The basic technique involves creating the underwater scene on shaped dry floral foam, sections of which can be glued together before shaping if you need a long feature for a model railroad layout. Once the underwater scene is created, the area is ’landscaped’ into the floral foam, and a sheet of textured clear plastic or styrene is laid on top of the water feature glued into position and landscaped to disguise the edges....

A Dull or Dirty Saw Blade Might Be the Culprit Make sure that the blade is sharp, clean and free of pitch. A dull blade will make it hard to cut quickly, and the slower the feed rate of the saw, the more friction against the wood and the greater the likelihood of scorch marks. Pushing the stock through the saw too slowly is a common cause of saw blade burn....

Also, when working the PFB stitch, you are essentially cramming two stitches into a space fit for a single stitch. Things get very tight in the stitch you are working the PFB into, especially if you are a knitter who naturally knits with a tight tension. If you see abbreviations like PFB or P1FB in your knitting pattern, you are creating two stitches from a single stitch (known as an increase)....

On Youtube, people upload more than 500 hours of video every minute. So, to stand out you must create contents to help you sustain. For that, you need to make sure that you gain more followers but do not lose the older ones as well. When you see the subscribers, you can analyze their video choice. So, for that reason, you need to see your subscribers on Youtube and analyze them as well....

But sometimes we don’t get to check our emails or Facebook account for a longer period and when you come back –you might find yourself added into tens of new Facebook groups. All without your permission! Laziness shown for leaving the unwanted groups will only see you being added in even more groups! At times, some people keep on adding you back into a Facebook group which you had already left....

Open to Work on LinkedIn is a new feature on the platform to is a newer feature of the platform. When you turn on open to work many recruiters notice your profile and may higher you. So, the main reason for the feature is to find new works as per your requirement. LinkedIn is constantly promoting this feature. It will help people get jobs which was the reason for LinkedIn’s establishment....

NOTE: Recently we had published an article about how to type faster on an iPhone. Steps for typing ° degree symbol in iPhone or iPad This method of inserting ° degree symbol works in all versions of iOS and all Apple devices like iPhone and iPad. You might also be interested in knowing that sometime ago we had also published a tutorial on how to type ° symbol in MS-Word and webpages....

Applying the underglaze to greenware allows you to see the close-to-finished design, making it easy to locate areas that need more attention or additions. Also, you can apply a far wider range of underglaze colors to greenware than you can to bisque ware. To begin your underglaze, start by grasping the bisqued piece with a clean cloth. Next, apply the color to make your design as you would on a watercolor painting....

Commercial featherboards are sold by woodworking supply stores and online retailers, but many woodworkers make their own featherboards by cutting a series of kerfs into one side of a flat board cut at an angle on one end. Many woodworkers make many different featherboards of different sizes to keep on hand for various uses. There are numerous commercial types of featherboards, but whether you choose to use a homemade version or a commercial type, they all work pretty much the same....

While a single pot of embossing powder is not expensive and lasts a very long time, the cost soon adds up, and for a beginner one of the key challenges is to make your money go as far as possible. Many beginner rubber stampers find that a single pot of clear embossing powder is ideal for a wide number of projects, letting them explore the technique in more detail before investing in a wider range of powders....

Made the Old Fashioned Way With a Potter’s Wheel In the mid-1700s when Wedgwood was first doing business, everything was handmade the old fashioned way using a potter’s wheel. And while physical limitations kept him from throwing pottery, for the most part, he focused instead on manufacturing and perfecting designs as an astute businessman. He set his sights on producing china, previously only available to the very wealthy, that was of high quality but affordable as well....

The exploding box is very simple to vary and, once the basic principles are understood, the box is easy to create in any size. A template is not necessary as the base of the exploding box is created from three pieces of card that are the same shape but each piece is slightly smaller. This allows them to sit snuggly inside each other. If you would like a little help, however, a template is attached which will make creating this exploding box a little easier....

Proper Photo Exposure A properly exposed photograph is one that is neither too light nor too dark. A good exposure will include highlights and shadows and a varying degree of contrast in between. It doesn’t matter if the photo is in color or black and white. If a photo is too dark, it is underexposed. Details will be lost in the shadows and the darkest areas of the image.If a photo is too light, it is overexposed....

Texting gloves. These days, regular gloves and mittens just will not do. No, no, no. Ordinary gloves get in the way of anything you might want to do on your phone, whether you’re calling, texting, playing games, or surfing the Internet. It’s time to make yourself some fingerless gloves, wrist warmers, and texting gloves to wear instead. That way, you’ll be able to stay both warm and connected at the same time....