If you will be hosting Thanksgiving dinner, you can easily set a festive fall table using beautiful, yet reasonably priced flowers. Here’s great advice adapted from the Flower Promotion Organization. The same technique can be used in different seasons, with different flower combinations–we’ll keep you posted.
To create the tablescape above you will need:

3 clear […]

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Every once in a while you read a great story of someone successfully turning a lifelong hobby into a business.
Laura Palady, the winner of the Celebrate with Style “Cutest Trick-or-Treater” photo contest has done just that. Laura, who took the photos above, just started Bluebonnet Photography, in Riverton, Utah, where she lives with […]

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This week, in honor of Veterans Day, bridal salons all over the country are taking part in a program called “Brides Across America.” Participating salons will select a certain number of wedding gowns to give away–free–to military personnel who served in Iraq or Afghanistan or to brides-to-be whose fiancés currently are in active duty in […]

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Like most Americans, I spent the entire evening glued to the TV, with occasional sprints to the computer to track election results on the three Web sites I was following.
I still haven’t stopped reading post-election analyses. But I just came across this story a minute ago on tonight’s CNN iReport blog. Contributors were asked to […]

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I’m not sure what it is about pinecones, but I’ve loved them since I was a kid. I still think of them kind of like “crunchy flowers.” They’re beautiful by themselves or combined with other natural elements. And pinecones look spectacular when contrasted with shiny, bright tree ornaments.
Today, during the broadcast of the New […]

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