CNN Site Map for Section Living (Galleries) for August - 2012
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- 2012-08-29The inside of the Alabama Chanin warehouse comes alive iwth creativity: it's a small city of thimbles, a chair reupholstered in scrap fabric and antique quilts embroidered with the oral histories of quiltmakers and stitchers in the region. 462 Lane D
- 2012-08-28Justin Howard, alias "Nordic Thunder," raises a handmade electric guitar, his prize in the 2012 Air Guitar World Championships in Oulu, Finland, on Friday, August 24. The American was crowned the world champion air guitar player, narrowly ahead
- 2012-08-23Department store Harrods' new "Toy Kingdom," which opened in July, organizes toys and games by themes like the Big Top, where magicians and jugglers are surrounded by fancy costumes, doll houses, rocking horses and soft toys.
- 2012-08-23Lunchboxes offer a time capsule of American pop culture, featuring cartoon characters, bands, movies and TV shows. Aladdin Industries came out with this "Incredible Hulk" lunchbox in 1978 when the TV series with Lou Ferrigno was popular.
- 2012-08-20A favorite dish of Colombia's capital is ajiaco -- a special kind of potato soup that involves three special types of potatoes and a special herb called guascas.
- 2012-08-17BMX rider Todd Lyons took a knee in April at a national BMX race in Chula Vista, California, and popped the question to Mare Galletti, his girlfriend of three years. "People constantly tell us what an awesome proposal it was and how awesome it is to
- 2012-08-16"Pensé que era algo como el 'set' de una película sobre un planeta distante", dijo Harvey Harrison sobre el Parque Nacional Death Valley en California.
- 2012-08-14Patience is a virtue, but the few extra minutes are worth it, say pour-over aficionados, like the ones who frequent this Blue Bottle Coffee outpost in Manhattan's Chelsea neighborhood.
- 2012-08-10South Korea's Shin A-Lam gets emotional while awaiting the outcome of an appeal over a technical fault during her Women's Epee semifinal bout against Germany's Britta Heidemann.
- 2012-08-09Russia's Natalia Ishchenko and Svetlana Romashina bite their medals after winning gold in the duets free routine final during the synchronized swimming competition at the London 2012 Olympic Games.
- 2012-08-08Olympic athletes have been spotted sporting patriotic or Olympic-themed manicures throughout the games, and fans wanted to get in on the fun. Click through the gallery to see the most creative, elaborate and patriotic Olympic nail art.
- 2012-08-07Who says an Olympic athlete has to be young to be spry? Seventy-one-year-old Hiroshi Hoketsu, competing for Japan in dressage -- a choreographed equestrian exercise that shows off a horse rider's command of their horse -- is the oldest competitor at
- 2012-08-06"Will & Grace" brought straight women's relationships with gay men to broadcast television.
- 2012-08-02Jessica Floeh started the Hanky Pancreas fashion line as her Parson's thesis project. The necklace holds her insulin pump.
- 2012-08-02Street art in Seattle, Washington.