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This Thomasville Belmont Chaise lounge is a perfect accent chair for your walk-in dresser, living room, workstation at home especially if you are into these kinds of furniture (elegant, classy, Victorian).

Here are the specifics:
Belmont chaise lounge sofa in Antique Walnut finish. Chaise features padded Italian leather, high-grade European fabric, gold accent and brass nailhead trim for an elegant and luxurious leisure room.

Collection Name: Belmont
Finish: Antique Walnut
Dimensions: 78in W x 27in D x 39in H

High-grade European fabric
Padded Italian leather
Solid wood, hand-carved construction
Gold accent
Brass nailhead trim

I personally would love to have this in a lighter wood finish – it would turn into a very shabby chic chaise lounge sofa!

Perhaps you live alone or are still living with your parents sharing a common bathroom; it can be a challenge making sure your bath vanities do not overflow with your vanity items.

If you can remodel or have the freedom to do what you want with the bathroom, there are a couple of things you need to think about first before buying the bath vanities you liked on the spot or the deal wholesale bathroom vanities are offering at the home depot.

1. Make a list of your needs – grooming, cosmetics, dental care, cleaning products, medical supplies – that need to be in the bathroom. This will help you determine how big or small you vanity will be.
2. Make sure to measure the space in your bathroom where your bathroom vanity will be placed in.
3. Decide on the style. But do not get caught up on the style too much, think of the traffic your bathroom will receive too. For example, double sink bath vanities are good choice in areas that receive high traffic (multiple users/family members). If kids will be using the vanity too, it will be wiser to get something that is durable to wear and tear and stains.
4. Don’t underestimate storage space. Get more vanity storage space than you think you need. In the years to come, you are often going to need more space than you have.

It used to be that working from home was reserved only for the self-employed, those who have their own businesses and are classified as those who live in the upper class of society. These days, working from home has become a growing trend – thanks to technology, businessmen can outsource their employees, save on overhead costs of keeping an office and offer higher compensation for their employees.

Working from home sure does have many advantages. The value of home-workers is their high productivity and low absenteeism. They enjoy a no-commute job, which is results-based, and the adaptability of flexi-time hours: perfect for improving the health of workers who have adverse difficulty moving around. However, it can also be a disadvantage if one doesn’t know how to balance their working hours from their leisure hours. You can either end up lagging behind at work or not knowing how to relax because you get stressed all the time thinking of the work you go to do.

This is where the benefits of having your own garden office comes in. Most people think that having a garden office built is an expensive thing to consider. But if you plan well enough and meet with the right builders, this modular garden office can be a reality. (This is one of the portfolios from Atelier).

Look at how amazing it looks in the inside as well. Wouldn’t you want to work in this kind of office? You face wall windows so natural light floods your office. You can relax your eyes by starting the green surroundings if you need to rest a bit from using the computer too much. It also will allow you to separate work from home, in a way. The garden office is a part of your home but is still apart from it in a way that when you go there, you and everyone in the household know you are in there to work.

This place allows you to detach yourself from personal issues and to focus exclusively on your job. Due to modern technology, the building is designed to help you in different activities.

For work and play, this beautiful extra space from your back garden will fulfill all of your needs. Whether you build this place alone, or with an expert’s help, in a matter of days you will be able to start enjoying your new room. The natural beauty of wood combined with the traditional materials which are adapted to the contemporary design, all these will create efficient and beautiful garden offices designed to accommodate your work or entertain guests.

We are now in the last few weeks of summer and most families are trying to squeeze in as much travel and beach time as they can as school is about to start or has even started for some. For many women, it is also their last chance to be able to soak up in the sun and get tanned. Outdoor Chaise Lounges in patios outside houses have appointments with their owners I think every afternoon. I remember how the girls from Sex and the City series would often get their tans on top of their New York apartments during summer.

Patio Furniture from CozyDays.com are perfect for dining in style with quality furniture. I read in recent fashion magazines that wicker patio furniture is coming back as a trend and I have great pieces of wicker furniture at their site.

I fell in love with the Congo outdoor wicker seating group with two club chairs and a side table. Its unique shape but classic design is a new twist for me. It looks so comfortable too.It features sturdy aluminum frames covered with round all weather wicker. It also says it is resistant to harsh weather conditions making it perfect for outdoor!

Outdoor Patio Furniture from CozyDays are selected from the most reputable outdoor furniture manufacturers in the world.

For those who are on the lookout for best diet pills for women, let this be an inspiration. I have featured her when she appeared for the first time in Vogue three months after giving birth to her baby boy. Here are the things she did to get back into shape:

• On naming their son Benjamin Rein: “I wanted him to be called River because I wanted something always flowing, immortal. My husband said, ‘There’s no way we’re going to call him River.’ But my father’s name is Reinoldo, so it’s a homage to him. And it’s like water.”
• On staying in shape while pregnant: "I did kung fu up until two weeks before Benjamin was born, and yoga three days a week. I think a lot of people get pregnant and decide they can turn into garbage disposals. I was mindful about what I ate, and I gained only 30 pounds. I think it’s muscle memory."
• On keeping out of the public eye: "I felt like my pregnancy was a sacred moment for me. I stayed in Boston and I didn’t work apart from the contracts I have, and then I only let them use my face."
• On her first time modeling post-birth: "I got to the studio and I felt like I was E.T.—whoa, what’s going on? Hair and makeup? I hadn’t looked at myself in a mirror for a month and a half… Usually, as I walk through the door into that atmosphere, I already feel different. There’s a button that goes On and I’m On. And when I go On, there is almost no me; there is just a character who is doing all this. This time it wasn’t like that… For the first time, I think I actually saw me—the inside—instead of the persona."

This is so late, as roller shades would have made a come back already but I thought this was interesting to share.

1. Gladiator Sandals
2. Platform Shoes
3. Ankle-High Booties
4. Plunging Neckline
5. Harem Pants
6. "My Pilipinas" shirts
7. Bib Necklace
8. Statement Hair Accessory
9. Second-hand designer bag
10. Color of the Year: Yellow

I definitely agree with the color yellow!

Turquoise was selected as the color of 2010 by Pantone, a company that supplies and tracks color for fashion and home decor, among other industries. Fashion insiders agreed the color is on the rise.

Turquoise has instantly brought to mind images of vacation, travel and the tropical blue sea – making travel the big goal for most people in 2010.

Travel is on one of our wish lists this year and I am determined to make us travel with cold, hard-earned cash and not through cash advance benefits I can get from the husband’s company.

Turquoise Tips:

_Lilly Pulitzer’s Schoenborn calls it a "buy now, wear anywhere color" because in cooler months it pairs with black and navy, and in the spring and summer it can be worn with white or coral.

_In the home, introduce turquoise through paint, Moss advises. Paint the walls of a room — or just one — or even the ceiling, she says. Painting the insides of bookshelves will give a pop.

_Moss also likes turquoise as the piping on a white couch or as a lampshade or tableskirt.

_Textile quality is an issue with turquoise, says Hilfiger. It can be very luxe looking in the right fabric, but it risks looking cheap in a bad one.

_Pantone’s Eiseman sees it as a potential complement to the yellow-greens that have recently been popular.

_If the idea of turquoise eye makeup is too scary, Eiseman says you’ll get the same effect with a darker teal.

Saw this at Doll Me Up blog and found out it was posted by the Sartorialist. I admire how Lizzie Miller willingly showed off an unflattering part of herself – notice the flabby post-baby belly – to inspire the millions of ordinary women to embrace themselves and appreciate their bodies more.

Being an overweight mommy to two kids as well, I can so relate with the crinkly ab skin and the lose skin everywhere that only surgery I think can repair.

But those flabby skin housed my kids – and I shall embrace them. For everything else, there is Spanx. More on that on the coming blog posts

This 1997 Glamour article has become a popular web chain letter, usually titled “Maya Angelou’s Best Poem Ever.” Glamour contributor Pamela Redmond Satran is flattered, but she wrote the list, updating it in 2005.

By 30, you should have:

1. One old boyfriend you can imagine going back to and one who reminds you of how far you’ve come.
2. A decent piece of furniture not previously owned by anyone else in your family.
3. Something perfect to wear if the employer or man of your dreams wants to see you in an hour.
4. A purse, a suitcase and an umbrella you’re not ashamed to be seen carrying.
5. A youth you’re content to move beyond.
6. A past juicy enough that you’re looking forward to retelling it in your old age.
7. The realization that you are actually going to have an old age—and some money set aside to help fund it.
8. An e-mail address, a voice mailbox and a bank account—all of which nobody has access to but you.
9. A résumé that is not even the slightest bit padded.
10. One friend who always makes you laugh and one who lets you cry.
11. A set of screwdrivers, a cordless drill and a black lace bra.
12. Something ridiculously expensive that you bought for yourself, just because you deserve it.
13. The belief that you deserve it.
14. A skin-care regimen, an exercise routine and a plan for dealing with those few other facets of life that don’t get better after 30.
15. A solid start on a satisfying career, a satisfying relationship and all those other facets of life that do get better.

By 30, you should know:

1. How to fall in love without losing yourself.
2. How you feel about having kids.
3. How to quit a job, break up with a man and confront a friend without ruining the friendship.
4. When to try harder and when to walk away.
5. How to kiss in a way that communicates perfectly what you would and wouldn’t like to happen next.
6. The names of: the secretary of state, your great-grandmother and the best tailor in town.
7. How to live alone, even if you don’t like to.
8. How to take control of your own birthday.
9. That you can’t change the length of your calves, the width of your hips or the nature of your parents.
10. That your childhood may not have been perfect, but it’s over.
11. What you would and wouldn’t do for money or love.
12. That nobody gets away with smoking, drinking, doing drugs or not flossing for very long.
13. Who you can trust, who you can’t and why you shouldn’t take it personally.
14. Not to apologize for something that isn’t your fault.
15. Why they say life begins at 30.

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