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Books > Health, Home & Family > Handicrafts
Bestselling author Marty Noble allows you to express your creative
streak and color Day of the Dead sugar skulls! Sugar skulls, or
calaveras, mark the arrival of the Dia de los Muertos, or Day of
the Dead, in November. To celebrate this traditional Mexican
holiday when the living honor their departed loved ones, sugar is
molded into skull shapes and decorated with colors, patterns, and
designs that delight, charm, and fascinate. Now, decorate your own
sugar skulls within the pages of a coloring book. Designed by the
bestselling coloring book artist Marty Noble, the book features
forty-eight gorgeous and intricate line illustrations of both human
and animal skulls. These specially crafted sugar skulls range
across different aesthetic influences and complexity levels for
both the amateur and advanced colorist. They are adorned with
flowers, plants, patterns, wildlife, macabre imagery, and
traditional Mexican art motifs that will engage your inner
creativity and get your coloring juices flowing. These pages are
perforated and printed on one side, allowing colorists to remove
and display their finished designs easily. Whether on November 1
and 2, or throughout the year, Marty Noble's Sugar Skulls offers an
absorbing and fascinating coloring experience with page after page
of unique sugar skull designs!
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.
Help your little loved-ones discover hours of imaginative fun and
activity with these delightful, easy-to-sew games. Drawing on her
background as an occupational therapist, Farah Wolfe presents
creative, handmade game that invite children to enjoy active play.
A greener alternative to plastic, battery-operated gifts, these are
simple, beautifully sewn games that children will love and
remember. You can: choose from 11 versatile, gender neutral
projects that are safe, washable, lightweight, and great for
travel; find full instructions for each game, plus play options for
different ages and even clever ways to package and store the games;
and, engage toddlers, preschoolers, and school kids with
captivating games that foster a wide range of physical, cognitive,
and social skills.
Welcome to a lovely world of flowers and patterns! Inside you ll
find 32 modern floral coloring activities from visionary designer
Debra Valencia. Perfect for enhancing with markers, colored
pencils, gel pens, crayons, or watercolors, each of these superb
illustrations serves as a springboard for creative expression.
Pages and pages of beautifully colored samples are included to
spark your imagination. Multiple color schemes are presented side
by side, to show how different approaches can make the same design
look radically different. Gorgeous hand-colored examples in a
variety of art mediums are also provided from best-selling craft
author Marie Browning. Printed on one side of high quality,
extra-thick paper that resists bleed through, each page is
perforated for easy removal from the book. Frame your completed
artwork for display, or use it as inspiration for gifts, home
decor, needlepoint, stenciling, wall murals, and more."
In the highlands of Chiapas, Mexico, a large indigenous population
lives in rural communities, many of which retain traditional forms
of governance. In 1996, some 350 women of these communities formed
a weavers' cooperative, which they called Jolom Mayaetik. Their
goal was to join together to market textiles of high quality in
both new and ancient designs. Weaving Chiapas offers a rare view of
the daily lives, memories, and hopes of these rural Maya women as
they strive to retain their ancient customs while adapting to a
rapidly changing world. Originally published in Spanish in 2007,
this book captures firsthand the voices of these Maya artisans,
whose experiences, including the challenges of living in a highly
patriarchal culture, often escape the attention of mainstream
scholarship. Based on interviews conducted with members of the
Jolom Mayaetik cooperative, the accounts gathered in this volume
provide an intimate view of women's life in the Chiapas highlands,
known locally as Los Altos. We learn about their experiences of
childhood, marriage, and childbirth; about subsistence farming and
food traditions; and about the particular styles of clothing and
even hairstyles that vary from community to community. Restricted
by custom from engaging in public occupations, Los Altos women are
responsible for managing their households and caring for domestic
animals. But many of them long for broader opportunities, and the
Jolom Mayaetik cooperative represents a bold effort by its members
to assume control over and build a wider market for their own work.
This English-language edition features color photographs -
published here for the first time - depicting many of the
individual women and their stunning textiles. A new preface,
chapter introductions, and a scholarly afterword frame the women's
narratives and place their accounts within cultural and historical
context.
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