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Pick a Colour Scheme

Pick a Colour Scheme

Craft projects or decor, wardrobe planning, website design, or even landscape and garden planning — whatever you create, much of your success will depend on an attractive colour palette that has balance and harmony. There are lots of fun colour scheme tools online, but only one that I count as an essential colour planning utility, [...]

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Get Crafty with Grosgrain Style

Get Crafty with Grosgrain Style

You know grosgrain ribbon, right? That sturdy multi-purpose ribbon with strong ribs going across it? Striped, solid, or even printed with polka dots though it may be — yeah, you know grosgrain when you see it. Grosgrain ribbon makes a regular appearance in our old family photo albums — mostly in striped ribbon belts with [...]

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Miniature Trees in Spookytown

Miniature Trees in Spookytown

I’ve got to confess to having a weakness for Spookytown miniatures — well, anything miniature, if it comes to that — ever since I read Piers Anthony’s now-classic fantasy On a Pale Horse (part of his Incarnations of Immortality series), and then spotted the “Death On A Pale Horse” figurine in that really good Toronto [...]

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Real-World Renovation: 1920s Prairie Box: Painting the Living Room

Real-World Renovation: 1920s Prairie Box: Painting the Living Room

Renovation adventures make for lively reading — it’s all the fun of a full-blown home makeover, only someone else does the work and pays the bills! Somewhere out there in rural Indiana, USA, a 1920s foursquare house is getting a major makeover. Although is is in very good shape structurally, the previous previous owners (PPOs) [...]

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Stylish Steel for a Modern Kitchen

Stylish Steel for a Modern Kitchen

Two of the hottest trends for a modern kitchen makeover are continuing to gain ground, partly because a sleek techno-industrial style is the perfect place to splash out with those vibrant high-fashion colours that give such life to a decorating scheme — lime green, cobalt blue, burnt orange — without taking it over the top… [...]

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