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embellishments

3

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Bring your homemade gift to

The UPS Store® to ensure it arrives

just the way you sent it. Their Certified

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Special

offer!

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and you’ll receive a FREE

1

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to

Better Homes and Gardens, Family Circle

or

Parents

included in your purchase.**

*$25

spend

needs to

be

total sales amount including tax on

oneormore receipts.

**See page

201

to

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JL JL and Gardens.

Gayle Goodson Butler

Editor in Chief

Kitty Morgan

Lamont D. Olson

Michael D. Belknap

Executive Editor

Managing Editor

Art Director

Senior Deputy Editor, Home Design

Assistant Deputy Editor

East Coast Editor

West Coast Editor

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Editorial Assistants

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Kelly Ryan Kegans

Kristine Kennedy

Paige Porter Fischer

Joseph Boehm

Amy Panos, Kit Selzer

Joanna Linberg

Peggy Daugherty, Renae Gray

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Senior Editor

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Editorial Assistant

Nancy Wall Hopkins

Richard Swearinger

Erin Simpson

Renee Irey

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Doug Jimerson

Eric Liskey

Susan Appleget Hurst

Jacque Wittick

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Christian Millman

Doris Lohrman

Beauty Director Melissa Milrad Goldstein

Assistant Editor Kelly L. Phillips

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SeniorGraphic Designer

Graphic Designer

Photography Coordinator

Shelley Caldwell, Scott Johnson, Karla Jo Knipper

Amy Davis Deering

Jensie Lauritsen Miksich

Maggie Meyer

Holly Pruett

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Sally Finder-Koziol

C.R. Mitchell

Mike Butler

Cindy Murphy

Ginger Bassett

Linda Newsom

Lynn Blanchard

SandraJ. Gerdes

Brett Wilson

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KY; Robin Tucker, Laura Hull, Los Angeles; Shawn Gilliam, Alecia Stevens, M

inneapolis; Stacy Kunstel, NH; Anna Molvik, New

Paltz, NY;

Bonnie Maharam, John Loecke, New

York; Cynthia Bogart, R

l; Susan Salomon, Portland, ME; Barbara Mundall, Jan Behrs, Portland, OR;

Bonnie Broten, Helen Yoest, Raleigh, NC; Andrea Caughey, San Diego; DonnaTalley, Saratoga Springs, NY; Trish Maharam, Loralee Wenger,

Seattle; Heather Lobdell, Tiburon, CA; Karin Lidbeck-Brent, Woodbury, CT

Andy Sareyan

President, Better Homes and Gardens®

James T. Carr

Vice President/Group Publisher

Anthony P. Imperato

JulieV. Baker

Becca Roth

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Associate Publisher, Marketing

General Manager

Cathy Dropkin

Gary Wenstrup

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Jack Griffin

President. Meredith Publishing Grout

President of Consumer Magazines and

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Manufacturing Bruce Heston

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Jeannine Shao Collins

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Research Britta Ware

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New

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Direct Response and Travel Patti Folio

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Stephen M. Lacy, President and Chief Executive Officer

William T. Kerr, Chairman ofthe Board

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E. T. Meredith III, 1933-2003

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and

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isees of Ma

il Boxes Etc.,

Inc. in

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USA

and

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isees in

Canada.

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