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A charming assortment of one-of-a-kind miniature boxes in a variety of shapes for all skill levels. Julia S. Pretl offers crafters her original method for creating decorative beaded boxes and lids in a wide range of surface designs and shapes. Working only with cylinder and seed beads, needle...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • In this lovely, easy-to-use illustrated guide to decluttering, the beloved author of The Happiness Project shows us how to take control of our stuff—and, by extension, our lives. Gretchen Rubin knows firsthand that creating order can make our lives happier, healthier,...

Noted designer Melissa Leapman has developed an innovative technique that promises hundreds of beautiful shawl design options in Knitting Modular Shawls, Wraps, and Stoles! Beginning with a simple triangular wedge, Leapman shows how multiple knit triangles can be joined together to create square,...

Today’s scrapbookers are always looking for fresh new ideas to enhance their creativity in their work as memory keepers. You’ve created your first layout and you are motivated to create more. There are so many tools and supplies out there. Before you invest hard earned money on items you will...

Increase your stitch repertoire! Access hundreds of crochet stitches that you can use year in and year out. From two of the most respected names in crochet, this indispensable resource provides excellent value. Find step-by-step instructions for more than 350 stitches, from easy to advanced, including...

"Exploring Ballpoint Pen Art: Drawing Techniques and Tips" is an article, of almost 40 pages, written to encourage readers to unlock the world of drawing with ballpoint pens. Besides sharing drawing techniques and tips, it also includes the history of the ballpoint pen movement and highlights prominent...

49 Ideas for Mixed Media Art has idea snippets to help you when you need inspiration for your next project or you want to create art on a budget or simply need ideas of new techniques to use. Go through the list until you find a technique you want to try. You can add your own twist to it or combine...

USES OF BATH BOMBS • There are many uses of bath bombs, the primary one being the feeling of being pampered and indulged. You feel relaxed after a few minutes in such an environment. Create a spa-like atmosphere. Add music, take a book and soak in. Or have something hot to drink or just wear...

Crochet pattern to make a little monster for halloween. It has cute rabbit ears and a witch hat and broom for Halloween.Crochet level: easy.The Pink Monster is 6 inches high, excluding the hat. (15.5cm)

Stephanie Pearl-McPhee's deepest wish is that everyone understand that knitting is at least as fun as baseball and way cooler than the evil looped path of crochet. Every project, from a misshapen hat to the most magnificent sweater, holds a story. Yarn Harlot tells all those stories with humor, insight,...

Approach life at home the Madame Chic way: a beautiful, illustrated toolbox of tips and ideas for organizing, entertaining, and savoring a stylish life. When she arrived at Madame Chic’s Parisian apartment as a foreign exchange student, Jennifer Scott was a casual California girl who thought...

Visual instruction for 300 crochet stitch patterns This visual encyclopedia features step-by-step instructions for 300 gorgeous crochet stitch patterns, from basic stitches to cables, lace, textured stitches, mesh and filet crochet, fans and shells, clusters, puffs, bobbles, spike stitches,...

This pattern will allow you to recreate the vintage 1940's mail order crochet pattern by Alice Brooks #5695. The Filet squares produced can be used to make tablecoths or bedspreads

Come and leave the cares and burdens of life behind and find “Words to Inspire the Heart.” Each single page is very unique and will bring peace-filled moments into your life. Enjoy a quote to inspire your day, on pages that contain beautifully done bird houses…butterflies…hearts and flowers,...