Professional interior designers are expertly trained in the use of lighting features to create breathtaking results. In this four-part series which I call ?€?Colour Me Brightly: Understanding Light in Interior Design,?€? I draw on my experience in London?€™s interior design community to explain this fascinating subject. This third article talks about how to create patterns using opaque materials.

Melanie Benson Strick is not a doctor, but she specializes in treating a condition she calls the "Bright Shiny Object Syndrome." "When you are chasing a new, bright shiny object every day, you’re going to be overwhelmed,” Melanie explains. “When I tell people I have a formula to break free of that syndrome, they get curious and want to go the next step with me." And that is how Melanie morphed into an engineer of sorts – she identifies where her clients want to go, and she designs a process to get them there. Melanie’s creative approach is featured in a new book, "The Official Get Rich Guide to Information Marketing on the Internet" by Robert Skrob and Bob Regnerus, because she cleverly turned her Internet marketing savvy into a cash cow.

There is nothing more comforting than the smell of Christmas cookies fresh out of the oven. As a little girl, I remember eagerly watching my mom, as she would carefully remove the hot cookie sheets from the oven.

Car insurance customers in Essex have been urged not to give opportunistic thieves the chance to break into their automobiles.