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DIY SOLAR LAMPS!

   This was found at www.creativecabin.com .   There's alot of different ideas I could come up with on making these different things around the holidays.  Good luck and I hope you get inspired and creative! What you will need Small mouth mason jars Solar garden lights Hot glue gun I only removed the stem of the light, but you can also remove the clear plastic base that the solar light attaches to. Run a bead of hot glue around the rim of the jar and... place the light on top. This is a much safer way to illuminate an outdoor area rather than candles. They can easily be taken apart if you need the jars, or decide to put them back on the stem for another purpose.

VANILLA BUTTERMILK CAKE WITH INSTANT FUDGE FROSTING!!

   Here's another recipe found at www.sweetapolita.com .  She makes such lovely desserts!! Vanilla Buttermilk Cake with Instant Fudge Frosting I have a real thing for the 70s. I mean, heck, I was born smack dab in the middle of them, into a family of much older siblings ready and eager to love, spoil, and torment an unsuspecting baby sister, so overall I’d say it was a pretty fabulous era. When I think back to my first memories of cake, they come along with my first memories of life at all: sitting around the dining room table with siblings who, at that time, would have been about 15, 14, and 8. I have particularly fond memories of the family birthday dinners gathered around that same table, eating the birthday kid’s meal of choice: my mom’s lasagna, my dad’s famous barbeque steak dinners, or, any other favourite of the time. There was, though, one thing that didn’t vary: the cake. Throughout the 70s (and possibly the 60s), I remember my mom serving yellow birthday

BOLAS DE FUEGO FROM NEJAPA, EL SALVADOR!!

Scorched earth policy: Blazing trails as proceedings get fiery Goodness gracious: Pitched battles watched by onlookers Pause before a flare-up: Revellers take a breather     It looks like a warzone or at least a riot in full swing. Fireballs tear through the streets painting the night air orange as young men, their faces emblazoned with fearsome patterns, prowl the streets waging in pitched battles against one another. The incendiary missiles explode on impact – sometimes in the faces of their targets. Pyromaniacs take note. If you love fire – and fireworks or trick or treat are too tame for your taste buds – you’ll be blown away by the Bolas de Fuego festival in El Salvador.     Every August 31, the El Salvadorian town of Nejapa is set alight by Bolas de Fuego, meaning balls of fire – though some might consider balls of steel equally essential for taking part. In the kind of event that would’ve been banned or smothered by health and safety regulati