You go to Ikea with the intention that anything you buy will only be temporary. Then five, ten years later there is a Billy bookcase in every room and you’re wondering what the heck you can do with them (because even if you didn’t pay much, you still pay something and besides that, you’d feel incredibly wasteful putting such a big heap of particleboard at the curb). So what do you do? Hack it! IKEA Hackers is the place to go to find easy ways to jazz up your old Ikea furniture.

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Lush Cosmetics has turned liquid toothpaste into preservative-free solid toothpaste tabs. Toothy Tabs will make your pearly whites sparkle. The Dirty toothy tabs will leave your mouth feeling spearminty fresh and cool when it’s time to start talking while Chou Chou I Love You will keep your breath smelling like roses when it’s time to pucker up. Because nothing stinks more than bad breath – and ain’t that the tooth?! Just crunch, brush, rinse and repeat as needed, $3.95 for 40 tabs

Introducing the Cake Batter Candy Apple

For two medium-sized apples: Melt 1 cup of white chocolate chips and stir until smooth. Mix in 2 tablespoons of Funfetti cake mix. Roll apples in melted chocolate then dip the top in extra sprinkles. Let cool and harden. Slice, bite and enjoy!

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Piper Donovan accepts when the owner of Elysium, an exclusive spa and plastic surgery center, offers her an all-expenses-paid trip to Los Angeles to create a dazzling and unique wedding cake. The job also offers Piper the time and distance she needs to sort out her feelings for handsome FBI agent Jack Lombardi.

The ultra-luxurious spa caters to the rich and famous in need of a little “refreshing” — a nip here, a tuck there, a little Botox, a little detox. Nestled in the Hollywood Hills, Elysium seems picture-perfect: the grounds, the staff, even the guests. But no sooner does Piper arrive than a guest is brutally murdered in one of the private bungalows. Someone, it seems, wants to make sure Elysium’s beautiful director, Jillian Abernathy, never gets to walk down the aisle. Piper soon discovers that beneath the glamorous surface of this idyllic oasis lies an ugly truth-and a cold-blooded plan for murder.

Lisa Hoffman has designed a charming way to waft your signature scent. It is still worn on the wrist, but without the spritz. The fragrance is held inside a shiny bauble that dangles from an attractive beaded bracelet. The fragrance bracelets keep you smelling delicate, not overpowering and come with refillable fragrance beads that can be easily replaced to refresh your senses or change with your mood, $65.

I’ve lost it. The only thing in the world I wasn’t supposed to lose. My engagement ring. It’s been in Magnus’s family for three generations. And now, the very same day his parents are coming, I’ve lost it. The very same day. Do not hyperventilate Poppy. Stay positive!!

Poppy Wyatt has never felt luckier. She is about to marry the ideal man, Magnus Tavish, but in one afternoon her ‘happy ever after’ begins to fall apart. Not only has she lost her engagement ring but in the panic that followed, she has now lost her phone. As she paces shakily round the hotel foyer she spots an abandoned phone in a bin. Finders keepers! Now she can leave a number for the hotel to contact her when they find her ring. Perfect!

Well, perfect except the phone’s owner, businessman Sam Roxton doesn’t agree. He wants his phone back and doesn’t appreciate Poppy reading all his messages and wading into his personal life.

What ensues is a hilarious and unpredictable turn of events as Poppy and Sam increasingly upend each other’s lives through emails and text messages. As Poppy juggles wedding preparations, mysterious phone calls and hiding her left hand from Magnus and his parents… she soon realises that she is in for the biggest surprise of her life.

Loved, loved, loved Shirley Temples and still do! They might just be the perfect cocktail with the best kind of spirit. When you’re young, they make you feel grown up and when you’re older, they make you feel like a kid again. Here is a gluten-free cupcake that’s not as fizzy but just as sweet as a Shirley Temple topped off with pink frosting and a bright red cherry – Yum!

Note: To make a gluten-free flour blend, combine the following ingredients and store in an airtight container:

2 cups rice flour, 2/3 cup potato starch, 1/3 cup tapioca flour and 1 teaspoon xanthan gum

recipe c/o: Simply Gluten-Free

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