Duration : 0:2:20

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Red skin
Black eyes
Blue blood
Silver teeth
Green wings
Brown claws
Purple tail
Grey hair
Orange heart

Defqon One

Duration : 0:2:25

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Duration : 0:3:45

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Expert: Jessica Cain
Bio: Jessica Cain loves any excuse to get crafty, plan a party, or make personalized gifts! Her other hobbies include studying severe weather and keeping up with the latest music and entertainment news! Ca
Filmmaker: kyle saylors

Duration : 0:1:10

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I am the first to admit that I feel most at home and relaxed when everything is put in its place in a perfectly organized manner. In fact, I am almost overly organized to a fault. But there is something so satisfying knowing that everything has a place and it is sitting there comfortably until I need to use it. So I am going to share the plethora of knowledge I have of organizing. Of course, we will focus on scrapbooking! I have tried to summarize my favorite and best things to do to organize your scrapbooking supplies (keep in mind that I am branching out from the traditional ways to store things):

1. Embellishments Spice Rack: Use a spice rack to organize your embellishments. Many stores sell racks that are perfect for wall-mounting or you can get one to rest on a desk like a lazy susan. Either way, the containers are the perfect size for flowers, tacks, staples, tiles, brads, eyelets, etc. Make sure to get clear ones so you can see the embellishments. Check out the bathroom and kitchen section on your local stores (like Target, Wal-mart etc.). You would be surprised what types of storage solutions you can come up with for your scrapbooking embellishments.

2. Hanging Jars: You can adapt the above idea and make is really cheap too. You can make hanging jars by affixing old canning jars, baby food jars, or other jars with screwing lids to a shelf. All you have to do is drill a hole through the lid and the shelf and then screw the jar to it. If you don’t want to permanently have holes in your shelf, just use double-sided sticky Velcro and attach it to the top of the lid and then under the shelf. This would work the best with the baby food jars or lighter plastic jars.

3. Traveling Scrapbookers: If you are a nomadic scrapbooker, there are many things you can use to store all those little embellishments. I have a tackle box that works really well for storage. Probably the best thing that I have seen besides the traditional storage totes, is the Caboodle (it was a plastic makeup container). I used to have one when I was a teenager. It works great with all those compartments. Find one at a garage sale (or in your own garage . . .) or check out your local stores for something similar in the cosmetics aisle.

4. Paper storage: We all know that you can buy lots of fun shelves, boxes, and trays for your paper. But while we are all trying to save up for those somewhat expensive items, what are some other ways to store your paper? I like the idea of using a dish drain (I am not kidding –I actually tried it and love how accessible the paper is!). Find this idea and other “kitchen” organizing tools at: http://scrapbooking.about.com/library/weekly/blsstips5.htm

5. Hanging Paper Storage: Ok, this one is a little more traditional for storing your papers, but I think it is so unique that I had to talk about it. I love the idea of being able to use closet space to store your papers and other scrapbooking supplies.

Still having trouble organizing? Try a book organization ideas for scrapbookers. You too can become an organized scrapper!

Robin M. King
http://www.articlesbase.com/hobbies-articles/scrapbooking-five-ways-to-get-organized-105707.html

If you’re like most people, you take rolls and rolls of photographs on your vacations, and then once you get home these photos stay under your bed or in a closet stored in shoeboxes, never to be seen again. Why not bring them out and display them? Create a vacation memory book to store these memories.

Especially if you have young kids, record these fun memories before they are forgotten. Whether your family vacations are a weekend camping trip or your dream trip to Europe, make a vacation scrapbook to capture these memories. Why take rolls of photos only to keep them where nobody will ever look at them? When you first take these photos out of their boxes, you’ll be surprised at how many vacation memories they bring back.

You can make a separate scrapbook for each vacation or leave room at the back of a large scrapbook to add pages for future vacations. If you take a yearly vacation as a family, you should keep these in the same book so that you can flip from year to year, watching your family grow up in the space between those cherished vacations.

To make a vacation scrapbook, first gather all of your vacation photos. Go through the boxes, and choose a selection of photos to use in your scrapbook. Keep in mind that you don’t have to use everything! Pick the ones that recall the best memories of your trip. Choose the best photos, where everyone is smiling and in-focus.

Don’t forget to save tickets, menus, and other memorabilia from your vacation, too. You can also write your vacation memories directly into the book, either handwritten or typed. These can add valuable details to the book, making it much more than just a photograph album. Years from now, these notes will bring back wonderful memories of your vacation.

When designing your scrapbook pages, don’t forget that even the embellishments you use can evoke the setting of your vacation. Use a background page that looks like leaves, a beach, or the setting sun, for example. Choose background papers that match the tone of the photos you’ve selected, and make sure that the photos match the colors of the background as well. You can buy die cut embellishments that are shaped like everything from a tent to a beach pail to add interest to your page.

Once you have your background papers, embellishments, and photographs selected, now it’s time to arrange the photos on the pages. When designing the layout of your album pages, keep in mind that it doesn’t have to be in chronological order. You can also group your photos around a theme. For example, you can place all of the beach photos together in your album. There is no wrong way to assemble the pages of your book, so be creative!

Vacation scrapbooks are a great way to get your photographs out of their storage boxes and display them. Looking back through the scrapbook years after your trip, you’ll be able to recall wonderful memories of your vacation.

Kelly Yuile
http://www.articlesbase.com/home-and-family-articles/scrapbooking-how-to-create-a-vacation-memory-book-682215.html

ZhangLu is one of China’s top character artists and digital portrait painters. He currently works at Massive Black Shanghai as a concept artist and digital painter.

Jason Manley is President of Massive Black Inc. and a founder of ConceptArt.Org.

Music by BlazerFlame
Edited by Jacki Oh

Duration : 0:2:53

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Links in this episode:
Ashley Page of Tegonia Designs

http://www.tegonia.com/

Plasma’s ThreadBanger Rap

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QjQoWAnB3LM

The Honey Pot (sorry no website…go in person:)
Poutfits

http://www.poutfits.com/

Recyclone

http://www.recyclone.org/

Elliottelephant

http://www.elliottelephant.com/

ThreadBanger YouTube Contest
http://www.threadbanger.com/page/is-your-school-geek-or-chic

Duration : 0:6:47

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