Art For Sale Blog

1. One of the most common ways people are making extra money right now is to sell their unwanted items at a garage sale, on Craig's List or on Ebay. Let your trash be someone else's treasure! 2. Write articles for passive income through ads. Sites such as Bukisa, Ehow and Xomba are just a few of the sites that are currently 3. Offer your services as a handyman (or handy ma'am). If you're good at doing home repairs, yard work, cleaning out gutters, changing the oil in a car, repairing holes in...
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When painting your home for resale, choosing the right colors can make a huge difference in your paycheck at closing. For instance, did you know that the exterior color of houses selling most quickly is a certain shade of yellow, but that choosing the wrong shade of yellow can kill a sale? You'll find many brochures in paint stores, showing various combinations of exterior paint colors. But most people don't realize that most of those combinations actually include three colors, and not just t...
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At one time bartering meant trading a delicious cupcake for a bag of chips. Now, you are a new business owner needing to get your name out there. Bill agrees to offer you some advertising in exchange for your computer services. Bartering predates the use of currency, but is alive and well. Bartering has its advantages. Your business may be cash strapped, in its "down time" or may have excess stock. Bartering is a good way of keeping things moving along. You can reach new customers through you...
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Just because artworks are selling for $ millions at auction doesn mean you need that much money to buy original art. That the messagebehind the AAF Chinese-food-take-out-carton logo. Sunday, June 15th, found me at NYC's Altman Building for the Affordable Art Fair (AAF) 2008. The idea behind the fair is pure common sense and has me asking, Why didn't I think of that? Remove the things that keep many of us out of NYC's high-end art galleries, such as intimidation, high prices, and snobbery, and...
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One thing that you will need to think about with every room of your home is the focal point. The focal point is where you want your guests and visitors to look when they walk in. This can be in the form of artwork, a piece of furniture or a television. Before you decide that your old furniture that doesn't fit your new decorating scheme has to go, consider re-upholstering it. This is a project that you can often handle yourself, and there's no limit to the creative fabric choices available to...
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I think that maybe Pixar's department inside Disney took over for making the Disney Classics. To me, the most recent Disney movies such as Bolt, The Princess and the frog, and Tangled don't have the same amazingly classic heart feeling that the classics like Pinocchio, Beauty and the Beast, Sleeping Beauty and the Lion King did. Unlike many other "pull at your heartstrings" life action movies, these classic Disney movies, moved you like no other. Child or not, they made you feel invincible. K...
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