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201: The New Craze: Digital Photography!
What is most outstanding in the ongoing progress in digital photographic technology is that it enables everybody capture special moments of his or her lives with extra detail and precision more so now than ever.
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202: Seeing 1,000 Items And Creating One Picture
When you get ready to paint your first picture, a great thing to bear in mind is that you are working in a specific and defined space or shape. You have, not infinity to deal with, but a canvas, measuring so many inches wide by so many deep.
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203: Useful Accessories For Ceramic Work
When you're building up your ceramics workshop you're going to need a litany of tools including a wedging wire, wedging board and soft hair brushes for decorating your work. Though these tools are important, there are other tools that will help you create wonderful ceramics including plaster bats and banding wheels.
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204: Getting A Feel For Oil Paint
Finding the right brushes and becoming familiar with the texture and nuances of oil paint is critical to successfully using this medium.
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205: Equipping Your Ceramics Workshop
You're going to need several different tools to fully equip your ceramics workshop.
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206: A Basic Guide To Gathering Ceramics Tools
The way to build up your ceramic tool set is to start slowly. This will help you save money and avoid confusion.
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207: Starting A Shooting Club - Let The Range Be Your Guide
Whenever three or more persons in any locality are interested in rifle or revolver shooting, a club can generally be organized and additional members secured. If the business affairs are properly and conservatively managed, much pleasure will result for the members at a nominal cost.
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208: Mastering The Four Of Aces Card Trick
Some of the most astonishing effects in card magic are those that utilize the principle of secret prearrangement of the cards. The four of aces card trick is one that can make your reputation as a magician.
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209: Giving The Lady A Gun
The great majority of ladies have some inherent dread of all varieties of firearms. This is no doubt largely due to the senseless and irresistible desire of inexperienced persons to indulge in a mock-heroic display and flourish of such arms when in the presence of ladies.
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210: The Pistol vs. The Revolver
The term " pistol " is frequently applied indiscriminately to the single-shot pistol and the revolver. A marked distinction between these arms has gradually been developed.
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211: Inexpensive Rubber Stamp Storage Ideas
Rubber stamping is a fun and engrossing past-time, and like many hobbies, benefits from organizing your tools and supplies.
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212: Making Puppets With Next To Nothing
Pulling together a puppet using minimal materials is a great skill to have. Especially on a rainy day when you're kids can't go outside and have nothing to do.
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213: Homey Homemade Gifts
Homemade gifts are always great for family and friends because they're thoughtful. So on a cold winter day before Christmas, rally the kids and get them to create an Indian notepad, cookie tray or colorful shelf trimming paper.
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214: Ordinary To Extraordinary - Ten Trash To Treasure Crafts That Will Sell
When it comes to crafts, do you tend to gravitate toward the unique, the different, and the most eye-catching?
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215: Make Bath Salts: 5 Techniques For A More Professional Bath Salt Recipe
These tips take crafters beyond the basic bath salt recipe of fragrance plus bulk salt. It contains five simple tips to make a more sell-able or gift-able product.
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216: Learning How To Quilt Is Easy With The Right Resource
There are many ways to make a blanket, but nothing is quite so special and can mean as much as learning how to quilt.
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217: Easy Scrapbook Ideas
Scrapbooks have many purposes - they can hold your family photos, post cards, letters, artwork and more. You can craft one for yourself or for a gift. Here are some easy scrapbook projects to inspire you.
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218: Finding Old Tools Can Be As Much Fun As Using Them
As I slowly discovered hand tools I fell in love with them. The more I used them the better I realized they fit my style of woodworking. The slow easy pace using hand tools fits my woodworking style like a glove.
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219: The Stained Glass Tradition
Stained glass reached the state of the art in the early 11th century. Many gothic structures used such windows and even today they impose themselves with their beauty and their ingenuity. In those times men set up a glass factory wherever nature allowed one to be built, namely near a silica deposit. Silica is the main and most important ingredient in glass making.
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220: Digital GEM: Going Against The Film Grain
Reducing the grain that is found in film has been a problem since the creation of photographic film as we know it. The Digital GEM acronym actually stands for Grain Equalization & Management. DIGITAL GEM reduces the grain for improved images.
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221: Finding Coins Worth Collecting The Low Tech Way
You might think you would like to start a coin collection. Although you would like to give it a try you may not be sure your interest is high enough to justify investing a lot of time or money into this hobby. This article will look at some creative ways to get started with coins worth collecting without spending a lot of money.
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222: Start Scrapbooking - You'll Never Regret It!
With so many wonderful scrapbooking products, now is a great time to get started preserving precious memories. Here's an introduction to how easy it can be to get going with your first scrapbook...
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223: Beer Stein Material Definitions
A wide variety of materials have been used to make beer steins. Learn the most common types and information on each.
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224: Old Fashioned High Resolution Photo Camera
This article describes another option for photo image enlargement, using the 4x5 inch film camera together with a high definition flat bed film scanner. For those in search for the best film enlargement, using this setup might just surprise you.
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225: RC Cars History
The dawn of RC car racing began in the 1960's when the first radio control system was available. The difference between a normal vehicle as we know it and a model RC vehicle is its size. These small "road runners" can be very fast and very precise.
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