Many of us have done a detox in order to eliminate internal toxins from our body , but how many of us do anything about the toxins in our own homes? Common household and body-care products are increasingly being found to have negative health effects on the nervous and immune systems, on our reproductive systems and on our endocrine, cardiovascular and respiratory systems. The average home contains 500 to 1,000 chemicals, many of which we are unable to see, smell ,or taste.

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20 ways to detox your house

Embark with me on another crafty round-up, if you dare! The theme this time is BIRTHDAYS! We all have them and we all have friends and family who have them – and why not turn our crafty skills to making gifts and purchasing gifts based on our giftees hobbies? Ready? Steady – GO! Get crafting (or shopping) people! Photography: How to Make a Photo Thank You Note Painting: Paint a “Pear Diamonds” Card Miniatures: Small Printable Boxes for Special Gifts Make a Miniature Birthday Cake Fridge Magnet Model Trains: Gift Ideas for Model Railroaders Gift Ideas for Model Railroaders by Price Knitting: Knit a Birthday Cake Rubber Stamping: Birthday Rubber Stamping Ideas Cross Stitch: Birthday-Themed Cross Stitch Patterns

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Hobby, Crafty Birthday to You!

  Traditional Oil Painting Demonstration with Joe Gyurcsak August 30st 2010 6:00 PM    Students will be presented with an in depth workshop in regards to direct alla prima painting techniques. Depending on subject and time frame student will experience the visual development of a painting from the initial marks to blocking in large masses to the final touches. Joe Gyurcsak will express the importance of preparation in regards to palette of color, brushes, lighting, composition and plan of how to proceed.

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FREE Painting Demo @ the BAC

Ok, a lot of dust and cobwebs around here, not to mention all the spam my last post is attracting. Better clean up and put new stuff here! Some time ago I did this painting for a friend: I used some custom brushes made during Schoolism classes, worked with textures, multiply, overlay and color…You know, good ol’ teacher Bobby’s way! Hope you enjoy it! And with “you” I mean you evil spammers, of course.

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Long time no see

Painting with Maria Tuma July 5th – August 30th, 2010 1:30pm to 4:30pm (3 hour class).  Beginners, Intermediate and Advanced (ADULTS only) $32. pay cash or check to MARIA TUMA when you come in. For art supplies list and lesson plan of course contact: mariatuma@bellsouth.net You will receive 10% off buying the Art supplies at Utrecht.

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Summer Art Classes

What would the zombie classic Night of the Living Dead look like as a mash-up of mixed-media scenes from today’s creative visionaries? Night of the Living Dead: Reanimated, a collaboration between 150 artists and animators, attempts to answer the question using sock puppets, oil paintings, CGI, hand-drawn animation, and everything in between

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Night of the Living Dead, Reimagined by Today’s Artists

Copyrights, are common concerns for craftspeople. If you’ve invented a unique product, you will more than likely want to protect it from others who can create knock-offs of your craft show gem at cheaper prices.

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Copyrights, Patents & Trademarks for Selling at Craft Shows

Tuesday was my last ‘creative painting in water based media’ class and I am glad that it is over. I found that creating lessons that introduced the three media (ink, acrylic, watercolour),covered basic and innovative painting skills PLUS pushed the participants towards their personal voice was really difficult.

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The last painting class

Make it for DAD! June 20th is Father’s DAy! Forget about “gone fishing” signs and “golf anyone” trinket boxes. Grab some fabric paints, freezer paper, iron-ons and get creative making one-of-a-kind fashions for your pop, pal or hubby.

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Make it For Dad!

Earlier today, Matt Van Horn of Digg sent around an email with a private YouTube link to publishers and other influential folk Digg wants to show the redesign to. If Digg really wanted this email to remain quiet, which is a big if , it was a huge blunder to send it to a bunch of journalists with no formal embargo. Of course, it was promptly published by TechCrunch and several other publications (and now, us).

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First Look: Digg Version 4

Autodesk’s Sketchbook Pro , a Pogo stylus and loads of creativity – that’s all David Newman uses to draw such impressive portraits of people with his iPad. David, who previously worked as a newspaper court artist, has covered popular tech events including Twitter’s Chirp conference, PayPal DevCamp, Startup Weekend and Google’s IO with his iPad. You can see his entire collection of iPad paintings on flickr.com

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I’ve started to read the book ON LONGING by Susan Stewart because I discovered that one of my favourite artists, Ann Hamilton , was influenced by it early in her career. Susan Stewart describes modernist novels (like those by James Joyce and Virgina Woolf) as being difficult.

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folklore

fluid acrylic over molding and crackle paste on canvas paper If you want to learn something, try teaching it. I’ve been using the following as texts for the creative water media class. They have helped me a lot in regard to acrylics

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grounds and mediums

Author Alexandra Zissu offers some thoughtful, out-of-the-box Mother’s Day gift ideas that your mom won’t soon forget. Zissu writes the Ask an Organic Mom blog on The Daily Green and is the author most recently of The Conscious Kitchen .   Plant Mom a garden We all want to be growing vegetables, and now’s the time to be planting

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Seven waste-free (and free) ways to celebrate Mother’s Day

Each stroke of the brush that Shari Ford makes has its purpose in the picture. The process alone can take around 3 to 4 months just to complete one portrait. Considering the amount of time it takes, you can imagine her dismay when she walked into her studio to find one of her pieces defaced reports KnoxNews.com

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The Art Of Moms In Business

These are not the only benefits of putting your child in daycare, though being able to get back at work so you can keep the home-fires burning and take care of the family better is a distinct advantage; the child at a quality daycare facility benefits from being in a safe, healthy and hygienic environment with needs for food, play and washing up all taking care of. With other children also present at the daycare, from babies to toddlers to pre-primary or even primary school children (that come in after attending school), your child at daycare learns to live in a social environment and learns new skills such as communication, interactivity play and team games besides values such as sharing, table manners, importance of obeying rules and being in a structured environment

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Daycare Centers – Their Effects On Children

Welcome Home Wednesday: custom painted doormat Your front door can go a long way toward making a home feel welcome, and this customized doormat is the perfect first step. This one was designed for an initial but, of course you could do any design

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Welcome Home Wednesday: custom painted doormat

The house is full of art because yesterday I took 8 paintings out of the Art gallery of Sudbury’s art rental program. They had been in there for over a year and I wanted to refresh the work. (with two pieces) I had a conversation with Krysta Talenko, the over worked young curator, then went shopping for blouses

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Richard Aronowitz’s second novel, It’s Just the Beating of My Heart, is a first-person narrative in the voice of John Stack, a borderline alcoholic living alone in the Gloucestershire countryside after being abandoned by his wife. He is an Art dealer, but not doing as well as he used to; in denial about his drinking and with little more to brighten his week than weekend visits from his twelve-year-old daughter, Bryony.

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It’s Just the Beating of My Heart

This time-lapse video captures how the Google Docs team turned an online spreadsheet into sort of a painting canvas by filling individual cells of the sheet with different colors simultaneously. It might have take them several days to plan and draw the whole thing but luckily, you get to enjoy the process in under 60 seconds.

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Turn your Images into Spreadsheet Art