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Accenting a Living Room with a Seaside Theme

A seaside theme is an inviting way to decorate a living room. A seaside theme works beautifully with calming wall colors like blue and green and neutral shades like sand with accents in white. An adaptable and versatile scheme, existing furniture and wall colors may already provide a perfect backdrop for a nautical theme. All that's left to do is add some ocean-inspired wall art décor, table top accents and other affordable accessories. Create a Focal Point A bare expanse of wall over a couch or above a low console may be an ideal spot for nautical inspired wall art that influences the accent colors and accessories of your room. Metal wall hangings of realistic fish, calming waves, and underwater plant life will add color and texture to the walls. Repeat the colors in the metal wall art elsewhere in the room; beautiful coral and white in the metal wall art can be repeated in throw pillows or an area rug used to define a conversation area. Add light and dimension to nautical wall dé...

Beyond the Barbeque

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From a clever twist on the usual potluck to a summertime spread gone international, with a dash of imagination and a quick change of scenery, our alfresco dining ideas are sure to please the crowd. Make-Together Meal Get collaborative with your guests in the kitchen, and then enjoy the homemade meal together beneath the stars. Decide on a menu and complete the basic prep at home, asking that your friends bring over specific ingredients you still need. Perhaps it's chicken kabobs seared to perfection on the grill-purchase the chicken and skewers yourself and let the meat marinate ahead of time. Suggest that your friends bring over their favorite vegetables, then assemble them together and grill them outdoors. For even more bonding time in the kitchen, try making the entire meal from scratch with your friends. Ask each of your guests to bring the ingredients for one of your pre-determined dishes, then prepare the meal indoors and enjoy it outside. To avoid a crowded kitchen, try spli...

Luxury & International Resort Properties

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Open the Door to the Home You Want

Purchasing a home can feel overwhelming for buyers no matter how many times they've been through the process. And today, your credit score is more important than ever when it comes to your ability to buy the home you really want. If you are looking to improve your credit score, now is the perfect time to get started. Here are some great strategies you can utilize right away to give your score a little boost. For Information about Credit Scores, Mortgage Loans, Home purchase visit http://www.robertjrussell.com . Create Some Balance: While paying down installment debt (car, school, mortgage, etc.) will definitely boost your credit score, paying down or paying off revolving debt, such as credit cards, can cause a quick jump in your credit score. The trick is to get and keep your balances below 30% of your credit limit on each card. For faster results, attack those cards with balances closer to their respective credit limits first, as opposed to those cards with simply the highest de...

Luxury Bueonos Aires Apartments!

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Report Card of Life

It can seem harsh to think that every aspect of our life is reporting back to us like grades on a report card as to how well we are doing in living and applying the universal rules governing all that we are creating in our life. In my early years of elementary, middle, and high school I was not a particularly good student. My report cards definitely reflected this fact. "Robert, you can do anything you put your mind to, if you would just put your mind to something…anything!" was the common plea of my parents at this time of my life. School and studying didn't interest me much however and my grades reflected this fact. Little did I know as a young man that all of life was much like school; there are multiple subjects and the better we learn and apply the rules the better grade or results we will get out of life. In school, the better you study and understand the lessons, the better grade you get when tested. It seems self-evident that real life, life after school, operates...

Successful Webinars for Real Estate

Many real estate pros use seminars to establish themselves as experts in the field. However, seminars can be expensive and time-consuming. But with the ever-evolving Internet, you can now put on Web-based seminars-Webinars-for nearly any kind of audience. Here's how you get the most bang for your seminar buck. Webinar Advantages: Better Than Being There? A virtual seminar is a live event with a main speaker, in which attendees can view slides of the presentation on their computer desktops and the speaker's voice is delivered through the phone or computer speakers. The advantages to you and your audience are many, such as: Convenience: Your prospects don't have to get into a car and go somewhere (nor do you). They can participate right from the comfort of their home or office, which means they are more likely to attend. Control: Attendees will have less fear of being "overpowered" by a sales pitch because they are not physically present and can click off at any t...

Want to Buy a House ?

Buy a Ticket RISMEDIA, July 15, 2009-(MCT)-With a housing market sinking to lows seldom seen in this country's history, some people are resorting to seldom-used practices to sell their houses. Don and Karen Carroll count themselves among that group. With plans to move to Painesville Township, the Eastlake couple is trying to sell their home of five years but to this point haven't had much luck. "Our house has been on the market for almost a month and a half, but only one person has come to look at it," said Don, 40. "That being the case, we're kind of worried." So, they've come up with a Plan B. "I was sitting in the living room last week, and I said to my husband, 'What if we tried to raffle this house?' " said Karen, 50. "Somebody in this big world had to have done it before." In fact, someone has. Last year, a Maryland couple raffled off their four-bedroom farmhouse - which was appraised at $390,000 when it was first p...

United State Foreclosure Laws

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United States foreclosure laws. Select a state from the map or the list below for complete state foreclosure information. Each state foreclosure page includes a summary of your state foreclosure law as well as links to other foreclosure law resources. Alabama Foreclosure Law Alaska Foreclosure Law Arizona Foreclosure Law Arkansas Foreclosure Law California Foreclosure Law Colorado Foreclosure Law Connecticut Foreclosure Law Delaware Foreclosure Law Florida Foreclosure Law Georgia Foreclosure Law Hawaii Foreclosure Law Idaho Foreclosure Law Illinois Foreclosure Law Indiana Foreclosure Law Iowa Foreclosure Law Kansas Foreclosure Law Kentucky Foreclosure Law Louisiana Foreclosure Law Maine Foreclosure Law Maryland Foreclosure Law Massachusetts Foreclosure Law Michigan Foreclosure Law Minnesota Foreclosure Law Mississippi Foreclosure Law Missouri Foreclosure Law Montana Foreclosure Law Nebraska Foreclosure Law Nevada Foreclosure Law New Hampshire Foreclosure Law New Jersey Foreclosure L...

Are you Money Smart ? How about your Children ?

Money Smart for Young Adults The FDIC's Money Smart for Young Adults curriculum helps youth ages 12-20 learn the basics of handling their money and finances, including how to create positive relationships with financial institutions. Equipping young people in their formative years with the basics of financial education can give them the knowledge, skills, and confidence they need to manage their finances once they enter the real world. Money Smart for Young Adults consists of eight instructor-led modules. Each module includes a fully scripted instructor guide, participant guide, and overhead slides. The materials also include an optional computer-based scenario that allows students to complete realistic exercises based on each module. The curriculum is distributed on CD: click here to order it . Money Smart for Young Adults is: Free; Aligned with educational standards for all 50 states, the District of Columbia, Guam and the Virgin Islands, as well as Jump$tart financial education ...

3 Steps - Staying Motivated towards your Goals

It's not always easy to stay motivated when you're trying to achieve a goal. Some experts say that the "goal" itself should be enough to inspire unwavering diligence toward achieving it...and there is an element of truth in that. However, the reality is that the discomforts of striving for a particular goal can sometimes cause us to lose focus. Want to get in shape, save for a large purchase, "make the grade" in your studies? Don't worry... whatever you're trying to accomplish, the following tips can help you stay motivated and on track. Visualize the End Result Can't you just see yourself pounds lighter and fitting into a nifty outfit? The key question is how do you imagine yourself "feeling"? Healthier? Sexier? More self-confident? When you develop the ability to visualize your goals and imagine what the end results will be, you are more likely to stay motivated. Many people have found it helpful to compose a "dream board" ...

Is Social Media a Double Edged Sword

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We view social media as a critical aspect of our marketing strategy and focus a good deal of time and energy implementing our social media plan. This has generated new business for us, helped us make new friends, meet local business leaders, and is an enjoyable part of our day. Social Media has become an inexpensive way to reach hundreds, thousands, and in some cases, even millions of people in an instant. This is great when you are broadcasting a new blog post to generate traffic to your website or announcing a new listing. What happens when someone is dissatisfied or has a gripe about a business or service - or worse yet - about your business or service? It too, can spread quickly across the world wide web. There have been several examples of this recently, including the disgusting Domino's Pizza video on how not to make pizza that was made as a joke by some employees and posted on YouTube and was broadcast across social media sites to a huge audience, causing quite a headac...

Summer Activities

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Baseball, Hotdogs, Apple Pie...And Great Summertime Websites Fun In the Sun Is Just a Click Away looking to relocate ? Click Here Summer is officially here, and there are plenty of ways your family can have fun in the sun, while also staying safe and healthy! Whatever plans your family has in store...in addition to enjoying the traditional baseball, hotdogs, and apple pie...here are some great websites that can help. Hitting the Road...or Air... Plan Your Road Route: There are a number of websites such as www.mapquest.com and maps.google.com that can help you plan your route. So make sure you take a few minutes to plan your drive and print out any directions that you may need. Fly Smarter : For the latest information on prohibited items, acceptable IDs, and other security-related items, visit www.tsa.gov/travelers/airtravel . Weather Watch : Whether you're travelling by road or air, you'll want to keep an eye on www.weather.com . Not only does this site help you discover the...