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ONE of the more popular items that often finds itself as a New Years resolution is getting the house tidied up.

And unlike a few others, it does actually get done! Partly thanks to a superstition of how its supposed to symbolize getting rid of bad luck. In any case, the challenge lies in how to keep this goal until the end of the yearand no, asking your housekeeper to do it doesnt count.

Here are a few tips, paired with insights by budding interior decorator Erika Joan Ong, on how to do it rightthat is, create a home thats cleverly organized and clutter-free, and how to keep it that way for the next 11 months.

Theres certainly no room for messor excusesthis 2015.

Dont be a packrat

See those paper bags you left lying on the floor because you havent decided if youre throwing them or keeping them because they might be handy someday? Well, someday is too vague of a word, and the next thing you know you just piled up an eyesore in the middle of your bedroom. Give away or donate things you do not need or see yourself using anymore, Erika commentsor sell them perhaps. A clever trick of achieving this is through the Four Box Method come cleaning day. Get three boxes; label each one with storage, give/sell and put away; place them next to the trash bin (the fourth box), and simply toss whatever item to its respective box. Keep only the essential!

Label it

Compartmentalize your shelves, drawers and cabinets; designate a specific space for a group of items and label it. Shoes go there, cleaning supplies go here. It makes putting things away faster, and unlike just stuffing it all inside the storage closet, itll make it easier for you to find things when you need them.

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CINCINNATI - The Very Reverend Gail E.Greenwellis the first female dean for Christ Church Cathedral, and one of six women to lead the 95 cathedrals in the U.S.

Installed as dean of the downtown cathedral in April 2014, it was not until her late30sthatGreenwellbegan to discern the possibility of priesthood in the Episcopal Church. She had been a teacher in Rainier and Portland, Oregon, and had a 17-year career in interior design.

She remained active in her LakeOswego, Oregon congregationwhen her children were small, and prior to her ordination, was the interim director of Christian Formation at the church.

Of her career change, she said, "I don't think it surprised my children as much as my husband. We took the journey as a family."

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Accra A GHANAIAN automobile company has made history by launching first locally-made vehicles in the country.

According to Great Kosa Automobile Company Limited interior decorator, Kwasi Frimpong, the new assembling plant has successfully implemented the general assembling of the cars, welding, spraying, testing and chemical installations.

The latest development will see locals reduce the cost of importing vehicles from overseas as the local company will do the job.

Owned by renowned Christian, Apostle Kwadwo Safo, who is the founder of Kristo Asafo Mission, Great Kosa Automobile Company Limited successfully, launched its new automobile assembling plant following the release of seven vehicles.

Frimpong said the plant, which produces seven vehicles per day would soon treble the production to a total of 20 cars per day.

The Great Kosa Automobile Company Limited's assembling plant is located at Gomoa Mpota in the Central Region.

Frimpong said the assembling plant, which was commissioned in April 2014, produces special utility vehicles (SUVs) and pick-up trucks.

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Over the decades, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis wrote notes to some of her favorite designers. She even drew sketches of pieces she wanted.

This weekend, some of these letters will be auctioned off in West Palm Beach, Florida.

CBS News correspondent Vicente Arenas got an inside look at some of those highly sought-after items, and at the late first lady's flair for fashion.

Elegant, sophisticated, graceful: just some of the words that come to mind when describing Jackie O.

Her notes to her designer and to her interior decorator, being auctioned off by Rico Baca, show just how closely she cultivated her signature style.

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Letters written by Jackie Onassis to her designer about clothing she wanted to have made will be auctioned in West Palm Beach

"She's inviting these people into her life, to get close to her, close enough to give her what she wanted," Baca said.

He said those notes offered designers a look into a very private part of her life.

"She would have to be a little bit vulnerable," Baca said.

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After years of innovations, experiments and exhibitions, the Great Kosa Automobile Company Limited is set to begin commercial production of vehicles in Ghana.

The company, which is owned by renowned Ghanaian industrialist, Apostle Kwadwo Safo, the founder of Kristo Asafo Mission, has successfully put its new automobile assembling plant to test.

Seven sleek Kantanka-branded vehicles three 4X4 Sports Utility Vehicles (SUVs) and four pick-ups produced from the assembling plant at Gomoa Mpota in the Central Region, are set to hit the roads as the company stands ready to begin commercial automobile production.

According to an interior decorator of the company, Mr Kwasi Frimpong, who conducted a Daily Graphic team round the assembling plant, at the moment, the facility could produce four 4X4 SUV and four pick-up vehicles daily.

But officials of the company say in the long term, the assembling plant will produce at least 20 vehicles daily.

The assembling plant was installed in April 2014, following a collaboration with a Chinese investor.

Currently, it operates two lines one for SUV vehicles and the other for pick-up vehicles.

Mr Frimpong says there are plans to establish another plant for the production of saloon cars in the near future.

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Call Karen and Jack! Former costars Debra Messing and Eric McCormack are planning a Will & Grace reunion.

The two actors will appear on television together for the first time since Will & Grace aired its series finale in May 2006. McCormack, 51, is set to appear in an upcoming episode of the NBC dramedy The Mysteries of Laura, which is led by Messing.

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The Smash actress, 46, stars as Detective Laura Diamond in the new series. Her character is a homicide detective with the NYPD who faces additional challenges in her personal life as her ex-husband (Josh Lucas) is now her boss in the force, and she must balance work with raising their twin boys.

McCormack will make his debut in The Mysteries of Laura as Dr. Andrew Devlin, Deadline reports. His heart surgeon character is suspected of homicide after his ex-wife dies. To make things more complicated, Detective Diamond and Dr. Devlin were once engaged.

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McCormack and Messing starred opposite one another for eight years on Will & Grace. Joined by Megan Mullally as Karen Walker and Sean Hayes as Jack McFarland, the two stars played Will Truman and Grace Adler, respectively.

Messing's Grace was a lovable interior decorator with a less-than-successful dating life, who lived with her best friend, McCormack's gay lawyer character Will.

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It takes a lot of furniture to fill a 20,000-square-foot house, as Pamela Gottfried certainly knows.

And now that she has sold her lakefront house at 748 Hi-Mount Road built in 1985 by her late husband, prolific Palm Beach developer Robert W. Gottfried she also is parting with its furnishings.

Those include truckloads of items that Robert Gottfried bought specifically for the house large-scale European antiques, as well as bronzes, marble statuary, pedestals, carpets, paintings and several notable clocks.

Some items will be auctioned Monday by Auction Gallery of the Palm Beaches at its facility on Antique Row.

Other items, including fine French antiques and decorative accessories, will be liquidated during an estate sale Jan. 17 and 18 at the West Palm Beach warehouse of interior decorator and furniture designer Todd Hase.

Im downsizing, said Gottfried, who also said during a brief phone conversation that she will remain in Palm Beach, although she is finalizing her plans.

Gottfried, a real estate agent with Douglas Elliman, acted on her own behalf in Decembers $15.1 million sale of her home to seasonal Palm Beacher Barbara Swanson, who was represented by broker Lawrence Moens of Lawrence Moens Associates.

Because she is keeping very few of the homes furnishings, she asked Hase to organize the items and coordinate their dispersal.

Hase describes himself as a fan of the architectural style pioneered by Robert Gottfried during the 1960s and 70s that became known as Gottfried Regency. Gottfried houses featured classical elements, symmetrical layouts, voluminous rooms and large windows and French doors that showcase views and flood the interiors with natural light.

The builder, who died in 2007, understood that rooms in his houses could provide a grand showcase for antiques, said Hase, who has showrooms on Antique Row, as well as in New York City, Los Angeles and Southampton, N.Y.

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