Hack the chocolate fountain and win at weddings.
Perhaps you're getting married and have realized you don't want to have the same spread all your friends had at their weddings.
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This Couple’s Bookstore Proposal Is Every Book Lover's Dream
“Any proposal had to involve books, and books in New York entail The Strand.”
Britt Burgeson, 26, met Daniel O’Duffy, 25, when they were both students at the University of Notre Dame.
“It took a long time to win over Britt,” O’Duffy told BuzzFeed. “We met speed dating at Notre Dame, and she absolutely mauled me in a contest of wit and literary references.”
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“I knew that I loved her soon after starting at a different college and feeling a void in my life where we weren't talking every day, weren't sharing experiences,” O’Duffy said.
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After dating for years, O’Duffy wanted to make things official by proposing to Burgeson last September at one of her favorite places in New York City: The Strand bookstore.
“I made sure that the day was the pinnacle of a normal Sunday," O'Duffy said. "We went to our favorite bar, our favorite summer day outing at Governor's Island, which coincidentally fell on the last day it was open in 2014. We were surrounded by our friends at our favorite bar, then we wandered through the best bookstore.”
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“Growing up an only child, I spent a lot of time reading. Books provided adventure, friendship, and a lens into another’s reality,” Burgeson told BuzzFeed. “New to New York, The Strand was my oasis in the city.”
“In case of even the most bleak global apocalypse in the style of The Road, Britt would keep going because there are books left unread and unloved out there,” O’Duffy said.
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This "Harry Potter" Golden Snitch Engagement Ring Is Perfect
What better way to tell someone they’ve caught your heart than with a Golden Snitch ring?
Alchemy House Jewellery (formerly House on Hudson Jewellery) has the perfect engagement ring for fans of Harry Potter.
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The handcrafted ring is inspired by the Golden Snitch in Quidditch, and has a golden topaz for the Snitch's body and a sterling silver band textured to look like the Snitch's wings.
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The ring can be purchased on Etsy for $145.
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Have you ever seen anything so magical in your life?!
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16 Of The Weirdest Google Searches About Harry Potter
You do you, Autocomplete.
Ron Weasley is Dumbledore and/or Ed Sheeran.
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...And Dumbledore is Ron.
It's a real theory.
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Draco should never use tampons.
Was this ever an issue?!
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Professor McGonnagall is a Death Eater.
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How Well Do You Know The Opening Lines Of Famous Books?
Are you a bookworm? Or are you merely a novice?
The Boy Who Said He Came Back From Heaven Didn't Actually Go To Heaven
The boy author of the best-selling book The boy who came back from heaven admitted he didn’t actually go to heaven. So the publisher won’t sell the book anymore.
In a dark day for non-fiction, the boy who wrote The boy who came back from heaven admitted Tuesday he didn't actually go to heaven, prompting his publisher to take the best-seller out of print.
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The book, published in 2010, purported to describe what happened when the aptly-named Alex Malarkey went into a two-month long coma following a car crash that left him mostly paralyzed.
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Malarkey, who was six at the time of the accident, claimed that he spent those two months in heaven, chilling with angels, listening to music, and hanging out with Jesus, according to the book's Amazon description.
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With a little help from his father, Christian therapist Kevin Malarkey, Alex turned his experiences into a detailed memoir, which promptly landed on the New York Times non-fiction best-selling list.
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19 Inexpensive DIYs Every Elementary School Teacher Should Know
From the beginning of the year until the end, these fun activities will get your students excited about learning. You should definitely go out and get some popsicle sticks for this.
Create word family LEGO blocks.
The aim is for the child to sort through the blocks and create towers of the same word families. This game will unfortunately pose the same threats to bare feet as normal LEGO pieces do. You've been warned.
Make popsicle stick number puzzles.
Combine visual learning and numerical ordering with these DIY number puzzles. Children have to arrange the numbers first, looking to the puzzle as clues to see if they're doing it correctly, which aids in self-assessment skills. Find the instructions here and use the images provided, or for higher grade levels, print more complex photos for your puzzles.
Create a simple game for letter recognition and matching.
Help students to identify lowercase and capital letters, match pairs of letters, and practice alphabetical order with this simple plastic spoon DIY. Use clear spoons for the lowercase letters so that students can match them up and see-through to the capital letter.
WARNING: may make students hungry.
