renaissance2010
Turning to photography as a creative outlet during a valiant fight with breast cancer at age 34, renaissance10 survived and set up a photo contest to help raise funds for the Lavender Trust, a nonprofit that provides information and support to younger women with breast cancer. In the first two years, the competition brought in over £65,000 (that's $107,260.73 U.S.!), with entries from 130 countries last year. Renaissance10 recently joined LiveJournal to meet other passionate photographers and find supportive friends.

curiouscupcakes
Holy buttercream frosting! If you have a sweet tooth for sugary goodness or a wandering eye for whimsical confection, this is pure ecstasy iced in deliciousness. Hailing the beloved cupcake as the artisinal canvas of choice, you'll enjoy recipes, photos, and bountiful tips to bake up a batch, whether your taste leans toward French classics or funky and flavorful.

mission101
With New Years in the offing, it's an ideal time to reflect on past accomplishments, make peace with disappointments, and refocus the lens on future goals. This community welcomes you to create a bucket list of 101 things you plan to accomplish in the next 1,001 days. Offering support, guidance, and inspiration, this is a great way to jumpstart those pesky resolutions.

At the end of the year, the million music blogs out there come up with their top 100, or 50, or 10, or 5. I don't have the time or the will to judge them all. My favorite of the year is

*drum roll*

Find out @ http://thebroadset.blogspot.com/

I am doing a very important art project, for school. & before you switch the page. It is very important & might have a great deal to do with my future endeavors.
Please read.
I need people for this project. It's both something wonderful & hard to achieve in such little time i have to do this project.
Specifically, people who've had near death experience's. Thus, the title.
I have a set of questions i'd need you to answer [nothing terribley hard or long]
& most importantly put on video. I'll elaborate more one on one [via e-mail.] & if you no longer have any interest after that,that's completely fine of course.
I'll need you to record a decent video of yourself of you explaining the answers to the few questions. All revolving around your near death experiance of course.
Please, if you have any relative story or interest in helping just respond to this post or e-mail me back at blahblahblah42670@yahoo.com.
I really appreciate it.
Really really.
I know it's something weird to ask but it's for the sake of a students art project. I need this before January starts but just e-mail me for instructions & general elaboration on this.
I'll send you the video of the completed project in the end.
That's all i can offer, That and my extreme gratitude.
Thank you, Linda Marcos.

I realized a few years ago that Chicago gets cold enough to kill any rosemary plant that I'd put in the ground. Its not like tarragon or lavender that both come back in the spring.

So I put mine in a pot. It did well all summer and then promptly died this fall.

I bought another one, and well... Its dying.

Do any of you have any tips for keeping a rosemary plant alive during the winter?

Thanks!

So last year when I was all pregnant and stuff, I started a gardening project.

I wanted to expand the 24"wide flowerbeds in front out by another yard and edge it with white blocks so we could replace lawn that we watered for either heat/dry resistant plants or edibles that we would water but get something out of.

I knew from experience that pulling up St. Augustine grass sod is a nightmare. It took hours and hours to pull up just a few square feet.

So I had the bright idea that I'd have the lawn guy cut it short, and then Kendra and Sam and I laid out the blocks and covered the short grass with layers of cardboard and then about 2" of cheap soft-wood mulch.

I went to work it in today, and I was expecting to scrape back the mulch, pull out the cardboard and then remove dead grass.

Imagine my surprise when I broke through the mulch and there was about 2" of completely decomposed cardboard and grass. Nothing to pull out. Just had to shovel it around and try to work it into the clay-heavy Texas dirt.

I almost want to start buying blocks and mulch and planning next year's sod-to-bed expansion (The goal is to have very little "lawn" left at the end).

I need suggestions though: are there any more-green ways to do this? I know the softwood mulch isn't the most ecological solution to the issue.

What would be the greenest way to improve the soil so it's less heavy and clumpy? I have a lot of compost, but when I mix it into the soil, even in a 50/50 mix to fill flowerpots or whatever, when it gets hot and dry it turns to a solid, unbreakable mass. Mass quantities of vermiculite?

i_hope_that
For many of us, the holidays can be kind of rough. If you're searching for a network of understanding friends, this ultra-nurturing community encourages you to express your heartfelt wishes and offer other members encouragement and acceptance. Not for the terminally snarky or emotionally-challenged, this is a good-spirited place to lend comfort and support.

diygifts
Feeling crafty? If you've got a few last folks on your holiday gift list, this is a great place to seed your creativity and generosity. You'll also discover wonderful DIY tips to decorate your home and entertain guests. Offering a no-frills-no-skills attitude that welcomes the cash-challenged and arts-phobic, you're sure to get ideas and make friends in the process.

cooking_club
A fun and friendly community dedicated to those who love to cook, whether you're a meat-and-potatoes type, an aspiring gourmand, and/or a vegan. In search of a brilliant dish to use up those weekly leftovers? Post your ingredients and you'll be whipping up a feast by dinner. You can also share favorite recipes. For Type A chefs, you can spice up your culinary repertoire with exciting cooking challenges.

               About artist Valentin Massov OLEG TSELKOV: - I regret that I can't like Christ as you can... - Oleg I didn't say anything about Christ at all... - You needn't speak about him. Your paintings can tell everything. You do what nobody has done yet everything that is left by the art on the Earth... http://community.livejournal.com/massov_art/