Choosing the best soap making kits to recommend requires a few ground rules; it must contain everything the typical person is going to need to make the soap, and it must end with a quality finished product that you can actually use. Making soap just to say you made it is not enough, it has … Read more

When sitting down to write an article on the best candle making kits out there it dawned on me, there are no full beeswax kits. I long ago started using beeswax either in addition to soy or completely replacing it. Sure, beeswax is considerably more expensive but it also lasts a lot longer, needs less … Read more

Before we get into the best sketching paper we should discuss one subject and that is the difference between sketching paper and drawing paper. Many people use them interchangeably and if you were going to do that, I would go with drawing paper. The reason is that sketching paper is made more for unfinished works, … Read more

If you are a beginner and want the best acrylic paint set you can get to start out with, you have to think of what you really need to get going. I suppose that technically you need paint. You could use your finger and paint on your walls. Personally, I don’t want to use my … Read more

Watercolors are unique in that there are two different main levels of watercolor paints; those for play, and those for artists. Finding the best watercolor paint set for beginners largely depends on which of those two you are. For the people who want to play or test out the waters so to speak, with watercolors, … Read more

It is difficult to do some of the more complex projects in origami with regular paper. The sharp folds need to hold and not tear when you unfold them. For this to happen you need the right paper and sometimes that can be hard to find. But that is just the beginning, you also want … Read more

When looking for the best origami books for beginners one has to look at a lot of things; ease of projects, type of projects, if the paper is included (a kit), and the number of projects. I have found that if one is not interested in the subject of the art, one will not pursue … Read more

If you are going to seriously repair watches, there are ten must-have tools for serious watch repair. Sure, if you want to replace the battery in your $20 watch you bought from Walmart, you just need a couple of little things you can get cheap. If you want to be able to do that and … Read more

Getting the best screwdriver set for watch repair you can is an absolute necessity and probably your most used watch repair tools. Sure, other tools are important, but no other tool has the capability to permanently destroy your watch faster and more completely than the simple screwdriver. It is also the tool most capable of … Read more