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- Every Single Day This 99-Year-Old-Woman Sews a Dress for a Child in Need
- Artist Uses Melting Ice-Cream to Create Deliciously Colorful Paintings
- Couple Fascinated with Fatbergs Celebrate Their First Anniversary in the Sewer
| Every Single Day This 99-Year-Old-Woman Sews a Dress for a Child in Need Posted: 25 Aug 2014 03:42 AM PDT Lillian Weber, from Iowa, is almost 100 years old, but she doesn’t let her age stand in the way of her life’s mission – helping those in need. She spends every single day making a dress from scratch, so that a child in need will have something to wear. She started the unique project in 2011, and she's made over 840 dresses so far. Her goal is to make 1,000. Lillian, who was nominated for WQAD-TV's 'Pay It Forward' award, gets started on a new dress every morning, takes a break at midday, and is finished by the afternoon. "It is just what I like to do," she said. The dresses she makes are donated to Little Dresses for Africa, an organisation that distributes clothes to impoverished young girls in Africa and beyond. |
| Artist Uses Melting Ice-Cream to Create Deliciously Colorful Paintings Posted: 25 Aug 2014 02:14 AM PDT While most people prefer their ice-cream frozen, Baghdad-based artist Othman Toma likes it melted. He uses multi-colored melting treats as a medium for his art, instead of normal paint. And it works incredibly well. In fact, to the untrained eye, his artworks seem painted with regular watercolors. Toma paints all sorts of stuff using ice cream – lions, tigers, women's faces, popular monuments, and more. It's just marvelous how he manages to get such a wide array of colors with very few shades of the cold dessert. All he needs to do is reach out into his freezer, and he's ready to paint! |
| Couple Fascinated with Fatbergs Celebrate Their First Anniversary in the Sewer Posted: 25 Aug 2014 12:47 AM PDT It's hard to find a partner with similar interests, especially if you're into weird things. That's why I’d say Dan MacIntyre and Dunya Kalantery are quite lucky they found each other. The two lovebirds share an extremely rare and gross hobby – looking at 'fatbergs'. If you have no idea what a fatberg is, well, you're not the only one. The relatively unknown term is used in the UK to describe a great lump of fat, sanitary items and other stuff that doesn't break down when it goes down the toilet. These deposits are found underground in city sewer systems, and are known to cause problematic clogs. Fatbergs are exactly as gross as they sound, so it's really surprising that Dan and his girlfriend Dunya discovered a common interest in them when they got together last year. Well, as they say, birds of a feather… "Like wet wipes and congealed cooking oil, we are inseparable," Dan wrote to Dunya in what they consider to be a 'romantic email'. |
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