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disability allies!

  Hey disability allies! I am so impressed and heartened to see so many allies stepping up this Disability Day. It’s a huge change from previous years. But I’m still going to ask – hey disability    allies – where are you at? Are you making your events accessible – holding them in wheelchair accessible venues, providing Auslan interpreting, pricing them affordably, catering to dietary needs, providing access info about the event on your website, holding events that aren’t too early or late in the day, providing a quiet room for participants to retreat to, recording and/or live streaming the event? Are you making your digital content accessible – with captioned videos, image and video descriptions, content warnings, good colour contrasts, easy to read text and information in multiple formats (like Word, PDF, plain English, audio and video)? Are you ensuring there’s a place for disabled people at every table; especially when working on or talking about disability issues? Ar...
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How To Apply Makeup To Dry Skin

  Having dry skin can be a holes-a** lifestyle! Not only can it cause you to feel uncomfortable , it can make your daily facepaint a real so-and-so. However, there are plenty of tricks to make your skin feel calm, hydrated, and glowing despite the dryness.  Take time to prep properly How you prepare your skin before applying makeup is absolutely crucial and will make or break the end result. Applying a hydrating foundation to dehydrated skin won’t work, in other words.  Here are some simple steps:  Use a hydrating cream or oil cleanser that will cleanse your pores without stripping moisture. Something like the  Neutrogena Ultra Light Face Cleansing Oil ($8.13)  is a great (and affordable) place to start.  Gently exfoliate any dry patches by using your face cloth and gentle pressure. This will remove any flaky skin without irritation.  Apply a hyaluronic acid serum to freshly-cleansed skin Apply your rich and hydrating moisturizer (with SPF for day...
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How This Stunning Brooklyn Townhouse Became a Forever Family Home

  As the saying goes, it’s the journey, not the destination. T he domestic goddess behind lifestyle site Eye Swoon, and husband Victor, music producer and techno DJ, their journey brought them to a superb destination: a 25-foot-wide Greek Revival townhouse in historic Cobble Hill, Brooklyn. Rewind to 1996 and The Limelight, New York’s legendary nightclub, housed in a Gothic-style deconsecrated church, where Victor first laid eyes on Athena, then a young bartender. A basement apartment in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn, set the stage for the next phase of courtship, quarters so cozy they shared a twin Murphy bed. “That’s love,” Athena jokes. By 1998 the two were engaged and exploring Dumbo, then an undeveloped neighbourhood with not so much as a grocery store. “People thought we were crazy,” she says. Victor chimes in with a chuckle: “Our families were like, ‘You can go to Staten Island and get a house with property!’ ” They borrowed the money to purchase a loft, and so began the cycle of re...
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Making Sense Of Cents – Best Financial Lifestyle

  Michelle Schroeder Gardner made our list of 20 best lifestyle blogs for her no-nonsense and straightforward approach to managing money, making her financial advice blog easy for just about anyone to follow and implement. Making sense of cents was started by Michelle in order to help her readers get out of debt and improve their finances – just after she used her own advice to get out of debt, too. A financial MBA graduate, Michelle found herself facing massive student loan debt once her studies were completed in 2012. Beginning her career in the financial services industry as a financial analyst, Michelle eventually broke away to begin making sense of cents and has never looked back. Recently returning from a tour of North America in an RV, Michelle and her family sold their home a few years ago and now live on a sailboat! Michelle is a fully self-employed freelancer and solo preneur and publishes her own content, including monthly income updates. Making sense of cents has over ...
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