What would Christmas be without some figgy pudding, or any pudding, for that matter? Among the sights and smells that are most memorable are sugar cookies, gingerbread houses, and a sweet brown Christmas pudding.
Keep your Christmas green! Don't resort to environmentally unfriendly wrapping paper. You can put your gifts in cloth bags or use catalog and magazine pages as your wrapping paper. Or, just use plain brown paper bags and decorate them as your wrapping paper!
You don't have to be a scrapbooking wizard to make this! All you need are 32 brown paper lunch bags, and a small collection of paper crafting supplies. Make your own seasonal Christmas album, and record every day of the month!
You can use this little paper pilgrim to decorate scrapbooks, as place cards or to include with thank-you notes. You will need a Top Note die cutter, card stock in black, white, beige and brown and a few paper craft supplies as well.
In this Thanksgiving day guide, we learn how to prepare fresh cranberry sauce from scratch. You'll need cranberries, orange rinds, brown sugar and water. It's as simple as that. For a complete recipe, and to get started making your own fresh cranberry sauce, watch this free video cooking lesson.
This is a great seasonal arts and crafts project that you can do to turn a basic barette into a Thanksgiving themed hair clip. By using just a little bit of fall colored ribbon and some brown felt, you can make a cute turkey barette!
Celebrate the Thanksgiving holidays in style! This tutorial shows you how to create an autumn style manicure. You will need base and top coat, nude polish, nail polishes in golden yellow, red, orange, brown, mid-tone green, dark green and red, orange and yellow nail rhinestones.
If you fold this out of some blue, green or violet paper, it's a peacock! But if you decide to make it from brown, orange or yellow paper, it's a turkey! Make a dozen of them to use as Thanksgiving decorations!
Here's a fun rainy day craft, good for especially young children. Make your own porcupine or hedgehog out of construction paper. You'll need yellow and brown origami paper, one black marker, one popsicle stick, two googly eyes, a stapler, glue and a pair of safety scissors.
There's no better way to celebrate the discovery of the New World than by recreating Christopher Columbus's three ships from the famous voyage— the Niña, Pinta & Santa Maria. In this short ship-building how-to, you'll learn a simple activity for you and your kids, where you'll make miniature ship models of Columbus's boats with egg cups, brown paint, white paper (sails), toothpicks, clay and glue.
Does your green thumb look more like a brown thumb? Not all of us were blessed with Martha Stewart's gardening skills, and that's totally okay. If you're seriously interested in growing your own food, whether in a large garden or a small balcony garden area, you'll get some great tips on how to do it in this video.
This is a great summertime look that compliments the sun (and even the moon). Day or night, this makeup look will make you shine! Watch to see how you can create this Brazilian bombshell look with bronzes, browns and gold around the eyes, complimented by a subtle shimmer around the face. It's topped with bronzer, pink cheeks and apricot lips which will turn you into a sun goddess.
Oh, how we love chocolate. Chocolate, in all its godlike perfection, makes everything taste better: crepes, apples, cookies, air. But we don't dig the enormous calorie content of chocolate as much.
In this tutorial, learn how to make a uniquely sweet and spicy bacon recipe. Hosted by Alex Guarnaschelli from the Food Network, you will learn how to rub your bacon with an assortment of spices and sugars so that it tastes incredible. These thick slabs work great for breakfast, lunch or even dinner. Enjoy!
You can have the deliciousness of muffins without feeling guilty! Here is how you can make these yummy muffins:
Starting a rose garden? Modern Mom is here to help. Learn from gardening expert Melinda Myers how to properly trim rose bushes after the winter to promote new growth in the spring. Prune brown, dried up rose branches and keep your garden fresh and fast growing.
Need to protect your school books? This free video guide has got you covered. With its help, you will learn how to make perfect custom book covers using a brown paper grocery bag. For more information, including step-by-step instructions on how to cut and fold your own custom protective book coverings, watch this handy how-to.
Interested in taking professional-caliber portraits but aren't sure what sort of backgorunds to buy? When choosing a background, your biggest consideration should, of course, be the backdrop's primary application: browns and blues, for example, are great colors for standard portraits. For more information on selecting your first photo backdrops, watch this free photographer's guide.
This video goes through the process of making a baked cheesecake. To do so you will need to mix cream cheese, eggs, fresh cream, sugar, flour and lemon juice in a blender until smooth. The next step is to place the mixture into a cake tin and bake in the oven at 140 degrees Celsius for 40 minutes, or until the cheesecake is golden brown. By following this video you will learn how to make a delicious baked cheesecake quickly and easily.
In this tutorial, Judo Black Belt and BJJ Brown Belt Mark Massey will teach us the judo throw for jiu jitsu. Seen during a match, it's a blur of motion and looks hard to learn. But broken down into steps like this, it's much more manageable.
The Judo throw became one of the most famous judo moves for a reason. Done right, it is a devastating (and very cool looking) maneuver. In this tutorial, Judo Black Belt and BJJ Brown Belt Mark Massey teaches us the Kuzure Osoto Gari (and the more traditional) Osoto Maki Komi throw.
Learn how to sear meat when cooking. Searing meat is the process for caramelizing the sugars and browning the proteins present in meat and poultry, creating richer color and deeper flavor, and an appealing crust. To sear meat cuts, you'll need your meat or poultry, skillet, salt, pepper, and vegetable oil.
This video demonstrates three different hip hop streetdance moves. If you like Chris Brown, you might like this dance tutorial video. The dancer demonstrates and provides text explaining each hip hop dance move. He does not list any of the names of the dance moves.
Nothing takes the chill out of a brisk night like mulled cider, this winter favorite. You will need apple cider, cinnamon sticks, brown sugar, cloves, and allspice. Optional: rum, whiskey or brandy. Enjoy this holiday recipe for mulled cider.
Here is a quick how-to video on how to cook nectar for hummingbirds. Sweet nectar is a great way to attract hummingbirds to your feeders. All you need to make nectar is one part granulated sugar to four parts water. Don't use honey or brown sugar. Watch and see how to prepare this sweet drink for the hummingbirds.
Don't you wish you could make steamed pork buns at home? Well know you can. Follow along with this Chinese cooking how-to video to learn how to make steamed barbecue pork buns. Learn the step by step process and make them at home. The ingredients you need for this recipe are: dough for buns, Cantonese roasted pork, soy sauce, oyster sauce, dark brown sugar, ketchup, and corn starch.
Inspired by Tim Burton's movies, this how-to video shows a theatrical Halloween look. The cosmetics used are Bare Escentuals mineral foundation, NYX White e/s, ArtDeco e/s Base, MAC e/s in Carbon, Copperplate, Shroom, Ben Nye black eyeliner, Max Factor 2000 Calorie mascara, MAC Prep & Prime Lash, MAC Velvetella lipliner, Nars Scarlet Empress lipstick, NYX Grape lipgloss, MAC Blue Brown pigment, and Jofrika theater blood. Watch this video makeup tutorial and learn how to create a Corpse Bride ...
Here is a dessert you need to prepare in advance, but it is well worth the wait. This recipe for creme caramel is better than any shop bought creme caramel. Watch this cooking how-to video to learn how to make a decadent sweet dessert.
A quick snack that you can make any day of the week are wonton crisps. These wonton crisps are a variation of Taco Bell's cinnamon twists. All you need for this Asian inspired recipe are wonton wrappers, margarine, brown sugar and cinnamon.
You can't have Memorial Day without a barbecue. But what if it is raining outside? In this cooking how to video tutorial Mark Bittman, from the New York Times, sears, braises and broils ribs for a rainy, indoor Memorial Day BBQ. Grab your beef spare ribs, brown them on both sides and prepare for a delicious broiled dinner.
Dr Kreepy, Halloween crafter, shows how to obtain a rotting head without killing someone! For this project, you will need a skull, paintbrushes, liquid latex, black spray paint, brown paint, and cotton balls. Watch this video prop-making tutorial and learn how to make a cheap corpse prop head for Halloween.
Make this dish in advance and pop it right into the oven on Sunday morning. Use whole grain bread, eggs, low-fat milk, vanilla, frozen peaches, brown sugar, and cinnamon. There is nothing better than a peach French toast bake to supplement a healthy breakfast.
Alton Brown shows how to trim out the rib ends to make crown roast of lamb. This process is also called frenching. Watch this instructional cooking video to carefully cut away unnecessary fat and lamb pieces while preparing to cook a rack of lamb.
This cosmetics video demonstrates how to apply makeup for a Capricorn inspired look. According to a horoscope source, Capricorns identify with chocolate browns, dark greens and navy blues. Try this experimental look and see if it compliments your personality.
Watch this instructional cosmetics video to apply makeup for a Jennifer Lopez look. Products used in this video are a Leow-Cornell 3/8'' brush, 1/2'' Maxine's mop brushes, MAC 219 brush, Sephora 29 blending brush, Ardelle 134 falsies, DUO lash adhesive, and an eyelash curler. For the eyes use Urban Decay primer potion, MAC "fresh cement" shadestick, Revlon colorstay liquid eyeliner, Revlon colorstay pencil eyeliner, and a MAC "wheat" brow finisher.
Watch this instructional cosmetics video to apply a eye shadow for a Sarah Michelle Gellar inspired look. Use a M.A.C painterly paint pot base and a 242 brush to blend. For this project use subtle browns and peach colors close to your skin tone.
Watch this instructional cosmetics video to apply makeup for a look based on M.A.C's Lightly Ripe face chart using the Spiced Chocolate quad from the Cult of Cherry collection. The products used to create the look in this video are: M.A.C Spiced Chocolate quad, M.A.C Eye Shadow Brule and Brown Script,
These barbecue beans, loaded with big slices of bacon, are ready to eat in only a couple of hours. The bacon, home-made rub and sauce, sweet molasses and brown sugar in these beans will get you some "good eatin'" smiles at your next barbecue. Just don't tell 'em how you made 'em. That's our secret.
This basic BBQ dry rub recipe for barbecue ribs is quick and simple to make. Use this BBQ Pit Boys recipe, and then adjust the spices and quantities to make it your own special BBQ Rib Rub! That's what Barbecue is all about.
In this how to video Chef Paul demonstrates how to make baked apples. Take brown sugar and mix it with butter to stuff inside the apples. Get creative and stuff the apples with dried fruits. There are several things you can do one the apple is baked, watch and learn.