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Man, all this raving about the uses of coconut oil is making me conflicted...because when I think of coconut oil all I can think of is how my grandma used to put it in her hair all the time, and how I how I absolutely, totally, utterly hated the smell of it whenever I was near her...sadly enough. :( :( :(

Just made these, following the recipe exactly, except I used a dollop of ginger paste in place of ground ginger, which I don't have. Mine took about 20 minutes to bake. Turned out wonderfully! So easy and so good, and I feel fine about eating three right away because it seems pretty healthy :)

Thanks a bunch!

While on Hawai'i's Big Island, I had the passionfruit cheesecake ice cream from Kope Lani, in Kona.

Best. Ice cream. Ever. Seriously. I'm actually more of a froyo person than an ice cream person, but I could eat this evvvveryday. I scoured the internet looking for something that I could buy (or even make!). No luck yet though :( SIGH.

- Meditating regularly
- Being patient with others
- Being kind and honest
- Living with less material goods
- Being moderate in everything

;)

Kudos! This gives me hope for the distressingly 70s-themed bathroom in our new house - it was all dizzying orange linoleum, orange cabinets, and mirrors on every possible surface before we made so emergency changes, but it still has a way to go!

Thanks for posting this! [I actually really appreciate the fact that AT re-posts useful stuff occasionally, because there are just so many great ideas/tips/inspiration that are buried from way before I was introduced to the amazingness that is this site.]

=D

Good tip about using a blade to cut out unused pages.

I've started doing the same - just divide up my single-subject notebook with tabs and use one notebook for two or three classes. This way my bag is lighter, too, without five notebooks to lug around. I also try to write all the way to the outside edge of the page, cause those margins add up to a lot of wasted space, and it's just my own notes anyways. :)

Kpop in AT?! I am highly amused. :)

All definitely things to think about when considering bamboo.

The links briefly mention this, but from what research I've done, when it comes to hardness you have to consider that there are two different types of widely available bamboo. The regular bamboo is basically made up of slices of bamboo stalks glued together. It is available in vertical and horizontal versions; the difference is mainly aesthetic and the difference in hardness is negligible.

Strand-woven bamboo, however, is supposed to be extremely hard and durable, I believe generally around 3000 on the Janka hardness scale which is pretty high up there [the Janka scale is supposedly the standard way to measure the hardness of woods, and you can usually find a particular wood's rating in the specs]. Strand-woven is made of bits and strands of bamboo glued and melded together under high pressure, which gives it it's durability and it's different look--it's more strandy-looking than the clean lines of regular bamboo.

I think strand-woven bamboo is also a bit more eco-friendly in that it uses up a whole lot more of the bamboo stalk because the bits that would be otherwise relegated to waste when manufacturing regular bamboo can be used.

But I'm definitely no expert, just quoting what I've read/been told, so of course do your own research! :) We're putting down strand-woven bamboo (engineered, though, not solid) in my new house (but not in the kitchen or bathrooms) so we've got our fingers crossed that it lives up to the claims!

I love you guys =) We're in the middle of packing to move to our first house, so all this advice is suuuuuper helpful. Now I can obsessively read articles about how to pack/unpack while procrastinating on actually packing/unpacking, yay! =P

I do agree - in my opinion marble is best done in moderate quantities or else it just looks like too much glam.

I am intrigued by the kitchen wall shelving in picture 5. Does anyone know where it's from?