Kathy Passarette, L.I. Staging/Decorating

I read this news story this morning, and think it is a great, out-of-the-box and creative idea! Passengers (and employees) at Houston Airport were able to listen to and sing Karaoke while waiting in the airport. The songs were geared to seasonal renditions. What a great way to help pass the time if you had a delayed flight, especially with all these storms across our nation these past couple of weeks.

Here is a link to the article. I'm not a frequent flyer myself (or a singer), but it would certainly take my mind off sitting in an airport! I think all airports should consider bringing out some kind of entertainment when there is weather that causes delays or cancellations. It can't cost much and you will have happier people sitting in the terminals.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081220/ap_en_mu/airport_karaoke

Kathy Passarette and Creative Home Expressions are based on Long Island, New York (not far from MacArthur Airport) and offer interior decorating, home staging, interior redesign, color consultations and more. Please visit our website at www.creativehomeexpressions.com for more information on our services and fees.

I don't ride, but I have always appreciated the beauty of horses. Five beautiful horses rescued from a stable in September, are healthy once again thanks to the SPCA. The horses were taken to Indian Head Ranch in Huntington, and have been under the care of the owner, Wayne Dougal. The emaciated horses have regained much of their weight.

Four of the five horses are up for adoption, the fifth having been adopted by one of the veterinarians that treated him. Applications are due by next Wednesday and the adoption fee is $1,200.00. You can view additional pictures of these beautiful creatures at www.suffolkcountyspca.org. In the meantime, meet Belle, Everett, Lady and Little Rain:

Belle 12 yr. old mare (above)

Everett 7 yr. old gelding (above)

Lady 16 yr. old mare

Little Rain 4 yr. old mare (Photos courtesy of the Suffolk SPCA)

Kathy Passarette and Creative Home Expressions are located on Long Island, New York, and offer interior decorating, home staging, interior redesign and much more. Please visit our website at www.creativehomeexpressions.com for more information on our services and fees.

NYPA is dispensing free weatherization kits to customers of municipal power companies as a statewide energy efficiency blitz.

LIPA customers are not eligible for the kits.

According to Richard Kessel, Chief of the New York Power Authority, the free kits, which include compact fluorescent lightbulbs (CFL), weather stripping, caulking, thermometers and window sealants can save customers 10-15 percent on their energy bills. This is as a result of NYPA trustees approving a $5 million grant to fund the kits to families of four with incomes of $45,000.00 or less.

If you are a customer of NYPA and fit the family income level, you can contact NYPA for a free kit (914) 681-6200 .

To see the various CFL bulbs available and their uses (as well as other energy saving tips) visit the Energy Star website here http://www.energystar.gov/index.cfm?c=cfls.pr_cfls_shapes.

Kathy Passarette and Creative Home Expressions are based on Long Island, New York, and offer interior decorating, home staging, interior redesign and much more. Please visit our website at www.creativehomeexpressions.com for more information on our services and fees.

As part of our shopping services for the holidays, Creative Home Expressions is offering Personal Shopping for your holiday gifts. Don't have the time? Need some ideas? We charge a flat hourly fee for our "Personal Shopper For The Holidays" Program. Let us also buy your gift wrap and bows, and we will even wrap the gifts for you at no additional charge! All you have to do is sign the gift tag!



Our gift certificates also make great holiday gifts!

Kathy Passarette and Creative Home Expressions are located on Long Island, New York, and offer interior decorating, home staging, interior redesign, shopping services and much more. Please visit our website at www.creativehomeexpressions.com for further information on our services, fees and to contact us.

copyright 2008 Creative Home Expressions

I found this in our local paper online this morning, in their blog area. I think this is so cool, when you think that from on the ground it just looks like people standing around. I had to share it here, and with my fellow Long Islanders. This is about Commack Middle School students and staff taking the shape of a lighthouse.

To the students and staff: Have fun with it guys! I, for one, can't wait to see the finished picture!

With Mr. Daniel Dancer's permission, below is one of his Art for the Sky projects. Thank you Mr. Dancer - your work is stunning!

Commack Schools blog post starts here:

By Brenda Lentsch

Next Thursday at 9 a.m., 1,900 students and 200 staff members from the Commack Middle School will take the shape of a gigantic lighthouse representing the students' shining beams of knowledge, understanding and respect. This event will be the culmination of a five-day Art for the Sky program orchestrated by Oregon conceptual artist, author and educator, Daniel Dancer.

The program is sponsored by the Commack Middle School P.T.A. Arts in Education. Dancer conducts Art for the Sky programs across the US with the goal of creating giant living paintings with global messages in each state. Images of his collaborative work with schools can be viewed in the "sky gallery" on his website: www.artforthesky.com. The CMS lighthouse will include the largest number of participants of any of Dancer's projects to date.

The lighthouse image will be formed by participants wearing clothing representing our school colors (black, gold, and white) and other materials necessary to complete the design. In front of the school, participants will gather in designated areas to become "human drops of paint" forming an image that will only make sense from the sky. The lighthouse image embodies our school's vision of our students' touching others in the world by sending outward their beams of knowledge, understanding, and respect.

Dancer will photograph the huge design from a ladder truck raised 100 feet in the air. Working in conjunction with the Commack and Dix Hills Fire Department, Scott Dalrymple, 2nd Assistant Chief of the Greenlawn Fire Department, our community partner, will operate the ladder truck while artist Daniel Dancer takes photographs to make the image come alive.

"Art for the Sky" is an art form that has a history dating back 3,000 years. The varied teachings of Art for the Sky help participants awaken their "sky sight," a manner of viewing the world in a big-picture way that gives greater access to creative thinking and problem solving. In working together to create Art for the Sky, participants experience the power of collaboration and the benefits of interdependence. And, like the images of nature and endangered species Dancer has helped other schools to create, Commack Middle School will show how we are benefiting the planet by depicting a lighthouse to represent the light of knowledge, understanding and respect that our students radiate in our community and beyond, for a brighter future and a safer world. Brenda Lentsch handles public relations for Commack Public Schools.

Kathy Passarette and Creative Home Expressions are based on Long Island, New York, and offer interior decorating, home staging, interior redesign and much more. Please visit our website at www.creativehomeexpressions.com for further information on our services and fees.