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Sunday, August 15th, 2010
I just wanted to address an issue that I have been running into a lot lately.
That is about maintenance. 
I am asked a lot about what materials are maintenance free.
Well I want to put it on the record that there is no such creature.
What we want & what is are two different things and that’s just the way it is, sorry.
When you put good money into items such as remodeling, landscaping, and other high dollar items., you have to do the cleaning, pulling of weeds and other things, it takes to keep what you have paid good money for maintained.
So, Please…
Think about what you are doing!
When you spend your money, be prepare to do work to keep it nice & enjoy what you bought.
Take care of it or pay for it to be done right!
- Madonna
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Wednesday, July 21st, 2010
For all of you out there that don’t know …

We live in the great state of Florida.
Florida is well known for hurricanes, but if you think about it, a lot of other states have hurricanes or other natural disasters too.
For this reason we thought that it would be a good idea to give you all some tips about some of the things that can help you be better prepared to deal with hurricanes or any other disaster you may unfortunately encounter.
The quick grab:
- Jewelry in a bag or box.
- Photo’s, card’s or any other things that mean something to you – scan them to a CD
- Insurance papers and all serial #’s from anything that you have one for – scan them to a CD
- List of bills and credit card accounts and phone #’s – scan them to a CD
- Make sure you take pictures of your home inside and out. Make sure they are time stamped.
- Make a copy of all information and send it all to a family member or friend out of state.
- Hey! Let’s not forget our 4 legged friends. Have all their papers in order and scan them to a CD.
Now think about all the item we have just talked about …
There are stacks of photo, cards and school things your kids have done.
If you are in a hurricane they can very easily be destroyed.
That is where we can help you.
We can help you get these items ready!
… and at the same time it will clean out your closets, cabinets and drawers.
We all know getting organized is a good thing! Right?!
… and particularly to prepare for a hurricane and/or any other natural disaster that you may encounter!, you know?
So …
Would You Like some Help getting prepared for this Hurricane Season and/or whatever Mother Nature may “throw your way”?
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Saturday, July 3rd, 2010
In this article you will find Madonna’s Feng Shui Tips regarding how you may use numbers and Feng Shui to improve the balance of your home.

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Numbers in Feng Shui:
Feng shui began with the tortoise crawling out of the Yellow River some five thousand years ago. The markings on its shell formed the basis of feng shui, the 1 Ching, Chinese astrology, and Chinese numerology. The magic square on the tortoise’s back contained all the numbers from one to nine.
Consequently, numbers have always been an integral part of feng shui.
Every number has a meaning that can be looked at in a number of different ways.
If your house number is 2469 for instance, each of the numbers could be looked at individually, or they can all beaded together and reduced down to a single digit.
In the west, it is standard for numerologists to pay more attention to the final result of adding all the numbers up and reducing them to a single digit.
In the east it is more common to evaluate each separate number.
Numbers are divided into yin and yang. Even numbers are yin and odd are yang. Yang numbers are considered to be more favorable than yin numbers, but balance is required.
Consequently, it is better for your house number to contain both yin and yang elements than to be either all yin or all yang.
You may have noticed that Asian people like the number eight. This is because the Cantonese word for “eight’ sounds like prosperity. They also like the number two as it sounds like easy. However, they dislike the number four it sounds like death. So this means that if you house number was to be 24 that would be interpreted as easy death. All of this is because the Chinese use homophones to help determine the meanings of numbers. If the number sounds like something pleasant or desirable, it is considered good.
Traditionally the number four relates to the positive traits of love, sex, and education.
Here are the homophonic interpretations for each number:
ONE: sounds like honor it also sounds like won.
TWO sounds like easy
THREE sounds like growth.
FOUR sounds like death.
FIVE sounds like nothing.
SIX sounds like wealth.
SEVEN sounds like sure.
EIGHT sounds like prosperity
NINE sounds like long life.
I hope that all of my Feng Shui tips will help you!
- Madonna
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Saturday, June 19th, 2010
In this article you will find Part 2 of Madonna’s Feng Shui Tips regarding how you may use Feng Shui to improve the balance of your bathrooms: 
Traditionally, the north side of the house is considered the best location for the toilet and bathroom.
The bathroom and toilet should not be placed in the wealth fame or career sectors of the house. The death, disaster, six shars, and five-ghosts locations are all good places for the toilet.
The bathroom needs to be kept clean. Unpleasant smells, leaking taps, windows and doors that stick, and any other problems in the room all create negative ch’i, that can adversely affect the wealth and well-being of everyone in the house.
The water pipes should be concealed, if possible. Exposed pipes allow you to see the water-which equals wealth –drain away.
Consequently, this room should not be situated in the north or southeast parts of the house these are the career and wealth sectors.
Keep the bathroom door shut if this room can be seen from the front door, living room, dining room, kitchen, or anyone lying in bed.
A toilet facing the front door is believed to flush away all of the ch’i that enters the house.
The Chinese prefer to keep the doors to the toilet and bathroom closed anyway, as a matter of good etiquette. They also keep the lid down on the toilet as they do not like to see their money being flushed away.
Any upstairs toilets and bathrooms should not e situated over the front door or kitchen. Both of these locations are related to family problems.
A toilet above the kitchen means that water and waste is flushed directly past the most important room in the house.
En-suite bathrooms are not recommended from a feng shui point of view, as they spread negative ch’i out into the bedroom. The remedy for this is to use extractor fans as well as natural ventilation to get the negative ch’I away from the bedroom itself. Ceramic surfaces can also act as a remedy for en suite toilets.
It is interesting to note that ceramic surfaces are frequently used in bathrooms and toilets around the world. Perhaps people subconsciously knew that these surfaces can act as a remedy for negative ch’i. Naturally, there are remedies for any problems caused by the placement of the toilet and bathroom.
A mirror on the outside of the door will remove any problems caused by these rooms facing the front door, or being directly above it.
I hope that all of my Feng Shui tips will help you!
- Madonna
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Sunday, June 6th, 2010
In Part 12 of Madonna’s Feng Shui Tips Madonna shares some Feng Shui Tips regarding how you may use Feng Shui to improve the positive energy (ch’i) flow of your family room: 
A family room should be comfortable and informal.
The furniture should be casual and arranged in a way that encourages comfort and communication.
This room should also be uncluttered.
Family rooms often serve as storage rooms as well. There is no problem with this as long as the items being stored are put away tidily out of sight.
The family room is a room that is always growing with the family.
Each area of this room relates to a different member of the family as shown by the pa-kua. Items belonging to the oldest son , for instance, should be kept in the east. Items belonging to the youngest daughter should be kept in the west, and so on. Clutter in different parts of the room will relate to complication in the life of the person affected by the direction.
I hope all of my Feng Shui tips will help you improve the positive energy (ch’i) flow of your family rooms!
- Madonna
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Wednesday, June 2nd, 2010

Thought you might enjoy a sample of what can be done to enhance a front yard.
This is a yard where the extra driveway was just added.
The lady of the house wanted to have a flower bed in the front instead of grass.
So …
We removed the grass and cleaned out the area.
We planted easy to maintain plants.
Simple fix with a Big Impact!
What do You think?
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Saturday, May 22nd, 2010
Herein Madonna shares some more Feng Shui Tips regarding how you may use colors to improve the positive energy (ch’i) flow in your home:
The five elements can be used in conjunction with the Aspirations of the Pa-kua to determine which colors can be used to enhance different areas of your home.
When the pa-kua is overlaid on top of the cycle of the five elements, with earth being placed in the center, we receive an interesting mixture of colors that can prove extremely useful.
Wealth area: Green, red, violet, and blue
Fame area: Red, green, and yellow
Marriage area: Red, pink, and white
Family area: Green, red, and blue
Children area: White and gold
Knowledge area: Black, green, and blue
Career area: White and black
You can use these color schemes in the areas of the house that relate to the pa-pkua, or alternatively keep objects of these colors in the relevant areas.
Softer colors are ideal for the bedroom. Any color that makes you feel peaceful and relaxed is ideal here. Pink, peach, cream, ivory, beige, tan, and light green are warm and gentle. Avoid strong colors, such as red and orange in the bedroom.
Earth colors, such as yellow, orange, brown, and green are suitable for the kitchen. Avoid blue in the room as it relates to the water element. In fact, speaking blue is not good as the dominant color in any room ( except the bathroom) as it tends to make people introspective and quiet. It is also inclined to make people feel cold. I have been in living rooms where a blue works. ( I have a grayest blue in my house) but it is a difficult color to experiment with. It is better to introduce blue in the form of throw rugs, paintings ornaments, and other objects.
Sensitive colors: Black and red are the two most sensitive colors in feng shui. Traditionally, black should not be used on gates, doors and walls that face north or south. Red should not be used on gates, doors and walls that face east or west. It is believed that bad luck will come to the occupants of the homes that break these rules. Black and red should always be used with great caution.
Light and pastel colors can be used to make small rooms appear larger. Red, yellow, and blue do the opposite and decrease the size of rooms. Good use of light colors can brighten up a dark corner. A well-lit, sunny part of the house can be painted in light or dark colors. Hot colors, such as red, create stimulating environments. Conversely, cool colors such as blue, are restful and encourage quieter activities.
Color in your home:
All colors are either yin or yang, and as you know we are happiest when we are in perfect balance of yin and yang in our home. Red, orange, yellow, and black are yang. Green, blue, and white are yin. Purple can be either yin or yang depending on the combination of red and blue. If there is more red than blue it is yang and conversely when there is more blue than red it is yin. Yin and yang colors can be used together to create balance, but ideally should each be of the same strength.
These are, of necessity, very general guidelines. Use the colors that you personally like. It is important that the colors in your home reflect you and your feelings.
It is best to start designing a room by choosing one color to be the dominant color in the room. Choose another color for the carpet or furnishings. Add a third color to either harmonize your two colors together, or to create a contrast. This method is simple, but effective.
I hope all of my Feng Shui tips will help you!
- Madonna
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Wednesday, May 12th, 2010
In Part 11 of Madonna’s Feng Shui Tips Madonna shares some Feng Shui Tips regarding how you may use Feng Shui to improve the positive energy (ch’i) flow of your bedrooms: 
1) The ideal position for the bed is diagonally as far as possible from the entrance to the room.
2) The foot of the bed should not directly face the door to the room.
3) Make sure that you can see anyone coming into the room without turning your head more than forty-five degrees. Use a mirror, if necessary, to enable you to easily see anyone coming in the doorway.
4) The bed should not be placed under a beam. If there is no alternative, it is better for the beam to run the length of the bed, rather than the width.
5) Place the bed against a solid wall, if possible, rather than under a window.
6) A round mirror in the bedroom will enhance your relationship.
7) Do not place a mirror directly in front of the foot of the bed. If you wake up during the night, you may startle yourself by seeing your reflection.
8 ) The bed should be accessible from both sides if you want to attract a partner into your life.
9) Allow sufficient room under the bed for the ch’i to flow. We want the ch’i to circulate above, below and on at least one side of the bed. If underneath the bed is used as a storage area, you are probably constricting the ch’I and not gaining the full benefit of the bed.
10) Do not place the dresser directly opposite the door, as this can lead to relationship problems. Dressers usually have mirrors which, in this position, reflect the beneficial ch’I in the bedroom, creating apathy and lack of passion for the people using the room.
11) A live plant can help stimulate the energy of a bedroom. However, do not have too many plants in this room as they can use up all the available ch’i
I hope all of my Feng Shui tips will help you improve the positive energy (ch’i) flow of your bedrooms!
- Madonna
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Saturday, May 1st, 2010
In Part 2 of Madonna’s Gardening and Landscaping Tips, Madonna shares some Gardening / Landscaping Tips regarding Fabulous and “Green” Fertilizers to help your plants and flowers grow quicker, healthier and “greener”:
Fabulous Fertilizers:
1) Crushed eggshells worked well into the soil make a wonderful fertilizer. Terrific for gardens and houseplants. They aerate the soil, too.
2) Bury some used coffee grounds in your garden to provide much needed acid to soil that has a high alkaline content. You’ll notice much greener greens!
3) Fish tank water is loaded with nutrients. Use it for gardens and houseplants.
4) Plants love starch, so save the water each time you boil noodles or other pasta. Make sure to let the water cool down before pouring it on your plants!
5) Dampened newspapers placed on the ground around plants will help keep the soil moist and hold weeds out. Wet the newspapers, the weight of the water to hold them down than sprinkle lightly with soil. The papers are biodegradable, so they will eventually dissolve.
I hope all of my Gardening and Landscaping Tips will help you!
- Madonna
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Sunday, April 25th, 2010
In Part 10 of Madonna’s Feng Shui Tips Madonna shares some Feng Shui Tips regarding how you may use Feng Shui to improve the positive energy (ch’i) flow of your dining rooms: 
1) The dining room should be either a separate room or a clearly defined part of another room.
2) The dining room should not be at a lower level than the living room.
3) The best shaped dining room table is round, oval or octagonal. Ensure that your square or oblong tables have slightly rounded corners
4) Do not overcrowd the people sitting at the table with too much furniture. This constricts the valuable ch’i. Avoid clutter. The simpler this room is the better.
5) Even if you live alone, have at least three chairs around the dining room table. Make sure that you do not sit in the same chair for every meal. If all the chairs are used, you will encourage guests into your home.
I hope all of my Feng Shui tips will help you!
- Madonna
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Sunday, April 11th, 2010
In Part 9 of Madonna’s Feng Shui Tips Madonna shares some Feng Shui Tips regarding how you may use color to improve the positive energy (ch’i) flow in your home: 
The effects different colors create is very powerful.
This is a fact that has been known for thousands of years.
Primitive humans used colors to ward off evil and to increase luck and virility.
The ancient Chinese used colors as symbols to represent the different seasons.
Green symbolizes wood and represents spring.
Red symbolizes fire and represents summer.
Yellow and orange symbolize the sun casting its warming glow on the earth; they represent the end of summer.
White symbolizes metal and represents autumn.
Blue symbolizes water and represents winter.
Colors have both positive and negative effects upon us.
Faber Birren, a color psychologist, reported that normal people tend to find favorable qualities in different colors, but neurotics are more likely to notice the unfavorable.
We all react to color whether we are aware of it or not.
Imagine sleeping in a bright-red bedroom or cooking a meal in a jet-black kitchen.
Colors provide the emotional tone to the room.
Some colors excite us, others make us angry. Still others calm us down. An interesting experiment was done some years ago when violent prisoners were kept in cells that had been painted pink. This color drained the inmate’s aggression, and they became model prisoners. As this experiment shows, color can have dramatic effects, so we need to be careful with what colors we choose and how we use them.
In feng shui, colors control and assist reflected light.
The combination of color and light should provide the best possible conditions to live in.
It is best to choose your color schemes in the rooms themselves, as colors have a habit of changing when looked at under different types of lighting.
Warm lights, for instance, make warm colors appear even warmer, while cool lights do the opposite.
Naturally, you should have the colors relating to the different elements of the people living in your home, but you should have a variety of other colors simply because you like them.
Be careful not to have opposing colors, though. For instance, too much red would not be a good choice for you if you belong to the water element, as fire and water do no harmonize.
Choose the colors of your ceilings carefully. Light colors are generally better than dark. Dark colored ceilings remind the Chinese of dark rain clouds overhead. Dark colors also prevent the ch’I from rising. Consequently, the ch’I does not circulate the way it should and your wealth, health, and good luck can all be affected.
I hope all of my Feng Shui tips will help you!
- Madonna
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Sunday, April 4th, 2010
In Part 1 of Madonna’s Gardening and Landscaping Tips, Madonna shares some basic Gardening Tips to help make your gardening activities more enjoyable for you: 
1) Try latex gloves in the garden instead of cloth. They’re easier to clean you can just rinse them under the hose and let them air dry and they don’t stiffen up like canvas gloves do.
2) For a moisturizing treat while gardening, rub your hands with hand cream or petroleum jelly before donning your gloves.
3) Don’t like to wear gloves? Scraping your fingernails over a bar of soap before you get started will prevent dirt from collecting under your nails and will protect them from breaking.
4) Tie a used fabric softener sheet around your belt to keep mosquitoes away.
5) Use a little wagon to haul your supplies around the garden. Check garage sales for a good deal on one.
6) Carry a quart size spray bottle filled with water and a squirt of liquid dish soap. Makes a great bug spray, for bugs on flowers.
7) Need a kneeling pad? Take a 2 or 3 inch piece of foam, wrap it in plastic or a large re-seal-able bag, and you’re ready to go!
I hope all of my Gardening and Landscaping Tips will help you!
- Madonna
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Saturday, March 27th, 2010

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In Part 8 of Madonna’s Feng Shui Tips Madonna shares some Feng Shui Tips regarding how you may use Feng Shui to improve the positive energy (ch’i) flow of your living rooms:
The living room should be close to the front door and on the same level.
If the living room is on a lower level to the front door and effective remedy is to hang a crystal in the center of the room to encourage the ch’i upwards. Potted plants can also be a attractive remedy.
Do not place couches or chairs under exposed beams. This can cause overhead shars and can be oppressive and create discord. Two bamboo flutes hung from the beam act as a remedy if there is no alternative but to place the furniture under the exposed beam.
A fireplace makes a focal point in the room and creates warmth and cheer. However it can also allow the ch’i to escape up the chimney. The remedy for this is to hang a mirror over the fireplace to reflect the ch’i back into the room.
In many homes all of the furniture is oriented towards the fireplace. Although tis may make good sense in winter, it is better feng shui if at least some of the chairs face each other to encourage conversation.
It is also common to have all the chairs facing the television . The television creates positive ch’i in the room, because it produces light and sound, but it can also kill conversation.
The furniture in the room should be a mixture of yin and yang. This means that the some items should have square corners and others round. Some authorities insist that everything have round corners, but this is not practical, and is likely to concentrate peoples thoughts on the money. It is better to create a harmonious mixture of furniture that you personally find attractive.
The living room should be well-lit, but make sure that the lights are not too strong and harsh. Balance the overhead lights with table or floor lamps to light up different parts of the room. Place a pa-kua over a floor plan of the room to determine the positions that you want to activate.
The wealth sector is particularly strong in the living room. Make sure this sector is well lit to reap the rewards that you deserve. It is also an excellent place for a prized possession, a potted plant, or the television.
You may like to organize your furniture to make the wealth sector the focal point of the room. Other good areas to highlight in this way are the marriage and family sectors. Alternative is if the room is not large you may place comfortable chairs in all of these sectors, arranged in such a way as to encourage conversation.
Negative ch’i is created in the living room when two doors directly face each other at opposite ends of the room. If possible, use a screen to hide one of the doors. Alternative is to place a wind-chimes or hang a crystal by one of the doors this acts as a remedy. A door and a window opposing each other also create negative ch’i as do two windows. The remedy is to keep the blinds pulled over one of the windows.
If the opposing doors form a passage that is used all the time, try and arrange the furniture so that entertaining in this room is not affected by people walking through the room. If the doors are near a wall a mirror will remove the shar-like effects of the straight line through the room.
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Sunday, March 7th, 2010
In Part 7 of Madonna’s Feng Shui Tips Madonna shares some Feng Shui Tips regarding how you may use Feng Shui to improve the balance of your bathrooms: 
The toilet and bathroom are extremely important rooms in the house as they are places where water (money) drains away.
The ch’s should be allowed to flow smoothly into and out of these rooms without impediment.
Consequently, overly ornate bathrooms are not good from a feng shui point of view as they tend to hold the ch’i inside the room.
In fact, the Chinese prefer relatively simple, functional bathrooms with little in the way of ornaments or other decorations.
All the same, you should make this room a pleasant one with delicate colors and one or two objects that you find attractive.
A potted plant can also help encourage ch’i into this room
Green and blue colored towels help you relax, while at the same time, encourage the water to flow freely down the pipes. Blue is also a good feng shui color for the bathroom and toilet as it relates to the water element.
If the bathroom is located in the middle of the house in the good luck area, it will send negative ch’I through out the house. It will also send all your good luck down the down the toilet. If the toilet is located here, it is known as a “dead” toilet. The remedy for this is to place mirrors on all four walls inside the bathroom, which symbolically make the room disappear. It is also a good idea to place a mirror on the outside of the door to a dead toilet.
The other unfavorable locations for the toilet and bathroom are in the southwest, northeast, south, and beside or facing the front door. It is believed that if the toilet and bathroom are placed in the southwest and northeast the occupants will squabble and not get along with each other. If if is placed beside or in front of the front door. It is believed that the occupants will get a bad reputation
The bathroom also should not be located at the end of a long hallway, as this creates a shar heading directly toward it. This means that the beneficial ch;i that has come in through the front door ends up in the toilet! The remedy for this is to keep the lid down on the toilet and to keep the toilet door closed. It would also be beneficial to place a mirror on the outside of this door to make the room symbolically disappear.
These are traditional interpretations, and there is a remedy for each of these locations. A mirror on the outside of the door reflects the ch’i away from the toilet and bathroom.
Mirrors are necessary inside the bathroom, of course. Avoid mirror tiles though, as they create a netting effect that constricts the flow of money.
Light colors are better than dark ones in the toilet and bathroom. Different shades of blue to represent the water, element make a good choice. However, any color works well here. Except for red ( as water and fire oppose each other)
The one exception to a simple, purely functional bathroom is when it is located in the marriage sector of your home. If it is located here, make the bathroom as beautiful and as attractive as possible. Display favorite ornaments and hang a crystal from the ceiling to encourage the ch’i.
Ideally, the bathroom should have a window to allow light and ch;i to enter. This is because the bathroom is considered a negative location in feng shui. We do not want all the love and romance to be symbolically flushed down the toilet.
Enhance and beautify this room by encouraging ch’i in and effectively remedying what is normally a negative situation.
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Saturday, February 20th, 2010
In Part 6 of Madonna’s Feng Shui Tips Madonna shares some Feng Shui Tips regarding how you may use Feng Shui to improve the balance of your kitchens:

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Kitchens should be well lit and have a feeling of spaciousness, as the kitchen symbolizes the family’s wealth.
Being well lit encourages as much ch’i as possible into the room.
If it is dark and gloomy, you will not want to spend any time there.
The cook should be able to see anyone who enters the room without turning his or her head more than forty-five degrees.
If this is not possible, place mirrors to allow the cook to see the doorway.
The stove must be kept clean and in good condition, as it relates directly to the wealth of the family.
Use all of the elements on your stove as this helps your prosperity.
Keep the kitchen well stocked with food to give the impression of abundance.
Try to conceal all pipes and drains, as they symbolize wealth draining away.
The Kitchen should have an airy, spacious, and welcoming feel. This will ensure plenty of ch’i to come to your kitchen.
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