and they usually have details that make them look so real, people will wonder if they are! Recently, I found the mirror above at thrift store (on sale for $15)and knew I had to do a tutorial on how to make a tombstone! How to make a tombstone prop from a vintage mirror Supplies:...
Putting your Halloween gravestones in the garden helps to make them feel like they have always been there. Even during the day, they look like they are a part of the landscape. Having some of your Halloween decor look like it is meant to be a part of your yard always makes it a littl...
My husband and I joke that when we are buried, we would have “He ate well” on his tombstone. Mine would read “She did, too” because we are real foodies and have shared many great meals all over the world together. But one sentence for my life? I guess it would be… Paige is...
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for a tense situation, to say the least. One day I was talking to a co-worker and the exhaustion was overwhelming. I felt so dissatisfied, frustrated and even angry. Then it hit me: If I died that day, I didnt want the only thing on my tombstone to be "Always met her deadlines....
The hook is important in a novel, but to craft a real page turner make every scene have a lesser or greater hook of its own. 5 ways to begin a scene Here are5 effective ways to begin a scene: Start a scene with action.You can’t start every scene with an explosion, interrogation ...
Debbie Lee How to Make a Soul: The Wisdom of John Keat. By Eric G. Wilson. Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 2016. Pp. ix, 161. Cloth, $79.95; Paper, $21.95; E-book, $21.95.Eric G. Wilson's How to Make a Soul: The Wisdom of John Keats—his wide-ranging, serious, play...
Purple prose can come from a similar intention. You thewriterare trying to make yourself look talented and important, but in so doing, you can make the reader feel stupid. 3. Purple prose offends some readers' taste. Some readers genuinely prefer writing that is minimal and gets to the po...
Sometimes, these details will have been discussed at length, but even so, it may make sense to spell out your wishes to make things easier for those who have to execute the plans. Additionally, if you've purchased a burial plot, tombstone, or funeral services in advance, you should ...
Handwriting plays a role in variant spellings as well, especially when you use an index that was compiled a long time after the original record was created. The people who created many of the indexes we now rely on, such as census indexes, had to make sense of the sometimes hard-to-dec...