What do you usually do with a cork left over from enjoying wine or champagne? Throw it out immediately, toss it in a kitchen drawer thinking it might come in handy someday - only for it to stay there rolling around for an indefinite period, and so on. Not so long ago it was common to see wine corks stuffed under the handle of an aluminium pot lid, so the hot lid could be lifted from a boiling pot without a towel. Where else can cork be used so that it serves both practical and aesthetic functions in our homes?
Cancer does not love women; he believes it is women who should be seeking his favour. He devotes much energy to achieving other goals. Whatever he undertakes, in every field he must be the very best. The desire to stand out among others and excessive ambition constantly spur him to conquer new heights.
Man proposes, God disposes. This evening, on 17 June, a concert had been planned in Vērmanes Garden in support of the gravely ill rock band "Līvi" musician Jānis Grodums, but it became a memorial evening. Lit candles, flowers, the musician's portrait in the light of spotlights, the fateful dates (10.VI.1958. – 15.VI.2010.) and performances by several well-known and lesser-known musicians on stage. Some lit their lighter flames and swayed to the music's rhythm, some hummed along, others dropped donations into a box for establishing a memorial place for the musician, a couple danced, someone shed a tear. Līvi forever alive, weeds never die...
Welcome to the meerkat family! Little heroes on the big screen at the "Rīga" cinema. An extraordinarily sweet and cheerful poster - I couldn't walk past. :) A captivating documentary about meerkats, remarkable little desert animals that guard their relationships with one another much like we do. The central character is a meerkat pup named Kolo, and we follow his life story in Africa's Kalahari Desert.
Life experience has virtually no effect on the development of his sexuality, especially in the realm of sensory impressions. He is an incurable romantic; at different stages of life his imagination conjures up different figures, whose characteristic feature is their unreality.
The awareness that something belongs to us makes us happy. The more and the higher-quality objects or subjects we own, the more our sense of wellbeing is heightened. But the more firmly the conviction establishes itself that it belongs to me, the greater the dependency becomes.
Events surrounding RS (Rīgas Satiksme) in general (not only regarding inspectors) create the impression of a peculiar environment where, for the sake of peace and quiet, senior management turns a blind eye to this and that conduct, which unambiguously fosters an imagined justifiable impunity.
This time, about how to handcraft vintage-style crockery - a cup, saucer, fruit bowl, plate. What follows is about the making process, the materials used and the result.
The cornerstone of his psyche is an unshakeable confidence in his own worth as a man. He needs no confirmation of this worth, either from himself or from others. Nor does he feel any need to highlight this worth through questionable methods such as drinking, gambling, deliberate coarseness and cruelty, or a striving for power and dominance.
Since I am very fond of vintage-style things, the decoupage or ageing technique on various wooden surfaces was a wonderful discovery. Now that the skill is in hand, I can make an antiqued box as a gift or simply for storing jewellery, of which every woman has no shortage. What follows is about the making process, the materials used and the result.
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