Judging by the preview pages on the website, Let's Make Some Great Art by Marion Deuchars looks like an absolute must-buy.
Custom Lighthouses Solar , Electric or New low voltage. contact for sizing. All Lighthouses are made of the finest materials All PVC materials, Stone base. solid construction. Painted with Industrial grade Sherwin Williams coatings. Solar has 4 different modes of blinking up to 12 hr charge holding. Lighthouses are made to look authentic. we can custom build any color or size you prefer. See video on my Etsy shop of 4' and see other fine items. contact card included in Photos New Remote control color changing lights GOD BLESS AMERICA EDITION
This week is a busy week and I will be a little out of touch because I will be in a place where you can get no cell phone service a...
Unlock the secrets of ancient Egypt with our guide to Egyptian symbols and their meanings. Explore the rich symbolism behind hieroglyphs, deities, and artifacts that defined a civilization
Display the 10 Commandments in your home on two historic-looking stone tablets.
Stone Floor, Assyria, 645-640 BCE
Our very first Zion Kids project was to do craft with the children. The story of the day of David Goliath and we did a google search and found an idea to make 5 stones and bag!! How cool is that!!!!
This week is Elisha telling King Ahab and the people that they have to decide: Worship God or Baal. Review: Last week we started our lessons on Elijah. God told Elijah to stay by a brook called Cherith. God sent ravens with meat and bread in the morning and the evening for Elijah to eat. When the brook didn't have water anymore, God told Elijah to go find a widow by the city gates. Elijah found her and he asked her to feed him. She said told Elijah that there was only enough to make one loaf of bread, but Elijah told the widow that there would be enough for all of them. That was a miracle, and when the widow's son died, Elijah (and God) brought him back to life again. That was another miracle! Lesson found in 1 Kings 18: After three years, God told Elijah to go see Ahab. God also told Elijah that there would be rain again. King Ahab saw Elijah and said Elijah is trouble in Israel, but Elijah replied that King Ahab was the one causing trouble! He and his father has been worshipping Baal, and not God! Elijah told King Ahab to pick either God or Baal to worship. He couldn’t worship both. Elijah said “I am the only prophet for God, but Baal has 450 prophets. Elijah told King Ahab to gather all the people of Israel and meet at Mount Carmel. Elijah told King Ahab to bring the 450 prophets of Baal and the 400 prophets of Asherah. (Another idol) Elijah asked the people, "How long are you going to be undecided? You can't worship God and Baal! You have to pick who you will worship!" But the people wouldn't answer Elijah. Elijah said he was the only prophet for God and Baal had 450 prophets. Elijah suggested that they each take a bull, cut it up into pieces and lay it on the wood, without a fire under it. You can call your gods to light the fire and then I will call my God. King Ahab did what Elijah suggested, and Elijah told them to go first. They prepared the bull on the wood but didn't start the fire. They called out to Baal from morning until noon. No answer! No fire! Elijah mocked them and told them “Maybe your god is sleeping or busy or something. Shout out louder!” They called louder for Baal to start the fire and they cut themselves. They kept calling for Baal to start the fire until the evening, but still no fire. Nothing happened! Finally, Elijah told the people to come stand by him. Elijah took 12 stones, to represent the 12 Tribes and built an altar. Download a poster here. Elijah made a trench around the altar, added the wood and put the cut-up bull on it. Elijah said to fill four water pots full of water and to pour it on the sacrifice and on the wood. Elijah had them pour four pots of water on it three times. Water ran down all over the altar and filled the trench! Elijah called to God and said "Let it be known to the people today that You are the God in Israel and that I am Your prophet! Hear me, God and let the people know that You are the Lord God that they need to worship!" When Elijah called to God to start the fire, the fire burned up the sacrifice along with the wood, the stones and even the water in the trench! The people believed in God. They fell on their faces and said, "The Lord, He is God!" God sent a cloud, and the drought was over! The sky went dark, and God sent clouds with heavy winds and rain. I had the above altar set up on the table while we talked about Baal, then as I talked about Elijah setting up the altar, I stacked up the 12 rocks I had to make another altar. They seemed to like this visual, and they were all counting to make sure I had 12! When we were done with the lesson, I spread out the rocks and let them pick one and they wrote The Lord is God with the scripture from today's Bible verse. They love rocks and were asking if they could have one before we were finished! This is a good worksheet to add to the thoughts of the lesson, if you have time. If you wanted to, you could just print one to use for the discussion, even though, I printed one for everyone so they could make big X's and circle the pictures! Click here to print it. Click here to download the worksheet. Click here to download the updated visuals. Click here to download the pictures to color. Click here to see more and download. This is being used with each of the Elijah and Elisha lessons. Bible Verse: 1 Kings 18:39 Scripture taken from the New King James Version®. Copyright © 1982 by Thomas Nelson. Used by permission.
I had this awkward small corner to fill in my new bedroom, and some of you suggested a decorative column. I loved the idea, and jokingly suggested to John we get one of these from Restoration Hardware: It was a joke, of course, because those columns cost between $500 and $600 each. YeeeeahNO. John took a good long look at that photo, though, and said, "I could make one of those for $50." My response? "YOU'RE ON." John's initial design involved routing a lot of tiny wooden trim pieces, but then I had a brainstorm - and convinced him to try using pool noodles. You heard me, pool noodles. I won't keep you in suspense; here's our finished column: Can you spot the pool noodles? I bet you caaa-aan! ;) Obviously we weren't trying to match the RH columns exactly; I decided to go for more of a clean-cut stone or plaster look instead of distressed wood. Stone is much easier to fake than wood, and besides, you see more stone columns anyway. Other than a little scrap wood for the base & cap, this is all you need to make your own pool noodle column: That's an 8-inch concrete form tube from the hardware store, which costs about $8. The noodles were 70 cents each (on clearance at a dollar store), and we ended up using six of them. Add in a quart of contact cement, some scrap wood, and paint that we already had, and our column ended up costing us more like $20 instead of $50. (Cha-CHING!) Even if you had to buy the wood and other supplies, though, you'd still be well under $50. So let's get to it! Start by cutting all of your noodles in half with a long utility blade: Don't worry if it's not exact; just do the best you can. Lay out one of your cut noodles on the tube, arranging it into a spiral curve. When you're happy with how it looks, have a helper draw a line beside it with a Sharpie. (This will be your guide line when it comes time to glue down the noodles.) You could also lay the noodles out straight, though, if you don't like the spiral look. Next, paint the cut edges of your noodles and the surface of your concrete tube with 2 coats of contact cement, allowing them to dry for each coat. (You should find contact cement at any hardware store for less than $10 a quart.) This was my first time working with contact cement, and it. is. awesome. Once it dries it only sticks to itself, so you don't have to worry about snagging anything you don't want to - but once it sticks, it forms a permanent, ultra-strong bond. Now the fun part: sticking your pool noodles onto your tube. Line up your first one to match your guideline, and press down firmly: You'll note that we started about five inches down from the top of the tube: this gives you room to add a column cap later. (Plus the noodles aren't long enough to cover the whole tube if you curve them.) Now just keep adding on noodles: Your last noodle may be a bit of a squeeze, but jam it into place as best you can: The pink noodle was the last one we placed. As you can see, it's a bit smaller from being squished into place, but not terribly noticeable. Next you'll want to trim the edges of all your noodles. Here's the easiest method we found to mark a straight line all the way 'round: I rotated the column while John held the Sharpie, supported by a shoebox. Trim off the edges with a utility blade, and you'll have a nice noodle lip like this: From here you have a couple of options for finishing off the ends of your column. John cut wooden rings to slide over each end like a cap: Then he wrapped each ring with another pool noodle half, to give it a rounded edge: We decided John's first cap was a little too short for our space, so he re-made it extra tall, like so: He wrapped the sides in a thin aluminum, since that's what he had on hand, but you could also use wood veneer, flexible plastic sheeting, or even a heavy poster board to do the same thing: Fitting the new cap: See how much taller the new cap makes the column? Oh, and we've already sprayed on our first coat of primer here, too. Use a plastic spray-primer, or a good quality one like XIM. Then all that was left was adding a round topper: You could also make it square; I just liked it better round on top. To finish off your column, caulk in all the lines... And follow up with a good coating of spray texture - the same stuff you fix wall patches with. (The pool noodles actually have a great stone texture already, so no need to spray those unless you're trying to match the texture to your caps, like we were.) And finally, paint! I brushed on a cream colored wall paint (left), and once that dried I brushed on thinned down brown craft paint, which I immediately wiped off again with a wet paper towel. That added just the right amount of aging to the texture, and really helps sell the stone/plaster look: The end result is incredibly sturdy, and with the wood base & cap weighs a good 15 pounds, so don't worry about it tipping over too easily. Funnily enough the hardest part of this entire project was finding something to put ON the column. After weeks of searching, though, we finally settled on this urn from the garden section of Old Time Pottery: I purposely made the column more of a cream color to contrast with our gray walls. A close-up, to show off all the textures a bit better: Hope you guys liked our latest project, and that some of you will give it a try! As always, feel free to ask questions in the comments. Now that the holidays are over I have lots of fun household crafts to dive into and share, so stay tuned for more soon! For my fellow Pinners. ***** Come see ALL of my craft projects on one page, right here!
Opened in 1977, the main function of Geneva’s Champ-Dollon prison is to hold prisoners before trial and sentencing. The numbers of inmates is constantly increasing, which has lead to a chronic problem of overcrowding. 115 different nationalities were represented in the prison in 2010 with just 7.2% Swiss.
Rudkhan Castle (قلعه رودخان) is a brick and stone medieval castle in Iran. Located 25 km southwest of Foman city north of Iran in Gilan province, it is a military complex which had been constructed during the Seljuk Dynasty. The Castle is built on two tips of a mount, with an area of 50,000 square meters. Its architects have benefited from natural mountainous features in the construction of the fort. The Alborz and its northerly forests became impregnable fortresses for outlaws and sects such as the Ismailis that were seen by the Caliph as heretical. It cuts off a narrow spur to occupy the whole length of a precipitous ridge. Such a position could only be assaulted by trying to starve the defenders out. Preliminary evidence uncovered by digging indicate suggest the foundation of the structure was built in the Sasanian era and rebuilt in the Seljuks reign. Still, there is no precise information regarding the date of its construction. It has been continually used up until the Zandieh Dynasty. Above its front entrance is an inscribed plaque (which has since been removed and is currently on display in a museum in Rasht) stating that the fort had been renovated for the first time between the years 1539 and 1542 for Sultan Hesamoddin and during that time was also known as the Hesami Fort. A river known as `Rudkhan Castle River' also exists near the castle, which originates from the surrounding heights and flows from south to north. After crossing a mountainous winding route with dense forests, the first thing that one notices about the castle is its big entrance gate. The entrance gate is set on the northern wing of the castle and is composed of a gate and two towers on its two sides. On the west side of the Fort lies a main entrance (surrounded by two tall towers), residential quarters, a bath and a running spring passing through. This spring was the main water source for the Fort and following an earthquake in Gilan it ran dry, although since then it has been resurrected thanks to the efforts of Iran’s Cultural Heritage Organization. The east side of the Fort is a bit smaller and has more military characteristics. It consists of two towers, another entrance, a prison and an emergency exit. Above the north and south walls are a number of octagonal areas and the deliberate cracks in the walls of them are assumed to have been for monitoring the adjacent area and shooting arrows at approaching troops. Though being threatened and even partly eroded by excessive humidity and vegetations rooting in the chinks of its old but lofty walls, Rudkhan castle is still in very good condition as compared to other castles of the same era.
Militants of the Islamic State have destroyed a large portion of the ancient Nineveh wall in Mosul, which dates back some 2,700 years. The tragic loss adds to a series of archaeological, historical, and religious sites of great historical value that have been reduced to ruins.
