13th March 2009
No sooner than the last chocolate has been popped into our mouths and the roses have been hung to dry, St. Valentine steps aside for St. Patrick as green takes over from red to mark the next commercial milestone on the calendar. Shamrocks are everywhere...
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25th February 2009
Knitting is a natural when it comes to creating stripes. A stripe is defined as "a line or long narrow section differing in color or texture from parts adjoining". The needles act as the guardians of the straight line, that crossover point where change...
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16th January 2009
In these tough economic times, the new buzzword is definitely "save". Banks and financial institutions want to save your money for you, towns and cities want you to save your garbage in recycling containers, the environmental movement wants you to save th...
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06th November 2007
Just when we have all learned to correctly pronounce Feng Shui, the Chinese art of appropriate placement of objects in our living spaces, along comes another ancient Oriental aesthetic philosophy, "wabi-sabi". Seemingly destined to become as popular as Fe...
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29th March 2007
Having lived in apartments for the last twenty years, I have had little opportunity to put my paws into the earth except for planting the odd balcony pot or attempting to grow seeds on a spare-bedroom window sill. So now that I am the owner of a horticu...
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