Santa Brought you a Digital Camera–Now What?
October 31, 2007
Santa Brought you a Digital Camera–Now What?
by: Nicole Sandler
Skin Care Secrets ? You Can Have Beautiful Skin
October 31, 2007
Your skin is the largest organ of your body, just like your heart or your kidney. Its job is to protect your insides so it is important for it to be healthy. If you eat a healthy diet, drink lots of water, keep it clean, and protect it from the sun, your skin will stay healthy all your life.
Adirondack Chairs - The Proper Way to Care for Them
October 30, 2007
The Adirondack chair is unlike any other chair every made. First designed by Thomas Lee in the early 1900s, this chair is amazingly comfortable, very affordable, and a chair that could easily be used for indoor furniture or outdoors by the pool or perhaps on the deck or patio. The overall design of this chair is so unique and interesting. Although there are many great aspects of the Adirondack chair, the favorites include the deep seat, curved back that wraps around the body, and the wide armrests, perfects for holding a favorite drink or providing a place to set a book.
Quieting the Mind Opening the Heart
October 30, 2007
To put it simply, the act of meditation involves quieting the mind so you can open the heart. That’s it in a nutshell.
Combat High Blood Pressure and Cholesterol with Soybeans
October 29, 2007
You may have heard of the "Portfolio Diet" wherein it has been clinically accepted that increasing the intake of soy based foods can reduce levels of LDL cholesterol as much as some statin drugs.
Well, now it seems that soybeans have another health-giving quality: they also reduce blood pressure.
Chinese Cooking Technique: Thicken
October 29, 2007
"Thicken", or "Thickening" is a very common technique used in both Chinese restaurants and household kitchens. It is very easy to prepare, but if not used properly, can really mess up the presentation. Below is a brief description of "Thickening". You can learn more about other Chinese cooking techniques in the Techniques section of our website.
Personal Journaling - Strategies To Make It Easy
October 28, 2007
Personal Journaling - Strategies To Make It Easy
by: Vera Raposo
Recently I was watching the Oprah show and it was about doing something really great in someones life. Was it buying them a special gift? Or taking them out? Not really.
About Baking: Eight Tips for Perfect Pancakes
October 28, 2007
Pancakes are easy and almost foolproof. But there are some tricks to making them perfect. We’d like to share those tips:
1. Use a low gluten flour. We like to use unbleached pastry flour in our recipes-that’s what our mixes are made with-but all purpose flour will do. Bread flour makes for a pancake that it too tough and chewy.
Importance of Your Skins pH
October 28, 2007
One of the most important roles of our skin is to protect our ‘insides’ from the external environment, acting both as a barrier and a filter between ‘outside’ and ‘inside’. In addition, the skin is involved in regulating our body’s temperature, like when we have a fever or we’re physically working hard, we tend to sweat, which is the body’s way to attempt to lower the temperature.
History of the Adirondack Chair
October 28, 2007
If you were to travel to Blue Mountain Lake, New York, you would come across a very unique museum called the Adirondack Museum. According to experts that run this museum, the Adirondack chair originally went by a different name - Westport chair, which was after a small nearby town nestled in the Adirondack Mountains. Thomas Lee first created the design of the Adirondack chair in the early 1900s. Determined to develop a chair that would be appropriate for both indoor and outdoor use, as well as a chair that was highly comfortable, he started to work using standard boards and nails.




















