Players 2 to 4 players, best with 4 players as a partnership game. Equipment One standard set of double-six dominoes, along with some paper and a pencil to keep score. Goal The goal of All Fives is to be the first player to reach the agreed-to point total (see “Winning” below). Setup Shuffle the dominoes, face-down, on the table. Each player draws the appropriate number of dominoes (see below) and stands them on edge so that they can see the faces (the side with the pips) but their opponents cannot....

Essential Knitting Skills and Tools There are several basic skills involved in knitting. These are the stitches and methods that you will use in every knitting project. In the case of the knit and purl stitches, they form the foundation for more advanced stitches that you’ll learn in the future. These are the basics you will need to start: Making a slip knot and casting on Forming the knit stitch Forming the purl stitch Binding off (sometimes called casting off)...

The oil mix is: 50 percent olive oil 25 percent coconut oil 25 percent palm oil Ingredients for Making Basic 3-Oil Soap This recipe makes about three pounds of soap. 16 ounces olive oil 8 ounces coconut oil 8 ounces palm oil 10.5 ounces water 4.5 ounces lye 1.4 ounces of fragrance oil or essential oil blend Assemble the Equipment for Soap Making Kitchen scale2 heat-resistant plastic or glass pitchers1 lid for a plastic or glass pitcherRubber glovesSafety gogglesSpoonLarge pot Several small glass containers Stick blenderSoap moldThermometer...

Most of this vanishing coin trick relies on a clever gimmick that you make beforehand. Your audience will be wowed with a different way to make a coin disappear. You hold four coins in your hand. As you close your hand and open it again, a single coin has disappeared. Vanishing a Coin With Rings Learn how to vanish a coin in this quick trick. With a couple of rings and a playing card, you can easily make a coin disappear....

We are sure most of the TechWelkin readers also download movies and watch them on their computers. To play movies or songs, we need a good media player software that provides us with some cool features and play the movie without any trouble. We agree that we all have our favorite media players and most of us just tend to use the same media player all the time. But wouldn’t it be nice to explore and see if anything better is available out there?...

Recently Intel Corporation released an infographic to illustrate what goes on Internet in just one minute! The graphic is full of staggering numbers. It puts in perspective the vastness of the World Wide Web around us. We use Internet all the time without realizing the massive infrastructure that make it work. Let’s have a look at what this infographic reveals: 640,000 GB of IP data transfers takes place Identities of about 20 people are stolen!...

When American manufacturers displayed their wares at the Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia in 1876, their clear, bright, leaded glass garnered new respect when compared to glass exhibited from other countries. From that point on, American cut glass became extremely popular as gift items and most mid-income to affluent households held at least a few pieces to grace their most elegant tables during holiday celebrations and year-round. Crafting American Brilliant Cut Glass The process of making this favored glass was time-consuming and expensive....

Pietra Dura This type of antique jewelry developed during the 16th century in Florence, Italy can be confused with micromosaic jewelry made later on, since it does use a similar technique of inlaying stone into a background to form a picture and they were set into similar styles of simple frames in many instances. However, pietra dura (translated as “hard stone” in Italian) designs were made using larger and fewer pieces of stone in comparison to the tiny pieces making up intricate micromosaics....

You can easily change background color with CSS. I have implemented a difference background color for selected text on my website. Let me tell you how you can do this. When you select text on a webpage the background color is mostly dictated by the operating system of your machine. On Windows, the most common selection background color is blue (although it depends on which Windows theme you’re using). This also means that various users having varied Windows themes will have a different user experience on your website because the background color will be different according to their Windows theme....

Gather Your Supplies Here’s what you’ll need to make your own. Supplies Toilet paper tubes Printed or colorful scrapbook paper Balloons Packing/masking tape Glue dots Confetti pieces/large flake glitter/ sequins Tools Scissors Before a big occasion where you’ll need several of these tubes, start getting your family to set aside toilet paper tubes. You’ll be surprised how quickly you can get several. Or if you don’t want to wait and it’s a more last minute type of thing, you can always buy toilet paper tubes, they’re available online or in your local craft store....

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To save this pattern to your computer, left click and select “save as.” To resize and print the pattern, insert the saved pattern into a word processing document and resize it as desired before printing. You could make an entire family of owls by starting with one or two larger owls and adding several small “children” owlets. Supplies Used Into the Woods Collection from Lawn Fawn. Including Card base – Sycamore...

There are hundreds of fun Thanksgiving pictures to color here with images of turkeys, pilgrims, cornucopias, Native Americans, Thanksgiving dinner, cooking, pumpkins, and more. And once they’re colored, you’ll have Thanksgiving decorations for your home. These Thanksgiving coloring pages can also be an excellent way to introduce the kids to the history of Thanksgiving in a fun way that will catch their attention. If this isn’t enough, you can find more Thanksgiving coloring pages for this time of year including free turkey coloring pages and fall coloring pages....

Sponges: Seawool, elephant ear, silk, and PVA sponges are all potters’ favorites. Active potters usually need to replace a sponge every year or so. Chamois: These pieces of ultra-fine leather are easiest to find in automotive stores. Scrappers: Everything from heavy putty knives to square metal pastry or dough cutters make great pottery tools. Kitchen gadgets: Practically every kitchen tool a cook or baker can use is also great for pottery....

Well, technology has made it quite easy to type in Hindi on computer –even for the non-typist people like me! Since long, most Hindi speakers have been typing Hindi on computers in “Romanized” way, i.e. transliterated Hindi using English keyboard. For example, to say “How to type in Hindi” people would write “Hindi mein kaise type karein“. But now Hindi users want to learn and type right in Devanagari script, for example, “हिन्दी में कैसे टाइप करें”....

The Birth of Arts and Crafts British textile maker William Morris so disliked the result of the Industrial Revolution that he sparked an entire movement resisting it. Writing “The Art of the People” in 1879, the book’s message moved the Arts and Crafts movement forward. He wrote, “…art made by the people, and for the people, as a happiness to the maker and the user.” His business—Morris, Marshall, Faulkner & Co....