Well built and tastefully appointed hand made doll houses often sell for $400 or more, especially if they are to scale, realistic looking, well-decorated and nicely furnished. [Read more →]

If you have a garage or work building and are willing to learn a craft, upholstering, re-upholstering and/or furniture refinishing would make an excellent home business. The investment is comparatively small and there is always a market for these skills and the products they yield. [Read more →]

Here are several methods of metal plating objects, here are two that don’t require a dangerous high-amperage electrical source… [Read more →]

You can transfer a photo or snapshot from a negative onto wood,cloth, paper, etc. All printing is done from the negative not from the photo. Prepare two simple solutions as follows: [Read more →]

You can treasure the memory of your child’s first steps forever by bronzing their first set of baby shoes. They make wonderful and unique presents to hand onto your child at their coming of age or for grandparents. And you can do it yourself relatively inexpensively and easily. [Read more →]

You can preserve the fresh beauty of flowers for years in their natural vivid colors without a great deal of work or expense. [Read more →]

You can enjoy the freshness of a flower garden throughout the year by cutting and drying your favorite flowers. The two easiest and least expensive methods are sand-drying and air-drying.

Sand-drying can be used to dry a wide variety of flowers, such as roses, tulips, dahlias, marigolds and snapdragons. Flowers which last only one day, like day lilies, do not dry well. Do not dry asters, azaleas, chrysanthemums, geraniums, petunias, phlox, pinks, poppies or violets. But feel free to do your own experimentation. [Read more →]

The Blu-ray Disc format is the latest technological advancement to enhance viewing and audio enjoyment with bigger and sharper pictures on HD LCD screens. Now that Blu-ray has been accepted as the standard industry format, market penetration has ramped up bringing an increased range of products and broader manufacturer product synergy. [Read more →]

Do you enjoy your computer games?
If you do chances are you’ve checked out Sony’s Playstation 3 game console & Blu-ray Disc player (at least superficially).
Why would you be considering the Sony Playstation 3:

• It can play almost all disc formats (don’t try to force a vinyl, old laser or non-circular shaped disc into it, but otherwise…)
• It is up to true HD (1080p video/7.1 audio) compatible.
• It can upscale standard definition movies/games to High Definition (it’s not true 1080p but any improvements are worth it if you’ve got a big screen TV or have very good eyesight).
• Its compatible with most formats and popular codexs (the latest model doesn’t support Super Audio CD, and none of them support HD-DVD, but then even HD-DVD doesnt support that anymore).
• It can allow you to browse the net from your computer screen (at a lower definition than on a computer, but do you really want to ever have to get off that couch?).
• It is easy to upgrade the systems firmware to provide additional functionality.
• There are a huge number of PS3 Games and Blu-Ray movies for you to watch on it (well there aren’t yet, but since the extinction of HD-DVD you can expect a lot more)

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The Transformers Classics series are up-dated version of popular characters from the Transformers 1980’s toy ranges.

Until this run of toys came along, Bumblebee had been missing off the roster of characters for quite a while. The original toy was very simple in construction and therefore I think it is nice to see newly constructed figure for this classic character. Is he up to standard? [Read more →]