Friday, Mar 12, 2010











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Canadian homes and cottages
Artists’ retreat

New Brunswick author Beth Powning was born into a literary world. Her grandfather, a professor of Victorian Literature at Brown University, always read poetry at family gatherings. There were a number of famous authors in her small New England town. Some were family friends. The young Powning would have tea with children’s book author Esther Bates.


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Safe @ Home: Crime doesn’t play

All the locks and alarms in the world are rendered useless in the hands of an uninformed child. I'm talking about children who haphazardly open doors to strangers without adult supervision.

It is the parents’ obligation to instill in their young ones the ABC's of home security.


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Fresh and fabulous

Today, few households boast a full set of summer slipcovers, but there are easy and inexpensive ways to refresh your home for spring.

It starts with the ancient ritual of spring cleaning.


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Let the sun shine in

The days when people swapped out heavy velvet drapes for lighter, more translucent ones come spring are gone – window treatments are too expensive for many of us to have multiple sets.

But there are other ways to use your windows to mark the change of the season.


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