It's nice to share good design. This awesome video from the band OK Go is buzzing around the internet right now.
It reminded of a post that I’ve been wanting to do about attempting a similar Rube Goldberg-style chain reaction with your kids. You can find a whole slew of similar of other attempts on YouTube. A good friend put together a smaller scale contraption with his son, Asher. He was kind enough to let me share it with you (Thanks, Jeff!). As is the case with any video I’ve shot with my daughter, it ends with “and now can I watch it?”.
Oh, and remember this? And here are several other OK Go videos that are pretty ridiculously great… Also potentially great sources of inspiration. Homemade Skin Care. If you are anything like me, you might not have considered making your own skin care products.
I have always purchased my skin care cleansers, toners, lotions, etc. I go to the store once a month and buy my staple products (on top of anything that came in a little tiny cute container of miscellany that I found at the local drug store.) I never bothered to glance at the ingredients, but once I did….oh boy. Last year I went to the local spa for a gifted treatment. Instead of getting the actual treatments that they were offering for a hundred plus dollars, I found myself looking over their treatment menu of sorts and what I saw was words like Apple and Honey and Yogurt and Sugar and even Maple Syrup in the titles of the facials and masks they were offering.
After my visit to the spa, I was prompted to go home and check out what it was that the products I used every day were made of. YIKES. And so began my adventures in homemade skin care. Suitable for oily/combination skin. Mix all together. Blobs in a Bottle, The World's Easiest Lava Lamp. A clean 1 liter clear soda bottle 3/4 cup of water Vegetable Oil Fizzing tablets (such as Alka Seltzer) Food coloring 1.
Pour the water into the bottle. 2. Use a measuring cup or funnel to slowly pour the vegetable oil into the bottle until it's almost full. You may have to wait a few minutes for the oil and water separate. 3. 4. 5. To begin, the oil stays above the water because the oil is lighter than the water or, more specifically, less dense than water. When you added the tablet piece, it sank to the bottom and started dissolving and creating a gas. The project above is a DEMONSTRATION. Chronicles of a Domestic Dilettante. As you all know, I am very much a beginner in the kitchen.
So when my friends assigned both appetizers AND dessert to me for this year’s Thanksgiving, I was in full panic mode as I didn’t want to ruin our entire Thanksgiving dinner. Dessert, afterall, is the most important part of the meal. Furthermore, I was instructed that store-bought items were not welcome – because we all know I was already planning a trip to Whole Foods.
After consulting Pinterest for some Apple Pie recipes, I came across this recipe for Apple Pie Baked in the Apple – I thought it was a nice blend of simple instructions and a gourmet look. I’m always a fan of things that look more impressive than they actually are. Step 1: Cut off the top of 4 apples off and discard. If you’re a skilled interior apple excavator, salvage as much as you can so you can use it for Step 2. This recipe will make 4 baked apple pies (in the apple). Step 2: Remove skin from remaining apple(s) and slice very thinly. How neat does that look?