Learn to design your own house

Do you believe that 'The basic elements of good home design can be learned and achieved by all?' I believe that you can make good changes in your home design yourself, and you just need some brain storming to do it. Internet can help you discover many sites which provide ideas, tips and home decor articles. These tips, and ideas can be easily adopted or re-designed according to your need or choice. Most of the DIY (do-it-yourself) sites offer easy to learn free tutorial or posts to design your home while saving money as well.

'Re-nest' offers “green” movement and the “home decor” ideas. It helps people to connect the resources they need to improve their homes, while saving money.

They believe that 'A calm, healthy, beautiful home is a necessary foundation for happiness and success in the world. Creating this home requires inspiration, connection to resources and motivation to do something about it.'

Mission: Helping people make their homes more beautiful, organized and healthy by connecting them to a wealth of resources, ideas and community online.

These are few (sample) article headlines:

• The Best Easy & Cheap DIY Home Tech Hacks
• 5 (More) Uses for Citrus Peels
• LA Go Green Expo: 10 Great Finds
• A Unique Use for Old Newspapers: Make Yarn
• Green Style: Daniel and Valeria's DIY Plywood Bedroom
• Soothing Paint Colors for a Relaxing Bedroom
• Urban Clothes Lines: One Stop Clothes Drying Shop
• Reusable Sandwich Bags: Lunch Skins

Get the fun and interesting stuff at 'brainz'

'brainz' offers interesting and funny stuff which you can estimate by going through these examples of some featured posts:

# 15 Completely Useless Cryptids
# 15 Cute Animals That Will Cause You Horrible Harm
# 15 Of The Worst Experimental Deaths Of All Time
# 15 Ways Science Will Kill Us All
# The 10 Greatest Fantasy Series Of All Time
# The 10 Biggest Auto Death Traps Ever Built

In their own words:

"We are all about engaging your brain from multiple angles and stimulating your mind with fun, unique, interesting, challenging, thought-provoking, and funny content.

Our goal is to provide you with all of the information you could possibly want, but to go as deep as possible, giving you lots of different ways to dig deeper and explore the topic. From games and quizzes to gadgets and software, Brainz has you covered."

It is not an article site as they are offering news, top 10 lists, quizzes and more about any topic.

Useful links:

'Amazing news and picture'

Strange, funny facts and pictures around the net Part-2

I love to search and browse through the sites which offer strange, fun or funny facts, pictures or photos. Our world is full of amazing things and looking around these amazing and strange pictures can keep you entertained for hours.

During my search for strange, funny facts and pictures I could go through many useful links which I want to share with my blog readers. So have fun going directly to these useful links and sites!


* 'Makezine blog' offers fascinating images, pictures, and wall papers. 'Gallery of strange vehicles'

* Strange Houses, Weird Houses, Unusual Houses & Homes from Around the World

* 50 Strange Buildings of the World

* 'The 19 most complex and dangerous roads in the world'


Related post:

Discover interesting and fun facts around you at -'Uphaa'

Learn to draw following step by step instructions

Drawspace.com is one of those sites which offer online drawing lessons, and many of these lessons are free. It is now providing around 200 free lessons on drawing. From beginners to advance level there are drawing lessons for all type of learners. And as site presents these free lessons with easy and step by step instructions anybody can learn or get useful tips from it.


More about the site!

It is an online resource for fine art educators, home schooling programs, and educational facilities. Brenda Hoddinott is the author of this site and lessons.

More about the site owner:

Brenda Hoddinott is an Award winning artist, illustrator, art educator, curriculum designer, forensic artist (retired), and author of Drawing for Dummies, The Complete Idiot's Guide to Drawing People Illustrated, and Drawing Book 1: Getting Started. Brenda has developed art curricula, and taught drawing classes since 1980.

She says: "My philosophy on teaching art is to focus primarily on the enjoyment aspects while gently introducing the technical and academic. Hence, in creating a passion for the subject matter, the quest for knowledge also becomes enjoyable."

Educating art in classrooms- useful links

Art and crafts is an interesting subject to learn or teach as it is fun for teachers as well as students. I love to teach art or crafts to my nursery class kids, as they enjoy it and the whole class is full of noises with joy and enthusiasm. This post offers useful links which can help you learn more from other teachers or educators who are teaching art in classroom.

'Craig Roland' is an art educator, author, and edu tech consultant running the blog: "The art teacher's guide to the internet" offers ideas, tools, and resources for teaching art and design in a post-digital age. In simple words the blog provides the answer to this question, "How can we use the new tools and capabilities of the Web to enhance or transform art education practices in schools?" It also offers valuable online resources and tools that you can use in the classroom with your students.

Links to more relevant sites:

* 'Art is everywhere'

* Arts Learning Interactive*

* 'Art Education's Journal'

* 'Art Education using new technology in art classrooms'

* 'The Teaching Palette' is authored by art educators for art educators to provide a collaborative and resourceful forum where art specialists of all levels can explore professional topics that impact our subject area - from classroom management to tools and techniques to integrating music.

* 'The Fugleblog'

Create scrap blog and share with all

Scrap booking is a favorite hobby and digital scrap booking is an easier form of it. Digital scrap booking is also very time saving activity as you need to do it at your computer and need only few soft wares to help you create pretty and creative projects.

Now you can make your own scrap blog. How it is possible?

Yes it is possible and you can create your own blog, sharing it online with all.

'Scrap Blog' is the place where you don't need to do anything with your pictures as they provide all the tools or utilities to make your 'blog' attractive and awesome.

- The site provides step by step instruction which can help you learn to create your online scrap blog.
- 'Get Crafty' is another page which showcases designers, new features and crafty ideas for preserving your digital memories.

- Their 'blog' can be bookmarked for updated posts.