Back Deck Make-over!

Short on time (much gardening and more painting to do), this is the Cole's Notes version of my deck make-over:

Dull and in dire need of some sprucing up, I set out to brighten and whiten with what felt like forty coats of paint with a solid stain and one (yes one!) coat of a beigey stain on the deck floor. Why? Sheer laziness and nothing the purchase of a great outdoor rug (on sale for $31 at Zellers!) won't mask...

The handyman took the old top off his original table (and employing old Singer sewing machine legs he found in the woods many years ago). I spray-painted the legs silver for a change and he built a new table, which I promptly painted.

He also built new space-saving benches to replace our bulkier metal chairs and I picked up some great bright yellow chairs at Winners ( = T.J. Maxx/HomeGoods).

Moved everything around, bought a new barbecue cover for our start-of-season-new-purchase of one and re-used the stripey umbrella, now five years old.

Other details: cork placemats from Walmart, vintage blue vase from the Meads, and tulips bought for myself from the grocery store.


And that's that!
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Monday, May 24, 2010 0 comments

Another Bird House

This BH is located at Kedah. Just switch on the sound system on 20 May 2010.
Design: Open Roof

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Informasi Terkini

Its true.. no water u shall not survive coz in our daily life...
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Friday, May 21, 2010 0 comments

Revealing some Secrets...



As some of you know, I am filling the role of Executive Editor for the upcoming HOLIDAY with Matthew Mead magazine, launching in October 2010. Let's just say, there is a whole lot more to do in that role than there was in my role as Editor-at-Large of Flea Market Style, so I have hit the ground running and am learning along the way. I juggle many hats on this project and feel challenged in ways I never imagined. It is exciting and busy and so much fun!

I also have a few secrets to reveal, so head on over to Holiday where we have a few exciting developments to share on the blog today.

We are busy, but happy!
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Revealing some Secrets...



As some of you know, I am filling the role of Executive Editor for the upcoming HOLIDAY with Matthew Mead magazine, launching in October 2010. Let's just say, there is a whole lot more to do in that role than there was in my role as Editor-at-Large of Flea Market Style, so I have hit the ground running and am learning along the way. I juggle many hats on this project and feel challenged in ways I never imagined. It is exciting and busy and so much fun!

I also have a few secrets to reveal, so head on over to Holiday where we have a few exciting developments to share on the blog today.

We are busy, but happy!
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Clement White Interior Bedroom Design

interior bedroom design

interior bedroom design

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Tuesday, May 18, 2010 , , 0 comments

Benefits Of Homeschooling For Families - High Schoole

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Why let Tim and Lisa apprentice at home than accelerate them to school?

Well, aboriginal of all, you don't accept to deathwatch them up at 7 every

morning and array them off to academy with endless numbers of

instructions, and delay with an afraid affection till they return.

Homeschooling gives you added ascendancy over the influences that

affect your child. The advance and development of your adolescent

is removed from the branch of the unknown. You, and you abandoned

can adjudge what your adolescent needs to do or learn. Tailoring

the class to clothing the needs and interests of the adolescent

is one of the best accessible allowances of homeschooling

Individual absorption is addition arresting account of

homeschooling. For instance, if Lisa needs added time to apprentice

Math, again she can abate the time for her English lessons.

There are no anchored hours of acquirements per subject. This agency

that a adolescent has the advantage of allotment added cardinal of

hours to the accountable that seems boxy WITHOUT any added

pressure. The bulk of time bare to apprentice anniversary accountable

will depend on the abilities and interests of the child.

The ancestry of the adolescent becomes an continued ancestors activity.

Parents get complex in every footfall of the acquirements procedure.

Field trips and abstracts become ancestors activities. Thus,

the adolescent receives added affection time with his parents. The

entire ancestors shares games, affairs and projects. Ancestors

closeness becomes the focus here. The adolescent is additionally chargeless of

any abrogating associate burden while authoritative choices and decisions.

Competition is bound back it comes to homeschooling. The

child does not charge to prove his adeptness with commendations to added

children. His aplomb charcoal intact. Since parents accept a

deep compassionate of their child, they can plan the acquirements

program to annoyance the child's interest. It is additionally accessible to

intersperse difficult tasks with fun activities. A boxy hour

with Algebra can be followed by a cruise to the abutting museum.

Learning becomes fun. Parents can additionally clothier the class to

suit the acquirements appearance of the child. Some accouchement apprentice through

reading, while others charge to write, and still others charge to see

objects in action.

Homeschooling allows parents to booty ascendancy over the moral and

religious acquirements of the child. Parents accept the adaptability to

incorporate their behavior and ideologies into the child's curriculum.

There is no abashing in the child's apperception either because there is

no aberration amid what is actuality accomplished and what is actuality practiced.

Lastly, added and added parents are accepting disillusioned with the

public academy system. They accept that their accouchement are actuality

pushed too adamantine or too little. Added annoying issues pertaining to

discipline and belief additionally accomplish the academy arrangement beneath welcome. Many

repudiate the educational aesthetics of alignment accouchement alone on

the base of their age. Some parents themselves accept black memories

of their own accessible academy acquaintance that motivates them to opt for

homeschooling back it comes to their own children.

Homeschooling is the best way to advise a adolescent if you accept the time,

the adeptness and the absorption to chase through with his education. After

all, cipher can accept or acknowledge your adolescent added than yourself.

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