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lake-heat-mapHow to Make Your Own Clip Art from Photos with Picnik
If you liked our article about making free clip art with Picnik, you’ll probably enjoy this related tutorial that shows you how to transform even an ordinary photo into a work of art.
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AvatarCentral_small Free Avatars
Avatar Central features our best image-creation tips and tools in one place. It’s our goal to make it easy for you to create icons or images that will be uniquely yours.

Free Clip Art
A picture is worth a thousand words. Ugh, that’s such a
cliché. But it’s also true, so including images in your blog can be a good way to up your post appeal. ______________

Reviews

On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft by Stephen King is part memoir and part writing primer, and is a must-read for anyone who writes — or reads, for that matter.

Eats, Shoots & Leaves by Lynn Truss uses humor to educate us about how use — and more importantly, how not to use — punctuation.


Vocabulary

If you know the definitions for even half these words, give yourself an A+.

The 50-cent Words Vocabulary Quiz

More 50-cent Words Vocabulary Quiz

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Grammar

Don’t buy into these grammar myths:

#1. You can’t end a sentence with a preposition.

#2. You can’t begin a sentence with and or but.
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