Recycled Designs: Designing your Home with Character

The voting is almost complete on the Lifestylist® Designed options that will be included in the @home Builders YMCA Dream Home . This week the interior of the home will be decided, then on May 18th the choices that the voters made will be unveiled at the @home Builders Design Center.Be sure to vote today and help us choose what your favorite is! Videos of all of the choices can be seen on Lifestylist.tv You will then have a chance to bid on the home - that will start May 20th with a starting bid of $200,000.00. The home is located in the beautiful Preserve community in Henrietta, NY.

Lifestylist.tv had the wonderful opportunity to catch up with Jim Clayton at the recent MHI Congress and Expo. Mr Clayton is the founder of Clayton Homes and author of the Book "Jim Clayton: First a Dream". In the interview, he shared with us how you can download a pdf copy of his book for free and learn how he sold his company to Warren Buffett. This is an opportunity to get priceless information from one of the best business owners in the country. As a Lifestylist® I loved his stories in the book about living in a factory built home and why this is such a great choice.

Summer is officially here, and I'm ready to start my summer shopping! The perfect place to start is  7 For All Mankind  - the World's Premiere Premium Denim Lifestyle Brand.  They are hosting a Summer Soiree in Dallas today so I stopped by to see what was new. I am very hard to fit, but they showed me jeans and even a dress that I felt good in! Looking forward to showing off my new look in Rochester next week at the launch of the  Lifestylist Designed   @home Builders  YMCA Dream Home.

I can't believe it's been almost 10 years since I received the trademark registration of the term Lifestylist ! I had been using the term for quite awhile as the definition of what I do, then a wonderful mentor recommended that I trademark the term to protect it. Wonderful advice, and it has been a decision that I have never regretted. I bought my first domain names when we were still using dial up connections and no one had a clue what to do with a name after you bought it. Again I have been very fortunate to have great advisers around me and because of them I own some very powerful domain names. As Facebook , Twitter , Blogger , YouTube and LinkedIn began to become important, I discovered social media. Most of my clients are on shoestring budgets, so introducing them to the power of social media and how it can help them develop their brands and businesses was a great way to help them stretch their marketing dollars. So what is a Social Media Lifestylist ? That w...