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Create holiday harmony with Feng Shui Lighting, scents, plants all play in Lisa Evans Postmedia News The holidays are all about goodwill and cheer. Yet with parties to attend, gifts to purchase and meals to plan, it can also be the most stressful time of year. Using tips from the ancient Chinese art of Feng Shui, you can renew the positive energy in your heart and your home. Feng Shui focuses on creating balance. “When you’re experiencing stress, there is an imbalance in your life,” says Carolyn Crisp, a Feng Shui interior designer and owner of Enerchi Interiors in Ottawa. Using colour, lighting, placement and scent to create balance, Feng Shui restores tranquillity to your environment, allowing you to relax and enjoy the holiday season.

such as citrus, pine and cinnamon to create a joyful, festive mood.

Vary light sources Overhead lighting can be harsh, causing your energy to deplete and anxiety to increase, even manifesting in physical symptoms such as eye strain and headaches. Vary your light sources by making use of side lamps, holiday candles and tree lights to fill the space. Lighting the outside of your house can also help to create positive energy in your home. “Exterior home lighting creates a lively aura to the winter darkness as well as improving safety to get to your front door,” says Crisp. “Lighting aimed to encourage a guest to find your front door easily will also allow the energy to find the entry to your home and bring auspicious luck.”

Balance holiday decor While red and green are the dominant colours of the season, too much of either can be jarring. Green represents wood and red, fire. Too much of one element can cause you to feel imbalanced and become stressed, burnt-out

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Plants “Plants are (symbols of) life and growth, as well as being natural air purifiers in the environment,” says Crisp. However, not all plants have the same effect. Soft, roundedged plants are favoured in Feng Shui. “The chi (positive energy) can flow in and around the leaves much easier.”

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Use colour, lighting, placement and scent to restore tranquillity to your environment so you can relax and enjoy the holiday season, says interior designer Carolyn Crisp. and anxious. The low energy you may feel after the holidays is often created by this imbalance. Temper these strong e l e m e n t s by m i x i n g i n warm beiges and gold (representing the tones of the earth), cool white or silver (representing metal) and soothing blues (representing water).

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Placement Feng Shui places great importance on the placement of elements in the home. Crisp recommends placing your Christmas tree in the east or north corner. “East is the location of the wood element. And water, which supports the growth of wood, is the element of

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Essential oils Adding natural oils to your home not only tickles your nose, but improves your holiday mood. Crisp recommends the calming scents of vanilla, lavender and tuber rose to relieve holiday stress, and active aromas

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Hanging garland and lights in an upward “smile” can help to relieve seasonal sadness. “The upward concave or smile holds the energy in and circulating around your home, rather than a convex, upside down bowl, which would allow the chi to flow out and be lost,” says Crisp.

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Make resolutions that will last beyond the new year Stu Niebergall It is that time of the year when many of us are contemplating our New Year’s resolutions, like go to the gym, or a whole host of others. Then, like many people, we abandon these goals within a month or two. This year I am proposing some resolutions you can make that will benefit not only you, but also your family, your community and your world. Improve Your Home’s Safety — Home electrical problems account for a large number of fires during a typical year (In the U.S., home electrical problems account on average per year for 67,800 fires). Many of these risks can be mitigated by in-

specting appliance cords and immediately replacing any that are worn, old or damaged. Keep clothes, curtains and other potentially combustible items at least three feet from all heaters. Make sure electrical appliances are used and stored away from wet floors and counters. Your home’s windows need to be accessible in case your family has to use them as an escape route. Make sure they are not nailed or painted shut, and if they have guards, security bars, grills or grates, test the release mechanism to make sure it works. On the other hand, windows can pose a falling hazard. Make sure screens are secure, and keep furniture — or anything children can climb — away from window ledges. Save money by going green — prices for natural gas and electricity are rising, so even the smallest improvements could help your family’s budget. Replacing incandescent light bulbs with compact

fluorescents can save you up to three-quarters of the electricity previously used by incandescent bulbs. LED lights will save you even more. Put an insulating blanket on your water heater. This can reduce standby heat loss by 25 to 45 per cent, and save four to nine per cent in water heating costs. The blankets can be purchased at Rona or Lowes for under $35. Add a programmable thermostat to lower temperature four to five degrees during the night or at times when you are not at home. On average, this can save two per cent on your heating bill when you lower the average temperature in your home by one degree. Conserve water, and reduce your water bill, by making simple changes, such as running dishwashers and clothes washers only when they are full and taking short showers instead of baths and turning off the water when you are shampooing or soaping. Invest in a low-flow shower

head and use up to 70 per cent less water. If you are looking at a new furnace, ensure it has a variable speed DC motor. This can save more than 15 per cent on heating costs. Your central air conditioner will not need to run as much with this solution. Replace your furnace filter. When the air flow is restricted due to a clogged filter, your furnace runs longer, using more power and gas. Furnace filters should be changed every three months. If you are considering building a new home and really want to save money, many of our Regina Builders can build you an entire Energy Star Home that will substantially reduce energy consumption and work seamlessly with your lifestyle. You can find a list of Energy Star Builder at www.reginahomebuilders.com De-clutter and help others — donating your unused items to charity could be a lifesaver for homeless or needy families. If it’s in good condi-

tion, out-of-style or outgrown clothing could keep a family warm during the winter Take advantage of local charities like the Salvation Army, who accept donations of household items in working order. That lamp, toaster or set of dishes gathering dust in the garage could help furnish a home for a needy family. When you redecorate or remodel, don’t put out-of-style-but-usable home furnishings such as light fixtures, bathroom vanities, and even door knobs in the garbage. Habitat for Humanity ReStore will take and re-sell them at a fraction of the cost of new, and the proceeds help build Habitat for Humanity homes. Like so many resolutions you can make in the New Year, remember that if you make a resolution to take care of your home, your home will take care of you. Stu Niebergall is president and CEO of the Regina & Region Home Builders’ Association

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Sweep chimney for little problems before they become big mIKE HOLMES Make it Right

Nothing says the holidays like the smell of a burning fire — it’s one of my favourite scents during this season. But before the first log starts to crackle we need to make sure our chimneys are up for the job. A fireplace that doesn’t function properly is a serious safety risk to our families. Ideally, we want smoke going out and heat coming in — and maybe Santa too. There are plenty of different types of fireplaces: traditional masonry wood-burning fireplaces; gas; electric; wood pellet; even fireplaces that run on alcohol. But no matter what type of fireplace you have, it needs proper maintenance — and so does the chimney. Annual fireplace and chimney inspections should be part of your home’s regular maintenance schedule. Among the problems you can run into if your chimney isn’t maintained is a chimney fire, which can spread in a matter of moments to your entire home. Every working chimney’s flue must be inspected and cleaned every year — no exception. This will help make sure there isn’t a block or a crack in the flue that can lead

to toxic fumes — like carbon monoxide — entering your home. Even a hairline crack once heated can open up as much as a full centimetre. A cracked flue also lets heat and smoke travel to other areas in your home, which is dangerous. A woodburning fireplace with a cracked flue causes creosote to build up a lot quicker. Creosote, or soot for short, is extremely combustible. It’s basically tiny unburned flammable particles that accumulate inside your chimney’s walls. If creosote builds up all you need is a tiny spark to start a chimney fire, which chimneys aren’t built to withstand. A proper inspection of your fireplace can also reveal if the damper has a tight seal. Sometimes bits of mortar fall from inside the chimney. This can stop the damper from completely sealing. If it doesn’t seal properly you’ll lose heat. That’s a big waste if energy efficiency is what you’re after. Your fireplace’s ash pit also needs to be checked; once every other year is enough. But if the ashes seem soggy and hard to remove, you might have a leak. If that’s the case it’s better to fix this sooner rather

than later. Chimneys are prime spots for water damage and leaks. The masonry and mortar can absorb moisture. If there’s anything screwed to the chimney, like an old television aerial, it just gives more points where water and moisture can come in. When they do, the mortar and brick will deteriorate over time. A good inspector will check the bricks, mortar, chimney cap and flashing. If your chimney’s mortar is deteriorating the bricks will get loose — a huge vulnerability to more water penetrating into your home’s structure. To fix this the mortar needs to be repointed, which means scraping out the old and refilling it with new mortar. It might sound like an easy job but you need to find someone with a bit of skill and practice. A bad job will be obvious — and it won’t be pretty. Proper sealing is crucial where the chimney’s base meets the roofing material. There should be metal flashing here. If it’s missing, poorly installed or needs repair, water can get under the shingles and rot the roof deck underneath. Most routine chimney repairs

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what you need 2 lb. (900 g) russet potatoes (6), peeled, cubed 1 pkg. (250 g) Philadelphia Brick Cream Cheese, cubed 1 cup sour cream 2 green onions, chopped

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Remove drippings from turkey pan and transfer to non-stick sauce pan. On medium/high heat brown the drippings stirring continuously while slowly wisking in ﬂour, should be forming a pasty mixture but not clumpy. Add vegetable liquid, oxo/stock, bay leaves and stir until boils, then lower heat and continue stirring until thickens . If not using vegetable liquid use more chicken stock. Can season with a little pepper, sage and addition chicken oxo to taste. If gravy is too watery, then make a mixture with a tbsp of ﬂour and 1/2 cup cold water (mixed well with no clumps) and stir slowly into gravy until desired thickness is achieved.

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• If not using ng a fresh fres resh h turkey, tturk urkey, thaw aw your you turkey slowly wly in fridge, usually 3-4 days. • Remove the giblets, neck, etc. which is inside of turkey and rinse the entire turkey well with cold water and pat the inside dry with paper towel. • Stuff the cavity with a mixture of largely chopped pieces of carrot, onion & celery that is seasoned with salt, pepper, savory (sage) and rosemary. This will add ﬂavor & moisture while cooking and to be discarded after turkey is cooked, not served. • Lightly brush the turkey with olive oil and lightly season the entire outside with pepper, garlic powder, rosemary & sage (or any other herbs that you wish, try basil, oregano or marjoram) • Bake uncovered according to weight chart instructions on packaging, usually 4-5 hrs at 350 but this depends on size/weight of turkey • Baste frequently with drippings. Cover with foil for the last hour of cooking if getting too browned.

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• COOK and stir ﬁrst 4 ingredients in half the dressing in large skillet on medium heat 8 to 10 min. or just until vegetables are crisp-tender. • ADD remaining dressing; cook 2 to 3 min. or until heated through, stirring occasionally. • TOP with nuts.

1/2 cup ﬂour 2-3 cups of liquid from cooked vegetables (ie potato or carrots) 1-2 cups of chicken oxo stock 2-3 bay leaves

The secret to this great stufﬁng is lots of onion and celery. Chop or cube bread into large bowl. Saute onions & celery in a generous amount of butter until tender crisp (not browned). Season onion mixture generously with salt, pepper, sage or savory and rosemary. Add onion mixture to bread crumbs/cubes and toss until bread is well mixed, add oxo or stock sparingly to moisten but do not make soggy. Transfer into buttered slow cooker or casserole. Slow cooker on high for 1 hr, then low for 2-3 hrs, stirring occasionally or bake in oven.

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• Rinse and trim sour cabbage in cold water. • Cook rice according to package directions in a mixture of half water and half tomatoe juice and cool. • Mix meat with onion, garlic, cooked rice and 1/2 cup of water & tomatoe juice mixture. • Season to taste with salt, pepper, paprika and a dash of Worschestershire or Franks’ hot sauce. (I use lots of seasoning) • Use trimmed pieces of cabbage to line slower cooker or roaster to prevent scorching. Roll meat mixture in cabbage leaves and pack tightly in roaster or slow cooker. Cover with bacon slices and ﬁll with remaining tomatoe juice/water mixture. Bake covered in oven for 1 1/2 - 2 hours at 350 or 5 - 6 hours in slow cooker on high.

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The Nutcracker and his kin a holiday collectible Wood dolls come in all kinds of dress Samantha Critchell THE ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW CANAAN, Conn. — The gang’s all here: the football fan, the chef, the teacher and the skier. And there’s the Nutcracker prince from E.T.A. Hoffmann’s classic Christmas story, who inspired them all. The quaint Whitney Shop here is just one of so many home-goods stores filled with this granddaddy and all his offspring that people are collecting and turning into family traditions of their own. Some become an annual gift — Whitney Shop owner Karen Stinchfield and her grown children make sure there is a new version of the Nutcracker under the tree each year for her husband to enjoy — while other people come in to the store during the holiday season to see which new characters have joined the pack. They start calling before Halloween to find out when the display is going up. The wooden dolls, many of which will really crack your walnuts and macadamias, are increasingly popular in holiday decor, although they are hardly new. The classic Nutcracker soldier, with sword in hand and a prominent moustache, comes from Hoffmann’s early 19th-century tale The Nutcracker and the Mouse King. Soon there were kings and policemen as carvers sought to embrace normally stern authority figures, according to Wade Bassett, director of operations for Yankee Candle’s flagship store.

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Nutcrackers, many of which really do the job for which they are named, originate from the early 19th-century tale The Nutcracker and the Mouse King, and are made mainly in Germany, selling to collectors around the world. Legend has it those toughguy exteriors were intended to ward off evil, while deep down, as in Hoffmann’s story, the Nutcracker is most interested in his owner’s happiness. In 1892, at the request of the Moscow Imperial Theatres, Peter Illyich Tchaikovsky set the story to music and Marius Petipa choreographed the dances to create one of the world’s most famous and beloved ballets, The Nutcracker. But beyond the ballet, decorative nutcracker characters, often with high-top hats and square jawlines, have become a sign of the season. And there’s a little more room to have fun with them than with, say, Santa Claus, who is always expected to

The skier, the golfer and the football player are among the variety of Nutcrackers that reflect the interests and lives of those who collect the painted wooden creatures. have on his red suit and rosy cheeks, says Rebecca Proctor, creative director of upscale U.S. home-goods retailer Mackenzie-Childs. Stinchfield sees all types

of holiday nutcrackers, from kitschy to elegant, and all types of fans. There are the customers drawn in because their daughter once wore a sugar

plum tutu on the school stage; the Civil War buff looking for the Union soldier; the Disney aficionado in search of the Geppetto/Pinocchiothemed nutcracker; and the biker come for the HarleyDavidson dude. Bari Murdock has a baker, but hers holds a miniature gingerbread house. She also has a skier nutcracker, purchased two decades ago in Austria, which has moved around the world with her. Murdock, an interior stylist, is having her first Christmas in Chile after living in Connecticut for years. She was happy to unpack the nutcrackers. “It’s not quite like an ornament, some inanimate object. It’s like a little man. You open

the box and say, ‘Oh hi, I’m glad you made the move and I’m glad you made it in one piece,’” Murdock says. She wants her children to remember them as part of their holiday celebration. Mackenzie-Childs wants to make a new holiday nutcracker an annual tradition, offering a limited-edition one each year. Proctor went this season with a royal-court jester theme. Elsewhere, the Nutcracker has inspired ornaments, paper goods and even dish towels. At Yankee Candle’s flagship store in South Deerfield, Mass., in its Bavarian-castle room, there’s a nutcracker section complemented by beer steins and cuckoo clocks. “Nutcrackers are for someone who has spirit,” Proctor says. “I’m sure a lot of people who collect nutcrackers have no idea where they come from, where they’re made or where the tradition started, but we’ve studied them!” Many of the most traditional ones are made in Germany in the type of snowy mountain towns you’d imagine, she says. “We are convinced the people working on them are descendants of Santa Claus. They pay incredible attention to detail and quality.” Sales, however, are just as strong in warm-weather places, says Proctor. Some decorative nutcrackers are gifts, but she suspects just as many go right into personal collections. “Some people have dozens of their own. They love them to death for a few weeks and then tuck them away,” Proctor says. “It’s the best of both worlds.” The Stinchfield family collection, however, stays up year-round. “T hey just make you smile,” Stinchfield says.

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The Groat Estates home was built in 1912. The loft over the garage of the home in Edmonton’s Westmount neighbourhood is a more recent addition.

Celebrating 100 years with style Edmonton home gets a loving facelift Scott McKeen For Postmedia News EDMONTON — It was a surprise to find Faith Farthing living in such conditions. We worked together years ago. I was a newspaper weekend assignment editor. Faith worked part time on the support staff. On weekends, she answered phones. So that’s where memory left her — as a university student, working part-time. So yes, it was a bit of a shock when I first visited this historic, grand house of hers in tony Groat Estates, part of the Edmonton neighbourhood called Westmount. A shock, at least, to a longtime journalist living in a wee downtown condo. Yet Faith earned every square foot of this home. While I was out golfing, or practising guitar — perhaps napping — she was working, building up a successful communications firm. The timing is perfect for her home reveal. Faith sunk considerable money into the place these last few months. Why? The house was built in 1912. A 100th birthday demands to be celebrated. New hardwood floors were installed on the main floor. Most of the home was repainted and the light fixtures replaced. The home’s facelift wasn’t its first, though. The previous owners did a significant update to the home. They also added a front garage and topped it with a gorgeous loft space. In fact, it was the bonus room above the garage that sold Faith on the house. She was looking in 2004 for a home that could double as an office for her communications business. She wandered into this house, saw the upstairs room and was hooked. The bonus room, with its angled ceiling, fireplace, wood floors and ample, natural light is spacious, yet warm and cosy. But it was the luxurious, sofa-like window seat that closed the deal. Faith pictured herself with a hot mug of tea, lounging by the window and reading manuscripts or editing documents — something she’s done many times since. The house is 1,800 square feet. The basement is partially finished. Out front is a lovely enclosed porch, with room enough for a small

Farthing’s cat curls up on one of her home’s old-fashioned hot-water radiators.

Communications expert Faith Farthing has spent many a day editing and proofreading in this, her favourite spot in her beautiful loft workspace.

Farthing’s home has a formal living room next to the house’s spacious entryway

Faith Farthing uses this loft addition as her home office. party. Inside, the feel is more formal. The living room is open to the dining area, which is open to the kitchen, tucked behind a serving counter. With the old-style hot-water radiators, gas fireplace and traditional decor — including her grandfather’s 130-year-old piano — the main floor evokes a sense of warmth and welcome. Upstairs is the aforementioned office-loft, as well as a guest room, master bedroom and loo, with a vintage clawfoot tub. When Faith bought the home she researched it in city archives. She learned it was first owned by a Sir Edmund Trowbridge. The Trowbridge home, she also lear ned, was equipped in 1918 with one of those newfangled communications devices, a telephone.

Now it is equipped with d i g i t a l t e ch n o l o g y a n d owned by a woman who parlayed a gift for communications nitpickery into a successful business. Farthing is one hell of a proofreader and editor. She tells the story of driving one day in town and suddenly feeling a bit antsy. Something was bothering her. She looked around and discovered the cause: A typo on a portable sign. She can spot mistakes in her peripheral vision. “It’s a gift, though some people might see it as a curse,” Faith says with a laugh. Her company, FinalEyes Communications, became a going concern on Faith’s talent and work ethic. It was nothing for Faith to still be working late on a Friday or Saturday evening.

A recent passion is book publishing. Faith has published three books and has four in the works under her publishing business, Roadie Books. She works tirelessly to promote her authors. I know this because she’s picked my brain and twisted my arm on their behalf. Returning the favour, I demanded to write about her and her home. She agreed, mostly because she loves the old house. “It’s cosy and it’s got character,” Faith says. Yet she’s not done with the facelift. She’s built a patio along one side of the house. Now she plans to install garden doors to open up to that patio from the dining room. Man, that looks like a lot of work. Apparently, not to Faith.

A vintage claw foot tub in the upstairs bathroom is a nod to Farthing’s home’s deep history.

Faith Farthing’s home’s previous owners completed a comprehensive renovation, including this updated kitchen.

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