As fans of lantern making and lantern-making, I bet you already know
how to make paper balloon lanterns. If you don?t, you can follow the
instruction here, or attending our workshop:
http://www.ehow.com/how_4797962_paper-balloon-lantern.html
Once you master this basic balloon lantern, you can make lovely puffy
fish, angry bird, monkey, rabbit, bee, flower, eerie robot or insect!
You name it.
Here are some examples what others start with balloon lantern:
Send us the picture of your creation too so we can post it here :>
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As fans of lantern making and lantern-making, I bet you already know how to make paper balloon lanterns. If you don’t, you can follow the instruction here, or attending our workshop:
http://www.ehow.com/how_4797962_paper-balloon-lantern.html
Once you master this basic balloon lantern, you can make lovely puffy fish, angry bird, monkey, rabbit, bee, flower, eerie robot or insect! You name it.
Here are some examples what others start with balloon lantern:
Send us the picture of your creation too so we can post it here :>
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Running short of time and idea to make lanterns for the festival?
Beautiful lanterns, or bizarre ones if it is the way you want, can be
made quickly.
What you need:
Rinse the milk jug and remove label.
Cut opening that is big enough to put a tea light candle, or a LED one,
in.
Cut more shape for your own design.
Give color and patterns to the milk jug by either gluing colored tissue
paper or paint.
Here is a collection of what people do with their milk jugs. Start your
creativity now!
Eerie Luminarias ? Cat, Dog
http://www.bhg.com/halloween/outdoor-decorations/eerie-luminarias/
Spirit Jugs
http://familyfun.go.com/crafts/spirit-jugs-673388/
Universal lamp shade polygon building kit
http://www.instructables.com/id/Universal-lamp-shade-polygon-building-kit/
Milk jug Jack-O-Lantern
http://www.instructables.com/id/Milk-Jug-Jack-o-Lanterns/
Recycled Milk Jug Lanterns
http://tlc.howstuffworks.com/family/recycled-milk-jug-crafts3.htm
Other projects:
Recycled Jar Jack O Lanterns
http://www.instructables.com/id/Recycled-Jar-Jack-OLanterns/
Milk Jug crafts for kids
http://www.artistshelpingchildren.org/milkjugscontainersartscraftsideaskids.html
Milk bottle lamps
http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2007/06/milk-bottle-lamps.html#0_undefined,0_
How to Make a Lamp Out of Vintage Glass Milk Bottles
http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/165620/how_to_make_a_lamp_out_of_vintage_glass_pg2.html?cat=24
http://www.designswan.com/archives/11-cool-and-unusual-lamp-designs.html
http://www.plantea.com/milk-jug.htm
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Running short of time and idea to make lanterns for the festival?
Beautiful lanterns, or bizarre ones if it is the way you want, can be made quickly.
What you need:
Rinse the milk jug and remove label.
Cut opening that is big enough to put a tea light candle, or a LED one, in.
Cut more shape for your own design.
Give color and patterns to the milk jug by either gluing colored tissue paper or paint.
Here is a collection of what people do with their milk jugs. Start your creativity now!
Eerie Luminarias – Cat, Dog
http://www.bhg.com/halloween/outdoor-decorations/eerie-luminarias/
Spirit Jugs
http://familyfun.go.com/crafts/spirit-jugs-673388/
Universal lamp shade polygon building kit
http://www.instructables.com/id/Universal-lamp-shade-polygon-building-kit/
Milk jug Jack-O-Lantern
http://www.instructables.com/id/Milk-Jug-Jack-o-Lanterns/
Recycled Milk Jug Lanterns
http://tlc.howstuffworks.com/family/recycled-milk-jug-crafts3.htm
Other projects:
Recycled Jar Jack O Lanterns
http://www.instructables.com/id/Recycled-Jar-Jack-OLanterns/
Milk Jug crafts for kids
http://www.artistshelpingchildren.org/milkjugscontainersartscraftsideaskids.html
Milk bottle lamps
http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2007/06/milk-bottle-lamps.html#0_undefined,0_
How to Make a Lamp Out of Vintage Glass Milk Bottles
http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/165620/how_to_make_a_lamp_out_of_vintage_glass_pg2.html?cat=24
http://www.designswan.com/archives/11-cool-and-unusual-lamp-designs.html
http://www.plantea.com/milk-jug.htm
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Tuesday Tips: Planning Ahead ? Visualizing the Scenario
Imagine you were visiting Montreal and you know some French, enough to
get by. However, you haven?t used your French in eons. You want to go
to a local boulangerie to buy some fresh baguettes. If you?re like me,
you would practice in your head exactly what you want to say (I want
one baguette, please ? en francais, of course). Then you are going to
practice what they might say back to you (That will be $4.95 ? again,
en francais). Of course, you may want to practice something that?s
totally off topic (Where did you get that dress), but that wouldn?t fit
the context (or maybe it will).
Visualization is a technique that is often used by athletes in
preparation for difficult maneuvers. We can use the same when
approaching difficult communication situations.
- Envision the scenario that is about to happen. Important visual and
aural cues are missing with hearing loss, but the brain can fill in the
gaps if you know what is happening.
- Anticipate what is going to be said. In a place like boulangerie,
there are certain phrases that are commonly used. Practice those
phrases. The practice would help your brain to be prepared for what is
about to be said.
- Different situations means different possibilities. So what you might
expect in the bakery would be different from what is said in a doctor?s
office from what is said in a restaurant. Context is everything.
Visualize the scenario and anticipate the speech and your brain will be
warmed up for each and every difficult situation. Just like many
things, planning ahead can help you to avoid unwanted pitfalls.
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Imagine you were visiting Montreal and you know some French, enough to get by. However, you haven’t used your French in eons. You want to go to a local boulangerie to buy some fresh baguettes. If you’re like me, you would practice in your head exactly what you want to say (I want one baguette, please – en francais, of course). Then you are going to practice what they might say back to you (That will be $4.95 – again, en francais). Of course, you may want to practice something that’s totally off topic (Where did you get that dress), but that wouldn’t fit the context (or maybe it will).
Visualization is a technique that is often used by athletes in preparation for difficult maneuvers. We can use the same when approaching difficult communication situations.
- Envision the scenario that is about to happen. Important visual and aural cues are missing with hearing loss, but the brain can fill in the gaps if you know what is happening.
- Anticipate what is going to be said. In a place like boulangerie, there are certain phrases that are commonly used. Practice those phrases. The practice would help your brain to be prepared for what is about to be said.
- Different situations means different possibilities. So what you might expect in the bakery would be different from what is said in a doctor’s office from what is said in a restaurant. Context is everything.
Visualize the scenario and anticipate the speech and your brain will be warmed up for each and every difficult situation. Just like many things, planning ahead can help you to avoid unwanted pitfalls.
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Ann's fish lantern will be at fringe festival in Centennial Square
tonight :> See the full gallery on Posterous
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Ann's fish lantern will be at fringe festival in Centennial Square tonight :>
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How technologies shape our health care? Health avatar? Tailored therapy
according to dna? Doc get paid by outcome?
shaphttp://www.fastcompany.com/1773215/six-major-disruptions-still-to-come-in-health-care
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How technologies shape our health care? Health avatar? Tailored therapy according to dna? Doc get paid by outcome? shaphttp://www.fastcompany.com/1773215/six-major-disruptions-still-to-come-in-health-care
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Tuesday Tips: Restaurants
Restaurants must be the bain of all hearing aids. Hearing aids do well
with isolated noises, but with noise from all directions, it becomes
quite confusing. A few strategies when dining out, however, can help
minimize problems.
- Pick your restaurants carefully. Restaurants with a lot of ambience
tend to be bad. Ambience in restaurants usually come in the form of
low-lighting, background music, and hard, funky surfaces. The best
restaurant from an acoustic standpoint is one with upholstered
furniture, no background music, good lighting, and low ceilings.
- Go early for dinner. You can miss the bulk of the noisy dinner crowd
and you usually have your choice of any seat in the house. So pick the
potentially quietest corner or table in the restaurant.
- Choose your table wisely. If you can choose a table, pick one that?s
in the corner. Two walls mean a little less noise. However, make sure
you?re not right by the kitchen; otherwise, you?ll hear all the cutlery
and chopping emitting from there. If there are booths available, they
are often better for communication. The enclosure of your table can
reduce the amount of noise that you hear.
- If you do get to choose a seat at your table, pick according to where
the noise is. If you have hearing aids, you should set the aids to the
noise mode and sit with your back to the restaurant while facing the
wall. The wall doesn?t make as much noise as your fellow diners, so
it?s better to be facing it. If you don?t have hearing aids, then sit
beside the wall so that at least you can hear some of the conversation
from one ear.
Sometimes, you can do all the above and still have a difficult time in
the restaurant. Be patient and have a good humour about misunderstood
conversation. Sometimes the misunderstanding can lead to good joke for
everyone to share.
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Restaurants must be the bain of all hearing aids. Hearing aids do well with isolated noises, but with noise from all directions, it becomes quite confusing. A few strategies when dining out, however, can help minimize problems.
- Pick your restaurants carefully. Restaurants with a lot of ambience tend to be bad. Ambience in restaurants usually come in the form of low-lighting, background music, and hard, funky surfaces. The best restaurant from an acoustic standpoint is one with upholstered furniture, no background music, good lighting, and low ceilings.
- Go early for dinner. You can miss the bulk of the noisy dinner crowd and you usually have your choice of any seat in the house. So pick the potentially quietest corner or table in the restaurant.
- Choose your table wisely. If you can choose a table, pick one that’s in the corner. Two walls mean a little less noise. However, make sure you’re not right by the kitchen; otherwise, you’ll hear all the cutlery and chopping emitting from there. If there are booths available, they are often better for communication. The enclosure of your table can reduce the amount of noise that you hear.
- If you do get to choose a seat at your table, pick according to where the noise is. If you have hearing aids, you should set the aids to the noise mode and sit with your back to the restaurant while facing the wall. The wall doesn’t make as much noise as your fellow diners, so it’s better to be facing it. If you don’t have hearing aids, then sit beside the wall so that at least you can hear some of the conversation from one ear.
Sometimes, you can do all the above and still have a difficult time in the restaurant. Be patient and have a good humour about misunderstood conversation. Sometimes the misunderstanding can lead to good joke for everyone to share.
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Reducing Background Noise
It doesn?t take too much to make a conversation easier to hear. Just
reduce the background noise. I?m not asking you to stop the world from
turning and getting all the noise out of the world, but you can do some
simple things to reduce background noise.
- Turn down or off any unnecessary music or sound. That could be your
own TV or the radio. You may have to ask the owner of the device to
turn it down. A conversation is lot easier without music covering over
all the words
- Close the windows. If the windows are open and you get all the
traffic noise, shut the sound out by closing the windows. It?s a tough
call during a hot summer day, but less noise makes a huge difference
- Move away from the noise. If you can?t control the sound, at least
move away from it. Just stepping a few feet away, or even out of a
room, from the noise, it will be a relief to your ears and your
conversation partner.
There?s no one end-all answer to reducing background noise. Use your
best judgment and reduce any background noise that you can reduce.
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It doesn’t take too much to make a conversation easier to hear. Just reduce the background noise. I’m not asking you to stop the world from turning and getting all the noise out of the world, but you can do some simple things to reduce background noise.
- Turn down or off any unnecessary music or sound. That could be your own TV or the radio. You may have to ask the owner of the device to turn it down. A conversation is lot easier without music covering over all the words
- Close the windows. If the windows are open and you get all the traffic noise, shut the sound out by closing the windows. It’s a tough call during a hot summer day, but less noise makes a huge difference
- Move away from the noise. If you can’t control the sound, at least move away from it. Just stepping a few feet away, or even out of a room, from the noise, it will be a relief to your ears and your conversation partner.
There’s no one end-all answer to reducing background noise. Use your best judgment and reduce any background noise that you can reduce.
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