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Build Your Block in Pillows
Picture your living space. OK? Now picture this: Photographs of real buildings, printed on throw pillows. Line ‘em up along the back of your couch, on a windowseat, or on your day bed (fantastic dorm...
View ArticleWeird Kitchen Science and Dancing Dinners
Food is an adventure in science, as any intuitive cook well knows. But sometimes the science can get just a teensy bit weird, as in the Japanese seafood delicacy known as Odori-Don, or “dancing squid...
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Driftwood Horses
Beachcombing, a few years back, my friend found a piece of driftwood that looked exactly like three horses’ heads rising from the waves. Very cool. But that’s nothing compared to the driftwood horses...
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Futurama Amigurumi
Futurama and amigurumi go together like… like mac and cheese… like Sheldon and Leonard… like a rose tatt and advanced calculus, baby! Just take a look at some of these (free) original crochet patterns...
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Barista dell’Arte: ‘Just a Coffee’ is Never Enough
I’m getting moderately obsessed with latte art: watching it emerge from a pitcher of slowly poured milk, admiring the presentation, gasping in delight and wonder at the finished objet, and – more than...
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Dust Mop Slippers? My Spring Cleaning Woes Are Over
How many times have we all joked about scuffing around the house in sock feet, picking up dust bunnies and dog fur on the soles of once-clean socks all the while, due to the fact that it never seems to...
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How to Organize Your Jewelry
Do you waste time pawing through a clutter of necklaces, bracelets, rings, earrings and miscellaneous personal bling, every time you get dressed to go out? Do you have jewelry you never wear because...
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Blandito Italian Bendy Foldy Lazy Floor Pillow
So your Blandito® may not be the seat to offer your aged auntie when she drops by for tea and scones, but as a cosy crash mat for the multifunctional small-space lifestyle of the hip young urban...
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Make an Old-Fashioned Tree Swing
Those last precious days of summer always make me feel nostalgic. Remember the feeling, from when you were a kid? The evenings are cooler; dusk comes on earlier; and when you run across the dew-wet...
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Excuse Me, But… T-Shirt Folder?
Have you seen this T-Shirt Folder thing? I just stumbled across it last week and have been sitting here shaking my head ever since. I admit that I do like a nicely folded T-shirt as much as the next...
View ArticleBreast Cancer Awareness Done OMG Right
So, October being Breast Cancer Awareness month and this being the end of the month, by now I think we’ve all seen enough public health announcements wrapped in pink ribbons. Nothing like that here, I...
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Skin Jewels
Stick-on jewelry for grown-up women? Oh, hey, now there’s an idea! For those of us who love the look of an expert ink art but shrink from the actual acquiring of a tattoo, or wimp out when it comes to...
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25 Ways to Wear a Scarf
Nothing can jazz up a simple outfit like the perfect scarf. And now we’re into the chilly season, the creatively flipped or knotted scarf is more than a mere fashion accessory. Even a filmy little...
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Crazy Quilting Revisited
Are you familiar with the fabulously embellished and embroidered crazy quilts of years past? Much as I love the carefully pieced formaml patterns, there’s something about the free form expression that...
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Glass Mermaid Bead
Serena Smith, glass artist of Oregon, caught my eye on Etsy a few years ago with her gently rounded feminine figure beads, all earth mothers and goddesses, and floral beads that are tiny fantastical...
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Clearly the Best Kitchen iPad Stand for Small Spaces
See-through acrylic Kitchen accessories give a sense of space in a small space, and a tablet can easily replace that stack of old cookbooks that clutter you space. Put the two together, and you’ve got...
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North and South Recipes for Fried Green Tomatoes
Growing up on the east coast of Canada, we frugally made the most of the garden harvest each year, right down to the last rock-hard green tomatoes left on the vine at first frost. It wasn’t until I...
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Smart Gadgets to Upcycle Your Empty Plastic Drink Bottles
The hard truth is, in the real world, every so often you just end up having to buy some beverage that comes in a plastic bottle. Big family-sized pop bottles for a birthday party, for example, or a...
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Nothing Says Love like a Custom Chocolate Bar
Anyone can just grab a heart-shaped box of chocolates off the store shelf to give to their sweetie at Valentine’s Day or “just because,” – but here’s a truly inspired idea to win the heart of the...
View ArticleHow to Peel Garlic – Fast!
Sure, you could go get yourself a fancy-schmancy garlic peeler — but there’s another way to get the skin off your garlic, fast and easy! What’s the secret to peeling garlic? For one single garlic...
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