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How to Repaint Antique Sewing Machines in a Few Simple Steps
Restoring sewing machines is a challenging task. If you want to give your sewing machine a fresh new look, then you should paint it in a beautiful color. Those who own an antique sewing machine can easily change its color and restore its original beauty and glamour.
Get The Latest Home Furnishing Online India At Economical Prices
Furniture is a part of our day to day activity and imitates standard of living. It is the most essential elements that offer comforts, luxury and modern lifestyles. It enhances the beauty of an empty ...
Antiquing White Furniture Without Glaze
Antique furniture lends a comfortable, lived-in look to a home, and it works in both traditional and modern design schemes. When you want to give your furniture a distressed, antique look without using time-consuming and messy glazes, use sandpaper and paint. By creating your own antique furniture f
Pearl Beads, Beautiful Natural Jewellery
From an irritation in a mollusc to stunning, luxury jewellery, pearl beads are a real natural wonder. When a mollusc such as a mussel or an oyster gets an irritant inside its shell, or is attacked and has its mantle tissue damaged, it begins an interesting defensive process. It produces layers of ca
How to Make Soy Candles
Many people who enjoy exercising their creativity by making candles, are discovering the joys of making them from soy wax instead of the traditional paraffin.The key attraction is that soy wax can be cleaned up with plain soap and water, with no scraping off the upper half of your double boiler.In f
Three Little Pigs Cookie Jar
Disney Auctions limited edition jars are popular and they too can bring more than double the issue price for the more popular characters.Shown here are limited edition jars from Disney Auctions. Jars are typically limited to a production run of 250 or 350. Occasionally Disney will offer a prototype
Looking for Collectible Postcards
I've found that the best place to find collectible postcards is at art auctions. I was at an art auction in Eastlake, Ohio looking for stained glass and found them auctioning a lot of vintage collecti
Types of Wire: What’s the Diff?
What's the difference between gold and gold-filled wire? What is fine silver and sterling silver wire? Learn the differences between types of jewelry making wire.
Make Your Own 3-D Cards In Minutes!
Do you hate shopping to find just the right greeting card? And then you find it and you can't stand paying tons of money for a piece of paper that will likely get thrown away anyway? Well here are a few tips for creating a simple 3-D card that anyone can make!
Sources of Free Invitation Templates - How to Choose the Best One
For the busy organizer, printing free invitation templates might be the best option. These free templates can be found in party sites and there are probably hundreds of them.
How to Incorporate Antique Furniture in a Modern Room
For a one of a kind look, antiques are hard to beat. While anyone can go down to a chain furniture store and pick up a new table or chair, antiques and vintage pieces are truly unique. Antiques also give a vintage twist to a room outfitted with contemporary furnishings for a fun and creative result.
Shapes of Beads
Beads come in dozens of shapes and hundreds of sizes, colors, textures and styles. They are combined in an infinite variety of designs, or featured as a single specimen.
1, 2, 3 I Can Collage
This book uses sea creatures as a theme to show kids and parents alike how they can use a variety of paper and other objects to transform a plain piece of paper into fabulous collage works of art.
How to Organize and Store Your Leftover Paper Scraps
Paper crafters everywhere have faced the frequent dilemma of how to properly use leftover paper scraps. Patterned paper and cardstock are expensive materials that many crafters hate to go to waste. A simple way to encourage yourself to use your leftover paper scraps is by having the pieces organized
A Brief History of Potters Wheels
With the change from hunting-gathering to agriculture after the last ice age ended twelve thousand years ago and the need to store and boil seeds for food, pottery-making soon evolved into a specialized craft. Originally pottery was made by building up coils of clay and forming the succeeding layers
Admiralty Style Ship Models
Admiralty style ship models were built by ship builders from the 15th to the 19th century. They served as a design aid for the engineers, a simulator for those responsible for operating the vessel and as a "show and tell" display to be used for those raising funds from investors.
How to Make Coffee Filter Snowflakes
We love to use coffee filters to make snowflakes because they are already in the perfect circle shape. They are super simple to handle, fold, cut, and display. You'll have so many snowflakes to hang all over the house!
Door Lock Mortiser
Part of the Mystery Antique of the Week series, this Door Lock Mortiser was a stumper!
Model Hobbies You Will Enjoy
Playing with such models gives the kids a feeling of enjoying the real thing. It is observed that if given the chance to build such models on their own, children not only find it more interesting, but the exercise proves quite educational too.
An African Expression Of Cross-stitch Communication
The designs of Africa have a totally unique look about them, and are not typical of other designs. Their patterns are not simply "another piece of material with art designed on it", but are made and designed with the love of Africa always in mind.The people of Africa trust in their inner k