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Choosing Patterns: Your Own and Store Bought
By Jason Borchardt · 17 years ago
Your Own Patterns
For the beginner it is important to start with simple and quick projects that build upon basic sewing skills. For our simple patterns, we actually used items that we found around the ...
Stamp Collecting - let's begin here.
By Tony Robinson · 17 years ago
The first thing to do is to once you have decided to become involved in collecting postage stamps - or Philately - is to select a particular area or topic for your collection.
Years ago ...
Teaching Children How to Sew
By Jason Borchardt · 17 years ago
In the "9 Secrets to Successfully Teach Your Child to Sew", I discussed knowing your child's personality. The 4 questions were:
1. Is your child a perfectionist?
2. Do they get frustrated easily?
3. Do ...
Fly Fishing Books To Improve Your Technique And Your Catch
By Richard Henderson · 17 years ago
Although experience is a great teacher when you are learning about fly fishing, you may also want to look into the myriad of books that are available on the topic. Fly fishing involves a lot ...
Simple Scrapbooking Page Ideas
By Barbara Kirby · 17 years ago
There are times when the most creative of croppers, surrounded by the most personal pictures, and the most inspiring implements, simply don’t know what to do. While the basics always apply, (you will need a ...
Wedding Scrapbooking - For The Special Couple!
By Barbara Kirby · 17 years ago
Marriage is one of the most pivotal and life-changing events any of us will experience. So it makes sense that wedding scrapbooking has become one of the hottest trends in cropping. A wedding scrapbook is ...
Scrapbook Journaling - When Words say So Much!
By Barbara Kirby · 17 years ago
Scrapbooking is a expression of each cropper’s personality. Among scrapbooking groups, I’ve often heard, “Journaling is my favorite part,” or, “I don’t like to write much because it takes away from the pictures.” This is, ...
Choosing Scrapbooking Supplies
By Barbara Kirby · 17 years ago
Croppers worldwide know that one of the best parts of this creative and useful hobby is the fun of shopping for scrapbooking supplies. Deciding between elegantly designed journaling paper and fancy cut scissors is part ...
Top Scrapbooking Tips
By Barbara Kirby · 17 years ago
Once you have discovered the fun of scrapbooking, you will discover the endless layout possibilities, the numerous tools available, and the dizzying array of material for enhancing your page. Here are a few practical scrapbooking ...
Cleaning, Storing and Displaying Antique Sterling Silver
By Grant Copland · 17 years ago
Whether your store your antique sterling silver or put it on display, you must first clean and give it a fine polish. For this you need a flannel cloth, a 100% cotton cloth, a special ...
Creative Recipe Scrapbooking
By Barbara Kirby · 17 years ago
A scrapbook compiling family anecdotes, chronicling events, and conveying the tone and feel of your clan is surely a great way to pass memories through the generations. Long before scrapbooking was a verb, women passed ...
A Basic Model Aircraft Workshop
By Sandra Robinson · 17 years ago
These days many beginners enter the hobby with a ARTF(almost ready to fly) model, they are often reluctant to build there first model airplane, thinking the building will be difficult, the tools complex and they ...
New York Yankees Baseball Cards: A Collectors Hobby for All
By Marty Ogelvie · 17 years ago
What American doesn’t love a great game of baseball? When you pair the world’s greatest game with one of the world’s greatest cities you come away with the New York Yankees. The New York Yankees ...
Easy Scrapbooking For Beginners
By Barbara Kirby · 17 years ago
So you’ve seen some of the eye-catching and heartwarming creations your friends have made scrapbooking, and think, “I can do that!” Visions of four-year-old photos stuffed in random boxes in secret corners of closets nag ...
Model Ships Built To Scale
By Roy Stroud · 17 years ago
Owning a wooden model ship is a greatly satisfying and exciting adventure for everyone involved. No matter if you are an passionate collector of many impressive model ships or a novice collector just starting to ...
Medieval Sword Buying Online
By Sean Russell · 17 years ago
If you always wanted to own a medieval sword to hang on the wall, show to your friends, or bring with you to a Renaissance Festival this article will help you to make your sword ...
How did You Learn to Play the Guitar?
By Geoff Lord · 17 years ago
I was once asked by a friend “how did you learn to play the guitar”Well that’s a very good question, and I really had to give it some thought, because it is so long ago, ...
RC Cars - Toys for the Big Boys
By Bob Janeway · 17 years ago
They say that boys will be boys and although that can be a very subjective generalization, the evolution of boy's toys into a hobby for grown men can attest to the fact that some boys ...
Fast & furious nitro powered remote control car!
By Randell Rogfend · 17 years ago
The fastest and most exciting category, gas powered remote control cars can go as fast as 50 - 60+ miles per hour. The 1/8 gas cars go 70 - 80 mph in racing competitions. Also ...
Designing crochet for Beginners
By Amanda Pratt · 17 years ago
Crochet patterns have been done for many years. Lately it is becoming a trend again in the fashion world. By learning about it, the person will be able to come up with some great designs ...