You could also make these out of left over house-wrap material from Tyvek by asking for scraps from a contractor that is building a home near you.

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Some people have hoped to build that dream house--complete with the wrap-around porch, but it might have to be a dream deferred, as the market for new homes is not progressing as well as some previously projected, said Greg Ghodsi, senior vice president at Raymond James.

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Clean your mom's house over the holidays, offer to wrap her presents.

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John Galliano, who is on a three-week guest stint at de la Renta's studio, did not make a front-of-the-house appearance at the designer's show Tuesday, Day 6 of fall previews that wrap up Feb. 14.

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The paper comes in a wrap-around cover which shows the couple driving from Buckingham Palace to Clarence House in Prince Charles' Aston Martin, describing it as "one of many such small moments that revealed a new brand of royalty".

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