Besides jewelry and candy, children love role-playing. Making jewerly out of candy is a combination of the three things above, so it's no surprise that they become so pupular they entertain an entire class of kids, and keep the busy for an entire day.

There are many ways to make soaps and candles (actually they have a lot in common), some of them are almost ancient and inherited by every generation, but a lot of methods are new - they appeared as the technology developed and new chemical were available. The methods are also different from the ones used by our grandparents to make soap.

I never had a lunch box as a child (I am too young and on the wrong continent for that), but I have heard a lot of things during time about this North American habit that became an industry a few decades ago, between the 1950 and 1980s.

Reuben Garret Lucius Goldberg lived from July 4, 1883 to December 7, 1970 and he was and North American cartoonist, sculptor, inventor, engineer and author. His father led him to study engineering at the University of California at Berkeley. According to biography.com he graduated in 1904 and he started working as sewer system designer, but he left after only 4 months to become a sportswriter and cartoonist for the San Francisco Chronicle (until 1905), for San Francisco Bulletin (from 1905 to 1907) and New York Evening Mail (1907-1921) where he created 3 long running comic strips.

Rube Goldberg is best known for a series of popular cartoons depicting complex gadgets, they perform simple tasks in convoluted, indirect ways. These device are known as Rube Goldberg machines. He was a founding member and the first president of National Cartoonist Society in US, he is also the namesake of the Reuben Award. The international competitions called Rube Goldberg Machine Contests challenge the participants to make complex machines to perform simple tasks.

In 1938 Rube Goldberg started working at editorial cartooning, working for The New York Sun, The New York Journal and The Journal American. The won the Pulitzer price in 1948 for the best editorial cartoon called Peace Today, a warning against atomic weapons. He retired from drawing cartoons in 1964.

This video is Tim Fort's kinetic art, he and his friend created an incredible Rube Goldberg like  contraption using extensive repertoire of impulse transmission techniques. Considering this, it's not wrong to say that Rube Goldberg has inspired some generation of humans to work toward the overly engineered and he will always be remembered for reminding our society of its focus on technology, for making the completion of simple tasks overly complicated in the process.

The video from the beginning of this article is an Rube Goldberg office contraption.

The Moth Killer Rube Goldberg Machine would kill a moth, but he thought it was hilariously over thought and over built.

The morning wake up and shoe donning machine was the solution for busy people who needed to be prevented from going back to bed.

Uploaded on youtube by realgood008, this great beer pouring Rube Goldberg contraption was built in over 10 hours.

Rube Goldberg invented a simple way to open your egg without dropping it.

It may seems futile for many people, but this device helps you to fish an olive out of a long necked bottle.

Finally, this video is taken from the Japanese Rube Goldberg contest and shows an amazing type machine to fix ramen for dinner.

Jigsaw puzzles are fun to make and an inexpensive hobby that make you think, they are a great exercise for your shape and colors identification abilities. As they may vary a lot: from simple scene and larges pieces to huge scenes or pictures with small pieces, they are in different degrees of complexity so it's not wrong to say they also build great logical skills and spatial reasoning.

Traditional coloring book is a type of book containing line art, the reader only have to fill in with color as he wants. Usually they are used by children, but the pasion is not limited by age. Like many other activities coloring is now present over the internet as free online coloring pages, drawing games, printables, connect the dots and kids puzzles. They are considered interesting and funny and kids can't resist to do these activities.

The first article of this series says that the most common stamps are very chiep and everyone can afford them, they usually remain at the same value. Some of the stamps have high value from the beginning and sometime it grows.

The end of the previous article contains a list with the items from the beginner's outfit, what anybody needs to start a stamp collection. In this one I want to write more detailed about the essential supplies for stamp collector. That's you point of view anyway - you are reading this because you are interested about the subject, and I am not a stamp collector... yet).

The previous article was a guide to stamp collection for beginners started from a discussion with a friend. I am not in the field, but he made me curious. The most logical conclusion was to write about how to start a stamp collection... just in case I would want to start one myself.

I was discussing some time ago with a friend who is collecting stamps and one of the first basic question was the eternal "why?". I meant "why do you collect stamps?" (and it was addressed to him).

I don't believe that you trully lived unless you've tasted every season at their full strength, with their own colors and smells.