enough ahead, this house does kind [more...]
Date: 2008-12-31 14:06:16
Notes from New Orleans: City’s First Lowe’s Katrina Cottage Underway
Lowe's store manager Joe Banks speaks at Katrina Cottage event as PRC's Operation Comeback director Pam Bryan looks on. ... in Holy Cross. The two-bedroom shotgun style house sits at the corner of Lizardi and Douglass, along ... Lowe's store manager Joe Banks speaks at Katrina Cottage event as PRC's Operation Comeback [more...]
Date: 2008-10-20 21:03:11
The 12 Days of Christmas & Other Winter Holiday Picture Books for Kids - Day 10
Reviewed by Amy M. O’Quinn for the National Writing for Children Center ... Ages: 4-8 Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers (October 12, 1957) ISBN-10: 0394800796 ... many of us haven’t enjoyed the story of the mean old Grinch and his nasty plans to steal Christmas [more...]
Date: 2008-12-21 16:57:58
Biggests Kitchen Table - keeping chickens
Rhonda from Down--To--Earth has started up this idea of the Biggest Kitchen Table, ... for an A-frame style chicken coop now (link), this one has all of the plans on the actual web article ... house - the little A-frame was a bit crowded. It's still doing duty as a hen house - we gave [more...]
Date: 2009-01-09 01:10:00
Mindy Klasky Spooks the Romance Writers’ Revenge!
Hellion: *punches button to play spooky music* Welcome, pirates and ‘lubbers, it’s that time of year again—that’s right, ... people in by having Jane dress in colonial costume, and by featuring expensive coffees at an in-house [more...]
Date: 2008-09-30 05:00:02
Crystal Ball Gazing: Visualize the Dow at 6,000 By Mike Whitney
Dandelion Salad By Mike Whitney 07/24/08 “ICH” Last Wednesday, at an improvised press conference, George Bush gave what may have been the most comical performance of his eight year presidency. Looking like the skipper on the flight-deck of the Hindenburg, [more...]
Date: 2008-07-25 01:20:32
Postwar Fairborn: Early 1950s Gallery
As we've seen Fairborn made the transition to a blue collar Dayton suburb ... . A quick gallery of early 50's style. This was a transitonal era into ranch houses from the cape cod/english cottage style of the 1940s. Mouse over the images and click for some detail. These houses [more...]
Date: 2008-11-18 01:21:00
Crownsville Maryland Update 12/30/08
CLICK HERE FOR MORE INFO 802 FAIRRIDGE CROWNSVILLE, MD 21032 MLS #: AA6945114 $669,900 6 Bedrooms, 3 Full, 1 Half Bathrooms Upper level has 5 bedrooms or 4 bedrooms with a great bonus room. Bring your big toys…50′ rec room with built in media area and bar,Exercise room and full bath on lower level [more...]
Date: 2008-12-30 13:45:25
A Visit to the Historic Pullman District
After being appropriately prepped as a result of our visit to the Chicago Cultural Center we decided to head off yesterday to visit the Pullman ... Pullman and his ambitious plans for his development of a model community, a total environment [more...]
Date: 2009-01-02 07:19:53
Deseret Book’s First Catalog, 1922
Deseret Book: the publisher we love to hate. Well, don’t we? For generations Deseret Book has published books and other materials unique to our culture that no mainstream publisher would have touched – we love them. We don’t like much of what they sell, and they won’t publish much that we would like – we hate them [more...]
Date: 2008-11-21 15:21:36
Faith on Friday - Faith, Family and Finding Home (long)
This Friday, I would like to integrate my Faith on Friday post with not only part of my emotional and spiritual journey but part of my physical ... " and we never lived in squalor. And the one house we lived in from 6th grade to early college really [more...]
Date: 2008-09-06 02:39:10
AUSTIN BLOGGERS LIST!!!
OMG I am finally doing it!! Austin bloggers, y'all! So I was incredibly thrilled that so many people responded back to the Austin bloggers post that we did, sheesh, almost 3 weeks ago. Did you know that there are nearly 50 of us out there in ATX, blogging away?! [more...]
Date: 2008-11-19 01:55:32
Town of Oxford and Emory College
Georgia, Newton County, Oxford Emory College was chartered December 19, 1836 when Georgia Methodists expanded their educational program ... . In April and May 1837, he completed his plans by which Oxford's main streets converge on the site [more...]
Date: 2008-09-06 14:01:28
NOVEMBER 2008
Issue # 67 CIRCULATION: 3,905 (and growing!) ---------- CONTENTS - Spirited Woman Quote - Editor's Spirited Message - Sponsor of the Month - ... , the change is upon us. Stand up and shout, "I am a Spirited Woman," then dance around the house [more...]
Date: 2008-12-03 21:21:54
AUSTIN BLOGGERS LIST!!!
OMG I am finally doing it!! Austin bloggers, y'all!So I was incredibly thrilled that so many people responded back to the Austin bloggers post that we did, sheesh, almost 3 weeks ago. Did you know that there are nearly 50 of us out there in ATX, blogging away?! [more...]
Date: 2008-11-19 01:55:00
