Category: Local Round-Up
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CB Goes {Green}
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I saw this featured on News14 – a woman from Carolina Beach has come up with a great fabric wrapping system for gifts (all shapes and sizes) that reduces your paper waste and can be used year after year – and even all year long!In all honesty, I can’t totally…
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P.D.C.
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Pretty. Darn. Classy. (if you ask me):Red Hat cancels party; will feed needy instead “Red Hat recently scrapped plans for a massive holiday party. Instead, the Raleigh software company will donate the money it would have spent to a food charity chosen by employees. The move comes as the slumping…
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I’m Very Disappointed…
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…in blogland right now. People offer up a free preppy item, something monogrammed, etc. on their blog and folks comment from miles away and throw comment counts in to the hundreds. A Southern Accent, a fellow semi-local blogger, graciously offers to:“I thought I’d try something a little different. For every…
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Majorly DIY, Majorly Local
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So I was just checking out Spoonflower (after a recommendation from Southern) and doing the usual – sharing it on Google Reader, emailing it to people I’m not directly connected to on Google Reader, adding it to my Google Toolbar bookmarks (noticing a trend here?), and registering for the site…
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I Don’t Do “Scary”
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“I don’t do ‘scary’.” Those were my exact words to my favorite group of hooligans in our weekly “so what are we doing this weekend” group gmail conversation. However, because I’m almost always a good sport (assuming it’s not 7am), I’m still most likely going to do all of the…
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Good News, Good Vibes, and Good Tunes Today
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I feel awful today – I’m running on next to nothing but I am counting down the days (and minutes) ’til Wolfpack Football and after Labor Day… which is when the BF and I can finally get away on that vacay we’re both long overdue on! Luckily, my daily blog…
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Local Round-Up
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A collection of some good to know local info from yesterday’s blogosphere…From the retail business news goddess, Sue Stock:North Carolina’s Fresh Market stores have started stocking fresh shrimp that have been caught in NC waters. Add this to the ridiculously long list of things to do this Saturday:the Town of…
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Sleep-In for the Cure and Get Your Beauty Sleep, Too!
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A freebie for Lisa S. – because I really love Fred’s Beds’ commitment to Komen for the Cure. Fred’s Beds Continues Partnership with NC Komen for the Cure as First Corporate Sponsor for Sleep-In for the CureRaleigh, NC – In 2007, Fred’s Beds celebrated the grand opening of their 11th…
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Well Crap…
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Looks like the industry rumors are true… Nelson’s is closed (but it’s reopening, as Ashton says, as Foster’s … again). Check out the N&O article on all the happenings in Cameron Village. We’ll shall see what will become of the Nelson’s Late-Night and if Foster’s will offer something similar. In…