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ss "The Castle Berg," by Herbert George, Antarctica, 1910. Courtesy of the Library of Congress. Two men squat in a small tent on the Antarctic plateau, hungrily watching their Primus stove. With no hope of rescue, they’re trying to cross more than two hundred miles of treacherous terrain to base camp before they starve to death. Members of the larger Australasian Antarctic Expedition, they’d left Hobart, Tasmania a year before, in December 1911, the Heroic Age of polar exploration. Crowds cheered, bunting flapped, and politicians made speeches. They sailed toward a barely-mapped continent, ambitiously planning to study and explore. In...

Here are six clean and high-performance haircare products to help you along on your journey to healthier hair. These products will also help you fake it 'til you make it -- boosting whatever volume and shine you've got on your way to your best hair ever...  Mflorens No.2 Rejuvenate & Regenerate Scalp and Hair Serum We discovered MFLORENS during this dreamy beauty experience with Ricari Studios. The beautifully bottled hair serum is made with more than fifty nutrient-rich botanicals that work synergistically to reduce inflammation and boost circulation. They also smell incredible. The founder of MFLORENS developed the oil serums...

I’ve had quite a few embroidery projects going on in the studio this year. For example, you might remember that we kicked off the year with a voided monogram in floche. And then there was the whitework variation. There’s been quite a bit of sampling going on this year, too – like this project, and this project, and this project. There were some new spring towels, and some scroll towels, and some new folk towels. Here, the Key to my Heart was finished as a hanging sachet and another voided monogram was finished as a needlebook. Anna finished her Jacobean...

Other times, we must make things work for us in some extremely tight spaces and that’s ok too. Having a small and overcrowded space doesn’t mean that we are stuck with that tiny room forever. It just means that we must come up with creative ways to create enough storage to make it more spacious. If you are dealing with a tight space that you are unable to renovate due to money or it being an apartment then we have some tips to help you make your tiny room a bigger and more spacious space without having to spend money...

“I’m pretty sure there is a support group for those of us who get an unnatural thrill from staring at the perfectly organized pantry,” Emily Henderson recently wrote in a blog post about her newly renovated kitchen in her weekend home (known as “Mountain House” to fans). There is, Emily. And welcome! You are not alone. Above: Emily told us that she was inspired to rethink the storage in her Mountain House kitchen after working on this project. She partnered with the NEAT Method to realize her vision. We, too, get an unnatural thrill from eyeing thoughtfully organized shelves and pleasingly tidy...