Jan 31, 2013

Paper Heart Garland



Valentines Day Heart Garland





Materials

Scrap paper. You can use book pages, junk mail, or any other scrap paper that you like!

Scissors
Stapler
Embroidery thread and a needle
Twine
Ribbon

Directions


Cut out 3 strips of paper that are 1/2" wide in varying lengths. Try 9", 10" and 11" to start.
Fold each piece in half.
Take the 9" strip, and nestle it inside of the folded 10" strip, then nestle both of those inside the 11" strip.
Hold the bottoms of the paper together in one hand, and use your other hand to gently press down on the paper where it's creased. You want to work the creases in between your fingers that are holding the bottom of the paper.
Garb your stapler, and put one staple through all of that paper to secure your heart in place.
Tie a knot in one end of a piece of embroidery thread, then use the needle to work it up through the staple, leaving you with a little tail coming out of the top of your heart.
Tie the tail to the twine, and tie a pretty bow on top where it connects, if you like.
Repeat steps 1-7 to create as many hearts as you like for your garland!


Jan 21, 2013

Orgami Ring for Valentines Day


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 Start with one piece of origami 

paper.
Place it color-side down.
Fold in half, then unfold.



Turn and repeat. You should now 

have a "+" in your paper.



Fold each side to the center. It will 

look like doors being closed.
Unfold. Your piece should look like 




Take the edge and fold it to the 

first fold you made before 
Do the same with the opposite 

edge 


Fold one edge over to the second 

crease from the opposite edge 


Repeat with the opposite egde.
The outcome will be the paper 

being divided equally.



With the colored side up, fold back 

the top segment 



Fold the top left point to the center 

of the paper, similar to an airplane 
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fold 
Repeat on the other side 






Turn over 
You are going to fold down on the 

line shown 
Fold down 

  

Turn over
Fold point back
Repeat on other side 

  

Unfold both sides 
Now you are going to open and 

fold. Pull open the folded piece and Thumb Image 2

push upwards 
Repeat on both sides 



Fold point down toward center 


Repeat on both sides 

  

Fold up bottom fold 
Fold up again .
One last time .

  

Turn over 
Now you are going to make it into 

a ring. The small tab is where you 

will insert the other end of paper 

I find this part to be a challenge. 

Just keep rolling and working the 

paper until it looks like standard image 1
You've done it!





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Jan 20, 2013

Valentine-Wreath Craft for 5.00


That's Right we are going to make this for 5.00
but don't tell BLOOMING HOMESTEAD!


TOTAL COST 5.00
 

First pop the roses off the stem but be sure to keep them attached to the bottom green bud part otherwise they will fall apart.
Next, grab you hot glue gun and start gluing them into the wood wreath base.

OK so its from bloominghomestead.com

but i have seen the wreaths and roses at the Dollar Store and the hot glue gun and glue sticks

TOTAL COST   $ 5.00

Jan 13, 2013

Recycle Glass







1 Make sure the toaster oven is on a surface where the sides are not touching anything else.
2 Sprinkle a little bit of salt on the tray to hold the bottle in place and then place the bottle with the label up on the tray.
3 Close the toaster oven and set the temperature for 200 degrees. Wait for two hours.
4 After two hours have passed, turn the temperature up as high as it will go (but do not set to broil). Leave the bottle cooking for about 10-15 hours.
 5 After 15 hours, the bottle should be completely flat
.6 Turn the temperature down to 200 degrees. Leave the bottle in the oven for 15 hours.
7 Turn the toaster off, and leave the bottle in the toaster for about 5 more hours.
8 Take out your flattened bottle,




Jan 10, 2013

Now we Really have to Worry







If you’re reading this, December 21, 2012 was not in fact the end of the world. Bummer. As Mayan-related book sales plummet and various religious leaders cough nervously and shuffle their feet, the rest of us are once again caught up in that exciting world of just plain not knowing anything about how we’re going to go.



But don’t throw away those MREs and shotgun shells just yet—apocalypse prediction is humanity’s oldest tradition, and as long as we can gaze up into the starry night sky and wonder what else is out there, someone else is bound to come along and say, “There IS something out there, and it’s going to KILL YOU.” For example:

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NASA Predicts Massive Solar Flares
2013 AD



Most end of the world conspiracy theories begin with some crackpot in a basement browsing old religious texts on the internet – but this one comes directly from a higher authority. NASA is predicting that in the beginning of the year 2013, the sun’s growing magnetic energy will combine with the highest levels of sunspot activity in the past 11 years, causing a barrage of solar flares that will destroy all of our computers – satellites will be the hardest hit – and disrupt the earth’s magnetic field.



Interestingly enough, this scientific forecast coincides with another prediction by author David Flynn who, in 2008, said that Isaac Newton’s doomsday calculations were slightly off, and pointed to 2013 instead of 2060 as the beginning of the Messianic era.



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Biological Weapons Will Destroy Humanity
2016 AD



Verifiable sources for this prediction are few and far between, and it all seems to lead back to an article from Weekly World News which – with headlines like “End of World Confirmed” and “Hobbits Invade Miami” – might not be the most reliable source of news. However, the theory has gained enough popularity to enough to warrant inclusion on this list, so here goes:



In 1847 a party of settlers, the “Donner party,” became trapped by a sudden blizzard in the Sierra Nevadas, eventually perishing due to cold and starvation. Salt Lake City professor Lloyd Cunningham and a team of students had recently been excavating the site when they came across a time capsule, inside which was a prediction that in 2016, a biological weapon would spread out of control and destroy all human life. Origins aside, this is probably one of the most feasible apocalypse predictions, since the human body is incredibly susceptible to biological pathogens. But there’s still no reason to expect it in 2016 specifically. It could happen right now.


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The Battle of Armageddon
2018 AD



Hal Lindsey famously predicted that 1988 would be the year humans saw the final battle of Armageddon, which would herald the second coming of Christ and the end of pretty much everything. The date was based on the idea that Jesus would come back one biblical generation after the birth of Israel (founded as a modern state in 1948). According to him, a “biblical generation” was 40 years – the flaming sword of righteousness should therefore descend sometime in 1988. 



Well, it didn’t happen – but according to F. Kenton Beshore, President of the World Bible Society, that’s because he had the wrong timespan for a generation in the Bible. See, the real length of a Biblical generation was around 70 years, which puts the second coming right around 2018. 


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Armageddon (Take Two)
2020 AD



Few people are more renowned in the world of psychics than Jeane Dixon. Active mostly between the 50s and 70s, she is purported to have predicted the assassination of Martin Luther King, the assassination of John F. Kennedy, and the launching of Sputnik 1. Allegedly, Richard Nixon also consulted with her personally on the possible threat of terrorism in the country.



In 1973, Dixon wrote a book entitled The Call to Glory, which described Armageddon as likely to occur in 2020. During this time, the False Prophet, Satan, and the Antichrist (collectively known as the unholy trinity) would rise up and have an epic battle with the man himself, Jesus Christ, who would return sometime before 2037. 



As plausible as that sounds, don’t freak out yet. Jeane Dixon is credited with having quite a few accurate predictions, but she also has so many wrong predictions that she had a psychological phenomenon named after her. The Jeane Dixon effect is the “tendency to promote a few correct predictions while ignoring a larger number of incorrect predictions.” It’s like being a weather reporter in the desert and constantly predicting rain; you might be wrong 360 days of the year, but you’re the only weather man who was right those other 5.


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The Sign of Two
2029 AD



The majority of end-time predictions over the history of our race have come from religious believers who see the end of the world coinciding with the second coming of Christ (or the third coming, depending on who you ask). That should be a pretty clear indicator of something – but it’s not our place to point it out. Currently there are a few dozen fringe Jesus-based apocalypse predictions circulating, but the most interesting is probably that promoted by Mike Flipp.



For (exactly) two years leading up to 2005, a man named Mike Flipp saw signs that were all somehow related to the number 2. When he deciphered these signs, he found that they described the second coming of Christ in 2029. He has a website which he uses to give away his book for free.



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The Robopocalypse
2030 AD



Let’s take a break from pseudo-religion and look at a pseudo-scientific prediction of the end of the world, and one that’s infinitely more suited for a movie adaptation: The Robopocalypse. We’ve previously talked about robots taking over the world, but this prediction comes from a 2000 Wired article by Bill Joy, who co-founded Sun Microsystems.



In his article, he describes the ways in which technology is evolving so fast that it will eventually overtake human evolution and bring about the extinction of our society. Specifically, he believed that in about 30 years robotics would reach an intelligence level that would be sufficient to allow it to operate without us, rendering humans obsolete. From the article:



“But now, with the prospect of human-level computing power in about 30 years, a new idea suggests itself: that I may be working to create tools which will enable the construction of the technology that may replace our species. How do I feel about this? Very uncomfortable.”



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Year 6,000
2240 AD



The Talmud is the second most important religious text in Judaism, second only to the Torah, and according to some experts it places the date of the apocalypse at 2240. 



The math goes like this: The Hebrew calendar states that the universe was created 3,760 years before the birth of Christ, meaning that 2240 is actually the year 6,000. According to the Talmud, Christ is on a deadline and has to reappear 6,000 years after the creation of the world (1,000 years for every day of creation). The next 1,000 years – the 7th day – represents the Messianic Age. So in 2240 the earth will undergo a period of “massive upheaval and turmoil” as the changes take place.



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The Quran Code
2280 AD



Numerology is one of the most commonly used techniques when it comes to predicting future events. It’s the belief that numbers often correlate to specific divine events, and that the repetition or extrapolation of those numbers can be used to figure out what’s going to happen in the future. One of the most popular examples of numerology is the Quran Code, which purports that there’s a hidden code in the Quran based on the number 19. 



This theory, which is now a full-blown religious sect, was started in 1968 by Rashad Khalifa, who believed that he was a direct messenger of God and had conversations with the Archangel Gabriel. After feeding the Quran’s text into a computer, he realized that all of the names for God appeared in multiples of 19 times throughout the book. For example, the word “Allah,” which means God, appears in the Quran 2698 times, which is 19×142. Through this system, he was able to translate the entire hidden “code,” and came to the conclusions that the end of the world will be in 2280 AD (19×120). Sounds legit to us.



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The Earth is Swallowed by the Sun
7.6 Billion Years




Mystical numbers, robot overlords, the return of divine bearded men – depending on who you talk to, it’s all a bunch of hogwash. But if there’s one thing we do know, it’s that our sun is constantly getting bigger, and in about 7.6 billion years it will reach red giant status. What actually happens to us at that point is still a matter of speculation. Some people say that although the sun will expand until it’s larger than earth’s current orbit, it will simultaneously lose mass, reducing its gravitational pull and allowing our planet to just keep drifting further away.



Other people, however – such as astronomer Klaus-Peter Schroder – contend that reduced mass on the sun will lead to what he calls tidal bulges on the solar surface, which will have the effect of actually pulling the earth closer. Either way, it’s a scientific probability that the sun will eventually obliterate the earth – even if none of us are still around to see it. 



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The Heat Death of the Universe
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Here’s the big one: the ultimate destruction of the universe, slated to happen sometime in about 10 to the power of 100 years (that’s 1 followed by 100 zeroes). According to the second law of thermodynamics, a system is constantly moving towards thermodynamic equilibrium – ice in a glass of water, for instance, melts to become closer to the surrounding temperature of the room.



The Heat Death of the Universe theory states that eventually the universe will reach a state of equilibrium, and this lack of thermodynamic free energy will put a stop to all the processes of the universe. Life will simply cease to exist. But in the meantime, at least – don’t let your guard down.



UPDATE;


WASHINGTON -- NASA says a big asteroid is no longer even a remote threat to smash into Earth in about 20 years.
Astronomers got a much better look at the asteroid when it whizzed by Earth on Wednesday. They recalculated, determining it wasn't on path to hit Earth on April 13, 2036 as once feared.
At more than 1,000 feet wide, the rock could do significant damage but not cause worldwide extinctions.
About nine years ago, when astronomers first saw the asteroid, they thought there was a 2.7 percent chance that Apophis (uh-PAH'-fihs) would smack into our planet. Later, they lowered the chances. The asteroid is named after an evil Egyptian mythical serpent.
Donald Yeomans, who manages NASA's asteroid-tracking office, said now the asteroid won't get closer than 19,400 miles.


Jan 5, 2013

Solar Ballet






A massive sun eruption on New Year’s Eve could have swallowed 20 earths.

According to NASA, the massive eruption extended more than about 150,000 miles out from the sun. But despite its massive size the eruption wasn’t too powerful. The blast did not have enough power to escape the sun’s gravity and was pulled back down to the surface of the sun.


NASA officials wrote in a statement:

“A solar eruption gracefully rose up from the sun on Dec. 31, 2012, twisting and turning. Magnetic forces drove the flow of plasma, but without sufficient force to overcome the sun’s gravity much of the plasma fell back into the sun. The length of the eruption extends about 160,000 miles out from the Sun. With Earth about 7,900 miles in diameter, this relatively minor eruption is about 20 times the diameter of our planet.”

NASA also recorded a video of the sun eruption, which lasted more than four hours, which they called a Solar Ballet.

Space.com reports that the sun is currently in an active phase that will peak later this year.

Here’s a photo of the sun’s massive eruption on New Year’s day.


Read more at http://www.inquisitr.com/468760/massive-sun-eruption-was-taller-than-20-earths/#744KulldM1HuZXoh.99

Jan 3, 2013

if you don't know what you're doing, don't ... wait a minute

I was inspired by my niece Jaclyn who had revived a large home with Paint,Plants and Perspiration. All while caring for her family three small children all under age five, Her man and two brothers!We will not even start mention the dogs, one a St. Bernard that just had eight puppies and the snake and spider and do not forget a chinchilla! Did i mention shes only twenty three !
Surely this is a project that's Not expensive, makes a Beautiful difference, and hopefully gives you an air of Satisfaction!














Materials: Parts: Knappa lamp, anti-oxidant wire paste, 2 wire connection caps, fixture cover kit (cover, threaded


bolt, supporting cross-piece), or use the existing ceiling fixture parts.


Tools: ladder, wire strippers, wire cutters, utility knife, screw driver (whichever one matches the screws in the


fixture cover , Phillips most likely!










Description: The basic principle is a simple one: convert a plug-in lamp to a hard-wired one. The fun part comes

when you combine multiple copies of the same shape for more drama! We have a small room and wanted to keep

things simple, and Knappa is a large lamp (about 18" in diameter), so we used three of them to fill the space

without overcrowding. Here's how we converted each of the Knappas into hardwired lights.

A special safety note: electricity can be very dangerous. Please ensure that you cut the power to the fixture

before you touch it, and make sure everyone with access to the circuit panel knows that the power is cut because


you're working. The first rule of electrical work is: if you don't know what you're doing, don't do it.




History of Board Games





Board games have long been a staple in most homes. New games are still being created, but odds are that you have a copy of a long time favorite tucked away on a forgotten shelf or better yet is still played often. I’m talking about age old favorites, such as Monopoloy or Clue. This list takes a look at the top selling oldest games from Parker Brothers, which was started by 16 year old George S. Parker in 1883 with $40 of his $50 life savings. These are in no specific order.

8. Rook (1934)


Card game published in 1906 and was PB’s best selling game until Monopoly in 1934. Rook was invented as a game to rival Bridge. Rook is played with a specialized deck of non-faced and non-suited cards. This was to appeal to those who thought face cards were used for gambling or fortune telling. Rook is also called missionary poker.

7. Clue (1944)



Originally named Cluedo, but renamed Clue for distribution in North America. Cluedo was created in 1944 by Anthony E. Pratt, a retired solicitor’s clerk in England. Pratt had Waddington’s Games manufacture the game and in 1949 PN obtained the rights from Waddington’s Games. Clue is a mystery game where you try to find clues to be the first to solve the murder of Mr. Boddy.

6. Monopoly (1934)



Who hasn’t played Monoploy? I thought it best to let Hasbro speak on this one:

The MONOPOLY game was brought to PARKER BROTHERS in 1934 by Charles B. Darrow of Germantown, PA, but at the end of the initial play-test by company executives, the game was unanimously turned down. It took too long to play, the rules were too complicated, and players kept going around and around the board instead of ending up at a final goal. Advised that the game contained 52 fundamental playing errors, Darrow proceeded on his own. When reports of the game’s success began to reach PARKER BROTHERS, the company reconsidered, and early in 1935 bought the rights.

5. Mahjong (1923)



Mahjong is an addicting game of matching tiles. These tiles are divided into Suits, Honor and Flower categories. I have found no clear history on who created Mahjong, but 1 myth is that it is created by Confucius around 500 BC. But I can tell you that PB signed a distribution deal in 1923 and started making different quality and priced sets out of Bakelite and ivory.




4. Tiddly Winks (1880’s)



The main object of this game is to flip your wink either onto your opponents winks or inside of a cup. Tiddlywinks were created by Eugene V. Tiedler in the 1880’s. Tiedler owned Tiedler’s Quality Timing-Pieces which had a specialty of animal shaped clocks. The original idea for tiddlywinks were eye scraps from owl clocks. PB obtained the rights in 1938.

3. Risk (1957)



A classic conquer/conquest game. La Conquête du Monde (The Conquest of the World), created in 1957 by a French movie director, Albert Lamorisse. Risk is based upon a Napoleonic-era map of the world divided into 42 territories in 6 continents. Acquired by Parker Brothers in 1984

2. Ouija Board (1966)



The game of Ouija known today was marketed by William & Issac Fuld. The game itself is thought to have been around since the ancient Egyptians. The game was not originally sold as a game, but as a device for communicating with the dead. To be honest, I don’t know anyone who has ever played this as a game in the traditional sense. Parker Brothers bought the William Fuld Company in 1966.

1. Sorry (1934)



The goal of Sorry! is to be the first player to move all 4 tokens from the Start Home. Sorry! is played with cards instead of dice. I haven’t found much info on the history of Sorry!, but Wikipedia states that the earliest variation of today’s Sorry! can be traced back to England. Sorry! was adopted by Parker Brothers in 1934 and was based on an ancient Indian game named pachisi.



my favorite   Trouble