The Essentials of Fabulous

<p align="justify"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Essentials-Fabulous-Ellen-Lubin-Sherman/dp/0615415032/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1323470751&sr=1-1" target="_blank"><img alt="The Essentials of Fabulous" border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWVuYQkSPlzpLqKVoCyNDuAKfHzdvDDX_C0NSm08TqLa5_R4mal31_eh6r5KV5_9KM0z5XeP0PZGgiCD_CfZMT4TfAFe-PDxbmFsue0MO3B8RtLYQWTsymURz9kbaa5tR_YbfWoBBRXrqD/?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; border-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; border-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px" title="The Essentials of Fabulous" width="400" /></a></p> <p align="justify">I just returned from a ‘fabulous’ six days in New York. It really is a special time at Christmas with all the lights and excitement…..more of my adventures in a later post. I just wanted to share with you a must-get book for Christmas gift giving. I have just placed an order for a dozen to have on hand for last minute gifts for all the fabulous girlfriends, guyfriends, relatives, and for all the fabulous people you haven’t met yet. </p> <p align="justify">“No one is born fabulous,” author Ellen Lubin-Sherman writes. “You have to decide to do it—to transform yourself into one of those amazing creatures that infiltrate our lives and ignite our dreams with their swagger, energy, pizzazz, and soigné charm.” The Essentials of Fabulous guides you to set yourself apart in this “whatever” world by paying scrupulous attention to detail. It shows you how passion, enthusiasm, attitude, superior manners, and a terrific personal style will catapult you right into the fabulous pantheon.</p> <p align="justify">So I recommend that you definitely get a copy for yourself and while you are at it get as many as you can for all the fabulous people in you life. </p> <p align="center"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Essentials-Fabulous-Ellen-Lubin-Sherman/dp/0615415032/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1323470751&sr=1-1" target="_blank"><strong><font color="#9272d3" size="3">Happy Fabulous to all of you!!</font></strong></a></p> <p align="center"><font size="1"><a href="http://www.patriciagrayinc.com/" target="_blank">PATRICIA GRAY INC</a></font><font size="1"> is an award winning interior design firm in Vancouver. Here we write about lifestyle and <br />WHAT'S HOT in the world of interior design, architecture, art and travel. <br /><a href="http://patriciagrayinc.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">2011 © Patricia Gray | Interior Design Blog™</a></font></p>

The Essentials of Fabulous

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5 iPad Apps for Interior Design

<p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizk72ztI8NgnX4qk9h6k6ZNtgXzjO_OYC8URHmLAzRLejCFRbkp0yyVjLW_Zm-HpLOvyDOavexH9GlIaiI3fGNnQna2HH4pflCaqLUxKDZL4b0wxXZo5qinKjRcfXbcVoZ3QX67YVp8KF8/s1600-h/image%25255B8%25255D.png"><img align="right" alt="image" border="0" height="350" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgsPRipTK32VAEoUZN7w_NGcHfdoJZEI4Y2iNPsOe68-rxP-oEPwnWdlS6dHbUD_b5FiJKntTkGXKzsA_XJSXwt_tOl4M_A-U8CClpvOKkZFIyFzgG69BVGKQKLe9QoqFfBo0lmSrtj0mYO/?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border-right-width: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; float: right; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; padding-top: 0px" title="image" width="440" /></a></p> <p align="justify">I got a new iPad this summer as a gift from dear clients on the completion  of their  home and it has changed my life and the way I do business. No longer do I have to carry around my laptop – the iPad does every thing  for me and more when I am out of the office that I used to bring my laptop for. With some clever apps I have a virtual box in my hands. These are some of the iPad Apps I am using that are proving to be indispensable:</p> <p align="justify">1. <strong>Dropbox</strong> is a service that lets you bring all your photos, documents, and videos with you. After you install Dropbox on your computer, any file you save to your Dropbox will automatically save to all your computers, your iPhone and iPad. With the Dropbox app you can take everything that matters to you on the go. It is very easy to use – you just drag the file you want to transfer into the Dropbox folder on your computer and it almost instantly shows up on your iPad. Magic! You can share folders on line by giving others access by email. I have used it recently to transfer photos and drawings to a client and my contractor. It saves sending numerous emails and you can send high resolution images seamlessly.</p> <p align="justify">2. <strong>Evernote </strong>turns your iPad into an extension of your brain, helping you remember anything and everything that happens in your life. From notes to ideas to snapshots to recordings, you put it all into Evernote and it instantly synchronizes  between all your devices – iPad, iPhone and Mac or Windows desktop. No more having to plug your devices into each other.</p> <p align="justify">3.<strong> iBooks</strong> is an Apple app that comes on your iPad. You can read books on it much like Kindle, but what I really use it for in business is downloading PDF documents such as CAD drawings, specifications, manuals etc. What makes the iPad so unique is that you can enlarge just the areas you want to see by dragging your fingers over the screen – it works like a magnifying glass. I recently downloaded the PDF of my camera & lens manual and it is now always with me. </p> <p align="justify">4. <strong>Flipboard</strong> was named Apple’s iPad app of the year and rightly so. It is a fast, beautiful way to flip through the news, photos, videos and updates on social media sites. It is now my preferred way of bookmaking and browsing my favourite websites.</p> <p align="justify">5. <strong>Microsoft Tag</strong> lets you instantly connect to a whole new world of information. there is not need to type long URLs, you simply scan the Tag. Microsoft Tag multicolored barcodes transform traditional marketing, such as print advertising, packaging, LDC displays etc. into live links that immediately access info, videos, and other material online.</p> <p>*Best of all Dropbox, Evernote, iBooks, Flipboard and Microsoft Tag are all free iPad Apps <br />Check out my Post on <a href="http://patriciagrayinc.blogspot.com/2010/01/iphone-apps-for-interior-design.html" target="_blank">5 iPhone Apps for Interior Design</a></p> <p align="center"><strong>Please let me know what iPad Apps you have found helpful by leaving a <a href="http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6842244027880136050&postID=318744944698982599&isPopup=true" target="_blank">comment here</a>.</strong></p> <p align="center"><a href="http://www.patriciagrayinc.com/" target="_blank"><font size="1">PATRICIA GRAY INC</font></a><font size="1"> is an award winning interior design firm in Vancouver writing about lifestyle and <br />WHAT'S HOT in the world of interior design, architecture, art and travel. <br /></font><a href="http://patriciagrayinc.blogspot.com/"><font size="1">2011 © Patricia Gray | Interior Design Blog™</font></a></p>

5 iPad Apps for Interior Design

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2011 Your Best Year Yet

<p align="center"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Write-Down-Make-Happen-Knowing/dp/0684850028/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1230752314&sr=8-1" target="_blank"><img alt="image" border="0" height="332" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPT69ho8kKe0bqPcrPsMwSYqt82xyxVkIB1xKYX8LwQw59XzSZl_T3uiVvo2F3YVkdEKwV-Uvjozz89LYgQbAurexEBjUsYwJ2E-oz-RX4kW3Q6ONFjIoj9bZoD5Wbh_vGud_C5LmpYl36/?imgmax=800" style="border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px" title="image" width="209" /></a> <img height="330" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizuoyl-ZAI4FcyBILlCjJo8ofCaEji9rqdA-cOJNUIJ7KtuxFlN6XEfZ_XGep5Yo-vyoQzgOKy04uFysZ9c3RAZt7ZIbTzdOB4U5yIAaXN8r8p124BS13OnI6DSx05ZXZwKTbSHpY6mNk/s400/moleskin.jpg" width="288" /></p> <p align="justify"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Write-Down-Make-Happen-Knowing/dp/0684850028/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1198383904&sr=8-1"></a>For those of you wanting to make 2011 Your Best Year Yet, I highly recommend this book <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Write-Down-Make-Happen-Knowing/dp/0684850028/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1230752639&sr=8-1" target="_blank">Write It Down, Make It Happen</a>. I have bought my favourite, a brand new <a href="https://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_ss__2_8?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=moleskine+notebook&sprefix=moleskin&sprefix=moleskin&sprefix=moleskin" target="_blank">Moleskin</a> notebook and I savoring writing in it with my yellow <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Lamy-Safari-Yellow-Fountain-Medium/dp/B000R32CLA/ref=sr_1_35?ie=UTF8&s=office-products&qid=1230752448&sr=8-35" target="_blank">Lamy</a> fountain pen all the wonderful things I want to happen in my world in 2011. Make 2011 your "Best Year Yet" by getting clear about what you want to happen – it really works!  </p> <p align="center"> <br /><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Lamy-Safari-Yellow-Fountain-Medium/dp/B000R32CLA/ref=sr_1_35?ie=UTF8&s=office-products&qid=1230752448&sr=8-35" target="_blank"><img alt="" border="0" height="84" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6n72jRtEBU7o3BVMQeLukRPV6hlAwwFKFv4Q7-jJquOwhEpqCINoMr09Rg7yBG65rDZuemU0fMPBYrs55su6lVpp3Z1h3gf5oxOrSgATQcSAv0iOiRj8WxH9-F7rYXKUw8tLTCPW6Ltc/s400/lamy+fountain+pen.jpg" width="500" /></a></p> <p align="center">Moleskin is the legendary notebook used by Van Gogh, Hemingway, Matisse and Céline. <br />There is a whole Blog devoted to the "Moleskin. You can check it out <a href="http://www.moleskinerie.com/" target="_blank">here.</a> </p> <p align="center"><font size="4">Wishing you all the best for 2011, and may it be a year filled to over flowing with all the good you desire!!!</font> </p> <p align="center"><a href="http://www.patriciagrayinc.com/"><font size="1">Patricia Gray Inc</font></a><font size="1"> is an award winning Interior Design firm in Vancouver who blogs about Lifestyle and WHAT'S HOT in the world of Interior Design. <br /></font><a href="http://patriciagrayinc.blogspot.com/"><font size="1">2011 © Patricia Gray | Interior Design Blog™</font></a></p>

2011 Your Best Year Yet

For those of you wanting to make 2011 Your Best Year Yet, I highly recommend this book Write It Down, Make It Happen . I have bought my f...

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