Valerie Sagheddu's (apostleart) Blog

 I went out on the lake the other day for the first time since I was a little kid. We rented a paddle boat for the girls and a row boat for my husband, son and I. Looking throught the photos I got to thinking about the experience and how being on that boat was a metaphor for business and for life...

 My husband and I will be heading to the closing table in a few weeks...next stop...the bank!  While many  say it is a great time to buy, but not to sell, I say... "It's a great time for both...if you do it right!" Flipping homes in this market is not for the faint of heart. You need determinatio...

  Time to get all Jazzed up!! For 33 years Delaware Water Gap has been the best place wind up summer. If you have never been to COTA, Celebration Of The Arts...you simply have not lived! Even if you never thought "Jazz" your thing I can garantee you will be amazed at the diversity of the music, t...

Professional Stagers know that Staging is not decorating. We know Staging is about creating a home that is neutrally pleasing to a wide range of potential buyers. We know that, if tastefully done, Zebra stripes may work well for accents in a staged room but... a 22 foot, hand painted Zebra ceilin...

I originally posted this photo and was delighted to see all of the creative and imaginative responses to what various people saw in the shot. You can read them here... What do you see?   The reason I was intrigued with this scene was my sheer amazement of God's great design and the "intelligence"...

  I took this photo from my upper deck the other morning and I am really curious to know what you see. How do you look at things? What is your visual perception? Is it literal or more abstract?     I will tell you my story after I get some imput from you! Living in the Pocono Mountains of Pensylv...

Well...it was good while it lasted, but I am loosing my "Stagers in Training!" I love my 3 kids dearly...they are awesome, but, I confess, I always felt relieved when they started school again. Ah...I can think...find peace...time to focus etc... This year was different. They are getting older......

I believe one of the greatest challenges a Professional Home Stager faces is breaking through the pre-concieved ideas that Agents have formed about what we do. Some of them think they know, when, in fact, most truely don't know what they don't know! So Fellow Stagers...Here is your chance! What a...

  Yes, it's true...Realtors do not know everything! I am sure there are a host of agents who would turn that around to say, Homeowners do not know everything. Since both are true, how does a seller know when to trust their agent or to trust their gut? Eileen moved out of her home and relocated t...

Just wandering through AR and came across this post...It really made my day. We have some pretty incredible people here in the Rain!  my profile picture.  Today my wife got her head shaved because she was losing all of her hair.  The chemo therapy was making it fall out like crazy.   It had gott...