Gracious Style Presents 2004 Holiday Gift Guide
Gracious Style, a leading online resource for luxury linens and accessories for the home, is proud to present its 2004 holiday gift guide.
From monogrammed Italian linens to supple microfiber bathrobes, the gift guide features an exquisite selection of items, all available online at www.graciousstyle.com.With twelve unique selections ranging from $50 to $350, this guide is specifically designed to help give the gift of luxury to everyone on your holiday list, within your individual budget.
And to add to the gift giving spirit, Gracious Style is happy to provide complimentary wrapping and free shipping on every purchase made this holiday season.From practical to personal to glamorous, the 2004 holiday gift guide includes:
SERVE IT UP: For the entertainer on your list or for your own holiday table-???Frog or Snail Place Card Holders
These silverplated place card holders from St. Hilaire are a charming and unexpected gift.
Each set of six silverplated frogs or snails includes a package of 25 white cards.
$110- ???Algonquin Salad Server Set
This handsome salad server set is perfect for your first course or as a thoughtful gift for the entertainer on your list. Bone handle with silverplated tips.
$70- ???Silverplated Mint Julep Cups
Named after the famed Kentucky Derby cocktail, these versatile cups are equally appropriate for serving drinks or holding flowers.
Set of four.
$120- ???Milano Handblown Glasses
These handblown, Venetian-style glasses are perfect for enjoying your holiday spirits.
Set of three includes water glass, wine glass, and champagne flute.
$75.
- ???Antoinette Cake Server
Originally crafted for 18th century royalty, this elegant Victorian cake server features a lustrous mother-of-pearl handle, intricate silver cuff, and stainless steel tip.
$85LINEN LUXURY:
Make it personal with embroidery this season- ???Coral or Palm Tree Washcloths
Two of the hottest trends this season, exquisitely embroidered on thick Egyptian cotton terry washcloths.
Other designs available.
Set of four.
$64.- ???Blossom Monogrammed Hand Towels
The most thoughtful gift this holiday season, these pure linen hand towels are hand-embroidered with a letter of your choice and finished with a hemstitched border.
Available in white linen with white or pastel embroidery.
Set of two.
$50- ???Tudor Linen Monogrammed Napkins
Our exclusive monogrammed dinner napkins pair a classical alphabet with fine Italian linen, distinctively embroidered in red.
Other styles and colors available.
Six napkins.
$168.- ???Aberdeen Silk Runner
Deck your holiday table with this elegant table runner.
Each "lucky" holly bough is delicately embroidered in velvet on pure silk and finished with tassel fringe.
Available in ivory, gold, and burgundy.
$150.AFTER THE PARTY:
Who doesn't love a little pampering?- ???Newport Robes
Hailed as "glamorous" and "velvety" by The Wall Street Journal (August 20, 2004), our microfiber robe is the ultimate combination of style and comfort.
Details include a soft microfiber outer shell, terry combed cotton lining, and elegant pleated hip pockets.
$155- ???Herringbone Blankets
Chase the winter chills away with our brushed cotton throws.
Trimmed with a fringe border and detailed with a herringbone pattern, this blanket is perfect for both him and her.
Choose Wheat, Green, Blue, or Mushroom.
$75- ???Nottingham Silk Throw
The ultimate in luxury, this embroidered silk throw is lined with soft velvet and trimmed with matching fringe.
Celebrate the holiday in style with a gift they will never forget.
$345Call us toll free at 1.888.828.7170 or visit www.graciousstyle.com for your FREE holiday catalog.
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How Much Will a Longhorn Spend? $15,000 for a License Plate?
San Antonio, TX (ContentDesk) January 12, 2006 -- After the Texas Longhorns won the national championship, Longhorn fans starting collecting anything with the words Texas or Longhorn on it.But San Antonioan Jerry Wayne has owned one of the most sought-after items in the state for the past fifteen years. A fan since the heyday of the Longhorns under coach Darrell Royal in the 1960s, he has shown his pride with a personalized license plate"1 Texas."When he saw the frenzy of fans buying sports memorabilia after the NCAA victory, Wayne realized how many people would love to have a license plate bearing the phrase "1 Texas." Coach Mack Brown could honor UT football with this plate. Vince Young might enjoy sporting a "1 Texas" license plate on the new luxury car he'll probably buy when he signs with the NFL. The license plate would be a perfect enhancement to the Rolls Royce, Bentley, or similar luxury automobile of a wealthy Texans football fan.
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Natural Skin Care - Just Open Your Kitchen Cabinet
Safer, less expensive, and easy-to-use natural skin care can be as easy as opening your kitchen cabinet, coupled with a few minutes of preparation.
Healthy, radiant, glowing skin is something every person wants. Yet, few of us even think to use what's really the best for out skin: natural skin care products.
Each year, millions of dollars are spent chasing after perfectly healthy, ageless skin. The environment, stress, and less than healthy eating habits, all play a major role in the quality of your skin.
The answers to achieving radiant, glowing complexion are within arm's reach. Many of the items in your kitchen right now can provide natural skin care that's even better thank those expensive, chemical filled products that cost an arm and a leg.
Skin Care Throughout Life
From the day we are born, our skin requires much care to remain smooth and healthy. It begins with soap to keep us clean. Then,...
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Easy Kids Party Decorating
Decorating for a kids party can be cheap and easy, yet impressive, if you have the basics in place and use a little imagination and advance planning. Follow these simple guidelines for kids party decorations: GREETING SIGN: A greeting sign in your front yard or on your door is a nice way to welcome party guests. Match it to the party theme and colors. For a construction party write "Caution: Work Zone" in black on a yellow background. For a luau party, draw orange, yellow and pink leis around the word "Aloha".
A western party sign could say "Welcome to the O.K. Corral". With just a little imagination, a homemade sign can be better than a store-bought one and you'll be complimented on your ingenuity to boot! BALLOONS: Balloons are a must for every kids party. They are cheap, colorful, and every kid loves them! Choose the balloon color to complement your party theme. For example, two shades of green for a jungle party, orange and black for a Halloween party, yellow and orange for...
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Oral Chelation ? What Can It Do For You? (Part 2)
Intravenous chelation therapy was more popular than oral chelation initially. It involved the injection of EDTA (ethylene diamine tetraacetic acid) that is an effective and widely studied chelating agent. But gradually, oral chelation scored over intravenous chelation. This is primarily because of the comparative cost involvements. While, intravenous chelation is definitely less expensive from bypass surgery or angioplasty, they are still costlier in comparison to oral chelation.
Then again, intravenous chelation involves painful process and runs the risks of infection and vascular intrusion.
They run the risk of incurring side effects like burning, redness and swelling at the place of injection, fever, fall of blood pressure, joint pain, rashes on skin, stomach upset, and irritation of the kidneys and liver occasionally. Oral chelation is as simple as taking one to two spoons full of doses, often based in honey or...
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Diet Programs
Recently, many diet programs have mushroomed in and around the United States. You could either go for a one-to-one counseling session or an interactive online diet program. For instance, websites like ediets.com, southbeachdiet.com and weightwatchers.com are among the most popular interactive diet programs.
Slimfast.com is another website, which offers not only free memberships to people who wish to reduce their weight, but also customized diet programs, free newsletters, testimonials and much more.
What matters when you take up a diet program is that you eat everything in a moderate measure rather than trying to completely stop eating or totally reducing your food intake to almost nothing.
Avoid eating oily foods or take them in moderation. Eating fresh fruits and vegetables and drinking lots of water help you reduce your weight.
Water therapy is one of the most popular methods of weight reduction while you are on a diet. You must drink...
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10 Easy to follow Tips to help YOU Lose Weight
Dieting is not easy.
If it were, we would probably all be thin. Since we are not, here are some tips that successful people use to lose weight so that others can benefit, too.
SUCCESS TIP NO. 1:
DRINK 8-10 GLASSES OF WATER EACH DAYOkay, for many people this is a big problem.
Water doesn't taste all that great generally because water doesn't really "taste" like anything.
Drinking water 8 to 10 times each day gets easier the more you actually do it.
It is simply a matter of conditioning your taste buds, and yourself, so that it becomes easier to do.
Once you get started, you will begin to crave water.To begin with, you should drink a glass of water in the morning first thing, before you eat.
This is probably the easiest glass you will drink all day and it will help you remember to drink water all day long.
Better yet, why not drink two glasses?If you really cannot bear the taste of water, try using a water purifying...
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Pets at home – troubles or fun?
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Pets, next to saprophytes, are nowadays considered to constitute the second major group of year-around allergens and play an important role in the development of allergic diseases. In all forms of atopic allergy (atopy), the presence of allergens in the surrounding environment is a necessary condition for the allergy to develop (to produce IgE), and later to intensify the symptoms of the disease and maintain a chronic inflammation of the diseased...
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How To Load A Horse Into A Trailer - Easy As Pie!
If there is an art to getting horses to load in a trailer, then this it.The first thing that must happen is communication between the horse and his handler. The horse must understand what is required of him and the handler must make it easy to understand.Thus, you must start by getting the horse to move forward in either direction. After a direction is established then get him moving in the opposite direction. A round pen is excellent for this purpose.When the horse gets good at moving both...
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Stand-up Comedy Addict? Comedian Identifies Stage Addiction
Is it possible for a comedian, comedy entertainer or humorous speaker to actually be addicted to the stage? Comedy guru Steve Roye points out some stunning similarities between an addict in search of a drug and a performer in search of stage time in a just released article entitled "Stage Addiction: Myth or Reality".Roye is quick to point out that unlike most addictions, stage addiction can have positive or negative ramifications, depending upon the skill level and expertise of the performer...
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