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East London Fashion: 1911-2011

East London Fashion: 1911-2011

In general, it’s women’s fashion that changes so dramatically from one year (or one season, even) to the next. Men’s clothing is much more difficult to pinpoint in time, for most of us, than women’s clothing. One at-a-glance clue to nailing down the timeline on fashion is to look at the style of women’s hats, [...]

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Hockenheimer Stool: Designer Storage

Hockenheimer Stool: Designer Storage

Stack up those glossy magazines you can’t bear to throw out, buckle them down with a pillow on a pale birch wood base from NJUStudio, and voila! you’ve got extra party seating, plus a personal piece of art.

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How to Make Pop Bottle Flowers

How to Make Pop Bottle Flowers

Have you seen those fantasy faux-glass flowers made from recycled pop bottles, and wondered how to make your own? Here’s a video tutorial to show you how it’s done.

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My Grandmother’s Recipe Book

My Grandmother's Recipe Book

My mother just gave me the old battered notebook in which my grandmother wrote down the recipes she collected through her married life. It is more than 70 years old, and the pages are crumbling away beneath my fingers…

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Hey, Babe – What’s That Sparkle in Your Eye?

Hey, Babe - What's That Sparkle in Your Eye?

The new hot Bollywood fashion fad could be diamond-encrusted contact lenses, if one Indian optometrist has his wish. Priced at $15,000, the La SER™ Eye Jewelry contacts have gold rings embedded with tiny diamonds. The effect is more freaky than fabulous.

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Thrifty Textbooks

Thrifty Textbooks

College and university textbooks are painfully expensive, and you can’t even count on selling off your barely-used books at the end of term. Here are a couple of ways you can cut down the cost of getting the textbooks you need.

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