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• Women and Work – The Struggle Continues

  Sunday, April 27th, 2008

  Although the gender gap between men and women in society is decreasing, but one area which still needs work is in the workplace. For starters, men still earn more money than women in the same position, and even if both people in a relationship work full-time, the woman is more likely to be responsible for household duties and childcare.

   

  It was once believed that women were happier and felt fulfilled in the home. However, recent research has shown that most women need to experience both pleasure and mastery in their lives to feel happy. Mastery means feeling important and worthwhile, whereas pleasure comes from finding life enjoyable. (more…)

• Every Woman’s Dream - A Log Cabin Kitchen

  Sunday, March 16th, 2008

  I was at this great remodeling site called RemodelingMySpace.com, when I saw these great log cabin kitchen pictures of a beautiful contry kitchen at an old gentleman’s retreat called BearfortLodge.com.

  

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• Cheap DIY Wall Art

  Wednesday, March 5th, 2008

  Hey, SuzyRenovator did it again! She totally caught my attention with her tips for diy wall art. I’ve officially bookmarked her site so I can keep up to date with all new posts. In her most recent post, Suzy offers instructions on how to make wall art with fabric and stretcher frames. I love contemporary style and somehow stretcher frames seem to have a more contemporary feel to them than framed art. (more…)

• Unusual Color Inspiration

  Thursday, February 28th, 2008

  I’m on a home renovation kick right now (when am I not) and I’ve been hunting high and low for color ideas. I came across two awesome articles this morning that I had to share. It’s so refreshing to find good, helpful information - not the same old decorating topics with pictures from the 80’s, but up-to-date, interesting articles and current photos depicting today’s decorating trends. I truly appreciated the practical and smart advice for decorating with color.
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• Beautiful Small Kitchen Designs & Modern Kitchen Gadgets

  Sunday, February 24th, 2008

  I just saw the cutest small kitchen design I just HAVE TO HAVE.

  

  Since I am living in a somewhat petite abode, and my kitchen is the gathering spot for conversation, healing, meditating and… cooking, because of all these factors, I want my kitchen to be comfortable, yet functional, which isn’t easy when you have very limited space. Luckily, you have to be creative in these situations (which I love!), and there’s nothing better to get the kitchen design juices flowing like scouring pages of pictures of small kitchen design ideas. I found the kitchen above (I want) at a site called www.ymholiad.com, a site that is dedicated to constantly updating you about kitchens and kitchen related appliances and gadgets, and it also has these wonderful photo galleries for getting all kinds of great ideas for kitchen islands, modern kitchen cabinets, and they reviewed some kitchen design software for you to use for free.

  

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• Small Bathroom Remodeling Ideas

  Tuesday, April 10th, 2007

  Sometimes when a home has a smaller size bathroom people will want to remodel to include more space for their bathroom. There are many small bathroom remodeling ideas that a home owner can choose to do for their smaller bathroom. But before any of the small bathroom remodeling ideas even take form you will need to come up with a plan.

  

  Making a remodeling plan may be very hard for some people and they may choose to just hire a designer and a contractor and be done with the whole process. That works well for many people but there are other home owners who would rather design the new bathroom and also build the new bathroom. Even if these people can not actually build the new bathroom themselves and they may need to hire a contractor they may indeed wish to design the room.

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• Creating A Rustic Room with Log Home Chinking

  Wednesday, April 4th, 2007

  I was exploring the internet for some ideas for lodge style decor and found this neat site about log homes which has some really great project ideas to achieve a rustic feel.

  You would think that a log cabin site, www.BearfortLodge.com, would be strictly a guy thing but while exploring I came across a rather amusing article where he says that women are better at chinking log homes than men. What a riot. Women Unite! I hadn’t expected to see anything like that so I had to investigate further.

  I have always had an appreciation for log cabins - they are so romantic and serene. The natural elements featured in log homes are soothing to the soul and psyche. I would love to create a room that had that same feel.

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• Fun ways to fold towels - origami towel animals!

  Thursday, March 29th, 2007

  I bet you never thought you could do towel origami when folding your towels!

  Well, here are some great tips from www.EasyTowelAnimals.com for creating fun origami animals with your household bathroom towels.
  

  
  
  
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• Hello world!

  Sunday, March 11th, 2007

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