Showing posts with label Crafting. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Crafting. Show all posts

Friday, December 2, 2011

Know How to Make Wooden Bed Frames For Crafting Wooden Beds

It is easy to make wooden beds if you know how. You need a right plan and proper execution of the plan to make your wooden bed a successful project. The important thing to take care of is to build the wooden bed frame. Unless, you build the frame you would not know how to complete the look of the bed.

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How to make the wooden frame of the bed?

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First, make a frame that will add to the appeal of your bedroom. Remember, it has to be of wood and therefore no metal block will compliment the pure wooden structure. First you need to make a frame that can be modified and planned into a structure that you want. But to make the plan go well, you have to know how to go about it.

A wooden bed adds to the show of your room. But wood has to be etched in the right proportion so as to ensure that you do not have to cut through the wood once again for better look. If you follow few procedures then you will know how to make the wooden bed that has a different show which can hardly match the look of the other materials, which may look good but does nor exude as much sophistication as wood.

Prefer to use the lag bolts in place of bedrail hangers. The lag bolts help to tighten the edges of the bed so that that the wood structure looks complete. If you see that the woods are fitting into places precisely, then cut the wood to place them in proper shapes. This will enable to make the wooden pieces look and seat tightly and the give the bed a complete look.

Make sure that the bedrail hangers are tightly secured with the head post and also the side rail. The screwing should be done tightly since that will ensure how well the project will be completed. The support block has to be attached to the foot rail and also the head rail. For this you need to cut a groove in it.

Now the post has to be attached to the rail. This is done by using the bedrail hanger. Once you are done with this, the support beam has to be placed tightly between the support blocks. Once, this is done place the plywood on the support beam and see how it rests exactly. Remember, the beds made out of wood exude the most sophisticated look and adds to the elegance of the room. It shows your taste for good things and how it will make your room look more beautiful

Hence, when you know how to make the bed frames it will be easy for you to complete the look of the bed made out of wood.

Know How to Make Wooden Bed Frames For Crafting Wooden Beds

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Saturday, September 10, 2011

Crafting the Romantic Comedy

Faking an orgasm in public and arriving at a 'fancy dress' party as a bunny girl, are just two memorable scenes from romantic comedies that surprise and entertain. Can you remember which movies those unforgettable scenes come from? Answer at the end of this article.

If you are a writer who enjoys films such as: You've Got Mail, When Harry Met Sally, Bridget Jones's Diary, Love Actually, [amongst many others], and wish to try your hand at writing the good old rom com, then you're already half way home.

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** So what elements does the romantic comedy need?

When we read or watch a romantic comedy we know that our hero and heroine's worlds are about to collide, suffusing conflict along the way and finally allowing the pair to get it together at the end, realizing that they complete one another.

The most important thing to remember about a rom com is it's all about the journey. In a romantic comedy, we don't usually have a list of suspects and then have to decide who the murderer is. Rather, it's the journey the hero and heroine have to take that's crucial. There should be conflict along the way, that's a given, but there should be some laughs as well. By this, I don't mean that every page has to be rip-roaringly funny. It might just be something that makes the reader smile, a comic image perhaps.

** Don't turn all your characters into caricatures!

There is a danger when writing the romantic comedy to want to make all your characters funny! Don't. Think about it, when you watch a comedy show or movie, how many of the cast are actually playing for laughs? Not all of them, you can bet. Don't forget the straight guys.

There's also a tendency to turn funny characters into caricatures by stereotyping them. For example, in Britain there's a standing joke about the German on holiday in Spain, who gets up early to leave his towel on the sun bed to stake his claim! Or the Irishman who keeps saying things like: "Top of the morning!" or "Begorrah!" Not very true to life!

** Draw from real life

Sometimes I'll include funny things that have happened to me in real life. For example, in one of my books the heroine and her friend go out nightclubbing. The friend, on leaving the club, looks up at the sky and thinks she sees a square moon. This really happened to one of my inebriated friends. It turned out to be the neon sign on the top of a very large crane!

** Using real life characters

I have a confession to make, I draw some of my characters from real life as well. These usually end up being secondary characters. For example, in one of my romance novels, Fran Santini's father is a restaurant owner. A couple of years ago, I visited an Italian restaurant in Cardiff [I won't tell you which one it is] and the owner was such a character he inspired me to invent 'Ronaldo Santini'. As soon as my mother and I entered the restaurant, he greeted us. "Beautiful Ladies. Please sit here." He was so charming we ended up ordering a bottle of wine, staying for a full three course lunch and paying much more than we would normally do at a restaurant! I haven't been there since. It will be somewhere I'll go in future for a treat.

* * Inner Conflict

To up the ante, your protagonists need to have an inner conflict as well as external conflict that the story's romantic relationship confronts and ultimately resolves.

You'll probably gather by now that I eat out. A lot. I was inspired to invent 'The Usherwood Sisters' after seeing two elderly sisters who eat out every Saturday at the same restaurant in my hometown. They always appear to eat the same meal and finish it off with a coffee. I gave them some thought and guessed they were the sort of people who didn't like having their routines upset!

The main prerequisites for writing the romantic comedy are: having a sense of humour and drawing on everyday humorous incidents, the rest is down to good writing skills.

Answer from start of article: The scene at the deli in When Harry Met Sally and Bridget Jones's Diary [when Bridget turns up at a party finding out it is not fancy dress after all.]

Crafting the Romantic Comedy

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