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Kara and Matthew Rutter have a combined 45 years of military service between them. When they retired from the Army, they knew they wanted to continue to serve their country, only this time by helping veterans. In 2019 the Rutters founded Project Victory Gardens, a veteran-led non-profit farm dedicated to agritherapy, animal therapy, and farm education for military members, veterans, and their families on 20 beautiful acres in Aiken, South Carolina....

Makeup primer is one of those things we don’t typically get that excited about. Sure, it smooths and blurs your pores like you’ve turned back the clock a few years and makes your complexion look flawless even without makeup; but we’re not generally granting legendary status to it. That is, until now. When StriVectin first launched its Anti-Wrinkle Line BlurFector Instant Wrinkle Blurring Primer, it sold out on both Nordstrom and Ulta in a week....

Pull out your old roller skates, bell bottoms, and everything colored in avocado or mustard—because we’re taking dinnertime back to the groovy 1970s, if only for the night. We can all recall that fondue pots were at the height of their popularity in the 70s, when folks would fill them up with melty cheese, smooth chocolate, and piping-hot oil for cooking small hunks of mystery meat. Yum! And even though the last one might make you shudder, the other two were quite the fun dinner delicacy to enjoy with loved ones at home....

Let’s own this—we lose our minds when it snows in the Deep South. Snow in Tennessee, snow in North Carolina—snow just about anywhere north of Alabama—is not such a big deal. The snowier Upper South is better prepared. As for the rest of us, we’re stampeding “The Pig,” snatching up every loaf of bread and the last gallon of milk. Most snow predictions don’t pan out, so we must invent new sandwiches to use up all that bread before it gets stale—plus, your cat puts on a few extra pounds from lapping up the excess milk....

The best feature of this case is that the compartments are adjustable, so you move them around as needed to fit to all of your makeup products, no matter their varying shapes and sizes. There are also four pockets on the inside of the lid with clear protective flaps to help keep makeup brushes organized, clean, and protected. Plus, the waterproof material can be wiped down so you can easily clean off the inevitable makeup residue....

With the worsening coronavirus pandemic casting its long shadow over the holidays this year, the US Postal Service is doing what it can to help the millions of Americans facing financial hardship. In light of the topsy-turvy Christmas ahead and the ongoing pandemic, the USPS’s annual Operation Santa letter writing campaign is going digital and expanding nationwide. “The USPS Operation Santa program celebrates its 108th year in 2020 by opening up for nationwide participation,” the agency announced in a press release....

Bea Arthur’s biting one-liners and scorching eyebrow-raises made her Golden Girls character a TV legend, but they’re also what made Dorothy an excellent friend—perhaps the best friend residing at 6151 Richmond Street. According to a study published in Psychological Science, your meanest friends may actually be the ones who care about you the most. Researchers found that friends like Dorothy—the ones who say things you don’t want to hear, and who push you out of your comfort zone—act the way they do not for their own personal gain, but because they believe it will help you in the long run....

What if, instead of cringing over every stray gray and sign of silver roots, we started to embrace it instead? That seems to be the message behind Grombre, an Instagram account dedicated to “a radical celebration of the natural phenomenon of grey hair.” The page has 37,000 followers and more than 900 posts, the majority of which are real women sharing their journey to gray. The result? A collection of confidence boosting, you’re-worth-it affirming social media moments that result in those all-around happy feelings you get when you see a band of women supporting each other....

Baking a cake is equal parts science and creativity. There are certainly key measurements to follow for ingredients, along with incorporating those ingredients in the right order. The creativity comes in when you’re choosing cake and frosting flavor combos, tasty cake fillings, how to decorate the cake, and more. For many home bakers, grandma has always known best when it comes to cake baking tips. She may be known for her award-winning hummingbird cake or the most impressive coconut cake....

On a chilly night, there’s nothing quite like cozying up next to a fire with a good book and a cup of tea —or a cranberry margarita. While gas fireplaces are becoming more and more common (and may be better for the planet and your health), there’s just something about the crackling of logs. If you’ve whipped up a tiny inferno, you may be burning through logs and considering tossing a few other things into the blaze....

In this week’s episode, Sid Evans talks to Ashley McBryde about candle-making during quarantine, the big break she got courtesy of Eric Church, and personal songs about her father and brother. Plus a wide range of recommended dishes, from smoked red velvet cake to squirrel! Episode 18: October 13, 2020 ​Ashley McBryde’s 2018 album titled ​Girl Going Nowhere ​proved just the opposite, earning her multiple Grammy nominations as well as CMA, CMT, and ACM award wins....

The Gatlinburg SkyLift Park team is “lifting up” victims of the devastating tornadoes that struck Kentucky and Tennessee with an auction and fundraiser. The popular attraction is auctioning 11 SkyLift chairs that survived the 2016 wildfires and donating $1 from each admission ticket sold during the fundraiser to recovery efforts. The auction starts at 12:15 p.m. today, Friday, December 17, and runs through Monday, December 27, 2021. Nine of the iconic yellow SkyLift chairs and two decommissioned black chairs will be part of the auction....

One of the easiest and simplest steps to encourage a perfect cake is to properly prepare the pan before pouring in the batter. The obvious reason for preparing the pan is to ensure a clean release and flawless appearance, but it also contributes to the cake’s crumb, texture, and crust. Pan prep methods vary with the type of cake and the recipe, and those instructions should be heeded to ensure a proper rise and clean release....

For every 10 fresh berries you manage to pop into your mouth and enjoy, there are approximately two* that end up covered in fuzzy mold in the blink of an eye. Because as juicy and delectable as fresh berries are, they’re also impossibly delicate. Perhaps that’s what we love about them. (*This is an approximation based on years of berry eating, not a real statistic.) Luckily, we have a simple trick for keeping your precious berries fresh and mold-free for as long as possible this summer....

Frozen Hot Chocolate was made famous by Serendipity on Manhattan’s Upper East Side. The signature dessert–a cross between a chocolate milkshake and icy chocolate milk–drew tourists in masses, waiting hours to score a sip. Luckily, making a good frozen hot chocolate isn’t all that complicated. It’s success, like many recipes, relies mostly on high-quality ingredients – particularly the chocolate. Go ahead and skip the lines. Here’s how to make frozen hot chocolate at home....

It’s a little bit of work to eat crab legs. It’s one of the few foods that require tools like mallets, crackers, and picks on the part of the diner. However, they are well worth the work. Whether it’s a king crab, snow crab, stone crab, or blue crab, the succulent meat is a delicacy. If you bought frozen crab legs from the store, chances are they were pre-cooked so you’ll just need to reheat them at home....

For Isabel Ladd, it’s impossible to have too much of a good thing. “I have always loved creating spaces that are larger-than-life, and that’s really what my interiors are about—celebrating pattern and color and surprises along the way,” says the Kentucky designer, who is based in her hometown of Lexington. Her bolder-is-better approach has yielded a colorful portfolio of spaces, including a graphic, retro room at 21c Museum Hotel Lexington that was inspired by the Netflix miniseries The Queen’s Gambit....

A letter written by one of the Titanic’s most heroic victims is headed for the auction block in the U.K. John Harper, the pastor of Walworth Road Baptist Church in London, was traveling aboard the Titanic with his sister and six-year-old daughter to preach in Chicago when the ship struck an iceberg in the North Atlantic. Auctioneer Andrew Aldridge of Henry Aldridge & Son told Fox News that, while Harper’s daughter and sister were put in a lifeboat and survived, Harper stayed on board the Titanic and gave his lifejacket to a fellow passenger....

Persistence pays. And for some, it can pay $2.4 million. A Jackson County couple was on their way home when the wife insisted that her husband stop to buy a lottery ticket. “My wife forced me to pull over and buy a lottery ticket because I was wanting to get home and watch the football game,” her husband told Missouri Lottery officials. “So I pulled over and bought the lottery ticket out of frustration....

From salps and sea pork to prehistoric fossils, if you look closely enough, there’s no telling what you might come across on the shores of the Carolinas. The latest sea creatures to make headlines are naked sea butterflies, a shell-less species of sea snail that resemble little orange ice cream cones with wings. Though they typically prefer the cold, deep waters of the Arctic, lately they’ve been washing up on the Outer Banks....