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MATERIALS: wooden rectangles, pencil, fine tip paint brush, craft paints in colors of your choosing, black, and white ONE: Begin by sketching the facet lines as shown. They don't have to be perfect. TWO: Mix up six shades of the color of your choosing using black and white paint. Just remember that the black paint goes further when mixed than the white. THREE: Use the fine tip brush to carefully paint inside your sketched facet lines.

Try out some other colors and use them in all sorts of ways...jewelry, keychains, napkin rings. Annoying Alarm Clocks. Top Ten Most Annoying Alarm ClocksReviewed by Vince Smith on Mar 10Rating: When it comes to alarm clocks, their job is to get you out of bed. Here are 10 alarm clocks that get you out of bed in a very annoying fashion. Sfera alarm clock The Sfera alarm clock hangs from the ceiling above your bed. When the alarm goes off, you can reach up and touch it to activate the snooze function causing it retract towards the ceiling. When snooze goes off again, you have to reach higher to activate the snooze again. [via OhGizmo] Puzzle Alarm Clock The Puzzle Alarm wakes you up by firing three puzzle pieces up in the air, then it is your mission to get the pieces and put them back in the alarm clock or it won’t turn off until then.

Nooby The interactive alarm clock with a unique personality goes by the name, Nooby. [via Gadget Review] ClearSounds Wake & Shake Alarm Clock Tone control offers 95 dB ring level volume intensity. Price: $59.95 Laser Target Alarm Clock Price:$20 Kuku Alarm Clock Price:$19.98 Clocky. Gloriously Grotesque 19th-Century Pipes. The meerschaum pipes carved in Eastern Europe at the end of the 19th century are among the most bizarre and improbable concoctions in decorative art. Some feature bowls made from the heads of historical figures like Napoleon while others sport the likenesses of literary characters such as Sir Dagonet, King Arthur’s much-abused jester (above).

There are pipes based on nursery rhymes, others depicting men on horseback, and lots of naked ladies, ranging from classical nudes positioned at the ends of pipes like ship figureheads to erotica bordering on pornography. “She was huge, just massive. Cost me an arm and a leg.” Roy Ricketts loves meerschaum pipes, although his admiration for them is purely on aesthetic grounds. “I used to collect wood carvings,” he says by Skype from his home in the United Kingdom, “but they tended to be the same sorts of figures, either Asian or religious.

Top: A meerschaum pipe bearing a character who appears to be Sir Dagonet of Arthurian legend.

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