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Live It & Dig It June 2009

Live It & Dig It Reflect your own personal style.

Whatever your inspiration, the experienced design professionals at A&E Kitchen Design can help you create the exact look you’ve always wanted for your home.

• Your only Wood-Mode and Brookhaven dealer on the Grand Strand •

Offering excellence in service for over 24 years 3942 Hwy. 17 Bypass S., Murrells Inlet, S.C. 843.357.8977

For your home. For your life.

For our environment.

Southampton by Wood-Mode.

© 2009 Wood-Mode, Inc.

V I S UA L C O M F O R T L I G H T I N G | M AT T E O B E D D I N G

A I DA N G R AY | DA S H & A L B E R T | O L I V I N A

Now Offering Bridal Registration Helping Happy Couples Feather Their New Nest

10185 Ocean Hwy., Pawleys Island, SC 843-235-0456 • currentspi@aol.com Mon-Fri 10 am-6 pm • Sat 10 am-5 pm

VA N G U A R D F U R N I T U R E | M A R T H A S T E W A R T R U G S

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Home & Garden Guide Gifts

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Special Things© Custom Hand Painted Flower Pots are now available at Sassy Girl Great gift idea for under $25!

Furnishings, Gifts & Accessories Flooring - Hardwood - Natural Stones - Porcelain Tile Free Estimates - We Install Competitive Pricing! - Will Match the Competition!

Mon-Fri 10-5 • Sat 1-6 • 843.979.1800 • www.Brazil1800s.com 13313 Hwy. 17 Litchfield, SC 29585 One Oak Place

1019 4th Avenue, Conway, SC (843) 488-4475 Open Mon.-Fri. 10am-6pm • Sat. 10am-5pm www.sassygirlgifts.com

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Myrtle Beach Blind & Drapery

@ 5th

A resale shoppe for “fine things”

Expert Custom Window Treatments • Residential & Commercial FREE Shop at Home Services • Draperies • Vertical, Mini & Micro Blinds 2" PVC Composite & Wood Blinds • Pleated & Cell Shades • Vinyl & Wood Shutters

Visit Our Showroom Today!

450-A Hwy. 17 Business N., Corner of 5th Avenue N. Surfside Beach, S.C. 29575 • Mon-Sat 10 am-5 pm • 843-213-1178

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843.293.0827 • 843.902.8572 • www.myrtlebeachblind.com From the Myrtle Beach end of Hwy. 707, go just 1/2 mile, on the left.

Look for yellow & blue sign.

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Perennials, bedding plants, hanging baskets, trees and beautiful shrubs. We offer personalized container arrangement. Choose from a wide selection of Mexican pottery and lawn ornaments.

2212 North Main Street, Conway, SC 843-488-1488

A-1 Rafe’s Concrete

Rafe’s Decorative or Regular Concrete Works and Remolding Quality Workmanship, Dependable and Respectful We can help you design a project or simply do exactly what you would like from start to finish. State licensed, fully insured. 38 years experience.

All work guaranteed.

843-997-2904 Rafe’s cell 843-399-9394 Office

Lamp & Shade Cottage

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“The South’s Extraordinary Lamp, Shade & Restoration Shop”

Custom Window Treatments made locally.

Blinds, Shutters, Verticals, Shades & more.

Family owned & operated. Visit our showroom or call for a free estimate today! Proven track record of quality & service.

M-F 9-5 • Sat. 10-1 9 Hwy. 90 East, Little River, SC 843-280-6877

608 North Kings Hwy., Myrtle Beach Mon - Fri 10-5 & Sat 10-2 843-626-9952

Quality Shades & Lamps Custom Lamp Making Expert Lamp Repair Finials • Gifts • Accessories

B L I N D & S H U T T E R FA C T O RY Little River, SC

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Is Your Patio In Need of a Facelift?

We’ve Got You Covered!

Custom Outdoor Upholstery Fabric Drapery & Upholstery Fabric Pate-Meadows Patterns • Trim Pillow Forms • Off-Site Workrooms www.kingstonhousefabrics.com 2221 Main Street, Conway (Across from Crabtree Nursery) • (843) 488-5674 • Monday-Friday 10am to 6pm, Saturday 10am to 3pm

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Live It & Dig It Yard Sales

by Dee Orr

It’s here, prime-time yard-sale season. A time when dear friends of mine gear up for marathon treks up and down the Strand. Don’t misunderstand; they’re not just fair-weather shoppers. They have continued to train throughout the winter months. Champions I call them – dedicated yard hoppers! I, on the other hand, work myself into a total state of panic the minute the homeowner’s association sets the date for our annual yard sale. It’s true, I freak. A lot of my panic may have to do with the rush of people, blocked driveways and congested streets, but regardless, this time last year, I was beside myself and trust me, at a yard sale, one of me is enough!

It was Saturday. My neighbors were outside manning their stations, and I was in the house hyperventilating. Apparently I wasn’t handling this yard sale any better than last year’s. I was breathing into one hand while searching for a paper bag with the other. The only bags I could find were plastic. Not a paper bag in sight! Plastic would have to do.

I had been working up to this personal crisis for days. To calm my savaged soul my husband promised that when the yard sale came around he would handle any items we might wish to sell. True to his word, hubby was out in the yard keeping his promise, and I was in the house leaning against the garage door peeling a plastic bag off my face. I cracked the garage door an inch to see how things were going. There he was, in the center of the driveway, wheeling and dealing like a professional auctioneer. Though not a salesman by profession, I swear he could sell a melted Popsicle back to the vendor. He was in the “zone” and I was, literally, in the bag.

The street was jam-packed with cars, vans and pick-up trucks cruising bumper to bumper. Shoppers tossed purchased items through windows and into the beds of trucks allowing them to arrive at the next site empty-handed. My back slid down the door, and I sat on the floor determined to get a grip on my emotions. Some minutes later I managed to reach my husband and asked how I could help. He took one look at my trance-like state and decided to use me as a security camera. So, like a mannequin, I sat atop a stool and rolled my eyes from side to side. It was the best I could do considering my shallow breathing. At least I was outside like the other wives and hopefully from a distance, I appeared normal.

By noon, traffic was thinning and my panic began to wane. Only a few late arrivals were roaming the street. Most of our neighbors were calling it a day, but I remained seated until I got the official word from hubby that security was no longer needed. The guards of Buckingham Palace have nothing on me.

Seeing life return to my body, hubby took a break and stepped next door leaving me in charge of a nearly empty table. And, as luck would have it, the minute he left the yard I had to manage a dollar sale all by myself and before he returned, a second. For the last sale I had to relinquish the plastic bag I’d stashed in my pocket for emergencies. The ninety degree heat had brought the color back to my cheeks and the two sales seemed to ease the tension in my body. I had survived. Silently I vowed, never, never again!

Exhausted from the tension of the day, I went to bed early and rose late the next morning. I barely had one foot over the edge of the bed when hubby entered the bedroom with the newspaper and some bad news. He was glad to see I was still lying down. The neighbors, he reported, are on the streets discussing plans for next year’s yard sale. I smothered a scream. Look on the bright side, he suggested, you’ve got twelve months to find a paper bag. Or a way out of town!

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Palmetto Ace Home Center For all your outdoor living.

Visit Ace, The Helpful Place.

Don’t forget about dad this Father’s Day, get him the Big Green Egg, world’s best smoker and grill!

(843)235-3555 • 8317 S. Ocean Highway Pawleys Island, SC 29585

Give Your Mom, Sister, Best Friend or Yourself the Gift that Lasts a Year!

Special Introductory Offer 12 Issues for $24 Name Address City State

Zip Send check or money order to Sasee Distribution 1357 21st Avenue North, Suite 102 Myrtle Beach, SC 29577

Home & Garden Guide In the Dressing Room Women’s Apparel Undergarments ❋ Jewelry Home Décor ❋ Unique Gifts

Monday – Saturday: 10am – 7pm

843-651-4175

Collectibles • New & Used Furniture • Ladies’ & Children’s Clothing Our Inventory is Always Changing…Stop in Frequently!

11115 Ocean Highway, Pawleys Island 843-237-8447

The Plantation Shoppes

4124 Hwy. 17 Business • Murrells Inlet, SC

Coastal Carolina P RO F E S S I O N A L I N T E R I O R D E S I G N Thirty Five Years of Excellence &

the Best is Yet to Come...

Moving Sale

No Toxic Chemicals

50% off

Child & Pet Safe

all Showroom Merchandise through June 15

1 Hour Average Dry Time

Furniture, Accessories, Oil Paintings European & Asian Antiques John S. Gore, Owner Allied Member ASID

843-236-5785 oxymagiconline.com

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Mon.-Fri. 9am-5pm Sat. 10am-4pm Design Studio by Appointment 5001 North Kings Hwy., Myrtle Beach, SC 843.692.7844 | www.bgrahaminteriors.com

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More than a century of excellence.

Max Englander of New York founded the Englander Sleep Products company in 1894 with a simple vision: to provide a mattress system for consumers who wanted a more comfortable night’s sleep. Over the years Englander’s technology has changed and advanced, but the vision has remained the same.

Englander® is committed

to a more environmentally Today, Englander combines old world responsible approach to craftmanship with state of the art design to operations, including the use of renewable provide the ultimate in sleep comfort. The materials, reduced energy company offers a range of comfort systems resource consumption and recycling. to meet the expanded needs and discriminating tastes of today’s consumers. And every Englander mattress delivers on the original promise…Better sleep, by design

Grand Opening June 10

Ribbon Cutting 4 pm Open House 4-6 pm

Entire stock 40% Off The Marketplace at Grande dunes 82nd Parkway & Highway 17 Bypass [Beside Lowe’s Foods & across from Grande Dunes marina]

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better sleep, by design.™