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Decorating on a Budget Carmen NatschkeLuxury for Less - Get ready to have the home of your dreams on your terms and budget! Luxury
for less is so easy when you follow my 10 easy decorating ideas outlined here.
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How Decorating and Organizing Can Help Your Sanity Lisa DeClue'Too Much Stuff' Syndrome - Decorating and organizing go hand-in-hand, like a one-two punch of home completion. In an effort to motivate you to action, use these suggestions to help you on your way to an organized home this spring and summer.
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Art of Slipcovering Karen EricksonSewing a slipcover is like fitting a garment. Furniture is similar to people, all have different shapes and sizes. One side slopes more, or is longer or shorter. Let's take a closer look.
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In Your Garden
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How to Attract Hummingbirds to Your Garden Lesley DietschyThe key to attracting hummingbirds to your garden mainly consists of the
right type of flowers and places where they can perch and rest during the
day, such as trees or large plants. Let's take a closer look.
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The Renaissance Garden Candida MartinelliA Renaissance Garden is a place for retreat from a hectic world. It's for pleasure, peace, wandering and contemplating. Any practical elements such as vegetables, fruit and herbs are woven into the garden design so they appear ornamental.
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Art and Literature
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Artisan Studio
Michelle Astuto Collins - Paintings "Flower Petals" and "Sunset"
Shelley Xie - Paintings "Mother Nature" and "Romance"
Larry O. Gay - Photographs "White Flower" and "Red Flower"
Various Artists - "Pink Rose" and "Spring Iris"
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The Art Of Lian Zhen Shifra Stein'Painting for me is a spiritual process. I enjoy watching color flow from one corner of the painting to the other. One by one, each stroke reveals the next, connecting heart to arm, to hand, to fingers, and then onto the paper.' -Lian Zhen
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Poetry Pages
#1 Sonnet V - 'Tis an Ode - Savannah Eve Skye
#2 Being Here - Elizabeth Farrell
#3 Just The Peeling Paint - Pam H. Murray
#4 Being Humble - Bryon D. Howell
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Savvy's Thoughts Savannah SkyeSpring Dreams - Hope springs eternal dreams that are born out of the Vernal Equinox. For Spring is the season in which the first realization of our dreams are felt. It is the time when all life is continuing along with us.
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Decorating With Art Celeste Teresi DeSapriFramed Art Can Pull A Room Together - To use framed art successfully, as wall decor, color, and grouping, proportions and hanging need to be given careful consideration. Begin by thinking about the feeling or mood you wish to convey.
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How To
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Do-It-Yourself Ethnic Pottery Design Yuwanda BlackSpring is here and that means time for planting. AND, who says flower pots have to be boring -- or expensive! We took 'ugly duckling' flower pots and turned them into 'potted swans' -- easily and inexpensively.
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Realistic Time Budgeting Tips Valerie GarnerWe've all had the experience of having a certain block of time to accomplish the tasks or goals on our to-do list, only to turn around at the end of that period and not getting nearly enough done that we thought we could. What happened?
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In Every Issue
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What's New Press Releases and Announcements: New Shopping Source for TALL Men and Women - Dreams Alive Magazine Updates and Opportunities - The Newest Shops at The Emporium Mall
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Web Tech Designing Online, Inc.Successful Linking Practices...Dos and Don'ts - Many websites, whether they are new or are pursuing new growth, realize they must reach out and acquire link partnerships with popular sites. This is necessary in order for their popularity to increase and in turn, their search engine ranking will increase.
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Letters To The Editor Read letters submitted to the editor and submit your own opinions and comments about any article or related issue. |
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Mind and Spirit
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Inner Design David NelmesLiving Without - No matter what you believe you are living without, the only thing missing is having God at the core of what you believe you are missing. You will then see that issue differently and will no longer see it as something you are living without.
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Live Strong Bridget NolenThe road ahead is paved in all I learned about love, strength and living, but I doubt whether the required strength is within me. I know that an open road is full of fear as much as it is possibility. I know that living strong is the key.
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Health and Lifestyle
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Benefits of a Variety of Fruits and Vegetables Jane Oelke, N.D., Ph.D.To prevent diseases, fruits and vegetables are very important. Vegetables have the antioxidants, minerals and phytochemicals that help keep the blood sugar in balance, create better energy, and along with fruits, build up the immune system.
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Super Mom Syndrome Peggy Porter10 Reasons Why You Need to Ditch this Pursuit - For any of you Moms out there attempting to gain Super Mom status, I believe it is an endless search that will be of great cost to you in the end. Here are 10 reasons why you need to put an immediate halt to this pursuit.
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Just For Kids
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Interior Decorating for Kids Komee CarpenterWho spends the most time in the kids’ bedrooms? The kids do of course! So why not make it a room they want to be in? Let your kids have a say in how it’s decorated. Give them choices, and guide them along the way.
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Nursery Room Decor Tasneem MirzaThe nursery is your newborn’s first room, his own little world: the environment, which in part will influence and shape his personality. As a parent your goal is to provide a surrounding that is comfortable, secure, inviting and cozy.
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Food and Drink
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Barbeque Grilling Valerie GilesGrilling on the barbecue has never been more exciting. Not only do barbecues come in a myriad of designs and options, but also with the advent of popular cooking shows, cooking books and magazines’, grilling has reached a whole new realm.
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Seasoning an Oven Glea and Dennis RenoUntreated cast iron rusts. To prevent metal from oxidizing in the presence of moisture, cast iron requires a process called 'seasoning'. Seasoning is simply the procedure of baking oil into the oven's pores, and on top of the iron pores.
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Classifieds and Promotions
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Previous Issues
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View Our Last Issue Spring 2005 - One of the things I love the most about producing this magazine is the capacity that exists to make the seemingly normal article or poem into a visually appealing masterpiece. Even when I am short on time, I discover, often hours after the fact, that my natural instincts to embellish the piece I am working on have overridden any sense of time and urgency. |
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View All Our Previous Issues Every issue of Dreams Alive is archived for easy viewing at a later date. Read them all. They are packed with all kinds of decorating and interior design ideas, tips and stories.
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