Clayform By Anthea Inspired Style For Your Home

5Jun/100

Southwest Home Decor – Tips For Decorating In This Comfortable, Colorful Style

Southwest home decor is popular with people from all backgrounds. The bright, vibrant colors attract many folks who love the rich culture that it represents and there are many ways to incorporate this decorating style into your home.

Decorating in a Southwestern style utilizes beautiful, saturated colors. Many people enjoy using these colors on their walls. If you don't want so much color all over the room, paint most of your walls a neutral color and only one wall a bright color as an accent. You can include the bright colors in pretty throw pillows and knick knacks.

Pottery is a big part of the southwest decorating style. You can get beautiful pottery in all different sizes. You can use this type of pottery as vases for bright sunflowers, or just as pretty things to look at. You can use them in the kitchen as canisters for flour, sugar, and such. Southwest pottery is very versatile.

Southwest home decor is also great in the garden. Pottery is again useful here as terra cotta is very durable and stands up to heat very well. You can decorate these pots with colorful paint for your plants and set them around your porch for some festive decorations. You can buy things indicative of the southwest in the form of stepping stones, and perhaps a lizard or two for fun. These ideas bring your love of the Southwest into your outdoor living space.

Use Indian printed fabrics for chair coverings and bed coverings. An entire couch in this material may be a little overkill, but a strategically placed throw can bring out the theme nicely. If you have existing fairly neutral furniture, make or purchase some southwestern style throw pillows. They will liven up a room and bring in the theme that you like.

There are so many decorations you can use on the walls and shelves. A beautiful landscape of a desert sunset would be a sunning focal point in a room. You could also hang an Indian blanket on the wall as art. On shelves or bookcases you can place a small potted cactus, some earth toned candles, or small figures like lizards or kokopelli.

Wrought iron is another staple of this design style. This makes striking wall sconces and tables top candle holders. If you have a fireplace, wrought iron makes a nice fireplace grate. It is also nice for candle holders, coffee tables, and end tables. You can get this work as simple and rustic or as elegant as you like.

Southwest home decor is very versatile. Due to its popularity this type of home decor is widely available and there are many stores and websites dedicated to southwest home decor, so have fun exploring all of the different options.

Lee Dobbins writes for You Decorating where you can find out how easy it is to decorate as well as learn about different interior decorating styles.

4Jun/100

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3Jun/103

World History Question, please help, one hour to answer this. . . ?

1. Why does most of our knowledge of ancient Greece come from the Muslims?
(Points: 2)
Europeans were more interested in preserving Roman records.

Europeans were too wealthy to worry about ancient texts.

Muslims controlled Greece for more than 500 years.

Muslims maintained libraries, while European society struggled.

2. The earliest people in the Americas came from which country?
(Points: 2)
Africa

Asia

Australia

Europe

3. What does decorative pottery tell us about a Native American tribe?
(Points: 2)
They had a belief in the afterlife.

They had a pastoral society.

They were gaining more free time.

They were nomadic.

4. Which was the lowest class in Japanese feudalism?
(Points: 2)
Bushido

Eta

Peasants

Shogun

5. Which best describes Mongol rule during the Yuan Dynasty?
(Points: 2)
They attempted to end the practice of Buddhism.

They attempted to exterminate native Chinese.

They ended the process of civil service exams.

They tried to adopt some Chinese ideas.

6. Which region was least affected by European culture?
(Points: 2)
Kilwa

Mogadishu

Mombasa

Zimbabwe

7. Which best describes the relationship between Nubia and Egypt?
(Points: 2)
Egypt depended on Nubia for gold.

Egypt refused to trade with Nubia.

Nubia destroyed the Egyptian Empire.

Nubia refused to help Egypt militarily.

8. The Safavids and the Ottomans fought a battle that determined the modern-day boundary between which two countries?
(Points: 2)
Iran and Iraq

Iran and Saudi Arabia

Turkey and Iran

Turkey and Saudi Arabia

9. How is Ottoman art similar to earlier Islamic art?
(Points: 2)
They are both very realistic.

They both center around the human form.

They both emphasize abstract patterns.

They do not use calligraphy.

10. The capital of the Ottoman Empire was:
(Points: 2)
Beijing.

Chaldiran.

Istanbul.

Rome.

11. Which best describes the relationship between the Byzantine Empire and the Ottomans?
(Points: 2)
The Byzantines converted the Ottomans.

The Byzantines overthrew the Ottomans.

The Ottomans overthrew the Byzantines.

The Ottomans were the Byzantine's most reliable trade partners.

12. What was Justinian's main goal?
(Points: 2)
Defeating the Safavids

Ending Mongol rule

Expanding to the west

Reuniting Shi'ites and Sunnis

13. Which was a point of disagreement between the Catholic and Orthodox churches?
(Points: 2)
Whether God wrote the New Testament

Whether Jesus was Jewish or Catholic

Whether purgatory exists

Whether the Pope was elected or appointed

14. Which is true about Muhammad?
(Points: 2)
He believed in many gods.

He considered himself the final prophet of God.

He rejected Judaism and its historical figures.

He started the Sufi sect of Islam.

15. What led to the creation of the Shi'ite and Sunni sects of Islam?
(Points: 2)
A debate over leadership of Islam

A debate over tolerance for Jews

Controversy about the hajj

The overthrow of the Byzantines

16. What is the name of a marketplace in the Islamic world?
(Points: 2)
Bedouin

Hadith

Souk

Umayyad

17. How did Muslims initially treat conquered peoples in India?
(Points: 2)
They allowed their women more opportunities.

They allowed them to practice Buddhism.

They destroyed their mosques.

They forced them to convert to Islam.

18. During which period did Muslim and Indian traditions merge the most?
(Points: 2)
Byzantine Empire

Gupta period

Delhi sultanate

Sind period

19. Which region did Muslims not successfully conquer?
(Points: 2)
England

India

Persia

Syria

20. Which is true about these empires?
(Points: 2)
The Gupta overthrew the Byzantines.

The Ming overthrew the Chosen.

The Muslims overthrew the Gupta.

The Ottomans overthrew the Ming.

2Jun/102

How do it install things on my vinyl sided home?

Having lived in a geodesic dome, a log home, several brick homes, etc. . . . . I now have a vinyl-sided one.

I'm wanting to put up some plant hanging brackets for my baskets of ferns & flowers. I also need to hang a bug-zapping light. I've got a 27" decorative piece that is a basically a pottery smiling sun with rays of 3/8" iron. Weight 8-10 pounds. I'd like to hang over a set of French doors.

Living in hurricane country I'm worried about the 4 sets of French doors staying shut. Only 1 side opens in each set of doors. The all have regular locks & deadbolts. I also worry about wind-blown water coming in.

I need to get to work on all this asap. Help please! Thanx

1Jun/102

Spanish Tile Designs in Full Color

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Spanish Tile Designs in Full Color