Home and Garden
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Anglophiles, step right up for fallSep 26, 2008 11:00 pm - Your home really needs that English look for fall. It fits with apparel fashion's trends, and the colors are right for autumn. Material Possessions has some ideas. This ...
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Keep color in the winter garden with berriesSep 26, 2008 11:00 pm - "That's a nice looking flower on that rose over there. But what I really want to know is-what are its hips like?" This is not a phrase often heard at your local garden c...
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Garden calendarSep 26, 2008 11:00 pm - Garden Clubs • The Plant and Garden Club of Wauconda hosts its Fall Plant & Craft Sale from 9 a.m. to noon Sunday, Sept. 28, at the Cook Historic House, 711 N. Main...
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Home calendarSep 26, 2008 11:00 pm - Shows and expos • The Old House New House Home Show at the Pheasant Run Resort, 4051 E. Main St., St. Charles, runs from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 28. Admissi...
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Gardening grows cheerful Girl ScoutsSep 19, 2008 11:00 pm - For Melanie Cohodes, 12, working in a garden is a mood enhancer. "It just chases all the bad feelings away," the Girl Scout from Arlington Heights said. "You feel grumpy...
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Old lamps require more than turn of the switchSep 19, 2008 11:00 pm - Days are getting shorter and nights are getting nippy. It is hard to ignore that fact of approaching winter. And as days shorten and become cooler, we inevitably spend m...
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Nature provides a bounty of materials to use in fall decoratingSep 19, 2008 11:00 pm - While some mourn the end of summer, I celebrate all that is fall: cool nights, football games, the glorious colors, and the opportunity to give my home and landscape a n...
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Giving kitchens that antique feelSep 19, 2008 11:00 pm - Judy Konnerth hates shiny things. Granite and stainless steel were not on her wish list when she and her husband, Jim, remodeled their kitchen. Instead it looks like the...
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Garden calendarSep 19, 2008 11:00 pm - Garden Club • The Plant and Garden Club of Wauconda hosts its "Ask a Master Gardener" event at 7 p.m. Monday, Sept. 22' at the Township Hall, 505 E. Bonner Road, Wa...
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Garden calendarSep 12, 2008 11:00 pm - Garden Club • The Garden Club of Inverness meets 9:30 a.m. Thursday, Sept. 18, at All Saints Lutheran Church, 630 S. Quentin Road, Palatine. Guest Barb Clayton disc...