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Jewellery Making and Beading remains one of the most popular hobbies in 2010

Teach Yourself Visually Jewellery Making and Beading
By Chris Franchetti Michaels

Creating accents and embellishments provides a finishing touch to any paper craft project

Delight in the Details: 40+ Techniques for Charming Embellishments and Accents
By Lisa M. Pace

It is surprisingly easy to turn fabric, stitch, and embellishment into artistic treasures to keep and share.

Mixed Media Explorations: Blending Paper, Fabric and Embellishment to Create Inspired Designs
By Beryl Taylor

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In today's busy world living in "Real time" means enjoying rewarding leisure activities on a regular basis.

"Today is life - the only life you are sure of. Make the most of today. Get interested in something. Shake yourself awake. Develop a hobby. Let the winds of enthusiasm sweep through you. Live today with gusto." - Dale Carnegie.

Featured Articles

The Art of Paper Quilling - Paper quilling or paper filigree is a fascinating paper craft best defined as the rolling, scrolling, shaping, or fringing of narrow strips of paper. The rolled shapes are glued to hold their size and then pinched to result in specific shapes and grouped together to make miniature designs. Originating in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries as a religious decoration and a popular pastime in Victorian times quilling is once again enjoying a comeback for the enhancement of greeting cards, place cards, gift tags, wedding invitations, birth announcements, scrap book pages, picture frames, ornaments or as three-dimensional stand alone decorative pictures often featuring intricate patterns or floral arrangements. Read

Art Collecting

Collecting Antique Maps

Personalized Wedding Program

Sewing with Leather and Suede

The Art of Decoupage

Salt Dough Folk Art -The art of making objects using salt dough has become very popular in recent years with the only requirements to get started in this folk art hobby are flour, salt, water and basic equipment found in the home kitchen. Read

Make a Pleated Wallpaper Lampshade

How to Make a Hemp Necklace

Making Beaded Jewellery

The Art of Collage

Leather Work Tips

Quilled memory necklace - Using a centuries-old technique of quilling is one way to create a homemade necklace with a unique look in beautiful colours. Not only does the rolled paper look beautiful in decorative flower shapes, it's also a great way to incorporate keepsakes such as ticket stubs or love letters from the dating and engagement years into meaningful, wearable art. Adorn with pearls then wear with joy! Approximate Crafting Time: 3.5 hours Read

How to Make Candles

How to Make Homemade Soap

Beginner's guide to Acrylic Painting (Paper)

Oil Painting Lessons - Tips on Colour mixing and theory

How to Make Candle Melts

Encaustic Hot Wax Painting - Encaustic painting, also known as hot wax painting, involves using heated beeswax to which resins and coloured pigments are added. This results in a paste like medium which is applied to a surface such as prepared wood or canvas. Encaustic painting methods were invented by the ancient Greeks and Egyptians. The word is Greek for "burnt in". A reason for its popularity was the durability of the finish when dry. It resists atmospheric conditions and was used to protect sculptures. Read

How to Make a Leather Wallet

American Patchwork Quilting

The Art of Embroidery

Cross Stitch Portraits

Transferring Images onto Paper

Convert the Basement to Ultimate Craft Room

Stamped Cards - Creative Colouring

How to Use Scrapbook Chalks

Scrap-booking as an Art Form

How to Quilt

Preparing for Leather Craft Projects

How to Gild Leather

Turn an Art and Craft Hobby into a Business

Tooling Leather Art Work

Candle Making 101

How to Paint a Design on leather Goods

How to Select Fabric for Quilting

Stamped Cards - Embellishments

Leather Craft Details