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<title>Moms give themselves a timeout</title>
<description><![CDATA[      CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- These women hold wine tastings, themed dinners and offer massages and spa treatments. They belong to a book club, film club and have private yoga classes and lessons in soccer.  Their full social calendars are tempting enough to ...]]></description>
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<title>Everyday items have alternative uses</title>
<description><![CDATA[      CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- I received an email the other day. Perhaps youve seen it. The email contained slides of creative and practical uses for everyday items. Some I had seen. Others elicited a slap-up-the-side-of-my-head, &quot;why didnt I think of th...]]></description>
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<title>Natural oils key in womans cleaning service</title>
<description><![CDATA[          CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Darlene Rose is as natural as the oils she uses in her home, on her body and, sometimes, even in her food. Essentially, health issues led to a new career, a new outlook and a new, vigorous life for Rose.  Several years ago, s...]]></description>
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<title>Elvis Christmas décor has Winfield woman all shook up</title>
<description><![CDATA[      WINFIELD, W.Va. -- Elvis has not left the building. Especially during the Christmas season.  Visitors are assured of that fact as they arrive at Rene Winters house -- the license plate on the van out front reads &quot;EP 4EVR.&quot; And then you walk...]]></description>
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<title>Family resurrects Nativity murals after decades in storage</title>
<description><![CDATA[      HURRICANE, W.Va. -- Margaret Naylors faith and love of art prompted an unusual commission in 1958. The Hurricane woman and her husband, Paul, commissioned an artist to paint a larger-than-life Christmas mural of the Nativity, using their young daught...]]></description>
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<title>Charleston decorates its doors for Christmas</title>
<description><![CDATA[              CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- They say you cant make a second first impression. Our neighbors throughout the Kanawha Valley impressed us with their holiday finery, so we sent Gazette-Mail photographers Chris Dorst, Chip Ellis, Kenny Kemp and Lawrence ...]]></description>
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<title>A creative Christmas at the Capitol</title>
<description><![CDATA[              CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Children make them and mothers save them. Those handmade Christmas tree ornaments assembled and glued in kindergarten and grade school, Sunday-school classes and Scout meetings. Often rustic, maybe gaudy, but always capab...]]></description>
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<title>Culloden woman has collected 4,000 Hallmark ornaments</title>
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<title>Online exhibit showcases Charlestons historic houses</title>
<description><![CDATA[      CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Have you ever walked along Kanawha Boulevard and wondered how old one of those houses is. Or driven up Edgewood Drive and wondered who built that big, beautiful mansion.  Well, now the answers are at your fingertips.  A new onlin...]]></description>
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<title>Into the Garden: Hydrating mix fireproofs Christmas tree</title>
<description><![CDATA[      CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- My friend Scott Mourier sent this Christmas tree fireproofing solution to me recently, and I find it fascinating. Scott works at Dow, and he said while hes never tried the solution, it sounds reasonable to him.  Its from the Loui...]]></description>
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<title>W.Va. woman helps decorate White House for Christmas</title>
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<title>German-style decorations well-loved</title>
<description><![CDATA[      CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- James Dingess loves &quot;putzing&quot; around his Charleston house in November, decorating for Christmas. And he knows the origin of the word &quot;putzing&quot; and how it relates to the holiday season.  &quot;The putz sheep we...]]></description>
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<title>Nominate a decked-out door</title>
<description><![CDATA[      CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Were looking for doors dressed for the season. Have you seen a door with an elegant, primitive, flashy, traditional or natural look that caught your eye. Give us the address, or even a photo, and well check it out. Email Rosalie ...]]></description>
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<title>Aluminum branches shake shiny memories out of family tree</title>
<description><![CDATA[          CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- The assignment was simple: Does anyone on the newspapers feature staff have a story to share of a retro Christmas tree from their past. Victorian or aluminum, say. Perhaps overly tinseled.  In less time than it takes to say &...]]></description>
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<title>Holiday retro: A host of Christmas past</title>
<description><![CDATA[          CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Theyre dreaming of a retro Christmas.  Shoppers of a certain age who wander through holiday displays at vintage and antique shops nearly always say the same thing. &quot;Awww. I remember those. My mom/grandmother had one.&quo...]]></description>
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Sat, 03 Dec 2011 23:45:00 -0500
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<title>Book examines the houses of Jefferson County</title>
<description><![CDATA[      CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- &quot;Uncommon Vernacular: The Early Houses of Jefferson County, West Virginia, 1735-1835&quot; is an uncommonly handsome book whose rangy subtitle sounds deceptively narrow. Yet this new book by John C. Allen Jr. turns out to en...]]></description>
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Sat, 12 Nov 2011 23:00:00 -0500
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<title>Dazzling dahlias dot St. Albans retiree's yard</title>
<description><![CDATA[      ST. ALBANS, W.Va. -- Reginald Jacobs has 84 dahlia species in his St. Albans yard. And hes been growing them for 70 years.  &quot;My timeline for understanding the best life cycle for growing dahlias started 70 years ago helping my mother teach me he...]]></description>
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<title>‘Green' house is earth- and family-friendly</title>
<description><![CDATA[              BARBOURSVILLE, W.Va. -- Halcyon Moses is passionate but not preachy. Throw in practical and creative, add architect Ed Weber and Jarrett Construction, and its the blueprint for an award-winning, eco-friendly house.  Halcyon and her husband, J...]]></description>
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