Enjoy 'Show Stopping' Blooms All Season Long
(ARA) - Do you want gorgeous, giant blooms with lots of "boom color" right up until fall's first frost? Would you like bold blossoms of color cascading from hanging baskets, decorating garden beds and sizzling around a trellis?

Decorating with nature
On a chilly Saturday morning, the annual ?Decorating with Nature? outdoor series brought families and friends to the William Goodrich Jones State Forest to enjoy its natural winter beauty. Set among the gardens at the Jones State Forest, everyone enjoyed listening to Christmas music and drinking hot apple cider while making festive holiday decorations from native flora found around the forest.

Holiday Entertaining Made Easy
(ARA) - Holiday entertaining can feel overwhelming to even the most seasoned host. Between shopping, cooking, cleaning and decorating, it can feel like there's no time left to enjoy the festivities.

"Designing Women of Postwar Britain" looks at three top designers
But with its latest large-scale presentation, a show that is set to close Jan. 25, the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center has veered in a completely unexpected and wonderfully audacious direction.

Textiles uplifted a weary nation
When conceiving temporary exhibitions, art museums tend to play to the strengths of their permanent collections or fall back on proven crowd-pleasers, such as impressionism or Egyptian antiquities.

Pupils learn holiday is also about giving
PLUMSTED ? Second-graders at the Dr. Gerald H. Woehr Elementary School wrote "Merry Christmas" and "Happy Holidays" on moving boxes after wrapping them and decorating them with pictures of Christmas trees and stockings.

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He auditioned on a lark. Now, he's Eastwood's co-star.
"Are you doing anything that might put your life in danger? Are you driving? Are you eating? Are you biking?" Bee Vang, who heard those words on his cell phone last July, wasn't, he wasn't, he wasn't and he wasn't. So the voice on the phone told him he'd been picked to star with Clint Eastwood in "Gran Torino," which opens today.

About Us
Since 1982, Anderson?s has been a leader in South Mississippi?s home decorating industry.

North Channel Christmas lights
Christmas may be over, but that does not mean you cannot relive some of the holiday spirit and cherish some wonderful memories.

Pulling a Few Threads
A former home-product development expert for Macy?s shares his philosophy about bed linens and thread counts.

Chillin' out at the Chesapeake
SANDUSKY Need a warm place to chill on a winter's day? Owners of the Chesapeake Lofts are opening their doors to visitors Saturday.

Carolyn Hax
Adapted from a recent online discussion. Dear Carolyn:

Young at Art
Introduce kids to classic tale

Camo Ba
One trend that's been catching on is decorating a nursery in camouflage. Perhaps it's because of hunting's popularity, or because camouflage is a unisex theme, so Dad and Mom can agree on it, especially if Dad and Mom are hunters themselves.

Home sweet home: Step-by-step guide to build a gingerbread house
It won?t help cut the size of your mortgage, but we do have a way for you to get a smaller house. But it?s a real fixer-upper, one for do-it-yourselfers only. Yes, we?re talking about a gingerbread house. | SLIDESHOW: How to build a gingerbread house

Emma Carroll
She ran an antiques and consignment business and headed the Daughters of the American Revolution in Maryland Emma Carroll, who established an antiques and consignment business at Glencoe Gardens in Baltimore County and headed the Daughters of the American Revolution in Maryland, died of a stroke Jan. 1 at her Sparks home. She was 90.

Explore your interiors with art, lecture series
What does it mean to make a house a home? And why do so many of us spend vast amounts of money and time on our homes?

02:05 (BST), 09/01/2009 Fabulous Finds Press Release PROVIDED BY GAMES PRESS New York, NY?Jan. 8, 2009 ?I-play, the ...
New York, NY?Jan. 8, 2009 ?I-play, the world?s leading multi-platform casual games publishing company and a division of Oberon Media, today announced the launch of Fabulous Finds, an interactive game that features a medley of unique game styles that unite in a one-of-a-kind experience.

Men creating rooms geared to socializing, sports, spirits
Tom Judd of Wilton talks about his poker table area. When first-timers wander up to the second floor of Jerry Jorgensen's Milford home and into his man room, they delicately walk around the room's perimeter, examining every picture, poster and pennant.