We can't resist a good peanut butter cup—especially when it's homemade. But it's not just the peanut butter or the chocolate that makes us pledge our undying love to these sweet treats over and over again. Nope. What really drives us wild about them is their shape. Yup: we love candy cups.
Starbucks is famous for a whole slew of fancy drinks, from white chocolate mochas and caramel Frappuccinos to hazelnut macchiatos.
You've found the perfect tree — or so you think. As hard as we try to display an ideal tree each year, both plastic and pine can disappoint, especially when you're shopping on the cheap.
Sometimes you've got a head of lettuce that you want to eat but it lacks a certain youth. In other words, it's wilted and browning at the edges. Other times, you get to the grocery store near the end of day and the only lettuce or greens available look a little on the sad side. Never fear. You're not doomed to a meal of fast food or mouthfuls of soggy salad. You can easily revive those leaves and have something crisp, green, and delicious for your next meal, so don't dump it in the trash.
Sometimes when you have a really ripe banana or a green one it might become difficult to open it, or you break the banana when you open it. Bummer, I know! Well, all that headache and risk is over because I took a solution right from the animal kingdom. In this video, I will show you exactly how a monkey would peel a banana.
If you're a fashion designer using Adobe's Photoshop CS5, you already know you can do a host of amazing things. One of the things you'll likely wan to do over and over again is check out your creations in different colors. This quick how to demonstrates what you need to do to go from red to yellow, green to blue, mauve to black and back again. Check it out!
Olivia Wilde's stunning big green eyes make her look drop dead gorgeous no matter what kind of makeup look she's wearing, but we were especially entranced by her 2010 Golden Globes (facial) ensemble.
"Black Swan" star Mila Kunis exemplified just what Golden Globes dressing was all about by donning a gorgeous deep green body contouring Vera Wang gown on the red carpet at the 2011 Golden Globes.
Make your own hoverboard prop from the Back to the Future movies! You can do this whole project for about twenty dollars. You will need a large piece of foam board, green posterboard, some Tupperware, a few pieces of hardware, scrap Velcro, metallic plastic and paint and brushes.
Replicate the Predator-style video camouflage in After Effects by using displacement maps. This uniquely stunning and groundbreaking visual effect has been seen countless times in film and television to show video camouflage, invisibility, heat distortion, holograms, and static interference, among others. This video shows how to replicate this effect by using green screen footage, Fractal Noise and Displacement Maps, all within Adobe After Effects.
Need a quick and festive snack to feed your kids during the holiday break? These marshmallow and cereal wreaths will make the perfect Christmas treat, and it helps that they're no-bake treats, which means more time for you to do other Christmas-related activities! Ingredients:
Upcycle all your old wine corks into a cute Christmas craft! Take six wine corks, some glitter (red, green and gold), some glue and a screw top wine cap for the base of the tree. Add tiny eyelets or buttons as ornaments!
Once your Thanksgiving dinner table is set with beautiful gourds, autumnal leaves, and candles and your turkey, green bean casserole, and pies are out of the oven, it's time to mess everything up. While a beautiful dinner presentation is great and all, unless you plan on having your guests rip off drumsticks from the turkey caveman-style you'll probably want to carve the bird.
Spice up and warm up those cold winter nights by preparing chan toor dal. Chan toor dal is a combination of channa dal (chickpeas) and tur daal.
This Halloween makeup tutorial is great because it can be easily altered to fit the costume you're wearing. While the original look is intended for a sultry mermaid or a sexy swamp girl (yes, swamp girls can be sexy), you can wear this look with a bit of glitter for a forest nymph or fairy look.
This is possibly one of the easiest Halloween cupcakes you will ever make. But that doesn't mean these cupcakes are going to look simple or amateur. In fact, these ghoulish Halloween treats are super cute and will impress little ladies and goblins at any Halloween party.
Sure, this Halloween you're going to see a lot of Lady Gaga and Snookie costumes, but it's always nice to put on a classic getup in the style of Monster Mash. We're talking your iconic green, crooked nosed witches, vampires, and of course mummies.
Perfect for decorating on a budget or green decorating! This tutorial shows you how to take empty cereal boxes and other cardboard materials, and transform them into a beautiful and cool chest of drawers you can use to store your small items.
Turn a photograph of a regular person into an image of everyone's favorite muscular green psychopath! Using the hue slider, saturation tool and the Iwarp function, you can distort your picture in GIMP to make it look like a picture of Hulk instead.
There are few dishes quite so American as fried chicken. This recipe from Epicurious shows you how to make authentic Southern fried chicken, served with collard greens lightly sauteed in bacon drippings, thick mashed potatoes and a delicious country gravy on top.
If you don't want to use toxic or environmentally unfriendly ant poisons and bug sprays to control your ant problem, you can make a greener bug repellent using household items and natural ingredients. Salt, chalk, lemon juice, cayenne pepper, white vinegar, oranges and petroleum jelly can all be used to keep ants out of your house, yard, garden or picnic.
There are certain days in life on which you are practically required by law to look your best: Your wedding, major holidays when portraits are being taken, and your birthdays.
The bee population is in trouble. Colony Collapse Disorder is a mysterious malady that is decimating bee colonies all the country and could kill them completely, which would leave all of the plants and honey-loving people of the world in serious trouble. This video will give you some tips for encouraging the bee population, which is really one of the most green things you can do in this, the bees' time of need.
Growing whatever food that you can yourself is tremendously good for the environment because industrial food production has all sorts of ecological problems. If you live in an apartment, it might seem impossible to grow your own food. Think again! This video will show you how to make a window garden in your apartment and use it to grow herbs and other small crops, decreasing your carbon footprint and making your meals more green.
Are you unsatisfied with the dim green light that emanates from the big X on your XBox 360 controller out of the box? Don't live with it, fix it. This video will show you how to install new colored LED lights in your controller, making the big X a resplendent blue in this example. You can use whatever color LED's you want and the end results will still be brilliant.
While organic gardening might sound like a complicated endeavor, you'll find it's actually considerably less trouble to work with nature than to constantly fight against it. This green gardener's guide from the British National Trust presents a primer on the subject. For more information, and to get started creating your own organic flower or vegetable garden, take a look.
These multicolored heart and square shaped soaps are so cute and pretty you may end up grudgingly giving several to friends before you can try them out yourself!
Replicate the incandescent, floaty colors of a forest fairy by watching this makeup tutorial for getting an eye look composed of translucent pastel greens, pale pinks, and lilac purples.
Admit it: Your go-to neutrals and nude lips get boring after a while. Quit going yawn-o-rama with your makeup by adding some dazzling color!
Love Microsoft Excel? This clip contains a tip that just might induce you to. With this free video tutorial from ExcelIsFun, the 4nd installment of his "YouTubers Love Excel 2007" or YTLE2k7 series of free video MS Excel lessons, you'll learn how to use conditional formatting to add red to negative numbers and green to positive numbers using a single True/False formula!
Cook yourself up something hearty and nutritious with this beetroot salad from Show Me The Curry. The only ingredients you need are: beetroot, peanuts, cilantro, green chiles, onions, cumin and lemon juice. It's basically as simple as cooking up the beetroot and mixing the ingredients together to marry all of the flavors together. This video will show you to make beetroot salad.
This video shows you how to apply a breezy, ocean inspired eyeshadow. With beautiful blues and greens you'll have the ocean at each blink of your eye. This is an easy to follow tutorial for anyone interested in having an ethereal.
Any time is the right time for slime! In this video tutorial, you'll learn how to whip up a nauseating glop of green goo. It's actually a remarkably simple process, requiring just a few basic steps and materials you probably already have around the house. So get to work, and then get sliming!
This how-to video demonstrates how you can build your very own seedbombs using clay, fertilizer and seeds (naturally). These "bombs," in turn, can be thrown in hard-to-reach or otherwise inaccessible places, creating green where there once was none. Get started guerilla gardening with this tutorial. Just add rainwater.
Mix the Brandy Alexander, the Pink Squirrel or the Grasshopper! Each cocktail uses creme de cacao and whipping cream. The Brandy Alexander cocktail uses a brandy base, the Pink Squirrel uses an almond liqour base, and the Grasshoper uses green creme de menthe base. All are shaken with ice and strained into a martini glass. Perfect after dinner cocktails and very easy to make!
Eco...in this case also meaning 'economize' as we take an item that would normally have been thrown away & use it to make a cool fashion statement piece! This project is dedicated to the Green Guru Challenge and just uses household scraps headed for the trash, and turns them into a stylish bracelet. Learn how to craft this bejeweled cuff bracelet by watching this video jewelry-making tutorial.
Improve you crocheting skills by creating fun shapes. This how to video is a crocheting tutorial that will show you how to create a small shamrock. Crochet several of them, bind them together and create larger handmade projects.
Learn Green Deane's quick and easy technique to make hard cider or any lightly fermented fruit juice in season.
Sarah Austin from Pop17 has been getting a lot of emails recently about how she makes her live show. Well, this is how she does it, so listen up carefully. She covers everything from the audio to lights and green screen.
Be green and eco-friendly by learning about compost. This video shows the basics of compost, composting materials, and the different methods of composting.
