You may remember the limited edition “ice cream shovels” produced last year to solve the problem of too-hard-to-eat frozen treats found at convenience stores. Well now there’s another spoon that’s specially engineered to use the heat from your hands to get you closer to the perfect scoop. An ...

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Ice Cream scoops become cylinders It’s that time of year again. Summer heat requires ice cream. Whether you like one scoop or two or even 5, the $14.95 Cuisipro Ice Cream Scoop & Stack is the perfect way to build tall stacks on that cone. That’s because they’ve replaced the round scoop wit ...

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It’s always more fun to DIY. Every week, we’ll spare you a trip to the grocery store and show you how to make small batches of great foods at home. Today: Italian ice is just the thing to cool down summer’s sweatiest days. Thanks to Tieghan Gerard of Half Baked Harvest, you don’t have to stop at you ...

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I love ice cream and I love butter, but what I don’t love is having to wait for them to soften and melt so that I can scoop and spread them. Is there a solution other than just waiting? Maybe… The self-warming ScoopTHAT and SpreadTHAT ice scream scoop and butter knife claim to solve these ...

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After trying stand-up paddle boarding last summer, a paddle board was on Cherie Bowman-Lyons’ wish list. “Both my daughter and I really loved it,” she said. “I said it was going to be my next big purchase.” But before she got a chance to make that purchase, ...

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In this July 16, 2014 photo, Kenneth Hock, 79, of Bloomington, Ill., sits with a 4-foot square farmstead he made completely out of tongue depressors, popsicle sticks and other various wood products at The Myerling, an assisted living group home. THE PANTAGRAPH, LORI ANN COOK-NEISLER — AP Photo ...

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The Lhasa-Shigatse Railway in Tibet Autonomous Region is about to be put into use, after its completion in July. This paves the way for more exchanges between Tibet and the rest of China. One group that will benefit is the Tibetan incense makers in Nimu county, one of the stops along the railway. N ...

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How to Make Paint Stick Dominoes Supplies: 4 paint sticks black paint white paint ruler saw miter box polyurethane Step 1:  Collect paint sticks I purchased these paint sticks from Wal-Mart for .28 each. They are perfect for the project because they are longer and thicker than regular paint stic ...

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My husband and I are the proud, newish owners of a house with a postage-stamp-size back deck, so we’ve definitely spent a lot more of our summer nights outdoors than we did when we were NYC apartment dwellers. We’re also the proud owners of two small kids, so at the start of the summer I started a d ...

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I finished the beginning sound pictures for the paint stick activity I shared with you recently HERE. Keep reading to download this free, 30 page printable that will help your students in preschool and kindergarten develop emergent literacy skills. The free beginning sounds paint stick printable f ...

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Walking down Tacoma’s busy 6th Avenue there are lots of places to stop and grab a bite to eat. However, none are quite as sweet as Tacoma’s newest scoop shop, Ice Cream Social. While Ice Cream Social just celebrated their grand opening in late June, Layla Isaac has been pedaling her sought after sco ...

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Angelenos with their air conditioners on full blast this summer can agree, we all scream for ice cream. And if you’re jonesing for a scoop Thursday, Baskin-Robbins wants to give you a scoop of any one of its signature 31 flavors for $1.31. As part of the ice cream chain’s Celebrate 31 c ...

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