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251: The Allure Of The Antique Copper Tea Kettle
So youre crazy about antiques. You go especially ga-ga over antique copper tea kettles. But youre new to this whole collecting vintage and antique thing yourself. Or maybe you are just looking for the right antique copper tea kettle that would complete the whole look of your vintage style kitchen.
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252: How To Create Stunning Effects With Decoupage
Today decoupage is becoming more and more sophisticated and quite often I have seen larger decoupage images framed as pictures around peoples homes. The effects decoupage has may make it look complicated but it is actually really simple.
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253: Scrap Booking - An Introduction
Scrap booking is a hobby that relates to pasting articles, photos, magazine, newspaper clippings and other memorabilia into personalised decorative albums. Scrap booking is a growing hobby and often 'scrappers' meet on a regular basis for weekends or evenings to share tips and ideas for scrapbook ideas.
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254: An Introduction To Card Making Ideas
If you are interested in crafts in any way then card making is an ideal activity to begin with. There is a huge variety card making techniques and ideas that will help you with your card making ideas.
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255: How To Use Embossing Powders
Using embossing powders for your card making ideas is just one of the versatile techniques commonly used by crafters. Embossing powders are a wonderful addition to and card makers or scrap bookers craft box.
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256: Card Making Ideas - Rubber Stamps
If you are new to card making and looking for card making ideas, rubber stamps are a perfect addition to your craft box. Rubber stamps can be used in a variety of ways so they are well worth investing in.
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257: Tips For Card Making Ideas
Sending someone a personal card that is different from any other is sending something that will be treasured and remembered. Knowing someone has spent time and effort to produce something that is personal to the receiver is better than a gift.
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258: Stuck For Ideas For A Hobby?
Bored with the television? Disheartened by repeats? Fed-up of computer games? Stuck in the doldrums of your everyday existence?
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259: Photographers Need Great People Skills, Too!
Being a photographer is about more than just being able to push the shutter down. A photographer has to be able to make his clients feel comfortable while still doing his job.
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260: A Brief Look at the Successful Ventriloquist
After taking a few lessons the student may find that he has a hitherto unsuspected talent for the art of ventriloquism, which only needs proper cultivation to be made a source of amusement and profit.
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261: A Brief Look at the Origin of the Postage Stamp
In 1837 Sir Rowland Hill, after having completed exhaustive studies of the postal service then in effect, made public his revolutionary idea, the stamp. This was, reduced to its simplest expression, merely the fact that it cost no more to deliver a letter a hundred miles than it did to deliver one a few city blocks.
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262: Flying a Kite Well
First to be considered is the place from which the kite is flown. There are certain do's and don'ts which operate here. For example, avoid a spot where the kite might become entangled with trees or overhead wires, or where it might sail over a busy road.
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263: Choosing the Right Materials When Beginning Quilting
To begin with, I want to say something as trite as it is important and that is, "Use the very best materials that you can afford for any and all handwork." Extravagance is never smart, but good quilt materials are not expensive. It's the sleazy ones, unreliable dyes and starched cloth that prove expensive in the end.
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264: A Brief Look at the Historical Development of Picture Frames
The picture frame, as it exists today, is derived from the doorway or entrance to temples, palaces and cathedrals. The earliest examples of frame-like decorations or borders bear a great resemblance to door frames.
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265: All the Tools You Will Need to Do Upholstering
Perhaps the most important one is the upholsterer's hammer. Upholstery hammers are specially made for this specific craft. There are three types, the favorite one being that with the round ringed shaft.
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266: Beneteau Yachts - Sailing Enthusiast
Any sailing enthusiast would agree that Beneteau is one of the biggest names in the yacht industry. The company owes its prestige to Benjamin Beneteau who started building fishermen's trawlers in 1884.
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267: Antique Model Lionel Trains
For most of the railroading hobbyists Lionel Trains will surely ring a bell. In the history of railroading no other railroad model has surpasses the popularity of Lionel trains.
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268: Regimental Stein Types and Toasts
A brief history of Regimental steins with English translations of German military toasts.
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269: Common Sense Tips For Better Travel Photographs
Tips and advice on how to insure that you get the best
photographs when you travel.
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270: Three Easy Steps for Marketing Your Photography Online
The biggest key to success with any venture is creating publicity, name recognition, and demand for your work. Read on for ideas to market your photos.
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271: Do The Butterfly Swimming Stroke - Difficult But Graceful
Swimmers have always enjoyed the waters, not just because of its calming effect or the relaxing effect to the body, but more so because it allows them to enjoy different moves and glides and strokes that people can't easily enjoy while on land.
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272: Practice Common Sense And Safe Habits When Using Your Table Saw
The modern day table saw is truly a wonderful invention. You can perform many woodworking tasks faster and with more ease than you could ever do in the past. Yet despite its many wonders a table saw can be a dangerous piece of equipment. Common sense must take top priority when operating any piece of equipment such as a table saw.
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273: Can You Earn Any Cash Investing In Coins
You may have heard that investing in coins and selling them at a higher price is a good way to finance your coin collecting hobby and make a little money while you are at it.
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274: Duck Hunting Boats
Duck hunting can be accomplished on dry land and you can use duck hunting boats as well. These boats are great for hunting for ducks in a variety of environments that other boats will have difficulties in.
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275: American History Through The Eye Of A Needle ~ Part III
In typical Old World needlework, each detail is a particle of the whole; no part of the design can stand alone, whole and complete in itself. The background is solid, the pattern is formal, and a border encloses all. American women smashed that rigid order to bits...
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