Mother's Day Crafts for Kids

Mother's Day is a day especially set aside to honor our Moms. It's on the second Sunday in May. Making gifts is a wonderful way for children to show their love for those who mean so much to them.

How To Care For Your Bonsai Tree

with the recent advent of climate control, indoor techniques have made it possible to grow it indoors...

Reproduction Antiques

Why anyone would want to reproduce an antique?

Here's How to Print Great Photos at Home

So, you have this great new digital camera and you've taken lots of photos for your new scrapbook. Now, how do you get them from the electronic bits to the printed page?

Wood Turning - Four Great Reasons to Turn Green Wood

One of the things that surprises an old hand in wood working when he or she becomes a wood turner, it the realization that many turners of wood prefer turning green wood to dry. There is a great deal of science as well as art expended in making sure that wood for the carpenter or cabinet maker is dried to a moisture content of less than 12% while many wood turners will work with wood that throws sap around the shop. The simple questions involved are why and how is this so?

Crape Paper Christmas Ball Decoration

Make a crape paper traditional style Christmas trimming ball. The ball opens like a book and pulls the crape paper making a diamond shaped pattern as it forms a three dimensional ball. Make mini ball for the Christmas tree and big balls to hang from the ceiling.

Consider the Versatility of Quilting Designs

If you ever wondered where all those graceful quilting designs came from on a quilt, several were designed by manual labor. Many others, however originate from using a premade pattern.

Printable Sudoku Puzzles Are Leading A Puzzling Revolution For Sudoku Puzzlers

Printable Sudoku puzzles are part of an interesting, challenging world of logic and number puzzles. Hop on your computer and try one of these brain teasers for yourself today!

Woodturning Tips - Precious Metal Leaf, Adding Decorative Embellishments

Decorative embellishments have taken the woodturning world by storm in the last ten years. These decorative effects may include carving of the surface, coloring work, inlays with crushed stone, inlays with gemstones and precious metals, deconstruction of the finished form, patination, segmented forms and more. Long gone are the days when woodturnings were considered only as functional items for the home, or workshop. Artistic and highly embellished woodturnings have raised the bar for woodturners as a whole, catapulting the art form into new and greater heights. One of the easiest embellishments you can add to your woodturnings to change the visual and tactile quality of the surface is decorative metal leaf.

Craft Supplies Can Stimulate The Imagination

Whether you shop at a craft supply store, or gather items from nature or your garage, only your imagination is the limit to what you can create. Crafting doesn't have to be an expensive hobby, and if you're creating items for sale at craft fairs, you have to keep an eye on your overhead. Before producing any craft item, make sure that the supplies needed for your projects inspire the best you have to give.

Wood Turning - Sanding Can Be Made to Go Better

One of the maxims of wood turning is simply that a good finish makes for a good product. Another is that a good finish requires a good surface. The way for most of us to get that surface is through sanding. Occasionally a good surface is gotten from the tool but that is rare. Unfortunately another facet of turning work is that most if not all wood turners prefer not to sand. Therefor it is good to have an established protocol for sanding.

Wood Turning Tools - Old Becomes New

The world of wood turning has been with us for a long time. Historians tell us that the ancient Egyptians were wood turners and even left painted carvings of wood turners on the pyramid walls. One would think that the advent of higher technology would have greatly changed the wood turner's arsenal of tools, but it just has not happened. Every cut of a wood turner's tool is a touch with history.

British Silver - Regency Period

Information about collecting silver objects and the Regency Period for British Silver.

Wood Turning for Summer - Planting Tools of Yesterday and Today

Many gardening tools of today have some wood in the handle but this loses some of the beauty of wood both to be seen and felt, a beauty that is evident to many gardeners and lovers of the plant world. The old garden tool called a dibber, made on the wood lathe by wood turners, deserves a renaissance in our gardening world.