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Fashion Week Highlights: Bottega Veneta A/W 2010
Bottega Veneta always do texture particularly well, and their big-weave spring and summer collection really set the tone for many designers this year. Great to see they’re still leading by example in the autumn/winter range, which is full of tactile delights. We’re also loving the colour palate used here, which is predominantly dark, but includes some opulent splashes of colour, as in the leaf-green tote (above left).
The Test
When asked why life is hard, the Sunday school teachers of my youth replied, “Life is a test. It’s supposed to be hard.” The scriptures support the life-as-test perspective — a “probationary state” where we “prove” ourselves.
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The Test
40 Days of Getting Real – Norway Ave Members are Writing a Book for our 2010 Fall Journey
This fall Norway Ave Church members are going to write a book for our 2010 Journey. Last year we used Saddleback resources (40 Days of Love) and bought boxes of Tom Holliday’s book (The Relationship Principles of Jesus)
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40 Days of Getting Real – Norway Ave Members are Writing a Book for our 2010 Fall Journey
Welcome to South Africa
LIVESTRONG staff have made it to South Africa to attend the Cape Argus Cycling Tour , hosting a booth at the tour’s expo and meeting survivors all over Cape Town. Chris Brewer opens the week with a great video featuring the Cape Argus race director, Lance and patients at the Groote Shuur Hospital.
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Welcome to South Africa
By the Numbers: Walmart wants to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions
20 million Metric tons of greenhouse-gas emissions that Walmart plans to eliminate from its global supply chain by the end of 2015. The world's largest retailer collaborated with the Environmental Defense Fund on this effort, which places a significant burden on suppliers. Suppliers to the 4,300 Walmart stores and Sam's Clubs in the U.S.
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By the Numbers: Walmart wants to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions
Tip of the Day: Clean the deck on your lawn mower
Our Tip of the Day posts tend to come from our in-house experts and other pros. But in this era of user-generated content and crowdsourcing, many of you might have some useful nuggets worth sharing with fellow readers.
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Tip of the Day: Clean the deck on your lawn mower
A New Project Begins (Bedroom Redesign)
I’m about to start on a new project, and I’m super excited about it! This is a project for a client…not in my condo. (Heck, sometimes I get tired of talking about my condo, so I know y’all must get tired of it, too!)Anyway, the homeowners had been leasing a house, but recently decided to buy it.
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A New Project Begins (Bedroom Redesign)
Inside Consumer Reports Test Labs: Review of the GE GeoSpring electric heat-pump water heater
The new GE GeoSpring can save you money. You might have recently seen a TV ad showing a troop of snow monkeys bathing in a hot spring that's seemingly heated by the new GE GeoSpring electric heat-pump water heater
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Inside Consumer Reports Test Labs: Review of the GE GeoSpring electric heat-pump water heater
Gifts for Chefs: Every Good Cook Needs an Apron
For all the creative messes that take place in the kitchen, every good cook needs an apron. Today, the number of fashionable, fun, and colorful aprons are limitless.
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Gifts for Chefs: Every Good Cook Needs an Apron
Ted Baker ‘Maggi’ multi-leather hobo bag
Here’s a lovely large-sized slouchy hobo bag from Ted Baker, practical – and practically perfect in every way!
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Ted Baker ‘Maggi’ multi-leather hobo bag
Limited Collection polka-dot clutch bag
It’s not getting any cheerier out there. Which for some of us provides a great excuse to go and seek out brightness and colour elsewhere – in this case, in the shape of fun, high street accessories.
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Limited Collection polka-dot clutch bag
Dynomighty Bottle Cap Tripod
This bottle cap tripod makes it easy to stabilize your camera for sharp photos without carrying around a heavy tripod. It mounts the camera atop any standard screw top bottle. $9.95 @ Amazon
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Dynomighty Bottle Cap Tripod
Boston Convention and Meeting boxes
www.corporategiftsboston.com We are happy to finally have the printed Boston Convention gable boxes for your meetings and events orderable in quantities. Along with customized ribbon in our city’s famous color, it is perfect for welcome gifts, meeting gifts or appreciations and can even be customized for Wedding events or other occasions. As you can see we have imprinted in Gold to really give it some pazazz, and can be filled with Boston souvenirs like, Boston cookies, Boston baked Beans, salt water taffy, cranberry bog frogs and other Boston memorabilia.
I Love Free Stuff!
From the Tweets and e-mails I’ve been receiving, there might be a little confusion about the Tip Junkie Blog Events & Giveaway Directory . If you are a woman and a blogger, you are welcome to add your blog events and giveaways you are hosting on your blog for free ! Yep, it’s free! I created it with the best of intentions to simply help you promote your blog through your giveaways and cool events you’re hosting. The women who have subscribed, are specifically looking for free stuff! Right now there are 107 giveaways listed, a value of $6,391 . {{squeal in delight}} Fabulous products with real value – way better than your average giveaways. Also, you can sort by “newest”, “highest value”, and a couple other options with a touch of a button. I made the directory with large pictures so it’s easy to quickly browse what’s being given away
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I Love Free Stuff!
Vivienne Westwood’s fresh new look
Vivienne Westwood has never been one to shy away from a little colour, but her latest collection of bags, purses and other accessories is bright, bold and beautiful – even by her usual lofty standards.
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Vivienne Westwood’s fresh new look
Fake furs galore in Chanel’s A/W 2010 show
Fur has made a bit of an uncomfortable comeback on the catwalk lately, so I was delighted to learn that the pelts on display at Chanel’s Fall 2010 shows were as fake as fake can be.
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Fake furs galore in Chanel’s A/W 2010 show
Funny Birthday Gifts For Him / Her Common-sense
Birthday every year, so we must be very carefully selected to go to a birthday present. To send a birthday present appears to be very simple, but there is a very particular about the scholarship, which includes a lot of truth and knowledge. Send birthday gift is not just a simple matter of courtesy, even more importantly, through this way to express your feelings needed to send each other’s hearts.
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Funny Birthday Gifts For Him / Her Common-sense
Mileage Plus
Too bad there isn’t a club that gives benefits for going on 1,700-mile photo safaris. I know, I know — don’t even ask me how I drove so many miles in so few days! I wanted to stay out a couple more days, but I didn’t exactly get the “spring-like” conditions I’d hoped for. In fact, not once on this trip did I don a pair of short pants. My first stop was the Salton Sea State Recreation Area
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Mileage Plus
BaselWorld 2010: 12 Faces of Time: Book Signings with Watchmakers
Already ordered your copy of 12 Faces of Time ? Either if you did or are planning to, make sure to visit the book signing sessions in BaselWorld! When: Saturday, March 20 and Sunday, March 21 at 14 h / 2:00 pm Where: Messeplatz, directly in front of Hall 1.0, in the book hut run by Watchprint Who: Elizabeth Doerr (author), Ralf Baumgarten (photographer), 11 of the watchmakers portrayed in the book: Philippe Dufour, Vianney Halter, Felix Baumgartner, Thomas Prescher, Volker Vyskocil, Paul Gerber, Beat Haldimann, Dr. Ludwig Oechslin, Kari Voutilainen, Roger Smith, and François-Paul Journe.
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BaselWorld 2010: 12 Faces of Time: Book Signings with Watchmakers
Rolex GTG and the SAHH 2010 Report
Last weekend was one with a busy watch schedule. My wife is so happy with me Friday evening, I attended a Rolex get-together, arranged by authorized Rolex dealer Schaap ~ Citroen . On Saturday I attended the SAHH (Salon Amsterdam de la Haute Horlogerie) to look at all the novelties from Audemars Piguet, Baume et Mercier, Cartier, IWC, Jeager-LeCoultre, Panerai, Piaget, Richard Mille and Roger Dubuis.
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Rolex GTG and the SAHH 2010 Report