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How I did it: Before meeting (and dating) Mikhail, I've had zero experience with Russian home cooking. For me, the stereotypical dishes of Russian cuisine was caviar and vodka, two things that I've had but don't necessarily consume on a regular basis.Since then, we've gone out to numerous Russian restaurants, as well as gone to his mom's home for authentic Russian cooking. His mom generally serves a couple of dishes at every meal: most of them prepared… Read how I did it…

How I did it: Living in a small apartment Brooklyn, NY, I don't really have an opportunity to have a garden. Sure, I have plants all over the place, but I wanted to try something different. So, making a terrarium is really my chance to have that little space of soil that I can manipulate and arrange according to my own whims.I wanted to spend as little as possible on the first terrarium. I've seen and read websites where the people who make their terra… Read how I did it…

How I did it: My mom and I have just returned from our annual mother-daughter vacation, and I figured that it'd be nice to document the events of the week in a more substantial way than just collecting the receipts and looking at the digital pictures once again. I've been lucky that I've had a chance to travel pretty extensively in the past several years, between work trips and short vacations with either my mom or my boyfriend. By keeping an "off… Read how I did it…