SLIDES WITH NEGATIVE

SLIDES FROM NEGATIVESAffordable and easy to use automatic cameras-“soap” can make any person a photographer. The presence everywhere for the service of photographers specialized items the most famous foreign firms (it is a pity that Russian is not among them) makes it easy and relatively inexpensive within an hour or two to obtain beautiful colored glossy pictures. Camera instant shooting reduce the process of getting photos to a few seconds.

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TO BE FRAME PERFECT

IT WILL BE FRAME PERFECTAny frame — big or small — design “strict”: makes serious demands on the butto-ness of angles and their careful execution and connection. To simplify the manufacture and to get a quality frame with less effort, the French magazine “System D” offers two simple and convenient devices, which you can do yourself: a tablet for cutting sticks or baguette and a press for bonding of the workpieces.

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A BLOCK FOLDER OF CLIPPINGS

BLOCK FOLDER SCRAPBOOKSooner or later, in the drawers of your Desk, accumulates such a quantity of clippings from Newspapers, magazines, old brochures, notes that it is necessary to decide what to do with them next. There is of course, a radical method – to give it all back in and then put on the bookshelf. But this may not everywhere and not all. There are other, more simple variant: to lay down the clippings in folders with strap and remove the closed part of the Cabinet. Closed because these folders in the apartment don’t look very nice. But by putting them there, you lose these materials, which is not always desirable.

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BENCH TAVERN

BENCH-BARUsually a small supply of potatoes is in the house constantly. Keep it in the cold (which is a large part of the year) in the kitchen: in bag, box or bucket. But such containers, except that is already scarce in our kitchens right now, to put it mildly, the interior is not decorated. I for storing potatoes made a neat voluminous stool with padded seat, which can fit up to three buckets of root crops. Bench simple, and made it a common tool, which is in the building each owner. Materials is also one of those that always have on hand.

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WITH THE “GOOSE” IS NOT DRIPPING

In domestic faucets-bathtub faucets have a swivel pipe (“goose”) as a used seal rubber ring. Over time, it is embedded abrasive particles contained in the polluted water, and at every turn the “goose” gradually grind off the walls of the grooves, weakened by the hood when expanding. As a result, the tube begins to “become loose” mounting of the mixer and the water leak. Further use of the tube breaks at the annular groove under the ring and requires replacement. But do not rush to throw it away. If you wish, you can extend its service life and even to improve the operational properties of tap mixer by changing the method of compaction and the water supply to the bathtub and sink. It is enough to perform a number of simple maintenance operations.

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WHILE THERE ARE VINTAGE WATCHES…

WHILE THERE ARE VINTAGE WATCHES...In other houses they are — big old clock in the wardrobe of polished red wood, with pendulum and two big shiny weights on chains. In those hours, something mysterious is through them as if time itself speaks to us about the past and about the present and about the future…
About the clock with the pendulum I dreamed a long time ago, but the legacy of second cousins grandmothers, they somehow did not get, and the Commission they asked for the money, which could buy quite a decent car such as the VAZ.

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KITCHEN IN A CUPBOARD

KITCHEN IN A CUPBOARDModern new kitchen in the apartment have an area for 10 — 12 square meters. They can place the necessary equipment that allows you to create the proper convenience not only for cooking but also eating. However, unfortunately, the number of spacious kitchens in the total housing Fund is still small: in the majority is a small kitchen area which just 5 to 7 m2.

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THE STARS COME CLOSER

THE STARS COME CLOSERObservation of the night sky in the city, especially in the metropolis, can not give pleasure to the true lovers of astronomy: sudden changes in temperature, smog and the night lighting of streets and buildings lead to instability and distortion produced in the telescope image. Therefore, many people prefer to indulge his hobby outside the city, in nature.

But not everyone has a dacha where it would be possible to keep the necessary equipment, or personal vehicle in order to get to the place of observation. And weight portable Amateur telescope complete with Equatorial mount considerable, and much of that weight falls on the mount (tripod and fixture for mounting and pointing of a telescope).

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WOOD CARVED LETTERING

WOOD CARVED SCRIPTIn our country, has long been famous for its forest resources, one of the more beloved Supreme materials has always been and remains a tree. From generation to generation the secrets of working with him. And develop products, affecting the world through the grace and plasticity of form, beauty, textures and splendor of the carved pattern.

Abramtsevo-Kudrinskaya, Bogorodskaya carving, other equally well-known school of folk arts and crafts… In all their distinctive features they have a lot in common, by the very nature and character of the material used – wood. Hence, the technology and relevant equipment and tools, which the magazine has already told readers.

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