• How to Make Your Jack-O’-Lantern Shine Lite-Brite Bright This Halloween

    I loved my Lite-Brite as a kid. There was just something about using those little multicolored pegs to make my own designs, and it’s not exactly a secret that kids love anything that lights up (LED sneakers, anyone?). So how do you combine the old-school fun of Lite-Brite with pumpkin carving? With a bedazzled jack-o’-lantern,…

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  • How to Carve, Char, & Contort a Creepy Miniature Jack-O’-Lantern for Halloween

    This year for Halloween, don’t just settle for the normal cutesy pumpkin carvings — make these creepily charred and contorted miniature jack-o’-lanterns instead. Not only do these mini pumpkins look more menacing than your standard Halloween pumpkin, but they’re dried out so they will last all season long, unlike fresh pumpkins, which need to be…

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  • 10 Ways to Whiten Clothes Without Using Any Bleach

    Whites are the hardest color to keep looking bright and new after just a few months’ time. Your sweat and oils quickly become stains, and colors from other clothes will eventually bleed into the fabric, discoloring your bright whites into something merely whitish. But before you reach for the bleach, the ultimate chemical cleaner, try…

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  • How to Eat Like a Martial Arts Master and Increase Your Willpower

    Deep in the crevasses of the Songshan mountain range, an Indian dhyana master established the first Shaolin Monastery in 477 AD, seeking to spread the relatively new teachings of Buddha at the time. This monastery then bred the Shaolin monks, who are now popular for their incredible feats with Chinese martial arts, particularly with Shaolin…

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  • Bake Cake in Real Eggshells for April Fool’s Day or Easter

    These cake eggs are a gorgeous treat that also makes a delicious April Fool’s Day prank. Getting a fairly humdrum breakfast of boiled eggs and fruit and discovering that it’s cake instead is an eggcellent surprise, isn’t it? If you want to make these for Easter instead, then they’re an Instagram-worthy dessert to grace your…

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