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Simple Tips to Avoid a Car Accident During a Breakdown
The last thing anyone needs is to be involved in an accident while their car is disabled on the road. Please give this thought as there are things you can do to avoid ever becoming the victim of an accident while you’re trying to get your car fixed. Sadly there are many many fatalities that occur simply because someone needed to pull over due to car malfunction. So this is serious business. Here are some tips you can use right now to help you avoid being the victim of an accident after you’ve pulled over to the side, when possible, and are broken down on the road.
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The Importance Of Creativity In Children And How To Encourage It
Encourage creativity in kids to give them a boost for life!
- Crafts: Apples, Crafts: Collage, Crafts: Painting, Crafts: Paper, Crafts: Teacher Appreciation Gifts, Holiday: Rosh HaShana/New Years, Holiday: Tu B'Shevat Crafts
Painted Paper Apple Collage
How about an artful apple collage to celebrate fall, or maybe you need some fun kitchen art? Apple collages could also make great cards for Rosh HaShana, the Jewish New Year, or even fun place cards or gift tags. Keep it simple, and the results will be great! When collage is made using painted paper, and the collage pieces are well adhered, it almost looks like a painting, which is so amazing! Collage using painted paper, and specifically painted tissue paper was made famous by the children’s book author Eric Carle, who unfortunately passed away recently. I made this painted paper apple collage based on a class taught by the…
- Birthday Decorations, Crafts: Apples, Crafts: Fall, Crafts: Fruit, Crafts: Recycling, Crafts: Teacher Appreciation Gifts, Gift Wrapping, Holiday: Rosh HaShana/New Years, Holiday: Tu B'Shevat Crafts, Recycled Plastic Bottle Crafts, Recycled Soda Bottle Crafts
Soda Bottle Treat Box Shaped Like An Apple!
Use recycled plastic bottles to make fun apple shaped gift boxes
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Hello San Francisco: Street Art
I love street art and public sculpture, so without a doubt I tend to whip out my camera where ever our travels take us, to capture graffiti, murals, and sculpture. In the past I have a shared a crocheted mural in Prague, graffiti in Mile End, Montreal, wire tree frame street sculptures in Montreal,publlc sculpture in Toronto and many many more things that caught my eye around the world! If you feel like doing some arm chair traveling, look no further! Click on my travel category, or one of the location specific categories in the category cloud, and enjoy! Now, I’ll admit, I whipped out my camera less than usual,…
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Stained Glass Windows Add Color To A 1905 Victorian Home
As you may know, or may have read from my previous blog posts about Victorian houses in the Western Addition, The Painted Ladies, and The Westerfield House, San Francisco is a literal showcase for Victorian architecture. Victorian houses both grand and modest were built in San Francisco during a huge growth spurt which started around 1880. While Victorian homes elsewhere in the United States and in England were built from a variety of materials, stone and brick were not widely available in San Francisco, and certainly not in the quantities that were needed, so wood was the predominate building material. Wood elements and features were ordered from catalogs, and every…
