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Easter Egg Shell Creations
Dec 13th
Net Krafter : Easter Egg Shell Creations
While you can have lots of fun dying eggs in numerous ways and using them to make fun Easter crafts and decorations did you know that you can also use the shells in some fun Easter egg creations? There is no presume to throw away your colored shells (even after the eggs have been eaten). You can use your Easter eggs in some fun and creative projects that only lengthen the fun of Easter. These Easter crafts can be done in an afternoon or can be part of an Easter craft party. Either way you will have lots of fun production them! So for some fresh new Easter craft ideas here are some ideas for Easter egg shell creations-
Chick in an Egg- This creative craft uses the halves of the egg that are left after you break open the egg. This craft works best using a raw egg that has been broken open rather then a blown or hard boiled egg.
What you will need:
Cotton balls
Egg shells
Glue gun
Paper
Black and orange paint
Paintbrush
Instructions for the project: Take the two cotton balls and glue them together. Take the egg, crack it and make sure all of the insides are cleaned out and then wash it well. You will want to make sure the egg is in equal halves as much as possible. Take the cotton balls and glue them to the inside of the dried egg. Using the glue gun make two limited dots as eyes on the cotton balls and paint them black. Take a piece of paper and cut out a beak and paint it orange then glue it on.
Shell Mosaic- This colorful craft is a great one for young crafters who do not need any developed crafting skills to make this.
What you will need:
Colored Egg Shells
Poster board
Glue
Instructions for the project: The first step is to make sure that you save all the shells you peel off your Easter eggs! Using your hands or something heavy break the colored egg shell pieces into small adequate pieces so that they are fairly flat. Have the child draw a fabricate on a dark piece of poster board. Using a cotton swab or an old paint brush and working in small sections liberally spread glue onto your design. Carefully stick the eggshell pieces, colored side up, onto the glue. Continue with this process until your fabricate is fully filled in with egg shells. Set the mosaic aside to dry completely.
Tips:
For very young children you can let them naturally apply the eggshells however they want without drawing a fabricate on first.
Egg Shell Candy Dish- This delightful dish can offer Easter treat to family and friends. In order to keep the dish from year to year you will need to varnish the shells and pack it away carefully.
What you will need:
A plastic or glass candy dish with a wide rim or flat base
Broken egg shells (they can be colored or white)
Craft glue
Instructions for the project: Take the egg shells (either peeled off of your colored Easter eggs or white ones) and break them into small adequate pieces that they lay flat. Liberally apply the glue where you want the eggshells attached and begin laying on the eggshells. This works best if you work on one section at a time. After you end you can add further garnish if you want (glitter, jewels etc) and cover the egg shells with a layer of varnish to help them stick. Let the dish dry completely.
collective Marketing Ideas to Promote Your Craft company
Dec 12th
Net Krafter : collective Marketing Ideas to Promote Your Craft company
Getting started on Facebook couldn’t be easier… Or more considerable to panning online gold. Generate a profile that contains the best copy inherent to make your business look not just good, but hot, hot, hot. After your personal profile is in place Generate a Facebook business Page for your company.
How? Easy. Scroll to the lowest and click “Advertise”. And, get ready to jump for joy… It’s honestly free! Click on the Pages tab and upload a logo and input some copy that portrays your craft business in the best inherent light.
Then, just as you would in other venues, start reaching out to inherent customers by “sharing” your business.
Your first contacts, or “Facebook Fans” as they’re called, will probably be real friends and family. But even the most social of entrepreneurs will need to enlarge well beyond that right away.
Don’t be indiscriminate, though. One of the worst things that can happen to an online business is to begin a spiral of negative word of mouth. Spend some time tailoring your message and your list to optimize your chances of inescapable word of mouth.
You can reach out to crafters with similar interests – jewelry designers, doll makers, potters… Anyone your business line(s) happen to be. Some will be competitors, others will just be concerned amateurs who love crafts as you do. Ask them to spread the word, and give them helpful tutorial content, free samples, and more to encourage them to follow through.
Twitter is an additional one superb way to spread your message, and can sometimes work even quicker. But you trade off speed for volume. Twitter is intended more for real-time communication. It’s sort of like Internet chat on steroids.
Twitter is a great social networking tool for online craft business owners who want to announce things that are happening right now. Having a sale? Tweet it. Discovered a new material or technique? Share your enthusiasm in up to 140 characters of text.
Use Twhirl to carry on multiple accounts if you have multiple craft-related businesses, such as glassware and textiles. You don’t have to be tied to the computer all day, though. Use Twuffer to queue up tweets that will go out whenever you want.
In all these cases, you want not only to reach the audiences that populate these sites but drive them to your websites. Here again, use a miniature discretion, but all the time make sure your friends know where to find your business. After all, there’s no point in building a good mousetrap – or mouse earring – if no one knows where to buy it.
Both Facebook Pages and Twitter are where you can -
Share pictures, pictures, and more pictures! Let me say it one more time: Pictures. Use the Facebook Photo application to Generate and update photo albums with amazing images displaying your skill and creativity.
Step it up a notch by creating videos of your most beloved and most recent creations. Zoom into the details of your products that make them stand out from the rest. Description all sides of them as you’re describing what they’re seeing. If you haven’t done it already, spend in one of those very affordable Flip camcorders. Come to be well-known with downloading them to your computer, and uploading them to Facebook.
provide tips on how to store the products when not in use or being displayed.
provide tips on how to ship the items
Do you offer a fix service if something gets broken? Remind them how they can get the goods back to you for repair.
If not, possibly you can offer some fix tips for them so they can take care of minor repairs. How about providing some fix video tutorials? Even written tutorials will be helpful.
provide gift ideas – the holidays are close. Do you offer a special allowance if man purchases more the one item (one for themselves and one or more for gifts for others). This is a great time to encourage multiple purchases.
Give an incentive if you can, possibly you can provide free shipping if their order is over a inescapable dollar amount. Or throw in gift wrapping as your freebie.
Craft businesses typically had/have origins at craft and gift shows. Maybe you could provide a list of shows in your area, your state…even good – multiple states or regions.
When you’re attending a show, take pictures or even videos. Take your Facebook Page Fans along for the ride. Tell them about your plans, your experiences, the excitement, the surprise bonus you never incredible to find. By all means, if you’re going to be displaying your products at some shows you’ll want to let everyone know where you are going to be at. You might even get some unexpected visitors that happen to be in the area. How great would that be!
Share ideas about the best ways to display and use your products.
Don’t forget to share a nice backstory. Let your visitors know how you got started, what inspired you, a timeline of your progression.
notify visitors of goods options you provide when man orders from you. A collection of colors, sizes, shapes, special features, etc.
If you’re concerned in doing this sort of thing – how about turning your knowledge into revenue? Hold workshops and classes, even Generate video tutorials. Then you can announce your new offerings to your visitors.
Do you donate to a charity? Why not get your visitors complex and offer a ration of their buy to the charity or cause. Here’s an additional one idea on this front. What if you organized a donation drive with your online community? possibly you could be the convention place for handmade toys and other objects that could advantage those less fortunate. You and your fans could come together to preserve a base cause.
Don’t forget to relate to your visitors how your goods fills their need. What is it going to do for them?
Since you have products, you’re in a prime position to hold a monthly contest where the winner receives something you’ve made. possibly for every 50 new Fans you pick a new winner. Keep running this for as long as you like.
What about sharing a list of online craft directories? Ask for input from your page fans, see if they can lead to this list.
I’ll bet you’ve tried quite a estimate of materials to ultimately get your products just right. How about providing some reviews on materials that have not lived up to their advertising, or those that have made your crafts come to life and were exactly what you needed. This could also be a great conversation starter with other crafters visiting your site.
Do you have any tips on what to do with your leftover materials? Is there the possibility of providing your visitors with ideas on how to recycle what they don’t use from projects?
I’d like you to think less “online craft store” and more “online crafting community”. Encourage the sharing of ideas, materials, issues, troubleshooting, resources, etc. It should be a place everyone wants to visit so they can participate in conversations and lead some of their considerable content. It could be one big happy family! When like-minded habitancy get together, amazing partnerships and joint speculation opportunities happen. Doors open. Deeper connections are made. Doesn’t that sound like the society you’d like to build?
If you know of some other crafters that have products which compliment yours, why not share these resources with your visitors? possibly the other crafters could refer visitors to you as well. Now would be a great time to set up a referral or affiliate program. What a win-win situation all around.
What Kind of firm Should I Start?
Dec 11th
Net Krafter : What Kind of firm Should I Start?
It’s not uncommon to reach your 30s, 40s or even 50s and still wonder, “What do I want to be when I grow up?” Few citizen are fortunate enough to be confident of their destinies early on and the rest of us are forced to do some soul searching.
The desire to own a company is becoming more base as workers grow more frustrated with the economy and working in corporate America. If you’re thinking about a company of your own but you’re not sure what to start, here are any rehearsal to spark some ideas.
Start by development Lists of Your Interests, Talents, and Skills
Write down what you like and don’t like about your current job and jobs you’ve had in the past. Do you love writing company documents? Do you hate calculating numbers? By listing your likes and dislikes, you can see with more clarity where some of your interests lie and which tasks you want to avoid.
The trick is to brainstorm company ideas and find one that you will be passionate about, one that will meet your desired suitable of living and your lifestyle criteria. Someone who doesn’t like being chained to a desk should not choose a company that requires her to be stuck in an office all day.
The good news is that as an entrepreneur, you get to make these decisions for yourself. possibly you are good with numbers and you’re thinking about becoming a mortgage broker, but you don’t want to be stuck in an office all day. If you are serving clients in your area, won’t you also be required to meet with them? Could you find a way to meet with them at their place of company or over lunch?
This list should also help you identify your weaknesses. If you hate to write, then you probably shouldn’t start a local newspaper (although if you have the right budget, you can hire writers and focus on other aspects of the business). If crunching numbers makes your brain hurt, then you won’t find joy in running a bookkeeping business. For that matter, you will probably dread holding your own books and should build a bookkeeping aid into your company budget.
Spend some time with this rehearsal and look for a theme in your lists. If you identify a company that interests you, but it doesn’t meet your lifestyle requirements, then improve on the idea and see if there is a separate type of company in that field that would suit you better.
Imagine You Have Just Won the Lottery
So you’ve just won a lottery for 0,000. It’s not enough to retire on, but it’s enough to make some decisions about your future. Think what you would do if you won a large chunk of money. Of policy it’s fun to imagine paying off your debts and sharing your good fortune with the citizen you love, but what do you do with the rest of the money? What does your ideal work life look like? What kind of company would you start if you had endless resources?
Could Your Talent or Hobby Net You Some Profits?
Whether you are a musician, an artist, a writer, a crafter, an athlete, an entertainer or a chef, you may be able to find a company that takes advantage of these talents. Think face the box. Use the internet to quest for ideas. For example, if you are a sports fanatic, you could quest for “sports business” or “sports industry” and see what kinds of topics are returned. possibly you could come to be a sports writer, sporting goods store owner, coach, trainer, statistician, or memorabilia sales.
Ask Your house and Friends
By request the citizen closest to you for input, you may gain some surprising insight. possibly your best friend will remind you of your culinary talents or your grandmother will admire your decorating skills. Maybe your brother will tell you that he all the time opinion you would end up working with animals because you rescued all the neighborhood strays. If for nothing else, request those closest to you will breed seminar about your future and may lead to the spark of inspiration you are seeking.
Start finding at the company World through a New Set of Eyes
Every company you see started somewhere by someone. The dry cleaner you visit weekly, the grocery store where you shop, the quaint coffee shop on the angle and your popular take-out cafeteria all were born from somebody’s dream. Pay attention to every company you encounter. Is the owner present? If so, does he or she look happy? Tired? Frantic? What are the pros and cons of running each kind of business? A sell company is typically a 6 or 7 day per week effort. Restaurants wish long hours, food spoilage management, health department inspections and a lot of staff. aid businesses are often started by an owner providing the service.
Talk to company owners that you encounter. Ask them about the pros and cons of what they do. Who better to suggest you on your future than those who are genuinely living some version of it?
Go to the Bookstore or Library
I personally believe that books give you the best opportunity to self-educate. You can learn about virtually any topic under the sun just by reading a book. Spend some time in the company section and read some of the books recommend in the appendix of this book. You never know where you will find inspiration. Many company books list examples from real entrepreneurs. possibly one of these examples will spark your interest or cause you to think about something you hadn’t determined before.
You’ve Done all things Else and Still Don’t Know What to Do
Don’t give up! Keep at it. Carve some time out every day to focus on your life plan. Get up an hour early in the morning, take time out of your lunch hour or stay up an hour late, but anyone you do, devote some time to mapping out your future. If you are serious about arresting forward, you will have to make the time.
Keep doing the exercises listed here. Spend time reading company message boards, websites and magazines. Jot down topics that interest you and learn more about them. The process may take some time, but the end consequent should be well worth it.
21 Handy Craft Tips
Dec 10th
Net Krafter : 21 Handy Craft Tips
From one “crafty” man to another, here are a bunch of ideas to try out while you’re crafting or sewing to make your life a bit easier, and to save a bit of money and time in the process.
1. Use cheap index cards to staple on fabric swatches or ribbon; very handy to take with you to your fabric or craft shop.
2. Old pillowcases make handy cover-ups for children! Cut out a large hole for the head and two smaller holes for the arms and just slip over their heads. They can even decorate them with tie-dye, fabric paint or iron-ons.
3. If you use rubber stamps for your projects, clean them with a mild detergent after each use, production sure you keep the wood parts dry. Use a paper towel to dry the stamp and then store them with the stamp side down, away from direct sunlight.
4. Large bottle caps make handy disposable containers for paints or glue.
5. Use a toothpick to apply glue to a small part; less “glue-y” fingers!
6. A damp Q-tip can pick up small items such as seed beads or rhinestones.
7. Keep a magnet handy in case you drop needles or pins on the floor.
8. A coffee can is great for storing balls of yarn when crocheting or knitting. Plainly punch a hole in the coffee can lid and poke the yarn up straight through and out; then close the lid.
9. Use cardboard emery boards as sandpaper for small parts or areas where quarterly sanders or files will not reach.
10. Shred your leftover wrapping paper to make pretty “stuffing” for gift baskets and bags.
11. Use your lint roller nearby your sewing table to pick up bits of thread.
12. Don’t toss out that old plastic tablecloth when you buy a new one. Use the old one as a table protector when crafting.
13. For larger projects, use an old plastic shower curtain as a drop cloth or cut it into smaller table protectors.
14. Tweezers make great holders for those small parts you’re trying to glue or paint. Less glue and paint on fingers.
15. Lubricate the tip of your needle before sewing by pushing it into a sliver of soap.
16. Keep a roll of paper towels on your worktable to clean up spills, wipe your hands and even to use for creating texture in your paintings.
17. Use an old coffee can sitting in a pot or pan of hot water on the burner to melt leftover pieces of candles. Make sure you handle the hot coffee can with oven mitts. Add an old candle, the long, tapered kind, to a cardboard milk carton. Add ice and then the melted wax. After the candle is set, tear away the carton over your sink to drain the water and you’ll have a unique “Swiss cheese” candle to use. You can toss out the coffee can after its use. No worrying about cleaning a pot with wax residue.
18. Use an old (or new!) fishing case, with all its many compartments, for your small craft parts.
19. Hate throwing away the last sliver of soap? Break it up into pieces and place in a rubber baking mold. Melt more soap, either left over or purchased cheap soap, cool slightly so it won’t melt your soap bits and pour into mold, let harden and pop your new soap out of the mold!
20. Tape a small plastic grocery bag or a small paper bag to your sewing table so it hangs over the side. Handy for tossing out bits of cut thread and fabric scraps.
21. A small metal parts cabinet (the kind for bolts, nails and screws, etc.) is great for storing small crafts parts and sewing items. I even have two of them housing all my earrings and necklaces – one or more drawers for each color!
These were just some of the handy hints I’ve used over the years. There are Tons more out there which may succeed in “Handy Craft Tips Two” – hey, you never know…stay tuned! Oh, by the way, if You have any great tips to share, please email me at info@whimsies-online.com.
Craft business – 4 Ways to Sell Your Crafts
Dec 9th
Net Krafter : Craft business – 4 Ways to Sell Your Crafts
Don’t waste an additional one small speculating on how to sell your crafts. Crafters are now taking their devotion for creating curious handiwork and turning it into a victorious business. You can too.
The safe bet first option for many population is “craft sales”. However, depending on the area where you live and the time of year, it may not be feasible to rely on craft sales to start your craft business. Here are four ways besides craft sales that you can sell your crafts to cash in on this growing trend.
1. Consignment Sales
Getting your crafts displayed in local artisan and gift market on a consignment basis is a great way to originate steady revenue. It’s ordinarily win-win for you and the retailer. You get paid when the items sell and the store-owner doesn’t have to shell out cash for inventory. However, make sure that you protect yourself and your products with an iron-clad consignment business agreement before you publish your hard work to the store-owner.
2. Selling Your Crafts on eBay
eBay is the exquisite way to sell your crafts to population from all over the world. Do some explore on eBay before you get started to make sure that there’s a shop for your items. Alternatively, if you have a fairly unique item, you could make up a proto-type and “test the waters” by running one auction and gauging the response. You may find that some craft items sell best at safe bet times of the year so bear this in mind when you plan your strategy.
3. Catalog Sales
Putting together a catalog with pictures and descriptions of your craft items and distributing them is an additional one great way to sell your crafts. It doesn’t have to cost a lot of money to put one together either. Plainly use publishing or word processing software, add your pictures and descriptions and you’ve got a catalog. Make up just a small batch to start and distribute them to family, friends or your craft sale mailing list customers.
4. Party Sales
Everybody’s been to a home party at one time or an additional one and bought items that can’t be found in stores. So why not take this thought one step supplementary and sell your unique craft items in a home party atmosphere? Make sure you repaymen your party hostess with whether a gorgeous craft item or allowance and she’ll be sure to invites lots of her buying friends.
If you’re curious in manufacture money with your crafts you owe it to yourself to think a craft business.
How To Use Stitch Markers in Knitting
Dec 8th
Net Krafter : How To Use Stitch Markers in Knitting
Knitting has reclaimed its popularity in the last 10 years and it still keeps getting more and more popular. Hand knits make great gifts and can also underline the makers and/or wearers unique taste in clothing. Knitting is an easy skill to learn and provides hours of relaxing fun for population of any age. Using stitch markers is one of the skills that can make your knitting experience even more enjoyable.
First, you should determine if you need a marker. Stitch markers are used to keep your place in the knitting. If you are knitting in the round, a marker is ordinarily used to mark the end of the row so you know when you are starting another round. If you are knitting flat, these dinky helpers can be very useful for marking places where you are supposed to make increases or decreases, or showing you where complete pattern repeats start or end.
When you’ve decided that you need a stitch marker, you need to determine what kind of you want to use. Some population use uncomplicated pieces of thread tied with a slip knot nearby the needle or just safety, but hand-made stitch markers bought from a fellow crafter do add to the experience of knitting, not to mention how much more beautiful they are!
When you start your knitting work, just slip the marker on your needle wherever you want to mark your place. On the next row, when you come to them, you just slip them from the left needle to the right needle. You can take them off whenever you no longer need them to mark a place for you.
Use Free Quilling Patterns – Let Your Imagination Take You to New Levels!
Dec 7th
Net Krafter : Use Free Quilling Patterns – Let Your Imagination Take You to New Levels!
Free quilling patterns are requisite if you are a quilling virgin. One of the many aspects of quilling, is that inspiration for your own quilling manufacture can come from anywhere. There are a estimate of free patterns you can use, or even amalgamate some patterns to recreate your own positive style.
Tips For Free Quilling Patterns
Before you take the initiative in making your own quilling piece, it’s recommended that you use ‘free quilling patterns’ that you will find in books or online so that you get a real feel for the types of designs you can make. After you’ve mastered this, you can then reconsider mashing different designs together. You may want to experiment first of all, to gawk which different patterns work well together and which patterns don’t. One way to do is to notice similarities between the different shapes that are used, say for example, flowers and try to couple this into your own manufacture (i.e. Teardrop, loose coils)
Here are other tips you should consider:
* Avoid cutting strips of paper if you want shorter strips. Cutting will give the finished stock a sharp look and it will not look natural at all. Instead tear the strips of paper so that it creates a softer look.
* If the pieces that have been cut out do not meet with your satisfaction, make sure you have some ‘back-up’ pieces so that you can assess & pick the best finding ones.
* This may seem a bit obvious, but if you need a longer strip of paper than you have, naturally cut 2 short pieces and then glue them together.
* Don’t worry about the fragile nature of quilling end products. If they were well-made, then you can approximately step on them and they will still remain intact.
The great thing about art is that one mans eye-sore is an additional one mans work of art. Quilling falls under that kind as well. If you feel your finished stock is not up to the high standards that you had set out, don’t be hasty in throwing it away! Leave it for a while and gauge how you feel after a while.
Having said that, quilling isn’t something that you should rush and make hastily. It’s something that should take time to construct. If you are a true quiller or wish to enter the world of quilling, you’ll find that it requires great patience and concentration to detail.
As you create your quilling design, remember that it is an postponement of yourself & of how you feel. You may find that as you near the end of the building process, that you end up with a pattern that looks less like you had anticipated. As I mentioned above, do not be frustrated at this. True works of art are rarely what the artist intended it to be from the beginning. Just remember to gawk different ranges of free quilling patterns that are available, so that you can best create an art-piece that is more visually piquant and thorough to you.
How to Make Your Own Paper (From Your Old Jeans)
Dec 6th
Net Krafter : How to Make Your Own Paper (From Your Old Jeans)
Have you ever wished there was some use for your old, stained, mangled jeans? They’re too thrashed to donate to charity or even to make a decent pair of cutoffs, but you hate to send them to the landfill. You could cut them into squares for a quilt, but if you’re being honest, you’ll probably never get nearby to making it and the fabric will just take up space in your closet for the next five years. There is, however, an perfect way to recycle your old jeans and make them into a new and useful product: by turning them into paper. All that’s truly required for paper-making is fibers of some sort, so the hardest part of using your jeans is going to be separating out the fibers.
1. To begin the process of breaking down the fabric, cut it into roughly 1-inch squares (no need to be precise). Remove the seams or whatever else that is double-layered since it will be too tough to work with. Ditto on any metal parts.
2. Set up a large pot of boiling water and dump in the jean material so that it is fully submerged. Leave it on a low boil for about an hour (do not let it boil over). Some fibers should begin to break off while this process, but much of the fabric may remain intact (albeit loosened).
3. This next step is going to sound a limited strange, but it is probably the easiest way to desist breaking apart your fibers (short of buying commercial equipment). Put about 1 cup of fabric into your food processor along with 1 cup of water (from the pot is fine), a cup of Elmer’s glue, and one teaspoon each of salt and cornstarch. Blend all ingredients until the contents are fairly smooth. Repeat until all jean material is pulp. *If you do this often, your blade will speedily become dull, so you may want to have a food processor devoted to your craft to ensure that the one you use for food is nice and sharp when you go to make your pesto).
4. For the next step, you’ll need a frame (that is the size you want your paper to be. You can use an old screen window (which can make fairly large sheets), staple screen mesh onto a smaller frame, or naturally use a piece of heavy felt cut to size. Keep in mind that dissimilar frames will produce dissimilar textures of paper, so feel free to experiment. Once your jean pulp is blended, naturally pour it onto your frame (you may want to do this over the sink for easier cleanup).
5. The thickness of your paper will be considered by how much pulp you pour onto the frame, so start slowly. When the frame is full, press the pulp down evenly with your hands or use a rolling pin to press it flat. Add more if it seems too thin. If there is leftover pulp, save it for later in a sealed jug or bucket.
6. Lay your frames out to dry for twenty-four hours in an area that has limited moisture (a dank basement will not do the trick, and you may not want to leave it outdoors overnight, either).
7. When your paper is dry, naturally peel it off the frame. With practice, you will be able to make sheets of roughly equal thickness every time, so don’t get discouraged if they seem uneven or lumpy at first. Use your handmade paper for stationary, card stock, or wrapping paper and dress it up with some metallic thread, embossing tools, or stamps.
development Glow in the Dark Fishing Lures
Dec 5th
Net Krafter : development Glow in the Dark Fishing Lures
Making glow in the dark lures is easy, very fun and could be a profitable hobby. It has long be known by anglers that a huge attraction getter for fish it the use of light. Wether that be the color of the lure or the spinner it has attached,light triggers a reflex in the fish that makes them hit it. Often anglers are faced with the task of over coming dark or murky, muddy water to catch the smart puny critters. One way many fisher men and women are turnig to over come this issue is glow in the dark lures.
I am not going to go into great information about what is glow in the dark powder and why does it glow. You can visit http://www.glonation.com to get the technicial stuff. What I will discuss is how easy it is to make these.
Glow in the dark paint and powder can be purchased from many retailers off the net. You can buy the paint premade or make it yourself.
If you are going to spray paint your lures such as plastic hard body minnows or chubs. Mix one ounce of glow in the dark powder to three ounces of your clear paint.Then spray with a air brush. Use the fine mesh powder. Stir often and use the widest #5 air bursh needle you have to help slow down the clotting. You will have to clean the air brush good after each use. The green or blue glow powders work best here. They are the brightest and longest glowing. Green nearby 13 hours and Blue nearby 4 hours.
If you are going make plastic worms. Use any soft worm plastic and mix the glow powder into it while it is melted. Stir and pour. I suggest letting it cool slightly, not to much, and stir just before pouring. The glow powder needs to be suspended in the plastic. If you want to add color add it just before the powder. Go light on the color so the glow comes through.
It takes Uv light to begin the powder. Sunlight being the best. You ask?? What if the sun is not out, will my lures glow. Yes! they will. If it is overcast Uv light is shinning down it will take a puny longer for the powder in or on the lure to activate, but it will glow. Some habitancy who ice fish use a small hand held black light. Cheap to buy and works great.
Other fishing items this stuff is good for is to paint the tip of your fishing rod for night catfishing. Also floats or bobbers are made to glow by painting them.
GloNation.com hopes these ideas help in your quest to land the big one. Just maybe glow in the dark paint or powder will help.
Some Craft Goals for 2008
Dec 4th
Net Krafter : Some Craft Goals for 2008
Have you plan about your craft goals for 2008? Do you like to set goals in this area of your life? whether you do or not you may be interested in reading some of these ideas to motivate you in your crafts.
Finish All Unfinished Projects
One of my craft goals for 2008 is to end all my unfinished projects. I think many habitancy who enjoy crafts find that they soon have so many projects on the go that it is difficult to end any of them. If you are one of those then why not make a goal of finishing all your unfinished projects this year?
Do One Big Project
If you have complete all your unfinished craft projects and enjoy doing more complex craft projects then you may wish to do one big scheme this year; instead of doing short projects that are over speedily work on doing one, big complex pattern.
Learn a New Craft
Why not try your hand at studying a new craft this year? There are so many distinct crafts that one can do and it is often fun and captivating to learn a new one.
Make More, Spend Less
Become a prudent crafter this year and stop collecting stock and start using it more. You can also look at other ways of spending less such as studying economy crafts and recycling materials in your crafts.
Sell Your Crafts
Why not start your own craft business? If you have not yet started selling what you make then think the cost of your materials, how long it takes you to make and how much you want to make per hour and work out a price for each of your pieces and then find a recipe of marketing that suits you best.
These are just a few of the goals you can pick to do with your crafts this year, what other goals have you made in this area? By doing so you can get new, creative ideas to fill your hours with fun and relaxation.