Wildlife Wall Decor

To be considered a home-decorating master, it’s essential to know how to add character and flare to a dull space with simple accents. For example, a handmade quilt or beaded tapestry that you may have just lying around the house can be used for an aesthetic indulgence. Hung from a blank wall, such items produce color and texture to any living space. It’s being able to think outside of the box that will give you the most original pieces at a next-to-nothing cost.

Now let’s talk furniture. How can you apply these ingenious tactics to pieces of furniture that aren’t holding their own in the decorative-style department? If you’re one of the many people who have an ever-so-popular glass table, you’re in luck. To turn this lifeless chunk of furniture into a sassy and original piece, grab your etching tools and let’s get to work. Using a stencil to guide you, hundreds of designs can be produced to give you the ultimate etched glass table. And presto, you’ll have an original piece of furniture in no time!

Do you have the desire to travel and fish for you dinner along the way?  Outdoor Life magazine, May 2008, pages 36-43, lists 12 open-road great fishing spots in the U.S. that will bring you fishing experiences you’ll remember.  The requirement is a rod and reel, assorted bait and fishing gear, and one tank of gas.  For more information in your area, refer to the magazine. 

Here is the list:  (1) Seattle to Portland, 173 miles . . . king salmon, small mouth bass, steelhead, muskies, and sturgeon;  (2) Las Vegas to San Diego, 333 miles . . . stripers, bass scallpin, calico and barracuda;  (3) Orlando to Miami, 350 miles . . . bass, crappie, tarpon;  (4) Dallas to Houston 239 miles . . . catfish, crappies, stripers, redfish, white bass;  (5) NYC to Buffalo, 396 miles . . . small mouth bass, steelhead, salmon, walleyes, pike, and trout;  (6) Phoenix, AZ to Show-Low, AZ . . . trout, bass, crappie, and walleyes;  (7) Milwaukee, Wis. to Minneapolis, Minn. . . . steelhead, bass, pike, walleyes, tiger muskies;  (8) Huntsville, Ala. to Gulf Shores, Ala. . . . smallmouth bass, crappies, blue catfish, spotted bass, redfish, king mackerel, groupers, red snapper, tarpon, and cobia;  (9) Ft. Smith, Ark. to Memphis, Tenn. . . . crappies, catfish, bass;  (10) Bismarck, N.D. to Pierre, S.D. . . . salmon, catfish, sauger, large and smallmouth bass, walleye, pike, and perch;  (11) Boise, Id. to Salt Lake City . . . crappies, bass, and catfish;  (12) Washington, D.C. to Raleigh, N.C. . . . shad, stripers, red drum and spade fish, large and smallmouth bass.

Bow hunting with a cross-bow, long-bow, or compound-bow demand different styles of hunting, and each have their own set of problems and type of equipment.  It seems there’s a revolving technology shift during the previous centuries, from long bow, to cross-bow, to compound-bow, and today . . . back to cross-bow.  This paradigm shift is connected and/or influenced by political, social, physical, and economical events, each having their own place in history’s archives.

For example, not all states in America have the same hunting and fishing seasons, and each state has special requirements for licensing, as well as age limits.  Available materials and the cost of equipment also create changes through the generations.  For more information, read the article in Outdoor Life magazine, May 2009, pages 46-52.

For years I had searched high and low, near and far for a Beatles poster that truly encompassed the melodic spirit of this legendary band. More than just a concert poster or a snapshot of the group, I wanted an artistic ability and the essence of the band to be captured in the masterpiece I had constructed in my head. The representation that stood out to me over and over again was the Abbey Road album cover. It seemed to be everywhere I looked.

And when I was least expecting it, I stumbled across the vision I had waited endless nights to discover. I hadn’t even been looking for it at the time; instead I was out and about looking for picture frames for my bedroom. But there it was, Abbey Road all over again, but this time the images leapt out of the picture in an amazing new way: 3d wall art. Never had an image I’d seen hundreds of times look more alive and vibrant. I bought it without hesitation.