Give Yourself a Raise

Synopsis: Give Yourself a Raise is a complete how-to guide for finding more money to reduce the stress in your life and lead you to financial freedom. Suitable for beginners and professionals alike, it will lead you to more contentment about money! Unique to this book are: The Financial Freedom Risk Assessment Quiz-take it and evaluate your own risk! Goals made easy-the complete foundation for personal money management The Freedom Money Management System™-harness the power of electronic banking to organize your personal finances You will also learn how to: Control impulse spending Eliminate family conflict Get out of debt and stay out Practice spending strategies to stretch your income Stop wasting money

About the Author: Gordon Bennett has many years of practical business and financial management experience as a commercial bank executive, financial industry management consultant with one of the leading accounting firms, business owner, and trainer. He has a Masters of Business Administration (MBA) in Finance from the University of Southern California. He has been an Adjunct Professor of Management teaching graduate business courses. As a consultant and trainer for banks Gordon both wrote and taught classes in financial analysis, consumer credit, personal financial management, financial statement analysis, and understanding finance for the non-financial manager. This foundation of experience has provided the insights essential for helping people who are struggling with money matters to solve their problems. He is known for his ability to simplify complex topics so they can be learned quickly and easily.

Note: Synopsis and About the Author are taken from Amazon

Review: Give Yourself a Raise is a complete, easy to read guide on personal money management. Author Gordon Bennett Bleil provides pointed information and solid advice on a vast array of financial hot topics. It is a practical reference tool that can be skimmed,  and visited again and again. This book hits the basics of everything from investing, to insurance, and even emergency preparedness. As a bonus it also offers some helpful budgeting forms, and tactics to get out of debt and save up for big purchases. For this reviewer, his strategies for debt management, investing, retirement, credit scores, identity theft, and emergency preparedness were the most beneficial. He also provides user friendly money management worksheets and step-by-step directions on how to use them. I found the  Financial Freedom Risk Assessment Quiz particularly helpful and interesting to take. This helped me to easily identify a few areas where my family could become more financially responsible. Overall, I think that Give Yourself a Raise will help readers view money differently. In turn this will lead to less stress and hopefully some financial freedom. 

Full Disclosure: Many thanks to the author and The Cadence Group as I received a copy of this book for free from them.

Design*Sponge at Home, is out in September.

I have been waiting for this day longer than I can possibly describe. While trying to find the perfect words to sum up this entire experience and project, I ran through a wide range of emotions: excitement, nervousness, fear, relief, exhaustion and complete and utter joy. There are quite simply no perfect words to sum up the experience of writing Design*Sponge’s first book than to say this: After two years of hard work, Design*Sponge at Home is available for pre-order!

Florence Broadhurst

Florence Broadhurst:

Her Secret & Extraordinary Lives
by Helen O'Neill

Synopsis:
To this day, mystery shrouds her myriad personae starlet, couturier, painter as well as her unsolved murder. One thing, however, is certain: Broadhurst's place in the history of interior d cor. Recognized worldwide for her groundbreaking wallpaper patterns, this enigmatic Australian left behind a trove of exquisite work, brilliantly displayed here in the first-ever authorized biography of the design icon. Broadhurst's wallpapers out of circulation for nearly 20 years are just now being restored and sold globally to much fanfare. This amazing package showcases more than 100 never-before-published patterns and popular prints such as those owned by Marc Jacobs, Stella McCartney, and Carly Simon alongside a fascinating murder mystery.
taken from: http://www.powells.com/

Fish's Eddy

I spotted these Alice in Wonderland dishes

(in Domino Magazine)

and had to know where to get them.

Click on this site for a full listing: http://www.fishseddy.com/

The Guide To Living With Style!

If you like Lucky http://www.luckymag.com/, you will love Domino http://www.dominomag.com/!

Lucky is all about "Shopping" and Domino is all about "Living". These magazines are set up the same way, with little tips and sticker tabs for bookmarking and offer a chock full of deals. If you own a home or want to furnish your apartment, then you need to check out the latest issue of Domino, you will not be disappointed.