Beading Supplies Warehouse Discount Beads - Glass Bead Mixes Refer a friend - get $5.00 off your next order! Click here for more details! TESTIMONIALS: Click here for more! Lindy S: Love your beads & prompt service. Y'all are my new beading supplier. I will recommend y'all to my friends! Free Woodworking Software See also: Free online ww software, Free trial ww software Here is an assortment of free woodworking programs than can be downloaded and run directly on your computer. Most of these programs have been around for awhile so you can feel reasonably secure that they are virus and spyware free. AnglesawExcel workbook that calculates the angle of a jeweler's saw blade or scroll saw blade if you are inlaying any material into another. Arc Layout Excel spreadsheet to calculate the path of a circular arc in a work piece given the length of the arc bottom and the rise at its midpoint. BasicsAn order processing and inventory control system for cabinet, furniture, fixture and millwork manufacturing.
How to Build a Garden Arbor: Simple DIY Woodworking Project The obvious way to define your yard is to put up a fence. The cool way is to forget the fence and just build a gateway -- a portal from here to there that implies a change of space without presenting a physical barrier. Materials are readily available -- 4 x 4s for the posts, 2 x 6s for the arches and braces, and 1 x 6 stock ripped to width for the remaining pieces. You can use pressure-treated lumber if you can find straight, dry stock -- warped wood will just leave you frustrated. Hand Cut Double Dovetail Experiment - by Woodhacker After admiring the double and double-double dovetail joints that are capable with the Incra and other jigs, I started thinking, “Why not try this by hand?” So this box is my first experiment with handcut double dovetails. It took me some time to figure out the joinery process, but once I realized a few things about this type of joint, it seemed do-able.
Some more great looking iWeb sites for your inspiration After a rather extended break over Christmas and the New Year All About iWeb is back! Sorry for the long period of silence but I’ve had soooo many things on my plate; busy in my regular day job, starting app design for iPad/iPhone and I’ve been going backwards and forwards to London to try and get my injured Achilles tendon sorted out (I have a lovely aircast on my left leg at the moment). Enough of the excuses, let’s get on with the post. As the regular readers of this site will know I spend a lot of my time checking out as many iWeb sites as I can to see what can be achieved and every now and again I put together a post showing of some of the best I found.
Craftastical!: Tutorial: Quilled Monogram Letter If you haven't checked out the work of Yulia Brodskaya, which I first saw on Cake Wrecks, click this link NOW. Seriously, you will want to look for hours. I was so inspired by her, I knew I wanted to create a monogram, ala Yulia's amazing work. Quilling takes patience and some time, but the skill needed is pretty minimal. Willow Bark Slip Whistle The Willow Bark Slip Whistle is a nice easy little project requiring only a small knife and a piece of freshly cut willow. The piece of willow should be about thumb width in diameter and about a hand span (150mm) in length (this will be plenty for the whistle and also give you a good length ‘working handle’ to carve with safely). For this example I’m using a piece of Grey Sallow as it is locally abundant in the area, but any willow will work just as well. It works best in the spring or early summer when the sap is rising in the trees.
Homemade Vegetable Oil Lamp Page created: 26 January 2008, updated: 20 February 2009 If you like candles, live without electricity, or like to have some lighting back-up, you might like this simple little DIY project. An oil lamp can have a number of advantages over candles and mineral oil lamps: very cheap to run - can even burn used cooking oilthe fumes are less toxic than those of paraffin candles or mineral oil lampsthe production of renewable vegetable oil is less harmful to the environment than petroleum based products (including paraffin candles)for the extreme survivalist, vegetable oil is easier to store in bulk, or can even be produced on the home farm due to the wider base, more stable than candles, and the flame of any burning wick falling into the oil will be extinguishedodour free when using olive oil Making an oil lamp is very easy, quick and cheap, and gives plenty of opportunity for a creative outlet. You Will Need: Making the Wick Holder
The Top 10 Relationship Words That Arent Translatable Into English Here are my top ten words, compiled from online collections, to describe love, desire and relationships that have no real English translation, but that capture subtle realities that even we English speakers have felt once or twice. As I came across these words I’d have the occasional epiphany: “Oh yeah! That’s what I was feeling...” Mamihlapinatapei (Yagan, an indigenous language of Tierra del Fuego): The wordless yet meaningful look shared by two people who desire to initiate something, but are both reluctant to start. Oh yes, this is an exquisite word, compressing a thrilling and scary relationship moment. It’s that delicious, cusp-y moment of imminent seduction.
50+ Shrink Plastic Crafts to Make — Saved By Love Creations Shrink plastic, shrinky dinks, shrink film… whatever you call it, it is a fun and versatile medium used to create all kinds of jewelry and art. I hope you find this week’s 50+ shrink plastic crafts as inspiring as I do. It amazes me the jewelry that you can make with this stuff. Sky is the limit. Grab your stamps, colored pencils and markers and lets go! The BIGGEST ever list of design resources! - ProofHQ Following the huge success of last year’s “World’s Biggest Ever List of Graphic Design Blogs”, we’ve decided that we should turn it into an annual event – after all, more people than ever before are blogging and the talent pool continues to grow. This year, we’ve added in some additional categories including typography and image sourcing sites to help you along your way. The list is at least 40% larger than last year and is the one stop shop for all that you could need in terms of inspiration, reference material or tools for you to use.
TrashN2Tees: Now we're melting plastic bags. I've been wanting to try this for a while.. but alas there are not enough hours in the day for all of my wishful crafting endeavors. Go now and turn simple plastic grocery bags into tote bags and wallets—by fusing them together with an iron. Melt on fellow DIY'er and Recyclers. I'll live vicariously through you on this one. How to: Cut, flatten and layer six to eight bags on the ironing board, place parchment paper over them, and iron the whole stack to meld it into a useful, reusable thicker plastic for sewing together every which way.
Carvings from Poland Carvings from Poland Posted By admin on October 22, 2009 Those little carvings and metal work are made by Wiktor Siwanowicz from Poland . Mantis pendant and box Titty candlestick How To Build A Successful Company From The Ground Up Editor’s note: This is a guest post by Jay Fulcher; Fulcher is the CEO of Ooyala, a rapidly growing video technology startup that has more than 500 customers worldwide. You can follow him on Twitter @jbfulcher. His previous TechCrunch articles include “A Fistful of Streaming Media Dollars,” “Fear and Loathing in Online Video Fred Wilson, co-founder of Union Square Ventures and investor in Tumblr, Foursquare, Twitter and Zynga, wrote a great post on his blog the other day about how startups can retain their best employees.