With this 1956 pattern, Pyrex introduced an entirely new way of designing its opalware dishes. If you can find this color combination, it will be even rarer.

Jaymi Heimbuch is a writer and photographer specializing in wildlife conservation, technology, and food. She is the author of "The Ethiopian Wolf: Hope at the Edge of Extinction." One of the true ...

All platforms (Windows/Mac/Linux): DIY holiday decoration-makers, The Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories cooked up software that designs paper snowflakes and prints out the outline PDF for easy cutting.

While there is no definitive authority on snowflakes, for this discussion, the information is from snowcrystals.com, a website based on eight books written by Kenneth Libbrecht, a physics professor at ...

In the iconic "Sound of Music" score, "My Favorite Things," a young Julie Andrews lists snowflakes as objects that bring her joy. While some people would rather avoid snowflakes and the slippery roads ...