May 2012
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today's recipe: Baked Eggs in Chunky Tomato Sauce
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today's recipe: Shrimp Salad with Cilantro-Lime...
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Recipe Monday....
« Crafty Friday…. | Main | Cuppow Giveaway » April 30, 2012 Recipe Monday…. Let’s face it, its monday. And as we all know mondays can be kinda drab. Ever since I woke up this morning I have had a feeling that its just one of those days where you need to have a cocktail for lunch, one for dinner and one after. ...
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A Taste of Summer
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April 2012
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Benefits of Beekeeping
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Mason jar lights
Mason jar lights By Wendy Russell Photography by Ryan Brook Turn an old jar into a beautiful pendant light with this quick and easy home decor idea. Bookmarks ...
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Have & Make: Gilded Water Bottle Centerpiece
April 19, 2012 Have & Make: Gilded Water Bottle Centerpiece in Hand Made, have, make with 20 Comments Repetition and shine are two things that always makes an impact. Simple plastic water bottles de-labeled, cleaned, and painted with gold make a stunning centerpiece. ...
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Mint Infused Bourbon with Free Printables
April 24, 2012 Mint Infused Bourbon with Free Printables in Hand Made with 12 Comments When spring rolls around, I start thinking a lot about weddings, and this year is especially prone to these thoughts because we have several good friends tying the knot. I’ve noticed,...
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White Ranunculus
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Yellow Ranunculus
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Amy Neumann: 7 Steps to Take Now to Increase Your...
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Dr. Michelle Callahan: Spring Clean Your Life
Everyone has heard of spring cleaning. Usually it refers to things like going through your clothes closets and tossing out things you no longer wear, or cleaning out storage areas to make room for new items. You know how to donate old clothes, but have you considered spring-cleaning your life? Maybe you’ve only thought about “spring cleaning” in terms of straightening up and...
Dr. David Svaldi: Good Enough Does Not Lead to...
I recently read a letter to the editor in a regional paper objecting to a tax increase to replace aging school buildings. The gist of the letter was that the old decaying school buildings were “good enough.” While many public schools sorely need modern facilities, I am not arguing here for new school buildings. Rather, I am objecting to the letter writer’s remarks as evidence...
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Make It: A Simple DIY Floating Clothes Rack!
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Make It: Anthropologie-Inspired Wooden Book Holder
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The 4 Things to Consider When Picking Plants for...
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DIY Drip Irrigation System, Made from Plastic...
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DIY Idea: Mini Gold Leaf Notebooks
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58 Percent Of People Would Rather Give Up Social...
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Introducing Blekko, the Self-curated Search Engine
This guest post is by Philip Rudy of ImageWorks Studio. Have you used Blekko yet? It’s the search engine that prides itself on human curation. You as the user can actually tailor your own personal search results, which begs the question: does Blekko have some type of insight into blending “search & social?” Potential is an ugly word, and I hate to use it here, but Blekko really has so...
Brand Positioning Statement Mandates
« Brand Positioning And Category Essence | Main | When The Value Of Marketing Is Questioned » April 15, 2012 Brand Positioning Statement Mandates The specific format used when writing a brand positioning statement may vary from company to company. However, in one way or another, a brand positioning statement should answer the...
When The Value Of Marketing Is Questioned
« Brand Positioning Statement Mandates | Main | Brand Positioning Statement Example: Zipcar » April 16, 2012 When The Value Of Marketing Is Questioned Today on Branding Strategy Insider, another question from the BSI Emailbag. Rachael, a brand marketer in Dallas, Texas asks: “The 130-employee B2B company I work for recently created...
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Branding And The Increasing Power Of Apps
An app is a software tool that does something useful. Apps have been around as long as computing, but with the advent of touch-screen smartphones, icon-triggered apps have exploded on the scene as enhanced, innovative ways for conveniently and quickly performing a myriad of tasks. For brand marketers, an app is a tool that doubles as a communications vehicle. The time has long since...
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It’s Time To Redefine Market Research
Market researchers must embody this same spirit and constantly strive for a deep understanding of people’s lives, pain points, and unmet needs. Like Jobs, they must also understand when it’s time to step back, stop asking consumers questions, and let engineers, designers, and marketers take hold of the insights and innovate in a constraint-free environment. Clients, meanwhile, must...
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Marketing Brands with Sub Brands
Do you wonder where all these brands come from? Ten big companies own many of the familiar brands we see everyday. Chart courtesy Jay Dunn Online: The Illusion of Choice via feedproxy.google.com
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How to Make an Ombre Table Runner
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Amanda Slavin: Transformation -- First in...
Coming from a teaching background, I am always brought back to thinking about my first graders. I started thinking about the idea of when you are little, you transform by the minute. Your brain is a sponge ready to take in the world. One day, you are an astronaut, the next day you are a ballerina; one day you hate Rosie with the bow in her hair, the other day you are chasing her around the...
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Hyper-real illustrations by Quebec-based Amanda...
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Hyper-real illustrations by Quebec-based Amanda...
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INFOGRAPHIC : The History Of Video File Formats
I was watching Law & Order : Special Victims Unit on my iPhone the other night, when it dawned on me how lucky I was to be able to do what I was doing. I was watching a TV programme in crisp high-definition video, as good as watching it on television (perhaps better), except I was watching it on a small mobile phone screen,...
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Apple's Q2 Earnings
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Recipe Roulette
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Adfest 2011 Exhibition: The Ultra Asian
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Adfest 2011 Exhibition: The Ultra Asian
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Adfest 2011 Exhibition: The Ultra Asian
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Adfest 2011 Exhibition: The Ultra Asian
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Jornal i: "The right words give you the clear...
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A Name Can Make the Difference. Just Think of...
Gary Martin If you are following the “lean, finely textured beef” story, aka “pink slime,” you are witnessing not only the frying of Beef Products Inc. but also the bashing of the entire meat industry. Pink slime — a catchy sobriquet that captured the anger and vexation of a public that felt double-crossed — led to plant...
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Hong Kong Student Behind Steve Jobs Tribute...
Jonathan Mak Long never thought his tribute to Apple founder Steve Jobs would go viral, much less lead to his spearheading a design for Coca-Cola. Shanghai bus shelter —> The image by the 20-year-old student from Hong Kong — two hands in the shape of Coke’s iconic white ribbon passing a bottle...
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Consumers' Newfound Power Is Causing Them to Raise...
Chris Stutzman In the quest for market share and mindshare in the 21st century, marketers find themselves in foreign terrain. Customers empowered by social media have taken over the driver’s seat and are telling brands where, when and how they want to be interacted with. The question for marketers is whether this newfound power is significantly impacting brand equity. ...
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Tumblr Announces First Foray Into Paid Advertising
Five-year-old microblogging platform Tumblr announced its first foray into paid advertising at Ad Age’s Digital Conference this afternoon. Founder and CEO David Karp said Tumblr will start offering the “Radar” post that appears on a Tumblr user’s dashboard as an ad unit on May 2. Radar is currently an officially curated selection of images used to...
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Out Magazine's Entire Editorial Staff Gets...
—> Related Stories Is Gay Too Mainstream for Its Own Media? As General-Market Media Becomes More Gay Friendly, LGBT Players Broaden Niche Here Media is laying off Out magazine’s editorial staff and outsourcing its production to an editorial and marketing content agency being formed...
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When One Agency's Ideas Show Up In Another...
Phil Johnson Most of us would agree that life is not fair, nor is it black and white. If you work long enough in advertising, you’ll discover that fact for yourself. My friend Thomas, the founder of a fantastic creative agency, told me this story on a late Friday afternoon, that time of the day when you’re assessing whether it was a good week, or a bad one. ...
The Week in Twitter: Google Currents, National...
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Sunken Herb Pots
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The Yellow Series
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DIY Rain Collection Barrel
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Seed saving experiments
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Reasons for soaking seeds before planting.
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Create your own outdoor pebbled glow-in-the-dark...
lining a pathway with beach rocks painted with luminous glow-in-the-dark paint. During the day, they charge in the sun, and in the evening, they reflect the stored light. A 7-ounce can of Rust-Oleum Glow-in-the-Dark Brush-on Paint is $7.79 at Blick Art Materials. Source: Remodelista - Issue 34 - Vintage Revisited - August 22, 2008
