August 2009 Archives

People who eat breakfast regularly tend to have less weight problems, more energy through out the day and better concentration. 

Skipping breakfast is hard on the body and can lead to some expensive health problems down the road (your body was never meant to go for 18 hours between meals). But what to eat for breakfast? 

Food in the last few years seems to become the enemy. Is the food we are eating for breakfast killing us? With hidden salts, hidden fats, and cholesterol,  it seems that everything that we reach for has had a study done to show how bad it is for us. Most people get their health information (and misinformation)from television commercials but how accurate are they?   

What's the truth and how do we eat a healthy breakfast? 

Years ago I taught myself how to do some very simple origami. 

Origami suited me at the time when I was a poor student since it took no special tools and paper was cheap and easily available to me. 

The mathematical terms for these geometrical figures are hypotrochoids and epitrochoids. 

Invented by British engineer Denys Fisher, Spirograph was introduced to North America in 1966 and its been a hit with kids and adults ever since. Black ink on white paper gives this easy craft a surprisingly sophisticated look. I include instructions on how to make the card boxes that they are displayed in so you could also make these as gifts.

The idea behind it is that you are only ever going to wear your wedding dress once so get some fabulous photos in it even if the dress gets destroyed in the process.  

After the happy couple get their standard wedding photos they get photos of themselves jumping into water or riding a roller coaster or crawling over rocks.

The thought is why keep this dress pristine because you will never wear it again and chances are in 20 or 30 years your daughter will have no interest in wearing it either. 

"But don't we have a whole pile of it at home?" he asked her. 

"Yes," she answered as she was loading up her cart, "But you can never have too much paper".

Well, actually, yes you can. Even those who feel that they are smart consumers with their spending in control find that once in a while they are bringing shopping bags home with the oddest things. 

Why do people buy stuff they don't need? Why do you but stuff you don't need? Here are 7 answers and some of them just might surprise you.

Now usually when I'm planning a picnic it is a military operation of packing everything imaginable, way too much food, and way to much stuff.

When did she want to take the picnic?  

"Well now", she answered, "Now, we can go for lunch".

Packaged craft kits for children are terribly over prices and often terribly over packaged. A large box often only contains a small bag of materials and a few sheets of instructions. 

You can gather your own craft supplies at home for a fraction of the price that you would spend in a craft store using materials from a variety of sources including free recycled materials.

There are some things that never change and teenagers and board games are one of those things.

How easily they slip back into the liveliness of childhood, the playful bickering over rules, the teasing, the exaggerated dismay over unfortunate plays.

Board games are a favorite way to spend time with friends and family but they can cost a lot of money if you have to buy them new. 

Here are some ideas to help you build up your board game collection.