Turtle Creek Dallas is an affluent and highly desired area in the midst of Uptown Dallas and is near Oak Lawn (some consider it to be an unofficial way to refer to Oak Lawn)  .  Turtle Creek Dallas welcomes residents and guests to its beautifully manicured parks, walking paths and neighborhood events.  Turtle Creek contains high profile businesses, shops and restaurants.  Living in Turtle Creek is a mark of affluence and good taste.   There is an actual creek in Turtle Creek, which runs along Turtle Creek boulevard.        Turtle Creek is famous as the home of the world renowned Mansion on Turtle Creek, a 5 star hotel.  Turtle Creek also has magnificent palaces of the rich and famous, as well as sky-stretching and gorgeous high rises.  The name of Turtle Creek Dallas speaks luxury, eleg... 10/18/2007

The Victory Park Dallas district, located in downtown Dallas , is the newest and perhaps the hottest area  in downtown Dallas.  The Victory Park Dallas district is a totally new, built from scratch district!  It contains luxurious high rises, the American Airlines sports center, exciting restaurants and a chic urban life style.  .      The Victory Park Dallas area includes the American Airlines Center and the new 33-story W Dallas Victory Hotel and Residences.   LFT is also a huge attraction to Victory Park .  LFT a boutique department store that is 30,000 SFeet large, full of amazing trendy retail treats!  The Victory Park  area contains the largest number of digital billboards anywhere in the world.  The plaza features studios for a local television station.  New restaurants coming so... 10/18/2007

West Village Dallas is just plain HOT!  It's the place that everyone in Uptown Dallas talks about and where everyone seems to want to be on weekend nights!  And, no wonder, with all of the amazing shops, restaurants and night life close by.  West Village is truly an amazing...and recent...phenomenon!  It is built around the West Village shopping center, containing some of the hottest and diverse retail shops in Texas.         You really can get an amazing array of shopping done in West Village  !  From the NAIL BAR (a sleek, modern nail and waxing salon that offers higher sanitation and quality than the bargain shops) to ANN TAYLOR LOFT(Relaxed city chic and high fashion style that's fun, elegant and unique, direct from the Ann Taylor design team) to even THE YAP (a place where parents ... 10/18/2007

State Thomas Dallas is one of the most exciting areas of Uptown Dallas . State Thomas borders the Downtown Dallas area and the Central Expressway, so is very conveniently located.  State Thomas borders both the popular West Village (full of exciting shops and restaurants), as well as Mckinney Avenue, which many consider the heart and soul of Uptown Dallas.       State Thomas is a beautiful and well-planned urban area.  The sidewalks in the area contain pavers, and there are trees literally everywhere.  On the border near State St and 75, there is a large pedestrian park (and dog park) where pet lovers and friends meet and greet.  Shops and patio style restaurants (and night life) is also found along key streets in the State Thomas Dallas area.      The lifestyle of State Thomas Dallas i... 10/18/2007

The world famous Cooper Clinic, founded 35 years ago in North Dallas by Dr. Kenneth Cooper, has opened it's newest facility at Craig Ranch (north of Dallas). Dr. Cooper is the "father" of aerobic exercise and has a philosophy that it is easier to maintain good health than to regain it once it is lost.    The new Cooper Aerobics Center has a focus on fitness, medicine and wellness to meet each individuals needs. A crown jewel of the Clinic is the state of the art 75,000 square-foot fitness center and spa. Highlights of the Center include 10,000 square-feet of cardio and strength training equipment, 70 exercise classes offered each week, therapeutic spa treatments plus highly trained personal trainers and wellness professionals to advise clients on heath, wellness and nutrition. For more ... 10/17/2007

When I was a kid, everyone made jokes about the sleazy business practices of door-to-door vacuum cleaner salesmen.  They'd stop by and offer to clean your house for free.  Their model came with 50-thousand attachments, even a paint sprayer can.And they'd clean this and that and the curtains and then they'd take the cleaner over so it could suck your mattresses and pillows into amoeba-size pieces of matter, all in the name of getting rid of dirt."But will it pick up everything?" the salesman would scream as he would throw a tin can full of metal washers on the floor and let the hose attachment draw the clanking mess up inside of the dirt burial ground.  The next thing you knew, the salesman had joined your family for dinner, and then he'd put your kids in bed and read them a story."Got a... 10/17/2007

Cartier.  Louis-Françoise Cartier took over the shop of famed Paris jewelry designer, Adolph Picard, in 1847.  One hundred, sixty years later, bijoutier de la boîte rouge has opened an exquisite boutique in Dallas' famed NorthPark Mall.  In fact, it's next door to another fine jeweler, Tiffany & Company, and at the mall entrance of Neiman-Marcus.I shopped the store last evening.  The store design and fixturing is superb.  The merchandise is meant for the finest taste.The 5 Browns.  You've seen the five Brown Family teenagers, all pianists, on a number of television programs.  Their ten hands temper the classics in a most remarkable way.  They have a new CD titled "The Browns in Blue."  There are about seventeen tracks from Rachmaninoff's "Rhapsody on the Theme of Paganini" to Gershwin's... 10/13/2007

THE FOUNDATION FOR THE TALEWhile World War II didn't officially start until 1941, it might as well have as early as 1938. And that war was on top of the U.S. trying to recover from the Great Depression that had begun about 10 years before.The public relations campaigns that the Allies mounted and operated throughout the Great Depression and World War II were masterful. The one during the war built great patriotism, and encouraged Americans to want to volunteer to fight the enemy.But after that, every skirmish, beginning with Korea, turned into a scrimmage. Huge amounts of money were spent, families' lives were disrupted, limbs and lives were lost, and even though the country's honor was defended, when each fight was over this time, contrary to the past, no white flag was waved by the pe... 10/11/2007

NJ based real estate agency A Better Referral Company LLC announced the launching of its website to help people find Christian Real Estate agents. We just added our third Christian Realtor in Texas.  This Real Estate agent serves the Dallas market in Dallas County and sells real estate in the Mesquite area.We now have Christian Realtors in Houston, Fort Worth, and in the Dallas suburb of Mesquite.Timothy Schwartz the proprietor of http://www.christianrealestateagents.net/ says "The Christian web site was made for matching buyers and sellers with fellow Christians.  It is aimed to be a Christian Referral house and we are pleased to have just added a Bible believing real estate agent in Mesquite, Texas." Many believers want to support fellow believers in their endeavors and will often pat... 10/11/2007

The White Rock Lake Artists Studio Tour is this weekend, October 13-14.  From reading the name "White Rock Lake", you would think this tour would be a bunch of booths set up by the different artists around White Rock Lake.However, this is not the case.  It should be named the White Rock AREA Artists Studio Tour.  This is not an ordinary art festival.  You basically go, in your car, from house to house, rather it's studio to studio.  Sounds like an interesting concept.  I'm probably not going to go because I wouldn't feel comfortable getting in and out of the car so many times, and also insulting an artist if I walked in and walked out, but my mother in law is coming in town this weekend to go to it, which is how I heard about it.Here's a link to the information.Here's a link to the map ... 10/11/2007

                                                                     All I can say is WOW! Talk about a team not giving up and pushing to the end. After 5 interceptions and 1 fumble from Tony Romo, the Dallas Cowboys still won.That is a game that people will talk about for a long time. What were your thoughts on this game? The onside kick with Dallas recovering, Tony's 5 interceptions, the Bills coach calling time out with two seconds to go and Folk (the Cowboys kicker) hitting the distance twice!Were you one of the ones who turned the TV off thinking the game was over with 3 minutes to go? All the Best,Maribeth PetersVice President & RealtorEllen Terry Realtors Dallas, Texasdirect: 214-520-4446homes@MaribethPeters.comhttp://www.maribethpeters.com/Awarded RISMedia's Real Estate Magazine... 10/08/2007

Italian families of the past seemed to have about five boys' names and five girls' names that they used over and over. So that made nicknames an absolute necessity.Since his name was Joe and many of the other men in his family were also Joe, everyone called him Joe-Joe. And you could find him day or night by going into four places: the Elite Club, the Big Time News Stand, the British Queen or LuAnn's on Greenville where he'd try to hustle the young girls.He was there betting the nags, pulling tips, playing a few hands of cards, sometimes even betting on which raindrop on the window would reach the bottom first, and trying to get a young honey to smooch with him.Now once a year, about the time of his birthday, Joe-Joe'd have his Jo-Jo's Annual Birthday Watch Clearance Sale to get rid of ... 10/08/2007

There are many great traditions of the State Fair of Texas...                                  Big Tex                                                                                                 Texas v. OU Red River Shootout football game           and of course, the Fletcher's Corny Dog!                           Everyone knows that a trip to the Fair is not complete until you have had a golden fried dog on a stick. The proper name for this Texas tradition is a CORNY DOG, if you call it by any other name (especially corn dog) than all will know you are a Fletcher newbie. (proper pronunciation is "kawr-nee dawg")Neil & Carl Fletcher "cooked" up this delectable treat in 1942 and they have been satisfying Texans for the last 65 years. Operating six locations on the fairgrounds, they ... 10/06/2007

How a luxury property is marketed has absolutely changed in the last decade especially in regards to global reach! Having a strong web presence is imperative since many individuals purchasing luxury homes come from across the nation or for that matter from across the world! My firm, Ellen Terry Realtors, a division of Ebby Halliday Realtors, has the good fortune of being a member of the prestigious Leading Real Estate Companies of the WorldTM. Leading Real Estate Companies of the WorldTM is the largest global network of premier locally branded companies. It is literally a "who's who" of the world's most powerful independent luxury brokerages. As a member company, we have access to the all the benefits Leading Real Estate Companies of the WorldTM offers which greatly benefit our high end... 10/03/2007

Countdown to the Red River Rivalry.  The Texas Longhorns and the Oklahoma Sooners are at the Cottonbowl during the State Fair of Texas at 2:30pm on this Saturday, October 6, 2007.Both teams are entering this game with losses from this past weekend.  They'll both have some frustrations to vent out.                                  Any thoughts on who is going to win this one?  I'm not sure I want to be home during the game since my Husband is still livid from the loss on Friday.  OU Fans, don't hesitate to state your opinion, however, for both Texas and OU fans, please keep it clean, and no attacking people and/or their integrity.  Your comments will be deleted if I deem it to be rude.    10/01/2007

Wow, it's been a busy couple of weeks but I wanted to share with you our final project we completed as the Dallas Chapter of IAHSP (DIRC) the week of September 17th, 2007. It all began at the beginning of the year with our planning.  In July we hosted a Summer Fiesta Fund-raiser to raise money for the projects we were working on.  We set the goal high for ourselves this year.This project was a continuation of our annual IAHSP World Wide Staging Service Week 2007 September 9th - 16th.  For some back ground you may refer to my original post. I would really just like to post here a photo diary of what the Dallas Chapter did for our  Habitat for Humanity "adopted family".  With the help of our wonderful business partners and vendors and a dedicated team from the DIRC we were able to provide... 09/30/2007

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            Carrying in loads of aluminum trays of noodles loaded with chicken, mountains of green salad and hot vegetables, fresh rolls by the hundreds along with multiple gallons of milk, orange juice and lemonade, and package after package of cookies for dessert, we arrived at the Austin Street Shelter within the deepest of the bowels of downtown Dallas.            Two hours before, our washing machine had frozen on it annual "won't run after it's filled itself to the brim with water" position.  That had been the last straw for Patty and me as we had tried to traverse through the one crisis after another weird day that was now to be followed by a full-moon.  The only thing we felt sure would be missing would be the witch flying past it in the night.            With five other members... 09/28/2007

Today is the official opening of this year's Texas State Fair!The Fair will run through October 21.Something that they have been working on for the past few weeks is trying to get more of their vendors to use No Trans Fat Oil.  I mean, most everything at the fair is fried, so why not try to help some people who aren't going to help themselves by gorging everything they see.Personally, I do have a weakness for Funnel Cakes, which is basically just fried pancake batter, but they smell and taste so good... and I eat mine the traditional way with the Powered Sugar... no fruit topping for me!!There are many days where there are discounts so check out their website to see which day is which. 09/28/2007

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