Hi everyone, I hope you're all having a great week. I'm so excited to introduce you to a new shop that's opened up here in Whitby. It's called Penney & Co. and is owned and operated by the one and only Michael Penney!

Anyone who reads House and Home magazine or watches Sarah 101 will recognize Michael. He'sa decorator, stylist, former magazine editor and now a shop owner!

Hereis his new shop front, how awesome is this colour and display?

Penney & Co. carries a varity of new and vintage items, large and small.

Love this display of simple milk glass.

Blue and white is one of my favourite colour combos and these ceramic stools would look great in my family room.

Beautiful vintage piece.

Blue and white again, it looks so rich.

You can buy one of Michael's sofas or update your own with one of these feather-filled cushions. Anyone who knows my blog knows how much I love cushions and I couldn't walk away without getting one. I wish I had gotten a couple now!

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"We protect America's great antiques - past, present and future."

Experience, Expertise and Craftsmanship We have been around since the log home market really started to take off. If you are considering having your cabin finished or restored please feel free to contact us either by email or over the phone to schedule an appointment. With over 29 years combined experience, in some of the harshest conditions found around the Great Lakes region, you cant go wrong with IWRs expertise and precise craftsmanship to ensure you get the most out of your investment.

Environmentally Friendly Log Home Restoration IWR Co. uses environmentally friendly log home restoration techniques. We do not use harsh chemical strippers and are switching to using only environmentally friendly finishes. These chemicals can be very harmful or toxic to humans and our environment.

Our Log Home Restoration process involves four steps: preparation, preservation, staining, and sealing.

We have developed a process that will achieve the best results for your log home.

The Ozzy Mike Denman, owner of IWR Co. fine tuned the procedures used over the past 20 years and developed his own unique system called the Ozzy. The ozzy helps to hand sand your log home to produce a smooth log finish and remove existing log home stain. By not using chemical strippers or media blasting (this should only be used as a last option, please read below) the longevity of your logs will be more secure. Ozzying leaves the surface of your logs smooth to the touch and is easier to clean up compared to media blasting or chemical stripping.

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Matawan, NJ (PRWEB) October 27, 2014

Featuring the best of home improvement projects, this Matawan, New Jersey based company is the area's leader in kitchen and bathroom remodeling and restoration.

Houzz is the new kid on the block when it comes to social media photo sharing sites, but it is quickly gaining popularity as the go-to site for both homeowners and contractors alike. Users can browse through photos of home improvement projects for every room of the home, from the entryway to the backyard and everything in between. With the ability to find a pro right that specializes in your project and can make your dreams come true, this site is a lifesaver to homeowners who want to be able to create their ideal home.

Stone Creek Builders is a favorite of kitchen and bath enthusiasts on the site that want to create a culinary destination or a spa-like oasis in their home. The website allows users to create idea books that allow them to categorize their favorite projects. Within just a few days of being featured on the site, Stone Creek was quickly added to hundreds of Idea books, with homeowners scrambling to book their own consultations with the popular builders.

Stone Creek offers a range of customized solutions that will work well with any budget. Whether you want a whirlpool tub, a bathroom skylight or a state of the art kitchen, the experts at Stone Creek can make that happen. Known for their expert masonry and stone work, the popular contractor offers custom designed plans for luxury features such as heated tiled bathroom floors, built in wine racks and custom made cabinetry. With hundreds of photos of real designs to choose from, you are sure to find the perfect project for your home.

Houzz is quickly becoming a destination of sorts for home enthusiasts, and millions of people have visited the site, creating custom Idea books, posting questions for the builders and leaving their own reviews of quality work. The best place to find a pro online, this site is proud to welcome Stone Creek's Builders to its ranks.

Stone Creek Builder is one of the newest additions to this photo sharing sites where users can write reviews, ask questions and build their dream homes. Click on the link below and you will go directly to our Houzz page.

http://www.houzz.com/pro/stonecreekbldrs/stone-creek-builders

Located in Matawan NJ, Stone Creek Builders is a remodeling and restoration contractor known for its integrity and craftsmanship. It excels in customer relationships and prides itself on a company culture dedicated to helping clients meet their goals. Possessing a special skill set for kitchen and bathroom remodels, the company works with residential and commercial clients. The company can be contacted through its website http://www.stonecreekbldrs.com or by calling 732-566-0395.

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A fly fisherman stands in the middle of a river, whipping his fishing line back and forth as if he were an artist painting a masterpiece. Its a natural movement, and the 8-foot rod acts like an extension of his person, similar to the weapon he once held fighting in the Iraq War.

A whistling sound echoes as he sends the weightless fly soaring into the clear water where hungry trout await its descent. The trick, some say, is launching the lure with dead-eye accuracy. It is an art that is performed on a four-count rhythm between ten and two oclock, writer Norman Maclean explained in A River Runs Through It.

The art of fly-fishing is being perfected on the Lower Mountain Fork River that flows through southeastern Oklahoma by veterans from Project Healing Waters North Texas. The local organization is a branch of a larger nonprofit, Project Healing Waters Fly Fishing, dedicated to the physical and emotional rehabilitation of disabled active military service personnel and disabled veterans.

There are an infinite number of lessons that rivers teach us, Matt Symthe, a veteran, wrote on the nonprofits website. Project Healing Waters Fly Fishing works to give [injured veterans] something sustainable something positive that they can carry with them on their journey home, instead of the weight that has followed them back from war.

Former Gunnery Sgt. Lew Duckwall, a Lake Dallas resident, is the man behind Project Healing Waters North Texas. He takes a group of wounded warriors throughout the year to the Lower Mountain Fork River, located at the foothills of the Kiamichi Mountains, to spend three days lost in the beauty of Beavers Bend State Park.

I want people to know, said Duckwall, that the person who started this, who will be with them on every outing, understands what theyve been through because Ive been through it, too.

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Like Clint Eastwood in Heartbreak Ridge, Duckwall has a hard-edged presence shaped in part by the Iraq War, Operation Desert Storm, and a skirmish in the 80s in Central America that hed rather not discuss. But theres also something humble about him, seen as he slowly made his way toward a sitting room in the home of a Project Healing Waters volunteer in Corinth, where he discussed the goals of his new chapter that he began early last year.

Its a humbleness of a person whos nearly lost everything yet rediscovered his purpose, a newfound respect toward life, you might say, or an awareness that comes only from experiencing tragedy.

Duckwall comes from a patriotic family. His grandfather served in World War II, and his uncle fought in the Vietnam War. He had always admired people who served their country during times of war, so he joined the military a year after he graduated from high school in 1979.

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By MARILYNN MARCHIONE AP Chief Medical Writer

Starting Monday, millions of people who have avoided colon cancer screening can get a new home test that's noninvasive and doesn't require the icky preparation most other methods do.

The test is the first to look for cancer-related DNA in stool. But deciding whether to get it is a more complex choice than ads for "the breakthrough test ... that's as easy as going to the bathroom" make it seem.

On one hand, the test could greatly boost screening for a deadly disease that too few people get checked for now.

On the other hand, it could lure people away from colonoscopies and other tests that, unlike the new one, have been shown to save lives.

It might even do both.

"It looks promising," but its impact on cancer risk and survival isn't known, said Dr. Barnett Kramer, a National Cancer Institute screening expert.

David Smith, 67, a retired teacher from Northfield, Minnesota, shows the test's potential. He has never been screened for colon cancer and his doctor ran through the options, including a barium enema or a scope exam.

"He pulled out one of those really colorful brochures they have for all those procedures," Smith said, but he had suffered an infection from a prostate biopsy years ago and didn't want another invasive test. When the doctor mentioned the new DNA test, "I said, well, sign me up."

The test was approved by the Food and Drug Administration last month and will be offered by prescription at the Mayo Clinic in Minnesota, where it was developed, and soon nationwide. It's called Cologuard and is sold by Exact Sciences Corp. of Madison, Wisconsin. Mayo Clinic and one of its doctors get royalties from the test.

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Rotting wood, creeping mold, dilapidated decks, roaming rodents and cracked foundations can unintentionally turn homes into haunted houses.

The trick for renovation companies and builders is turning the properties into inhabitable houses. By repairing, rehabbing and sometimes gutting the structures, it becomes a treat to see the transformation of bungalows, ranches and multi-story homes of various architectural styles across metro Atlanta.

Some neighborhood eyesores, which could include a home that you are considering buying, are being improved by metro Atlanta contractors and builders who frequently tackle these ghoulish issues. The horrifying truth is that some obstacles can delay projects and add unexpected expenses to a renovation budget.

Unsteady structures

Bungalows can charm buyers, but inspections and consultations with builders may uncover unpleasant obstacles. Sometimes, the floor and ceiling joists are too small and far apart for the span of the room, especially when theres an open floor plan. The problem also can be seen in carports and garages that are sagging in the middle, which is a sign of overspan, said Anthony Pourhassan, founder of Atlanta-based Highlight Homes and Vesmont. Beams were not sufficient enough to support the weight, said Pourhassan, whose company builds homes in areas such as Brookhaven, Chastain Park, Sandy Springs and Dunwoody.

If the floorboards are bowing, the boards may be removed and thicker ones installed, which could delay the project for a month. You have a board and it cant handle the weight, said Randy Glazer, owner of Atlanta-based Glazer Design & Construction.

Menacing mold

One of the most frightening mold problems that Scot LaVelle has seen was in his own Georgia home. When water seeped from behind his refrigerator (a small screw was loose), he discovered that mold on his floor joists was causing water to leak through this walls, moving from the kitchen to the living room and office.

It can get inside the walls like ours and be growing for a long period of time and you dont even know it, he said.

The floors and walls had to be removed, and the total bill was close to $54,000 for the family, who had homeowners insurance. LaVelle, who owns Dalton-based Niche Custom Flooring, created MoldHold, a sticky tape that traps mold into place until a professional restoration company can remove the it and repair the home. MoldHold, which adheres to wet surfaces and prevents spores from becoming airborne, received its patent in 2014. MoldHold offers a temporary solution, he said, that enables people to stay in the home, reducing costs. Hes heard even nastier mold stories, such as how mold in one home ate through the homeowners leather boots.

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For years Pat Huth came home from vacation with photos she'd taken of barns she admired on her journeys, but she never thought to take any of the ones around her home in central Illinois.

"I never realized how pretty the barns are right here around us," Huth said as she drove up a lane toward a 1920s barn.

Huth realized something else about barns in her home state.

"They are a dying breed," she said.

That's why Huth has joined others in Illinois to promote the restoration and preservation of these onetime hubs of farm activity.

Barn preservationists say the iconic symbol of agriculture in the heartland is disappearing at an astounding rate. They estimate that as few as 10% of the barns Illinois had in the 1920s are standing.

The once-essential buildings are crumbling to the pressures of time, weather, modern farming and the expense of keeping them up. Although small, grass-roots organizations are trying to make a difference, they say they need more support within the state to help keep these barns around. They point to Iowa, where grants and state tax credits help the preservation movement.

Since 1997 the volunteer-run Iowa Barn Foundation has given 119 matching grants totaling more than $1 million to Iowans rehabbing barns. Funding comes from donations by individuals, corporations and other foundations.

Barns in Iowa built before 1937 and those listed in or considered for the National Register of Historic Places are eligible for a state tax credit. And barns built before 1937 are eligible for a property tax exemption when they are restored, the foundation said.

But farmers these days struggle with putting the structures to good use. Modern equipment often doesn't fit in the old barns, and fewer farmers have livestock and feed requiring a barn's shelter.

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Friday marked a major milestone for a federally funded Everglades restoration project as the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and conservationists celebrated along with representatives from the local, state and federal level.

A ceremonial ribbon-cutting marked the opening of the Merritt Pump Station, one of three pump stations that will help restore water to what was once wetlands decades ago.

Eric Draper, executive director of conservation organization Auduban Florida explained what caused the problem in the first place.

This was going to be a subdivision, this was going to be a 55,000-acre subdivision, he said.

In the 1970's the area was abandoned by developers who had hoped to expand the residential part of the Golden Gate Estates. Even though the houses weren't built, the roads had been paved and the canals dug. The canals drained the wetlands and they're now being plugged, along with several other measures, like the opening of the Merritt Pump Station.

I'm so excited this has been underway for 30 years, Draper said.

Bob Progulsky from U.S. Fish and Wildlife works on Everglades management and said the opening of the pump station is a major step in the Picayune Strand Restoration Project.

It's important for panthers, it's important for manatees, it's important for wetland restoration all the way down to the 10,000 Islands area, he said.

On a tour, resident engineer, Mike Miller explained how several pumps would help get water from one side of the building out into levees on the other side, which would guide the water to spread out into its natural course.

If you look out there in that open area over there, that was all trees at one time, it'll probably more than likely look like that, Miller said.

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http://www.hgexpo.com/listing/perfect-home-restoration.html Medina, Ohio based Perfect Home Restoration isn #39;t your typical home contractor. Owner Jaime Johnson was an industry insider for...

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