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Saturday, March 7, 2009

Glass Block Night Lights - Crafting Enjoyment!

Crafting is something everybody should perform time to time: is relaxing, even therapeutic and can be a wonderful idea to spend a cold afternoon or also a evening instead of watching television.

The result makes you feel very proud if it's good enough to be shown to friends and relatives and it can also be an excellent way to prepare a gift for someone special.

Deciding the right thing to craft is not always very easy: there are so many choices! Some can be very easy, some might require special skills that not everybody has.... Some require expensive tools or material difficult to find and other are project too long to perform.....

But there is a hobby which is getting more and more popular, easy to perform and which gives great results! The hobby is glass block buy toys lights crafting.

Lighted glass blocks are easy to make, vintage men's magazines you know few tricks, and the results are always spectacular.

What glass block lights are? Remember the glass block tiles to make walls, windows and panels? Don't be surprised! Those tiles can turn into a great lamp!

Glass block lights are those tiles filled with tiny, Christmas-like, lights and then decorated with some paint (a drawing or a sentence), or with a decal, or with a decoupage or even only with a fabric bow! However you decide to decorate your glass block lights, your success is guaranteed and once lighted your item will give a very cozy feel to your home.

You can use a string of one color lights, or a all-colored string for different effects; it is better to use lights with white string, unless you are going to paint your glass tile or are going to spray over it a thick coat of frost paint which will hide the cord.

If you plan to prepare some lighted glass blocks to give as presents for next holidays or other special occasions as a birthday, a wedding, a baby shower or the alike, you should start early. This way you'll have enough time to improve your skills and experiment with different options or materials. Search for the things you need to start this new and satisfactory hobby are not difficult to find and there are some good stores with plenty of choices and interesting prices.

Your glass block night lights will pleased everyone: you can be sure that your next gift will be a great success!

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Training Puppies Not to Bite - Easy One-Step Method

Training your puppy Limited Collectors Edition the oldest baseball card bite! What a shock to realize that your adorable puppy has teeth as sharp as tiny daggers. What's more, it wants to chew and bite your fingers, hands and toes. In short, it is treating you just as it would one of its litter mates. However, you are the leader of the pack, and it is up to you to let the puppy that your fingers are off limits.

Believe it or not, training puppies not to bite, your puppy or any puppy, is pretty easy and shouldn't be a problem, and that's a good thing as it is one of the first things you'll have to deal with.

Rule number one, when training any puppy do not scold or get angry. Do not punish it for biting. Remember, your puppy hasn't yet learned that you are not really a litter mate. Some dog trainers suggest that you give a scream when the puppy bites you because that's what a litter mate would do. The idea is that when you scream, the puppy will stop its biting. When the puppy stops biting, you praise it and give a treat.

That might work, but this is not what I recommend. In my opinion, I don't think that imitating dog behavior is always the best methodology for humans to follow when training puppies. And in this case, I certainly don't think it is the best method to train puppies not to bite.

Recommended: The puppy training technique that I recommend and have had success with time and time again is this. When the puppy begins to bite your hands, fingers, or toes, gently hold its muzzle shut until it begins to whine. Once it begins to whine, let go and let the puppy lick your hand if it wants to. Follow that routine whenever the puppy bites you hands. It won't be long before the puppy stops biting you so that it hurts. In fact, the expected result is that puppy will rarely even take your fingers or hands in its mouth. Remember, however, always be very gentle and do not scold or rebuke the puppy in any way. An optional step to this procedure is to offer the puppy a toy to chew on after you release the muzzle.

This is such an incredibly simple method, that I am amazed that it is such a secret! If you follow the procedure described above, within a few days your puppy will stop biting your fingers.

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