Archive for July, 2009

The craft we call Practical Mosaic is probably something most crafters are already familiar with, easy crafting that requires no special tools and can be completed in a weekend or just a few hours. We love to search for potential craft ideas that are inexpensive and easy crafts, looking for bargains, scrounging at garage sales for the perfect plain glass hurricane or bowl, just begging for a design in simple glass pieces to transform it to a crafters pride.

Look for ordinary looking clay pots for the garden or patio that you can cover with a design of colorful mexican tile, or mixed media like colorful flat glass marbles, bottle caps or any other so-called tesserae (which simply means pieces of things) Old china like Willow and any broken lusterware are great for mosaicing just about any shape.

Practical Mosaic also likes to keep the crafter's tools, craft supplies, and expenses to a minimum while encouraging the budding mosaicist crafter to discover on their own all the designs and methods available to them. Crafters will benefit by the experience and the sharing of craft techniques and craft projects that are simple yet gratifying.

Valuable information from long-time arts crafters and mosaicists who will guide you through their projects in order to provide the inspiration for your own craft ideas. Understanding mosaic craft is not as intimidating as most think and the best way to learn is to jump in with a simple project from these pages.

Aikido was founded by Yoshimitsu Minamoto and is a marshal art handed down from generation to generation. Without going into a lot of boring details about it's history as a marshal art I thought it was the perfect way to describe an "attack" on an individual by the bad foods that will derail any diet.

Watch as Steven Segal demonstrates the art of Aikido and visualize his opponents as not just another kung fu opponent but appearing like the fruit guys of the famous Fruit of the Loom characters.

Instead of grapes and apples as his "enemies," visualize him defending himself against sugar enemies, such as the pie/cake/donut enemy, the candy enemy and the pasta and white bread enemy. Watch as he skillfully diverts them away from his body.

Work out and lose weight at the same time with the Aikido Diet.

Aikido was founded by Yoshimitsu Minamoto and is a marshal art handed down from generation to generation. Without going into a lot of boring details about it as a marshal art I thought it was the perfect way to describe an "attack" on an individual by the bad foods that will derail any diet.

Watch as Steven Segal demonstrates the art and visualize his opponents as the "processed sugar" enemies. There's the pie/cake/donut enemy, the candy enemy and the pasta enemy. Watch as he skillfully diverts them away from his body.

As marines are trained in ju jitsu they may find this method more to their liking but anyone can do it.