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  • Stanley Handtools Limited Edition England Range  By : Wang
    Not wanting to miss out on the big event this year, Stanley Tools have release it's limited edition "England" range off tools and accessories.
  • Tools Of The Trade  By : Wang
    Knitting in its simplest form is often described as the looping of a string around two sticks. When faced with multi-color patterning, intricate stitches or detailed graphs, this seemingly easy craft becomes a more complex activity that can benefit from an innovative tool or two. Right from the start when the ideas for a new knitting project abound, there are aids to guide you in choices of yarn and color.
  • Collecting Chinese snuff bottles – magical stone pictures!  By : Wang
    Valuable and useful guidance for potential collectors of snuff bottles and all about the amazing use of natural flaws found in stones to create beautiful pictures on the surface of snuff bottles. The author has been a very keen collector for many years creating ‘The Cohen collection’.
  • Walking Sticks - A Money Making Hobby  By : Wang
    Carving walking sticks wasn't meant to be a money-making hobby for me. I sometimes made them when backpacking, and I had always enjoyed taking my pocket knife to a piece of wood to see what I could make. I just hadn't thought of doing anything more with the hobby.
  • Selling Your Woodworking Art  By : Wang
    Our challenge as Crafter's and intarsia artists is to discover our markets. You need to know your market, who is your customer?
  • How to Contour Draw and the Benefits  By : Wang
    Making a contour drawing may seem a little overwhelming or pointless to you. Let me say there are a great many advantages and lessons learned through doing these drawings.

    First, let’s discuss what a contour drawing is. Before you can draw the human form, or anything else for that matter, you must be able to see it accurately. Contour drawing is a tool that helps artists develop this skill through the sense of sight and sense of touch.
  • Tips For Selling at Craft Shows  By : Wang
    About the only thing I enjoy more than creating my bead jewelry at home is selling my bead jewelry at local craft shows and fairs! I've attended hundreds of craft shows and partipated in fair number myself. I am always dismayed, however, to see beautiful jewelry and pieces that don't sell at shows simply because the artisan forgot some very basic rules of working at craft shows.
  • 'The More You Sew The More You Collect.  By : Wang
    Don't we collect a lot? The more you sew, the more you collect.
  • Embroidery - An Enjoyable Craft  By : Pearl Mertons
    Embroidery has been with us for many years, although it takes a number of forms. It's very popular these days with people who enjoy needlework. Most of us aren't aware of how many ways there are to embroider, nor do we know all the innovations it's taken.
  • Beginner Scrapbooking - A Basic Supply List  By : Starn
    This will provide the reader with a basic list of the equipment needed to start scrapbooking. Each item is discussed to explain its importance in scrapbooking.
  • Chinese Ancient Traditions Revived In Global New Year Shows  By : Gisela Sommer
    NTDTV’s live Chinese New Year Spectacular is more than a thrilling and enchanting music and dance performance; it is also promoting a rebirth of ancient Chinese culture which has been destroyed after the communist takeover. Dragons, drums and dancers, along with traditional Chinese instruments and costumes faithfully recreated from old manuscripts, paintings and pottery, all evoked the grandeur of China’s great dynasties and legends of remote history.
  • The charming handicrafts of Northern Thailand  By : Sue Mumford
    A shopping journey to Chiang Mai in Thailand to buy an astonishing range of handicrafts at cheap prices. Much of it ends up at flea markets of the world as vendors beat a path here.
  • Have Some Fun With Your Own Custom Posters  By : CarmelT Baird
    You see them everywhere you go: in store windows advertising this week’s specials, at a convention or science fair displaying information, or at a concert hall or arena with artistic renderings of the star act. You have probably taken these custom posters for granted. They don't rate much in our thoughts. Have you ever thought that you too, could have a custom poster for many different happenings?
  • Automatic machine embroidery  By : StitchBank
    Machine embroidery is a special type of embroidery, performed by special automatic machines, functioning according to the man’s adjusted program.
    This man is designer, constructor. He creates the embroidery program (design) - the machine operation algorithm, which can be in consequence repeated unlimited number of times. The machine following the given program, automatically executes the embroidery on material.
  • Nine Great reasons to start a home based Jewelry Business  By : Gary Capps
    You can turn your pastime of jewelry making into a real home business opportunity and enjoy many benefits along the way. There are thousands of people every year tired of the rat race who look for more from life than the 9-5 Monday to Friday work life and start choosing lifestyle over climbing the career ladder.
  • The Reason Why Professional Artist Need High Quality Professional Artist Easel  By : Ie Kuo Yen
    A high quality art easel is not a luxury for a professional artist, it is a must. Artists spend an obscene amount of time with their artwork. Working at the wrong angle not only effects the quality of the piece you are working on, it can have serious implications for your physical well being when working for long periods of time.
  • Are You Ready To Show Your Crafts at Trade Shows?  By : Jonni L Good
    If you're ready to start selling your crafts nationally, gift shows are the way to go. Trade shows are attended by shop owners on the lookout for new and innovative gift items to add to their inventory.
  • Creating a Cross Stitch Bookmark for Someone Special  By : John Wigham
    Don't you just love sending a special cross stitch gift to a friend? A card you've stitched is a great way to mark special occasions and holidays. Your friends are probably thrilled when they receive your cards and admire them for quite some time. Sadly, though, eventually the cards end up tucked away inside cabinets and drawers. Instead of a card, you may want to create a personalised bookmark the next time a special person in your life celebrates an occasion.
  • On a quest to become a tattoo artist  By : kelvin1407
    Tattooing is experiencing a boom these days, and this has led to more and more people aspiring to become tattoo artists
  • Top Tips For a Classical Cross Stitch Rose Pattern  By : John Wigham
    If you ask people to name their favourite flowers, it is likely that they will place roses high on their lists. Roses are very popular, and have been named the Queen of flowers, possibly because of their beauty -- creating a wide expanse of color in the garden, and valued for their heady fragrance too. There are thousands of varieties that differ in shape of blooms, size, fragrance and some even lack thorns. Roses are so popular you cannot go far wrong when stitching a cross stitch rose pattern.
  • Broadway in Seattle  By : Jason OConnor
    If you live in the greater-Seattle area or plan on visiting, one activity should be tops on your list to experience at least once: Seattle’s thriving theatre scene. Seattle is located between Puget Sound, an inlet of the Pacific Ocean, and Lake Washington and is home to two of the best coffee companies in the United States - Starbucks and Seattle's Best Coffee. Under that mild, cloudy climate has grown a magnificent community of performing artists that is extremely popular, and is a famous stop for national Broadway plays and musicals. Seattle has around twenty live theater venues, a number of them being associated with fringe theatre, but many that host national Broadway tours.
  • Tattoo Changes  By : ebaliart
    This article acknowledges the obvious fact that some people will want their tattoos touched up, fixed, covered, removed, and even some combination of these. It offers information on all of these different approaches to changing a tattoo, including which approach is best suited to the different types of tattoos and the typical scenarios where tattoo changes are wanted.
  • Perfume In Ancient Egypt  By : Roberto Sedycias
    Get to know the importance of perfume in ancient Egypt, and how the making of this unique product became an art form in those times.
  • The Basics of Crochet  By : Winifred Holstone
    Crochet is a hobby and an art that's been enjoyed for over a century. The word crochet is actually derived from French word "croc", meaning "hook". Crochet, like knitting and weaving, is the art of creating fabric creation from a thread, yarn or other fibers. The difference is that crocheting involves the uses of a special hook.
  • Discover The Two Secrets of A Great Halloween Craft Idea  By : Kathy Pratts
    When thinking of a Halloween craft idea, you'd want to be as creative as you can be. A good Halloween craft idea could range from dressing up as a vampire or witch. But an even greater idea would be to create something unique.
  • Some Little Information on Tattoos  By : Goodness Maseko
    When making the decision to get a tattoo design inked, always ask yourself for what reason you're doing it. And if your tattoo is to honor someone else or to express your strong feeling to your loved ones, think about the things they enjoy the most and what message you want to pass on.
  • A complete guide to Candle Making  By : kensium
    Making candles can be great fun. It is very exciting to decide what type of candle to make and getting your supplies. However, some individuals quickly become disappointed and frustrated with the process and give up. There are some common problems that beginners experience with candle making. Most of them have quick and easy solutions. It is recommended that all beginners start with the basic candle making process. This gives you the opportunity to learn the basics, then you can move on to making the types of candles you really want to.
  • Making Dried Flowers  By : writerrighter
    Dried flowers, plants and herbs are another way to enjoy cut flowers. Whether those plants are from your garden, store bought or picked wild they are a longlasting keepsake of nature. Did you know that drying flowers is a craft you can do yourself?
  • The History Of Stained Glass Lamps  By : onebrady
    Learn the interesting history of how stained glass originated and how it progressed to what we see today.
  • Sewing and Embroidery Basics  By : Amanda Maseko
    The art of creating custom machine embroidery is called embroidery digitizing. Embroidery digitizing involves using a personal computer, an embroidery sewing machine, and a special digitizing software application.
  • Stained Glass Art: The Basic yet Relevant Things to Know  By : Penny Maseko
    Having the proper stained glass cutter is important. Various companies manufacture different types of stained glass cutters. They have cutting wheels of either carbide or steel. The wheel size and honing angles vary for use in specific types of glass cutting.
  • Stained Glass: Painting and Workshop Safety  By : Penny Maseko
    With stained glass, you will want to start with your design on paper. Make sure there is some definition to your design and that the differently colored areas are outlined in a darker color. You may tape your design to the bottom of your glass so that it will remain in place during painting. Begin painting the dark outlines of your design with a tracer or rigger (long brush with a slender point). You will want your trace paint to be dark enough to block out light and provide contrast with your lighter colors. You must apply the outlines in long, smooth, continuous strokes. Do not try to "go over" your lines once they have dried (which does not take long!).
  • Professional Obituary Writing  By : Mercredi
    Obituary writing is often a deeply moving experience. People assume that obituary writing is sad and depressing, and sometimes it is, though, obituary writing is an art, it is more than a regular beat. Obituary writing is a job that requires the best journalistic skills and a deep sense of compassion. Most professional obituary writers will tell you that obituary writing is an honor, a privilege, and great fun
  • Making Personalized Christmas Envelopes  By : Matthew W. Grant
    This fun yuletide creation will brighten your yuletide season. The people on your Christmas list will love it.
  • Classic Villainy  By : Harvey D. Ong
    Villains are often the lynch pin that holds narrative action stories together, having a more important place in the success of the story than even the hero himself. There are several examples of good villainy over the years, in a variety of formats, but there are some villains that truly stand out as the best examples of the worst humans can do to one another.
  • Beading For Fun  By : Gary Capps
    They glitter and gleam, sparkle and shine. Some are delicately hand-painted; some are created from nature’s palette, and some could have fallen out of a rainbow. Beads of all sizes, shapes and colors can be rendered into intricately crafted earrings and necklaces, fun stringed jewelry, or amazing pieces of home décor. What you can make with beads depends upon your budget, skills and imagination. Whether it’s simple jewelry for children, or a complicated Native American Medicine Wheel, it’s a sure bet that you’re in for hours of pure pleasure!
  • Lost and Found In Adaptation: “Fate/Stay Night”  By : Harvey D. Ong
    Adapting something from the literary world, whether a traditional novel or a Japanese visual novel, can often be difficult. There is usually a large amount of detail that must be removed for the adaptation to work, with some attempts cutting too much of the original material. For less hardcore fans of the source material, the anime adaptation of “Fate/Stay Night” presents a workable balance, though still missing some arguably essential details.
  • The Art of Miniature Painting  By : Rebecca Latham
    Miniature painting is an artform that spans centuries & encompasses many cultures. This is a brief summary of its roots from a family of artists that practice it in today’s modern art market.
  • What Is Custom Vehicle Lettering?  By : jamie219
    What Is Custom Vehicle Lettering you ask. Well this article goes into some detail on just what Adheasive Vinyl Letters are.
  • Feminine Tattoos - Choosing Where And What  By : Leonard Skinart
    While men and women who are considering tattoos have many of the same issues, there are some things that women need to give additional thought to before getting their tattoo(s). For those ladies who want to be sure to get a feminine tattoo that looks good for life, where the tattoo is placed is probably even more important than what the tattoo is.

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