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		<title>How to Craft Basket Flowers</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[We have walked through the steps of creating the May basket, now it is time to craft your flowers. We have added handles, basket, etc, to your quilt, which at this time you should have created six blocks to make your basket.
How to create flowers:
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>We have walked through the steps of creating the May basket, now it is time to craft your flowers. We have added handles, basket, etc, to your quilt, which at this time you should have created six blocks to make your basket.</p>
<p>How to create flowers:<br />
We are quilting flowers. On the left side of your fabric, you will have invented pink squares. You can trace your pattern to start your project. Trace at least one flower (Choice), use your outside solid lines, and repeat your steps to create the foliage, or leaves. Use the variety of green patterns and use the yellow narrow pieces to create the center of your flower.</p>
<p>You can design roses if you like. Use a variety of greens, red, pink, white, etc, if you intend to create roses and petals. Along the lines, you have marked, cut the fabric strips sewn onto your fabric, the shaped patterns that form your design, cutting only near the lines. Use freezer paper and turn it over so that you reveal the side that does not have a shine. You want to create a starting line for the six centers of your flowers, and the flowers also. Once you mark the 12 parts, mark the leaves (12), marking them inside the dash lines. Now you are ready to cut your shapes.</p>
<p>You will need an iron and board. Use your hot press, or iron to press the flowers on your paper, pressing in the middle of your flowers on the left side and in the middle. You want the glossy paper turned in the direction of your fabric flower at this point. Do the same with the center of the flowers and foliage.<br />
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Next, collect your yellow filament/thread and tone it with the center of your flower. If the colors do not match, try another shade of yellow. Run lines of stitches into your cloth, which encloses the ring of the freezer paper. You want to congregate your material around this ring, so pull your filament up at the end. Now, tie your thread, press the ring, and use your starch bottle, spraying the region.  Do the same for the center of your flowers.</p>
<p>Next, use your variety of green filaments that match your leaves and collect the allowances at the seam. (1/4 inch) Collect around the foliage and streamlines of stitches along your fabric, about the enclosed region of your ring that is designed on the freezer paper. You want to collect your textile about the ring. Pull your filament/thread up at the finish and tie it, pressing the ring. Again, spray with starch.</p>
<p>When you congregate your allowances at the flower seams, snip the inner points of the flower corolla/petals where the flower collectively forms a ring. You will need to collect your thread that matches the color of your petals, such as pink. Just as you collected the edges of your leaves, do the same for your corollas. Once you finish running stitch lines in your fabric, which you have enclosed freezer paper about the ring, you will need to gather your material about the ring. Next, pull your strands of thread up at the finish. Next, bind your filament and then press the ring. Press, and spray the region with fabric starch.  Now seam your allowances, i.e. snip the central points of the leaves, flower center, etc where the flower collectively forms a ring. Press and starch to complete your crafting task:</p>
<p>Now you are ready to assemble the top of your quilt. After you assemble, you can move to finish your craft.</p>
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		<title>Care of the Flower Garden</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Feb 2008 00:43:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Knowing how to care for your flower garden can make a big difference in the look and over-all health of your plants. Here are some simple hints to make your garden bloom with health
1. The essentials must always be given major consideration.
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Knowing how to care for your flower garden can make a big difference in the look and over-all health of your plants. Here are some simple hints to make your garden bloom with health</p>
<p>1. The essentials must always be given major consideration.</p>
<p>Your flower garden must have an adequate supply of water, sunlight, and fertile soil. Any lack of these basic necessities will greatly affect the health of plants. Water the flower garden more frequently during dry spells.</p>
<p>When planting bulbs, make sure they go at the correct depth. When planting out shrubs and perennials, make sure that you don&#8217;t heap soil or mulch up around the stem. If you do, water will drain off instead of sinking in, and the stem could develop rot through overheating.</p>
<p>2. Mix and match perennials with annuals.</p>
<p>Perennial flower bulbs need not to be replanted since they grow and bloom for several years while annuals grow and bloom for only one season. Mixing a few perennials with annuals ensures that you will always have blooms coming on.</p>
<p>3. Deadhead to encourage more blossoms.</p>
<p>Deadheading is simply snipping off the flower head after it wilts. This will make the plant produce more flowers. Just make sure that you don&#8217;t discard the deadhead on the garden or mildew and other plant disease will attack your plants.</p>
<p>4. Know the good from the bad bugs.</p>
<p>Most garden insects do more good than harm. Butterflies, beetles and bees are known pollinators. They fertilize plants through unintentional transfer of pollen from one plant to another. 80% of flowering plants rely on insects for survival.</p>
<p>Sowbugs and dung beetles together with fungi, bacteria and other microorganisms are necessary to help in the decomposition of dead plant material, thus enriching the soil and making more nutrients available to growing plants.</p>
<p>Other insects like lacewings and dragonflies are natural predators of those insects that do the real damage, like aphis.</p>
<p>An occasional application of liquid fertilizer when plants are flowering will keep them blooming for longer.</p>
<p>Always prune any dead or damaged branches. Fuchsias are particularly prone to snapping when you brush against them. The broken branch can be potted up to give you a new plant, so it won&#8217;t be wasted.</p>
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		<title>Flower Gardening</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Feb 2008 00:44:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Flower gardening is becoming more and more popular every day.  Flowers can brighten everyone’s day, they smell nice, and are a great hobby.  Flower gardening is simple, inexpensive, and loads of fun.  Flower gardening can be done for yard decoration, simply as a hobby, or even professionally.
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Flower gardening is becoming more and more popular every day.  Flowers can brighten everyone’s day, they smell nice, and are a great hobby.  Flower gardening is simple, inexpensive, and loads of fun.  Flower gardening can be done for yard decoration, simply as a hobby, or even professionally.</p>
<p>There are some decisions that have to be made before even flower gardening can be started.  You must decide if you want annuals that live for one season and must be replanted every year, or perennials that survive the winter and return again in the summer.  When buying and planting, pay attention to what kind of flowers thrive in your climate as well ass the sun requirements.<br />
When flower gardening, you must decide what type of look you want before planting.  For instance, mixing different heights, colors, and varieties of flowers together in a “wild-plant style” will give your garden a meadow look and can be very charming.  If short flowers are planted in the front of your garden and work up to the tallest flowers in the back you will have a “stepping stone style”.</p>
<p>You can order seeds for flower gardening from catalogues or buy them from a nursery.  Most people will go to the nursery and buy actual flowers and then transplant them.  After you have prepared your garden area and bought flowers, it is a good idea to lay the flowers out in the bed to make sure you like the arrangement and that they will be spaced properly.</p>
<p>One of the easiest processes in flower gardening is the planting/ if you have seeds just sprinkle them around in the flower bed.  For planting transplants dig a hole just bigger than the flower, pull the container off, and set the flower in the hole right side up.  Cover it with the loose soil and press down firmly, then water.</p>
<p>Maintaining a flower garden is even easier than planting one.  Although they might make it on their own, a bag of fertilizer applied in the early spring is a good idea.  Pinch back any blooms after they start to fade and keep them good and watered.  To save yourself work during the next season of flower gardening, rid your garden of all debris and spread out organic nutrients like peat moss or compost.  Don’t forget to turn over the soil to properly mix in the fertilizer and rake smooth when finished.  If you have perennials planted be careful not to disturb their roots in this process.</p>
<p>Flower gardening is as easy as 1, 2, and 3: simply decide what to plant; plant it, and water, water, water!  Flower gardening is undoubtedly gaining in popularity and gives anyone excellent reason to spend some outdoors and test out their green thumb.</p>
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		<title>The Flowery Bathroom Accessories that Says Awe</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Nov 2007 00:58:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[How to add flowers
When you’ve finished decorating your bathroom, and want to add something else, like maybe a flower to the room for that bare spot on the rack or shelf behind the stool. You can take a clay flowerpot and use ceramic paint to paint your pot it takes awhile for the clay to [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>How to add flowers<br />
When you’ve finished decorating your bathroom, and want to add something else, like maybe a flower to the room for that bare spot on the rack or shelf behind the stool. You can take a clay flowerpot and use ceramic paint to paint your pot it takes awhile for the clay to draw so let it set best for 24 hours. Take a flower stamp or something small that you used on your other patterns and stamp around the flowerpot, using the same colors.</p>
<p> Now the flowerpot is finished, the wall is dry and your ready to add the flower. Setting your flowerpot on the rack, or shelf, you can even set it on the floor. Stand back and admire your new bathroom. A little paint and creativeness goes along way. Do you wish it were that easy to choose bathroom accessories or create your own? </p>
<p>It is that easy. Online you will find a wide array of bathroom accessories, including allied brass dishes, rings, mirrors, etc. Anne has a nice line of products also. The Internet is saturated with bathroom accessories, including Bouvet, Emtek, Ginger, Arredobagno, Myson, etc. You will find additional items, such as dispensers, shower baskets, rods, decorative brackets, showerheads, floor bathroom accessories, etc.<br />
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Freestanding poles are nice bathroom accessories, since you can store linen, towels, tissue, and more on the pole. You can also add a flower vase and flowers to attract visitors. In addition, you can add a flower and vase to a chair or shelf in the corner of your room. </p>
<p>Ginger makes up a nice line of products, including the glass shelves. If you do not have destructive children in the home, the glass shelves will look good with flowers, vase, and a few additional items. Ginger made the Chelsea glass shelves, which are 18-inches and made of temperament glass. The brackets are included. Chelsea is made of fake brass trimmings, yet the texture; style, material, etc are handcrafted so well that the average person would think it is real brass. </p>
<p>Adding glass shelves, freestanding pole, etc will give you extra storage as well. In addition, you could choose a few items, such as faucets, tubs, door hardware’s, and more to offset the bathroom. Cabinets are available online as well, which you can choose to match your patterns and colors. </p>
<p>If you have a nice bathroom, add a brass door handle. The door handle alone will augment the atmosphere. To offset the door handle, you might want to install a new, fancy door. Doors cost anywhere from $49.99 and up. You can find great deals online, or else visit your local Home Depots, Lowe, or related stores. </p>
<p>How to save money:<br />
You can save money on bathroom accessories by keeping track of sales, clearances, coupons, promotions, and more. </p>
<p>Most stores online and off line will run ads, especially when they want to push a product. Keep in mind that many stores will lower the prices further a week or more later. Sometimes it pays to wait. </p>
<p>If you are familiar with the Internet, you are aware that sites online offer you the option of downloading coupons. Coupons can save you a few bucks. In some instances, you can save a fortune with coupons. </p>
<p>Once you gather your bathroom accessories, you can start building. Perhaps you want to redesign your bathroom. Presently you may have a country setting, which you may want to change to an outdoor bloom. Flowery bathroom accessories are what you want to consider if this is your choice. </p>
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