Once the focal point is arranged, you'll want to add some seating to the room (unless, perhaps, it is a bedroom). Make sure the seating you choose is the right size for the room. Leaving enough space, as with the focal point, to make it usable. For example, at least three feet should be available behind each dining chair.  Try to limit yourself to only one piece of oversized furniture in a single room. Too many and it will look crowded and cheap. When you arrange the seating in the room, it should appear open and inviting when standing at the entrance to the room (or at least the main entrance). Avoid having chairs facing away from the door, for example. You can add drama to a room by placing furniture at an angle, but be careful. This takes up valuable space in a small room. Use furniture placed at angles only if your room is very large or you don't quite have enough furniture to fill the space. When place seating in an area that will be used for conversation, such as living room furniture, you should be careful not to put the items too far apart or too close together. Roughly 6–8 feet (1.8–2.4 m) for seating pieces facing each other is a good rule of thumb. Pieces places in an L shape should have 6"-1' between their corners.
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One-sentence summary -- Scale your seating. Create an open arrangement. Use angles strategically. Distance the furniture appropriately.


You will need tissue paper, your gift, a gift bag, any embellishments, your card and gift tag.  You will need several sheets of white paper to wrap around the gift first, then colored tissue to line the gift bag. You will need several colors of tissue paper that complement the color of the gift bag. Colored tissue paper makes a gift more festive! Make sure your gift bag is appropriate for the occasion. If you are going to curl ribbon to add as a decoration, you will need scissors to curl ribbon. Alternatively, you can use pre-curled ribbon or a pre-made bow. Overlap each of the them several inches, alternating colors.  Use more or less paper depending on the size of the gift and gift bag. If the gift is small, use half sheets of paper.
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One-sentence summary -- Gather your materials. Place 3 or 4 sheets of tissue paper on a flat surface.


You are now a week into the diet and will probably be tired and hungry. Day seven starts with no breakfast, just a cup of tea without sugar. It gets worse with no lunch, just lots and lots of water. You do get to eat something in the evening, but only 200 grams (7.1 oz) of lamb and one apple.  Day eight is a little easier, but you still go without breakfast and only drink a coffee with one sugar. Day eight is the same as day one: two hard boiled eggs with 400 grams (14 oz) of boiled spinach and a tomato for lunch. In the evening you can eat 200 grams (7.1 oz) of beef with 150 g (2 cups) of lettuce. You can add a little lemon juice and olive oil to the lettuce for extra flavour. On day nine you continue to skip breakfast, just drinking a coffee with one sugar. At lunch time you are permitted to eat 250 grams (8.8 oz) of lean ham along with one pot of natural yoghurt. For dinner you can eat a little more than the previous evening: 250 grams (8.8 oz) of beef with 150 g (2 cups) of lettuce.  On day 10 you have one slice of bread with your coffee for breakfast, the first solid breakfast since day six. Lunch is two hard boiled eggs together with 100 grams (3.5 oz) of ham and some lettuce on the side. The food for the evening the same as day three, just one tomato, some boiled celery and one serving of fruit. The end is almost in sight, and you will no doubt be feeling the strains of such a severely restrictive diet. On day 11 stick with a coffee and one slice of bread for breakfast. For lunch eat one pot of natural yoghurt and drink 200 milliliters (6.8  fl oz) of orange juice. Day 11 is the same as day four and for dinner you again eat one hard boiled egg, one carrot and one serving of cottage cheese.  On day 12, have just one carrot for breakfast, before eating 200 grams (7.1 oz) of boiled fish for lunch. You can add a little butter and lemon juice to the fish. For your dinner eat 250 grams (8.8 oz) of beef with some celery on the side. On the final day start with the familiar breakfast of one cup of coffee with a slice of toast. For lunch you can eat two hard boiled eggs along with one carrot. On the last day the diet advises you to skip the evening meal altogether.
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One-sentence summary -- Continue with days seven and eight. Keep going for days nine and 10. Push on to days 11 and 12. Finish on day 13.


Before you can make a good argument with your parents, you need to understand why you really want to change schools. You need to be able to state this reason clearly. Some reasons you might want to change schools include:   You’ve been dealing with  bullying, and you don’t think it’s going to get better or you don’t feel comfortable staying around those people. Before asking your parents make sure your certain you'd like to switch (writing pros and cons may help). If you know this school will cost money, show them how much you want to go to this school despite the cost. You feel lost in the crowd of a large school with large classes, and you’d like a smaller environment. You don’t think your school is helping you academically. You might need a more challenging school or a school where you could help more individualized help. There’s another school that has programs you’re really interested in, like a superior drama, music, art, band, or sports program. The social environment is not what you want, maybe you don't have a lot of friends or have different views than your peers. When presenting this reason, word it carefully so it doesn't give your parents the idea that you just want to party. Don't say it like the only thing in school is about having friends, either. Tell them you need a study buddy, and no one at your current school is willing to help you out. As you are writing down this reason, make sure it is important enough to switch. For example, if you just don’t like math, and your school gives you a lot of homework, that’s not a good reason to switch. Or, if your boyfriend or best friend goes to a different school, this is not necessarily a good enough reason to switch. This will affect how you approach your parents about your situations. If you give your parents exact dates that you want to change schools, it will make it easier for them to say yes and not put off letting you switch.  If you’re being bullied, you might want to make a mid-year switch. However, if you want to change to a school that will push you more academically, then you could consider switching for the next academic year, as this will be easier to arrange. Make a calendar on a piece of paper, or print out a calendar, and write the date you want to switch schools. Then, write down a date to have a conversation with your parents about changing. You want to give them as much advance notice as possible, at least a few months. Before you talk to your parents about switching schools, you want to look at alternative schools you might like to attend.  That way, you can tell your parents why you’d like to go to a different school. Look at schools based on your reason for switching. For example, if you want to change schools because you don’t feel challenged academically, look at schools that have a lot of honors programs. It can be tempting to only talk about all the bad things about your experience at your current school. While it’s important to tell your parents what’s going on to make you want to switch, you also want to show them the benefits of changing.  Write a list of all the good things you find out about other schools. If you have friends, or even friends on Facebook, that go to schools you’d like to consider, ask them to tell you what they like about the school, so you can pass it along to your parents.
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One-sentence summary --
Write down your primary reason for wanting to change schools. Outline timeliness for changing schools. Look at schools you’d like to attend. Write down your positive reasons for changing schools.