The American Girl doll line contains a vast number of different ethnicities, eye colors, and hair styles. There are clothes for every occasion for these tremendously popular high-end dolls. Ilona Szwarc photographed American girls who own American Girl dolls, often in matching outfits.
Before I looked at the tutorial, I tried to figure out how Jenni Price made these amazing pancakes. How do you make one pancake multiple colors?
Here's what you do: apply your batter with squeezable bottles. Do so while the griddle is still cold. This lets you create an outline for your rabbit face, which you can then fill in while the pancakes are warming.
Kelley of Enter Gently is a mother of six children. During five of those pregnancies, she made plaster casts of her belly as keepsakes. The lower photo shows her son Ever inside his own cast. If you'd like to make your own cast, you can find Kelley's instructions at the link.
Russell Greenberg, a designer who lives in New York City, makes custom objects that look like the silhouettes of specific people. His own wedding ring, for example, has the outline of his wife's face. My favorites, though, are the baby rattles that look like parents.
Tom Schaar is only twelve years old, but he already has bragging rights for life. What did you do when you were twelve? Because this kid broke a world record. He's the first person to ever do a complete 1080° turn -- that's three full rotations -- on a skateboard. He did it this past Monday on a ramp at a sports camp at Tehachapi, California.
David Delony of Walyou's first thought was "Tron." That's a good interpretation, but Bhautik Joshi is actually going for the classic lowrider look. He plans to add rims and hydraulics next.
A friend of redditor kelseypolo built a new house that has a secret playroom decorated with images from The Chronicles of Narnia. His nine-year old daughter can access it through a small passage hidden in the back of a wardrobe. Awesome! You can view more pictures at the link.
Naturally, some redditors have more puckish ideas about what to do with it:
If it was my kid, I would let her have the room until she starts to lose interest in it, and then I would quietly cover the back of the wardrobe and seal the room. Eventually, she'll want to go back to Narnia, but all she'll find is an ordinary wardrobe and a solid wall behind it, and I will maintain that the room she keeps talking about never existed.
Admittedly, this is probably why I should not have children.
Baby Björns are cute and practical but...well, they just feel odd at the range or the stockyard or the tractor pull. Andy Herald has a great solution that should go into immediate production.
He's got a lot more facial hair that Lynda Carter did in the role. But that's okay. This man spotted at WonderCon understands that a father shows his daughters how to be heroic.
Joanna Krzysztonek of Poland was pregnant with triplets. One of her babies died in a miscarriage, and the other two were in serious danger. Doctors had an idea about to save them, but it required Krzysztonek to hang upside down for two and a half months. She endured this great discomfort and successfully gave birth to the remaining baby boy and girl:
The head of the Wroclaw obstetrics and neo-natal clinic where Krzysztonek gave birth, Mariusz Zimmer, said doctors managed to ease Krzysztonek's contractions, but considered her to be in labor from the birth of the first child.
"This procedure - I mean giving birth - has a beginning and an ending. If the first baby was born that means the birth had started," Zimmer said.
Both babies, Iga and Ignacy, are doing well and doctors anticipate that they will be able to go home soon.
Jennifer Perkins has a great idea for entertaining young children in the summer heat. Her toddler loves dinosaurs, so Perkins gave her a way to play junior paleontologist. Perkins froze toy dinosaurs in a tub of water, then gave her a spoon, a plastic shovel and a toothbrush to dig them out.
Randall and Sharon Porter make furniture that seems to leap out of a Dr. Seuss book. These are real, physical, functional pieces of furniture that are made for kids, including beds, dressers and nightstands. But really, if I had them, I'd put them in my bedroom.
