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Books > Health, Home & Family > Handicrafts
A Million Sloths is a colouring book designed for sloth lovers of
all ages. Its humour and adorable charm will appeal to both
children and adults, providing an escape from hectic modern life to
channeling nature's most relaxed animal and living life in the
sloth lane. Inside are over 30 spreads of quirky and off-the-wall
sloths, decorated with stress-busting patterns and motifs. Get
ready to turn your perspective upside-down. A new title in Lulu
Mayo's bestselling A Million series, with a stunning foiled cover.
Embroidery on Knits is an in-depth guide to contemporary stitching on wool, featuring 18 nature-inspired templates with insightful tips and ideas on how to use them. Transform your knits with a handful of simple embroidery stitches: a cosy cardigan embellished with bright flowers, a dragonfly on the front of a sweater and mittens with plants climbing up the back of the hand. Embroidery on Knits is an in-depth guide to contemporary stitching with and on wool, explaining every step of the process — from planning to finished project. It is a source of inspiration and knowledge for crafty beginners and savvy stitchers alike.
The soaps, shampoos, and household cleaning products that you use
are often loaded with chemicals...How can you be sure that you
won't end up suffering from the harmful chemicals that these
products can bring to your body? You use them every day, and what's
more horrifying is that you might be allergic to them without even
knowing it. After reading this book, not only will you be able to
make many different types of soaps, but you will be a lot more
knowledgeable about skin care and what each ingredient does to your
body. Let's get you started on a healthy lifestyle with the soap
you make yourself! This book is perfect for beginners. You will
find tons of recipes for every kind of soap imaginable. These
products are healthy and easy to make and use. This is a
step-by-step guide that leaves nothing unsaid about soap making.
You don't need to have any prior knowledge about soap or beauty
products to be able to create your own soap from this book.
Hierdie boek oorbrug die gaping tussen kuns en handwerk en
verduidelik maklike hand-werk-tegnieke wat enigeen kan gebruik om
oorspronklike kunswerke te skep. Leer hoe om op 'n verskeidenheid
oppervlakke met enigiets van die tradisionele akriel- en olieverf
tot kraakvuller, sement en sand moderne blok-kuns te skep.
Treffende foto's van al die voltooide projekte, vergesel van
duidelike stap-vir-stap aanwysings en nabyskote, wys jou hoe en sal
die sluimerende kunstenaar in jou laat ontwaak. Benewens die
onweerstaanbare projekte, is daar inligting oor basiese tegnieke,
kleur, tekstuur-mediums, kleefmiddels, oplosmiddels, afwerkings en
verseelmiddels, asook 'n nuttige woordelys van tegnieke en
apparaat. Die boek bevat die gewildste projekte uit Kitskuns,
Slimkuns en Blitskuns.
The pages of The Confession Album contain 100 questions. Your part
is collecting the answers - whether from a loved one, or yourself -
in the course of an evening, or over a lifetime. If you're
answering for yourself, The Confession Album offers an opportunity
to gain and share the solace of self-expression; a way to relay
knowledge or impart wisdom; store a little data about what matters
in the old-fashioned way, by putting pen to paper. If you're
collecting someone else's answers - whether together in person or
by inviting them to respond alone and share with you later - The
Confession Album is above all an opportunity to bond. To lend your
ears and give your love. The Confession Album might be used to mark
a birthday or anniversary. As an activity to anchor a family trip
or weekend with friends. At the very least, it beats a Greeting
Card or social media quiz. At best, it creates a small but
thoughtful legacy - recording thought, and hard-won wisdom, to
advise and inspire. For Aspiring Writers, The Confession Album
removes one more barrier to putting pen to paper. The Confession
Album is designed to encourage you to make a start, to help writers
find and refine their voice on the page.
For those who work with FIBER in weaving, spinning, crocheting,
knitting, macrame; for those who work with CLOTH in batik,
tie-dying, quilting, applique, soft sculpture, sewing. With this
book you can come one step closer to making it from ""scratch"" -
increasing your involvement and satisfaction in your craft, while
enhancing the beauty and value of your finished uh_product. Rich,
soft, subtle colors, not easily copied by synthetic man-made dyes,
are commonly obtained from natural dye sources. The end reward is
beautiful natural colors, but equally rewarding is the pleasure to
be derived from collecting natural materials and from the dyeing
process itself. The world around you becomes a treasure house of
""hidden"" possibilities, with common and readily available plant
materials yielding colors that can be as surprising as they are
special. Like the ancient Hawaiians who colored their tapa cloth
with dyes from kukui, ferns, and other plants of their islands, you
become more sensitive to your natural environment. A greater
respect for craftspeople of the past and a deeper appreciation for
the materials are every natural dyer's gain. Val Frieling
Krohn-Ching is a distinguished weaving and textile design artist
whose curiosity and desire for experimenting has also made her the
authority on dyeing with plant materials in Hawaii using wool
fibers. She now shares the results of her years of experimentation
- and her enthusiasm - with others. Even beginners can use her
basic principles and techniques successfully to achieve new results
of their own. Hawaii Dye Plants and Dye Recipes is itself an
artistic production, filled with charming, botanically accurate
pen-and-ink drawings to aid in plant identification. Instructions
are concise and easy to follow. Interesting information about each
plant enlivens the text, as do personal comments about the author's
experimentation and sources of natural materials. A color chart,
photographed from actual wool samples prepared by the author, shows
more than 300 beautiful results that the natural dyer can achieve
using recipes in this book.
The Second Edition of Cosplay - The Beginner's Masterclass is
longer, more detailed and has dozens of new pictures and
illustrations! Veteran cosplayers Miyuu Takahara and Kenji Weston
team up experience to give new and aspiring cosplayers the
introductory guide they deserve. Expertly composed, this book
contains hundreds of images, many of which illustrate the advice,
instruction and ideas discussed. Each cosplay topic and technique
is explained lucidly, comprehensively and straightforwardly. All
manner of costumes are closely examined: superheroes and
supervillains, video game characters, and of course those from
Japanese anime and manga culture. Hundreds of hours of research and
collaboration were lavished upon this book. To write it, the
authors drew on the spirit of commitment and passion that is at the
very core of good cosplay. It is guaranteed to give newbies and
beginners plus even experienced cosplayers the guidance and tips
they need to do well in this, the most epic of hobbies.
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