A tub of texture gel has the consistency of cooking lard: When you scoop out a lump with a palette knife, the medium holds its shape. It doesn’t drip or droop but stays put. You can create peaks and grooves with a palette knife, brush marks with a coarse-haired brush, press patterns into it, use it as glue to add collage items. It’s extremely versatile. Texture mediums come in white and clear, so if you have a preference, pay attention to the label....
When we started with brick stitch, we always learned to start at the widest part of the design with a ladder stitch and use a decrease to work to the center. A good example is these contemporary brick stitch earrings. What we didn’t realize is how easy it is to start at the point and increase on the ends to the widest area. And the funny thing is our brick stitch seems to be more even when we start at the point and increase than when we start with a ladder stitch, which can be difficult to get perfectly even....
1. Clean the Lightning Port The Lightning is an 8-pin connector and the design makes sure that you do not damage the port easily and the cable connector too is resistant to damage. However, the downside of the design is that it invites lint and debris to accumulate, especially if you are used to carrying your phone in your pocket or your handbag regularly. Sometimes even if the port has accumulated lot of dirt, plugging and unplugging multiple times, resolves the issue and the phone starts charging....
Plants vs. Zombies: The Board Game was scheduled to be published by Screenlife in the Fall of 2011. The date was later pushed back to sometime in 2012 but then canceled completely. Here are details about both. Risk: Plants vs. Zombies This game was published by USAopoly. It is based on the classic board game Risk, with characters and setting based on the Plants vs. Zombies app game. Basics: For two players, ages 10 and up....
To learn how to make soap, first, choose from one of four methods. Two of the most popular methods are the “melt and pour” and cold process. The others are more advanced methods. Each method has pros, cons, and variations. Making Soap: A Basic Chemical Reaction Soap is the result of a basic chemical reaction between fats or oils and lye. The process of achieving the chemical reaction is called saponification....
Like so many other quilt blocks, the Single Irish Chain has been known by other names. Each block is very simple, but when connected the patchwork links with each other to create color flow along both diagonals. Fabric can be sewn together one piece at a time, but assembly is faster when the quilt block is strip pieced from rotary cut strips of fabric. Cutting Charts for 4 Quilt Blocks in Three Different Sizes (4) 12" x 12" Finished Blocks Strip Set A:...
What You’ll Need Permanent marker Foam tape Drywall joint compound (dry mix; 30 to 45 minute set time) Water Mixing tray/bowl Putty knife (choose a size appropriate for your project) Sponge Paper towels Paints Planning the Route Start by laying out your roads on the platform. One common mistake when modeling roads are making them too narrow. Travel lanes average 10 to 12 feet in width. Add shoulders and you’re pushing 30 feet on a typical two-lane....
Being a full-time blogger isn’t easy, so we give these sites a lot of credit for continually producing quality DIY projects for their readers. Make sure you check them out and figure out which will be added to your daily rotation. Hop on over to this site if you are in the mood to tackle some paper crafts, are looking to download some free printables, or want to learn how to use a Cricut cutting machine....
Why can’t you play PS3 games on PS4? The PS3 and PS4 use completely different system architectures. It means that the PS4 would need to emulate the PS3’s system in order to make the PS3 games work. But even the thought of it does not seem feasible and so we often rule it out. PlayStation Now As we have mentioned above, there is a solution. It is called PlayStation Now! It is a cloud based solution that lets you stream older PlayStation 3 games to your PS4 over your internet connection....
Biscuit joinery is commonly used to edge-join wood stock for tabletops, but can also be used for nearly any woodworking joint where you want the joinery method to remain hidden. But biscuit joinery can be tricky, since there are several different sizes of biscuits available, and it is important to get install enough biscuits to make the joint secure and strong, but not so many that you compromise the wood by cutting too many slots....
In 2-step verification, Google sends you a code to your registered mobile phone. Once 2-step verification is activated –for login you would need to enter your password as well as the code you received on phone. You can mark your personal computer as a “trusted” computer. On trusted computers you would need to enter code only once in 30 days. So, for 30 days you will be able to log into your Google account just by entering your password....
http://www.example.com is same as But some web servers and search engines (like Google) may consider these URLs to be different. Both of the URLs point to the same resource. So, we have two URLs to access one resource. Such a situation causes content duplication and content duplication is a cardinal sin in the eyes of search engines. They put a heavy penalty on websites hosting duplicate content. Internet is a dynamic system....
Warp-Speed Computers Simulating nuclear-weapon explosions requires the ability to calculate what happens to billions of data points in a fraction of a second. The Department of Energy (DOE) has contracted IBM Corporation to build a 10-trillion-operation-per-second computer system so that it can calculate the effects of weapons in our nation’s stockpile without detonating real nuclear bombs. This advanced supercomputer is slated for installation at the DOE’s Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in the year 2000....
