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Handmade Silver Baby Spoon

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Your baby may not have been born with a silver spoon in his or her mouth, but you can make one for your child, and you don't even need to be a silversmith to do so. If you have a few clay firing and burnishing materials, you can craft a customized spoon for your bundle of joy right at home.

How to Make Ceramic Portraits

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Making a ceramic portrait is a complex pottery project. You can create a portrait using a live model and studying the various planes of the face. Prepare your pottery tools and test them on lumps of clay to see what each tool does. For your first portrait, use air-dry clay, which doesn't require fir

How to Crochet a Sc2tog

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When you first start crocheting, you'll probably make simple, flat objects like washcloths, placemats and scarves. As you gain experience, learning a few shaping techniques will greatly increase your repertoire. Decreases like the sc2tog, which stands for "single crochet two together," reduce the le

How to Paint Wood Black

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Painting wood black is simple, but if your wood is extremely porous (absorbent), the process can be frustrating. Each time you paint the wood black, it may look fine while the paint is fresh, but fade to a dull gray as the wood absorbs the liquid from your paint, making it appear more like a stain t

How to Make Cotton Paper

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Making your own paper is a fun family project and a great way to recycle items found around the house that normally would get tossed in the garbage. Handmade paper is traditionally made by creating a pulp out of old paper products to create new paper. By adding cotton fibers to the pulp, you can cre

What Is the Koch Curve?

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The Koch Curve is a famous example of fractal geometry. Fractals capture iterations as well as algebraic conditions of angle and scale to original size. Unlike function-based curves of the form y = f(x), a Koch curve is nowhere continuous, and therefore has no tangent anywhere along its length. Beca

Embroidery Thread Tips

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Working with embroidery thread to create beautiful designs on your scarves and pillows is relaxing and rewarding. It also can be frustrating when your thread knots up, breaks or doesn't seem to match when you start a new skein of the same color. Use these tips to get organized and embroider like a p