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Beauty built by hands
For many Americans, the term "arts and crafts" conjures up visions of hand-carved owls and crocheted potholders. But to the British, it's a term of endearment -- and a point of national pride.
27-Sep-2005 - Details

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Art vs. Craft showcases new craft movement
This weekend's Art vs. Craft show is a shopping bonanza, but it isn't the kind you've come to expect this time of year.
16-Nov-2005 - Details

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Craft market magic
The fourth Holiday Craft Market co-sponsored by Berryville Main Street and Clarke County Parks and Recreation feature one-of-a-kind gifts by local crafters. There will be the opportunity to purchase gifts from more than 40 vendors, have lunch, and listen to music.
16-Nov-2005 - Details

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On Line Bead Shopping
I love to shop for beads - at any time and in any way I can. I live in the boondocks so I can't get to my favorite local bead stores as often as I would like to, but I do go shopping regularly. I've learned to love shopping on-line, especially at many of these great
16-Nov-2005 - Details

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Womans craft hobby becomes full-time business
Gems by Joyce doesn't refer to a store full of diamond rings, but you could say every stitch of hand embroidery done by Joyce Paulson is a jewel
22-Nov-2005 - Details

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Learn How to Bead
A new listing of the many beading lessons available on this site. Learn Beading and Beadwork contains links to everything from an introduction to beadwork and bead stringing through the many variations of Peyote and other beading stitches....
28-Nov-2005 - Details

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Make craft fairs part of holiday shopping
Holiday shoppers have an opportunity to buy unique handmade gifts this Thanksgiving weekend.
28-Nov-2005 - Details

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Weekly Top Ten Free Bead Patterns
Here's this week's Top Ten Free Beading Patterns for your Holiday beading pleasure!
19-Dec-2005 - Details

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How to Make Beaded Earrings Jewelry Craft for Teens
I did a dark purple/light purple combination with my cube crystal beads for these earrings. They are beaded on the head pin in this order: dark cube->daisy spacer->light cube->daisy spacer->dark cube. Then make your loop at the top of the head pin.
01-Jan-2006 - Details

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How craft became art
For a work to be art it has to be understood or interpreted. How that process unfolds is presented in the Museum of Fine Arts in an exhibition that shows works of art that must be interpreted by the viewer.
10-Jan-2006 - Details

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More and more Americans are getting crafty
Last year 75 percent of all American households had at least one person who had ever crafted, and 58 percent had someone who had participated in crafts during the past year
14-Feb-2006 - Details

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Craft is the cause
In the age of hip designer boutiques and dazzling catwalks, it’s a little oasis that could throw a lifeline to the taantis and dokra artistes, the terracotta clay clan and kantha-stitch craftspeople of Bengal struggling to keep these dying arts alive.
17-Feb-2006 - Details

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Scent of a Woman: How To Make Your Own Perfume
Instructions on how to make your own perfume at home.
17-Jan-2007 - Details

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Japanese Decor
You can do your den or even your living room or bedroom in typical Japanese style. Use of neutral and natural colors is intrinsic to Japanese décor. Interiors done up in Japanese style offer an uncluttered feeling, one that epitomize simplicity and clean lines. Japanese décor seeks harmony with the natural environment.
21-May-2007 - Details

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Apartment Decor
Your apartment décor must appeal to both the body and the mind. It must rejuvenate the tired soul and the body. Your apartment speaks volumes about you to your visitors. Apartment décor includes choosing the right colors, patterns, styles and much more. Generate positive energy in your apartment with a soothing décor and style.
13-Aug-2007 - Details

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Decorating Small Space
Decorating a small space without compromising on your requirements, sense of style and imagination is indeed a challenge. Conservation of space, retaining the functional aspect of every room, comfort, style, appeal and finally the much important feel good factor- all demand equal weightage. The key to strike a perfect balance lies within you - provided you are all set to break conventions and explore the artist in you and correlate your imagination with the available space. Yes, decorating small space is truly interesting. Attention to small subtle elements can lead to enormous space gain.
13-Aug-2007 - Details

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Landscaping
Landscaping is an immensely popular art and practice involving improvement of the natural beauty of any given outdoor living environment. It is interesting to find that landscaping as an art dates back to thousands of years ago. This can be evidently witnessed in the ancient Roman homes built from 400 BC to 400 AD which had elaborate courtyards. The magnificent city gardens found in France in the 1600s and 1700s also speak volumes of landscaping as a form of architecture. However landscaping as a profession began in the mid 1800s and Frederick Law Olmstead is credited as the first professional and father of American ‘landscape architecture’.
03-Sep-2007 - Details

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Bedroom Furniture
A comfortable bed indeed occupies pride of place in the bedroom. However, in view of the additional purposes it serves, you require other bedroom furniture or accessories to accommodate your clothes, bedside tables and lamps, television, audio systems or even books.
01-Oct-2007 - Details

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Landscape Lighting
Modern outdoor illumination is no longer just ‘making light’. Instead lighting has become an art, a process that requires skills, talent, knowledge and ability to handle the right equipment to create perfect light scenario. Outdoor lighting techniques not only serve to enhance the landscaped exterior spaces but also dramatically change them to compliment their night time functions. Landscape lighting can transform the exterior environments creating ‘outdoor rooms’ where one can dine, relax, recreate and entertain on a well illuminated evening. A well lit landscaped home area will bring the outdoors in and the indoors out. Comfort and beauty, safety and security are guaranteed in a well lit landscaped home exterior.
01-Oct-2007 - Details