Stay Abreast Search Results

How To: Make a bridal bouquet with The Knot

To start off making your bouquet, you must start by crossing the stems instead of going straight up and down. The crossing action will give you a round bouquet. Choose the size of the bouquet to match the bride and to match the dress. If it's a big dress with lots of action, you don't want to hide it with a big bouquet. Always hold your bouquet down. Use wax string to hold your bouquet together. This won't slip. Tie the not twice to ensure it stays together. Cut the stems off and then proceed...

How To: Clip in loose curl hair extensions

Loose curls are the new big thing in hair. Suddenly, all of the starlets are walking around with long, beautifully bouncy curls. How do you think they go from short straight do's to long flowing waves in a matter of months? Hair extensions of course! In this tutorial, learn how to apply long curly extensions yourself and stay up with the latest trends without changing your natural hairstyle. You never know when the trends will switch to short and straight again.. who knows what's next, but wi...

How To: Teach your dog loose leash walking

In this two part video Tab and his German Shepherd "Solea", show exactly what you need to do to stop your dog from pulling on his lead. Eventually, your dog will be walking on a loose leash where they'll feel safe, satisfied, and help keep your dog healthy. While there are many dogs that pull on walks, any dog can learn to walk calmly on a loose leash if we create a positive learning environment and teach them in the way that their minds understand. Find out how using positive reinforcement y...

How To: Sing an easy high note

Aspiring singers can learn how to sing high notes with vocal coach Robert Burnley. When you attain an extended range, your vocal chords will stay in place and then your chords will thin, shorten, or dampen allowing you to reach higher notes. This is what occurs physically when you are reaching higher notes. The key is to have the mentality that you are allowing your vocal chords to get thinner or shorter to reach those higher notes. Part of the struggle is not having the right mindset that yo...

How To: Choose what stays in the system tray

Vanessa from Tekzilla Daily gives us a very helpful video guide on how to edit or tweak icons in the system tray on Windows 7. Typing "notification area" in the search box of the Start Menu calls up the Notification Area control panel. This control panel shows the different processes and programs that are on the system tray. It is where you can edit the settings for each process or icon, with options of "always appear, never appear or show up only when needed". You can also control the basic ...

How To: Get a Kate Moss bang with her hair stylist James Brown

This video describes how to get a Kate Moss look with your bangs brought to you by stylist James Brown. Start with dry hair so that you can understand exactly where the bangs will be after cut as they can move up when they dry otherwise. Using a comb to pull the bangs down slightly and figuring where to put them just at the eyebrows you cut and move the hair back and forth along the brow to make sure it is staying in line with where you want it to end up. Continue until the hair is uniform ac...

How To: Dice onions and shallots

Learn how to dice any kind of onion or shallot. First cut the ends off of the onion, being sure to remove only a little bit of the root end. This is so the onion stays together when chopping. Make vertical cuts in the onion starting from the opposite end of the core. Then make horizontal cuts only cutting 3/4 of the way through. Then cut across to dice the onion.

How To: Skimboard basics

Want to get started skimboarding? For those interested in surfing and skating might enjoy this fun sport that stays mostly in the shallow water at the shore. Before you get started doing any tricks, this video will teach the basics of getting started skateboarding like how to get in the water and positioning the board. Check out this how to video and start skimboarding.

How To: Take racket all the way back in a tennis forehand

http://www.fuzzyyellowballs.com The second thing that all high-level tennis players do when hitting a forehand is to take the racket all the way back using both a continued shoulder turn and their hitting arm. At the same time, they extend their non-hitting arm out across their body about waist-high and in line with the baseline. This helps them stay on balance and judge the oncoming tennis ball.

How To: Play a simple melodic riff on electric guitar

To play a guitar riff is to do more than simply to memorize a short musical phrase. Guitar riffs are like any other musical exercise; practicing them can be a terrific means of building manual dexterity and improving your overall playing technique. We can say of riffs, then, that they are not so much about rote repetition as making available to the guitarist new and different ways of playing. Every new riff you learn will make you a more able and versatile guitarist and better equip you to st...

How To: Do aerobics for beginners

Aerobics are targeted by total physical fitness: strength, flexibility and cardiovascular fitness. Aerobics can be taken in classes and are usually done with music. To practice aerobics you should follow an instructor, stay in motion, use arms to lower or raise intensity, and strengthen heart rate. With this how to video soon you will be able to practice aerobics.

How To: Play a shuffle on the drums

In this two-part installment from his video tutorial series (in which he covers everything from improving timekeeping to creativity and orchestrations in patterns and drum fills), Brian Ferguson demonstrates how to play a shuffle on the drum, an oft-overlooked triplet-based rhythm pattern. Take a look and remember to stay tuned for part two!

How To: Attracting birds to your garden

Bird feeding is something everyone can do. But keeping the birds in your garden can be just as easy. This how to video gives you a few tips that will help you attract the most popular wild species of birds and entice them to stay for more than a quick lunch.

How To: Practice a pregnancy yoga sequence

You don't have to stop your daily yoga routine during pregnancy. Our nine month pregnant host demonstrates how to do a few sitting and standing yoga poses. This yoga routine for pregnant moms will help you and your baby stay healthy throughout the nine months.

How To: Treat and access a work related sprain

Sometimes the difference between a sprain and a fracture can only be identified with an x-ray. However with the help of this first aid how-to video you will learn to properly treat a sprain. Complete a modified primary survey of the work related accident, access the limb that was injured, and apply ice. These first aid tips will help your workers stay healthy.