These DIY macrame plant hangers come in a variety of sizes and styles, and each pattern is simple enough to complete with little to no experience. There are also some clever embellishments that will make your macrame project look more custom and polished. Remember, before you make a plant hanger, it’s helpful to practice some basic macrame knots on some spare pieces of rope first. Knowing the knots will make comprehending macrame instructions much easier....

Materials Materials are almost the same as for a small pet bed with the following exceptions. This large pet bed will require 5 yards of fabric.5 – 20 oz. bags of stuffing.Enough thick interfacing for two floor base pieces. (If your interfacing is not wide enough, butt the edges and zigzag the joint.) Using the Inner Base of Pet Bed (Pillow) pattern piece Add 3" to both sides on a folded paper the same way you did to make the original pillow base....

Many of the wonderful buildings available online are designed to scale; some are fanciful while others represent real places. Discover links to sources of free printable buildings in many scales, from 1:24 or G scale for dolls houses and railway buildings, to smaller scales for railroads, dioramas, and gaming terrains. Most of the options are in full color, but some are specifically designed to be colored by the user. One is a revolving circus, which could be scaled to at least 1:48 scale, with O scale train figures substituted for the circus animals and made into a carousel....

These handmade envelopes lend a special touch to birthday cards, graduation offerings, and wedding gifts. You can easily make a letter fold yourself, using only one sheet of size A4 printer paper or lightweight colored cardstock. Just like the intricate folding of class notes, practice makes perfect. Note: Origami diagrams are easier to follow when you look ahead one step to see where you’re going next. Begin the Folds Start with the paper in a portrait position, white side (or “wrong side”) up, if you have one....

The basic crochet oval instructions below will teach you how to make an oval. You can use crochet thread or yarn of any weight and work with hooks of any size to create a variety of different types of crochet ovals. Play with this to make a great range of different items. Abbreviations for crocheting styles are key to understand. Some of the terms you will encounter include: Ch: ChainSl st: Slip stitchSc: Single crochetHdc: Half double crochetDc: Double crochetTr (or trc): triple (or treble) crochet...

Feel free to use this pattern to make your own creative ideas a reality. Materials Needed Yarn: To crochet the sample triangle, use a small amount of Cascade 220, which is a worsted weight yarn.Crochet hook: You can use an I / 9—5.50 mm crochet hook to make the sample triangle. This might or might not be the right size hook for the particular project you have in mind. If you want to make a triangle that’s the exact same size as this one, this size is a great starting point for a hook....

Market Analysis Standing Liberty quarters are not widely collected but do enjoy some moderate popularity among intermediate and advanced collectors. Prices are relatively stable now, and even the lowest-grade coins tend not to fluctuate with the cost of silver as other U.S. coin issues do. Therefore, most circulated issues are affordable to the intermediate collector. If you want top dollar for your Standing Liberty quarters, you need to sort them and organize them so the dealer can quickly see what you have....

Many people wonder how exactly email works –many wonders about how it travels –many others wonder a lot about Google’s infrastructure that handles enormous amount of data. This presentation provides you with the answer in a very simplistic layman’s way. The presentation is worth watching as visualized journey of email helps you grasp the concept better. This Story of Send is part of Google’s advertisement of its green policies. The presentation states that Google has eliminated its effect on environment way back in 2007....

Patterns for huck embroidery vary extensively, ranging from simple bands to words or motifs to complex all-over designs. But like with counted cross-stitch, blackwork or other counted thread types of embroidery, once you learn to follow a pattern or chart, the process is quite easy. You’ll also find that it’s fairly fast to work this type of embroidery, which makes it a good choice for making small gifts for friends and family....

These are the basic rules for Texas Hold ‘Em Poker. The Shuffle, The Deal, and The Blinds The dealer shuffles a standard 52-card deck. In casinos, the dealer never plays. A round disc–known as a “dealer button”–moves clockwise from player to player with each hand. The button marks which player would be the dealer if the deal were advanced from player to player as the game went along. Most Texas Hold ‘Em Poker games start with the two players to the left of the dealer (the button) putting a predetermined amount of money into the pot before any cards are dealt, ensuring that there’s something to play for on every hand....

Two Basic Methods for Turning With a Lathe One way is to use the headstock and the rear spindle to suspend a piece of wood between the two and turn along the length of the piece of wood. This is referred to as spindle turning and is the type of woodturning that is done to create long, ornate table legs and other long wood turnings. Some woodturners like to use a very small spindle lathe to turn ornate pens or bottle stoppers....

Defining the Term Antique Buyers in the know understand that an antique is something quite specific, and not just “anything old.” A seller who calls something made in the 1950s “antique,” for example, is just plain wrong. A seller who uses the term “antique” when an item is much too new for that designation should raise questions in your mind. Is the seller misrepresenting his wares? Or is he just ignorant about what he’s selling?...

The Wooton Desk Company was one of many office furniture-makers flourishing in post-Civil War America. From 1870 to 1898, it and its successors manufactured desks in and around Indianapolis; the region’s abundant supply of immigrant craftsmen and timber, along with its proximity to railroads, made the city a national center for furniture production. The company was founded by William S. Wooton, who designed and patented the desks his factory produced....

It’s not that only Indians make these mistakes. Such deviations from standard English are rampant in Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and many other countries. Let’s have a look at weird, and sometimes funny, mistakes we make. By the way, this article is in two parts. Link to second part is here. Let’s is a short form of “let us”. For example, “let’s play football” Lets is used when permission is involved....

Luckily, if you speak English fluently, you’ll probably already have a good guess at what “work even” means. But, like with so many other things in English, the phrase on its own is a little bit vague and could be interpreted to mean many different types of things. By the phrase alone, you don’t really know if it means something about stitch height or length or what. So, you can make a good guess, but to be crochet literate, you’ll need a little bit more information....

Functionality Needle minders are made from two strong magnets with a decorative top and a plain backing magnet. The image above shows a few needle minders with different types of magnets. They are attached by sandwiching the embroidery fabric between the decorative top magnet and the plain backing magnet, typically while in a hoop. Utility The magnets serve several purposes. The first is for attaching the minder to the fabric, as the magnets won’t pierce or puncture your embroidery fabric....

Paying attention to these official rules will make your Monopoly experience much more enjoyable. A bit later, we’ll discuss some variants that could help as well. All of the ideas below and many others can be found at Mark Jackson’s fabulous Game Central Station. They are used here with his permission. The five Monopoly rules most often ignored. Property Auctions – If a player lands on a property and doesn’t want to purchase it, that property goes up for auction....

The most valuable Weller pottery are the early hand-decorated pieces. After 1935, the company made only molded pottery until the company closed in 1948. The later items are considerably less valuable than the older pieces made from the late 1800s through the early 1930s. To estimate the value, try to date your pieces by identifying ​Weller’s unique pottery marks.​ Weller Coppertone Frog Bowl Pictured is a 5 1/2-inch by 10-inch full-figure frog bowl with two embossed fish on the sides, It is marked with a full incised mark, dated around the 1920s, in excellent condition....

So, even if the average mintage of a circulating State Quarter is somewhere around 343 million coins of each date and mintmark, with 140 million people collecting them, that’s only about 2 coins per person. Given these numbers, it makes one wonder if they were truly 140 million people collecting them. However, it is highly unlikely that all 140 million people have tried to assemble a complete date and mintmark set....

In total, fifteen different series of MPCs were produced. However, only thirteen series were issued for use to pay military personnel. The remaining two issues that were never used were supposedly destroyed. However, some examples escaped being destroyed. Of the thirteen series that were officially issued, there are a total of ninety-four different notes to collect. Military Payment Certificate History At the end of World War II, local citizens in occupied territories did not trust the currency that was issued by their government....