One Cat's Obsession With Hunting Birds Leads to Invention That Has Saved Hundreds of Thousands
One woman love of both cats and birds led to a "highly-effective" solution for household felines hunting down backyard birds.
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Mom With Rubber Glove Christmas Tree Turns Down Strangers' Gifts, Asking People to Donate to Charity Instead
When this mom couldn't afford a tree, she made one out of rubber gloves because "you don't have to spend loads of money to make Christmas special."
Great Jobs: One-man Bank Keeps German Village Humming
By big city standards, Peter Breiter, 41, is an unusual banker. He left a bigger bank, where it was all sell, sell, sell, to settle in the tiny southern German village of Gammesfeld and write transaction slips by hand for its 500 inhabitants.
Little Sisters With Big Hearts Use Origami to Fund Water for Africa
In the last 15 months Isabelle and Katherine Adams have made life immeasurably better for villagers they've never met, in lands far away from their own home in Dallas. The young sisters, ages 6 and 9, have raised $120,000 for clean-water projects in Ethiopia and India, all through selling origami ornaments they create themselves.
Clothing Co. Owned by Ralph Lauren Promotes Hand-crafted Line Made In USA
While the Club Monaco brand was born in Canada in 1985, it changed nationalities when the Ralph Lauren group acquired it in 1999 and is now offering a Made in the U.S.A. line. The collection is sewn by artisan hands up and down the Eastern seaboard and includes a line of casual shirts, jackets, ties and trousers, all manufactured in different workshops in the United States.
20 Ways to Show Your Mom Some Love on Mother's Day (or Any Day!)
Mothers Day comes early this year - on May 11 in the U.S. Here are some ways to celebrate mom, make her smile, and create memorable moments.
Crochet Community Piles On the Yarn for Princess Wigs for Kids With Cancer
What started out as one woman knitting a Disney princess wig for her little friend fighting cancer has grown as big as a country music hair-do, but with a lot more love.
Formerly Homeless Woman Finds Inspiration in the Trash
After surviving a year and a half of homelessness in the early 1980s, Lucinda Yates moved back to Portland and started putting her life back together by waitressing. After surviving a year and a half of homelessness in the early 1980s, Lucinda Yates moved back to Portland and started putting her life back together by waitressing. But her true breakthrough came when she noticed some colorful mat boards in a frame shop's trash can. She pulled them out of the garbage and started cutting them into elementary shapes, eventually creating wearable pins. She has sold more than 5 million pins to date to benefit homeless causes.
Town Lights Up the Night With River of Light
Saturday night in a tiny town in Central Vermont, hundreds of children and artists of all ages will be aglow in a beautiful December ritual, The River of Light Lantern Parade. Every year at the beginning of December when the nights begin to darken and the cold sets in, the people of Waterbury, Vermont carry illuminated hand-made lanterns in a magical procession through town.
Mom Crafts Superhero Capes for Ailing Kids Nationwide
One mother is giving more than 1,700 sick children a reason to smile. Robyn Rosenberger crafts capes to give children with terminal illnesses a chance to feel special – to feel like superheroes. "She doesn't just deliver capes, she bolsters children," one child's mother told TODAY. "It's Robyn that turns them into superheroes."
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