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Six Thinking Hats - Decision-Making Skills Training from MindTools.com

'Six Thinking Hats' is an important and powerful technique. It is used to look at decisions from a number of important perspectives. This forces you to move outside your habitual thinking style, and helps you to get a more rounded view of a situation. This tool was created by Edward de Bono in his book ' 6 Thinking Hats '. http://www.mindtools.com/pages/article/newTED_07.htm
http://www.shelterness.com/how-to-make-a-stylish-photo-frame-for-several-photos/

How To Make A Stylish Photo Frame For Several Photos | Shelterness

Here is a simple yet stylish photo frame that can accomodate quite many photos at once. The idea is very simple. Fasten twines on the empty frame and hang photos using clothes pins on them. You can use a frame you bought or a frame you made by yourself. To make it you just need to find some wood strips, sand them, paint or stain them and fasten together with the staples and nails. Yes, everything is as simple as it sounds.

Our House | The Lettered Cottage

http://theletteredcottage.net/our-house/ Welcome to our little cottage-that-could! Our house started out as a two-bedroom, 1 bath cottage, but the previous owners added a new kitchen, master bedroom, master bath and laundry room to the right side of the house in 2003. Much like our house, this page is under construction right now, but we hope to have a “clickable” house tour up and running within the next couple of weeks!
http://familyfun.go.com/crafts/hula-hoop-rug-995304/print/

Print Hula Hoop Rug Page | Crafts | FamilyFun

What does it take to transform a pile of old T-shirts into spectacular works of woven art? Just a spare hula hoop or embroidery hoop and the techniques we'll show you here. The oversize looms and easy-to-use loops of T-shirt fabric make these projects particularly appealing to beginning weavers. Learn the basic hoop weaving technique by crafting a colorful accent rug to brighten up a room. And if you want to take the weaving a little further, check out our basket and chair pad weaves For the warp, cut 1-inch-wide loops from the bodies of one or two tees (we found a boy's large worked best on our 33-inch hoop), removing the hem and stopping at the sleeves.

How To Build The World's Best Paper Airplanes

http://www.mediadump.com/hosted-id188-how-to-build-the-world039s-best-paper-airplanes.html Show them you still have all the skills by helping the kids make these beauties. Learn how to make 12 great designs for the world's best paper planes and make them fly faster and longer.
http://www.thedailybuzz.com.au/2011/11/25-clever-ideas_household-tips_storage-ideas/

25 clever ideas to make life easier

Posted on November 01, 2011 in Bed, Bath & Kitchen , Decor & Furniture , Organise & Personalise by Simone Why didn’t I think of that?! We guarantee you’ll be uttering those words more than once at these ingenious little tips, tricks and ideas that solve everyday problems … some you never knew you had! (Above: hull strawberries easily using a straw).
http://www.alwaysorderdessert.com/2011/10/inspired-entertaining-diy-chalkboard.html

Always Order Dessert: Inspired Entertaining: DIY Chalkboard Wine Glasses

Last month I got an email from one of those "deal of the day" websites featuring a very cute set of wine glasses with chalkboard stems from a company called Chalkboard China . I've seen chalkboard glasses before, and always thought them to be a fun and chic way for guests to keep track of their glass throughout the night so you don't end up with mixed-up glasses or dozens of half-full glasses left around the house. But all the ones I've seen in stores feature a strip of chalkboard paint across the bowl of the glass, which I've always felt looks awkward and takes away from the beauty of the wine or beverage in the glass.
http://www.worldbooknight.org/your-books/the-wbn-interactive-top-100-books

The WBN Top 100 Books

For World Book Night 2012 we want to find out about the nation's favourite books. We're compiling the top 10s of thousands of readers to see what books people love to read, share and give. Below is an ever changing top 100 which will ultimately inform the 25 books chosen for World Book Night 2012.