There are certain foods and beverages that can actually brighten your smile or improve your dental health when you chew or sip them. Once you understand their chemical properties or textures, you can look to items you already have in your cupboards or refrigerator to help keep your teeth looking and feeling their best.
Whether you paid a few hundred bucks at the salon or just used the drugstore boxed stuff, it sucks when your hair color doesn't turn out the way you want. You can lighten the overall color with vitamin C, but if you're specifically looking to remove brassy tones from blonde hair, there's a better way to go.
Sexpot and sexy mama Adriana Lima would probably look good without makeup, hitting up 7-11 for a slurpee run (well, in her case more likely a oolong tea run), but she looks downright gorgeous when she gets in full Victoria's Secret Angel garb.
The esteemed tradition of Chinese watercolor goes back thousands of years and hasn't changed much in terms of composition, subject matter, and materials used. So back then as much as today sky dieties and kings would sip green tea outside pagodas perched high above the clouds, surrounded by monumental mountains and far removed from mortal space.
In this recipe add a little bit of healthy fiber to your scones. Learn how to prepare whole wheat cranberry scones with an orange zest and serve it with coffee and tea. These sweet English treats are wonderful at breakfast or anytime throughout the day. Enjoy!
In this tutorial, learn how to perform a quick and easy magic trick. In this trick, you will make it look like a tea towel is haunted and being pushed around by ghosts.
There are easy ways to appear slimmer without starving yourself or breaking a sweat. You will need: a no salt diet
In this instructional video, Tim brews up 5 gallons of Kombucha - a fermented tea drink from Russia with healing properties, with a slight alcohol content, and a most original flavor. Watch this video tutorial and learn how to brew traditional Russian kombucha.
Learn how to make a fabric tea basket including creating the pattern for the basket and assembling it.
One lump or two? That was the age-old question with sugar cubes, which used to be a staple of any tea salon or dignified household this side of Downton Abbey. These days sugar isn't really used in cubes much except in bars and restaurants, and that's a shame. Cubes are a lot less messy than granulated sugar, and you can measure the exact amount you put in your drink no matter what.
Cooking rice, pasta, and other grains in water is so boring. There is a much better way to guarantee they will have your mouth chewing something seriously tasty: cook them in something that isn't water. Alternative liquids such as stock, milk, juice, or even tea will give bland dishes a fresh new flavor boost. If you're not sure how your dishes might taste, never fear: we tested them out. Before getting started, be sure to read this article first so that you know why it's important to rinse y...
Get creative - Stray away from the same old cakes and add a new cake shape to your resume! In this cake decorating tutorial, learn how to make a teapot shaped cake! Perfect for a Alice in Wonderland themed party or for someone who loves tea and or coffee!
This video shows you how to construct a creative invitation for a child's circus themed birthday party. You can put a letter inside the colorful packaging. There are also examples for a dollhouse tea party, a western-themed party, and a pirate party.
Find out how to get crisp meringues every time. Meringue cookies are mostly sugar and egg whites. They are a classic French cookie often paired with tea or coffee, and are hard to get right if you're not familiar with making them.
This cooking how-to video demonstrates a technique for light and flaky scones with food writer, Julie O'Hara. Scones are type of quick bread. Watch this video cooking lesson to learn the best method for preparing this quick bread recipe for delicious tender flaky scones. Serve your warm scones with tea.
You don't need supplements to prevent cancer, look to the food you eat every day to pack in all the healthy nutrients you need. You will need berries, spices, sources of isothiocyanate, watercress, green tea, sources of folate, Brazil nuts, omega-3-rich fish, garlic, Asian mushrooms, apples, and flaxseed. Watch this video nutrition tutorial and learn how to prevent cancer just through a good diet.
Make It Mine Magazine associate editor Tea Benduhn shows you how to sew up a seam using a backstitch. Back stitching is a fast and easy way to sew up a seam. Watch this video sewing tutorial and learn how to backstitch.
Make It Mine associate editor Tea Benduhn shows you how to sew up a seam using a blindstitch. This is great for linings, pillows, or any time you don't want the stitch to be visible. Watch this video sewing tutorial and learn how to make a blindstitch.
Make It Mine associate editor Tea Benduhn shows you how to hem using a slip stitch. A slip stitch will make a stitch that is not visible on the other side of the fabric. Watch this video sewing tutorial and learn how to do a slip stitch for hemming or any delicate sewing projects.
Make It Mine Magazine associate editor Tea Benduhn shows you how to carve a stamp. You will need a rubber stamp block, a pencil, and carving tools. Once you know how to carve your own stamps, you can make any design you desire. Watch this video crafting tutorial and learn how to make your own rubber stamp.
There is no cure for the common cold but you can help the symptoms. Learn prevention tips and common cold remedies from Pharmacologists Joe and Dr. Terry Graedon. Use vitamin D, zinc, or ginger tea to beat that nasty cold.
Have you ever woken up in the middle of the night with a cough that wont go away? If so then let Pharmacologist Joe Graedon show you how to suppress coughing with a few home remedies. You can use over the counter syrup and hard candies to temporarily stop the cough, or simply drink a ginger and thyme tea.
Lemon drizzle cake makes a great after dinner dessert or tea time sweet. Watch this how to video and watch how simple it is to make lemon drizzle cake. Try this tangy lemon drizzle cake from Mary Berry tonight.
Rob "Riki Tiki" Roy mixes up another cocktail, with fire! You will need sugar, Bacardi 151 rum, floral tea, amaretto, Grand Marnier, white creme de cacao, and whipping cream. Watch this video beverage-making tutorial and learn how to mix a blackout cocktail.
The Orient Express is a lychee-flavored vodka-based cocktail with lychees, lychee liqueur, ginger, lemongrass and jasmine green tea. This specialty drink is a smooth original by BarDelicious bartender extraordinaire Steve Drew. Watch this video beverage-making tutorial and learn how to mix an Orient Express cocktail.
Learn how to make use of the dandelion as an herbal oil and sunburn remedy by watching this how to video. The dandelion can also be an herbal infusion/tea.
With tips from this video, learn how to make a homemade teabox. Use scrapbooking, dictionary print, and dried violets for the top. This is a great gift for a friend who likes to drink tea.
Strawberry daifuku is a light Japanese dessert that combines the sweet taste of fresh strawberries with crunchy rice cakes and red bean paste. Serve strawberry daifuku with a hot cup of tea.
Watch as Manjula prepares Punjabi chola, a classic chickpea Indian dish than can be served with naan or any other Indian bread.
Preparing Yerba Mate in Montevideo, Uruguay for Your Life Abroad web series. This is a traditional tea with a spiritual history.
This is a two part video on how to brew up a big batch of Kombucha - a slightly medicinal, slightly alcoholic, and very unique drink from Russia. In part 1 of the video Tim brews the tea and mixes in the Kombucha mother.
English bread - no sugar here and perfect for vegans! This simple, hand-made bread is perfect for beans on toast, or with some nice yeast extract and a good cup of tea. It's so English, you'll be whistling Monty Python and driving small, fuel efficient cars before you finish the loaf.
Make It Mine associate editor Tea Benduhn shows you how to do dimensional needle felting. This technique lets you shape wool into whatever you want.
Quitting smoking is incredibly difficult. It's hard enough to break the habit, but the withdrawals are even worse. In this tutorial, learn how to make the transition a little more bearable.
Aging paper is a great way incorporate learning about antiquities from the past while doing a fun hands on project in the classroom. It's easy and really adds something special to projects or even to do just for fun in your spare time.
The weather outside might be frightful, but heating bills are downright scary this time of year. Heat is absolutely essential during the winter season, but it's also really expensive. If you aren't blessed with a fireplace or unlimited disposable income, fear not, because you can still heat your home on the cheap using flower pots and tea lights—even if the power goes out.
Staying cool in the summer heat sometimes feels like it takes all the energy in the world. But what about a fan using no-cost electrical energy? If you're looking to keep cool during a power outage, or if you don't want to break the bank by running your DIY air conditioner all day long, you can use candlelight to power a fan!
A dead British science nerd figured out the best way to cut a cake to preserve maximum freshness, and it's pure genius (well, sorta). His name? Sir Francis Galton, a polymath infamously known as the founder of eugenics, and apparently owner of a very big sweet tooth.
If you want to raise your children in a Christian way, it is very significant to make them understand what Jesus' sacrifice did for them.
James from Handsome Alvin, the Australian, acoustic duo band who perform in pubs and clubs around Brisbane, wants to teach you an acoustic guitar lesson.
