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Holiday Staging Part 2: Decorations and Gift Wrapping....on the cheap!  As NJ Home Stager, I look for creative, inexpensive ways to create a themed Christmas, always coming up with new and fresh ideas. This year I was inspired by pine cones, candles and bottles......and it grew from there.  Tip o...

 Holiday Staging by a Morris County Stager One of the things I love most about being a Morris County, NJ home stager is decorating for the holidays, especially Christmas. This year I collected antiques over the past year from garage sales and antique shops like mercury glass jars, ornaments, vase...

  My Kidney Found its Home With Barbara My Kidney donation to Barbara, my sister-in-law was a huge success! I went into sugery on Wednesday at 7:30 a.m. It only took 2 hours to extract my left kidney. Meanwhile Barbara went into surgery at 9:00 a.m. and it took 3 hours to attach my kidney, which ...

 Have We Lost Our Patriotism?   Unless you lived under a rock, you saw some, or perhaps all of the 2012 campaign coverage, one of the hardest fought and most expensive presidential campaigns in history. Most of us are smart enough not to get into our own political debate and this is not what this...

 This Wednesday, Barbara Will Have my Kidney….FINALLY! A year and a half ago I blogged about donating my kidney to my sister-in-law Barbara, who was very close to kidney failure. Active Rain even sent me a beautiful "tree of life" pendant showing how much they truly care about thier members! What...

When You Have to Fire A Family Member! I’ve posted before about my assistant and family member Thelma back in April of 2011 when she was showing complete insubordination and was in danger of losing her job. Because so many Active Rain members came to her defense, I gave her a written warning and ...

 Who’s Using Social Media: Statistics and Interesting Facts The average Face Book user is 38 years old, trending up from 2008 when the average age was 33. The average person on Face Book has 130 friends. Who Makes up “Friends” on Face Book 22% -  high school friends 20%  - Uncategorized – that mu...

I have always been inspired by Sally Weatherly of Exit Stage Right from the first day I joined Active Rain. I look to her as a mentor and friend. For anyone who isn't familiar with her work, check out her Portfoloio  - she's one of the most talented, successful stagers anywhere. Sally has just be...

 HURRICANE SANDY’S DEVESTATION: PHOTOS What made SANDY so catastrophic and like no other storm in history?  She started out as a hurricane, became tangled in a Nor’easter, then got caught in the jet stream during unusually high tides. These elements combined formed a devastating SUPER STORM of ep...

 Sandy, Halloweens Gone By and Politics Since we are bracing for Frankenstorm I’ve been busy preparing for the worst, but hoping for the best. Now there’s nothing left to do but to wait for Sandy to hit land. Right now we’ve got rain and wind, but nothing bad……………….yet. I was thinking about Hallo...