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June To-Do List: Wherever you go in life, relish the place you call home • Lay out a new welcome mat • Put up your feet • Have your morning coffee outside • Open your windows and breathe • Make your bed • Wave to your neighbors • Live in your lawn • Embrace dandelions, mosquitoes and humidity • Smile at the pile of fl ip- fl ops by the back door. They could be winter boots • Fire up the grill • Eat dinner outside (but invest in some good citronella candles) • Know that grass stains are signs of a sum- mer day well spent • Let your towels and sheets dry in the breeze • Invest in a hammock…and a good book • Grow your own herbs • Why bake a summer pie…when you can buy a candle that makes it smell like you did (key lime or cherry anyone?) • cially if you do own the place • Take walks • Sweat it out • Fill your home with what you love: books, fl owers, door • Plant fl owers in colorful pots • Wear 10th Anniversary Rent Party Join the 10th annual gala for great music, food, live and silent auctions, a jewelry chest raffl e and entertainment with Triple M’s Jonathan Suttin as the master of ceremonies. Celebrate Safe Harbor’s good work with local professionals from Madison hospitals, law enforcement, legal professionals, city offi cials, dignitar- ies and philanthropists who believe in and support Safe Harbor’s work and service. All funds raised at the Rent Party go toward keeping Safe Harbor’s doors open. Thursday, July 21st at 7p.m. Edgewater Hotel Ballroom Single tickets $40 in advance Table for fi ve, $500; table for six, $1,000 Purchase at safeharborhelpskids.com Join your kids on the swings • Enter a room like you own the place—espe- Contact Safe Harbor (608) 661-9787 or inof@safeharborhelpskids.org pillows • Create a space just for you • Brighten your life • yellow • Paint your toes red • Schedule “nothing” days on the calendar • Then sleep in, eat blue- berry pancakes and do…nothing • Remember wherever you are, home is a place you create • Create yours ••• June 2011 bravamagazine.com 71 family or wine • Buy new Paint your front