Take your Cricut crafts to the next level! The Cricut machine has made it easy for for anyone to create adorable, one-of-kind creations in their own home. Now, with this book crafting expert Megan Meketa shares all of her tips and tricks for making colorful, eye-catching projects that make every day a celebration. Featuring all the information needed to get started, including: -Straightforward details on Cricut models and software (Maker, Explore Series, Joy, and EasyPresses)-Essential tools an...
Slow down (maybe even stop), and smell the roses--and the jasmine, sandalwood, peppermint, and citrus blends, too. These remarkable fragrant candles, soaps, and potpourris make it simple for overworked, stressed-out women to experience the relaxing pleasures of aromatherapy every day. Each deliciously aromatic item in this lushly illustrated manual uses pure essential oils that promote a sense of health and well being. Whether the oil permeates the air or gets absorbed through the skin, it works...
The Knitting Pattern Writing Handbook
by Kristina McGrath and Sarah Walworth
Knitting patterns are notorious for inaccuracies in measurements and confusing directions-but no more! The Knitting Pattern Writing Handbook sets new standards for clear, accurate pattern writing, walking aspiring and experienced designers alike through each must-have component of a thorough, well-written pattern, including how to devise and present gauge, charts, and sizing information that is correct and easy-to-follow. With a focus on how to make patterns accessible to contemporary knitters-e...
If you've ever struggled with everyday tasks such as untangling your headphones or opening a jar that just won't budge, then this book is for you. In this book, Instructables writers will teach you various tips and tricks that will make life easier and help you save both time and money in your daily life. This book contains numerous life hacks, including how to amplify the sound of your iPod without speakers, how to make your toothpaste last longer, how to prevent your chips from going stale wit...
An alt twist on traditional wall hangings! Get crafty with DIY Woven Art! These 14 fabulous fiber art projects--from colorful pillows and rugs to dramatic wall hangings--will add a pop to any room in your house. No loom? No worries. Rachel Denbow shows you how to fabricate 3 simple, portable looms. DIY Woven Art also includes tips on customizing your designs and choosing the right fibers and embellishments for each project--basically, everything you need to know to create these gorgeous proje...
Country Decorating through the Seasons
by Deborah Schneebeli-Morrell and Gloria Nicol
This easy-to-follow guide shows readers how to create more than 75 seasonally inspired projects. Each inventive design is developed from natural materials that are readily available to both country- and city-dwellers. Lavishly illustrated with full-color photographs of finished creations and 300 step-by-step photographs
How to Realize on Your Personality V2
by Elsie Lincoln Benedict and Ralph Paine Benedict
Can you make a coin disappear? Or move a matchbook with your mind? As Charlie Dancey shows in this amazing book, the secret is simpler than anybody could ever guess. From unicycles to levitation to linking rings and other sleights-of-hand, Every Trick in the Book is the quirky, quintessential handbook to all the wild, wacky and extraordinary tricks that will impress friends and family alike. Charlie Dancey - of the UK comedy juggling group Haggis & Charlie - teaches the sort of magic that actual...
For the 2 million monthly followers of powerhouse wedding blog StyleMePretty.com, the major mainstream hit with serious indie cred (think Domino meets Etsy meets Martha Stewart Weddings), and for all brides looking for fresh new inspiration, editor in chief Abby Larson offers an eagerly awaited, entirely unique, and gorgeously photo-rich wedding resource.Joyful, love-filled weddings are created with the details that make the couple unique. These touches--letter-pressed table cards with a pet bul...
A complete guide for a beginning crocheter that teaches you how to crochet from the very first stitch and explains all tools, materials and stitches needed to get started. This book is also invaluable for intermediate to advanced crocheters as the book delves into experienced stitches and techniques needed. It includes 10 patterns to get beginners started with their first projects and will clearly identify what skills and lessons need to be learned before starting each project.
This highly visual hands-on guide teaches readers how to make skincare, makeup, and many more personal-care and beauty products using natural ingredients. Step-by-step color photos guide readers through basic beauty recipes, followed by more than 200 color and blend variations. Readers with sensitive skin, as well as those who want to save money and avoid harmful chemicals, will find everything they need to get started making their own luxurious beauty products: - 200 recipes and formulas for n...
Building Your Business the Right-Brain Way
by Associate Professor Jennifer Lee
All across America, people are knitting for peace. In yarn shops and private homes, churches and synagogues, schools and even prisons, they meet on weekday evenings or weekend afternoons to knit afghans for refugees, mittens for the homeless, socks for soldiers, or preemie caps for AIDS babies. The tradition goes back as far as Martha Washington, who spearheaded knitting efforts for the soldiers of the Revolutionary War, and has seen a recent flourishing in what is nowadays called "charity knitt...
No matter how well you knit, if the sizing is wrong, nothing works. In Good Measure, Deborah Newton, knitting expert, designer and author of Finishing School (9781936096190), teaches how to personalise any knitted garment pattern to achieve a perfect, flattering fit for every shape and size. This indispensable reference covers every aspect of fit, including how to properly analyse a pattern for customisation, make alterations in a project as needed, determine proper ease in every area of a garme...