Take a look at the painting to the right—just take a good long look. That there is a painting called “Consolation” by Raphael Soyer, done in 1959. Does the couple look familiar? We think they bear a striking resemblance to Amy and Rory Williams (formerly known as The Ponds). And if you look into the […]
Learning how to ride a horse well can take years. It involves understanding the nuances of a horse’s behavior and how your own behavior communicates your intent to them. But, with a few basics you can certainly get at least a taste of that childhood dream. The first step? Getting on.
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Laryngopharyngeal reflux (LPR), also known as silent reflux, is the reflux of stomach contents into the larynx (voice box) and pharynx (throat).
I’ve been watching old episodes of Call the Midwife on Netflix and I just realized that I lived in what is now a historical drama. (I also lived through my own personal version of Mad Men, but that…
How do you define modern letterpress? For most designers, it’s the ability to combine traditional printing methods with any number of digital fonts burned into photopolymer plates for use on a vintage Vandercook. But for a limited few, the craft of letterpress is an exclusively analog pursuit, like
Get your students excited about STEM with your choice of these two engineering mystery bag challenges for kids.
As teachers, we are always looking for new creative things to do with our students. Whether it be a gift for mom or dad, or just something fun to do with them in the classroom, here are ideas for creative art projects and crafts for the elementary classroom.
Exposition personnelle à découvrir jusqu'au 4 mai à la Galerie Lasécu à Lille. Ouverture: - mercredi et jeudi 14h-18h - vendredi et sa...
With having three little ones (well, two little and one who is entering big boyhood) it's getting tough trying to satisfy everyone's gift wants and our bank account simultaneously. And truly, the two oldest are
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So, I have had a number of people asking for the templates for the candy boxes and what not that I used for the Harry Potter party. Here they are! I hope anyone who wants to use them finds them easy to put together and helpful in planning a great Harry Potter marathon. Click here to go to the template for the Chocolate Frog Boxes. Click on the "Download Image" to get the template. I had to re-size mine a little so that the chocolate frogs I had would fit in them. I found a chocolate frog mold on Amazon. The chocolates were just slightly too big for the original size of the box. Click here to get the template for the Bertie Botts Beans Box. Again, I re-sized this once I had it downloaded to make it easier to work with. I have since found another template, click here, that I think might be easier to make. I haven't fully read the instructions on the second template, but the first doesn't really show you how to close the top. I punched holes in each section and strung red raffia through the holes and tied the ends together in a bow. For the windows, I took transparency film and cut the pieces slightly larger than the windows so I could glue it. You could use clear cellophane, but I thought the transparency film would be stronger and hold up better. WARNING: if you plan to make a lot of these boxes, they hold quite a few beans in them. We made close to thirty boxes and went through about fifteen pounds of jelly beans. The cost can be high, though the guests reaction to getting them at our party made it worth it in my mind. For the logbooks that I made, I wanted to cover them with Harry Potter paper. The problem I ran into was that all the HP paper I found in scrapbook stores wouldn't work well for what I wanted. The solution: I made my own paper. Click here to get the paper to use for any number of HP crafts you want to create. If you want to create your own paper, wordle.net is a great site, though it does take some getting used to. You also have to do a download in order for it to work. My sister made the Marauder's Maps. She followed the directions on the site with only one change. She aged the paper by spraying it with tea and baking it in the oven. She found the map by looking through the craft links on The Leaky Cauldron site. The wand making instructions can be found here. We filled our wands with sand to give them a more realistic weight. Everyone had fun making these and then dueling each other. Recipies: To make the acid pops, you will need sour suckers, pop rocks, and water. I had trouble finding sour suckers in my area, but finally found them at Zurchers. They also had the pop rocks there. I just love that store! Anyway, to make the acid pops, you'll need to unwrap the suckers. Fold a paper towel up and place in a small bowl with a little water. You just need enough water to soak the paper towel through. Roll the sucker around on the paper towel to get it damp. Next, roll the sucker in pop rocks until the surface is covered. You will hear the pop rocks pop and fizzle, but don't worry, there will be enough pop left in them. Wrap the suckers in wax paper. I would advise making these within twenty-four hours of serving. The longer they sit, the less the pop rocks react when eating. The stand was made from a styrafoam cone. I simply painted it green and stuck the sucker sticks in it to create my own sucker tree. You can purchase a lollipop stand if you would like to reuse one. Amazon has a fairly simple one for a reasonable price. The cockroach clusters were easy to make. I simple broke up pieces of pretzels and covered them in chocolate. They did look like they might have pieces of cockroaches in them, but they tasted great! The pretzels wands were even easier to make than the cockroach clusters. I simply dipped the ends in melted chocolate and them took chocolate drizzel to create a zig-zagged look.
In this post, I'll go over how to find free vintage sewing books. There are a lot of vintage and antique books that are in the public domain now.
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Reprint: R1203E Economists have found that the higher a country’s academic test scores, the faster its GDP grows. That puts the United States’ perennially mediocre test scores in a particularly ominous light. Progress is being made, says Childress, of the Gates Foundation, but at the rate even the most engaged school systems are improving, it will take 80 years to catch up to where China is now. New approaches, including personalized technology, online videos, and innovations that combine software with classroom programs, could be the breakthrough tools American students need to improve dramatically faster.
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Print of the original artwork 'Magic' by Zeppelinmoon High quality giclee print on 310gsm archival paper Size 8 x 10 inches (approx 20 x 25cm) Signed Posted flat backed & wrapped - please note the clear wraps the prints come in are not plastic! The wraps are made from rapidly compostable potato starch 🥔☺️♻️ Fankyoo youre lush! x P.S If you are sending this lovely print as a GIFT and would like a gift note sent to your recipient, just write your message in the "gift message" box at checkout and I will pop it in your parcel! It's also good to know that no receipts or invoices are included in the parcels :) Postage to the UK is free by Royal Mail 2nd class, or you can select an upgrade to Tracked 1st Class for £2 at checkout. International shipping is a flat fee of £8 worldwide, I send all international items TRACKED and all additional items are free :)
Discover and share the most famous quotes from the TV show The Handmaid's Tale.
The most exciting day in any 80s household: the day you first got cable TV.
Hello! I’m writing today from my sofa, tucked up with a cat and an endless stream of christmas themed programmes on the box, I have a cold but am hoping it’s going to leave soon. After a week of sold laughter with my mum and sisters in frosty Ireland, I returned to a DIY blitz
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Print of the original artwork 'Sky Punks' by Zeppelinmoon High quality giclee print on 310gsm archival paper Size 8 x 10 inches (approx 20 x 25cm) Signed Posted flat backed & wrapped Fankyoo youre lush! x P.S If you are sending this lovely print as a GIFT and would like a gift note sent to your recipient, just write your message in the "gift message" box at checkout and I will pop it in your parcel! It's also good to know that no receipts or invoices are included in the parcels :) Postage to the UK is free by Royal Mail 2nd class, or you can select an upgrade to Tracked 1st Class for £2 at checkout. International shipping is a flat fee of £6 worldwide, I send all international items TRACKED and all additional items are free :)
Here's a nice and fun poster featuring a famous text by Gary Provost, quoted in Roy Peter Clark’s (terrific) Writing Tools, about the melody of the English language. Please share it wi
Hey friends. Have you ever been to a wedding where on one of the tables somewhere at the reception there was a box, pile of blank paper, and a couple fancy-looking pens? You wonder what it’s for and look up...Read More
“In sociological studies fashion plays the role which has been allotted to Drosophila, the fruit fly, in the science of genetics.”
Did you guys have Fashion Plates? Oh man...It was the best! You put these little raised templates underneath paper and rolled a black crayon sort of thing over them and it made an imprint of the outfit you created. The plates were divided up unto tops, bottoms and heads with hairstyles and hats. After you created a design you got to color in the outfit you created! I didn't use those hateful colored pencils it came with. I used my neon crayons, which were the very best. I was not into understated beiges and sands and creams- no sir-ee! I was straight up Versace and shit! I remember I liked the hoochie outfits best. Yikes! Okay, I showed you all a picture of the box of the lovely BARBIE PERFUME MAKER, but here is a picture of the actual toy, which I would consider one of my very favorite toys I have ever owned. You put the little "scent sticks" in water, cranked the wheel and the scent/color infiltrated the water in the little cup. Then you could pour the scent into the bottle of your choice and even BOX the thing up! My favorite scent was Strawberry Fields. The Snoopy Snow Cone Machine was awesome. I would sit there cranking the little cheese grater, trying to shave down a rock hard ice cube for 20 minutes. I would be dripping sweat afterwards. But I didn't give up- I still tried to sell my weak sno-cones to the mailman for 25 cents! Here is the actual ad for Cabbage Patch Kids in the Sears Catalog, where my mother got all of our toys. Remember how AWESOME sleeping bags were? They had such colorful ones back then. Sleeping on the floor with my friends was always so fun. My friend Erin had a Garfield one and mine was the Shirt Tales. Was there anything more incredible than Strawberry Shortcake dolls back then? The white and red and pink- it was always looking like Valentine's day and I didn't even mind the red. Her strawberry scent was so yummy! And she had all these cute little friends with fat heads and freckles! I wanted Angel Cake (was that her name?) so desperately! Did any of you have this house? I didn't even know this existed. The little girl in the ad is totally eyeballing her mother and trying to tell her with her eyes " I WANT THIS FOR CHRISTMAS." I played with this one a LOT. My sister and our friend Erin would always play dentist. The playdoh molds had little cavity faces on them. You made a bunch of teeth, most of which were like, supposed to be rotted, and you put them in this old guys mouth. Then you went to work on extracting those bad boys! We would be so detailed in playing dentist, that I would draw up an invoice and bill your ass for my work. THIS. IS. THE. GREATEST. TOY. EVER. (deep breath) You guys...I am serious...I think it was my uncle who bought me this and thank heavens he did- I got to make my own MAKE UP!!!!! I also had the hair extension one and dyed all of the hair pink. Did I already tell you about that? Anyway, it was a GREAT toy for those of us who loved make up. I love make up to this day thanks to Fresh n' Fancy. Cabbage Patch Kid commercial another Strawberry Shortcake commercial:
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