Foodie Gifts for Mother’s Day
This roundup of gifts for the foodie mom from delish.com has some great finds, like this cute bento box from sugarcharms , this cookbook kit from givesimple.com ,or personalized spatulas from williamssonoma . Technorati Tags: shopping , gifts , bento box , cookbooks , spatulas , Mother’s Day
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Foodie Gifts for Mother’s Day
Charlie of Happy Threads is so clever! She has created a cross-stitch pillowtop design that mimics an iPhone screen — a must-have for technology lovers. Charlie says, The icons are intended to be stitched on black Aida fabric.
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Free chart: iPhone pillowtop
Filed under: Fragrance , Beauty , News Diptyque’s new spring Vetyverio scent will now be available to purchase on the brand’s website. Courtesy photo. Sophisticated noses can rest easy now that one of the world’s leading luxury perfumers is finally selling their often tough-to-find wares online
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Diptyque Launches E-Commerce Site
Over at the blog Tea Rose Home there is a wonderful tutorial for making this lovely spring wreath. It is made using leftovers from her past projects. Love that because I always have extra supplies and samples from past projects.
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Spring wreath tutorial using leftovers from past projects
Aliola has been posting a series of adorable cross-stitch animals. Browse through her blog to see all of them. Here are some direct links: Camel Whale Hippo, alligator, lion, hedgehog, snail, goose
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Free charts: Sweet animals from Aliola
Melissa Goodsell shares a tutorial over at QFD Creative for making a fabric draughts (checkers) set. The set includes a fabric board, fabric playing pieces, and a fabric storage bag. Go to the tutorial . [photo from QFD Creative ] Technorati Tags: sewing , tutorial , draughts , checkers , game , fabric
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Tutorial: Make a draughts or checkers game from fabric
‘Tis odd how timing works. I just recently posted on this site that creates video game inspired sweets, so I had video game sweets on my mind, when msn contacted me to include the fondant Pac-Man cookie toppers I had made last year in their latest slideshow: Game Food. CLICK HERE to see the full slideshow at msn.com , including a Katamari wedding cake,…
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Game Food (Geeks and Foodies Unite Once More)
Filed under: Fashion , Celebrity , News , Designers & Brands , Shopping Here’s what’s happening around the web this morning: Fashion’s Night Out Expanded to Six Days Fashion’s Night Out ? More like Fashion’s Week Out, thankyouverymuch . The September shopping event has been stretched to a six-day global extravaganza kicking off Sept
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Fashion’s Night Out Expanded to Six Days, Athleta Opening Stores
Ethan Zuckerman reports on the Science Commons project aims and endeavours: (the full original article has links, here excerpt only) “One way to think of the mission of Science Commons, Wilbanks tells us, is to spark generative effects in the scientific world much as we’ve seen them in the online world. He quotes Jonathan Zittrain’s definition of generativity, from “The Future of the Internet… and How to Stop It“: “Generativity is a system’s capacity to produce unanticipated change through unfiltered contributions from broad and varied audiences”. This raises some provocative questions, when applied to the world of science: “What does spam look like in a patent system
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Restoring Generativity to Science: the Science Commons approach
So here it is, 10:00 on a Tuesday night and I just finished up a batch of buttermilk biscuits for breakfast tomorrow. All I have to say is YUM! This is the first recipe that I made out of Ree Drummond’s (The Pioneer Woman) Cookbook
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Seriously yummy biscuits…and other things
Filed under: Fashion , Celebrity , News , Celebrity Style From scaling the steps of the Met to hobnobbing with celebs of every stripe to the inspired performance by Lady Gaga , you would think that the gussied up guests of last night’s Costume Institute Gala would have been too exhausted to charge on.
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The Costume Institute’s Unofficial After-Party at The Standard Hotel
day 2 at n’awlins! chillin’ with my tom’s at the balcony… i can’t contain my joy … along the banks of mississippi river! st. louis cathedral – the oldest cathedral in north america; founded as a catholic parish in 1720! such a beautiful, special cathedral… i like that the pipe-in chant music they play inside… it gives you that extra feeling that you’re in a holy place… The historic Jackson Square, originally known in the 18th Century as ‘Place d’Armes’ and later renamed in honor of the Battle of New Orleans hero, Andrew Jackson.
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N’awlins!
A new national poll conducted after passage of the Arizona immigration law provides a predictably complicated picture of Americans’ attitudes toward immigration. There’s only one clear result from the New York Times/CBS News poll: Vast majority of respondents believe U.S….
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Poll: Majority in U.S. want more secure border
In the wake of a decision by Virginia attorney general Ken Cuccinelli to cover up the bare-breasted woman on the Virginia state seal, officials at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts in Richmond are concerned that Cuccinelli will next turn his attention to the museum and its collection. Cuccinelli’s interest in the state’s seal was first reported by Norfolk’s Virginian-Pilot newspaper. Cuccinelli is a right-wing Republican best known for questioning President Obama’s citizenship and for ending protections for gays and lesbians at Virginia universities.
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Virginia AG Cuccinelli to turn sights on VMFA?
The Future of Money and Technology Summit What video games offer democratic participation (video vidi visum : virtual) Tweetdoc: About A tweetdoc is a document that brings together all the tweets from a particular event or search term. A tweetdoc allows you to keep a record of an event through twitter.
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The PGA Players As the PGA Tour’s 2010 season opened in Hawaii, the scope and breadth of the Tiger Woods scandal and its coverage began to take full flight. Accustomed to the sports media, the Tour players now faced the entertainment paparazzi, TMZ, Gawker, Deadspin, and their like, all-the-while unsure if … Read more: Tiger Woods: The PGA Players’ Reactions
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Tiger Woods: The PGA Players’ Reactions
STAR Network welcomes new members to their Parivaar– the all new 2010 Intel ® CoreTM Processor Family! Owing to a strategic tie up, STAR Network will promote Intel’s ® new Parivaar of processors through a number of innovative brand integrations. It is a well known fact that the iconic characters created by the Star Network are popularly known to be a part of the STAR Parivaar (Family). These characters have grown to become popular household figures.
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STAR Network ties up with the All New 2010 Intel(R) Core™ Processor Family
One of the Largest Strategic Engagements in HCL History Will Help Facilitate MSD’s Growth Across Global Markets; HCL to Add Jobs In North Carolina To Support Project HCL Technologies Ltd. (HCL), a leading global IT services provider, today announced it has signed a five-year, $500 million strategic engagement with MSD (also known as Merck & Co., Inc
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HCL Technologies Signs Five-Year, Strategic Engagement Agreement With MSD
If you’re reading this blog, there’s a good chance you make a living from producing art. And there’s also a good chance you struggle to make an honest living doing what you love.
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James Sturm’s Market Day is a book about YOU
Last month potential donors to Hirshhorn director Richard Koshalek’s plan to build a bulbous membrane at the museum were scheduled to visit. MAN has an acquired an email that was sent from Koshalek’s office to Hirshhorn staff on April 12. Consider it an amusing look at the ‘Enron-esque reality’ a museum director asks his staff to create when he really, really wants to build something.