House plants are a refreshing reminder of the rich biosphere teaming with life just outside of our hermetically sealed human dens. They calm us and clean our air. But what would you do if you came across a glowing green flower on your dinner table? I would be startled, but not shaken.
Someone just gave you a bouquet of freshly cut flowers... how do you enjoy them for as long as possible before they start wilting and drooping?
“Domestic Stills” (Domestication, femininity and subversion) is an oddly interesting photography project by Namiko Kitaura in which the artist fries, washes and stitches flowers.
In this tutorial, we learn how to make a gumpaste plumeria flower for cake decorating. These come in different flowers, so you can combine a lot of different colors to make beautiful flowers. First, grab the gum paste and then roll it out. From here, use a cookie cutter in a leaf shape to cut leaves out of it. Then, take your toothpick and roll one edge to make it curved like a real flower. Then, take the petals and add color to the middle and the outsides of them. Connect them together with ...
Staking keeps your garden beautiful by keeping mature flowers from flopping under their own weight. Garden designer and author Tracy DiSabato-Aust will show you how to stake tall, slender flowers. Stake single stemmed flowers.
Monty Don plants up a ceonuthus, sharing his tips for good drainage and adding extra energy for the plant roots.
Ikebana, the Japanese art of flower arrangement, dates back to over 500 years ago and is still practiced as a highly respected cultural art form in modern-day Japan.
This is a very nice HEADBAND that can be used plain or decorated with a FLOWER. I made mine wide (4 1/2 inches), but you can make yours as wide or narrow as you want.
My favorite kind of violence: flower bullets and drops of petal blood. The bad guys encroach on the scene in a hippie VW bus, and flower bedlam ensues...
Rooibos tea alone is a treat, with its naturally sweet and slightly nutty taste. But think about adding hibiscus tea to the mix. How about a little bit of tea flowers? Now, think about turning that wonderful red combination into iced tea. Perfect for hot summer days!
Monty Don demonstrates how to plant up and age a stone container to create a formal garden display. Follow these Gardeners' World step-by-step guides to garden projects from the BBC. These lovely tutorials on gardening will grow your green thumb and make your gardens grow healthful plants. Plant up an ornamental flower container.
In this episode Preston Bailey gives his tip on how to select flowers to make the most dramatic effect for your wedding. Create a dramatic effect with flowers.
In this video learn how to fold a napkin into a lily flower horn. It will surprise all of your guests. Fold a napkin into a lily flower (Pliage fleur de lys).
Emily and Martha carve a pumpkin flower vase. Pumpkins wear many hats this time of year, appearing in pies and soups as well as in centerpieces. Here's another use: Transform one into a colorful homemade vase. Make a pumpkin flower vase.
Simon Adams and VideoJug demonstrate how to make a desert flower cocktail. This refreshing tequila cocktail is just the thing for a hot day beside the pool. You'll need gold tequila, sugar syrup, creme de cassis liqueur, 1 lemon, and crushed ice to make this drink. Make a Desert Flower cocktail.
This demonstrates how to make your own personalized flower pots. This is a great rainy day project to do with children. It is also great for them to give as gifts they made themselves. Make personalized flower pots.
The Flowergod designs an accent table arrangement for a wedding. The arrangement includes pink freesia, white wax flower, plumosa, sword fern, white calla lilies, and a cylinder vase. This is a good centerpiece to put on a serving table. Make an accent table centerpiece.
The Flowergod designs bubble bowl centerpiece for a wedding. The centerpiece contains white hydrangea, pink freesia, white wax flower, plumosa, white tulips, an 8" bubble bowl, and blue marbles. Make a bubble bowl centerpiece.
The Flowergod creates a Gerbera ribbon choker for a wedding or luau. The choker is made of ribbon tied in the back with an orange Gerbera daisy and a geranium leaf glued to it. You use flower glue which dries very fast. Make a Gerbera ribbon choker.
The Flowergod shows you how to put together a fall arrangement with a dozen yellow Roses, three different greeneries, and a filler flower. Make a dozen fall rose arrangement.
Pulling an all-nighter for school, work or an important project is never fun. That being said, if you take the time and effort to prepare an ideal work space, minimize your distractions, and stay physically and mentally stimulated, you can maximize your productivity level without making your pre-dawn tasks too miserable or exhausting.
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The angle in which you shoot your subject can change everything. Sometimes when you take a picture at eye level looking straight at the object, things can appear flat and not as interesting. But instead of just snapping a picture, try getting down to the subjects level. For example, if you're taking a picture of a flower, get down close to the flower, and maybe angle your lense up, looking up at the flower, instead of looking down. Or angle your lense as if you're looking at the flower sidewa...
When training for the running segment of the triathlon, it's very important to warm up properly. Warming up before the actual run with stretching prepares the muscles for the actual exertion of effort, and minimizes the risk of injury that may occur. Here are some light stretches for the shoulders and hamstrings along with light movements
While I don't find Mattijs van Bergen and Anouk Vogel's "Living" dresses aesthetically earth shattering, I'm wowed by the concept. The fashion designer and landscape architect created a collection of dresses made from recycled inner tubes and flowers for a late summer exhibition titled “Fashion & Architecture” at the Amsterdam Centre for Architecture.
I like checking the ferry cam in order to try to minimize the wait up the hill. Nothing beats driving straight onto the ferry (except maybe being the last car on the ferry).
Food & Flowers Freedom Act in Los Angeles
I make silk flowers for personal use as of now. My sister suddenly passed away 18 yr ago, & I try to make sure she has a very nice flower arrangement for every season. I dont have alot of money but she deserves to have a nice flower arrangement. She was only 19 when she passed so I have been doing this for 18 yr. I would like to make a business of this , I just dont know how to get started
This video shows how to make an easy origami jasmine flower napkin. Wee need 2 square papers. Fold this papers diagonally on two sides. Fold 4 corners of both the papers to the center. The folding of both must be exactly same. Use the first one as a template. Creases of the other one is exactly aligned with the template square. Repeat for the second one as the template. Fold the papers diagonally to the corners. Fold it double 4 more times on the other side. The folds should not end at the po...
Florist expert, Emily Weaver, owner of Chestnut in the Tuileries, shows Martha Stewart how to make a creative centerpiece with tulips. Materials needed are assorted tulips, large knife or clippers, ribbon, pins, 4 vases, water, cut-flower food and
Taken with Instagram from my aunt's wedding album. I'm the crying flower girl sitting among my many, many aunts.
Sick of the standard bread baked in a loaf pan? Impress your family and friends by baking bread in a plain terracotta flower pot. Baking bread in a terracotta pot makes for crispy bread with a tender and moist interior. Make sure the terra cotta pot is unglazed and unpainted before using it.
This is a picture of one of my moms flowers that she planted.
From Chow's "perfect series", Chef John Sedlar demonstrates how the perfect tortilla is made.
Plantable paper? America throws out 49 million tons of paper annually. That's almost a third of U.S trash!
If you already have your basic keyboard shortcuts under control—we're talking classics here, Control-C (copy for PC) or Command-C (copy for Mac)—it's time to load up your memory bank. There are endless shortcuts available (truly endless—since you can customize them yourself), but you don't need to memorize them all, only those you expect to use most. Below, two cheat sheets for upping your keyboard maneuvering status from "basic" to "intermediate" for both Mac and PC users.
