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shoe rack from milk boxes for zero dollars

2013-06-15T20:00:00.000-07:00

For two years, this is how the entrance of my apartment has looked like, and this is how the coat/shoe closet has looked like. Mess.

shoe inside and outside the shoe closet

I had to find a solution since:
a) Alok would not let me buy things I need,
b) I cannot find reasonably-priced things I need,
c) Alok would not make the effort to keep things in place,
d) even sticking instructions everywhere does not make a difference to him anymore,
e) it is annoying to organize things around the apartment every day, and
f) because ...
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baking and decorating a three tier cake at home

2013-06-10T15:00:00.000-07:00

Referring to this birthday cake I made for Alok last year (May 2012) ...

eggless cake for my husband's birthday

A reader recently asked me: "may i know the cake which u made for your husband is that homemade if yes may i know the recipe an was it a one day job?"

And last year my cousin had asked me: "how did you make it" - to which I promised her a start-to-finish pictorial.

And one of my closest buddies, upon seeing the 65 people "like" the photo of the three-tier cake and 25 people leaving comments with tons of compliments on my personal Facebook profile last year, had asked me:

"what was the big deal about the cake that everyone is praising so much? you just made three cakes and put on top of one another!"

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