Find your voice - and use it!For many scrapbookers, simply recording names and dates is enough. For you, though, scrapbooking is so much more. It's the story - your story. But how do you really capture it on a page? Your Words, Your Story takes the fear and confusion out of journaling by guiding you through the writing process with clear explanations and over 120 layouts featuring a variety of journaling styles. Whatever your background and skill level, you can write meaningful journaling on a...
Spice Up Your Layouts! Ordinary scrapbook pages get the job done, but why stop at good when you can Kick it Up!? Get ready to infuse your layouts with a bit of spice and take them to the next level. Inside Kick it Up!, more than 180 layouts-including 70 before-and-after pairs-show you how to take your projects up a creative notch. With ideas for backgrounds, photos, titles, embellishments and journaling, you'll never run out of clever ways to spice up scrapbook pages. Plus, a gallery of kicked-u...
"Star of David" Wooden Bench - How To Build a Stylized Star Bench out of Wood
by Jeff Hutchinson
Learn to make dozens of unique gifts packaged perfectly in glass jars of various shapes and sizes. Do you have an aspiring gardener on your list? Make a plant bomb” jar with your favorite flower seeds or an adorable terrarium featuring easy-to-grow air plants. Headed to a bridal shower? Pamper your friend with a manicure kit or mint mojito lip scrub. Who wouldn’t love some homemade sugar cookie mix or healthy and delicious granola in an attractive and reusable jar? Glass jars are easy to come...
Woven bracelets are great to wear and to share! Learn the Japanese technique of kumihimo ("gathered thread") and weave colorful cord into beautiful bracelets! This kit includes enough cord to make two bracelets--one to keep and one to give to a friend. The 64-page instruction book offers fifteen different patterns to weave multiple strands of cord on the kumihimo disk, creating some beautiful keepsakes and gifts. Leather or embroidery thread works just as well for more durable or delicate pieces...
"Radical and inspiring ... Yanagi's vision puts the connection between heart and hand before the transient and commercial" - Edmund de WaalThe daily lives of ordinary people are replete with objects, common things used in commonplace settings. These objects are our constant companions in life. As such, writes Soetsu Yanagi, they should be made with care and built to last, treated with respect and even affection. They should be natural and simple, sturdy and safe - the aesthetic result of wholehe...
Cured meat products arose from the need for preservation, in a time when cooking and refrigeration were not always available. Today, charcuterie is an embodiment of art in the kitchen, combining precision, balance, patience, and creativity; an economy of ingredients, as poetry is an economy of words. The confluence of these elements, along with the purest of ingredients, can enable anyone to craft cured meats in their home. Pure Charcuterie is a practical and artistic look at the techniques...
Color Me Enchanted: A Coloring Book of Fairy Tales from Around the World
by Masha D'Yans and Gala Lazuli
Toilet of Flora (Baths, Perfumes, Essences, Pomatums, Sweet-Scented Powders, and Scented Waters)
by Pierre-Joseph Buc'hoz
Here's the secret: scrapbooking does not have to be time consuming.In this book, readers learn time-saving techniques: buying what they need; organising to keep supplies and photos handy; scrapping with page kits; mixing up favorite layout designs for variety; keeping an inspiration journal so start-up time is reduced; and much more.Over 90 layouts will inspire readers to create their own fast layouts. Bite-size chunks of text and short informative captions make getting what reader need to know...
Scrap it fast, fun, frugal & fabulous!Make scrapbooking your treasured memories quick and easy on your wallet. In Time to Scrap, Memory Makers Master Kathy Fesmire shows you dozens of techniques and shortcuts to save you time and money while still creating fabulous layouts you can be proud of. Ideas include using common household items to stamp, piecing together scraps to form embellishments and adding the look of handstitching to your layout, without the needle and thread.Inside you'll find:Ste...
Notebook (Leather Style Collection - Journal, Notebook, Diary, Composi, #5) (Marble and Gold Notebooks, #1)
by Shady Grove Notebooks