Crafting Secrets

just curious. my boyfriend is writing his dissertation on nontimber forest product collection in philadelphia urban parks, and he is having a hard time finding collectors.

also we enjoy harvesting what we know of (black walnuts, dandelion, etc) and i am always interested in expanding my collecting knowledge.

thanks!

You can get a lot of good info for your area from your local County Agent, an under used resource. RScott

If not online, maybe some good magazines. I need resources. Should I Google? What would I search for?

I personally like Joann.com as they show the material the amount the colors the price and in some instances they give you a discount and on some occasions they will ship for free. Browse the site and you will see what I mean.

By Gary McCarty

I’ve read enough papers, first as a graduate assistant and later as a university communications instructor since 1995, to know the mistakes people make and the traps they fall into. Today I’d like to focus on one of the most prevalent and treacherous of all pits into which students fall, the one I label the kitchen sink approach to writing.

Let’s look at a real example of an assignment I’ve given countless times and read thirty times for each of those countless times—an essay on “controversial television advertising.”

Generally, students have little knowledge of this subject except for what they’ve seen on TV, and usually they just remember the Paris Hilton Bentley ad for Carl’s Jr. Therefore, like so many lemmings scurrying off the nearest cliff, they rush to Google and Wikipedia (neither of which is their best recourse, but I’m talking real life here) to do research.

They end up with a slew of articles from which to fashion their essays. However, since they usually don’t bother to formulate a thesis and pick supporting topics, they then rush headlong into writing their essays. Five or so pages later, they’ve regurgitated everything they’ve read, even if it’s not really pertinent, to create a usually rambling hodgepodge of information, statistics, observations, anecdotes and so on.

Now, and here comes the surprise and the revelation at the same time, when they get to writing the conclusion, they have finally figured out their thesis. I often read in the very last paragraph or very last sentence a rather cogent statement such as, “Therefore, all television advertising should be reviewed by a ratings committee before being aired on TV, and anything deemed controversial should be rejected or restricted to late-hour airing,” or words to that effect. What a relief to have figured out what you’re writing about finally!

It’s really a shame that these students have to spend so much time writing just to figure out their thesis statement, which should be what they start with and reveal in their first paragraph. Wouldn’t it be better to brainstorm the research findings and then fashion a thesis? Of course it would!

However, students are so accustomed to the high school routine—cram as much information into as many pages as possible at the last minute—that they shortchange the writing process. It’s time to wash the kitchen sink approach to writing down the drain and start afresh, ugly metaphor and all.

Next: crafting thesis statements.

Gary McCarty
http://www.articlesbase.com/writing-articles/the-kitchen-sink-approach-to-writing-99567.html

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in Nazi Germany and in many dictatorships artists were often times criticized, killed, or had their art destroyed because they were trying to tell the world something…

in our society, and even in other societies differences people have are often times ridiculed, and people have been killed.

in indigenous cultures, and Native people throughout the world, art is very important to them, making necklaces, clothes, beadwork, making kachina dolls, etc.

self expression is good, and a lot of people don’t write, draw, paint, etc. love their artistic ability, abilities everyone has.

Like music (that’s art too) all art connects people. It’s like a glue for social interactions, it says what words and actions don’t. That’s why art can be unwanted by dictators, the art glues together people that the dictator wants to divide. In the same notion dictators such as Hitler and Saddam Hussein also used art as propaganda to glue the people to them instead.

The mob mentality and the rejection of what people in a group think is wrong spans further than art of course but it shows just how intolerant people can be to those things who are different. It doesn’t matter if it’s skin colour, disability or an unique way of expression art it all boils down to intolerance. And intolerance by it self boils down to fear of the unknown.

You know like the holy or unholy symbols that you buy the moulds for ?

I tried smelting some silver and clicked on silver and mould but didn’t work. I wondered if you used another metal or clay to make them ?
I like to make the metal things but not keen on cooking cause it takes ages. Making leather things is okay too. Still learning about some of the crafting though.

You need 16 crafting to make a holy symbol.

Use the silver bar with a furnace with your mould in your inventory. A screen will pop up asking you how many you want to make, select the number and away you go!

I want to make a marriage beanie. But it wont let me with a normal crafting bench so do I have to make a bench with hard wood or bamboo? how do I do that? I used both rock things for normal crafting benches at the first island. I also cant push down the big rock at the geyser place at the volcano island cuz i dont have a chisel cuz it wont let me make one! please help?

http://www.gamefaqs.com has lots of game info, cheats, and strategies… maybe you’ll find your answer there. Good Luck!

For example, if I had one ring mould and wanted to make 2 rings, can I use that one mould for both rings?

Moulds can be used as many times as you want. Also, they NEVER break. Good luck crafting !

Workorder or crafting. im just starting crafting armor i was cooking which was nice because what i made stacked so i could set it up walk away and come back later. Armorcrafting seems more involved so any advice would help

The best and easiest way to level up your crafter is to do work orders. This is how my husband and I do it:

Take the first work order you can get, and repeat it until you reach lvl 10. When you are still low level, do the work order is parts (if you have to make 4 items, make 2, then make the other two) Always make all the items that you can, not just how many you are supposed to make. They give you enough mats for more than the WO needs.
Take both work orders that are now available, do the lowest one first, then the higher one. When doing the higher lvl WO, do the same as before, make 2-3 items, then make the rest. Do this to lvl 20.
At lvl 20, take all three work orders, do the lowest one first (You can probably make all the items now without failing any) then do the next lvl WO, in parts, then do the high level WO in parts, till you reach lvl 30.
You should now have 4 WO available to you,. Take only the three highest level ones. Rinse and repeat the above steps till you reach the next level.

With each new level that you reach, take only the highest work orders, ignoring the lowest level ones. When I was leveling my chef, I made lvl 99 in about 2 – 3 hours this way.

I’m at 50 crafting and want to get to 60. I don’t plan to be a member any time soon, so what’s the fastest way of getting there? I’m willing to spend an absolute maximum of 1 million gp on this. Please explain why it’s the best method.

Here are some methods I’ve been considering:

Crafting Tiaras (buying the silver)
crafting Ruby Amulets (and stringing them, possibly)
Cutting Diamonds

Thanks!

I didn’t know you played runescape. I think the best one would be buying cowhides and making leather, but that might be too little exp, but if not, try crafting tiaras.