When American manufacturers displayed their wares at the Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia in 1876, their clear, bright, leaded glass garnered new respect when compared to glass exhibited from other countries. From that point on, American cut glass became extremely popular as gift items and most mid-income to affluent households held at least a few pieces to grace their most elegant tables during holiday celebrations and year-round. Crafting American Brilliant Cut Glass The process of making this favored glass was time-consuming and expensive....

Pietra Dura This type of antique jewelry developed during the 16th century in Florence, Italy can be confused with micromosaic jewelry made later on, since it does use a similar technique of inlaying stone into a background to form a picture and they were set into similar styles of simple frames in many instances. However, pietra dura (translated as “hard stone” in Italian) designs were made using larger and fewer pieces of stone in comparison to the tiny pieces making up intricate micromosaics....

You can easily change background color with CSS. I have implemented a difference background color for selected text on my website. Let me tell you how you can do this. When you select text on a webpage the background color is mostly dictated by the operating system of your machine. On Windows, the most common selection background color is blue (although it depends on which Windows theme you’re using). This also means that various users having varied Windows themes will have a different user experience on your website because the background color will be different according to their Windows theme....

Gather Your Supplies Here’s what you’ll need to make your own. Supplies Toilet paper tubes Printed or colorful scrapbook paper Balloons Packing/masking tape Glue dots Confetti pieces/large flake glitter/ sequins Tools Scissors Before a big occasion where you’ll need several of these tubes, start getting your family to set aside toilet paper tubes. You’ll be surprised how quickly you can get several. Or if you don’t want to wait and it’s a more last minute type of thing, you can always buy toilet paper tubes, they’re available online or in your local craft store....

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To save this pattern to your computer, left click and select “save as.” To resize and print the pattern, insert the saved pattern into a word processing document and resize it as desired before printing. You could make an entire family of owls by starting with one or two larger owls and adding several small “children” owlets. Supplies Used Into the Woods Collection from Lawn Fawn. Including Card base – Sycamore...

There are hundreds of fun Thanksgiving pictures to color here with images of turkeys, pilgrims, cornucopias, Native Americans, Thanksgiving dinner, cooking, pumpkins, and more. And once they’re colored, you’ll have Thanksgiving decorations for your home. These Thanksgiving coloring pages can also be an excellent way to introduce the kids to the history of Thanksgiving in a fun way that will catch their attention. If this isn’t enough, you can find more Thanksgiving coloring pages for this time of year including free turkey coloring pages and fall coloring pages....

Sponges: Seawool, elephant ear, silk, and PVA sponges are all potters’ favorites. Active potters usually need to replace a sponge every year or so. Chamois: These pieces of ultra-fine leather are easiest to find in automotive stores. Scrappers: Everything from heavy putty knives to square metal pastry or dough cutters make great pottery tools. Kitchen gadgets: Practically every kitchen tool a cook or baker can use is also great for pottery....

Well, technology has made it quite easy to type in Hindi on computer –even for the non-typist people like me! Since long, most Hindi speakers have been typing Hindi on computers in “Romanized” way, i.e. transliterated Hindi using English keyboard. For example, to say “How to type in Hindi” people would write “Hindi mein kaise type karein“. But now Hindi users want to learn and type right in Devanagari script, for example, “हिन्दी में कैसे टाइप करें”....

The Birth of Arts and Crafts British textile maker William Morris so disliked the result of the Industrial Revolution that he sparked an entire movement resisting it. Writing “The Art of the People” in 1879, the book’s message moved the Arts and Crafts movement forward. He wrote, “…art made by the people, and for the people, as a happiness to the maker and the user.” His business—Morris, Marshall, Faulkner & Co....

So, why attach email in Gmail? You may want to send the whole email to someone else. When you forward the email, not all the contents are visible. You can also cc in Gmail and send it to as many people as you like. The attaching of an email is the same as sending the message. So, there are many reasons why you may want to attach the whole email....

A leprechaun is an Irish “elf.” They are small in size, and some say they look like tiny old men in top hats with red beards. They are tricky fellows and like to play pranks on unsuspecting people. Legend says that leprechauns are shoemakers (also called cobblers). Curiously enough, they supposedly only make one of each type of shoe. It is said that you can tell a leprechaun is near if you hear the tapping of their hammers....

More than a billion people are using Facebook and a lot of them are so much into social networking that Facebook virtually has become their second home. People have emotional attachment to their Facebook account, profile, their Facebook friends and followers. In such a scenario, if the Facebook account holder dies, it might turned out to be emotionally or practically important to close his Facebook account. Recognizing this, Facebook does provide options to deal with such a situation....

Though discord group chat serves the same purpose, the only downside is you can only add a maximum of 10 people. Whereas, when you create a discord server you can add a large number of people and create a community of yours. Thus, it is much better for you to have a server of your own. If you are unaware of the exact process to create a discord server you can follow the steps as directed in this article....

In this article, we will show how you can easily create 3D Touch Shortcuts for Phone and FaceTime apps. Though you can directly customize favorites with both these apps, let us also see how it can be customized using 3D Touch display. ALSO LEARN: Typing Shortcuts for Quick Typing in iPhone Customizing Contacts using the Phone App When you 3D touch the Phone or the FaceTime app, it always displays four contacts because 3D Touch menus are limited to four actions system-wide....

This is the reason why Twitter provided facility to embed a tweet in any webpage. Embedded tweet gets its text directly from Twitter and website owner has no way to alter it. Therefore, the best and easiest way to include a tweet in your web page is to embed it. Embedding a tweet creates a nice looking tweet box on your page. The box contains the tweet content. Let’s see how you can include a tweet in your website by embedding it: SEE ALSO: How to properly cite tweets in publications STEP 1: On Twitter, go to the tweet that you want to embed STEP 2: Click on the “Embed” link given below tweet STEP 3: Select, either HTML, Shortcode or Link version of the code....