This designer turns wilting flowers into stunning clothing

September 10, 2016, 3:44 am

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Ever thought about what happens to all the flowers leftover at the end of a florist’s day? Or the ones left behind after a wedding’s done?

Probably not.

But once you start thinking about it, the whole thing is pretty sad. Piles and piles of flowers we once thought were beautiful, thrown in the bin the moment they start to wilt.

One artist has come up with a way to repurpose wasted flowers so they’ll live on forever.

Cara Piazza is a designer who’s dedicated to natural dyeing techniques.

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The best gin cocktails you’ve probably never tried

September 10, 2016, 4:00 am

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We booze loving Brits are still embracing the current gin revival with fervour and new craft gins are being launched almost every week.

A classic gin and tonic or martini were pretty much the standard cocktails to go for but then came the negroni and the gin lovers rejoiced. But with all these wonderful new craft gins to explore the gin cocktail canon has exploded.

Here are some of the best gin concoctions around to break you out of your G&T rut. So whether you make them at home or head to the bars themselves for some expert booze wizardry, you’ll never get bored of gin cocktails again.

1. Gin Mare Espresso Flip

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Four excellent ways to pimp your ramen noodles

September 10, 2016, 5:00 am

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Noodles are one of the greatest ever food inventions.

Recently in the news, according to a new book Prison Ramen, the most valuable thing you can trade in prison these days is not cigarettes but ramen. This is understandable. Boring food and no access to a kitchen must be frustrating in prison.

Ramen is the simplest

no cook meal you can make, all you need is a boiling water.

Ramen is so easy to pimp. Kylie Jenner shared her ramen tricks recently by snapchatting how she pimps ramen with butter, garlic and egg. I tried it and it was pretty good.

Can we talk about my ramen noodle snapchat ?!

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The hot trend at New York Fashion Week is sweating profusely in large bits of plastic

September 10, 2016, 5:53 am

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Oh, you’re still wearing cotton and silk? You poor thing.

The next hot trend is wearing large pieces of plastic, as seen all over the runway at New York Fashion Week.

If you’re not sticking to your clear plastic shell, you’re no one. Pack your fashion bags and go home.

As Jezebel notes, clear plastic took centre stage at VFILES catwalk, as part of designer Song Seoyoon’s collection.

Yes, her work is intended as high fashion, arty stuff with a deeper meaning about consumerism and the fashion industry.… Read the full story

Orphaned pigeon and baby bunny refuse to be separated

September 10, 2016, 6:35 am

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When Bunny the baby rabbit arrived at the Kildare Animal Foundation Wildlife Unit in Ireland, he was so young that his umbilical cord was still attached.

His hopes of survival didn’t look good. Orphaned and alone, he was small, weak, and had difficulty walking.

Staff brought him in and gave him to a foster carer, who placed the bunny into a special incubator and hoped for the best.

A few days later, staff at the centre were called out for another urgent situation.

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Everyone can relate to this mum who keeps asking for snacks then falling asleep before she can eat them

September 10, 2016, 7:01 am

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When student Nick Avallone went home for the summer, he was generous enough to bring his mum a nighttime snack whenever she asked.

What a good son.

But his mum, Eleanor, failed to properly appreciate her son’s generosity.

Because by the time Nick had retrieved a snack and made his way to his mum’s room, she’d already fallen asleep.

And she did it almost every time. Damn it, mum.

Nick eventually got so fed up of his mum’s inability to stay awake for the snacks she’d requested that he made a mini sign, reading: ‘I ask my son for snacks then I FALL ASLEEP’ and carefully placed it on his mum as… Read the full story

Rejoice, basics: you can now buy pumpkin spice lip balm

September 10, 2016, 7:21 am

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Hooray! It’s finally autumn.

A time not to walk through leaves, but to Instagram your shoes next to some artfully arranged foliage.

A time to wear scarves and mittens, even though it’s really not that cold yet, you’re sweating, and you can’t really text with your wool-covered hands.

And of course, it’s a time to skip the actual pumpkin soup and make do with pumpkin spice lattes and all other sweetened, spiced delights that you’ve told yourself taste just like pumpkin.

The Pumpkin Spice Latte is back but one guy isn’t happy

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September 10, 2016, 7:46 am

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Meet the couple travelling all over America in a converted school bus

September 10, 2016, 10:42 am

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Everybody wonders at some point in their life if they should just quit their job, sell up and travel around in an arty school bus.

Mogli, Felix and their dog Rudi have done just that and we can’t help but feel a little bit jealous.

Once a bright yellow eyesore, the bus has been transformed into a home – complete with a star-gazing spot, a shower with marine handmade tiles and even a dog-bed.

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Eid Mubarak! Here’s 7 reasons to love Eid ul Adha

September 10, 2016, 11:00 pm

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Eid ul Adha isn’t often as popular as Eid ul Fitr, but there are so many reasons this Eid is brilliant too.

Here’s 7 reasons to love Eid ul Adha.

1. You still might get Eid presents and/or money

While this tradition is more common for the other Eid (Eid ul Fitr), it can still happen on this Eid as well.

Especially if you’re younger.

So don’t feel too guilty about dropping some hints to your parents about this awesome tradition.

2. This Eid is as significant, if not more, than Eid ul Fitr

Eid ul Adha tends to get overlooked a lot, because there isn’t a month of fasting in Ramadan preceding it.

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September 11, 2016, 5:54 am

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When you become a mum you find yourself with a new ‘mummy friends’ friendship group.

These friends are your rock when it comes to bringing up your kids and no day would be the same without them.

Mums certainly come in all shapes and sizes – it would be boring if we were all the same, right?

Here are 6 mummy friends you’re bound to have as a mum. Which one are you?

The ‘tough nuts’ mum

Traits: This mummy friend did not bat an eyelid when she had a baby.

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10 cruelty-free makeup brands you need to check out

September 11, 2016, 6:52 am

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We all like to look good, but to do so we shouldn’t be testing our cosmetics on animals or selling them to countries that test their makeup imports on animals.

You’ll be hard pushed to find a beauty brand that still tests on our furry friends, but so many of them do still sell to places such as China (where its the law that imported cosmetics must be tested on animals before being sold).

These ten brands, however, are all completely cruelty-free and can be worn without an attack on your conscience.

Eyeko

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Vegan chocolate cake recipe: Here’s how to make a choc orange bundt cake

September 11, 2016, 8:44 am

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This chocolate bundt cake is delicious and decadent with a hint of orange.

If you need to make a birthday cake for a chocolate lover, this is the one to choose.

Especially if they’re a chocolate-loving vegan, as this cake contains no dairy, no eggs and no honey – making it completely vegan.

Here’s how to make a vegan chocolate orange bundt cake.

NB You will need a 9 inch/23cm bundt tin to make this cake.

Ingredients

200g self raising flour

75g vegan cocoa powder

1 tsp baking powder

200g dark brown sugar

100ml sunflower oil

Juice and zest of one large orange

100ml almond milk

2 tbsp apple cider vinegar

3 tbsp orange marmalade

100g vegan dark chocolate

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September 11, 2016, 11:53 pm

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Et tu Greggs?

This week, the bakery chain famous for its steak bakes and sausage and bean melts has introduced two new ‘healthy’ pasties made with sourdough.

We know. Even Greggs has come over all health conscious. And, yes, ‘healthy pasty’ does sound like a contradiction in terms.

Anyway, the two new pasties, with a choice of chicken katsu or Bombay potato filling, use a crunchier sourdough-based shortcrust pastry (with a crumb topping), instead of the traditional butter-laden puff pastry.

Both new pasties come in at fewer than 300 calories and contain up to two-thirds less fat and saturated fat (9g rather than 25g) than your standard… Read the full story

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September 12, 2016, 1:00 am

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No one knew how to spin a yarn like Roald Dahl.

Master of colourful characters and spellbinding stories, Dahl’s chocolate factory-sized imagination was responsible for some of the greatest children’s books in living memory (and his adult ones weren’t half bad either).

And with the author’s centenary looming this week, here’s a look back at some of his greatest quotes.

MORE: Roald Dahl Day quiz: How well do you know his books?

1. ‘A little nonsense, now and then, is relished by the wisest men.’

(Charlie And The Great Glass Elevator, 1973)

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Man says he saw New York carriage horse collapse in street after driver raced to make green light

September 12, 2016, 1:35 am

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A New York man has described how he saw one of the city’s carriage horses collapse in the street after his driver forced him to make a green light.

The horse-drawn carriages are a familiar sight in the city and can often be seen taking tourists around the streets of Midtown Manhattan.

Bogdan Paul Angheluta, from Farmingdale, Long Island, says he was outside the Space Ibiza nightclub at around 2am on Friday, September 2, when he saw the horse fall.

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September 12, 2016, 2:27 am

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This weekend, American fashion designer Christian Siriano was praised for leading the way in promoting all body types with his New York Fashion Week spring/summer 2017 show.

The designer is known for championing diversity within an industry that is notoriously narrow-minded when it comes to its representation of women.

Earlier this year, he created a custom-made red carpet gown for Ghostbusters star Leslie Jones after she tweeted out to say she couldn’t find a designer to dress her for the movie’s premiere.

She wrote: ‘It’s so funny how there are no designers wanting to help me with a premiere dress for movie. Hmmm that will change… Read the full story

Blogger shares face shaving pictures to show what it’s really like living with polycystic ovary syndrome

September 12, 2016, 2:43 am

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You might have seen loads of vloggers shaving their faces recently as part of a bizarre new beauty trend to get smoother skin.

But one Perth-based blogger has shared pictures of her shaving her face to show what it’s like to live with polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS).

In a Facebook post from her blogging account, Fight against Fat, Tina-Marie Beznec writes that she wants to raise awareness of the disorder.

‘As well as depression, anxiety, infertility, weight gain, hormonal imbalances, bloating, abdominal pains, acne, cysts, increased risk of cancer, and everything else, a lot of women including myself have to deal with facial… Read the full story

This photographer has been capturing pictures of women’s orgasm faces

September 12, 2016, 2:48 am

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We all know that the female orgasm is a mysterious and elusive thing which can often leave guys baffled.

So if you want to know what a woman actually looks like on the verge of climaxing, then you’re about to have an education.

Albert Pocej has just completed a 15-part photo series of women ‘reaching the highest point of physical pleasure’ in a number of random locations including in the woods, under a wind turbine and on a piano.

How did he come up with the idea? He dreamt about it, apparently.

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Hillary Clinton pneumonia: Signs, symptoms and what is ‘walking pneumonia’?

September 12, 2016, 2:55 am

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Hillary Clinton was forced to leave a memorial service for 9/11 victims yesterday after becoming unwell.

Hillary Clinton ‘got overheated’ and had to leave 9/11 ceremony early

She was later filmed stumbling into her motorcade, losing a shoe in the process, sparking concerns for her health. Doctors have since confirmed that the presidential candidate is suffering from ‘walking pneumonia’ after saying she was suffering from allergies last week.

Pneumonia affects around 8 in 1,000 adults every year in the UK, and is more widespread in the winter and autumn.

What is pneumonia?

Pneumonia is a lung condition where the… Read the full story