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Wisteria is so lovely, and the look of stained glass gorgeous. This window film has a repeating pattern that allows you to seamlessly join the panels top, bottom, left and right, just like wall paper. It is also easily trimmed. You can make this film fit any window shape or size by adding panels or trimming them.

The film is translucent but not transparent, so you’ll still be bathed in natural light, while protecting your privacy. The design is visible on both sides, so you can enjoy the beauty of the window from either view.

Imagine if you had a window that looked over something ugly. This film would give you an instant country garden view instead. Applied to a glass shower stall, this film creates a privacy screen, while surrounding the bather in beauty. Can you imagine how dreamy your bathroom would be if this was your shower stall? Can you imagine how romantic your bedroom would be, and how quaint your kitchen would be with these windows?

Artscape window film is self adhering without adhesives, so you can remove easily without damage or mess, it even after years of use. It blocks the UV rays, and is not damaged by heat, cold, humidity, or steam. The film is so easy to apply, you can do it yourself in minutes.

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A kitchen where delicious food is created, is a kitchen where the cook feels good about life. What things make you feel good about life? Bring those elements into your kitchen decor.

If romance inspires you to create gorgeous meals, then hang photos of your loved one on the kitchen wall, and train garlands of edible flowers to creep from your windowsill planter box, in through the window, and around it. Place candles around the kitchen, and use romantic lighting when you cook. Your cooking then becomes an offering of devotion, seduction, and admiration.

If your cooking is your connection to your heritage or your ancestors, decorate your kitchen with your ethnic art. Frame one of your favorite ancestral photos, and hang it on the wall.
You can also place old hand written recipes in layers to cover the kitchen table, and then cover that with a sheet of clear glass. This makes a rustically charming decor focal point, or a classically elegant one if you write the recipes in calligraphy. Your guests will ooh and ahh over this creative design.

If you want to cook healthful meals, hang a picture of yourself doing a realistic activity that can only be done with a strong healthy body (relative to your own circumstances), and a focused mind. If you have a family, hang photos of them showing off their health and strength too. For instance, a photo of your child proudly displaying a school assignment that earned a high grade, or flexing her/his biceps and smiling with white teeth, shows the rewards for eating healthful foods. Hang colorful charts depicting the ratio of proteins to carbohydrates that you need, and hang pretty pictures of beautiful organic fruits and vegetables. These will give you an appetite for what is good for you, instead of tempting you to eat junk food. Natural produce comes in all colors (even blue – for blueberries), so you can make a gorgeous rainbow on your wall.

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The Portmeirion Apple Harvest Wall Clock is the perfect accent piece for a classic or country decor kitchen or dinning room. The clock is shaped like a plate, and matches the Apple Harvest tableware. Both the clock and the place settings are made of high quality earthenware, and hand painted with a beautiful motif depicting ripe apples on a branch with rosy blossoms and lush leaves. Attractively framed with a vine design for visual contrast, this clock is a beauty. The numbers are large for easy reading at a distance, and the hour and minute hands are long, black, and contoured. Graceful calligraphy script shows the varietal name of the apples.

If you want a more authentic country decor or antique decor, mix and match the Apple Harvest clock with the Portmeirion Strawberry Fair, Botanical Garden, and Pomona motifs for tableware. They look lovely together and maintain a continuity of design, while maintaining the atmosphere of an old world dining room. Since pre-industrial dining-ware, if broken, would not have been replaceable by factory made identical pieces, most people would have been adept at the art of mixing and matching, to create a cohesive ambiance with out relying on uniformity. The Portmeirion series provides the perfect opportunity to do this.

You’ll love the fruity, floral touch of class this clock lends to any room. Symbolizing abundance, the motif will bring good prosperity Chi to your kitchen. The round shape of the clock is also an asset for the fluency of the Chi. Feng Shui principles have deemed the white back ground to be just the right color for the Children and creativity zone of your home. So this clock would be lovely in a nursery or an art studio.

The Portmeirion Apple Harvest Clock makes a wonderful gift!

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This table is made from recycled plastic milk jugs that would otherwise be clogging a landfill and seeping into your groundwater. So, if you need a plastic kids table you won’t have to worry about, here is the more eco-friendly option. You can let them paint, color, work with clay, dissect pomegranates, and do anything else you wouldn’t let them do on your favorite wood furniture. It makes a good back yard picnic table too, because you can leave it outside in the elements all year long. Made to look like redwood, this won’t be an eyesore when you look out at your garden. It will blend in beautifully with your landscaping. Your kids will really appreciate this gift. Their legs won’t fall asleep dangling in the air, because this table and bench set is just their size.

This 4 foot long table will never require chemical treatments for weather proofing or insect repellent and it won’t rot, mildew or swell and crack. That’s less hassle for you, and less exposure to toxins for your kids.

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The same company brings you a better way to stash your trash:

What better way to bin your garbage and items to recycle, than a recycled plastic domed trash can with a pretty container made of the same material? It looks like wood to keep your yard and side walk looking good, and it’s made from recycled plastic to keep the planet looking good.

Another  win win item from Engineered Plastic Systems.

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You will adore this Accent Furniture Cube made by Almost Exclusive. The gorgeous patchwork design is hand made in America, and constructed of wood from torn down buildings. Instead of clogging landfills or cutting down forests, reusing wood to make beautiful quality furniture is the best way to go green with your home decor. Hand Made in America, this cabinet (Shown in Harvest) measures 23″w x 15″d x 26″h and includes one shelf.

Imagine your design options! Combined with a patchwork quilt hanging on the wall, back of the rocker, or spread on the bed, this becomes a unique and rustic country theme. Combined with modern abstract art or cubist paintings, your home decor becomes modern and chic.

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Combined with the matching wall mounted framed mirror, this becomes its own very personal and unique room decor. No two are exactly alike.

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These would make a great set for your bedroom, dressing room/walk in closet, living room, den, or dining room. The mirror will make a small room seem larger, as well as frame your body like a beautiful photograph. You’ll be proud to show visitors how beautiful and sophisticated eco friendly decor can be.

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Bamboo is the perfect wood for cooking and serving ware because it is water resistant, and inhibits germs and bacteria. You won’t have splitting and mold like you would with other types of wood.

The best part? You’ll be saving the planet while you make your kitchen beautiful. Bamboo is the most sustainably grown and eco friendly wood there is. It grows to harvest height without pesticide or fertilizers in only 3-5 years. Going green actually improves the look of your Decor.

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This lustrous serving bowl is so beautiful, you’ll want to display it even when not in use. It’s footed design makes it a great center piece for both elegant upscale decor and country themes.

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The cutting board with carved in mincing bowl is the perfect companion piece for avid home cooking chefs. After chopping and mincing ingredients, and separating them from their peels on the board, they are ready to be added to your salad or pasta in the the serving bowl.

Your culinary creation deserves to be caressed by fine utensils. Natural Home’s matching mixing spoon, slotted spoon, solid turner, slotted turner, and spaghetti fork are fine work tools, and so pretty, you’ll want to display them on the counter in Natural Home’s Bamboo crock. The oval shape allows for easy viewing of utensils while saving counter space.

Using the crock as a stand, make a bouquet of beautiful, strong, and durable bamboo utensils:

The slotted versions are enlarged for viewing.

Great gift ideas, these cooking and serving ware products by Natural Home are so affordable, you can get the whole matching set. Perfect for wedding gifts and bridal registry!

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In the dining rooms and banquet halls of exclusive Southeast Asian resorts, you’ll find hand-spun glass. The beauty of the craftsmanship makes it valuable as an elegant decor piece. Natural Home glassware utilizes 100% recycled glass incorporated in this same hand-spun technique, for an eco friendly product fit to serve royaly .  In a small artisan workshop, each hand-made piece is drafted  from100% post-consumer glass to produce a highly functional work of art, demonstrating the  talent of the craftsman.  Less waste ending up in landfills is the goal of using recycled glass, and timeless beauty is the goal of the craftsman. Put together, you gain a center piece that will bring you pride every time you see this translucent sculpture displayed. The lovely play of light and color will present any drink you serve in style. The quality of the hand spun accented finish will delight your guests.

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Your table will be an artful exhibit of graceful form when you complete the set with the Natural Home recycled glass hand spun accented bowls and serving platters, both available in different sizes.

Can you imagine how the colors of your salads,  soups, and dips will be enhanced by this hand spun glass? Food served from glass tastes better too. Bon Appetite!

Anything presented on such a platter becomes gourmet and more appetizing.

The square platters are available in both large and small. There is also a rectangular design.

Perfect for serving Japanese sushi and sashimi, French cuisine, desserts zig-zagged with melted Belgian chocolate,  or for making your child’s first attempt at cooking look better when the family pretends to eat it amidst much praise and adulation.

You’ll love the way light dances on your table and display cabinet when you combine all the pieces in this collection to form a decor set. What could be a more perfect wedding gift for a bridal registry?

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Here’s a fun wall design element. This cheerful looking frog was hand cut from steel drums and hand painted in Haiti. What better way to enliven a tropical or bamboo theme than with a splash of color? In addition to the sultry island evenings this art piece brings to mind, a reminder of fragile rain forest eco systems prompts us to waste less. Made from a steel drum, this piece of art is an example of creative reuse.

The Chinese consider a three legged toad to be a good luck symbol likely to bring good fortune and help you to make money, something we could all use a bit of help with these days. This frog is therefor a good part of a Feng Shui design for the kitchen, which is the symbolic room of abundance and wealth. If you have a bathroom, laundry room, or pantry room with no window, the Feng Shui masters suggest adding a red decor item. This little red frogy is just right for the job.

Children will love this bright and happy little frog. He helps turn any room into a jungle. A hanger on the back makes it easy to wall mount this pretty fella. Approximately 9″ W x 9″ H, this extremely durable metal decor item will last, and is appropriate for use in your garden as well. Hung on a door, this frog helps small kids to identify their own room.

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Check out the other designs the Breeze On In company makes.

You can add turtles, parrots, sea creatures, geckos,  butterflies, dragonflies, and frogs of other shapes and colors for a more diverse wall eco system, or to distinguish between doors to separate rooms.

The abundance of different fish and sea critters would turn your bathroom into an underwater kingdom of color. You’ll feel like you’re diving in a coral reef.

A great gift idea, the affordable price allows you to buy as many as you need. Just click on the pictures here and get to the product page.


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