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The wedding has ended, and it is time to move in together and combine your lives. Time to create a cohesive space that reflects both of your personal styles. You may just end up like my husband and me — filling each and every space of our home with furniture and knickknacks galore … except our bedroom. Oddly enough, our bedroom is where we spend most of our free time. Sadly it was boring and in dire need of a splash of color and whole lot of pizazz as you can see below. Since we are both busy bees, we did not have the time to devote to making our bedroom a special space. Luckily, we live super close to Kirsten of Simply Grove, and enlisted her services in our bedroom redesign. Thankfully her process was extremely simple, and mostly done online. Love that! Read on to hear about the entire process and how all of you can have Simply Grove redesign your new bedroom or any room for that matter. You can see all the photos in the full gallery here photographed by Boise wedding photographer Amanda Cherie Photography. The heart painting behind our bed was tremendously easy — with a few supplies and three short steps we had an eye popping piece for about $30. Everything for the painting was purchased at Micheals. Including: canvas, gold glitter spray paint,red acrylic paint and brushes. 1. Spray the canvas and let set overnight. Be careful the glitter scatters. 2. Print out a heart and center it on the canvas. 3. Paint your heart and let it dry. We did about three coats of red paint to make it look extra pretty. On Simply Grove‘s Process: Kirsten assessed our style (ok, mostly mine), then made a Pinterest board where she added products for us to review. From there I would say yay or nay. You can see the board here, and actually find all the products that made our room come to life. Below are a few of my favorite pieces that made the room come to life, including my favorite piece that tied the room together — a grape and indigo zig rug from Sernea and Lily. We are ecstatic on how everything turned out! 1. Brass Ring Table Lamp from Serena and Lily 2. Michelle Armas Halcyon Print 3. Sand/Navy Diamond Sheet Set from Serena and Lily 4. Magical Thinking Feather Curtain Tie-Back 5. Grape and indigo zig rug from Sernea and Lily 6. TOO by Blu Dot Sideburn Lounge Chair in Gray Botanical on sale for $139 7. Hanging Light Bulb Glass Terrarium As you can see, we love plants. For those of you who do not have a green thumb, a resurrection plant might be a great fit. We bought ours from a little shop in Boise, Idaho called Bricolage. These little plants can die and come back to life with a little water. The post Wedding Chicks Bedroom Redesign By Simply Grove appeared first on The Wedding Chicks. The content in this post is for personal use only and may not be syndicated on other blogs. If you see this content on a URL other than The Wedding Chicks, please send an email to info@weddingchicks.com with the infringing URL.

The Juice returns for season No. 6! It’s almost eligible for free-agency! Stop by daily for news from the action, along with great photos, stats, video highlights and more. This is more like what this year’s Los Angeles Angels were expecting. Thursday night the Angels won their fifth in a row, downing the Kansas City Royals 5-4 thanks to home runs from Mike Trout, Albert Pujols, Mark Trumbo and Chris Ianetta. The win pulled the Angels even with the Seattle Mariners for third place in the AL West and gave roughed-up pitcher Joe Blanton his first win of the season in nine starts. The Angels are now 20-27 and the highest they’ve been in the standings since April 27. It’s not proof that everything is right in Anaheim, but it’s a promising sign that things are getting better. The most impressive moment for the Angels came early: Trout’s first inning home run traveled 463 feet, the longest of his career, the third longest this week and 11th longest of the season, according to Home Run Tracker . View full post on Yahoo! Sports – MLB – Cincinnati Reds News

BMW’s M3 Coupe replacement has again seen the light of day, with more spy photos emerging from Europe this week. The camouflaged coupe - expected to be known as the M4 - has been spotted cutting some development laps on the hallowed Nurburgring. The regular 4 Series Coupe has been spied without camouflage in recent months, offering fans an idea of what to expect with the M4. Of course, the cars won't be identical: we can expect the M4 to get a wider track under fattene... Read more The Motor Report is Australia's fastest growing auto website. Click through to read the full article.

MODE - Vous pensez réellement que tout n'est que glamour et paillettes au royaume des stars? Que le Festival de Cannes n'est qu'une succession hautement agréable de coupes de champagne, de vêtements haute couture et de défilés sur tapis rouges? Vous êtes bien naïf.Un mal atroce ronge en effet un grand nombre de personnalités, principalement des femmes, qui souffrent en silence: le port de chaussures à talons. Généralement synonymes de féminité, d'élégance et de légèreté, ces souliers sont quasiment obligatoires. À tel point que des personnes comme Kim Kardashian, enceinte et souffrant de rétention d'eau, continuent coûte que coûte d'en porter. Et ce, malgré les risques.More...

Yahoo gave its photo hosting site Flickr a major revamp this past Monday, but already — four days later — the service has suffered its first significant outage after going down at 22:00 PDT, 06:00 BST (as spotted by Hacker News user zan2434). That was over two hours ago, at the time of writing (though one Twitter user suggests the site has been down for an additional two hours). The redesigned Flickr sports an entirely overhauled user interface, has a new Android app and — perhaps most notably – 1TB of free storage was made available for all users. But it seems there was more, as Yahoo also introduced a Fail Panda (it’s twist on Twitter’s famous Fail Whale?) which is making its first public public appearance for today’s outage. The cute photo (below) actually comes courtesy of Flickr user toyokazu, but that doesn’t wash over the fact that the site is already experiencing issues keeping itself online. Given that Yahoo has moved away from the freemium model, it is now competing more evenly with Facebook and others for your photos, so keeping the service online is an absolute must. While Flickr holds a key advantage, in that it stores photos at their original resolution (sans compression), thist doesn’t amount to much if users can’t get into the service for sustained periods of time. Hopefully these are just early teething problems that don’t manifest into anything regular. We reached out to Flickr to see if the company can provide more details beyond this tweet: Experiencing slowness or having trouble accessing the site? We’re on it, and are working to fix the issue as quickly as possible. #badpanda — Flickr (@Flickr) May 24, 2013 The fact that Flickr is actively promoting a hastag (#badpanda) that highlights its own downtime is an interesting. Most companies would prefer to avoid mention of their failings, but Yahoo/Flickr is embracing it. Headline image via Getty Images

Exterior Color: RedDoors: 0The reliability, quality and performance of Ahrens-Fox fire apparatus is no more vividly demonstrated that by the preservation of the Ahrens-Fox brand into the 21st century on fire apparatus built by HME Corporation. Fire equipment gets, hopefully, little use but needs to be at its best on a moment's notice and function reliably for hours, even days, on end. It was in this context that Ahrens-Fox's reputation was built. The company traces its history to the beginnings of the steam fire engine era when Alexander B. Latta built his first steam-powered fire engine in Cincinnati in 1852. Chris Ahrens was an apprentice in Latta's firm and eventually assumed ownership, later merging with American LaFrance in 1903. Ahrens' son-in-law Charles Fox along with Ahrens' sons and another son-in-law parted company with the combined firm a year later to start another company which became Ahrens-Fox in 1910. While still building a few horse drawn steam fire engines Ahrens-Fox also built the apparatus powered by Walter Christie's pioneering two-wheel tractors, then concentrated on four-wheel gasoline motor-driven units. Its pumpers are instantly identified by the giant chrome sphere pressure-equalizer above the front-mounted multi-piston pumps on which Ahrens-Fox's pumpers' reputations were grounded. Ahrens-Fox proudly pointed out that it built nearly everything on its fire apparatus in its Cincinnati factory, even the giant engines under the long hoods. The pumping power of an Ahrens-Fox is legendary, and they are instantly recognizable. This 1925 Ahrens-Fox was ordered by the Nashua, NH fire department to protect the city and its Merrimac River mills. It served for a number of years but eventually was pensioned off and bought, it is believed, from Nashua by bandleader Benny Snyder, a pal of Arthur Fiedler, conductor of the Boston Pops Orchestra and avid fire equipment fan. The story related by Mel Clark, North Hampton, NH truck graveyard proprietor from whom it was purchased in 1992, is that Benny and Arthur would bring their fire trucks when performing in the other's city, get together and, generally, raise hell with their fire trucks from water hole to water hole. This Ahrens-Fox still bore the legend 'Benny Snyder Orchestra' on its hood when later paint was stripped off. When purchased from Mel Clark this 1925 Ahrens-Fox N-S-4 was stored in a boxcar (Mel had many of them on his property) and largely original. Brought to the new owner's home in Maine it was cleaned up, the pan dropped and cleaned along with the engine and gearbox oil pumps, carburetor rebuilt and fired up. After soaking the pump overnight to wet the leather seals it pumped water the next day. Later extensive restoration down to the last nut and bolt included acquiring a new bottom end and block from a barely used 2,000 mile Ahrens-Fox service ladder truck to the repair the original engine. Original parts and accessories as described on the original Ahrens-Fox order from Nashua were sought out so that today only two items, a pair of 'Ahrens-Fox Steam Thawers', are lacking from its original complement. Later paint was carefully stripped and revealed unique pinstriping on the frame and wheels not seen on other Ahrens-Fox fire apparatus but authenticated in period photos of this Nashua engine. The paint is Grenadier Red and Titanium White as originally specified. The headlights and spotlight also are original and have been repaired rather than being rebuilt with later housings. Even the gauge faces were carefully preserved and repainted rather than being resurfaced. In all, this is an extraordinary Ahrens-Fox N-S-4 with a colorful history linked to one of America's greatest fire equipment enthusiasts, Boston Pops' conductor Arthur Fiedler. Meticulously and accurately restored from a largely original example in New England service, it will earn pride of place at any display, runs and drive superbly, and still pumps towers of water.

The Juice returns for season No. 6! It's almost eligible for free-agency! Stop by daily for news from the action, along with great photos, stats, video highlights and more. This is more like what this year's Los Angeles Angels were expecting. Thursday night the Angels won their fifth in a row, downing the Kansas City Royals 5-4 thanks to home runs from Mike Trout, Albert Pujols, Mark Trumbo and Chris Ianetta. The win pulled the Angels even with the Seattle Mariners for third place in the AL West and gave roughed-up pitcher Joe Blanton his first win of the season in nine starts. The Angels are now 20-27 and the highest they've been in the standings since April 27. It's not proof that everything is right in Anaheim, but it's a promising sign that things are getting better. The most impressive moment for the Angels came early: Trout's first inning home run traveled 463 feet, the longest of his career, the third longest this week and 11th longest of the season, according to Home Run Tracker. The homer was Trout's 10th. He also stole his 10th base of the season. His recent hot streak has already started talk of Trout making a run at the 40/40 Club. "Oh my gosh, did they run out of tape to measure it?" Angels manager Mike Scioscia told the L.A. Times. "That thing was killed." Tito wins big in Fenway return: Terry Francona returned to Fenway Park on Thursday, and his new team, the Cleveland Indians, put a beat down on his old team. The Boston Red Sox took a 12-3 lashing from the manager who led them to two World Series titles. The Indians got big offensive contributions from Mark Reynolds (3-for-4, 3 RBIs), Michael Bourn (3-for-6, 2 RBIs) and Drew Stubbs (3-for-5, 3 RBIs, including the two-run triple above). ''I tried to keep my emotions inside,'' Francona said. ''I didn't want to be the main focus. You want to let the players play.'' MORE SCORES Pirates 4, Cubs 2: Andrew McCutchen has three hits and two RBIs as Pittsburgh wins for the 11th time in its last 13 games. Tigers 7, Twins 6: Prince Fielder cracks open the tie game with a go-ahead single in the bottom of the eighth inning. Miguel Cabrera knocks two hits (including his 14th home run) and three RBIs. Blue Jays 12, Orioles 6: The Canadian Tuxedos backfires. The Blue Jays bats blister the O's, as Edwin Encarnacion and J.P. Arencibia notch four RBIs each. Encarnacion's came on a sixth-inning grand slam. “I've been waiting my entire life for this, and I haven't been able to sleep very much lately. So it was something that was great to get out of the way. Hopefully I can sleep tonight" — Kevin Gausman, the Baltimore Orioles 2012 first-round pick who was making his big league debut Thursday against the Blue Jays. Gausman took the loss, giving up four runs on seven hits in five innings. He struck out five. Jose Canseco reacts to striking out in his first at-bat with the Fort Worth Cats of the United League, whom he joined as a player/manager for four games. Canseco went 1-for-3 with two strikeouts and a single. Canseco's trip to Fort Worth comes amid rape allegation in Las Vegas. Yahoo! Sports' Joe Garza reports on the Canseco sideshow in Texas. • Miguel Cabrera has 55 RBIs in the Tigers' first 45 games. The most since Manny Ramirez in 2001. • The Pittsburgh Pirates, with their 29-18 record, would be in first place in four of the other five divisions in the MLB. They're tied for second in the NL Central with the Cincinnati Reds, both trailing the St. Louis Cardinals. The only other team with a better record is the Texas Rangers, whose 30-17 mark is the best in baseball. • Alex Gordon of the Kansas City Royals went 0-for-3 to snap his 10-game hitting streak. Baseball is back. Don't miss anything. Follow @MikeOz and @bigleaguestew, on Twitter, along with the BLS Facebook page.

100 years old traditional Romanian blouse| traditional belt | |vintage skirt | Zara shoes | Giuka bag on welovecouture.ro |This is a photo with me at The One magazine turning 9 years - with my beloved friends Cristina Negru, designer at La Mode Toujours, and Ella Negru, Account Manager at Echipa de PR. We have been mistaken for sisters for many many times, mostly when my hair was long like theirs.The theme for the party was the Romanian blouse - IA. Here we are all wearing authentic Romanian blouses that run in the family... a tradition very respected in our country. Our blouses have probably more that 100 years each and are hand made by our grandmothers. Lately - what we call tradition - has transformed into a trend. Yes, the Romanian traditional blouse is having a big comeback. The beauty of it is that it brings that hippie relaxed air to any outfit and you can mix it with anything: jeans, high-waisted skirts, white pants, high-heels, flats... anyway you feel like. Find inspiration in these photos of celebrities over the years that have worn it beautifully on Pinterest and buy one for yourself (as spotted here). If you are looking for the REAL deal - try Okazii.ro or Ie Romaneasca.When you buy one pay attention to the fabric. Some of them are made from really thick linen and are difficult to wear in the summer. And don't forget to take good care of it when washing it and last, but not least, to have fun with it in your summer outfits!! See you in Instagram @CristinaFeather!----------------------------------In poza de mai sus, de la evenimentul prin care revista The One a sarbatorit 9 ani - sunt alaturi de prietenele mele dragi, Cristina Negru designer La Mode Toujours si sora ei, Ella Negru, Account Manager la agentia Echipa de PR. Am fost confundate ca am fi surori de nenumarate ori, mai ales cand aveam si eu parul la fel de lung ca si ele. Va las pe voi sa hotarati daca semanam chiar atat de mult.Pretecerea a avut ca tema IA romaneasca. Toate am purtat ii mai vechi de 100 de ani (fiecare), facute de bunicile noastre si transmise din generatie in generatie. Un obicei minunat, nu-i asa?Ceea ce noi numim traditie s-a transformat in ultimul timp intr-un trend foarte puternic.Fumusetea iei vine din ideea de hand made, dar si datorita traditiei. Cu aerul ei relaxat, usor hippie, ia poate fi purtata cu aproape orice din garderoba voastra: jeansi, fuste cu talie inalta, pantaloni albi, pantofi cu toc, sandale plate...Pentru mai multa inspiratie am gasit un board pe Pinterest cu celebritati care au purtat ia in feluri diferite si un articol pe whowhatwear.com cu cateva recomandari de shopping.Daca sunteti in cautarea unei camasi traditionale autentice, va recomand sa cautati mai multe pe Okazii.ro sau pe Ie Romaneasca.Fiti foarte atente la material atunci cand alegeti. Unele sunt facute dintr-o panza extrem de groasa si sunt aproape imposibil de purtat vara. iar altele sunt atat de vechi si de fragile incat nu mai pot fi folosite decat ca piesa de decor. Nu uitati sa aveti mare grija de ele, sa nu le bagati la masina de spalat... si mai ales, sa va bucurati de ele in tinutele libere din vara!Ne vedem pe Instagram @CristinaFeather!

It never stops being great: Lance Bass and Topanga went to prom together.