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2014SS HomeTrends8 CDTerrariumHow does your garden grow? Perhaps with sustainability in mind? Some local businesses offer these eco-friendly products to help spruce up your space this spring.

Holly Stickley

Holly Profile Pic 2 700Portland’s Holly Stickley is a small-space garden designer, photographer, blog writer and Queen Bee at The White Pear, Savvy Small Gardens & Outdoor Living. Her passion is to inspire people to make their gardens and outdoor living spaces more beautiful, functional and healthy by connecting them to resources, inspiration and community online. She believes that a serene outdoor living space is the best daily rejuvenator for our fast-paced lives. Find more gardening tips, recipes and videos from Holly on her blog, The White Pear.

Super Simple Chicken Soup

Mmm… homemade chicken soup and intoxicating aromas filling the house. What could be better?

Rain Gardens 101

HollywoodLearn how to build and maintain a rain garden at the Hollywood Senior Center. This free event takes place Saturday, February 15 from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Registration is required.

Salvage & Modern — Yes, it works!

dpphotoproof nancy 2 2011-39Modern furniture and modern style are both super popular these days, with good reason. Simple, clean furniture and design can be classy and calming, all in one. What’s not to love?

Remedy Remade Launch

LRR Logo RGB Primaryfurniture redesign business and lifestyle blog is launching in Portland. The launch event will take place February 6 from 6 to 9 p.m. at Living Room Realty.

Collecting, locating, displaying

Most people collect something. Actually, let’s put it this way – cool people collect stuff. Cool stuff. Covetable things.