With summer quickly coming to an end, we’re getting into crunch time to plan last-minute vacations and trips. Even though I’m looking forward to fall’s cooler temperatures , I still want to cram in as much summer fun as possible before it’s time to pack it in for the winter. With a couple of fun day trips in mind, I want to make sure I’m smart about paying for them
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Saving Money on Gas for Roadtrips
Illustration: Stained Glass from Owen Jones The Grammar of Ornament , 1856 In Britain stained glass design and production saw a massive rise in both popularity and function in the nineteenth century. It was used extensively in both the domestic and ecclesiastical markets and although artistically it can be said that the twentieth century may well have seen the apex of stained glass design work as far as creativity is concerned, it is still the nineteenth century that saw the craft appealing almost universally, probably for the first time since the medieval period. Although Owen Jones does cover stained glass decorative work in his 1856 The Grammar of Ornament , it is very much tucked away within the larger Medieval Ornament chapter.
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Owen Jones and Medieval Stained Glass Design
In my 6 years of teaching children to cook, I have encountered countless parents who wistfully express their desire that their children would eat more vegetables. After a few classes, those same parents enthusiastically report that their kids are eating better and are more open to tasting new foods. What’s the secret? Nothing surprising –
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Teaching Knife Skills to Kids and Suggestions for Cutting Tools
One of you Bloggers will recognize this lovely little church ooow so well. He exhibit his work very often in it and I hope he will do it a lot more in the future, his work fits soo well in it. Guess who?! “Expositie in het kerkje van Persingen.” Persingen, Holland
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"Show at the church of Persingen." Persingen, Holland.
Karla Nolan Cheryl Ratcliff Janice Warriner David Edwards Cheryl Pass AJ LaGasse Justin Clayton Becky Joy Coral Barclay To purchase any painting, simply visit the artist’s blog for details!
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Original Paintings | Daily Painters | Aug 17, 2010
Each payday I have some money deducted from my paycheck to buy a U.S. Savings Bond . I’m used to having savings bonds arrive in my mailbox, but in September there will be a change for federal employees, and in January the change happens for everyone else.
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Savings Bonds Are Going Green!
A home consists of several people living, and therefore the furniture in the home should be suitable for everyone. While comfort and style are quite important aspects while looking for furniture, one should also take into consideration the safety aspect of the furniture that is used.
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Choosing Furniture For the Children’s Room? – Keep These Tips in Mind
With the growing use and dependency on cell phones, many a parent might wonder whether it is right for them to buy their teenaged children a cell phone. Also, news connecting mobiles to various medical issues have acted as a dampener for many a child’s chances to get a mobile for Christmas or on their birthday. While most of the rumours about medical issues are just that – rumours – there are some issues that are really worthy of a thought for parents who wish to buy their children a phone.
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Three Reasons Why Your Teenager Requires a Cell Phone
The cell phone market has seen a great increase since the past few years. Today, there are several options for anyone who would like to buy a cell. A person can decide which cell they wish to buy depending on the features and services that they would like to use and would require to use.
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Your Lifestyle, Your Phone – Finding the Right Cell Phone For You
A week after Jess’s post on preparing for storms, a major thunderstorm came through my neighborhood. One neighbor who was at home said it reminded him of hurricanes he lived through in Florida. If the wind had blown in a slightly different direction, massive tree limbs would have hit my apartment, causing a lot of damage.
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Protecting Pets During Emergencies
The title reflects the state of my life at the moment: jewelry and cats! Cluny and Cuervo are adapting to life in the city; I had almost forgotten what high-maintenance cats they are! (I wouldn’t have it any other way).
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Jewelry and Cats!
The cell phone market is basically divided by the simple price factors – entry level, middle level and the high level. The price difference amongst these three is so high that many find it difficult to jump from division to another
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Getting the Cheap Option of the Model You Love
Illustration: Arpad Dekani Lace design c1908 Much of the early twentieth century revival of practical lace making, but more particularly that of designing lace within Hungary, can be attributed fairly squarely to Arpad Dekani. Professor Dekani, who started his career relatively humbly as a teacher at a provincial school in Hungary, eventually became a professor at the Arts and Crafts School in Budapest.
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Lace Design Work of Arpad Dekani
It’s mid-August and many families are in the middle of the mad dash to get the kids ready for the coming school year . There are school supplies and clothes to buy, forms to fill out, busing/carpool schedules to arrange, and, if needed, ensuring that afterschool childcare is in place.
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Back to School and Immunizations
About that aforementioned rant: Of all the people to take umbrage with my litany of bellyaches in the paper today, Tim Jones, CEO of Artscape , was very upset with my characterization of his arm's-length city-associated agency as “tiny” (he didn't like “city agency” either). While it's completely true that, with the addition of the Wychwood Barns and the forthcoming Shaw/Givins School redux, Artscape's physical holdings are far from tiny in the literal sense, I was suggesting that, in the context of actually meeting the need of a perpetually migrant art community, Artscape, though it provides desperately-needed space buffered from the market, is barely a drop in the bucket when it comes to demand.
If you're passing through Kitchener, as I was on the weekend, you'd be silly not to stop off at the Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery and see what's growing in the front garden.
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Strange + Wonderful = Mary Catherine Newcomb’s "Product of Eden"
Announcements continue to come out of the TEDx Fullerton camp. The most recent is that Kimberly Brooks will be added to the line-up on Friday Sept 10th. TEDxFullerton’s special guest speaker is Kimberly Brooks , who recently conceived and launched the Arts Section of the Huffington Post, a new “vertical”, where she serves as Arts Editor
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TEDx Fullerton- Line Up Continued
It’s right about this time each summer that I start looking forward to the fall. To cooler weather, leaves falling off the trees and apple cider. The dog days of summer really start to get to me
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Surviving the Dog Days of Summer
Illustration: Anders Zorn. Dalecarlian Scene tapestry panel, 1909 Anders Zorn the Swedish fine art painter is probably better known outside of his native Sweden, as that of an accomplished and highly successful nineteenth and early twentieth century portrait painter. Zorn travelled widely in both Europe and North America and his portraits made him wealthy and acclaimed.
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Anders Zorn Tapestries
If you enjoy gazing at the starry summer sky, the best show of the year happens this week. The Perseid meteor shower reaches peak activity August 12 – 13, and at its peak you’ll be able to see about 50 meteors an hour . The Perseid meteor shower is caused by debris from Comet Swift-Tuttle
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Perseid Meteor Shower