My daughter is a very artistic person and a very good scrapper. Whatever she makes is beautiful and always done to a very high standard. But like most of kids she’s always desperate for money. I have been telling her for years to turn her artistic skills into something more.

Collecting miniatures is a favorite pastime for many people. It is something that has been around longer than the latest technological toys and it remains both a fun activity as well as a collectible that can be cherished for many years to come. Many miniature collectors enjoy building their own accessories like furniture. Building miniature furniture is not all that difficult; it just requires some patience and careful construction. One great thing about making and collecting miniatures is that it create so many fantastic elements. It is the elaborate and detailed decoration, a miniature house and accessories makes it so fascinating.

Nothing is quite as impressive or a more fitting compliment to a partner than a Romantic Scrapbook that is created just for them.

A scrapbook that has pictures, memories and keepsakes of the time you have spent with your partner (whether it be a boy friend, a girl friend, your wife or your husband) is an amazing gift.

Your Romantic Scrapbook is a way of saying ‘I love you’, and can help you express your love for someone - in a way that words are not enough.

Painting birdhouses can be a fun hobby! Most unpainted birdhouses range from $5.00 to $20.00 at Michaels, a chain craft store here in the U.S. For the most part, they keep unpainted birdhouses in stock year ’round. Birdhouses can be purchased from art and gift stores, craft shows, garage sales, antique stores, and even thrift stores. They are plentiful, once you get an eye for seeing them. Thanks to birdhouses, I have slowly and gradually improved my artistic skills. You might wonder, why birdhouses?

Many years ago I was visiting a friend at his lake front house. He had a large, very heavy rowboat with no rudder (of course) but it had a trolling motor with a six-inch propeller. You could hurt yourself rowing that boat and the trolling motor strained to even get it to move. He told me the boat with oars and trolling motor weighed 1,800 pounds. It was wide and wallowed around in the water. The rowboat had come with the house and since my friend seldom had time to go fishing he had delayed buying another boat. He was going to be retiring in the next year and we were cleaning the house and sheds of the old owner’s things. I found a dozen new 6-inch, 12-volt, caged, dual speed, truck cooling fans.