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For those who wish to redecorate their homes, it can be tricky to find just the right fabric. It is not easy to find matching options for both drapery and furnishings or even complementing choices to help pull a look together. Now, Luxury Fabrics is offering drapery and upholstery fabrics at everyday low prices so that more customers can enjoy their quality home decorating fabrics.

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For those who enjoy interior design but have a limited budget, Luxury Fabrics now offers both luxury upholstery fabrics wholesale and drapery fabrics wholesale. Those with a fewer redecorating dollars will now be able to enjoy the beauty and glamour of luxurious design fabrics without the high-end cost. Customers can match upholstery to fit both their furniture and their drapery, or choose colors and patterns that complement each other for a pulled-together look. Those with smaller budget can now enjoy a more beautiful home environment that suits their taste and is a reflection of their personal style.

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Among Nintendos numerous announcements last night was also confirmation of a brand new Animal Crossing spin-off.

Animal Crossing: Happy Home Designer, due out this autumn on 3DS, sees gamers playing as an interior decorator who must create amiable living quarters for an assortment of characters.

The game will also usher in Nintendos first Amiibo Cards. These work in exactly the same way as the Amiibo figurines, using an in-built NFC chip to communicate with the Wii U or New 3DS XL.

Older 3DS models will require the use of an upcoming external NFC reader, which is now due out on the same day.

The Animal Crossing cards will allow players to introduce additional in-game extras such as new characters. And, as you might expect, the Amiibo Cards will retail for less than the figures, although the final prices have not yet been confirmed.

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Exterior of the Folly. Photo courtesy of Michael Blevins Photography.

Built in 1880 and once billed as "The Strangest Home in the World," Krner's Folly in Kernersville, N.C. celebrated its 135th anniversary last Saturday. But it is not really a home in the conventional sense. Artist, decorator, interior designer, and "Man of a Thousand Peculiarities" Jule Gilmer Krner conceived of this structure as an entertaining space, bachelor quarters, horse stables, studio andmost importantlyshowroom for the wares of his Reuben Rink Decorating and House Furnishing Company.

Today, the population of Kernersville is approximately 23,000, but when Krner finished the Folly in 1880, the town was home to 200 people. Heading toward historic downtown Kernersville, you pass the usual suspects of Southern suburban AmericaCVS, Walmart, Hibachi Grill, Cookout, Biscuitville, and several gas stationsbut soon you leave these reminders of the present behind. The Folly is situated right up against South Main Street, as a business would have been in the late nineteenth century, in all its now-anomalous Victorian grandeur.

The Folly stands 100 feet high, with a "privy," or outhouse, also on the property. It was built with eight different sizes of bricks, which were made on the premises. The sheer variety of building materials was only one aspect of the variety that defined the house. From the outside, the Folly doesn't look particularly odduntil you notice its six chimneys. These are the first sign of what will also characterize the interior: endless options, designed to tempt the customer.

In 1785, Krner's grandfather Joseph left his town of Furtwangen in the Black Forest region of Germany, where he had been working as a business representative for a manufacturer and dealer in clocks, and moved to the Friedland settlement in central North Carolina, several miles south of present-day Kernersville. He established a business making watches and clocks, ran an inn, and eventually acquired more than 1,000 acres of land that he passed on to his three childrenSalome, Johann Frederick, and Philipwhen he died at the age of 61. Jule Gilmer was born in 1851, the last of Philip's eleven children. He was educated in art in Philadelphia and set up a business in Cincinnati as an artist and designer, but when his father died in 1875, he returned to Kernersville.

The Folly struck people as odd when it was under construction. The name came from a passing farmer's exclamation that the building would prove to be "Krner's Folly," but Krner wasn't offendedin fact, he loved the name. As with many histories in North Carolina, his is bound up in the tobacco industry, which prepared him to take on the Folly by honing both his appetite for controversy and his advertising skills. For several years in the early 1880s, he painted outdoor billboards for Durham's Blackwell Tobacco Company, manufacturer of Bull Durham products. The advertisements, which were sometimes as large as 80 x 150 feet and appeared on barns, buildings, and boulders all across the country, were known for their anatomically correct bulls, which some found scandalous. Krner seems to have enjoyed this. In fact, he even wrote letters to the local paper, posing as miffed young women and demanding the removal of the ads.

Having advertised someone else's product in the past, he was more than prepared to advertise his own. "Reuben Rink," the pseudonym he had used to sign his bull advertisements, became the name of his interior design business. The Folly would be his ultimate marketing tool. When Krner devised this unique showroom, most of Kernersville's residents would have selected decorating materials from catalogues and printed advertisements. Krner took the catalog and made it a physical space. Where catalogs had transformed the real into representation, he transformed representations back into the real.

His customers were wealthy, and they sought large pieces to suit their large housesnot unlike today's suburban consumers who fetishize the space-filling designs of mass producers such as Pottery Barn and Restoration Hardware. (Approximately 90 percent of the furniture in the house today is original.) The enormous floor-to-ceiling buffet in the dining room was built in the room and has not been moved since. He also stocked the Folly with wallpaper books, fabric swatches, and other materials that customers could peruse. Ultimately, these materials could be compiled into custom sketches, a movement back to representation after the client had absorbed all the options the Folly had to offer.

And the options proliferated. The house had multiple levels and ceiling heights ranging from five-and-a-half to 25 feet. Every doorway and window was unique. Murals were painted on walls, ceilings, and even the undersides of staircases. Fifteen fireplaces showcased tiles of different colors and designs by both Krner and the American Encaustic Tile Company in Zanesville, OH (likely ordered from their New York showrooms). The carved woodwork throughout the interior represented Krner's signature patterns that could be arranged in different combinations: roping, beading, and egg and dart. The wainscoting alone contains approximately 10,000 feet of bead molding, all of which was carved by hand. Even the utilitarian cellar was outfitted with tile and other decorative motifs, and some of the mosaic patterns on the floors mimicked carpeting or rugs and can also be found on the porches, which were added in 1906.

The reception room upstairs was designed for social events, complete with conversation chairs and corners draped in green curtains to hide canoodling couples. Krner liked to entertain, and welcoming customers into the Folly was another form of hospitality, albeit a more commercial one. The house was peculiarly positioned between the public and the private, and it partook of both. Krner anticipated the customer's desires and attempted to answer them by offering plenitude. Would you like this fireplace? Or this one? Or perhaps something that combines the two? Each room suggested infinite combinations of elements: wallpaper, carvings, furniture, curtains, carpets, and tapestries.

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AVON PARK - Through herself and her father, shes a local connection to one of the most historical events in United States history.

Throughout late 1962 and into 1963, Loretta Bartletts father, Frank Boerder, worked for Jack Ruby, the nightclub operator in Dallas. Nov. 24, 1963, Ruby fatally shot Lee Harvey Oswald, who was in police custody after being charged with the murder of President John F. Kennedy two days earlier.

Boerder was a German immigrant, raised in New York City who was living in Dallas and worked as an artist and interior decorator. In the late 1940s, he had moved to Dallas from Lima, Ohio, with his second wife and three of his daughters, including Bartlett, now 65, and living in southeast Avon Park.

In the living room of her Anglers Stream road home, Bartlett spoke about seeing her father work at Rubys nightclub, the Carousel Club, a burlesque venue in south Dallas. There, at 10 or 11 years old, she said she remembers meeting Ruby on several occasions and the black hat he always wore.

She also remembered her father telling her Ruby said he came to Dallas to be a hit man. Thats what he told me.

He seemed pretty laid back, a nice guy, she said. They(Ruby and her father) were pretty close. My dad got pretty emotional when he (Ruby) did what he did.

Bartlett - who works as an instructor at Cloud Nine Beauty School, Avon Park - said she isnt sure exactly how her father and Ruby originally got in contact. She said her father, who died in 1971, mentioned a wealthy business owner who was backing the club that may have put the two men in contact. That man may have been Joe Slatin, according to a Dec. 19, 1963, FBI report,

Bartlett said one of her most prized possessions, which she has stored in a safe-deposit box in Lima, Ohio, is a voided check which on the back, Ruby had written her father a note. On it, he wrote: Dear Frank, I stopped in to see you. Stop by and see me at the club. The note was left at the Carousel for Boerder.

I still find it strange that my dad saved that note from Jack Ruby, she said.

A bit of what Boerder knew about Ruby and Oswalds murder is outlined The Warren Report, the presidents commission on the assassination of Kennedy. Boerder was mentioned after three to four months of being investigated by the Federal Bureau of Investigation and on page 363, the report mentions Bertha Cheeks, the sister of a housekeeper where assassination suspect Lee Harvey Oswald lived. The report states Cheeks visited Ruby at his club Nov. 18, 1963, met an interior decorator and stopped in to possibly provide financial backing in Rubys new nightclub.

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One to Watch: Ashley Clarks Ban on Beige

Interior decorator Ashley Clark is one to watch on the Orange County design scene. The Salt Lake City native lives in Newport Beach with her husband and four kids, and is staking her design claim with an online shop as well as a growing roster of residential design clients. Clarks boutique, Skout, specializes in pillows and accessories made of vintage fabrics (think everything from African mud cloth to recycled denim), while her interior design work is all about creating homes that reflect her clients personalities and lifestyles. I like quirk. I dont want peoples homes to feel like a model home too perfect or no personality, says Clark, who often mixes high and low elements. Im able to incorporate some Home Depot or Ikea into a million-dollar home.

When it comes to making high functioning, high-impact spaces, Clark relies on her favorite color (white) and then plays off that canvas with strategic bursts of color, art and pattern. I love contrast, like white sofas, because pillows, art and accessories pop off them. I love dark sofas for the same reason. Her least favorite design element? Tan or beige sofas as in everything blends. Yuck!

When it comes to papering walls, Clark takes a less-is-more approach. Relying on both hip and traditional companies such as Farrow & Ball, Hygge & West, as well as Cole & Son, she prefers papering just one wall in a room or taking wallpaper to the ceiling. I love wallpaper in small spaces. It makes a bigger impact! :: shopskout.com

Spring Fling Head to Farrow & Balls new Costa Mesa showroom and access hundreds and hundreds of wall coverings from the British company. Previously only available to the trade, Farrow & Balls papers and eco-friendly paints are still made in Dorset, England, and this springs collection of modern takes on classic designs offers a subtle punch of style to any room. :: farrow-ball.com :: 714.438.2448

Hot Stuff Couture cooking? Well take a double serving. La Cornue ranges are serious artisan-manufactured stoves and ovens, now available to your specifications in size and color. Our pick for the French-made ovens? Tiffany Blue, the pinnacle of culinary chic. Available at Pirch :: thepirch.com :: 949.429.0800

Furniture Rehab Looking for a fresh take on the annual spring clean? Peinture Studios painting workshops give DIY decorators an ace resource for rehabbing furniture and bringing new life to rooms. Heres the concept: Bring in your own piece of furniture to the studio at SoCo and learn the tricks to refurnishing both heirloom and new pieces by using chalk paint which, unlike other paints, requires no sanding or priming. A great variety of colors is available, whether you want to redo grandmas dining chairs in Shabby Chic white or cant-miss salmon. Classes are $95 and are offered April 7, 12 and 18. :: peinturestudios.com :: 714.427.0668

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WILKES-BARRE To celebrate her 60th anniversary of becoming a Sister of Mercy, Sister Miriam Stadulis went skydiving.

It was wonderful, she said, remembering how she jumped in tandem with an instructor last August at the Hazleton Municipal Airport. At 10,000 feet you just fall out of the plane and you free-fall until the parachute opens and then you rock back and forth and its beautiful.

Thats what I keep telling everybody, she said. Enjoy the ride of life and try to help people along the way.

If youd like to meet a group of volunteers who seem dedicated to following Stadulis advice on both counts, stop by the McGlynn Learning Center, an after-school program Stadulis founded 27 years ago at the Boulevard Townhomes in Wilkes-Barre.

A second location opened subsequently at another low-income housing development in the city, Mineral Springs Village, and today both sites are places where volunteers nurture children and help them with homework after school.

Youre working with kids that are loving and needy, said Elizabeth Griesmer of Shavertown, a 25-year volunteer known for offering encouragement as well as LifeSavers candy that she brings from home. They need to be loved. They need to be taught. They need to feel that they are special.

On April 8 at Genetti Hotel and Conference Center in Wilkes-Barre, a committee will honor both Stadulis and Griesmer for their service to at-risk children. Tickets are $25 and all proceeds will benefit the McGlynn Learning Center after-school program, where young people typically start filing in between 2:30 and 3 p.m.

Among the earliest arrivals on a recent Monday were three young women who were happy to talk about their career goals. Brendalis Pena, 13, said shed like to be an interior decorator, Melissa Laureano, 13, dreams of becoming a bilingual teacher and Yanna Lorenzo, 14, wants to become an obstetrician/gynecologist.

As the trio sat down to work on a writing project, Lorenzo admitted shes not too fond of science.

Girlfriend, you want to be a medical doctor! Sister Eleace King reminded her. Youve got to work on the science.

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