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Crafting Video Tutorials Index

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I am always looking for fresh new ideas in craftwork.  Unfortunately, this can be rather time consuming. Therefore, I decided to make a list of various craft sites with video tutorials.  This will make things easier than wallowing through search engines ever time.  Search engines are fantastic but can bring up a lot of unrelated items that you are not exactly what you are looking for.  So, making a web page with lists just makes life a whole lot simpler for me and hopefully you. Bookmark the page and you will have it at your finger tips as well.  Continue reading “Crafting Video Tutorials Index”

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Kid Fun … The Best Fun

Easter, bunny, kids, craftsOnce a week, I go over to see my granddaughters, ages 4 and 9, to do arts and crafts. A fun time to spend with the granddaughters who just love the artistic side of life. The best day of the week.  We needed some fun and refreshing projects to do so I began scouting around the Internet for ideas.  Since Easter is around the corner, thought it would fun to make some new decorations for this year.  I plugged popsicle sticks and clothes pins into Google and came up with quite a few wonderful projects I think they will like.  Continue reading “Kid Fun … The Best Fun”

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Treasury of Links — I Share With You

time to improveToday, I have been working on setting up my bookmarks for everyone to enjoy. Just wanted to share the great things I am finding throughout my travels on the web.  I especially like the free sites with free patterns or lessons. I am all about learning how to do something and doing it myself.  I will be adding new links on and off in the future.  I will post them in a contrasting color making them stand out as new.   I hope you enjoy.

Click here for list —  TREASURY OF LINKS

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You Made What?!

For every person alive, there is a creative idea.  Some follow trends while others are way off the beaten path.  Here are some of the creative minds that have utilized very different materials with amazing results.

Wang Huaping is  living in Tianjin where he is a well known artist. Carving eggs is his specialty which requires a very light touch so as not to crack the egg.  In 2010, he increased his already extensive collection by taking up portraits.  To celebrate the Soccer World Cup, he began to carve portraits of the players. Along with this, he also carved mascots and logos of the World Cup.craft, art, DIY

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Escape With Coloring!

Some days are just slow and lazy when I am not in the mood to  do much of anything, although still have that creative urge.  Believe it was born in me.  Even when watching a show on television, my hands have to be doing something.   As a stress relief or just relaxation of my physical self,  coloring is  source of great relief and release.

After a long day of running around or the need to unwind for any reason, I  grab the colored pencils and one of my many coloring pages or books.  Heading off into the living room with a cup of hot chocolate, flop on the sofa and aaaah.  In about 30 minutes, life is far back in check.  This is a form of meditation where I remove my focus on the irritants around me and, as I call it, go to LaLa Land where life is beautiful all the time.

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Stuff Multiplies Like Rabbits

How does one manage to collect so much ‘stuff’?  It’s everywhere.  This corner, that corner, heck it hides in the closets waiting to scare the daylights out of you.  It all multiplies like rabbits. clutter, downsizing, senior citizens Asking myself, “Why do I keep all this stuff?”  Not one good reason came to my head. On the other hand, a million good reasons came to my head as to why I should get rid of a whole lot of it.  Number one reason being it is such a pain in the neck cleaning around it.
Now that I am starting up my crafting business, money is tight.  Aha!  I could make some well needed cash off this stuff.  That really got me going.   Not to mention more room was needed to keep supplies and articles which were required to run the business.  Move out the no longer useful and move in the the bright new future.  Do not care what you call it, declutter, downsize, spring cleaning, whatever.  Fact remains it is too much stuff and it is cramping my style.  Thus I embark upon a mission of evicting all the unnecessary stuff began.  Continue reading “Stuff Multiplies Like Rabbits”

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YouTube Junkie

YouTube never made much sense to me.  Why would anyone want to watch a bunch of people they did not know do random stuff.  Then one day I tried it out.  Had to see what the fuss was all about.  People I knew were raving about the thing.   One boring night, I logged onto the Internet and pulled up YouTube.

Once on the site, I created an account and immediately became lost.  What they suggested was too thrilling.  Ah, there was that wonderful search box.   What did I want to see.  Boston Terriers of course!  Boston Terrier, senior citizens, RoseBud was my precious little girl.  The rest was history.   One video let to another and another and another……  You get the picture. The more I watched the more I wanted to see.   It was a taunting bag of Lays potato chips.  Bet you can’t watch one!  I had to locate the videos on Dachshunds.  Lo and behold,  Little Dog has come across his craziness honestly!  Stubborn as the day is long, silly as Dachshund, senior citizens, petsthe Mad Hatter and faithful to the end of time.

Soon I  discovered Sylvester the Talking Kitty.  My stomach hurt so much from laughing at the silly kitty.  He was hilarious and has quite the potty mouth.   To the right of each video was a whole list of videos.  Some were on the same topic but others of a  different genre.  This is how I began to find extremely interesting, funny, and informative people.  Some were traveling all over the United States visiting strange and of the beaten path places.   Locations I had never heard and probably would have never heard of had they not told me.   The places were amazing though.  Did you know there was a Land of Oz (yes the yellow brick road land) in the mountains of NC?  They were visiting filming locations and matched up each site from the actual film footage to present day shots.  Then the Disneyland frequenters.  Awesome.  Having only been to Disney World once, seeing the west coast Disneyland was so exciting.  I thank Adam the Woo, Justin Scarred and The Carpetbagger for this.

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