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Pet Portraits; Cherish Memories of Your Pets

Pet Portraits; Cherish Memories of Your Pets

It is quite easy to create a custom portrait of your pet. Although freehand drawing can be intimidating to some people, you should try it if you want to immortalize your pet. The supplies that you require for this task include a printer, digital photo of your pet, art paper, soft art pencil, acrylic craft paint, paintbrush, and a paint palette. You may want to immortalize your pet by himself or include a picture of yourself on your wedding day. Follow these steps to create a painted portrait of your pet: Paint the BackGround Choose a good color to paint the background. Since the final painting will be a solid color plus highlights and shadows, you need to select a color that looks good hanging on your wall and contrasts …

Ensure Your Children are Safe Online

Ensure Your Children are Safe Online

The Internet is massively participatory but alas, you can’t always know who your audience is. There are many predatory adults who know full well that many of their audiences are children – minors – and their motives towards their children are totally unsavoury. Surf Watching Fortunately, there are steps you can take to ensure that your child is safe online. Children won’t only encounter problems on social media sites, online gaming is also a huge concern too. It’s true that our children know far more about using a tablet, a computer and the Internet than we do, but it is still the responsibility of parents to ensure they’re protecting their kids from some aspects of the web. There is software – some commercial, others free. This software won’t only serve …

Attitude, Focus and Problem Solving: Apps to Help Anyone Be More Productive

Attitude, Focus and Problem Solving: Apps to Help Anyone Be More Productive

We live in a time when there never seems to be enough hours in the day. One way to combat this is to try to be as productive as possible with what time we have. Thanks to the latest technology, we now have a variety of apps for mobile devices, which are designed to help us do just that. Here’s a sampling of productivity apps for iPhone and Android. Image Source: Flickr Alarm Clock For Me Personalize the way you wake up in the morning and how you go to sleep at night with this app from Apalon. Awaken gently to the sound of your favorite music and drift off to sleep at night with relaxing melodies or white noise, for a preset time. The alarm clock app also features …

8 Ways to De-clutter Your Garage

8 Ways to De-clutter Your Garage

Your garage can easily become cluttered, especially if it is used as storage space. Even if your garage is just a place to keep your car and tools, the space can become full of empty bottles of fertilizer or old car parts. With the help of Sears Garage Doors, here are eight ways to approach to getting your garage ready for spring. Move Everything Out The first step is to move all of the items out of the garage. This helps you get a feel for what your garage space truly has to offer, and allows you to organize the area from scratch. This step also helps you get a better idea of which stuff you keep in this part of the house. Make decisions about what to keep or …

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