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Stress can harm your heart and compromise your immune system, resulting in a lowered resistance to infection. Try these three quick tips to beat stress and bring instant calm. 1. Shrug Your Shoulders This releases tension held in your neck and back. Slowly and deliberately raise your shoulders as close to your ears as you […]

As if helping to lower cholesterol and relieving some menopausal symptoms isn’t enough good news, soy may soon have a new health claim to make. In a small study conducted at Hull University in England, researchers tested the effect of soy supplements on diabetic women. For 12 weeks, one group of the women ate meals […]

Marika Cobbold’s Shooting Butterflies, published by Allen and Unwin, rrp $29.95, is this month’s Great Read. Look out for it in bookshops with our Great Read sticker on the cover. Q: When did you know you want to be a writer? A: Not until I was in my mid twenties. I grew up in a […]

NOTE: To ensure safety, use only 25W light globes in each of the lamps featured here. Materials Drum shaped wire frame (available at selected craft and hobby outlets) Cane webbing for chairs, appox. 65cm (available from chair repair shops) Scissors Masking tape PVA glue Clothes pegs Craft glue Bias binding, in a colour that matches […]

NOTE: To ensure safety, use only 25W light globes in each of the lamps featured here. Materials Plain lampshade Feather boa, in desired shade Spray adhesive Apply the spray adhesive all around the outside of the lampshade, and then, working quickly and starting at the top of the shade, wind the feather boa around the […]

NOTE: To ensure safety, use only 25W light globes in each of the lamps featured here. Materials Wire box frame (available at selected craft and hobby outlets) Japanese momigami double-sided paper or other handmade paper Scissors Masking tape Craft glue Blunt knife Step 1 Measure the height and width of the frame to calculate the […]

NOTE: To ensure safety, use only 25W light globes in each of the lamps featured here. Materials Medium-weight cardboard, or you could use a manila folder Wire lamp frame (available at selected craft and hobby outlets) Mulberry paper Plain paper Pencil Scissors Clothes pegs Craft glue Blunt knife Lamp feet stoppers (or you can use […]

Beautiful crocheted jug covers and cloth edges never go out of style. As we receive so many requests from readers for this style of project we thought it was time to run a lovely tea story from our archives. There is even a crochet jug cover that comes complete with it’s own teacup decoration! Materials […]

Beautiful crocheted jug covers and cloth edges never go out of style. As we receive so many requests from readers for this style of project we thought it was time to run a lovely tea story from our archives. There is even a crochet jug cover that comes complete with it’s own teacup decoration! Materials […]

An american author weighs in on the laid-back aussie nature. I thank the customs agent who has graciously allowed me to enter Australia. “No worries,” he says. This stops me for a second. It sounds as if he is absolving me from some sin rather than simply responding to my perfunctory gratitude. In the cab, […]