1) Orange (with its own peel) Cake
Materials
3 ripe and big oranges
3 tea cups of flour
3 tea
cups of milk
2 teacups
of sugar
2 eggs
1 pinch
of Royal powder (chemical yeast).
Steps
1- Wash the
oranges well and cut them (don’t forget to remove the seeds and the white central part of the orange)
2 - Mix
all the ingredients and the oranges too (with the peel) in a mixer for 10
minutes. (except for the Royal yeast)
2-A) Add
the baking powder gently to the dough.
3 - Cover
a baking tin with a fine butter layer then sprinkle a pinch of flour on it.
4 – Lay
the dough n the baking tin.
5 – Warm
the oven up to 180 Celsius degrees; if your oven doesn’t have a thermometer,
wait for 15 minutes
6 – Put
the baking tin in the pre-warmed oven and wait about 1hour for the cake to be
ready.
7 – Open
the oven and stick the cake with a match or toothpick just once to see if it is
ready.
8 - If
so, take the cake out of the tin, and wait for it to cool down.
9 – Once
cold, cut the cake in small slices and serve it with a vanilla ice-cream ball.
10- Call
your friends over to have a nice tea time with you. Bon appetite!
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2) Lighting a barbecue place
Steps
1 –Lay half
a pack of coal in the barbecue place channel.
2 – Make
small rings of twisted newspaper.
3 – Put
them in the middle of the coal.
4 – Sprinkle
a little bit of alcohol on the coal.
5 /6 - Light
a match and carefully throw it onto the coal.
7/8 – Wait
for the flames to go away and then fan over the coal until it gets red-hot.
9/10 –
That's it! Now your barbecue party may become a success; enjoy that happy time with your family or with your friends.
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3) Painting with watercolors
Stpes
1) Use a
sheet of A-4 Canson *paper. *(It's paper proper for painting by watercolor)
2) Choose
a nice theme to paint or have the original picture you intend to reproduce.
3) Draw
a draft in pencil on the sheet of Canson paper.
4) With
a little bit of water in separate places on your palette, dilute the colors you
will work with.
5) Paint
with accurate movements to express your intentions.
6) Every
time you change colors; first clean up the paintbrushes in clean water before
using them again.
7) Remember!
Dark colors don't cover light ones.
8) Volumes
and depth get lively with new strokes of color.
9) A
background music sound will harmonize your soul state with your work.
10) Watercolor painting
can produces shining images depending of your technique or ability.
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4) Making a fashion
cushion ( 80 cm X 80 cm)
Materials
2 meters
of fabric of your preference: pattern or not (pay attention- in general a piece
of fabric is from 1.2 to 1.5 meter
long)
1 sewing
needle
1,5
meter of acrylic cloak
1,5
meter of thread of the same fabric color
1 HB
pencil
1 bag of
synthetic foam (in flakes)
1 zipper
of 80 cm.
A lot of
colored sequins and beads of your preference
From 6 to 8
small half faceted silver pieces
First of all you must have in
mind the kind of cushion you want to make: simple, sophisticated, retro, vintage, modern, sexy - style, etc.
Steps
1) Cut
the fabric in two square shape with 84 cm of side, which includes 1 cm
overlapping on each side.
2) Cut
the acrylic cloak in the rectangle shape ( with
4) Fold the acrylic cloak in the middle, and put
it into of the pieces two of fabric (with
the right side turned to out side*) like a sandwich.
5) Sew
the 3 cushion sides quite right to the border, and in the fourth one sew the zipper*.
6) Choose
the stamp on which you want decorate your cushion
7) Embroider
the picture with the sequins and beads of your preference (until complete the
whole arabesque).
8) Glue
some small half faceted pieces in geometric positions.
9) Fill
the cushion with flakes of synthetic foam.
10)Now,
your cushion can do part of a nice decoration ( that's of course will be like your face)!!
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5) Shining shoes
Steps
1) Clean,
very well, your shoes with a moist flannel (almost dry).
2) Pass
a first little of polish on your shoes (with the correct color according to
your color shoes).
3) Wait
few minutes, until the leather get well the polish on them.
4) So,
start the brushing,
5) Do many
brushes on whole their surfaces.
6) After this, take a dry and clean flannel and
do hard shining movements.
7) If
necessary, all operation must be done again, until your shoes get a nice
shining.
8) To
keep your shoes with a brand new appearance, do ever like indicate above.
9) However, nowadays there is a simple way to do
all this work without so much effort,
10) After
taken away the all dust of day-by-day, give a good passed of sponge with
silicone on your whole shoes.
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Materials
upper side
of a PET bottle ( any color)
40
cm of
string
1 roll-on ball
3
plastic rings to keep the string on the
bottleneck
A pair
of mobile eyes
A little
piece of color adhesive tape
body toad molds in green EVA
2 circles in white EVA to toad eyes
1 circle of black EVA to the center toad eyes
ladybird wings mold with red EVA
scraps of black EVA to little balls and the ladybird head
1green EVA strip to make the finishing of the
Steps
2 circles in white EVA to toad eyes
1 circle of black EVA to the center toad eyes
ladybird wings mold with red EVA
scraps of black EVA to little balls and the ladybird head
1green EVA strip to make the finishing of the
Steps
1) Cut
the upper side of a PET bottle of 2 liters.
2) Paint
the roll on ball with a black spray ink.
3) Glue
the little black balls on the ladybird wings as well as the head at the upper
side of it.
4) Glue
the mobile ladybird eyes.
5) Glue
the red ladybird wings on the roll on ball.
6) Draw
little dashes with black hydro-color pen
along all the border molds.
7) Tie
one of the string point on the roll on ball. (check if it's well fixed)
8) Tie
the another point of the string on the bottleneck.
9) Fit
the 3 rings in the bottleneck and make the finishing with a piece of color
adhesive tape.
10) Your
kids will have funny time playing alone or in groups with this nice toy.
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7) Making and Flying Kites ( Little Fish )
Materials
Two bamboo sticks, one of 60 cm and a second of
40 cm
Colorful sheet papers
1 white glue tube
1 reel cotton white line
Steps
1 ) Cross the bamboo sticks as indicate in the
picture with a resistant line.
2) Tie the sticks with the cotton line several
times. (in alternated directions)
3) Pass white glue on the whole of the surface
bamboo sticks.
4) Glue the eye and the colored scales on the
fish body, so glue it on the crossed sticks.
5) Making a "rabiola"
– tie many metallic strips at one meter of line.
6) Tie the rabiola at the side of the tail fish.
7) Tie a piece of line in each side of the kite
(40 cm) and linking themselves with the
line of reel one.
8) Kites need great open space and much draft
to rise flight.
9) Flying
kites –hold the line from the reel in a distance of
one meter far from the kite and,
10)Taking
part of the draft give some tugs in the line until the kite gets a nice height.
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8) Making a Kaleidoscope
Materials
3 rectangle shape of 20cm X 5 cm plane mirrors
2 glass discs of diameter = 25cm (to make the up and down lids )
1
dull glass disc = 25 cm ( to make the bottom)
1 adhesive tape
1
cardboard cylinder of 22 cm.
acrylic
scraps of varied colors and shapes
Steps
1) Tie
together the 3 rectangle mirrors face to face in a isosceles triangle,
2) Roll
them up with the adhesive type on their whole extension.
3) Put
this prism into the cardboard cylinder.
4) Close
the kaleidoscope up side with the glass disc.
5) Glue
the up lid with the adhesive tape.
6) Let a
little circle in the center of it to peeping.
7) Insert
the small disc together of the low down side mirrors,
8) Put
the acrylic scraps on it.
9) Close
the kaleidoscope down side with the other glass disc.
10) Tie
the inferior disc with adhesive tape on the cylinder structure
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9) Having a Private Rainbow
Steps
1) Seven
colors make the sun light.
2) Newton,
the famous English scientist, has proved this light property since XVI century.
3) When
a sunbeam passes through a crystal prism can to divide itself in 7 different
colors.
4) Same
thing happens when we see the sun light passing by the little water drops after
a rain.
5) Then
if you want see the nice rainbow image,( you can do it in
a sunny day)
6) Just
tie a water conductor to the garden tap.( against the sun light)
7) Open the garden tap and control the
water flow to do a big water jet( like a great and nice sprinkle)
8) The little water drops will work as the
Newton's triangular prism.
9) So,
every time that you want fresh yourself - you
will have a fun time beyond a grateful
refreshing
sensation.
10) As you can see, from simple acts can make great moments of
pleasure.
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10) Caipirinha – The most famous and typical Brazilian drink( to 5 or 6
people)
Materials
3 or 4 (middle size) galego green lemons ( Observation: the big ones have less taste)
3 or 4 (middle size) galego green lemons ( Observation: the big ones have less taste)
3 spoonfulls of refined sugar
1 liter of Cachaça (rum) or Vodka ( in this case the drink name is Caipiroska)
1 liter of Cachaça (rum) or Vodka ( in this case the drink name is Caipiroska)
Steps
1) Wash
well and cut 3 or 4 middle lemons
2) Remove the seeds of them
3) Put them in a bowl and
4) Crush them with a wooden
crusher
5) Add sugar,
rum ( cachaça) to the crushed
lemons lemon juice in a jar.
6) Blend
well and strain the mix in a jar,
7) So add
ice cubes in it.
8) Serve
this nice and typical Brazilian drink quiet iced, in glasses proper to that.
9) You and your friends will spend
happy hours drinking such beverage.
10) You can change the lemons by any fruit of your preference like: cashew,
lime, strawberry, kiwi, etc.
