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Welcome to About Magazine March 2010  

Buying local
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It’s not much to ask: Spend $50 a month at locally owned, brick-and-mortar stores in your community. That’s the goal of the national grassroots movement “The 3/50 Project.” When its Web site was launched last year, it released a wellspring of interest, garnering 7,500 unique visitors in the first week. It’s a simple directive.

 

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Big Kid Toys
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Everyone has a hobby. Knitting might be your passion. Fixing up old cars. Collecting stamps. Scrapbooking. Yoga. It can be whatever — and whatever it is, it’s something you enjoy. It cures your boredom. It may even be an emotional outlet. Chip Syme, Terry Bigrigg and Mike Guest never have lost touch with their hobbies, activities they started as children. What do they do? Guest builds tanks. Syme plays with trains. Bigrigg gets lost in fantasy. Meet each of these men on the following pages and get a glimpse of their big kid hobbies.

 

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On a mission
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Stephen McNulty’s desire was simple enough. He wanted to photograph poison frogs.

Complicating things was their location: the Amazon rain forest.

But McNulty, a 26-year-old Hoover High School grad, is one tenacious adventurer. Shooting the frog photograph reproduced here required a quest worthy of Hollywood, or at least a National Geographic special.

McNulty had been exploring Peru for about six weeks and located not a single poison frog, when he received a tip on their whereabouts Read More...

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    Surprise your sweetie with one of these local finds

About Your Home Design Challenge
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Talk about inspiration.

The three winning rooms in the first About Your Home Design Challenge provide plenty of it.

This summer, About magazine invited amateur and professional interior designers to show off their best room redesign — complete with before and after photos.

The entries were scored by a panel of judges on functionality (30%), originality (30%) and visual appeal (40%).

Tim and Denise McDannold of Plain Township took top honors in the Challenge, and will take home a $250 cash prize Read More...


Restaurant romance
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GREG and AMY GOEHRING

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Running three restaurants and raising four children doesn’t allow a lot of time for romance, but Greg and Amy Goehring try to squeeze it in.

“For us it’s about being together, and when the food is great, it’s even better,” Amy said.

One way to add a romantic spark to a meal is to share Read More...


Ready...set...register!
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What could be more fun for a bride-to-be than creating a registry? It’s like a fantasy shopping trip, and those beautiful household items will be the backdrop for a couple’s married life. It may be tempting to just take that registry gun and zap half the items in the store, but a little planning is key. Here are some tips for doing a registry right.

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They've heard it all
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A seasoned wedding DJ, Bill Manos says the big day is all about the bride and groom, no matter what.

“A lot of times, brides and grooms don’t want normal wedding-reception music — the chicken dance, hokey-pokey, things like that,” says Manos, owner of Sound Waves DJ Service. “Rap and heavy metal are the extremes, but I’ll play that if that’s what they request Read More...


 
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