Gather Your Supplies These supplies can be found at your local home improvement store. The wood pieces will be sold in a longer piece and you’ll need to cut them down yourself. If you’re feeling iffy about it, some home improvement places can help you make these cuts in-store. For the fabric, try to pick something made of a tough upholstery fabric that will be easy to clean pet hair off of and not easily ripped by your kitty’s claws....

After extracting the color from the natural tannins in the plant material, you can use it to dye yarns and fabrics. To create the deepest and longest-lasting colors, use plenty of plant material, allow the dye bath to steep for several hours, and use appropriate mordants to set the colors in the fabric. Once you have mastered blue dye, you’ll discover your creativity and move on to create black, green, orange, purple, peach or salmon, pink, brown, red, and yellow natural dyes....

Gather Materials As you’re gathering materials, look for canvas shoes with lots of flat space for painting. You could also use shoes with a rubber toe, but keep in mind that you won’t be painting on the rubber portion (and it can eat up a lot of space, especially on a kids’ shoe). You’ll also want to be sure that your paints are acrylic, as they tend to wear pretty well on the canvas and the colors are nice and saturated....

Twitter is undoubtedly one of the most popular social media platforms that let you speak your mind in the form of tweets. Twitter is known to have strongly opinionated users. It can get a little controversial and you might want to avoid such a topic if you are not looking to get into an argument online. Instead, you can have fun and see what’s trending on Twitter. The hot topic guarantees you total entertainment....

Sometimes you may upload a group photo and want to tag your friends. If you want to collaborate with a business then you may want to tag them. When you tag people, it increases your network and post reach. You should tag people to let people know that you are associated with them. This helps in increasing the reputation of your brand. So, there are many reasons why you should tag someone on Facebook....

Facebook is a huge networking application where friends and families come together to share their happy and sad moments through posts. This is a factor that added to the popularity of Facebook besides texting. When someone makes a post on Facebook, the tag feature allows them to mention other people on their post as a token of remembrance. This is a heartwarming moment except if you have never consented to be tagged....

Types of Framing Nailers: There are two predominant types of framing nailers: pneumatic framing nailers and cordless framing nailers. A pneumatic framing nailer requires an air compressor to deliver air to the tool via a length of hose. When the pneumatic framing nailer drives a nail, the compressed air from the hose drives a piston which in turn drives the nail into the wood.The cordless framing nailer works much in the same way, but the pressure to drive the piston typically comes from a disposable compressed air canister that fits inside of the nailer....

While antique wall telephones may appear to be alike at first glance, and many of them do have the same components within their wooden cases, there are variations from phone to phone that can make a big difference in how much they are worth. By learning about the different details and styles of early wall units made between the late 1800s and the early 1930s, you will be able to determine their value....

Establish depth and width: If you’ll use your wedging table to dry out clay that is being recycled, or if you’re planning on wedging large amounts of clay at one time, you will want a larger surface area than if you will only be wedging up a few pounds at a time.Establish height: Each table should be configured to suit the height of its owner. If it will be used by a number of people, calculate an average height to find a compromise....

But don’t forget that the sale of your stamps is dependent upon many things. Condition, rarity, demand (are they scarce enough to be strongly sought after?), as well as other considerations, will all affect your success when you go to sell. Avoid a Mish-Mosh Stamp Accumulation One important factor that is often overlooked by the collector is organization. If you’ve been more a hoarder (perhaps more correctly an accumulator when one speaks of stamps) it might have a real impact on your reselling success....

You could also attach a long thread and use as a garland, hanging display or baby mobile. There are so many possibilities with this easy to remember the origami model. This project requires just one piece of square paper. It works best with origami paper that has a design or color that is different on each side. You can use slightly thicker paper, such as the craft paper used in the tutorial, which has a blue-and-white side and is six inches....

Well, it is an area in your computer’s memory where text and images temporarily reside when you copy or cut them. When you issue a paste command –the data shifts from memory to the new location where you have pasted it. Clipboard is an invisible entity, you can not see it on screen. Alright, now that you know what is clipboard –let’s see what is special about Spike. Regular clipboard can hold only one piece of text or image at any given time....

Glenna Goodacre’s portrait of Native American Shoshone Sacagawea and her infant son, Jean Baptiste, was selected in a national competition for the coin’s obverse design. Thomas D. Rogers, Sr., designed the coin’s reverse featuring an American bald eagle soaring in flight. The United States Mint paid Goodacre $5,000 for creating the winning design. In addition, the Mint struck 5,000 Sacajawea dollars to pay her. Several years after Mint Director Philip Dhiel delivered the coins to Goodacre, it was discovered that they were minted on specially prepared planchets and specially produced dies....

So it becomes important, that we abide by certain ground rules while communicating online. You need to be cautious with professional or personal emails, social media postings, forwarding emails and posts, commenting on posts etc. You need to maintain a certain level of decorum and be sensitive to your surroundings. In this article we will share a few guidelines to help you with etiquette in your professional and personal online communication....

Making molds using this method is incredibly easy, you line your original piece with well-rolled clay (make sure to line the mold with newspaper first if the mold you are using is not porous) and wait for it to dry before firing. Once dry you can use it as a mold as many times as you like. There are two types of molds when bisque firing, hump molds which are convex pottery shapes and slump molds which are concave....

Each fuel-fired kiln will fire a bit differently, so expect to work with yours over a period of time before you find what works best with it. Even so, the basics are the same. Natural gasPropaneWoodOil Don’t be confused by other reduction techniques that many potters use. Out-of-kiln reduction techniques such as western-style raku, pit firing, and barrel firing are different from in-kiln reduction firing. This article is only talking about in-kiln reduction....

Scouring online resources offers a wealth of information on sterling silver and silver plated wares to assist you in your research tasks. But, to be honest, some are much better than others. Use this guide to discover some of the favorite spots where those in the know go online. You will learn to understand and research silver origins, craftsmen, and manufacturers using hallmarks, along with a few online value guides to help you with that daunting task as well....