How To impress Girls

 Having a great personality and being easy to relate to is an important part of getting a girl to like you. Let's face it: Girls look for different things in guys than guys look for in girls. So let the great parts of your personality shine through to her, and work on fixing the parts of your personality that you don't like.

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• Be funny. Girls love funny guys. If you can make a girl laugh, then you have a good shot at making her fall in love with you. Practice jokes on your friends (guy-friends and girl-friends, because there's a difference of what they find funny) and keep the jokes that work and throw away the jokes that don't.
• Be playful. Studies have found that girls are attracted to guys who are playfulBeing playful is attractive because it shows youthfulness and the ability to have fun. So find your inner child, throw away all the ideas about what you think you should and shouldn't do, and play around, especially when you're with her.
• Be interesting. Girls like guys who have interesting lives, and who do cool things for fun. As long as you're passionate about something, and you get involved in doing that or learning about it, you'll be more attractive in her eyes. No girl just wants to sit around and watch you play video games all day.
• Be mysterious. A little mystery goes a long way. Don't let her in on every little thing you're doing. Hint more than you usually do, and downplay things instead of being really excited. Mystery will make you a puzzle in her book, and she'll want to solve you.

Tip # 1: Be in Control of Your Life.

Girls may not like you deciding what’s best for them, but they sure do admire a man who knows what he wants for himself. Guys who have long-term goals tend to fare better with girls than guys who don’t really know what to do with their life.

Even if you don’t have a clue where you’ll find yourself in 10 years, it is important that you at least have plans for the next few months. A guy who is in control of his own life will project an image of a successful, stable and impressive man.

Tip # 2: Go the Extra Mile.

Some guys ask girls out and bring them flowers on a date. But if you really want to know how to impress a girl, you won’t just let the florist do the arrangement for you. Instead, you do a little snooping around and find out what the girl’s favorite flowers are. Or if she’s into chocolates, what kind does she prefer?

Guys who go the extra mile are richly rewarded. You don’t have to show up on her front door with a limo and a chauffeur waiting in the background. The magic is all in the details.

Tip # 3: Be a Little Bit Mysterious.

Want to know a little-known secret on how to impress a girl? Mystery attracts women like nothing else. However, there’s another reason why acting a little bit mysterious can help you with your game. Girls are immediately turned off by guys who talk too much.

Even if you have a lot of things to say about the food you’re eating, try not to let it overwhelm both you and your date. Besides, girls are more impressed when guys appear to be listening to them talk, as evidenced by small comments every now and then.

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how to create clickable , live prototype in sketch

Author +Clark Wimberly      You Can find detailed Article on .net Magazine   net Magazine is the world's best-selling magazine for web designers and developers
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 First, create a new Sketch document. Inside, we’re going to make two artboards, one for the normal home view, and one for the open menu view. Press  A  to bring up the Artboard tool, which has popular screen resolutions built-in. Select  iPhone Portrait .

•  Click anywhere in your canvas to create a new artboard. Rename it ‘home’, either with  cmd+R  or by right-clicking and hitting  Rename . This artboard will be the ‘home view’ of your app. Press  cmd+D  to duplicate the artboard, and change the newly created screen’s name to ‘homemenu-open’.

•   Inside the ‘home’ artboard, we’re going to create a standard app header. Press  R  to select the Rectangle tool, and draw out a 640x90 rectangle at the top of the artboard. Rename this shape ‘header-bg’.

•   The tools palette on the right-hand side of Sketch is called the Inspector, and it’s where you’ll find all the properties of shapes, text, groups and more. With the ‘header-bg’ object selected, let’s turn off the border and pick a fill. My app is flashy, so I’ve picked a neon gradient. While we’re at it, let’s set a background colour – white – for our artboards. Check the ‘Include in export’ option, which will ensure our app screens don’t come out transparent. 

•  For the rest of the header, let’s add a menu icon, and app title, and an action button. I’m making my hamburger icon from scratch by drawing out three identical rectangles. I’ll also group them for easy positioning (slightly off the left edge).

•   Press  T  to enter some text, and key in the title of your app. I’m building an internal activity tracker, so I’m going with ‘Tracker Keeper’. The font size, colour and spacing is located in the Inspector panel on the right. 

• On the right side of the header, I’ve added a ‘plus’ icon, which would be used to let the user add an activity to the stream. Again, I’ve drawn this icon myself. 

•  Once our header is done, we’re going to convert it into a Symbol, which means we’ll be able to use it again and again around our document. By converting our header into a Symbol, we can apply it to the second screen, and any changes to either header will be reflected in the opposite header.

•   To make a group, select the rectangle, icons and text we just created and press  cmd+G .  We want to rename this group to something clear, so press  cmd+R  and type ‘header’. In the layers list, right-click your ‘header’ group and pick  Create Symbol . A Symbol is denoted in the layers list by a purple-coloured folder. Keep an eye on all purple folders, as changing one will result in all others being updated. With great power comes great responsibility

• Still on the ‘home’ artboard, we can start to build our activity timeline. This example app will collect and display positive comments from one team member to another. Let’s make a single comment. I’ll make a circle using the Oval tool, and place an icon inside using Symbolset (one of my favourite font tools). I’ll also add some text and a timestamp

•  Like we did with the header, let’s round up the elements we just created and turn them into a group ( cmd+G ). Rename the group ‘comment’, then turn it into a Symbol. With the ‘comment’ Symbol selected, choose  Arrange   > Make Grid . We’re going to make a grid with five rows (with a 40px margin) and one column, giving us a single stack of comments, similar to Twitter. 

•  For the sake of making an interesting mockup, let’s change the comment text inside each instance of the Symbol. Simply select the text layer and find the ‘Exclude Text Value From Symbol’ checkbox in the Inspector palette. Move down the line and change each comment to something inspirational and more becoming of an awesome startup. At this point, I’ll also change each time stamp and name. 

• With your basic homescreen now complete, we’re going to copy the entire screen into your other artboard, ‘home-menuopen’. This artboard will capture what the homepage looks like with the menu open. Select our current elements and then duplicate them  ( cmd+D ). Drag your new layers into the ‘home-menu-open’ artboard. Since everything we just duplicated is a Symbol, any changes you make on the ‘home’ artboard will be reflected on the ‘home-menu-open’ artboard. 

•  For our sample app, we’re going to make a pretty simple menu. Using the rectangle tool, I’ll draw two shapes: a white box on the left side of the screen, and a coloured box on the right, to act as the overlay. Using the Text tool, let’s add some menu items to our fake app. We’re getting close to making this thing come alive! 

• With Sketch, exporting screens (and assets, slices and so on) is super easy. Simply select your artboards in the layers list, then find ‘Export’ over in the Inspector palette. As our artboards are already sized correctly, let’s just go with 1x PNG files. If you were making real assets, here’s where you would crank out all your varying sizes and formats. Handy

•  Now that we’re just about ready to save our screens as PNGs, let’s log into InVision and make a project to hold them. After making your Tracker Keeper project folder, make sure you grab the InVisionSync app – you can also upload through the web, but the Sync app does such a nice job of helping things along.

•  Back inside Sketch, we’re now going to export our artboards as PNGs. You can do this from the bottom of the Inspector palette, or with the ‘Export’ button in the right of the main toolbar. When exporting multiple artboards, the file names will be the same as the artboard name. This makes for some nice parity between your Sketch document and the names of different screens inside InVision. 

• Save the PNGs inside your InVision folder, where you’ll find a newly created ‘Tracker Keeper’ folder. Inside this, there will be a ‘Screens’ folder.

•  Once you’ve uploaded the screens into InVision, head back into the web interface and open the project. While viewing the main screen, we’re going to enter Build Mode. You can do this using either the icon in the bottom centre of the screen, or simply by pressing  B 

•  With Build Mode active, click and drag to draw a hotspot 

• with blue highlight around the menu button. This hotspot is the key to creating a living mockup out of flat PNGs. Essentially, we’re making an image map with actions tied to each hotspot we build.

•   We’re going to link our new hotspot to our ‘home-menu-open’ screen, and select the animation we want. Since our menu is designed like an off-canvas tray, let’s select a   Push Right  animation.

•  Hop back into Preview Mode, either with the icon in the bottom centre of the screen or by pressing  P , and test the new hotspot. Clicking it should make the menu open. Now viewing the ‘menu-home-open’ screen, let’s make another hotspot that lets people hide the menu. Enter Build Mode, draw out a new hotspot, and link it back to the ‘home’ screen. 23 Now would be a good time to check this app out on your actual device. Either click  Share  and grab the link yourself, or use the SMS service to send a link right to your phone. Once you open the link, make sure to  Add to Home   Screen  to get the full effect (InVision lets you set an icon, startup image and so on).

•   You know what? Now that I see this on my device, that neon bar in the header is a bit too loud. Let’s hop back into Sketch and tone it down, making it a nice deep 

• purple. Of course, when you edit the header Symbol in one place, it automatically updates all subsequent instances. And no, I don’t really care about the purple, I just wanted to show you how easy it is to manage changes within your living mockup.

•   Select your artboards again, and let’s export. Save them to the same folder as before – replacing the old files – and InVision will take care of the rest. Your updated look (with purple header) will automatically show up in all InVision mockups, even those being viewed on a mobile device (or live in browser).

•   Of course, all of your hotspots and settings for each screen will remain intact. This means you can change out design details – or even whole screens – and you’ll still be left with a clickable, live prototype. 

•  That’s almost it! Now you just need to rinse and repeat. Make changes, see them live on your device, share them with people. 

How To get Your Business organised

•  Invoices and  Tax returns It’s one of the less creative sides of craft selling, but paperwork is a crucial area of your business. Katie Plant at Shropshire Petals confirms this: “A strong, organised invoice system is vital to any company. If accounts aren’t organised, it can waste vital time,” she says. Yvonne Ruhle at Kit & Kaboodle has developed a simple yet effective system.   “For me, the easiest system is to use what I call ‘dump boxes’. When I open my mail, I put invoices into the box so nothing is mislaid. Then every Friday, I check and action the box’s contents and file everything accordingly.”

•  Record orders Perhaps every craft seller’s worst nightmare is losing a customer’s details. The best way to prevent this is to create a system that tracks outgoing and incoming orders in an order book or spreadsheet. Laura Pyke at sayithandmade.co.uk says: “Add each order to your order book as soon as it comes in along with its shipping date, then cross them off once they’ve been posted. It’s also a great time saver to keep your suppliers’ details in one place so that you can order materials quickly the next time you need them.” 

• Be arty with storage Emma Read at Hapitat Hats is creative about how she organises materials, so that even her storage looks good: “I have all my fabric, feathers and lace stored in individual vintage leather suitcases – they look lovely on shelves stacked up, but they also look gorgeous taking them out to show customers the fabric choices. They look great on my craft stall,” she says. Vicky Craxton at vickysvintagegifts.co.uk has an inventive money-saving idea for your workspace: “Use empty biscuit tins, clearly labelling them so you can find what you’re looking for quickly

•  Keep tools handy Yvonne Ruhle, at Kit & Kaboodle found that she wasn’t being efficient before she got her tools and work table sorted: “I found I was buying things that I already had, but simply couldn’t put my hand on. So now, materials and tools I need regularly are housed in simple boxes close to my work bench.” Laura Pyke at sayithandmade.co.uk agrees: “If I can’t put my scissors away without standing up, I know they will end up staying on my work table and get lost among the clutter. Desk organisers, sets of table-top shelves and wall hooks are great ways to store things while keeping them accessible.”

•  Space savers Michelle Kreussel at The Fox in the Attic creates her own fabulous vintage space savers: “My studio is in the basement of our house. I have an antique chest of drawers that is perfect for storing all my templates and fabric. I label each drawer with what goes inside. I also bought a Victorian tea trolley to keep my fabrics nice and flat.”     Jojo at Lovelyjojos.com goes one step further with her storage solution and rents a storage unit: “This works out cheaper than buying small amounts of things,” she says. 

• Packing centre Make packing and posting a quick and savvy operation. Camilla Westergaard at butterscotchandbeesting.com has this down to a tee: “I have a huge pegboard in my studio where I hang all my packaging paraphernalia. I keep all my scissors, string and Washi tape there and it even has room for my bubble wrap. It makes packaging up parcels super-easy (and a bit more fun, too).”

• Get technical Create a system on your computer to stop paper piling up in your workspace. Jojo at Lovelyjojos.com says, “I keep track of expenses as I go, logging them on a spreadsheet and filing them by month on my laptop. I then do my income at the end of every week. That way, when tax return time comes, I don’t have loads of catching up to do.” 

Display ideas and to-do tasks on pin boards for workspace inspiration 

• Keep tools handy Use pin boards to display all your precious new ideas. Katie Plant at Shropshire Petals says that her team couldn’t function without them: “Notice boards are perfect for keeping track of all those pesky (but vitally important) sticky notes! It’s important to make your working space creative so you’ll be more likely to generate lots of ideas while  you work.”  

•  Fair organisation          Get a slick system together for an organised fair day, like Sean Carter from aberfanturning.co.uk: “I have the same  layout at my weekly fair, so it’s easy to remember. I also set things up and pack things away in the same routine every time so that I’m quick.” weatherproof boxes too!”  

•  The budget Without keeping records of what you spend and the money you make, how can you see if you’re making a profit? Camilla Westergaard at butter scotch and beesting. com relies on a pricing spreadsheet: “I list all the costs of each product, the time taken to make it, the wholesale and retail price and the profit. So if any costs change, the spreadsheet will say if the retail price needs to be altered.” 

How to make the lace necklace

•  Carefully cut off one of the individual sections of the lace trim by snipping the thread bars between the elements. Look carefully at the lace and find a part of the motif to form your bib shape necklace. You may need to turn the lace upside down.

•  Once you have selected a section, cut other pieces of lace to fill in some of the gaps. You may want to extend the main section with a small motif, like we did with the tulip shape on the top left of our necklace, to create a better shape. 

•  Turn all the different elements over and lay them onto a plastic sheet. Use a small paintbrush to paint around the edges with the fabric stiffener; only lightly brush over any lacy areas so that you don’t fill in the gaps. Allow the stiffener to soak in and then leave it to dry completely.  

•  Begin to fill in some of the larger areas. Position the small motifs into the gaps and stitch the pieces together where they touch using a matching colour thread. Use a few small oversewing stitches and then catch the thread into the lace so it's invisible, then move to the next area that needs stitching. Sew in the thread ends. 

•  Sew the larger motifs into the top edge of the lace to create the classic triangular bib shape. If you find that the lace is still floppy, then paint another coat of fabric stiffener onto it. Once dry, lay the lace  bib between two sheets of greaseproof paper and press with a hot steam iron. Leave flat until cool. 

•  Open a 6mm jump ring and feed it through the lace bib at the corner of the top right edge. Measure across the bib and attach another jump ring to the left side at the same position. Cut two lengths of gold chain measuring about 17-20cm (7-8in) long, and attach one to each jump ring and close again. Check you are happy with the length, then attach a lobster clasp to the end of the right chain and a 4mm jump ring to the end of the left chain, to finish

Materials Needed

*  Corded guipure lace trim 11cm (8in) wide, ours is from  OrientalDirect.co.uk *  Antique gold chain, 40cm (16in) *  Jump rings, 4mm and 6mm *  Lobster clasp *  Fabric stiffener *  Paintbrush *  Plastic sheet *  Ivory cotton thread

Size: 12 x 7cm (4¾ x 2¾in) 

Skill level: Easy

How to sell your Handy Robots

• Appeal to the collector in your customer. People love a collectable, so create a whole cyborg family in different styles and colours, each with their own name and back story, and you’ll soon be selling your robots in sets.

• 2Get social media savvy by creating a Facebook or twitter account for your robots. Post updates on new characters and let followers know when old ones find a new home. It’s a great way to get feedback on your makes too, so invite comments from customers to help you improve your future makes.

• Happy snaps! We say it all the time, but it’s so important to photograph your makes well. Shoot your robot in situ, so shoppers can see how to use him, and always take pics in natural light.

•  Keep the styling simple. As our robot is brightly coloured with lots of fun touches, it’s best to display him 

Use our handy hints and tips to make  sure your robots fly off the shelf
on a calm, neutral background, such as a white shelf or wooden bookcase. This way the colours and details will really stand out, ensuring customers can see him at his best.

• Offer a professional service. If selling your robots online, then email customers to confirm their order, inform them of the dispatch date and let them know the method of delivery. 

Remember to include accurate measurements in your online listing, as it’s hard to see how tall Sparks really is in a photograph. The more information you can give to the customer, the more confident they will feel in purchasing from you.

•  Be easily searchable. Think carefully about search terms that people might use to find your makes. List your robot online under headings such as ‘gifts for him’, ‘birthdays’, ‘gifts for tech lovers’ as well as ‘Sparks the robot’ and ‘handmade’. 

It’s all in the packaging! Don’t just bag up your robot or stuff him in an envelope. Use bubble wrap and a box to protect him in the post. If you’re selling at a market, then each one wrap in tissue paper closed with a branded sticker, then pop in a gift bag for a professional touch.

• Parental guidance. This fun character is going to appeal to young children, so you need to be clear when selling that he is not intended for the use of children. Put up a sign near the display on your craft stall, or include this information clearly on the robot spec on your website. 

•  Just for fun! Create a buzz online by encouraging customers to post photos on your Facebook page of their robots in their new homes. We’re sure everyone will want to join in the fun