How Natural Light Affects Home Decor

One of your best friends in design (or worst enemies!) is the natural light that filters through your home's windows. It can make that lavender color you chose in the store look dreamy and serene or like Barney's nightmare depending on direction your room is facing. Here are some tips on how natural light will affect your décor.

Northern Light
Northern Light is usually cold and direct sun in the room only occurs in the middle of summer. Use warm colors such as red, yellow or orange in your décor to compensate for the coolness of the light. Blues or greens will make the room appear ...
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Summer Pruning
If a program of summer pinching is undertaken, the following winter’s dormant pruning needs will normally be minimal, but every few years, make a limited number of large cuts that remove considerable wood and encourage more new growth.
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New York City Summer Fun
I'm giving up the goods on free to low cost events that take place during the Summer in the Big Apple. From theatre to live music, poetry to dance performances, parades to outdoor movies, etc.
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Dreams Alive Magazine Updates and Opportunities

Updates:

• New Improved Magazine Format and Distribution
  With a 2 to 3 month span between the release of each issue of Dreams Alive Magazine, there is a substantial curve of interest in the magazine that is at a high point when an issue first releases and then gradually fades off to a much smaller, but steady rate of interest afterwards, with guaranteed spikes in interest as seasons return each year. We have made significant changes over the past five years to improve the look, feel and navigation of the magazine, and now, we have created an entirely new system of distributing the magazine.
   
  Issues will now be released in tandem with our RSS Home and Garden Articles Feeds. To ensure we get the greatest effect from this, an issue will now be released with a small series of base articles and then additional articles will be released within that issue as the weeks go by. Each article release will also be submitted through our RSS Home and Garden Articles Feed....
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Opportunities For our Authors:

• Dreams Alive Magazine is looking to work with one specific author per primary category, to provide a feature article for every issue from this time forward. The primary purpose of this is to ensure we have a base of articles to allow timely releases of all future issues and to have articles that are better tailored to the current holiday or season.

  Categories and Existing Author Status:

  • In Your Home - Available
  • In Your Garden - Available
  • Art & Literature - Savannah Skye
  • How To - Available
  • In Every Issue
    Web Tech - Available
    What's New - David Nelmes
  • Mind & Spirit - David Nelmes
  • Health & Lifestyle - Available
  • Just For Kids - Available
  • Food & Drink - Available

  Requirements:

  • Each article must have a direct conection to the season or holiday associated with the issue.
  • Each article must include a photo to help express the article. Minimum image size is 300x300.
  • Each article must be submitted within 3 weeks of the issue release date.

  Benefits:

  • You will receive a direct link from the Dreams Alive Magazine home page to the article.
  • You will receive a category related dreamsalivemagazine.com e-mail address with POP or forwarding to an existing address.
  • You will receive a FREE Large Classified Ad listing in that same issue, a $20 value.
  • As the primary contributor to the category, additional articles (from other authors) you recommend for your category will be given high consideration as compared to articles submitted through regular channels.

  To Apply:

  • You must provide samples or locations of where your work is already published. Already having been published by us is a great bonus.
  • Confirm you have images you are authorized to use or confirm you have access to images by others that can be authorized for use.
  • Agree to submit seasonal and holiday related articles within 3 weeks of issue release dates. Although new and fresh material is suggested, it is fine to use articles you have already created, provided they serve the need of the issue.
    • Targeted Issue Release Dates: Winter 1/15, Spring 3/15, Summer 5/15, Vacation 7/15, Autumn 9/15, Christmas 11/15
  • Contact us at editor@dreamsalivemagazine.com with the information requested above and any other information you believe will help us decide. Only 1 author will be selected per category.
  • If you believe there is a category we are not providing that can be useful to our magazine, you may suggest yourself for that category and we will take your suggestion under consideration.

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