Creating Home
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- Creating Home
- Nurturing Creativity: Strategies for turning a home into a …
- THE SECOND HALF: Pets can help fill an empty nest
- Blues Festival opens on Friday
- The Reign of Spain
Creating Home
Taney County Times, MO
It’s not just painting or sculpting. She does both of those things, but it’s also building, writing, sewing, weaving, digging and molding. When she moved to Branson to be closer to her grown children and grandchildren, her biggest requirement for her future home was that the house have a work space, where, for an hour or two a day, she could retreat to paint or sculpt or satisfy whatever creative indulgence was begging to be let out. Although Tillis is a mover and shaker in her own right, her name might sound familiar because of the musical crew that gathers around her Thanksgiving table. For 20 years she was married to singer Mel Tillis, during which the couple had five children: Connie Lynn, Cindy, Mel, Jr. , Carrie April and Pam. Oldest daughter Pam followed in her father’s footsteps and one of her two gold album plaques rests above the fireplace in Tillis’ guest bedroom.
Nurturing Creativity: Strategies for turning a home into a …
Centre Daily Times, PA
After the party, they moved everything to the basement, where the stage became a permanent fixture. Over the years, they added a keyboard, chimes, cowbells, costumes, and even rows of seats from a local movie theater that had gone out of business. The Hausen kids, Meghan and Max, are grown now, and both are musically inclined. “That crazy stage, which started as a party prop, turned out to be a constant opportunity for learning, experimenting, and encouraging family togetherness,” notes their mother, Kymberlie. “A bonus to building a rock-and-roll stage set in your basement? You always know where your kids are on Friday and Saturday nights!” GIVE THEIR ART A SECOND LIFE Cheryl Dorweiler of Palm Harbor, Fla. , found a cuddly way to display her son Westen’s artwork: she turns the characters he draws into quilts, pillows and plushies. To make them, she enlarges the drawings to create a pattern and uses it to cut out cotton quilting fabrics, which she sews together and stuffs.
THE SECOND HALF: Pets can help fill an empty nest
Times-Standard, CA
One by one, our kids would come home for a visit and meet Rita. Sure they liked her. What’s not to like about an affectionate bit of downy soft fur? But, what they truly seemed to enjoy was watching their mother and father break 90 percent of the pet rules they had grown up with. When they found me dishing up the expensive kibble in the morning, they’d roll their eyes. And when Rita stayed in for the night? Well, you’d think from their reactions that their father and I had gone ’round the bend. ”What’s up with you and that cat?” they’d want to know. “You never let Smokey stay inside.
Blues Festival opens on Friday
Timmins Daily Press, Canada
Children under 12 who are accompanied by an adult get in free. Rough camping is available for $10 per night. Tickets are available at B&M Esso and Pierini’s in Iroquois Falls, CD Plus, The Victory Tavern and Ray Perrier Music in Timmins, Cochrane’s Allan’s Home Hardware, Kapuskasing’s Spacek’s and Hearst’s Viljo’s Electronics. Article ID# 1095721.
The Reign of Spain
Belfast Telegraph, United Kingdom
For lovers of designer labels, the nation doesn’t seriously compete with Paris, New York, Milan or London. And, even the fact that Spain produced Cristobal Balenciaga tends to be overlooked since he found fame as a couturier in Paris. But it only takes a short walk down almost any European shopping route to witness how Spain has grown to achieve a global fashion presence. Where there isn’t a Zara or Mango, there’s a Bershka (another Inditex brand) or Camper shoe shop. And in Britain, while the high street might not have relished the sartorial armada sailing away with customers, it was when the Spanish chains started arriving that it raised its game. By Carola Long Travel Package holidays to Spain’s Costa Brava kicked off the continental travel revolution in the 1950s – the stereotypical British tourist who took advantage of such cheap "sun, sex ‘n’ sangria" deals was even used in Francoist propaganda, to warn against the easy morals of northern Europe. As the range of aeroplanes increased, the favourite Spanish destinations of British holidaymakers trickled down the Mediterranean coast, from the Costa Brava’s Lloret de Mar to Torremolinos and Benidorm on the Costa Blanca and Marbella on the Costa del Sol.