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Summertime
Fun With Your Children |
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Make the most of the time left until your children go back to
school. Choose some a ctivities you can enjoy together before
everyone gets caught up in the frenzy of Fall.
Plan a family game marathon.
Don't just be a spectator—get in the game. Your children
will be delighted. Search your local resale shops for board
games or puzzles you can enjoy together.
Camp out together in the backyard.
Take flashlights and tents and setup your own campground.
Listen to the night sounds and tell stories. Don’t forget to
make S'mores.
"Adopt" a grandparent.
Adopt a grandparent (elderly neighbor, resident of a nearby
nursing home) and bake cookies, deliver a bouquet of flowers
from your garden and visit just to chat.
Declare your own ART day.
Spread newspapers on the picnic table, get out the paints,
clay, paper and glue and let everyone create their own
masterpieces. Anything goes!
Watch a sunrise.
Plan it the day before. Sleep in your clothes so you can get
up before dawn. It'll add excitement to the adventure. Pack
donuts and a thermos of hot cocoa and sneak out of the house
while it's still dark outside. Find a park or beach where you can
watch the sunrise together. Pay attention to the different bird
songs as the day is waking up.
Enjoy the dog days of summer with your family... the rewards
will be priceless.
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Cachet
without Cash
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 Got a yen to redecorate? Have a
guest room that needs new furniture or a child outfitting a
new apartment? Perhaps you need a few things for your
mountain cabin or seaside bungalow. Shop resale for
personality and style! You can express yourself with more
verve when you explore secondhand.
Whether it’s an unusual side table to spark up your den or a
chaise longue reminiscent of indolent Southern afternoons,
add that little extra pizazz to your decor with an
experienced possession. Here are some ideas we’ve seen that
are easily and inexpensively done with anything from
antiques to retro-chic:
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Mass a collection of...
copper bowls, tiny mirrored boxes,
chrome decanters on a glass tray for gleam and attention.
► A look we especially love: brass candlesticks massed in a
fireplace, outfitted with a variety of candles. Flickering
light to warm a festive evening!
► Who says dining chairs have to match? A variety of wooden
chairs gathered around a big oak table gives a casual,
let’s-chat-over-coffee look to your home.
► Window treatments that don’t try too hard are the latest
thing.
Vintage fabrics looped over a rod, lace tablecloths
allowing light to filter in, and even souvenir tea towels
strung on a clothesline and fastened with wooden clothes
pins are ideas to consider.
► Bookshelves aren’t just for books.
They hold files in your home office, stuffed animals in the
playroom, cookbooks and enameled pots in the kitchen. Find a
homespun bookcase to hold galoshes and sports gear on the
back porch.
► Baskets are a wonderful resale buy.
Tuck in a disused corner
for textural interest, hang on a wall, or use under side
tables to stash magazines and games.
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Article contributed by:
Kate Holmes | Too Good to be
Threw
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Ready for Serendipity? |
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Serendipity, according to the dictionary, is the art of making
happy discoveries by accident.
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We beg to differ! Finding delightful treasures is never an
accident when you shop resale. NARTS member shops offer shoppers
a wealth of wonders. It’s just a matter of matching up happy
customers with happy discoveries. We’re proud that so many of
our items are “just what I was looking for. . . only I didn’t
know it ’til I saw it,” as a customer once said.
So find your own serendipity soon. The best discoverers are
those who drop in often. NARTS member shops specialize in
showing you “what’s new” in secondhand!
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By the way, “serendipity” is from a Persian fairy tale, The
Three Princes of Serendip. Where is Serendip? It’s the Arabic
name for Ceylon, which we now call Sri Lanka. An exotic word for
an everyday event here at your favorite shop!
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Who knows what serendipity might bring? The
only way to find out... is to stop in often! |
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Article contributed by:
Kate Holmes | Too Good to be
Threw |
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