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Lace is coming back to fashion and we will soon be buying lace shirts and blouses. How to take care of lace?

There are basically three sorts of lace: needle-point, bobbin and machine-made. Nowadays, most lace is machine-made but creating bobbin lace items becomes much more popular these days, you can often find it at craft makers. You should wash lace according to fiber that was used to produce the blend or simply use a washing powder or liquid that is especially formulated for delicate fabrics. Cotton lace can be starched whereas old and delicate lace should be put in a pillow case for washing. Curtain cotton lace should be boiled from time to time, shape it when hanging to dry. When ironing use the hot iron on the wrong side, and the man-made fibers don’t need ironing. Some lace tends to shrink, you can prevent this by pulling it gently into shape when drying. Old lace should be kept in a dry warm place and if you don’t expect to use it for some time you should take it out and air it occasionally as black lace is susceptible to mold.

What do the designer handbags for summer 2008 look like?

Trends in accessories change every season, so if you want to be trendy and stylish there are myriads of things you should buy. Several bags so as they suit your outfits, several shoes and a couple of new clothes. Spring summer 2008 brings a total change in the accessories. So far, you owed four bags in four colors, now you will have one bag in plenty of colors.

Why should you invest in a bag in one or two colors if you can have one that has tens of colors and shades? Colorful bags are this season’ hit and top priority of fashion lovers. The bag worth noting is Firebird by Louis Vuitton, it’s made of embossed leather and velvet finishes. Such fashion designers as Chloe or Dolce&Gabbana have other things of that type too.
Fashion designers turned out to be wonderful, no one will ever have to thing about matching a bag to the clothes.

Drinks for summer should have only feature - they must be cold. Top summer drinks are light, fruity and preferably non-alcoholic, you will find plenty recipes everywhere. The article below gives information how to store and serve them.

There are several tips how to achieve cold drinks that are really refreshing. First of all, they should be cooled down in the fridge. If your fridge filled too much with other products, for example before the party, you can put the drinks to the baskets filled with ice cubes. Bottles with corks should be covered with adhesive tape, the drinks won’t oxidize.

Fruit drinks
You can peel the oranges and lemons and add a little bit of sugar, cover it with boiling water. When it cools down you should filter the mixture and add to fruit drinks, you can add cold water to make it more refreshing.

Instant drinks
If you’re preparing ready-made instant drinks you should dissolve sugar first in hot water and then add it to the prepared drink.

Decorating glasses
If you want to decorate glasses for the children’s party you should dip their edges in the egg whites and then in white or colored sugar.

Ice tea
To prevent from forming foam on the ice tea you should pour water to the jar first and add tea afterwards.

Fruit squeezing
Roll the fruit on the hard surface if you want to squeeze the maximum from them. Remember to keep the juice in closed cartons or bottles because vitamin C oxidizes.

Decorative ice cubes
You can freeze the lemon, orange or cucumber peel in ice cubes and add them to the drinks.

Ice cubes
If you serve chilled punch you can freeze its parts so as to achieve ice cubes of the same taste. They won’t dissolve the drink and therefore its taste will stay the same.

Just like a polished pair of shoes and well ironed dress a sharp crease to your pants proves that your status is high and your style impressive. All you need is an iron, ironing board and a damp cloth. Follow these steps to achieve the most impressive shape to your clean pants.

1. Check the label which is attached to the pants and choose the appropriate temperature for the ironing. Wool pants you should use damp cloth so as the iron did not touch the pants and leave a permanent shine. Don’t slide the iron back and forth, just press it repeatedly.
2. Iron the inside of the waistband, this way you’ll check if temperature is not too hot.
3. Turn the back pockets inside out and iron them. Then, iron the outside of the back of the pants and put the pockets back inside.
4. Do the same to the front pockets. Then, iron the front of the pants.
5. Put the pants onto the ironing board as though you were putting the pants on, it creates the flat surface to iron.
6. Line up the foreseams of the pant legs so they were lying directly on each other and lay the pants along the leg on the ironing board. Fold back the top leg and iron this from the cuff to the seam of the crotch. For flat-front pants begin to crease between mid-zipper and the crotch, for pleated pants continue from a pleat down.
7. Flip the pants over and do the same to the other leg.
8. Iron the outsides of both legs keeping them together.
9. Hang the pants from the waist to the cuff.