I too use coloring pages for my art work from time to time. I can't draw but I'm good at tracing a coloring page onto fabric or paper! HA Works for me! Your workmanship is outstanding!

Beautiful work as always Nima. I love the rich colours you used.

Wow beautiful projects there Nima. Peacock is one of my fav subjects to stitch too.

This is quite a project to finish! And you did! Impressive! Merry Christmas and the best to you in 2020!!!

Chicken Scratch embroidery?? Never heard of it! How cool!!! Glad you are catching up on these different techniques!

Enjoy the new year and let's leave the pressure of life to others! I'm taking one day at a time...no more stressing and just enjoying my artwork, life, family and friends.

Wishing you and your family a lovely 2020 Nima!

I’m so excited to be sharing my patriotic flower pot project today to help kick off the annual Red, White & Blue series at Sugar Bee Crafts, which is being run as a sort of month long blog hop this year! I look forward to seeing what all the other talented bloggers who are taking part […]

Do the new Distress Oxide colors have you asking “what is the difference between the original Distress ink and new Distress Oxide ink?” Let’s test it!

Between the planner and journal trend, the rise of mixed media, and growing interest in painting itself, there’s more and more interest in travel watercolor sets. They are an affordable way to invest in a basic set of watercolors for someone who is still learning to paint, as well as a great for taking along […]

Last winter i purchased a Polaroid Zip Mobile printer, and decided to give it a first try-out on the road, as it was intended to be used. Here’s my review, and what I learned!

Welcome to National Scrapbook Day on Craft Critique! I’ve got a great giveaway to celebrate with thanks to Graphic 45 – and a simple layout that I hope will get you inspired to scrapbook today! [Disclosure: Some links below are links to Nally Studios advertisers or are affiliate links that pay a commission at no […]

Officials need to be ready to react if supplies of protective gear start to run out again.

At worst, sending out ballots provides a workable Plan B in case Plan A proves too hazardous in November.

Expand programs to meet the urgencies of this moment. There'll be broad, bipartisan support from the public.

My country's rules are based on trust — both on the part of citizens and officials. But I know this doesn't work for every society.

A reassessment of the relationship is due, but now the world must work to fight COVID-19.

On top of that, this experiment with government by decree needs to end.

Four relatively narrow policy topics hint at the difficulties ahead: small-business relief, education, city and state solvency, and employment.

Herd immunity has a cost.

U.N.'s World Press Freedom Day's theme of "Journalism without Fear or Favour" is reflected in an array of award-winning work.

THE COVID-19 Omnibus (Emergency Measures) Bill 2020 passed.  The legislation “implements a range of temporary emergency measures to support Victorians and continue delivering the services we all rely on”.

One of my passions as a councillor and a key commitment to my community was to simplify local government processes and clarify what as unnecessarily complex. Break the obfuscation nexus, you may say.

Did you do it? Did you download? Did you trust the federal government enough to let them trace your extended interactions with your phone?

Perhaps when COVID-19 is done and dusted the Victorian Government might apply some of the same tough, no nonsense attitude towards getting drug drivers off our roads.

‘Kudos’ is an interesting word.

Might be a little regression going on at my place during this lockdown.

Much has been written and discussed over the last few months around our present social environment.

This week I went to my first farewell for a co-worker on Zoom.

With the incredible efforts we’ve seen from healthcare workers during the COVID-19 pandemic, it feels appropriate that the World Health Organisation has made 2020 the Year of the Nurse and Midwife.

Welcome to the new world where global emergency collides with 21st century sloganism.

Just revisiting an old bug in IE6 for those who are still strugglimg for an answer.

At last a stable cross browser method of centering a variable width float left dropdown menu.

Applying a simple method of centering single level variable width, float left menus.

Tree Frog menu revised to have scrolling sub menu lists to save space.

A fluid layout with max/min width, header/footer and multiple percentage columns ALL reaching the footer using NO images.

A set of 7 variations on the 3 column equal height theme. All full width with header and footer, a mixture of fixed and percentage column widths and no images.

A centered dropdown menu, using the latest centering technique, with flyout images

A centered dropline, dropdown, flyout menu, using the latest centering technique, with current selection option

An update to one of my early gallery demonstrations to bring it up to date using the latest CSS techniques.

An update to one of my early 'one page' demonstrations to bring it up to date using the latest CSS techniques.

A second version of the tabbed pages with a default page open on entry.

A photograph gallery with hover to show large images with linking to full size images or another page.

A CSS take on the javascript LightBox using hover over thumbnail images

A click version of the Light Box for all browsers except Safari and Chrome

A dropline menu which uses sliding doors tabs for the top level and a horizontal scrolling dropline which has images and caption.

A CSS only method of hovering over text OR associated images to highlight both AND grey out other images.

A CSS only method of hovering over a horizontal menu link to change the whole menu background image.

A simplified method of producing a centered dropdown and flyout menu with variable widths depending on text content.