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Crafts, Hobbies, & Collecting July / August 2020
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Tiny dino worlds : create your own prehistoric habitats
by Christine Bayles Kortsch
Featuring 26 simple projects that making learning fun, this wonderful guide, written by a crafty mom and vetted by two paleontologists, introduces young readers to dinosaurs and their habitats. Illustrations.
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You are an artist : assignments to spark creation
by Sarah Urist Green
A curator and creator provides 50 assignments collected from some of the world’s most innovative, modern creators, including Sonya Clark, Michelle Grabner and The Guerrilla Girls to prompt aspiring artists and makers to open their imaginations and begin to create. Illustrations.
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Mending life : a handbook for repairing clothes and hearts
by Sonya Montenegro
Teaching basic techniques along with more advanced stitches, this visually stunning, practical tool kit for repairing the clothes and belongings reveals how mending can strengthen not only the object we are repairing, but ourselves as well. Illustrations.
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Joyful mending : visible repairs for the perfectly imperfect things we love
by Noriko Misumi
Simply by applying a few easy sewing, darning, felting, or crocheting techniques, as well as some sashiko and other favorite embroidery stitches, you can repair your favorite pieces in a transformative way. These techniques don't just save you money, but make your life more joyful, fulfilling and sustainable in an age of disposable "fast fashion."
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Paper Flower Note Cards : Pop-Up Cards - Greeting Cards - Gift Toppers
by Emiko Yamamoto
With just scissors, craft glue and a few sheets of colorful heavyweight paper, anyone can create stunning floral gift cards, gift toppers and place cards in no time at all! Emiko Yamamoto's simple step-by-step instructions explain how to cut and assemble each card for flawless results every time. Templates provided in the back of the book are reusable and allow you to reproduce the designs many times.
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Crocheted Wreaths for the Home : 12 Gorgeous Wreaths and 12 Matching Mini Projects for All Year Round
by Anna Nikipirowicz
Wreaths are not just for Christmas - they can be used to decorate your home all year round! Anna Nikipirowicz shows you how to create sumptuous crocheted wreaths and other decorations that will grace your home and look beautiful, whatever the season. There is a wide variety to choose from, including spring, summer, autumn and winter wreaths plus a gorgeous succulents wreath and Easter, Halloween and Christmas wreaths. These lovely yarny creations are festooned with flowers, leaves and other decorations such as birds, owls, pumpkins, stars, bunnies and foxes. If you love the look but don't want to make an entire wreath, Anna also includes other smaller decorations such as garlands and terrariums. There are also three delightful tiny wreaths to make, featuring a hedgehog, a mouse and a robin. Each main project has a smaller accompanying project to make, and if you love crochet, you’ll love Anna’s imaginative designs.
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Rock your rental : style, design, and marketing tips to boost your bookings
by Joanne Palmisano
Full of inspiration, DIY projects, marketing tips, and before-and-after photos, this handbook is very useful for innkeepers, bed-and-breakfast owners, hotel hosts, and vacation rental owners who want to increase their bookings, profits, and the happiness of their customers.
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Gardening & Sustainable Living
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Attracting birds and butterflies : how to plant a backyard habitat to attract winged wildlife
by Barbara W Ellis
In the eye of a bird or butterfly, the typical suburban landscape resembles an unfriendly desert. Closely mowed lawns, tightly clipped shrubs, raked-up borders, and deadheaded flowers mean no place to nest, no food to eat, and nowhere to hide. To the humans who live there, this means no bird songs, no colorful butterflies, no dazzling hummingbirds, no night-sparkling fireflies.
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The Gardener's Guide to Succulents : A Handbook of over 125 Exquisite Varieties of Succulents and Cacti
by Misa Matsuyama
The Gardener's Guide to Succulents is a stunning visual reference identifying over 125 plants from 40 different genera of succulents and cacti. Fleshy, spiny, hairy, flowering-and coming in every imaginable shape, color and size-this plant family has captured the affection of plant enthusiasts all over the world. This book provides a beautiful overview of the diversity that succulents have to offer, presenting a wide variety of popular plants to help you create striking, aesthetically pleasing compositions.
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The Little Gardener : Helping Children Connect With the Natural World
by Julie A. Cerny
The Little Gardener is an engaging illustrated guide for family, caregivers, and educators who want to help children explore the natural world through gardening. Part how–to, part teaching tool, and part inspiration, it’s a thoughtful combination of detailed instructions, tips, anecdotes, and seasonal activities designed to connect gardeners to natural systems. With fun projects and useful charts, The Little Gardener shows gardeners of all ages how to envision and build their garden together. Illustrations.
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A Year in My Garden
by Jacqueline van der Kloet
This exceptional book immerses the reader in the world of gardens and plants. Jacqueline van der Kloet takes us on a tour of the garden in 12 chapters and shows us what makes a garden special and beautiful, month after month. She explains what has to be done throughout the year, shows us her favorite plants and gives us a glimpse into her many national and international projects. Jacqueline talks enthusiastically about her life as a garden and landscape designer and about her own little piece of paradise. The many photos are a source of inspiration and bear witness to this plantswoman's love for everything that blossoms and flourishes. The 12 recurring fixed views read as a visual narrative showing how the garden develops through the year. This is the perfect book for every garden enthusiast. Includes index.
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Attainable sustainable : the lost art of self-reliant living
by Kris Bordessa
Based on the blog of the same name, Attainable Sustainable shows readers how to live a simpler, more self-reliant life. It includes instructions not only for growing and cooking food but also for creating artisanal items for the home as well as navigating the great outdoors
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Moss Ball Bonsai : 100 Beautiful Kokedama That Are Fun to Create
by Satoshi Sunamori
Moss Ball Bonsai provides all the information you need to make these self-contained gardens, using different types of plants, from flowering trees and ferns to grasses and cacti. A sampling of 100 different kokedama shows how even the most common of house plants can shine in this appealing no-pot environment, while a section on mosses acquaints you with the many tones and textures of this versatile plant family.
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Basic rockhounding and prospecting : a beginner's guide
by Garret Romaine
Basic Rockhounding and Prospecting is aimed at anyone who is interested in learning the basics of collecting rocks and minerals. It’s the perfect companion title to the more advanced Modern Rockhounding and Prospecting Handbook. Readers will learn how to identify common rocks and minerals, and where to look for them. Using labs, procedures, pictorials, and discussions to help readers learn, this book will cover the basics of geology, describing the three main rock groups, with extensive pictures to show what to look for and how to figure out what is out there.
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