Or maybe you're sprucing up your PlayStation knowledge for 2018.
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What's a secret for sprucing up a lackluster store-bought sauce?
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This explains why borrowing has mostly been spent on sprucing up campuses.
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And, of course, the Oval Office gets a little sprucing up as well.
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And Macy's continues to pour money into sprucing up its Herald Square location.
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At home, the discounters hope to lure discerning shoppers by sprucing up their stores.
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Retailers have also invested heavily in sprucing up their websites and mobile device apps.
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It's been abandoned for 15 years, and he admits it needs some sprucing up.
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Students lounging in the foyer of a university laud him for sprucing up the area.
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Now, celebrities' kids are hopping on the trend of sprucing up their college living spaces.
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Tip: If you don't have time for the trip consider sprucing up your place instead.
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LOS ANGELES — Disney's third-oldest theme park, Epcot, is overdue for a serious sprucing up.
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The company is also sprucing up its electronics section with virtual reality and smart home technologies.
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This look is ideal for sprucing up a simple suit or just embellishing your summer glow.
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This isn't merely sprucing up out-of-date mechanics or building games in more efficient engines.
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We don't have to explain why your Instagram feed could probably use a little sprucing up.
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There's Marshawn and Bill Clinton sprucing up an athletic center back in his hometown of Oakland.
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GM, Ford and rivals are launching new models or sprucing up older ones to attract customers.
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If your home decor needs a little sprucing up, Black Friday is offering some great deals.
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It's not clear what Capcom intends to do when it comes to sprucing up these re-releases.
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Rihanna and Zendaya aren't the only celebrities sprucing up your shoe stash with their own designs these days.
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Part of this sprucing up involves tailoring policies to broaden support, which normally comes from the working class.
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In 1963 he was recruited to front another band, the Gaylords, but decided his name needed sprucing up.
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Whether you're moving into a new space or sprucing up an old one, making decor decisions can be challenging.
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Escape rooms are also sprucing up related amenities like conference rooms for corporate groups or those celebrating special events.
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They tend to spend disposable income sprucing up their city apartments, splurging on plants, and doing small DIY renovations.
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Maybe your first big rug purchase was that quintessential, under-$100 chevron meant for sprucing up your college dorm room.
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The "70-day battle" ahead of a Party congress in 2016 meant long after-work hours sprucing up the capital.
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As with other PE firms, PE has a track record of buying up, sprucing up, and selling off communications assets.
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These two goals are intertwined: as Ash rediscovers his art, it gives him more options for sprucing up the town.
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Swapping out old kitchens and bathrooms, sprucing up lobbies and hallways and redoing electrical and plumbing systems raise property values.
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In fact, he suggested that developers start by "sprucing up some Gear VR-level things," not bringing Rift games over.
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Aside from that, YouTube is sprucing up the homepage and Up Next interfaces with some other features to curate recommendations.
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Chinese ambitions for soccer have also extended to sprucing up the domestic league with a clutch of high-profile signings.
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Today's Moon in Libra finds you in a domestic mood, eager to connect with family and busy sprucing up your home.
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Sprucing up this most tarnished of brands will take more than a bit of tinkering with the way FIFA is run.
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While the fictional account starring Britt Robertson is pretty sensational, Amoruso's life doesn't need too much sprucing up to make entertaining.
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Over the years, grateful alumni have inquired about sprucing up the place, perhaps with a tennis program or a swimming pool.
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"Finally, Brooklyn gets a little sprucing up," said Jasmine Wilson, 673, a borough resident who walks across the bridge every day.
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If you're a procrastinator when it comes to sprucing up your home, you're not alone — Christina Applegate is right there with you.
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Mr. Kim has sought to legitimize his leadership by sprucing up Pyongyang, the showpiece capital that is home to the country's elite.
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In photos shared exclusively with PEOPLE, fans can get a glimpse of some of the décor and treats sprucing up the event.
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Crowds have greeted the caravan along the whole route, with volunteers sprucing up bridges and houses with fresh paint in Castro's honor.
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Bleecker Street revival: A once-luxe stretch of the West Village that was recently pocked with empty storefronts is sprucing up again.
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Perhaps your New Year's resolutions include sprucing up the home, be it with small lights and side tables or this whopping velvet sofa.
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While Dollar Tree and Dollar General are sprucing up their shops and adding fresh produce options to lure customers, Family Dollar remains shabby.
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In a slowing overall Chinese auto market, GM and its rivals are launching new models or sprucing up older ones to draw customers.
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The company is investing on strengthening its online business, sprucing up its website with everything ranging from Apple MacBooks to La Mer cosmetics.
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Some big retailers, like J. C. Penney and Sears, are still sputtering, despite closing lagging stores and sprucing up ones that remain open.
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The money has been set aside from operating funds, for whatever the village board decides to spend it on, like sprucing up downtown.
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When sprucing up your home on a budget, you may want to head to Dollar Tree, where almost every item costs just $1.
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Spellman said you may also want to consider sprucing up your bed since it's a place you regularly spend large chunks of your day.
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He and his young colleagues began taking on civic improvement projects, sprucing up parks and other neglected public spaces with murals and brightly painted fences.
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In 2015, a British member of Parliament was accused of sprucing up his own page while adding derogatory information to the articles about his rivals.
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Chains such as 227-Eleven, Wawa and QuikTrip are sprucing up stores, adding online delivery and offering craft beers and meal kits to woo customers.
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On her coffee table, she decorates with dried flowers, which are one of her favorite home decor accents to use when sprucing up a space.
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The interface needed some sprucing up for the lower precision players, who will have to use their fingers instead of a stylus on the touchscreen.
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Cinema chains have relied instead on sprucing up theatres and jacking up prices—to $9.16 per ticket this year, and even higher in big cities.
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Some 44% of schools have spent part of the pupil premium sprucing up classrooms or the school environment, which has little impact on student performance.
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The related tracks feature wasn't available on Android or iOS, so Stations may simply be a sprucing up of one of Soundcloud's best discovery tools.
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With new players entering the competitive packaged food industry, General Mills has been sprucing up its organic offerings to expand beyond its packaged foods portfolio.
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Foster's charges and said the secretary had spent less on sprucing up the drab, wood-paneled office than any other HUD secretary in recent history.
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That's good news for anyone who has a terrace or a deck — or any other outdoor space in need of sprucing up for the summer.
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GM is sprucing up its smartphone app for owners of the all-electric Chevrolet Bolt through a collaboration with charging network companies EVgo, ChargePoint and Greenlots.
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Walgreens has been investing to revive U.S. retail sales, or front-end sales, mainly by sprucing up its beauty business, which is a big traffic driver.
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Walgreens has been trying to revive U.S. retail sales, or front-end sales, mainly by sprucing up its beauty business, which is a big traffic driver.
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The tepid sales forecast is troubling because it comes despite big investments in workers' wages and sprucing up the stores, Edward Jones analyst Brian Yarbrough said.
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This weekend, some of our go-to spots are boasting serious sales on furniture, decor and outdoor essentials, perfect for sprucing up the patio or deck.
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For many of my personal branding clients, this means wanting to change up what they're doing on LinkedIn, and not just by sprucing up their summaries.
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Morning show anchors are inherently campy, having dedicated their lives to sprucing up news — information that is by nature alarming or, on a good day, banal.
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At first glance, the shimmering decoration appears to be a simple yet festive red pillow perfect for sprucing up your living room ahead of the holiday season.
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Kondo also continues to write about her method on her website's blog, where she offers notes about topics like sprucing up before guests arrive and gift wrapping.
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One of the items the spouses of almost four years had to focus on sprucing up was the river rock-covered fireplace and the termite-infested mantel.
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This plan involved requiring existing teachers to reapply for their jobs, sprucing up their buildings, offering foreign-language and art classes, and requiring kids to wear uniforms.
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In recent years judges have been handing out ever more "community work service", in which offenders perform unpaid jobs like sprucing up shabby buildings or cleaning parks.
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And if your bathroom is already in decent condition, a new bath mat, shower curtain and fresh towels may be all the sprucing up you need. 4.
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The first stager, at least by her own reckoning, was Barb Schwarz, a Seattle real estate agent who started sprucing up homes going to market in 1972.
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Iconic off-road automaker Land Rover is sprucing up a model that has become one of hottest sellers in the rapidly growing luxury compact sport utility vehicle segment.
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And Acer's latest model, geared for a school setting and starting at $323, takes that to heart by sprucing up the low-cost laptop in the durability department.
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They started building relationships with power brokers in town, including developers, pastors, and politicians—people who had their own plans for sprucing up the area around the zoo.
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A private equity firm takes over a troubled company with the goal of sprucing up the strategy, cutting costs and overhauling the business over three or five years.
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Staging experts and brokers have certain go-to items when it comes to sprucing up a home and making it attractive to as many potential buyers as possible.
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QUITO (Reuters) - International oil service companies will invest some $1 billion in sprucing up Ecuador's mature oil fields, the OPEC country's state-run Petroamazonas energy company said on Monday.
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We all know someone (or are someone) who refuses to reach their daily H2O quota, so perhaps said rebel just needs a little sprucing up of their water receptacle.
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"People are sprucing up the front and the inside of their businesses, and there is much more of a feeling of hope," Donahue told CNBC in an e-mail.
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The news comes on the heels of LinkedIn sprucing up its Sales Navigator product with new features like a plug-in for Gmail, Salesforce integration and new mobile features.
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In efforts to ensure that the Games go off without a hitch, the authorities are sprucing up the city and cracking down on crimes from pocket-picking to terrorism.
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As usual, the editing team did a great job sprucing up a few of my weaker clues, with the fun wordplay at 2-Down maybe being my favorite improvement.
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But philanthropy will have its limits, not least because many critical park infrastructure needs aren't as attractive as a sponsorship that involves sprucing up President Lincoln's heavily-visited memorial.
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Though WeWork is the clear leader in the emerging co-working industry, it is essentially a commercial landlord, sprucing up office space and leasing it back to commercial clients.
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Hadid, who told PEOPLE she is now involved in a "very private" relationship with a businessman, has been hard at work sprucing up her new digs since she moved in.
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Your foray into coding doesn't have to start and end with the basic HTML you inadvertently learned while you were sprucing up your MySpace and Neopets profile way back when.
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The company implemented a redesign for several of its apps in 2011 and in more recent years has been sprucing up many of its properties with its material design principles.
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Your home might feel a bit stale if you haven't done any sprucing up lately, so a design update can make you feel like you've reset for the new year.
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Many seethe that sprucing up Vladivostok for the APEC summit cost $20bn, more than the London Olympics and more than Russia will spend developing the region in the years to 2025.
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With a bar stocked with Skinnygirl bottles and patriotic decorations sprucing up the restaurant's private room, the scene would have been a perfect setting to document the would-be historic moment.
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Backdrop: When Walmart and its big box peers were struggling to compete with Amazon, Walmart took risks by pouring money into sprucing up its stores and spending big to acquire Jet.
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Costco has managed to attract more online shoppers by sprucing up its website with everything from Apple MacBooks to La Mer cosmetics, as well as adding same-day delivery for groceries.
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U.S. restaurant chains are focusing on mobile ordering and pickup services, while sprucing up their menu by adding more value meals and fresher ingredients to compete better in a crowded restaurant industry.
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You can spend a lot of (tax-deductible) funds sprucing up the nation's universities and opera houses, and as a bonus it might distract from your history of less laudable political spending.
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Struggling with competition from Amazon and off-price stores, traditional retailers have worked hard to address changing consumer habits by lowering prices, sprucing up physical stores and websites and improving delivery options.
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By removing a wing that ran from 22.3th to 22th Street, connecting two of the buildings, and sprucing up lifeless air shafts with plants, Gramercy Square is attempting to invigorate its outdoor areas.
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Following her split with David Foster in 2016, the former Real Housewives of Beverly Hills star went to work sprucing up the lavish condo in Los Angeles she picked up for $4.59 million.
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"It's been our main tourism draw for so long," said Cathy Jelsing, director of the local Prairie Village Museum, who added that the town had just spent $5,000 sprucing up its stone monument.
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One way, he says, is to engineer the meters to provide a hyperlocal benefit—plow some of the profits a meter generates back into sprucing up the very street on which the meter sits.
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It also holds the potential for sprucing up a cheaper bottle of booze (that we might otherwise render un-drinkable) into a pre-made, and ready to pour on-the-rocks, easy summer sip.
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There is also talk of sprucing up the gardens along the eastern part of the Champs-Élysées, where Jeff Koons's towering 35-foot-tall sculpture "Bouquet of Tulips" will be permanently placed this year.
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Kohl's has beaten same-store sales and revenue estimates for the fifth straight quarter, highlighting its efforts to turn around its business by sprucing up stores, cutting back on discounts and bolstering its online operations.
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It has been furiously preparing for Trump's visit for days — sprucing up the city, repairing roads, erecting flags and building a brick wall to hide a poor area along the route of the presidential motorcade.
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You can prepare for Dating Sunday with a few simple profile tweaksIf you&aposre interested in partaking in Dating Sunday with millions of other singles, consider sprucing up your dating profile before the big day.
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Also killed were Ms. Carrier's father, Yves; his wife, Gladys Chamberland; and the couple's 19-year-old son, all members of an aid mission that was sprucing up schools in Burkina Faso, a former French colony.
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Dollar stores, which operate on razor-thin margins, are doing their bit to draw in customers: sprucing up stores, stocking more national brands such as Tide, selling food and fresh produce, and are opening more stores.
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All throughout the past month, we've been furnishing our new apartments (plus sprucing up old ones), taking care of our dry, cold weather skin, dressing up with our pets, investing in our fitness goals, and more.
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However, both chains have struggled recently in their home market as German shoppers have shifted to mainstream supermarkets, prompting the discounters to offer more brands and invest in sprucing up their stores, while also expanding abroad.
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At the lower-end of the fashion scale, high street labels like H&M are grappling with shifting shopping habits, albeit often taking a different tack, such as sprucing up cluttered stores with a more luxurious feel.
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While they can be easy to neglect — and even easier to wear out — our trusty bags deserve some TLC from time to time, especially when it means sprucing up a plain one for something a little cooler.
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Although the Obamas said that their spending was in line with the Clintons remodel funds, a November 1993 New York Times article reports that the Clintons spent around $400,000 on sprucing up the White House - around $670K today.
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North Korea had been engaged in a 70-day campaign of accelerated productivity in the run-up to the Workers' Party congress, including sprucing-up the capital, a grueling exercise that left many people exhausted, Western residents said.
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Conagra reported third-quarter profit above market estimates and raised its full-year profit forecast as the maker of Reddi-Wip whipped cream cut back on its deep discounts and benefited from sprucing up its frozen food business.
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The reason: Apple pays United about $150 million a year for corporate travel, making it the airline's top enterprise customer, and United's terminal is apparently in need of some sprucing up if it's to remain Apple's official corporate airline.
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As for the clues, I'm happy with a few that I wrote (especially the "pyramid scheme" wordplay for CHEERLEADER), but I'm equally grateful for Will sprucing up some of my duller clues with some flavorful ideas of his own.
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I usually bite my tongue: sprucing up the platform to keep it feeling new is important, and there are usually deeper reasons behind the changes, such as tweaks being made to make life easier for new or casual users.
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The company has been sprucing up its Tim Hortons' outlets and adding new coffee and lunch offerings, while rolling out breakfast sandwiches with Beyond Meat's plant-based sausages in select Canadian cities, but those efforts are yet to bear fruits.
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With all the problems that come along with buying new shades online, they are a key item (your eyes really do need protection, especially in the summer, and sunnies are one of the best accessories for instantly sprucing up an outfit).
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But when they're not making homeowners' dreams come true, they're still hard at work at their own home, the farm that they're still sprucing up where they live with their kids, sons Drake and Duke and daughters Ella and Emmie.
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Rebranded as the Met Breuer — with the subtlest sprucing up by architects Beyer Blinder Belle — this move is the first step of a plan that will include a $286 million new wing in the Met's Fifth Avenue building as well.
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But while money has flowed into sprucing up Baku, opponents of President Ilham Aliyev say few have seen major benefits from the oil wealth, especially people outside the capital, and accuse his government of suppressing human rights and stifling democracy.
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In its seventh year at the Hotel Ryumeikan Tokyo, the tradition echoes the custom of sprucing up the house at year-end, and comes as the international spotlight falls squarely on Japan as it prepares to host the 2020 Olympic Games.
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From sprucing up a breakfast frittata with chopped spinach, tossing Brussel's sprout halves in your lunchtime quinoa bowl, or adding some savory pearl onions to tonight's pot of stew, our frozen veggie bag hit-list covers a plenty of quick-fix savory options.
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While some people go for seriously scary costumes and decorations this time of year, others prefer the light-hearted nature of dressing up as a character from a Disney flick and sprucing up their home with adorable pieces inspired by animated characters.
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Neither Mr. Carson nor his wife — who expressed a strong interest in sprucing up the drab, wood-paneled, 1960s-era secretary's suite, according to several current and former department staff members — requested that the 50-year-old table be replaced, Mr. Williams said.
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Net income from continuing operations fell to $206 million, or 58 cents per share, in the second quarter, from $266 million, or 64 cents per share, a year earlier, hurt in part by higher expenses related to sprucing up its Pizza Hut stores.
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They're both successful adaptations — smart about which elements of their source material don't require any change versus which could use a quick sprucing up, and effective at drawing out interesting tones from the source novels — but they use very, very different strategies.
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While I was skeptical that vagina "weight-lifting" would enhance my orgasms (people also told me weed would do this and the only thing it enhanced was self-sabotaging impulses), I wondered if sprucing up my vagina could spruce up my life.
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Venus is in Fire sign Aries, keeping things warm and cozy in the home and family sector of your chart—this has been a lovely time for sprucing up your home, connecting with the people you live with, and, emotionally, for reflecting on your boundaries.
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This technique started life in the AI community as a way of applying the textures and tones from image onto another, but it soon made its way into apps like Prisma then big platforms like Facebook as a tool for sprucing up snaps and selfies.
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Sprucing up your workspace doesn't have to cost a lot, and permitting employees to spend part of their workday getting into the holiday spirit — perhaps by doing some arts and crafts — is a great way to encourage everyone to take a break and bond.
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Target, which has been trying to turn itself around by sprucing up existing outlets and opening more smaller format stores, reported a fall in same-store sales for the third straight quarter in February and warned that its sales and profit estimates for 2017 were too high.
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Toys "R" Us, which also operates the infant- and toddler-focused Babies "R" Us chain, has set aside more than $400 million out of its $3.1 billion in bankruptcy loans for sprucing up stores over the next three years with more experiences and better-paid staff.
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Driving the news: The challenge of saving Main Street — of driving customer traffic into brick and mortar stores — may be one of modernization: sprucing up stores inside and out, freshening up and more selectively choosing inventory, and using tech to know and keep up with customers.
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The Labour Party may have trooped into the left-wing wilderness under Jeremy Corbyn, but the centrist overtures with which the prime minister has recently wooed the opposition's more moderate supporters have been confined to safe schemes like improving mental health and sprucing up sink estates.
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Rockstar's previous title, Grand Theft Auto V, added first-person mode to the game back in 22018 as a way of sprucing up the game's port to then-next-gen consoles, and so Red Dead 22018 having it probably feels like the continued fulfillment of an obligation.
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This technology allows you, for instance, to superimpose directions over the road while you're driving, receive data about an enemy's whereabouts on a battlefield, and imagine how pink-flowered wallpaper would look in your powder room—or on a subway platform, if you're into sprucing up the Fifty-ninth Street station.
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In her new Netflix series, the decluttering guru Marie Kondo is shown not just sprucing up people's homes but also reimagining them as sacred spaces — channeling her experience as a former assistant at a Shinto shrine, along with the related belief that life, even consciousness, of a kind, courses through everything.
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It calls for $5.45 billion to be spent sprucing up Amtrak over the next five years, and Congress wants the new guy to do it with finesse, Under Boardman's watch, Amtrak had one of its worst disasters in decades — the May 12th, 2015 derailment outside of Philadelphia that killed six passengers and wounded 200.
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Building workers were sprucing up the press briefing room on Tuesday, and Mr. Esper began the news conference by promising that he would resume the sessions, which had all but disappeared after the turmoil of Mr. Mattis's resignation and the implosion of the nomination of Patrick M. Shanahan, initially selected to succeed Mr. Mattis.
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Building workers were sprucing up the press briefing room on Tuesday, and Mr. Esper began the news conference by promising that he would resume the sessions, which had all but disappeared after the turmoil of Mr. Mattis's resignation and the implosion of the nomination of Patrick M. Shanahan, initially selected to succeed Mr. Mattis.
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They have also been swayed by his administration's policies, including fast-tracking infrastructure projects, among them a mass rapid transit system, the sprucing-up of a city of more than 10 million people with a small army of street sweepers and the institution of a "smart card" program to subsidize health care and education for the poor.
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These home makeovers tend to fall into three broad categories: fixing a space to make room for a new lifestyle or hobby; sprucing up a now unused space so it can be rented out to create a new revenue stream; or renovating to make a home more comfortable for visits from adult children and their expanding families.
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They also asked them why they selfied, and grouped their responses into six broad reasons, from wanting to compete socially with their friends ("I feel I am lost when my friends get more likes and comments for selfies than me," said one respondent) to sprucing up the occasion ("Taking selfies in a specific environment helps me to remember the moment for a long time," said another).
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Capricorn is a very hardworking, practical sign, so Mars traveling through this sign will definitely inspire you and the people you coexist with to build a safe, productive home environment, whether that means physically sprucing up the place (Mars will definitely give you the muscle to move furniture around), or, on a more emotional level, perhaps encouraging you to express your concerns or pet peeves.
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Nevertheless, people who played Goldeneye 007 back in the late '20103s will likely have their heartstrings tugged by a video posted today that claims to show 30 minutes of an unfinished Goldeneye 007 remake for Xbox 360, what appears to be a faithful remastering of the original game that keeps its levels, guns, and sound effects, but gives the whole experience a much-needed visual sprucing up.
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WATCH THIS: Ashley Greene Reveals the Souvenir She Stole from the Set of Twilight In the final episode of the mini-series, Ellis transforms each of their spaces to be a cohesive mix of their styles, keeping the elements they loved, like a purple chair in the guest room and the 1980s table in the dining room, but sprucing up the space so it feels more like they created it together.
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The O.C. alum, 36, who separated from Briar Rose's father Hayden Christensen in September, shared a sweet photo of their Charlie Brown-style Christmas tree on Instagram, writing, "When you let your three year old pick out the tree…" Just because their tree is a little on the short and sparse side, standing about a foot tall and boasting approximately six branches to decorate, doesn't mean the mother and daughter didn't make a good showing of holiday spirit in giving it a little sprucing up.
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