Craft Bits also has reviews of a limited number of craft projects, a craft chat area and a place for posing questions to a craft expert, a feature we haven't seen on other craft sites. The item Halloween fun : 101 ideas to get in the spirit, editor, Carol Field Dahlstrom represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Portland Public Library. Most of the projects were a little more common - jewelry, wedding crafts, kids' - though we did get a smile out of the instructions for 'Freaky Fingers,' severed plaster-of-Paris digits perfect for hiding in candy bowls and scaring trick-or-treaters.

Craft Bits offers oodles of free project instructions for crafters, including the aforementioned standard of the '70s scene. The address: Should the need for a homemade disco ball ever arise, we know just the place to go.

Crafters' alert:Here's place to go The site: Craft Bits. The softcover book is published by Better Homes and Gardens Books and is priced at $15.95. Among the projects are a creepy centerpiece made of flea-market finds and dry ice for ghoulish effect, an edible haunted forest made with broccoli trees and hard-boiled-egg ghosts, and instructions for costuming trick-or-treaters as spiders, milkshakes and even trees.

Craft expert Carol Field Dahlstrom has cooked up a cauldron full of projects to get creative souls into the spirit in her new book, 'Halloween Fun.' The book offers ideas for decorations, treats, costumes and party games as well as pumpkin decorating tips that turn jack-o'-lanterns into works of art. to stop us getting a count of 6 working days when looking at Sunday through to Saturday, the datepart snippet is wrapped in a ‘min’ calculation with the number 5 so we get no more than 5 working days in a week.It may seem early to be talking about Halloween, but not if you're a crafter. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. This means if we take away the weekday number from 7 we will get the number of days up to Saturday. Halloween Fun: 101 Ideas to get in the spirit (Better Homes & Gardens) by Better Homes and Gardens Books Readable copy. ) / 7*5 Part 2: Working Days in the First Partial Weekīy default Tableau counts Saturday as the 7th day of the week and we want to count backwards how many working days have led up to it from our start date in our first partial week.

We divide this by 7 and multiply it by 5 to get the number of working days in these weeks. Now we have a number that is a multiple of 7 and will reflect the number of days in the full weeks between the start and end date. Then we trim off the days in the partial week at the end of the time frame to take us back to end of the last full week. Subtracting 7 minus the weekday number takes us upto the end of the first Sunday. Then we trim off days in the first partial week of the time frame.

Halloween Fun by Carol Field Dahlstrom