Friendly Fridays: Catalog Inspiration

This has been a busy week filled with ‘catching-up’ from vacation.  So today, instead of visiting someone’s home, I’d like to introduce you to one of my favorite catalogs, Wisteria.  

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A great source for interior design pictures…

With so many decorating magazines closing lately, we find ourselves starving for pictures of amazing rooms.  A good alternative is interiors designers’ and photographers’ web sites.  Often you can view their portolios as a source of inspiration.

Below is one of our favorites, Pieter Estersohn.

PS For more pictures, visit DiggingDecor-it’s full of interior design pictures (well, not quite full yet, but it’s on its way :)   It’s a social community network for people who love to decorate. The site is new so we’ll need all the contributors we can get!   If you love decorating, come join so you can show off your portfolio, share resources and make some friends.

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Colombo Shares continue to rise with new record highs.

ASI gained sharply with the massive gains in Carsons Group shares & Aitken Spence. ASI crossed the 5500 index points to close at 5568.5 (up 146.75 points) while more liquid MPI closed at 5876.40, up 38.64 points. Turnover was at Rs 2.80 billion.

Carsons Cumberbatch Plc was up by 78.30 to close at Rs 861.50 while The Bukit Darah Plc which is also from Carsons group gained 742.80 to close at Rs 8171.30. Aitken Spence Plc (SPEN) closed at Rs 2462.30, up 223.80. SPEN already announced 1 to 15 share split. Lanka Orix Leasing Company Plc (LOLC) closed 53.60 points higher at Rs 589.70. Environmental Resources Investments Plc (GREG) ordinary voting shares closed 6.40 higher at 109.30. More than 1.2 million shares of GREG traded during the day.

There were 149 companies recorded gains while only 36 stocks lost their value. Nestle Lanka Plc lost forty rupees to close at Rs 700.00 while Commercial Bank of Ceylon Plc was closed at Rs 191.60, down 2.50.

Foreigners were net sellers with Rs 556.22 million purchases & Rs 824.72 million in sales. At the end of the day total market capitalization of the Colombo Stock Exchange was Rs 1,692,570,127,627.00. Investors were optimistic with the positive quarterly results of the listed companies.

New Nokia 5250 Series

Nokia 5250

Nokia presents the Nokia 5250 Series X8 Xperia similar design

Nokia handset 5230 series has long been released, the phone with this music genre has captured the heart of many consumers and quite successful. Now Nokia is planning to create a variant of the mobile phone. Series is prepared to continue the struggle on the music phone segment is the “Nokia 5250” mobile phone is seen to have a physical form which is very similar to the Sony Ericsson Xperia handset X8, though no official statement from nokia, but the appearance of images in ovistore about this phone is enough to give evidence regarding this device. For OS Nokia 5250 likely will be equipped Symbian ^ 1 (S60 ver.5).

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A Healthy Money Saving Tip

When you buy grapes, are you like me and pay a bit more for the seedless kind? Well, it may be better for our health, not to mention our grocery budget, to but the grapes with seeds.

Studies have suggested that the seeds in grapes have some health benefits that we might want to take adavantage of.

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