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Различные книги в жанре Сделай Сам400 Floral Motifs for Designers, Needleworkers and Craftspeople
Grace your next needlework, craft, or graphic art project with just the right floral motif from this versatile collection of 400 beautifully rendered copyright-free designs. Reproduced directly from a rare Victorian-era album of transfer patterns by William Briggs and Company Ltd., these designs are among the finest of the period are are ideally suited for embroidery, textile design, woodworking, leathercraft, metalwork, and a host of other design and craft uses. Included are floral borders, corners and centers, wreaths, delicate sprays, allover patterns, lovely compositions with birds and butterflies, and more. Among the floral favorites in this volume are the Apple Blossom, Azalea, Begonia, Cornflower, Forget-me-not, Fuchsia, Iris, Lily of the Valley, Narcissus, Primrose, Snowdrop, Strawberry, Tiger Lily, Tulip, Verbena, Violet, and many others. The designs are conveniently arranged according to type and an index of uses suggests specific kinds of projects for which each type of design is especially suited. Also included are complete, easy-to-follow instructions on how to transfer the designs to cloth or other media and concise descriptions of embroidery stitches. Whatever your craft or design need and whatever your level of expertise — from beginner to expert — you are sure to find this inexpensive volume an invaluable source you will turn to again and again.
Stencil Alphabets
This attractive collection of royalty-free lettering for commercial artists features 100 complete upper-case stencil alphabets — many with lower-cases, numerals, and punctuation marks. Includes such classics as Ancient, Courtland, and Cleft Gothic; the whimsical Ragtime and Spooks Alive; bold Braggadocio; exotic Limbo, Beijing, and Samoa; the old-fashioned Victorian; and more.
Elegant Designs for Paper Cutting
An ancient art form that dates back almost to the invention of paper by the Chinese, paper cutting is still practiced today in China and other countries around the world. Lacy cut-paper designs are used to create a host of decorative items — from decorative shelf-edgings and Christmas trimmings to solemn borders for birth, death, baptismal, and wedding certificates.With this charming and imaginatively presented book, papercrafters can experience the pleasure of creating their very own lovely cut-paper designs. Thirty-three challenging and elegant patterns — incorporating hearts, flowers, and leafy tendrils — are printed on one side of fine quality paper. Crafters simply remove the sheet from the book, fold as directed, and, using scissors with sharp points, cut out the indicated areas for perfect results.Easy-to-follow instructions and a wealth of helpful tips help produce exquisite designs suitable for stationery borders, photo and document frames, bookmarks, and a variety of other attractive gift and personal items.
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Formal Freak
Lavoce: We Are People Too is the fashion freedom activist store, leader of the Fashion Resistance, bringer of true open-mindedness to the masses!<br><br>Lavoce: We Are People Too helps people discriminated against because of their fashion orientation, and those affected by them, understand how to open their mind first so that the world will open their arms and the doors of employment to neglected cultures. What distinguishes us from other companies is our philosophy and perspective. Through our vision, we believe that we can change lives around the globe. We are your peace peddler partner in fighting the ego.<br><br>This company will focus on products and services to niche markets, specifically for marginalized societies. The initial audience will include Goths, especially the Goth who doesn't go clubbing. Then the inventory will expand to serve gay, lesbian, bisexual, or transgender/transsexual (GLBT); animé (Japanese animation); and other societies that focus on fashion freedom. The company's goal is to create an environment where customers, clients, and employees feel comfortable in showcasing their inner, or previously hidden, personality and culture to promote high self-esteem. In this, we sell a lifestyle of open-mindedness and faith in humanity. Purchases of products support the lifestyle.<br><br>We want to revolutionize our country and world. Fashion and economic class have an almost symbiotic relationship. When we can eradicate fashion discrimination, we can make it easier to eradicate discrimination of race, gender, culture, etc. When we eradicate fashion discrimination, we can eradicate the need for money to separate people and the need for people to identify with and feel guilty or egotistical about their economic class. This is a tall order, but no one made their dreams come true by thinking small.
The Incredible, Indelible EGG
INTRODUCTION<br>The kitchen is a place of wonder. It's a theater where ingredients and utensils and recipes and textures and colors and smells and tastes and all of the senses get whisked and mixed together with the aid of some incredible utility muse… Imagination.<br><br>For me, the kitchen has been more than a place to make breakfast or bake an apple pie. It has also been my studio, my work bench, my easel, my vat, my kiln, and my favorite room in which to create. Over the years, it has seen paint brushes soaking in coffee cups, dyes brewing in pots on the stove, something cooling in the refrigerator, or hardening in the pantry, or drying on the windowsill. The light may have come and gone but the wonder remains.<br><br>Welcome to my kitchen. It's The most amazing place in the world.<br><br>EGGS are so much more than breakfast or salad or pastry glaze. Besides being the beginning of life, literally and figuratively, sweet and innocent, they are elliptical canvases for so many exotic and delicious designs. The Russian jeweled Faberge Imperial Easter Eggs are known all over the world, and when you view them in a museum, their beauty nearly takes your breath away.<br><br>So we could break a couple of eggs and make an omelet or we can take out little pots of paint… 14 kt. gold and bright enamels, add some jewels and glitter, buttons and bows, and all the little things that sparkle and make you go ooh-and-ahh. The incredible, indelible egg transforms from a runny egg yolk into an ovoidal objet d'art. <br><br>Why do chickens lay eggs?<br>Because if they dropped them they would break.<br>(This 'egg yoke' cracks me up.)<br>
Stitching Idyllic: Spring Flowers (SECOND EDITION)
Make a Beautiful Embroidered Garden Come to Life <br><br>Imagine an idyllic garden filled with your favourite spring flowers – now you can make it come to life with this step-by-step guide to embroidering a beautiful garden scene!<br><br>Find concise instruction on how to stitch 23 different spring flowers and trees. You'll learn how using unique adaptations of only four basic stitches – Straight, Detached Chain, Buttonhole and French Knots. <br><br>Both novice and experienced stitchers will certainly improve their embroidery skills while creating an original garden scene that is unique and made by you. <br><br>Ann Bernard trained at the Royal School of Needlework and has a lifetime of stitching experience and tips to share. Her approach makes stitching fun and easy-to-learn with detailed directions, diagrams and photos leading you every step of the way.
Stitching Idyllic: Hand Stitch Recognizable Summer Flowers
Stitching a Summer Garden to Life<br><br>Whether you are a novice or veteran stitcher, Summer Flowers will help you bring your vision to life. Beginning with backgrounds, you will learn how create the perfect setting for your idyllic tableau.<br> <br>Then using just 10 familiar stitches, you will learn how to hand stitch 23 distinct and lovely plants and flowers.<br><br>Topics covered include printing photos on fabric to create beautiful layouts, ideas and instructions on how to make your project ready for framing, and step-by step demonstrations on how to bring it all together.<br><br>And there's also Funtasy Flowers, where you can learn how to incorporate store-bought silk flowers into your own wonderful and unique creation.<br><br>Ann Bernard trained at the Royal School of Needlework and has a lifetime of stitching experience and tips to share. Her approach makes stitching fun with detailed directions and diagrams, even photos of both real and stitched plants, which guide you every step of the way.
Among the Missing
When retired homicide cop Thomas Blake finds an abandoned Mercedes in a lagoon area, he traces the car to an Adam Barker, who happens to be missing from his top secret research work at Argonne Laboratories, and from his home in Lake Forest, Illinois. As Blake investigates further, he suspects Barker's disappearance is the result of foul play.<br><br>Meanwhile, Jack Logan, an ex-friend of Barker's, receives a cryptic message asking Logan to help Barker's wife Michelle—but Logan is hesitant to help her , since twenty years earlier, she had called off her engagement to him, only to marry Barker.<br><br>As Blake continues to investigate, and as Logan reluctantly decides to help Barker's wife Michelle, Adam Barker's safety becomes less and less certain…<br><br>[Among the Missing] has …"more twists than a pretzel! Bravo!"<br><br>(An Armchair Detective Review)
Things That Make You Go Hmmm: The '90s Music Party Game
A trivia party game that tests the player's knowledge of the songs, albums, lyrics, and lifestyles of hundreds of '90s music acts. The 1000+ questions cover grunge, hip hop, boy bands, alternative country, techno, and Top 40 music using multiple choice, true/false, song lyric excerpts, complete the title, and other question formats. A sequel/companion to "Don't Dream It's Over: The '80s Music Party Game", the book is written and designed in the same bright, fun style. With ten, new '90s themed ways to play and questions ranked according to difficulty, anybody can join in the fun.