| How to Store Winter Clothes Posted: 08 Apr 2020 01:00 AM PDT Space, especially closet space, is a premium. Many people simply don't have the room to keep their entire wardrobe in their closets and dressers year round. Storing your winter wardrobe in bins and garment bags frees up space for your spring and summer apparel and accessories. It provides you the opportunity to wash, fix, recycle, and organize your cold weather clothing. [Edit]Cleaning, Repairing, and Recycling Your Winter Wardrobe - Machine wash or dry clean all of your winter items. When stored for long periods of time, dirty clothing attracts pests and can also produce unwanted odors, mold, or mildew. Unclean items that contain perfumes, lotions, oils, and/or perspiration can also cause fabric to stain and yellow. Before you pack up your winter wardrobe for several months, you should properly launder each article of clothing.
- Machine wash all of your non-delicate winter items.
- Dry clean any winter items made from natural materials, like silk, wool, and cashmere. Do not store these items in a plastic garment bag.[1]
- Wipe down and polish your shoes. Winter shoes come into contact with harsh salts and dirt. Prior to storing these items, thoroughly clean each pair. Remove built up salt and grime with a cotton cloth or shoe brush. Don't forget to polish and condition your leather boots.
- If your winter shoes are badly stained, consider having them professionally cleaned.
- To prolong the life of your winter shoes, clean them frequently throughout the winter too.[2]
- Send out items for repair. As you wash, dry clean, and clean your winter items, set aside any pieces that appear damaged or broken. This might include coats with missing buttons, clothing with minor rips or stains, and/or shoes in need of new soles. Bring the items you are interested in fixing to a reputable seamstress or shoe repair professionals.[3]
- If you don't have an interest in fixing the item, find a way to recycle it.
- Donate items you will no longer wear. While you sort through your clean winter apparel and accessories, set pieces aside to donate. These items may include garments that no longer fit you and/or items you didn't wear at all last season. There are several ways to recycle these items.
- Ask friends if they are interested in taking any of the pieces.
- Donate the items to a person in need.
- Bring the items to a donation center and ask for a tax deduction form.
- Sell the items to a consignment shop.
- Host a garage sale.[4]
[Edit]Storing Winter Clothing - Place your non-delicate items into plastic bins. Plastic containers are ideal for seasonal storage of your non-delicate clothing. Fold and place the heaviest items, like jeans and sweatshirts, in the bottom of the plastic bin. Place neatly folded shirts, skirts, and tights on top of the bulky bottom layer.
- While vacuum bags help you save space, they do not allow your garments to breath.[5]
- Plastic bins are great for short term storage. If you need to store clothing for more than a season or two, place the garments in a cotton storage bag or box.
- Instead of mothballs, consider using lavender sachets or cedar balls to keep your clothes smelling fresh and pest free.[6]
- Wrap your delicate items in tissue paper. Storing your delicates requires a bit more finesse. When your delicates return from the dry cleaner, remove them from the plastic garment bag. Carefully fold each item, wrap it in acid-free tissue paper, and then place it into a cotton storage bin.
- Plastic garment bags do not allow your natural fiber clothing to breathe properly.[7]
- Fold your sweaters. Sweaters and hangers don't mix—when you hang up a sweater, the garment becomes misshapen. Instead of hanging up sweaters, fold them neatly. Place your heaviest sweaters at the bottom of your plastic storage bin or cotton garment bag. The lightest sweaters should lay on top of your heavier articles.
- Do not over stuff your storage bins. Instead, loosely pack your sweaters so that they can breathe.[8]
- Fold and store your winter coats. Once the seasons turn from winter to spring, it is tempting to hang up your bulky winter coats in the back of your closet. However, allowing your coats to hang throughout the spring and summer may distort their shape. The best method for storing coats is to fold them up and place them inside a plastic bin.
- Remove all of the items from your coat pockets.
- Wash or dry clean your coats.
- Fold up your coats and place them into a plastic or cotton storage bin. Do not over stuff the bin.[9]
- Hang up your furs and dresses. Furs and dresses are the only fall/winter items that should remain on a hanger. Hang up these items and then place them inside a cotton garment bag.
- If your dresses are not made out of delicate, natural materials, you can fold these items and place them inside a plastic storage bin.
- You may want to have your real furs professionally stored in a temperature controlled building throughout the spring and summer.[10]
- Store your bins, cotton garment bags, and cotton garment boxes. Once you have packed up all of your winter wardrobe in bins, boxes, and bags, you need to find a place to store these containers. Ideally, you should always store clothing in a cool, clean, dark, and dry environment. It is especially important to store your furs in a cool place—the skins will crack if they are too hot.
- Bright environments will cause your clothing to fade.
- Damp and hot environments may cause your clothing to become mildewy.
- Dusty storage spaces will cause your clean clothing to become dirty.[11]
[Edit]Storing Winter Shoes and Accessories - Fill your tall winter boots with boot trees and store. When tall boots are shoved in the back of a closet or haphazardly thrown into a box, they tend to lose their shape. To prevent this from occurring, insert a boot form or tree into each boot. Once your boots are thoroughly cleaned, polished, and conditioned, stand them up in a closet side-by-side.
- If you don't have space in a closet, you may store your boots in a plastic bin. Lay a pair of boots on their side in the bin. Place a cotton t-shirt of muslin shoe bag over the boots. Continue to fill the bin with alternating layers of boots and cotton t-shirts/muslin shoe bags. Store the closed bin in a cool, dark, dry, and clean space.[12]
- Stuff your non-boots with tissue paper and store. If stored improperly, your ankle boots, winter loafers, and pumps will also become misshapen over time. To help your winter shoes keep their shape, fill each shoe with loosely packed tissue paper. Once filled, carefully stack the shoes in a storage container, such as a plastic bin or basket, your closet, or a designated shoe organizer.
- Use new tissue paper.
- Don't forget to wipe down, polish, and condition your short winter shoes.[13]
- Pack up your winter accessories. At the close of the winter season, you should sort through and clean all of your winter accessories. This may include, hats, gloves, scarves. You can place all of these items into a storage bin, cotton storage box, or a basket.
- If you have room in your dresser, you can also store winter accessories in a drawer.
[Edit]Things You'll Need - Lavender sachets or cedar balls
- Plastic Storage bins
- Tissue paper
- Cotton garment bags and bins
- Hangers
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| How to Identify a Painting Posted: 07 Apr 2020 05:00 PM PDT Learning more about a piece of famous art is easy, but identifying an unknown or obscure painting can be kind of tricky. There are so many paintings in existence that the odds of finding information about a specific image can feel insurmountable. Luckily, you can dramatically narrow down your search by assessing the composition, subject matter, and style. Start by using an image recognition app and reverse image search. Museums and art historians are in a perpetual effort to upload and catalogue paintings and artists online, so it may be easier than you think to find the information you're looking for! [Edit]Finding the Artwork Quickly - Use an image recognition app to identify the painting immediately. If you're struggling to remember an artist's name or you want additional information on a particular painting, download an image recognition app designed specifically for art. There are several apps for both Android and iPhone that allow you to snap a photo of a painting to search through museum catalogues, university databases, and art history texts. This is the easiest way to find a specific painting.[1]
- The two most popular apps for recognizing artwork are Smartify and Magnus. Both of these apps will pull up information about the work's artist, as well as interesting facts and background information about the composition.
- These apps only have access to paintings that have been well-documented and catalogued by curators, professors, historians, and other artists. If the painting is made by a more obscure artist, these apps may not work.
- Run a reverse image search if you have a digital copy of the painting. If you're looking at a painting on your computer or phone, run a reverse image search. Copy and paste the image's URL into the search engine. Run the search to pull up other websites displaying the painting. This will give you access to a variety of websites that will tell you everything you need to know about the painting.[2]
- If you're using Google Chrome, you can right click an image and select "Search Google for this image" to search the web.
- You can download an image and upload it to the engine instead of copying and pasting the URL if you prefer.
- The most popular reverse image search is TinEye, but there are several options available online.
- Use the signature or monogram to dig online and find the image. Look in the corners of the painting to see if there is a signature or monogram. If the name is easy to read, simply search the artist's name up online to find the painting. If it's harder to read, look carefully to see if you can break down the letters and read them. This will let you narrow down the search and figure out who the artist is, which can make it easier to find your specific painting.[3]
- A monogram refers to a 2- to 3-letter design containing the artist's initials. Monograms tend to be more popular among painters working after the 1800s.
- Signatures were almost never used before the Renaissance, which began around 1300. Even if you can't identify a signature, at least you have a baseline for your search![4]
- You have to sign up for a free account to use it, but you can use https://artistssignatures.com/ to reverse search for an artist's signature. This is useful if you think you can read the signature but want to double-check to make sure you aren't misreading it.
[Edit]Assessing the Composition - Ask an expert to identify the era, style, or painter of an image. Email or visit a museum curator, art history professor, or gallery owner to ask if they can take a look at the image. An expert in the field of art will be able to offer insights about the period, style, and give you a better sense for where to look. They may even know who the artist is as soon as they take a look at it![5]
- If you're contacting a gallery owner, try to find a gallery that specializes in the type of art you're trying to identify. For example, a contemporary abstract piece is going to be easier to identify if the gallery owner mainly focuses on newer artists.
- Use obvious clues in the subject matter to narrow down the date. Contemporary painters may paint people or objects from the past, but they can't time travel! If there's a train, company logo, digital clock, or some other time-specific component of the painting, this is a great way to set a baseline for your search. You can get a good overall sense for when a painting may have been made simply by asking yourself when an artist would have painted their subject.
- For example, there aren't many painters alive today painting portraits of Spanish aristocrats from the 1600s, and absolutely nobody was painting images of Elvis Presley before 1954!
- For example, if there is a small airplane in the background of the painting, you know that the painting must have been made after 1903, since that's when Wilbur and Orville Wright first successfully flew a plane.
- Identify the artistic movement by assessing the style of the painting. There are various artistic movements throughout history that share similar qualities. Determining the movement associated with an image is a great way to quickly narrow down your search since historians group artists from the same movement together.[6]
- There are hundreds of movements; if you can't figure out the movement at first glance, look through museum catalogues and online collections to find similar paintings.
- Determine if the artist used acrylic paint to see if it was made after 1940. Get as close as you possibly can to the image. If the color looks flat and the darker colors don't reflect light, it's probably oil paint. If the color is reflective, shiny, and looks kind of plastic, it is likely acrylic paint. Acrylic paint wasn't used in art until 1940, so you have a much smaller period to search through.[7]
- If more than one medium was used to produce a work, it is highly-likely that the image was created after 1900. It was fairly rare before this period to combine multiple materials to produce a painting.
- This is a lot harder to do if you're looking at a digital image, but if the colors are almost supernaturally bright or neon, the painting was probably made with acrylic.
- Assess the quality of the canvas or paper to determine the date. If the canvas is stapled into the frame uniformly, it is unlikely to have been made before 1900, which is when canvases were first mass produced. You can also assume the painting is relatively newer if it's is on paper and there's no tearing, damage, or general wear and tear. Paper is relatively fragile, and it's unlikely that a fresh piece of paper is particularly old.[8]
- If the canvas is hanging loosely on the frame, the painting may have been made prior to 1600. Before 1600, most artists weren't particularly good at stretching the fabric tight against the frame.
- Search through websites and catalogues after narrowing the search. If you know you're looking for art from a specific time period or movement, go online and search through galleries and websites related to this type of art. Look for paintings that are similar in style, color, and composition. You can also go through museum databases and encyclopedias to find your image to do this as well. With enough luck, you'll find the artist![9]
- Almost every major museum has an online dataset that you can search. Search through these catalogues to find similar pieces that may belong to your artist.
- Once you have the artist, finding the specific painting is fairly easy. Museums and universities often catalogue and document the entire body of work for well-known painters, so you should be able to find the specific painting just by poking around online.
[Edit]Using Less Obvious Details - Inspect the back of the painting to find notes from previous owners. If you really can't find anything about an image in your possession using traditional search methods, flip the canvas over and look at the back. If the image is a print or reproduction, it may be listed on the back. If the painting is a family heirloom or was bought at a thrift shop, there may be a handwritten note describing where the painting is from.[10]
- Use the other steps in this method first before looking for lesser known details. It's possible that the painting is a reproduction, print, or mass-produced version of a popular painting.
- If you see 2-3 numbers listed in a corner, the painting was probably purchased at a thrift shop or resale store. The employees of these stores often write the price on a back of a work. You're unlikely to be able to identify the artist or image in this case.
- Check the frame to see if you can find a manufacturer. Inspect the frame on the back and look for an imprint, or label. Frame manufacturers often print a company name on the back. If there is a name, contact the manufacturer to learn more about the frame itself. This can drastically narrow down the region and time period where a painting was produced.[11]
- If you only have the canvas and there is no frame, check the wood portion of the canvas on the back. Prior to 1900, most artists stretched their own canvases. If there is a signature on the wood frame, it's probably the artist's.
- This isn't really a helpful option if the painting is well known or really old, since it was likely re-framed at some point.
- Take a large collection from an unknown painter to an art dealer. If you stumble on a large number of paintings and you can't find a single thing about the artist online or through close inspection, contact an art dealer. Many lifelong artists paint simply because they enjoy it, and it's possible that you may have stumbled on to a unique collection from a totally unknown artist![12]
- If you want to figure out if a painting in your possession is worth anything, contact an appraisal service. That's really the only way to authentically confirm whether your painting is worth anything or not.[13]
- For many paintings, it will impossible to say definitively who painted the work or when it was made. You may be able to make an educated guess about the era or artist's background, though!
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| How to Make a Homeschool Classroom Posted: 07 Apr 2020 09:00 AM PDT Creating a classroom area for your child's homeschool may help your child transition to a school mindset each day. Start by designating a space and decorating the room, then set up the basic furniture for your learning area. Finally, work on organizing your supplies so you're ready to go. [Edit]Preparing Your Homeschool Room - Set aside a whole room if you have space. If possible, it can be helpful to dedicate a whole room to homeschooling, as it keeps the mess out of sight and helps keep your kids on task. You can use a family room, den, basement, office, or even an extra bedroom. You may even be able to convert a shed with electricity into a homeschooling room.[1]
- Add your classroom to an existing room if you don't have extra space. It's entirely possible you don't have the space to devote a whole room to homeschooling. If that's the case, try picking a central area, such as the living room or dining area. Choose an area where you can add some storage, so that you can hide school stuff away when your kids aren't working on it.[2]
- Your dining area is a good choice since you already have a table in place for your kids to use.
- Even if your kids tend to spread out around the house to work, you should still have a designated area for keeping your school supplies.[3]
- Choose an area without distractions. Pick an area that doesn't have distractions like a television, video game console, or the like. You want your kids to stay on task as much as possible, and distractions won't help with that!
- Try to pick a quiet area in the house that doesn't have a lot of extraneous noise. For instance, you may not want to put the room too close to the laundry room.
- Similarly, while you wouldn't want to cover up the windows, you may want to face the classroom away from the windows.
- Let any other household members know school is in session by hanging a sign on the door. That way, they won't barge in!
- Pick a room without carpet or install floor mats. Homeschooling can get messy, especially if you're crafting or cutting up paper at all. By choosing a room without carpet, you can sweep up most debris, and if something like paint spills, it's much easier to clean up.[4]
- If the room you want to use has carpet, consider pulling it up. You may find hardwood or tile underneath. If it's concrete, you can even just paint the concrete. If you find subfloor, you can put in laminate or another cheap and durable flooring solution.
- Alternatively, try adding plastic office floor mats. These have spikes that go into carpet to hold them in place and provide a hard plastic surface on top.
- Paint one or more walls with bright, happy colors if you can. You and your kids are going to spend a lot of time in your homeschooling room, so you might as well make it cheerful. If you're allowed to paint the walls in your home, try choosing a bright accent color for one or two walls, then paint the other walls a more neutral color.[5]
- You could pick a creamy yellow for sunshine effect or a bright purple if it's your kids' favorite color.
- Add fun decals to the walls if you don't want to paint. Stick up wall decals of animals, flowers, the alphabet, or any fun theme your kids will like. Wall decals make it easy to change out the theme, as you can just peel them off and stick up a new set when you're tired of the old ones.[6]
- You can find wall decals at craft stores or online.
- If you want something a little more permanent, try stenciling the alphabet and numbers on the walls, or having your kids paint a mural together.
[Edit]Setting up a Learning Space - Include a table or desks to work on. While some kids may need to move to other areas at times, having a designated area to work on can help keep everyone on track. It can be the kitchen table, small desks for each kid, or even just a large, sturdy folding table.[7]
- Add a whiteboard or projector screen to teach from. If you're teaching several kids at once, you may want to use a board they can all see. You can get standalone whiteboards to set at one end of your classroom. You can also fold these whiteboards and put them away when you don't need them. Alternatively, you can mount one on the wall to save space and use it as a projector screen as well.[8]
- A computer with a large screen or TV screen hooked up to it will also work for displaying images and slideshows.
- You can even just paint one wall with white paint, and project images and slideshows onto the wall using a computer and projector.
- Include a space to read. Nothing is quite as nice as curling up in a comfy corner with a book. You could throw a large beanbag or floor pillow in a corner with a lamp or set up a comfy loveseat with a lamp. That way, when your kids need to spend some time reading, they have a designated place to go.[9]
- You don't have to include this space in your homeschooling area, as you likely have other spaces in your house. However, it can make it more fun to have a dedicated area for it.
- Gather the school supplies you'll need. For younger kids, you'll need crayons, pencils, chalk, and art supplies. For older kids, you'll need pens, pencils, whiteout, and maybe cheap tablets to work on. You may also need some subject-specific supplies, such as a calculator for math, lab supplies for science, and highlighters for English and social studies.[10]
- For both ages, you'll also need things like staples and a stapler, a 3-ring hole punch, paper clips, a printer, and highlighters.
- Print out classroom rules and charts. Kids need help staying on track, so having the classroom rules up on the wall in a pretty font can help. You may also want to have a schedule on the wall if you plan out your day with specific time frames.[11]
- Try a chart for each kid, letting them know what they need to complete each day. You can have them fill in sections with stickers as they get done.
- You could also dedicate a whiteboard to daily tasks. That is, you can have a section on the whiteboard for what each kid needs to accomplish that day.
- Add a cork board or a metal board to display your children's work. If your child does well, you may want to stick it up on the wall. A cork board is an easy way to do this, as you can just use pushpins to pin up their work.
- Alternatively, set up a board that will hold magnets. For instance, some whiteboards are metal underneath.
[Edit]Organizing the Supplies - Designate a bookshelf, shelving unit, or cabinet to organizing. When you homeschool, you need a ton of supplies, from pens, pencils, and papers to textbooks, curriculum, and worksheets. A designated shelving unit can help you organize the chaos.[12]
- If you don't have much cash, try scouring garage sales and thrift stores.
- Alternatively, start with a few plastic bins until you can upgrade to a shelf.
- Try painting what you find so it blends in with the space you put it in.[13]
- Pick storage that hides supplies away. Whether you choose large plastic bins, a large cabinet, or storage cubes on shelves, find a way to hide your supplies away. Organize your items into bins before placing them on the shelves. Hiding your messy supplies will make everything feel so much neater.[14]
- If you don't have storage bins, try painting old shoe boxes or used postal boxes. They can look bright and cheery once you paint them, and you can store items in them.
- You can also use things like cups to organize pens and pencils. While it won't hide them, it will keep them more organized.
- When you don't have to look at the chaos of school supplies all the time, you'll feel more calm and collected, and your kids will, too.
- Make a specific place for each school supply to live. Books, pencils, crayons, paper--each of these needs a specific place to call home. If you don't set aside a single space for each thing, your school supplies will end up in a jumbled mess because no one will know where to put anything![15]
- Label where each item should go with masking tape or a label maker. Have everyone put things away in their place at the end of the day.
- Pick an organizational method for papers. You can use 2-pocket folders, expanding folders, binders, or even files to organize papers for you and your kids. Try color-coding them, so each of your kids has one color and you have your own color. That way, you can easily keep track of what folder belongs to each person.[16]
- Make sure to label everything clearly, so it's easy to keep track of.
- Get rid of what you don't need each year. You're likely going to be adding new supplies each year, which can quickly overrun your organizational space. To cut back on the problem, take stock of your supplies each year, and donate or sell anything you don't need anymore. That way, you free up space for new stuff.[17]
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