Something about fruits

Simple solution for sore throat.

 Winter is coming:) You can tell me: "Winter? When last time you've checked the weather?" I know, I know... In New York right now it seems like winter got lost somewhere on the way... But it doesn't mean that the rest of the world have the same picture:) And soon or later winter will be by us as well with its all side effects like snow, cold, fly and of course a soar throat..  That's the topic of my post for today:) 
  If you are the person who like everything natural (vs. pills and mixtures from pharmacy) you may like this simple recipe which will relieve you from soar throat and you can make it as simple as one-two-three:)

  We need:
Lemon - 2 
Honey 
Fresh Grated Ginger - 1 tablespoon
A cup with the top

Direction:

 Slice lemons, cover them with honey (I suggest to buy RAW honey since it isn't filtered, strained or heated above natural temperature (115 Fahrenheit) 
Add grated ginger. Mix. Close the cup and place into cooler. 

 It's ready when you'll see that the mixture have jelly consistency.
Take 1 spoon of it at the first sign of a cold with a warm water. It will soften the sore throat and boost you with vitamin C. 
Repeat 3 times a day. 

Pretty Round Earrings.

We need:

     1.     Cardboard.

     2.     Colored paper napkins.

     3.     Earrings hooks.

     4.     Scissors.

     5.     Brush.

     6.     PVA glue.

     7.     Decoupage glue-finish.

     8.     Pliers.

     1.     Make small circles of cardboard.

     2.     Paint them on both sides with white paint (make it in advance).

      3.     Cut circles of napkins.

     4.     Separate color layer of napkins from others, usually they have 2-3 layers.

     5.     Smear glue on the cardboard circles.

     6.     Glue napkins to the cardboards, dry.

     7.     Make the holes for hooks and attach them using pliers.

     8.     Cover the earrings on both sides with glue-finish to fix napkins and make them shiny.

     9.     Dry them again and enjoy! 

Christmas trees for Christmas tree ;)

The holydays are coming, coming, coming!!!

We need to be prepared somehow.

I guess you started yours preparation looong time ago, am I right?

This time is great for different things. Nice to try something new right now!

I want to try to make a Christmas decorations by myself and want to share with you this experience. Let’s start!

We need:

Different bright colorful small pieces of fabric for bodies of trees.

Ribbons for decorations and hangers.

Small piece of brown felt for trees’ trunks.

Scissors.

Thread with a needle.

1.make a tree’s pattern and use it for drawing trees on the fabric.

2.cut the trees.

3. use sewing machine or your hand for sewing.

4.find something to put inside of trees.

5. take a look at what you have for decoration and decide what to use.

6. decorate your trees.

I like my trees, pretty good for first time, don't you think? 

What about you and yours' trees? ;)

for tonight ;)

Online stores

I'm a big fan of online shopping.
I love any shopping but online especially. It's just great to have a chance to make it from home. 
I spend a lot of time on it (it's the only thing I don't like).
I like online shopping because I have as much time as I need for take a look, think and decide what I want and why. I always read reviews too, because they are really helpful.  
Here I would like to share with you my lovely online-stores. 

If you like dresses this store is for you, they have many-many-many of them!!! Almost all of my dresses I got from there. 
ModCloth

Stitched and Adorned

A little bit more about dresses in different stile there.
Calico

The two below about clothes too, but more expensive, that’s why I always wait for sale there. 
Sundancecatalog

Bodenusa

I love to buy some gifts in advance, so, I always think about a person, for whom I want to buy something and go to these sites. There are so many things and some of them really unique. 
Fab.

UncommonGoods

Etsy

Golubcy (stuffed cabbage)

 We need:

1 big cabbage
1 onion 
1 carrot 
3 cloves of garlic
200 gr. mushrooms
300 gr. ground-meat ( you cam mix any kinds of them)   
300 gr. half cooked rise

for sauce:
8 sp. tomato sauce
2 sp. mayonnaise
2 sp. sour cream
water  

Put chopped onion and mushrooms, grated on a large grater carrots in the pan. Saute for 5-7 minutes.

Then mix everything with ground-meat and rice.

Boil cabbage until it can be separated into individual sheets.

Place a small amount of stuffing on the cabbage sheet and wrap it. 

You will have different quantity of golubcy, depends of cabbage size. Put them in a pan and prepare a sauce. Sauce should cover them as in the picture below. Сook 1-2 hours on low heat, until the cabbage become tender.

Eat hot with cold sour cream!

Black Clay Mask

 Many women are ready to make sacrifices in order to keep their beauty. But sometimes those sacrifices are not necessary. If you want to have a smooth, clean  and beautiful skin you can just use clay masks ones a week as an addition to any procedure you're already doing. 
 Classic Clay mask (water + clay) is relevant at all times. Its main function is not only to clean your skin from external impurities and dead skin cells, but also from toxins. Clay contains all necessary minerals and trace elements for the skin and because of this it has an immediate effect on all levels.. It nourishes, moisturizes, tones and tightens your skin. In addition, it is absolutely free from bacteria, so it has a pure reputation of an antiseptic.
 Clay is formed as a result of weathering of rocks (due to rain and snow) and consists of their smallest particles. Color of clay depends on the rock from which it was formed. In reality any type of clay has a positive impact on your beauty. 
 Today we will talk about Black Clay Mask.
From all types of Clay, black is the winner in cellulite reduction and great skin purification, it fights against acne and allergic rashes as well as removes toxins from the body, improves blood circulation and has a calming effect.
 It contains: magnesium, calcium, iron, quartz and other minerals. 

  Mask recipes. 

1. The simplest mask.
Ingredients: 
2 teaspoons of black clay
water.
Preparation: 
Add water to the clay till it has consistency of sour cream (not too much water). Apply mask to the face for 10-15 min and rinse with water. Apply cream after. 


2. Mask for acne.
Ingredients:
Clay - 2 teaspoon
Chamomile extract - 2 teaspoon
Preparation:
Mix ingredients together till consistency of sour cream (add more dry mask if it's too watery). Apply to the face for 15 min or until it's dry, rinse with warm water after. 

3. Hydrating mask
Ingredients:
Clay - 2 teaspoons
Parsley - 3 tablespoons (finely chopped, you can grind it in a blender)
Water -a drop
Preparation and use:
 Mix clay and parsley. If mask is a little dry, add water. Apply mask on the face for 15 min and rinse with water.

4. Hydration II
Ingredients:
Clay - 2-3 teaspoons
Strawberries - 5-6
Preparation and use:
Make a puree out of strawberries (with a fork or blender) and add it to the clay. Apply the mask for 15-20 min and rinse with warm water.

** Remember:
Always check the mask on a small area of skin to prevent any allergic reactions. 
 Even though this mask is good for all types of skin, be careful!

Free Learning resources.

    I started to miss my profession and study right after I came in US, but at that time I knew nothing here, included language. With time I started to collect some information about different learning resources and now, when I can understand biggest part of any speech\text, I can enjoy the studying process again. It takes just couple hours of day and makes me much happier and reacher ;). 

    If you want to become smarter or just want to know something new, or have some topic which have been bother you for a while, but you didn’t have a chance to find out about this properly, you always can open for yourselves some options here. We would like to share with you some information about studying resources. It doesn’t take much time but allows you to get some information for free from really good sources.

    United Academics is a social academic publisher, providing a platform where one can easily connect with academics, share and find academic content. Anyone interested in academic knowledge can request free membership to the ua platform. Members can publish, discuss and comment on academic works, collaborate on developing new knowledge, and stay informed on their field of interest. We aim to make academic content easily accessible for anyone interested, and integrate various forms of social media to stimulate cross platform sharing".

    Open Yale Courses (OYC) provides lectures and other materials from selected yale college courses to the public free of charge via the internet. The courses span the full range of liberal arts disciplines, including humanities, social sciences, and physical and biological sciences".

    About Coursera.

We are a social entrepreneurship company that partners with the top universities in the world to offer courses online for anyone to take, for free. We envision a future where the top universities are educating not only thousands of students, but millions. Our technology enables the best professors to teach tens or hundreds of thousands of students.

Through this, we hope to give everyone access to the world-class education that has so far been available only to a select few. We want to empower people with education that will improve their lives, the lives of their families, and the communities they live in".

   TED
TED is a nonprofit devoted to Ideas Worth Spreading. It started out (in 1984) as a conference bringing together people from three worlds: Technology, Entertainment, Design. Since then its score has become ever broader. Along with two annual conferences - the TED Conference in Long Beach and Palm Spring each spring, and the TEDGlobal conference in Edinburgh UK each summer - TED includes the award-winning TED Talks video site, the Open Translation Project and TED Conversations, the inspiring TED Fellows and TEDx programs, and the annual TED Prize. 

    For now I'm learning "How to reason and argue" with Coursera and "Introduction to Psychology" with Yale and both of them are great! 

For today!

Beads

The winter is coming and it's great time for warm beads ;)

Let's try to make it together!

We need:

• 7 beads in different size
• fabric glue
• scissors 
• threads in different colors
• leather lace 

This work takes about an hour and we have nice colorful beads in the end.

New handmade Cards for New Year and not only;)

Handmade gift is the best in my opinion, because it contain the piece of the giver. Thats why I always try to make something by myself too, when I prepare a presents. I want to think about the receiver and create something particularly for her\him.

 I would like to show you here how to create lovely cards.

We need:

• paper for greeting cards
• colorful paper
• paints
• brush
• stencil
• school glue

I use different things to make my figures, for example coins, glasses or wheel for pins...

And here you can see what I get in the end ;)

How to clean silver jewelry at home?

  I think that this happen to almost everyone. One day you discover that your silver jewelry, which you have not wear, or wear, for a some period of time, got this kind of dark layer on top of them. It is nothing much you can do to stop it, it's just nature of this metal. Silver react on a lot of things, like: latex gloves, wool, oils from hands, chlorinated water (don't be surprise when you are coming after the pool), perfumes, hair spray etc..

 As you can see the one on the right is very dark compare to light silver color.

 The solution to this problem is very simple, you need to clean it by using a special silver polish or soft polishing cloth (made for silver). You can also take them to jewelry store and have them polished for you. Any of this solution is good and trustworthy:) But sometimes you just got no special polishes and cloth, no time to go to jewelry store and you want to wear your jewelry piece in a few hours.. 

  I have a quick and simple solution for you! You can clean it at home by spending just 15 min of total time.. I did it today and was very sceptic in the beginning, but the result overwhelm me:) It's work!!!

 We need:

 Salt - 1 table spoon

 Baking Soda - 1 table spoon

 Liquid Soap (for washing dishes) - 1 table spoon

 Boiled water - 1 cup

 Foil - a piece to cover the bottom of a bowl

 Direction:

Boil the water. Take a bowl and place a piece of foil in the bottom. Put the rest of ingredients as well (on top of the foil) Add water.

 You should see this reaction.

Place your silver jewelry on top of the foil and leave them for 10 minutes. (make sure it's really a silver, because my necklace from left side turn gray-green, since it was not a silver)

 After 10 minutes take them out and wash with sponge in warm water. Dry with dry cloth. 

  You can see that it's really work. My silver color is back and necklaces look like new=))