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Plan while storing decorations
By Times Staff Writer
Published December 31, 2005
For many people this is the weekend to pack away the holidays for another year. As you do so, take inventory: What do you need? Replace it at the post-holiday sales. Take pictures before you disassemble your decorations: the tree, the door, the hall table. It will be easier to set things up next year with those visual reminders. Pack each room or area separately so you need not unpack everything to do one area (create a mantel box, for example, or a stairway or foyer box). Create a "things I need first" box of items you need early in the season: the tree stand, the address list, cookie cutters for early baking. And here's help: Home Depot stores will offer a clinic on storing holiday decorations at 10 a.m. Jan. 7.
Bay area joins "Roadshow'
Antiques Roadshow taped last summer at the Tampa Convention Center. At 8 p.m. Jan. 9, 16 and 23 on WEDU-Ch. 3 you can see the treasures (or not-so-treasures) that local residents brought for appraisers to view.
Tips for making life simple
Starting at 3 p.m. Jan. 7 on WEDU-Ch. 3: Real Simple, the TV show. The popular magazine comes to the small screen with a 30-minute show hosted by Cydnee Welburn, Rob Keefe and Brooke Alexander, offering strategies to make busy lives easier and better.
Antique show continues
The Holiday Antiques Show and Sale continues through Sunday at Municipal Auditorium, 801 N Tamiami Trail, Sarasota. It's open 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. today, and noon to 5 p.m. New Year's Day. Admission is $5 and parking is free. Sixty dealers will show and sell antiques, fine arts, furniture, sterling, crystal, glass, jewelry, clothing, garden ornaments and exotic orchids. Information: www.dolphinfairs.com
Check out the "Dream' digs
At 9 p.m. Sunday, view the HGTV Dream Home 2006. This is the big annual sweepstakes, and this year's giveaway house is a custom-built home in the mountain resort community of Grey Rock at Lake Lure, N.C. Host Joan Steffend leads a tour through the house, valued in excess of $2-million. At 8 p.m. Monday through Friday,, watch a five-part series on the building of the house, Behind the Design of HGTV's Dream Home 2006, hosted by Gail O'Neill. Register to win the house at hgtv.com, or get mail-in information while you watch the shows.
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