Author: Alison Blank

Office Options

October 15, 2008

Two work-at-home professionals clearly illustrate that designing a home office isn't a paint-by-numbers formula. Innovative design ideas and creative conceptualization have helped transform these two home offices into living works of art.

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Seeing Red in Italy

July 9, 2008

Italian Terra Cotta Pots - New Jersey Monthly - Best of NJ

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Container Gardens - New Jersey Monthly - Best of NJ

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We asked two top New Jersey garden and landscape designers, Lisa Mierop of Mierop Design and Chris Cipriano of Cipriano Landscape Design, what’s new this year. The overarching answer: think green. It’s a theme that speaks to the universal desire to live healthy and happy lives and the growing recognition that we need to do so in an environmentally responsible way.

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Gardening - New Jersey Monthly – The Best of NJ

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At age four, Chery Lin fell in love with handbags. Decades later, she fell in love with vintage handbags that revealed to her a kind of beauty she’d never seen. “Even something as simple as a handbag, if beautifully designed and crafted, can give you pleasure every day,” she says.

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She’s With the Band

January 29, 2008

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Ultimate Frisbee, invented in New Jersey, is no longer just a bunch of hippies in bandanas and bare feet tossing around a plastic disk. Now that the sport has had a surge in popularity, will it remain true to its original vision?

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It’s time to get out and get growing. Here are some of the Garden State’s best resources for inspiration and advice.

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Got a Yen for Crafting

January 28, 2008

Here's a list of all the hot craft spots around the state.

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