July 2011
31 posts
How to check the cookedness of meat →
simplyrecipes.com
If you’re cooking steaks, you want to get the cookedness right. You can test how cooked the meat is by pressing on the steak, using your hand as a guide. Basically, you just touch various fingers to your thumb and then press on the ball of your thumb. Bah! These pics are more straightforward.
Make a groovy plastic cup lamp
This lamp looks pretty retrofuturistic – and it’s made by stapling plastic cups together! Use a low-wattage fluorescent bulb to minimise the risk of the whole thing melting. Instructions here.
M.A.C lipstick in Russian Red, Ruby Woo, Lady Danger or plain old Red are excellent, it really depends on your skin tone to which one works best.
Yes, we’ve heard good things about Lady Danger.
So, could you maybe direct me to some similar blogs, full of fashion + lifestyle tips and so forth?
A good start might be checking out the bloggers whose posts we’ve reblogged, or clicking the tags you’re into and seeing who else has tagged their posts that way.
if you're wondering: How to wear a scarf as a necklace →
whenyourise.tumblr.com
Garance looks great here, doesn’t she? The best part of this outfit is the interesting way she’s wearing her Hermes scarf. Keep reading to see how she did it:
1. Lay a square scarf flat on the floor/bed/table. Take two opposing corners and fold them into the middle of the square….
Painted vases
Those groovy ceramic vases are just glass bottles that have been painted on the inside. We imagine you could do this by just pouring in some paint, shaking up the bottle to coat the inside and then pouring out the excess and wiping down the outside.
(Image via The Design Files)
