10 points!!! What are nail fimo art canes?

lalalalala

I want to enter a contest on youtube, and that's a prize. What is it excatly? Thanks!

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http://www.catherienarts.com/2008/08/22/beautiful-new-fimo-nail-art-canes/

good luck

can you give me ideas on a Nail art Theme?

Chris

hi im looking for nail themes to do im holding a contest on youtube and have a company sponcering me i have one theme already but i need one more thank you i appriciate it
like christmas is a theme
a birthdau theme
stuff like that but creative

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I love nail art (:

Some ideas are:
fall
back to school
peace
halloween
food

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I have very little money and a house that needs to be decorated. Can I enter a contest or something? LOL?

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banshera20

My husband died 2 years ago. We were in the middle of having a house built. I used what money I had to try to finish this thing. Got ripped of by shoddy worksmen and "friends". Now I look at a bare house and just have no creative flow or ambition. Where can I get ideas that won't cost me a fortune?

Answer
You could apply to Extreme Home Makeover but your chances of being chosen are slim to none, considering it's popularity.

Gosh, there are lots of things you could do that wouldn't cost anything. Shop at thrift stores, ebay, yard sales. You can find all sorts of things if you really look for them, at very low prices.

Buy some cheap fabric (Walmart has a great selection of fabric and great prices0 in a color or pattern you like and cover dining chairs, sofa, chair, etc. You can also create swags with the material and without buying those expensive things that hold the swags. You can use really long nails...tap them in on either side of the window. Take a length of fabric (make sure you have enough to account for the "twist" around the nail) and drape it down one side, wrap it loosely around the first nail..."swag" it over to the other nail and again loosely wrap and then let fall down other side of window. You can manipulate the fabric to hide the nailhead.

Go to your local hardware or home improvement store and purchase "Oops" paint. This is paint that has not been mixed to a customer's satisfaction and so the store sells it at a very, very, "below retail" price. You are bound to find a color or colors to suit you.

Paint your own border around a room, even if you lack artistic skills. You can buy craft paint, look for a sale at a arts and crafts store, some cheap brushes and create a border. You can even cut out your own stencil, using those styrofoam meat trays. Find a design you like and using a sharp utility knife carve the design from the tray and there you go.

Watch those decorating on the cheap shows on HGTV, they create stuff from nothing and can show you all the neatest tips and tricks for just what you need.

Rearranging furniture, moving items from one room to another, etc. can give you a new and great look.

Search Google, there are lots and lots of great ideas out there. And let your imagine go wild..if you like it do it, even if it seems unconventional. Good luck and I'm sorry to hear that you husband passed away.

How would one go about establishing a small business that makes custom bumper stickers?

Brian

My friend and I want to go into business together making custom bumper stickers for people. For example, someone sends us what they want on it and we make it happen. We know all about the materials needed, and we're raring to go.

The only thing is, we don't really know how to start. How do we make ourselves known? How should we advertise? Will we need some sort of license or permit to sell them? Is there anything else we should know?

All advice is appreciated!

Answer
For a business like this, volume is the only way to make a profit. Custom work is, by it's nature, low volume.
While you are waiting for those determined customers who are willing to pay serious money for vanity bumper stickers, you need to look at some regular and repeatable volume jobs to pay your salaries.
That said, in order to sell to the public, you need to charge sales tax. Go the State Comptroller on your state website and see what the requirements are.
The very first thing is to develop a web site that talks about your custom capabilities, show samples and gives people a way to design and order their own. No matter what other marketing you do, make a point of driving people to the web site.
As for marketing, talk to booster clubs of local schools, all levels, and see if they would contract with you to make their stickers and then they can sell them for you. If their sports teams get to the playoffs, and you can turn them out quickly enough, you might be able to get weekly orders until the seasons are over. (This would be a low margin portion of the business, because the boosters will be selling these for a profit for the teams.)
Talk to small to medium sized local businesses about providing regular customers with bumper stickers. (They, in turn, might offer their clients a small discount for services in return for displaying their stickers. Car washes, nail salons, etc.)
Talk to local radio stations, the types that do contests and promotions to see if you can provide stickers that could be incorporated into their contests. ("I listen to Ray in the morning...")
Talk to the local Chamber of Commerce about getting a list of other new businesses who might be open to this as low cost marketing.
Contact the local conventions bureau and get a list of upcoming conventions and trade shows. Contact those planners and see if you can provide custom stickers for their events.
Contact local event planners and ask if your stickers could be incorporated into local charity events, ("Geezers Fundraising Ball 2009.")
Talk to local live music venues and clubs about producing stickers for upcoming shows.
If you have any local success, talk to the local TV morning shows about getting on their new product segments. Have some samples made with the hosts' name or the name of the show, plus some other designs that show civic or school pride. You will need to have several talking points ready and memorized, because the amount of time you have to talk in these segments can be as short as 60 seconds. The most important thing is to lead people back to your web site.
Go to the library and get a list of all the magazines that cater to hobbys--sports, crafts, nature, gardening, cooking, arts, anything at all. Send a press release to their new product editors along with a sample or two of your work, preferably a sample appropriate to the hobby and/or magazine or editor, ("I think Jane at Cooks Anonymus should get a raise.") (There will be hundreds of these magazines.) With follow up and luck, you may get published as part of their editorial coverage (which is free to you.) Again, the goal is to push people to your web site and that should bring in customers from outside your local market.
Keep a file of any media attention you get and samples of each job you produce. This will help build your reputation and give the company credibility.
Keep your day job in the meantime.

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I have very little money and a house that needs to be decorated. Can I enter a contest or something? LOL?

nail art contest image

banshera20

My husband died 2 years ago. We were in the middle of having a house built. I used what money I had to try to finish this thing. Got ripped of by shoddy worksmen and "friends". Now I look at a bare house and just have no creative flow or ambition. Where can I get ideas that won't cost me a fortune?

Answer
You could apply to Extreme Home Makeover but your chances of being chosen are slim to none, considering it's popularity.

Gosh, there are lots of things you could do that wouldn't cost anything. Shop at thrift stores, ebay, yard sales. You can find all sorts of things if you really look for them, at very low prices.

Buy some cheap fabric (Walmart has a great selection of fabric and great prices0 in a color or pattern you like and cover dining chairs, sofa, chair, etc. You can also create swags with the material and without buying those expensive things that hold the swags. You can use really long nails...tap them in on either side of the window. Take a length of fabric (make sure you have enough to account for the "twist" around the nail) and drape it down one side, wrap it loosely around the first nail..."swag" it over to the other nail and again loosely wrap and then let fall down other side of window. You can manipulate the fabric to hide the nailhead.

Go to your local hardware or home improvement store and purchase "Oops" paint. This is paint that has not been mixed to a customer's satisfaction and so the store sells it at a very, very, "below retail" price. You are bound to find a color or colors to suit you.

Paint your own border around a room, even if you lack artistic skills. You can buy craft paint, look for a sale at a arts and crafts store, some cheap brushes and create a border. You can even cut out your own stencil, using those styrofoam meat trays. Find a design you like and using a sharp utility knife carve the design from the tray and there you go.

Watch those decorating on the cheap shows on HGTV, they create stuff from nothing and can show you all the neatest tips and tricks for just what you need.

Rearranging furniture, moving items from one room to another, etc. can give you a new and great look.

Search Google, there are lots and lots of great ideas out there. And let your imagine go wild..if you like it do it, even if it seems unconventional. Good luck and I'm sorry to hear that you husband passed away.

How would one go about establishing a small business that makes custom bumper stickers?

Brian

My friend and I want to go into business together making custom bumper stickers for people. For example, someone sends us what they want on it and we make it happen. We know all about the materials needed, and we're raring to go.

The only thing is, we don't really know how to start. How do we make ourselves known? How should we advertise? Will we need some sort of license or permit to sell them? Is there anything else we should know?

All advice is appreciated!

Answer
For a business like this, volume is the only way to make a profit. Custom work is, by it's nature, low volume.
While you are waiting for those determined customers who are willing to pay serious money for vanity bumper stickers, you need to look at some regular and repeatable volume jobs to pay your salaries.
That said, in order to sell to the public, you need to charge sales tax. Go the State Comptroller on your state website and see what the requirements are.
The very first thing is to develop a web site that talks about your custom capabilities, show samples and gives people a way to design and order their own. No matter what other marketing you do, make a point of driving people to the web site.
As for marketing, talk to booster clubs of local schools, all levels, and see if they would contract with you to make their stickers and then they can sell them for you. If their sports teams get to the playoffs, and you can turn them out quickly enough, you might be able to get weekly orders until the seasons are over. (This would be a low margin portion of the business, because the boosters will be selling these for a profit for the teams.)
Talk to small to medium sized local businesses about providing regular customers with bumper stickers. (They, in turn, might offer their clients a small discount for services in return for displaying their stickers. Car washes, nail salons, etc.)
Talk to local radio stations, the types that do contests and promotions to see if you can provide stickers that could be incorporated into their contests. ("I listen to Ray in the morning...")
Talk to the local Chamber of Commerce about getting a list of other new businesses who might be open to this as low cost marketing.
Contact the local conventions bureau and get a list of upcoming conventions and trade shows. Contact those planners and see if you can provide custom stickers for their events.
Contact local event planners and ask if your stickers could be incorporated into local charity events, ("Geezers Fundraising Ball 2009.")
Talk to local live music venues and clubs about producing stickers for upcoming shows.
If you have any local success, talk to the local TV morning shows about getting on their new product segments. Have some samples made with the hosts' name or the name of the show, plus some other designs that show civic or school pride. You will need to have several talking points ready and memorized, because the amount of time you have to talk in these segments can be as short as 60 seconds. The most important thing is to lead people back to your web site.
Go to the library and get a list of all the magazines that cater to hobbys--sports, crafts, nature, gardening, cooking, arts, anything at all. Send a press release to their new product editors along with a sample or two of your work, preferably a sample appropriate to the hobby and/or magazine or editor, ("I think Jane at Cooks Anonymus should get a raise.") (There will be hundreds of these magazines.) With follow up and luck, you may get published as part of their editorial coverage (which is free to you.) Again, the goal is to push people to your web site and that should bring in customers from outside your local market.
Keep a file of any media attention you get and samples of each job you produce. This will help build your reputation and give the company credibility.
Keep your day job in the meantime.

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How can I get more followers on my blog?

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Pam Aguilo

Hello again.. My blog is 3 months old and I already have 97 followers. It's really fast. 3 more followers and I'll be holding a contest/giveaways. I'm just wondering how can I get more followers. My blog is about nail art.

Answer
Hi Pam,

To let more people know about your blog, you may do some SEO (Search Engine Optimization). This way, search engines may possibly land you some people who are searching on some particular sets of keywords. And to have a successfully SEO optimized blog, you need external links too. In this case, you may also try setting up mirror blogs on different blogging host, say if you set up your blog at blogger.com, you may want to consider setting up mirror blogs at http://self.my, wordpress.com, livejournal.com etc, and each of them pointing back to your primary blog.

To save time publishing to multiple mirror blogs and to do back up for your blog, I recommend that you take a look at WebStory, a very convenient blogging client for this purpose. HTH.

How can I get more subscribers on my beauty channel on Youtube?

Haley

I started a beauty channel on Youtube a while ago and I only have like 15 subscribers. I post videos about makeup, fashion, nail art, etc. If you are interested, please check out my channel and let me know how I can improve. Also, feel feel to subscribe and leave feedback!

My channel: http://www.youtube.com/user/TheNiceNails?feature=mhee

Answer
giveaways, contests and time.

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What should i know about Blue Lake Fine Arts Camp?

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Ihavequest

I am going to session 1, violin is my major. This is my first time going to Blue Lake.

So are there outlets for say, hairdryers?
What should i bring?
What should i wear to the dance and things like that?
Also, do they do anything special for the 4th of July?

Please include as much detail as possible. Thank you so much!

Answer
Hello,
My name is Gina and I am going to session 1 as a cello major.
This will be my 3rd time at Blue Lake.
Blue lake is soooooo much fun, You learn a lot, make awesome new friends.
As for outlets, there are a couple of outlets in the bathrooms for hair dryers or flat irons. however there are not any inside the cabins themselves. I would recommend either getting up as early as possible, which would be 6am, the counselors get up between 5 and 5:30 and the campers are not allowed to take showers before 6am and run to the showers, have all of your stuff beside your bed before you go to sleep the night before so that you can grab it and run. my first year the showers were packed in the mornings ( and that was middle school) however last year, only like three girls got up early to take a shower, which was perfect because there are only 3 showers in the bathrooms.
If you are wondering, it is not like a school type bathroom with a wall and shower heads, they are very very small shower stalls with Individuel curtains. My friend was asking me about that the other day.

You should bring all of the stuff that the packing list says, plus I would bring your own case of water bottles or a couple gallons of distilled water and a reusable water bottle. The water tastes like eggs.

Also, bring a seal-able container of snacks, chips, candy, granola bars, that sort of stuff. the camp food is not very good, I recommend sticking to the salad bar for most of the meals, they cant mess that up, lol.

Have a watch with you. You will need it.
You may want to bring some type of pad for your bed, the mattresses are like a piece of foam with plastic over it, very uncomfortable.

The weather over there is CRAZY, it gets very cold at night, bring extra sweatshirts. When you wake up in the morning you are freezing, but by lunch time it is so hot.

You are not supposed to have your cell phone at Blue Lake. If they find you with it they will take it away. Plus you cant get signal in the cabins so just leave it home.

At the dance you have to wear your uniform, dumb I know, but they do allow you to unbutton your shirt, pop your collar and roll up the sleeves and you don't have to tuck your shirt in.

4th of July sucks (at blue lake I mean) they do have a thing in central camp like they play American music, kids dance, they have an American trivia contest and a lot of people wear red, white and blue accessories, like earrings, headbands or paint there nails. but they make you go to bed by like 10 and no fireworks. plus you can hear them going off from the lake as you are laying in your bed all mad.

If there is anything else you would like to know I can probably answer it, just let me know!
btw, What unit are you in? I'm in Siena

Hope I helped !
- Gina :)

What can I do over the summer at home by myself?

Lola G.

I only get together with my friends a few times a month, so I have a lot of days when I'm at home with just my crazy family. I don't have much transportation, its mainly me and my computer. What are some fun things I can do online or at home by myself?

Answer
de this list for me, my friends, and family so it might be a little weird, but here it is anyway:
ï­play on trampoline
ï­play on trampoline w/ water
ï­go to the pool
ï­bake a cake
ï­Slip-n-slide (with tarp)
ï­ride your bike around the block
ï­update you iPod/Mp3 player (songs)
ï­play with chalk
ï­go to the park
ï­play run the bases
ï­play wiffle-ball
ï­have a picnic
ï­have a bake-sale
ï­have a lemonade stand
ï­go shopping
ï­have a scavenger hunt
ï­make a website (www.webs.com)
ï­have a bake-off
ï­have a bubble bath
ï­bake chocolate chip cookies
ï­play on the swing-set
ï­plant a flower
ï­make a movie (using video camera)
ï­tumble in the back yard (kate)
ï­stunt!
ï­make bracelets
ï­make dinner for our family
ï­play a board game
ï­clean your room
ï­coordinate a sleepover
ï­make a fort
ï­play Wii
ï­tye dye a shirt
ï­go camping in our back yard
ï­DANCE PARTY!
ï­make popsicles in the freezer
ï­read a book
ï­write a book
ï­have a tea party (with costumes and iced tea and cookies)
ï­make a coke rocket, or explode a coke
ï­draw
ï­start a diary
ï­make a smoothie
ï­make a scrapbook
ï­play cards
ï­have a water balloon fight
ï­go to the library
ï­play an online game
ï­play jump rope
ï­make up a hand game
ï­start a club
ï­make a tree house
ï­start a band
ï­make up your own sandwich
ï­make your own kind of camp (soccer, cheerleading etc.)
ï­invent a dance move
ï­make a collage
ï­have a family game night
ï­find a pen pal (www.stonesoup.com/main2/penpal.html)
ï­put on a play
ï­write a song
ï­have an egg-drop
ï­fly a kite
ï­make something from recyclables
ï­create your own holiday
ï­get a tan
ï­attempt a world record
ï­play kitchen
ï­play dodge ball
ï­try to sound British
ï­create a routine on the trampoline
ï­enter a contest
ï­make pound cake
ï­make up a recipe
ï­make a gum wrapper bracelet (http://jas.familyfun.go.com/arts-and-crafts?page=CraftDisplay&craftid=11851)
ï­watch T.V.
ï­create a log of what you eat everyday for 4 days
ï­make your own ice cream
ï­have a race: skateboard down our driveway on you butt
ï­have a water relay
ï­go to a friends house
ï­play hide-n-go-seek
ï­add things to this list
ï­stretch
ï­pretend to play American idol
ï­make your own music video
ï­spend the day t