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Sewing A Button On By Hand

I have so many people come into my shop saying something like ? I can’t even sew on a button. How sad it is that a whole generation has lost out on learning how to do just the basic skills of sewing.

Sewing a button on to clothes doesn’t have to be difficult. In fact I take just a few minutes to sew them on.

Here is the precise procedure that you can use to sew on buttons like a professional:

1. Pull the thread from the reel and pull out to arms length.

2. Now take your arm back in and pull the thread out a second time, so that you have a very long piece of cotton.

3. Fold the cotton into two making sure that the ends are even

4. You now have a fold one end and two joins the other end

5. Thread the two joins into the eye of the needle. (Lick the ends if necessary to moisten)

6. You will now have four threads in the needle.

Three Poems [Lima; Judges and Evils Creation]

1.

Evil’s Creation

Thou knowith evil clings To tender peace-; Nor does it heed one’s drowsy Un-enthralled grief?

But softly it darkens Twilight’s dunes-; With sprinkling shadows Straight from the moon.

O Night! Who giveth birth? To Evils plight? As mighty murmurs Reached my breast?:

"His name has no beginning And no end?!"

But why?! O why? Everlasting King, Have you created?! Such a thing?

As mighty murmurs Reached my breast?: "To see, whom you love The very best!…"

#609 4/1/05

2.

Lima, City with the Stretched out Wings

It’s an ink-black night: no stars: no moon in sight Just dots of: red, green and white-white lights As the plane descends, descends, slides down On the long-drawn-out-flat lingering city of lights Flat as a pancake, lit up like a Christmas tree- The sleepless city, with its stretched out wings Stretching from the mountains to the sea- Winding through the valley’s, forests, and streams Stretching, stretching its naked wings-endlessly

As, I’m descending, down, over and around the city The city with stretched out winds-endless lights Down, down, behind, downward, it’s immune to me I’m just part of its evening, a baptism in its inky, sky

The Primer on Digital Camera Printers

Once you have clicked photos through your digital camera, then the next step is to turn these ‘virtual’ images into real photos. One way is to send the memory card to a digital photo laboratory and get the images developed there. But if you click digital photos on a regular basis, then it is better that you buy yourself a digital camera printer, or more commonly known as a digital photo printer.

There are lots and lots of choices available in the market today. The top three companies are HP, Canon and Epson. So, before you go and spend your money, here are some tips on what you must keep in mind while deciding on a digital photo printer.

Firstly, digital photo printers are available in two basic types. There are 4-color printers and 6-color printers. Nowadays, there are even 8-color printers available. So, the higher the number of colors the better will be the photo quality once you have hit the print file button. Using good quality photo paper and one of the 8 color printers will give you results that rival your photo lab.

Holiday Health: Give Get-Fit Gifts

‘Tis the season to celebrate — and a time to eat! Most of us gain a few pounds during the holiday season. With family dinners, holiday parties and gift baskets loaded with goodies, who thinks of staying fit?

Instead of giving a pyramid of chocolate, a basket of tempting treats or a bottle of bubbly this year, why not be different? Give your loved ones a Holiday Health Kit to start out the New Year right.

With so many inexpensive or low-cost fitness products available, it’s easy to combine several items into a customized Get-Fit Gift. Louise Roach, marketing director at SnowPack, a New Mexico-based company that manufactures ice therapy kits, has several suggestions:

"If you have someone on your Christmas list who likes to walk or run, think of items like a pedometer, a gift certificate to your local running specialty store, energy bars, a water bottle, a portable CD player, books on stretching, sunscreen, and lip balm. Plus an ice pack just in case they overdo it. Put it all together in a nifty duffel bag and you have a very thoughtful gift.

Why Do I (You) Collect?

I just got back from the vet with my cat “Spud”. He gave us quite a scare, we went away for a couple of day’s vacation and on our return we found him very listless. He just laid there in one spot and wouldn’t eat or drink any water.

I don’t know about you but my heart ran cold with images of what could be wrong, why is he so listless, is he just upset with me for leaving him alone for a while or does he have a virus, was he in a fight, was he poisoned and thus it stormed in my mind….

Now we had a very good friend taking care of him and his uncle “Tigger” while we were away so we knew they were in good hands. To make a long story short we rushed him off to the vet where he was admitted to the animal hospital and a drip put up.

What was wrong with him - a mystery BUT he is better and that is all that counts……..

You are probably wondering why I’m telling you this story….

Family Album In The Digital Age

Back then it was simple - you take the picture, you print it and put it in your family album. But now you have a digital camera. So do your cousins, uncles, aunts and grandpa Joe. What are you going to do with thousands of digital photos to pass them onto the future generations? Read our advice.

What you need is a digital photo album. Here are some good ones so you know what to start with.

InAlbum

InAlbum is a fun and easy to use software to turn your digital photos into a stunning photo slideshow. Start with ready to use templates or custom templates which let you mix & match background animations, buttons, photo frames and transition effects. Decorate with animated clipart, speech bubbles, sounds, MP3 music and your own voices. InAlbum gives you more output options than any other slideshow softwares. Create video CDs that are playable on TVs using standard VCD / DVD player. Build screensavers for yourself or others. Make self-contained executable slideshows. Write autorun CDs that automatically play when inserted into a PC. Print photos and make wallpaper. Share via email and host your shows online for free.

Trial Version: http://www.deprice.com/inalbum.htm

Lets NOT Talk Turkey

The carving. The leftovers. The endless stuffing. Actually, you love the stuffing, cranberries and turkey trimmings. However, it’s been seven years and you know your family will throw the turkey out the window if they have to eat the bird one more Christmas (and never mind the lectures about starving children in Ethiopia—or better yet, send them the turkey if you can get it through security.)

The Pilgrims and your third-grade teacher started something by preaching the turkey gospel. But if you didn’t have turkey—as your vegetarian friends remind you, it’s so much better than Big Macs— what would you serve?

Some ideas:

• Lasagna—it’s always a crowd-pleaser.
• Slice avocadoes and combine with sliced cucumbers, chopped green olives, diced tomatoes, and sliced onions for a winter red/green salad.
• Serve Mexican and have a “Feliz Navidad” party.
• Serve Holiday Noodles—Thai, lo mein, crispy, or egg noodles tossed with scallions and covered with red curry powder or red pepper.
• Get your Omega-3 boost from salmon, made festive with salsa and guacamole toppings.
• Make a “Christmas pizza”: green peppers, tomatoes, goat cheese, green olives…let your imagination run wild!

Of course, don’t forget the Christmas cookies!

Enjoy the turkey-free healthy and tasty holiday traditions you’ve created.

A Look At Cigar Humidors

Cigar humidors are storage units designed to hold, preserve and display a collection of cigars. They come in varying shapes and sizes, and can typically be custom made to suit the tastes of the owner. Cigar humidors are an essential appliance for any serious cigar aficionado, and can be priced anywhere from $50 for a simple wood box made to hold a few cigars, up into the thousands for an elegant, handcrafted display case providing maximum preservation and elegance.

The most important aspect of a cigar humidor is its climate control system. This is what keeps the product fresh, preserving both the look and the taste of the cigars over long periods of time. Humidity and temperature are carefully controlled and monitored in the most advanced systems. For example, in the Climatech model by Vigilant, a maker of custom humidors and cabinets, the system automatically heats, cool, humidifies or dehumidifies the unit in response to outside conditions. It features digital controls and can operate maintenance-free for up to 90 days, holding up to 2600 cigars in the largest model.

Famous Poets Quotations - Top 30 Poetry Quotations by Famous Poets

“For this reason poetry is something more philosophical and more worthy of serious attention than history.”– Aristotle

“Every American poet feels that the whole responsibility for contemporary poetry has fallen upon his shoulders, that he is a literary aristocracy of one.”– W. H. Auden

“Eloquence is the poetry of prose.”– William C. Bryant

“If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry.”– Emily Dickinson

“How poetry comes to the poet is a mystery.”– Elizabeth Drew

“She opened up a book of poems and handed it to me written by an Italian poet from the 13th century and every one of them words rang true and glowed like burning coal pouring off of every page like it was written in my soul from me to you.”– Bob Dylan

“When a poet’s mind is perfectly equipped for its work, it is constantly amalgamating disparate experiences.”– T S Eliot

“Painting was called silent poetry and poetry speaking painting.”– Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Only poetry inspires poetry.”– Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat.”– Robert Frost

“The man is either mad, or he is making verses.”– Horace

“Good religious poetry . . . is likely to be most justly appreciated and most discriminately relished by the undevout.”– A. E. Housman

“I did not believe political directives could be successfully applied to creative writing . . . not to poetry or fiction, which to be valid had to express as truthfully as possible the individual emotions and reactions of the writer.”– Langston Hughes

“I went for years not finishing anything. Because, of course, when you finish something you can be judged . . . I had poems which were re-written so many times I suspect it was just a way of avoiding sending them out.”– Erica Jong

“As I am a poet I express what I believe, and I fight against whatever I oppose, in poetry.”– June Jordan

“Poetry, even when apparently most fantastic, is always a revolt against artifice, a revolt, in a sense, against actuality.”– James Joyce

“Poetry should surprise by a fine excess and not by singularity –it should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance.”– John Keats

“Conventional wisdom notwithstanding, there is no reason either in football or in poetry why the two should not meet in a man’s life if he has the weight and cares about the words.”– Archibald MacLeish

“I see no reason for calling my work poetry except that there is no other category in which to put it.”– Marianne Moore

“I’ve never read a political poem that’s accomplished anything. Poetry makes things happen, but rarely what the poet wants.”– Howard Nemerov

“And he whose fustian’s so sublimely bad/ It is not poetry, but prose run mad.”– Alexander Pope

“I have written some poetry that I don’t understand myself.”– Carl Sandburg

“Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds.”– Percy Bysshe Shelley

“Great poetry is always written by somebody straining to go beyond what he can do.”– Stephen Spender

“I owe everything to a system that made me learn by heart till I wept. As a result I have thousands of lines of poetry by heart. I owe everything to this.”– George Steiner

“Everything is complicated; if that we not so, life and poetry and everything else would be a bore.”– Wallace Stevens

“Good poetry seems too simple and natural a thing that when we meet it we wonder that all men are not always poets. Poetry is nothing but healthy speech.”– Henry David Thoreau

“How do poems grow? They grow out of your life.”– Robert Penn Warren

“All good poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquillity.”– William Wordsworth

“A poet’s autobiography is his poetry. Anything else can be only a footnote.”– Yevgeny Yevtushenko

Memories That Get Lost

How many people have pictures in a shoe box? In a drawer? Inside a book? Sitting in the garage?

Imagine 40 years from now. Someone will get those pictures and they will say: Who are these people? What are they doing in this boat?

They won’t have a clue about the stories that those pictures tell and they will probably throw part of your story away. - How sad is that?!!

There are several ways to preserve your memories. You can make a scrapbook, which is great. But as time goes by it will get faded, get wet or any other kind of accident and your memories may then be lost. Also it is not an easy or inexpensive way to share with friends and family who don’t live close by. Some of the pictures will need to be restored and this may be a costly option - You can also have your pictures in a slide show, but that can be really boring and after some years, people still won’t know a lot about those pictures.

A fairly new home-based company in Salt Lake City offers a solution for that. - It’s a storybook CD / DVD that tells the stories behind the pictures.

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