Adjust the paper strip length. If you have a written pattern, you can alter the lengths of the paper strips used to create the quills, thus making the finished quillwork larger or smaller than the original pattern. For example, if you want a finished piece of quillwork twice as large as the pattern, make quills with paper strips that are twice as long as specified. For a finished piece that is half the size of the pattern, reduce the quilling strip length by half. With some practice, you will discover the size of the paper strip that will give you the size quill you desire. Be sure to adjust all of the strips used for each type of coil or scroll to keep the finished quillwork proportional.

Resize the graphic file before printing. If you are using an outline pattern that is in digital form, simply resize the file to the desired height and width before printing. If you are using a printed picture, you can scan it first to turn it into a digital file and then resize it before printing a new smaller or larger version that you can use.

Use the grid method to make a scaled copy. This is an old-fashioned technique used mainly before the days of scanners and computers, but it can still come in handy if you have a pattern drawing and no modern tools are available. First, draw a grid resembling graph paper with squares approximately 1/8 inch over the original design. To enlarge the pattern, take a separate clean piece of paper and draw a grid with the same number of squares as those drawn on the original, but make the squares larger (1/4 inch would double the size of the pattern). Copy the outline of the design from the original pattern to the second piece of paper, drawing the pattern in square by square. Use this same procedure to reduce the original pattern, but make the squares on the second sheet correspondingly smaller.

There is no reason to shy away from a quilling pattern just because it isn’t the exact size you need. Now that you know three great techniques for resizing your pattern you can make any quilling design work for you.

Start to notice the compliments you are receiving. Do they sound like?

“I love your jacket”

“That is a great purse you have”

“Your shoes are so cute”

“Where did you get your ladies t shirts? I love it”

Fashion teaches a woman to put beauty on. Compliments like the above are evidence that what is standing out in your appearance are your clothes and accessories and not you!

Want to be seen for your true beauty?

Want to hear compliments on a daily basis like:

“You look amazing”

“What have you done to yourself, you’ve never looked so good”

“Wow, you look so alive and vibrant”

“You look so beautiful”

“You are hot!”

When you learn the truth about fashion trends and changing styles of the beauty industry, you learn that they are designed to keep you guessing and constantly re-purchasing in order to “keep up with what is in.” If you are like most women, you are frustrated, feeling old and out of style before your time and you just give up and try not to care.

What I have discovered in my years of working in the personal development and beauty industry is that most women DO care, but feel so c, they have tried to convince themselves they just don’t care.

A more accurate conclusion would be, most women don’t care about the latest fashion because they feel lost in that world, but the same women care very much and very deeply about their beauty and wanting to bring it to life.

The problem is the fashion industry has not done a very good job in teaching the everyday woman how to do that.

Tada, enter Carol Tuttle, the fashion rebel and beauty expert for the everyday woman.

In my work with thousands of women I have learned, it is the nature of the feminine to express her natural beauty, and to adorn her beauty with love and honor. The true feminine comes alive in a woman when she knows what clothes, jewelry, makeup, and hairstyle honor her true beauty. When a woman becomes her own beauty expert because she has been taught the tools to bring her true beauty out, her true feminine power is activated to its highest honor.

My newest creation I call Dressing Your Truth is my masterpiece to the women of the world. Every woman deserves to be beautiful, effortlessly and affordably. I know I can make every woman beautiful. I have seen it too many times to doubt it by now. I want to share with you what I know so that all the compliments you receive speak to you as the woman and not the jacket you are wearing.

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- Just before you ride,

- just after you ride,

- long-term storage and repairs.

Just before you ride, bike maintenance is fairly straightforward: Check the tire pressure, fill them up to the level you’re comfortable with and so on. Make sure that the seat is canted at the right angle, make sure that the quick release levers on the wheels are locked tight, and run the pedals with your hands to make sure that the derailleur is working clearly. Your aim is to make sure that if anything is going to need attention, it gets it now, rather than after you’re out on the trail.

After the ride, especially if it’s been damp or muddy, you should set the bike upside down (so it’s balanced on the seat and handlebars), and run a damp cloth over the derailleur, and the other moving parts that shift the chain around for shifting gears. The aim here is to get any mud, twigs, and brambles out before they provide an avenue for moisture to enter. This is also the time to pop the wheels off and clean them before throwing the bike into the car to drive back home.

After you get the bike home, give everything a thorough cleaning. If you use a dry lubricant on the chain, about once a month, break the chain and re-apply it. (We regularly boil our bicycle chains in paraffin, but that’s because we ride in the winter, and it holds up better to snow and salt). It’s also probably time to just take things partially apart, to the limits of your skills, and put them back together; this is great for adjusting shock absorber systems (and getting rid of annoying squeaks), and tightening cables for brakes, inspecting brake pads, and the like.

Mountain bikes in routine use get a fair bit of wear and tear. Always check to make sure that things are setting properly when you’re off the bike and have it at home; again, the aim is to find anything that could break and fix it before you go on the trail rather than have your fun curtailed by equipment failure.

If you are not an all weather cyclist (and not many people are), its worth carrying out some steps to prepare your bike for storage and to take it out again for the road in the spring. Firstly, when storing your bike, take the wheels off and hang the frame. When the wheels are off, its worth running the inner tubes through a bucket of soapy water to locate any slow leaks and patch them, and its worth tightening and tuning up anything you can reach. A good book for this process is the Complete Bike Repair Handbook, which we use in our shop for getting bikes ready for sale. It’s also a good time to true your wheels with a spoke wrench. (Some dedicated mountain bikers true their wheels after every ride…)

When you’re putting the bike back into roadworthy condition, the top priority is checking the breaks, followed by running the gear shifts – cable housings can shift when the bike is in storage, which can make things a bit noisier than they should be. (Remember, if it’s making noise, then parts that probably shouldn’t be rubbing, are rubbing.)

With this advice, you should be well set for mountain biking fun!