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Selling Home-Grown Tea Herbs

There are numerous ways to package dried herbal teas for sale, from tea-themed gift baskets to home spa tea collections. Also, they can be sold as individual live potted plants. These are usually for your customers’ gardens, but some tea herbs can be grown on a windowsill or porch, or even on your customers’ desks […]

Finding the Best Antique Bargains of All Can be Surprising!

As a collector of antique Japanese netsuke, inro, lacquer boxes, as well as Chinese snuff bottles and Jade carvings (particularly pendants) like all other collectors I have always been looking out for the chance to buy a bargain!
Values
One has to be able to evaluate the value to be able to recognise a bargain. A […]

How to Make Your Own Unique Music Box

For the music box and antique collectors who are creative and love arts and crafts, making a music box of their own can be fairly easy and great fun. Here are simple directions to make an exquisite music box called “Peter Cottontail”. These unique directions are from Sharon Ganske’s book, “Making Marvelous Music Boxes”.
Material Needed
For […]

Be Your Own Way, but Still Use the Safe Tools

It is so often that people are not aware with the tools they use when doing their home improvement. Sometimes they use wrong tools just because they want something quick to be done. Well, you must change that attitude. You have to understand that by using the correct tool it can avoid you from […]

Leather Bookbinding

Not only can you decorate your leather item, leather itself can be the decoration. Book binding is a great example, which has recently enjoyed renewed popularity. The way you look at this project depends on the condition of the book.
You may need to repair the spine and actual page bindings in order to install a […]

Woodworking Beginners: Secret Tips To Start Right

Woodworking: Where To Start - Tips From Experienced Woodworkers
Woodworking encompasses a broad area of skills, specialties, and applications. Some beginners take on too much too soon or blow their savings on expensive woodworking tools and machines that they don’t know how to use and might not ever need. And even some basic techniques […]

Let Me Tell You About My Ger

First of all, no other little boy can have a Ger -Not in a million years - She’s One of A Kind And SHE’S ALL MINE - No, no (I shake my head) and tell you I WILL NOT SHARE THIS SPECIAL LADY My Ger belongs to me - It’s plain to see…By her smile […]

Father’s Day Craft Ideas - How To Make a Key Holder for a Father’s Day Gift

This Father’s Day consider being creative when contemplating a gift to give dear ol’ Dad. Sure, a shirt or tie is good, socks are even handy to have, but how about making something unique and special for Dad on his special day?
When he comes in from work at the end of the day or […]

How to Make Bees Wax Candles

Materials:
Bees Wax Sheeting
Scissors
Candle Wick
Instructions:
For this project we are using beeswax sheets, which come in a variety of colors.
The candle wick we are using is a medium thickness suitable for our candle dimensions. Sheet wax works best when you are in a warm environment or the sheeting may crack.
1: Cut your wax […]

Knitting - What You Never Knew

Have you ever wondered how those beautiful sweaters and mufflers are made using just a pair of needles and wools? Well, that’s the magic of knitting. Knitting is a fabric formation process comprising interlacing yarns in a series of connected loops with needles. While the headed needles battle against each other what comes up as […]