7/1/2023 0 Comments Vinyl storage hacks![]() ![]() Ikea used to make these really great GLADSAX frames for displaying records on the wall. ![]() Discontinued: GLADSAX – Vinyl Wall Display For a cleaner storage option, consider adding one of Ikea’s many finished storage boxes for a plush finished look. Equally, if you only need two compartments, simply incorporate the added shelf for handy storage of your vinyl accessories (cleaning equipment, record clamps, replacement styli, and more). If you’re wondering about the added shelf in the central compartment, you’ll be pleased to know the shelf is easily removed to allow for more record storage. I stained mine a dark walnut color to convey a more sophisticated finish that wouldn’t look out of place in a contemporary city apartment. Better still, they are easily waxed, painted, or stained to give them a custom look. The NORNÄS range was my personal favorite vinyl record storage solutions from Ikea as they were a solid pine construction which adds immediate character and authenticity. The record frame was a particularly popular option among our readers subsequently, I’ve also included a couple of alternative options as a replacement. I’ve kept them in this article, as they were popular options for record enthusiasts, and who knows, you might be able to score one secondhand if you do a little digging. Since this article was originally published (in March 2017), IKEA has sadly discontinued a number of the following products. Second-hand furniture stores and antique shops are a great source of potential record storage units just waiting for your creative input. The beauty is, almost anything large enough to house vinyl records could become a potential storage option, you’ll just have to think outside the box a little (see what I did there) about how you finish the piece. (You can purchase these from specialist companies, and this simple modification can transform a piece of furniture). If you’re feeling creative, you could go one step further and replace the legs with modern hairpin-style versions. Once the internal shelves are removed, vinyl records easily slot inside. For example, this mid-century style piece (pictured below) could make the perfect living-room showpiece with just a little modification. I never would have thought of this, but it is quite genius and saves a lot of space instead of the typical horizontal shelves for paper storage, which is great if you have a small crafting room.If you feel like taking on a project, there’s a whole host of potential record storage options throughout IKEA’s portfolio. ![]() Ikea spice racks make the perfect inexpensive shelving units to store miscellaneous craft supplies in a tidy way in your workspace. Custom Office Worktable Ikea Drawers Hack You may have seen this genius idea on our list of Cricut Hacks – these $2 Ikea plastic bag holders are the perfect storage unit for vinyl and you literally cannot beat this price! ( via It Happens in a Blink) 7. $2 Ikea Plastic Bag Holders for Vinyl Storage Use them to store vinyl, craft supplies, and they make the perfect surface for your heat press or cutting machine. The Alex drawers unit are the ultimate Ikea hack for Cricut lovers because they are so multifunctional. If you love to sew and use your Cricut Maker, you are going to want to pin this and beg your husband to help you make it! ( via A Bright Corner) 5. DIY Sewing Table from Ikea Kallax Shelf Units Colorful Craft Drawers Ikea Hackĭo you love adding pops of color into your craft room decor? Check out this adorable Ikea hack for vinyl and other Cricut supplies storage. Ultimate DIY Craft Table Ikea HackĪre you drooling just looking at this craft table? I know I am! This brilliant designs combines 3 pieces from Ikea to create the ultimate DIY craft table for just $160! ( via Landee See Landee Do) 3. That is why, I adore this clever and super cheap storage hack for all your Cricut supplies that easily rolls into a closet for storage out of the way! And the best part? It’s only $30 for the cart! ( via Do It Better Yourself) 2. Not everyone has enough room in their home to dedicate a whole room to crafting. DIY Cricut Storage with $30 Ikea Raskog Cart Sound like you too? Well, check out these brilliant Ikea hacks for Cricut crafters that will allow you to create your dream craft room and organize all your Cricut supplies while sticking to your budget. If you are like me, you LOVE scrolling through Pinterest and admiring other’s craft room setups! However, I also need to keep in mind that I don’t have unlimited funds for decorating, so Ikea is my best friend when it comes to furniture. Via Do It Better Yourself // It Happens in a Blink // Landee See Landee Do ![]()
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7/1/2023 0 Comments Free printable hidden pictures![]() ![]() Introduce a time-limited gameplay element in which objects can appear or disappear at any time. How to make the hidden object puzzle more challenging? The puzzle can become more difficult and require careful analysis when the shapes are ambiguous. Give players ambiguous shadows or silhouettes of the objects rather than a clear image of them.īecause there are no visual cues left, they must accurately identify and locate the objects using their knowledge and memories. By requiring them to switch between specific details and general searches, it makes the challenge more difficult. Players must now adjust their focus and visual acuity as they must search for objects of various sizes. Include a range of objects in the scene, from small to large. ![]() To maximize their score or beat the clock, players must strike a balance between speed and accuracy. This increases the need to locate items quickly and may make the puzzle more challenging overall. Why sense of immediacy is an important element in a hidden object puzzle?Ĭreate a sense of urgency by adding deadlines or a scoring system to encourage quicker completion. Make sure the decoys are realistic and blend in with the surroundings, which will make players look at each potential object more carefully. These ruses can cause confusion and increase the difficulty of the puzzle. Introduce replicas of the hidden items that the players are not expected to find. Players will find it more difficult to quickly recognize the objects as a result. Use techniques for camouflaging, like matching colors or incorporating items with similar shapes or patterns to the surroundings. They will need to focus more intently and carefully distinguish between important objects and background noise as a result of the increased complexity.īy partially hiding them or blending them into the background, you can make it harder to find the hidden objects. ![]() Increase the number of objects, details, or overlapping elements that might divert the player. Make the scene more complicated and crowded. What Makes Hidden Object Game Interesting? ![]() 7/1/2023 0 Comments Rhianna round of applause![]() “There’s some rumors going around, people have been in my comments saying, ‘Keke’s having a baby, Keke’s pregnant,’” she said. 3 while hosting “Saturday Night Live.” She got right down to baby business. Palmer did it during her opening monologue Dec. So while social media sorts its feelings on Rihanna's show, here's a quick look back on a few other pregnancy reveals that played out while the expectant mothers were essentially at work. To be clear, women the world over have worked while pregnant since the beginning of time. Preggers and probably swollen AF, Rihanna gave us choreography in the sky, dancers that look like the Michelin men, hit after HIT all while pregnant! Go AWF sis!” This woman is pregnant, performed and danced for 13 mins while suspended in the air,” tweeted the writer Luvvie Ajayi Jones.Īdded actor and writer Danielle Pinnock on Twitter: “My girl was pregnant and y’all still not happy with the performance?! The internet is wild. Y’all get a cold and you’ll think the Bubonic Plague got you. “What I don’t wanna hear, and def not from ANY MAN was that Rihanna didn’t do enough during her #Superbowl performance. Rihanna fans were having none of it when it came to criticism of her performance. That alone turned the pre-Super Bowl discourse to working mothers, without her even mentioning she was having another child. If she was going to leave her baby to perform, she said, she was going to do it for something big. Instead, she focused on the decision to spend time away from her son for the first time, and how difficult that was. Rihanna didn’t talk about the pregnancy before the Super Bowl. ![]() ![]() And halfway through, she did it in a huge red puffer coat and matching gloves. She did it wearing three vintage diamond brooches, in a pair of low sneakers. Underneath was a matching bodysuit with a leather breastplate tied on. While haters and stans debate Rihanna's performance, some of the former trashing the show overall, she joins a contingent of famous women to capture a cultural moment with a pregnancy reveal.Īnd she did it while floating on a platform, in a fire-engine-red boiler suit zipped strategically down to reveal her substantial bump. Just about nine months after giving birth to her first child, a boy (whose name hasn't yet been revealed), with A$AP Rocky. Fans continued to have love on the brain as Rihanna served one amazing maternity look after another.Īs for Rihanna's relationship with A$AP Rocky, the two go way back (yes, we're still thinking about their "Cockiness" remix in 2011 and "Fashion Killa" video in 2013). The pair sparked romance rumors for years, and reignited dating speculation after news of Rihanna's split from her boyfriend of three years, Hassan Jameel, broke in 2020.Īnd while Rihanna and A$AP Rocky initially played coy about their relationship status, they confirmed their romance with PDA-packed date nights and made their Met Gala debut as a couple in 2021.NEW YORK (AP) - When one becomes a mother, Rihanna mused before her epic Super Bowl halftime show, “there’s something that just happens where you feel like you could take on the world - you can do anything.”Īnd so she did Sunday, on one of the biggest stages in the world. The Fenty Beauty mogul was shining bright like a diamond when she bared her baby bump during a stroll through New York in January. ![]() The news comes less than four months after fans learned of RiRi's pregnancy. E! News has reached out to both stars' reps for comment but has yet to hear back. The singer, 34, has welcomed her first child with A$AP Rocky, 33, multiple outlets report. Sources tell TMZ, which was first to report the news, Rihanna gave birth to a baby boy in Los Angeles on May 13. Grab your umbrella because congratulatory messages for Rihanna are pouring in. ![]() 7/1/2023 0 Comments Dancing mumble penguin![]() The emphasis on choral writing is quasi-religious, particularly alluding to religious conservatism, which is also hinted at in the film’s screenplay. The melody the penguins sing at 0:42 becomes the first major theme of the album, what I will call the “colony” theme, and it represents the traditional Emperor penguin way of life, and the staunch adherence to that tradition by Mumble’s father Memphis (Jackman) and the elders, led by Noah (Weaving). Opening with staccato chants, an all male choir takes over, representing the male emperor penguins huddling together against the bitter cold, invoking the power of their ancestors and the great Guinn, their penguin god. The opening number, ‘The Huddle’, gives us an impressive piece of entirely choral majesty and power. Different tracks go through a large variety of styles and orchestrations – rich orchestral material, choral chanting, eerie, otherworldly music, epic dancing numbers, slow jams and even Hispanic action sequences! You certainly feel like you’ve really been on a musical odyssey by the album’s end. We get a great number of memorable motifs for characters and concepts, perhaps more than a children’s animated movie deserves, which just shows Powell’s commitment to the project. Powell’s work really shines in the context of the film, and on the album, which features over an hour of music. The electronic rhythms and effects present throughout the score are never in direct competition with the more orchestral elements, neither overpowers the other, and they blend almost seamlessly. Considering this film debuted in 2006, it is obvious that Powell is in a transitional period for his composing manner. Happy Feet is a nice combination of both of Powell’s composing styles – he is known for his earlier action scores which have masterfully crafted electronic samples, such as the Bourne films, and for his later fully orchestral scores for the How To Train Your Dragon movies, among others. My favourite arrangement would have to be ‘Somebody to Love’ by Queen, sung by the graduating school of penguins that Mumble and his love interest Gloria (Brittany Murphy) are part of. Each of the heart-songs, when they are sung, are interwoven seamlessly and excellently orchestrated. John Powell was responsible for everything musical in this film, and when you factor in the arrangements for the many penguin heart-songs sung throughout the film (basically any top 50 pop song from the last 5 decades) as well as the writing of instrumental music, this really was quite an undertaking – Powell apparently spent 4 years working on this film. The voice cast was surprisingly strong, featuring such talents as Hugh Jackman, Nicole Kidman, Hugo Weaving, Robin Williams, and Elijah Wood as Mumble, the penguin who can’t sing but can dance till the cows come home (or in this case, till the mother penguins come home with food to regurgitate for their young ones. The animation style was quite impressive, capturing the movements of the animals with extraordinary detail and realism, and presenting us with beautiful cinematic landscapes that evoked the harsh beauty of Antarctica. Happy Feet was Footloose meets March of the Penguins. At the heart of the film was a story about acceptance and embracing your differences, and there was a strong undercurrent of environmental messages centered on the human over-harvesting of fish in the antarctic. ![]() Happy Feet was the brainchild of Australian director George Miller, famous for his Mad Max franchise – that’s right, the guy who directed the masterpiece action flick Mad Max: Fury Road also made a film about singing, dancing penguins. Yet this instrumental soundtrack so elevated the quality of the picture that I couldn’t allow it to go unnoticed. My first Unsung Heroes post was about a film featuring animated talking penguins, which had an instrumental soundtrack buried beneath pop songs. ![]() |