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How to Create Best Crafts for Kids Using the Waste Things around Us?

10 Best Out of Waste Ideas for Kids

Here are some best out of waste ideas for kids which will help you get rid of all that junk and also keep them occupied.

1. Tray Made out of an Old Photo Frame

If you have an old photo frame which you no longer use, ask kiddo to paint it to make it look fresh and new.

Pick up a pair of lovely, intricately carved cast iron handles and attach them to the edges with shallow screws.

And in that picture insert, use a fabric which you would like to use as the base of your tray. Just stick it on to the cardboard using some glue/ good adhesive.

Finally, add a glass. That will prevent the fabric below from getting soiled and also make the tray much sturdier.

If you have a discarded frame at home, the tray will not cost you more than $3-5, depending upon the handles and the glass you choose for it and your kid will be so happy to have made something for his mom!

      2.  Bookmarks Made out of Popsicle Sticks

Make some cute looking bookmarks for your grandparents using popsicle sticks, wiggly eyes, glue, felt tips pens and the bits and pieces of fabrics you can find in your mom’s DIY kit.

       3.  A key chain from an old, expired credit card

My 11 year old son made me this key holder yesterday, using his dad’s old credit card. He simply punched a hole into the expired card, run an old ring through it.

And lo! You have a cool key chain out of waste credit card.

That was easy, wasn’t it?

       4.  Crafts Using Old Tires

If you have some old tires rotting up in a corner of your garage, cut them and paint them and make very creative planters to hang down your balcony.

      5.  Cool Button Bracelet

Put together all the buttons in your mom’s or grandma’s sewing kit and use a cord to make a beautiful bracelet out of them.

You can even gift them to friends on Friendship Day or simply as a token of love for your sis.

A hand crafted thing always holds special charm.

       6.  Wind Chime Made Out of Old Bottle Caps

This is one best out of waste for kids which adults are sure to like too. You could use a cord to hold together old bottle caps and hand them together an old, perforated disc, etc to create wonderful, melodious wind chime for your backyard.

      7.  Amazing Things With Your Tennis Ball

Let your creative juices flow and make a cool wall hanging for your kids’ room using an old tennis ball. Just see how many fantastic things you can create out of a simple ball.

      8.  Wall Mirror Using Old Bottle Caps

Collect lots of bottle caps. Just ask your mom not to throw the caps away each time she opens a bottle of cold drinks. Once you have about 100 of them, pain them all in 3 different colors and arrange them in a mosaic to make an attractive mirror like this for your room.This is one of the Idea to create a best wall mirror using the waste old bottle caps.

You could even gift it to your elder sibling for his hostel room. I am sure he/ she will love you for this.

9.  Wall Mirror For Boys’ Room

if boys do not quite like the mirror we have shown above and want something more flashy and colorful for their room, they can try something like this for their room.

     10.  Popsicle Stick Photo Frame

Use 4- 8 popsicle sticks to make this super cute picture frame for your room by sticking 2 of them along each edge on a 9” X 12” sheet of paper with glue. You can paint different patterns on the sticks to make your frame look extraordinary.

I have used only 4 sticks here. You can use any number of them for the frame you make.

Conclusion

We hope these wonderful ideas will give you and your kids some inspiration to create some wonderful and creative crafts, making the best out of waste things lying around the home.

31 Things You Can Make Out Of Cereal Boxes

31 Things You Can Make Out Of Cereal Boxes

This article shows 31 things that can be made out of cereal boxes. Here are some of the photos for review. The rest of the photos can be viewed at :

http://www.buzzfeed.com/pippa/cereal-box-diys-5ocb

1. Flashlight

You can turn a cereal box, soda can, and torch bulb into a little flashlight with some basic folding and cutting.

2. Mail Organizer

Cover cereal boxes with pretty fabrics, add a strip of cotton twill tape and labels, and stack them on the wall for a nifty organizer. 

3. Mini Notebooks

4. Business Cards

Print out your info on the inside of a cereal box for economical and funky business cards.

10 Practices From The Most Innovative Organizations

This article written by David Burkus compile the top 10 ways how innovative companies develop culture of creativity among their workers.

 For complete article do browse
 http://www.creativitypost.com/business/10_practices_from_the_most_innovative_organizations

Using the Creative Process for Healing and Hope Among African American Older Adults

This article explains about how creativity is used as a process for healing and hope among American Older Adults. This article is writeen by Carol M. Johnson, BSN, MA, ATR-BC, and Eileen M. Sullivan-Marx,
PhD, CRNP, FAAN.

Below is one of the creative method used for healing process :

This is the result from the process of managing emotions :

For more explanations, read the full article at :
www.npaonline.org/website/navdispatch.asp?id=2032‎

Wow! This is so creative

This is the video of creativity that integrate the wheelbarrow (kereta sorong) with engine.

Have you heard of Board of Innovation?

They are an international office specialized in business model innovation. They help corporate clients like eBay, P&G, J&J, and Volkswagen to innovate like startups, and to develop sustainable new revenue streams.

They claims they are next gen entrepreneurs that think like designers but speak business! In their latest slide deck they have visualized 15 business model examples from innovative companies. Let's review those and what have you got to say?

15 companies you should copy: business models visualised by @boardofinno from Board of Innovation .com

Visit the website here to know more.

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phone parking solution....

ADAcode – dial, wait and done! FOC

ADAcode create a great opportunity for brands to interact with their consumers. People just need to dial the number or code for certain event using their mobile device. Required information will be send to user mobile free of charge.

ADAcode founder is Allahyarham Encik Azli Paat, Malaysia well-known ICT expert.

How it works?

When you see an ADAcode, just dial the number, wait for an SMS and your're done.

ADAcode vs QRCode

A Success Story

At the event of MSC Malaysia Asia-Pacific ICT Alliance (APICTA) award 2012, ADAcode win:

1. "Best of The Best" , Prime Minister’s award
2. Best of e-Government & Services

Source:

http://www.adacode.my/

https://www.facebook.com/ADAcode/

Internet Entrepreneur Course

For those who like to add knowledge in Internet Business, you can join this course after finish Master of make it parallel if you can handle it effectively. That's diploma programme that offer by Open University Malaysia.

This information I got from facebook Irfan Khairi, who is internet millionaire at Malaysia. He will collaborate with Open University Malaysia to offer Diploma Profesional Perniagaan Internet dan Strategi Media Sosial.

Or may be UiTM will offer this course too?

For more information, kindly click at : http://www.openuni.com.my/

Cameron Johnson – a Great Entrepreneur Since He Was 9

A Brief History Of The Young Entrepreneur

Posted by Entrepreneur Writer

When he was just 9, Cameron Johnson from Virginia started his first business venture. Everything began by way of a joke, the young man started making greeting cards for his family’s celebrations. Many of the recipients liked the beautiful cards, and soon the little boy started receiving orders from friends and colleagues of the family. After a couple of years Cameron started to use the money earned from his business to buy Ty Beanie Babies at wholesale prices from the manufacturers. He made himself a website and started selling the dolls there and on eBay. This way, while his friends were playing children’s games, Cameron made his first 50 000 dollars. He was only 12 years old by that time.

When the kid entrepreneur was 13, he began working on anothergreat business idea – “My EZ Mail” – a service that forwards e-mails to a specific account without showing information about the recipients. He hired a coder to develop the idea and in a couple of years his new venture was generating about 3 000 dollars in revenue monthly from advertisers.

In 1997, Cameron with two other teenage entrepreneurs founded an advertising company – Surfingprizes.com. They were showing ads on the top of web browsers and paid 0.2 dollars per hour everyone who was showing the advertisements on his or her computer. The people who managed to attract new advertisers for the company, received 10 percent from new user’s revenue. The kids had the place for ads, but wanted more advertisers. They started partnering with some big names Advertising.com and DoubleClick, which could easily sell the ads to their clients. These companies collected only 30% of the revenue, while the remaining 70% was for the kids. At the age of 15, Cameron began receiving checks of 300 000 dollars monthly, pretty well for a kid J. At 19, his assets were worth more than a million dollars.

After high school Johnson went to Virginia Polytechnic Institute, where he stayed less than a semester. He was seized again by the business spirit and with a friend of his started a new venture – CertificateSwap.com . The so called gift certificates can be used to purchase anything on eBay. Usually someone can sell his or her certificate on the Bay, but at the price of 13 % of the certificate value. Cameron’s new site charged only 7.5 % for the same deal. In 2004 Cameron and company sold this business for a six digits amount.

Cameron Johnson was born in Virginia, on the 13^th of November 1984. He started with business at just 9 and before he graduated from high school, he was one of the most successful teenage entrepreneurs in the world. Now 26, Johnson is an author of several books, famous businessman and lecturer.

Time-Saving Laundry Services

The 'Prim' Laundry Delivery Service Does Your Laundry for You.

Published: Jul 28, 2013 • References: getprim and techcrunch

Prim is a laundry delivery service that will pick up, wash, fold and deliver your clean laundry back to you for $25. This new startup makes it as convenient as possible for people to have their clothes cleaned. Laundry pickups are made seven days a week and can be scheduled online for a morning or evening.

Previously, Prim co-founder Yin Yin Wu’s boyfriend worked at Facebook and was inspired by its free laundry service. Wanting to make laundry services more widely available, Prim was created. Currently Prim only operates in areas of San Francisco, although there are plans for future expansion.

Since doing your laundry can be a time-consuming task, this laundry delivery service makes it easier than ever for you to stay on top of your chores.

So what are we waiting for? This is good startups and we can do it within our home area. 

An interview with international banker and founder of AmBank - the late Ahmad Hussain Najadi

Born in Bahrain, the late Ahmad Hussain Najadi made his name on Malaysian shores as the founder of Arab Malaysian Banking Group (AmBank). Touching upon his roots, Hussain talks about his influences, the rewards of risk and a journey that has brought him across the world to a home in Kuala Lumpur. The conversations took place in a BMW car and was recorded by popteevee channel on Youtube.

Best Small Businesses of 2012

SmallBusiness.co.uk presents the ten small companies interviewed on the site that showed the most promise, innovation, or simply glorious eccentricity in 2012. From cat hotels to taxi apps, one thing's for sure: these businesses are definitely marketable one way or another. Ben Lobel wrote.

1. THE CAT HOTELIER
Abi Purser left a job as a saddle fitter to start Longcroft Luxury Cat Hotel in 2010, and franchised the business soon after. She hopes to oversee 200 operations in ten years' time.


You can read more about the story here.


2. The NIGHTLIFE PLANNER
Nick Telson co founded DesignMyNight.com, an online service that helps users plan their evening’s entertainment, with a university friend in 2009. He says, 'With a tech company you have quite low overheads and a high margin. We want to be in three or four UK cities within 12 months.'


You can read more about the story here.


3. THE JETSETTER'S FRIEND
Carol Cork launched online private jet booking platform PrivateFly.com with her husband in 2007 and the company now turns over £4 million. She says, ‘We wanted to make private jet travel more transparent, accessible and efficient.’


Read more about the story here.


4. THE NITRO ICE CREAM MAN
Charlie Francis set up a mobile liquid nitrogen ice cream parlour in 2011 and is set to grow turnover to £140,000 next year. He says, 'My parents have been making ice cream for 30 years and it made sense to go into something where I could draw on that experience.’


You can read more about the story here.


5. THE WASTE MANAGEMENT MARKETPLACE
Edward Fanshawe set up waste management bidding site Skiptrips in 2012 after having difficulty getting decent quotes for skips. ‘I decided to set up a marketplace where Environment Agency-regulated skip providers can bid online for jobs,’ he says.


Read more about the story here.


6. THE SURVIVOR
In 1998, Ann-Maree Morrison was fighting for her life after being hit by a train while on holiday in Australia – but that didn't stop her from starting a successful label-making company turning over £300,000.


You can read more about the story here.


7. THE SALAD DRESSING GURU
Gem Misa started natural food company Righteous in 2009 and turned over £120,000 in 2011. She says, 'I was at Unilever but I wasn’t able to create products. I knew if there was something I wanted to work with day in day out it would have to be food.’


Read more about the story here.


8. THE GREEN DATA CENTRE
Green tech entrepreneur Peter Hopton founded data centre cooling company Iceotope in 2011. He says, 'Back in 2005 I was experimenting with computers and electronic fluids for cooling purposes. I filed a patent, pitched to investors and got seven figures of investment in 2008.


Read more about the story here.


9. CASH-MAGNET
Smartphone app Hailo has made headlines for securing one of Europe's largest ever venture capital funding rounds - around £10 million. Says co-founder Russell Hall, 'In January 2009, two other taxi drivers and I had the idea of using a web-based platform to get passengers into taxis that would otherwise use minicabs.’


Read more about the story here.


10. THE INNOVATION TEACHER
Simon Hill started innovation management company Wazoku in 2011 and is already looking to turn over £400,000 for his next year of trading. It's a subscription-based business with software that helps generate ideas and innovation within a company, taking the traditional company ‘suggestion box’ online.


Read more about the story here.

How Doug McMillon Went From Unloading Trucks At Wal-Mart To Its Next CEO

When Wal-Mart announced that Doug McMillon would become the retailer's fifth ever CEO starting in February, only the timing was a surprise. McMillon, 47, has steadily risen up the company's ranks and has long been pegged as a possible successor.

But unlike many CEOs of massively profitable companies, McMillon started out at the very bottom of the company he's going to lead. And not as an intern or management trainee. The Arkansas native spent two summers as a teenager unloading trucks at a Wal-Mart distribution center.  

Here's a look at McMillon's journey from Wal-Mart's loading dock to its next CEO.

After attending college at the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville, McMillon returned to the company in 1990, working in a store in Tulsa, Okla., as a buyer trainee in the athletic department while getting his MBA at the University of Tulsa. A year later, he made the move to its headquarters in Bentonville, Ark.

From there came a series of promotions, aided by the fact that McMillon is by all accounts an extremely affable, charming, and engaging presence, to the point, according to the Financial Times, that he tended to outshine outgoing CEO Mike Duke whenever the pair appeared together. 

He's also reportedly close with the Walton family, who are still massive shareholders. Rob Walton, the son of founder Sam Walton, is the company's chairman. 

Over the course of McMillon's years at the company, he's worked throughout its U.S. operations. According to Bloomberg Businessweek, he's been a buyer for food, apparel, and crafts and a divisional merchandise manager for home furnishing and infants and toddlers. He worked as a general merchandise manager at Sam's Club (Wal-Mart's wholesale store) and climbed to a Senior VP at Wal-Mart overseeing toys, electronics, sporting goods, and more.

In 2006, he got his first truly high-profile job in the company, as CEO of Sam's Club. According to The Wall Street Journal, that's where he made his reputation by focusing on small-business owners and the sorts of items that could help it better compete with its larger rival in the space, Costco.

Three years later, in a further sign that he was a possible future CEO, he took over the store's absolutely vital international operations from Duke. International stores represent only about a quarter of Wal-Mart's business. While the company is nearly ubiquitous in the U.S., its international business is the future, necessary for the company's continued growth. 

Under McMillon, the company brought its "everyday low prices" mantra to the rest of the world and grew international sales to 29% of the company's total. 

That's likely the reason that McMillon was elevated over the other potential successor, Bill Simon, who leads the company's massive but stagnant U.S. operations.

McMillon has a big job to do. He has to figure out a way to keep Wal-Mart strong at home against competition from e-tailers like Amazon and traditional retailers like Target. He'll also need to push international growth and move into markets like India and China where its business model may not even work. And he has to figure out an increasingly digital future for a company whose success is built on a ruthlessly efficient supply chain, razor thin profit margins, and the location of its stores. 

McMillon's managed to rise from loading dock worker to Wal-Mart CEO in three decades. We'll be watching what the new leader of the world's largest retail company does next.

Source: http://www.businessinsider.com/doug-mcmillon-wal-mart-ceo-bio-2013-11#ixzz2lu41Nbfp

Why KFC's New Go Cup Is a Brilliant Business Idea

This opinions was expressed by Stephen Key on 15 October 2013 at http://www.entrepreneur.com. The KFC's invention idea of the Go Cup is mind blowing. Keep reading the article and you will know what I am talking about.

"When students of my entrepreneurship course ask me, "How can I come up with more good ideas?" I always tell them to study the marketplace. I believe great innovations evolve from studying products that already exist in the market, thinking about how they can be improved and asking: What do consumers need and want?

It's really that simple. And that's why I write over and over again about how important it is to research and understand buying habits before you come up with new ideas. Recently, a major fast food corporation really drove that point home for me. KFC, as you might have read or seen on TV, debuted an ingenious new product this month: the Go Cup.

I'm a product designer so when I read that the Go Cup, which holds smaller, snack-sized portions of food, fits 83 percent of all car cup holders, my mind was blown. KFC spent two years designing this product. It has a slit at the bottom that can be collapsed to fit different car cup holders, because there is no industry-standard size or design. The Go Cup also conveniently separates the different kinds of food you order from co-mingling. It costs less -- about half the price of the cheapest meal that was on the KFC menu -- and includes five different varieties.

I couldn't help asking myself: How has no one come up with this idea before? It seems so obvious. People love to eat in their cars, because it's fast and convenient. Why not make the process less messy? They weren't reinventing the wheel, just thinking about how to enhance what was already out there. 

Another important lesson: KFC didn't just rely on an assumption that their consumers yearned for a snack that was easier to eat in their cars. Their team gathered data that proved that a new innovation was needed. They learned that consumers wanted a snack that was a protein, portable, sold for a low price and that didn't need utensils. At the same time, KFC knew that about half its sales were being made by drive-through customers. And according a consumer research firm that surveys eating behavior, Americans order 21 percent of all their meals from their cars. That's an enormous market. KFC did their research. And they delivered a product that is going to be a smash, if the media blitz that has erupted in response is any indication. The Go Cups even look like mini buckets -- they managed to extend their brand even while debuting a new line.

Examples of great, marketplace-based product design are all around us. Just keep looking for them."