Here's a boredom-battling midsummer activity to offer when the kids complain there's "nothing to do." Turn old clothes, sheets, table linens and curtains into braided-rag coasters and bowls, an ...

basking in a national spotlight. Her work, a massive and ever-growing braid of artificial gold hair and red ribbons called "Ties of Protection and Safe Keeping," was featured prominently on the cover ...