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Plant Craft: 30 Projects that Add Natural Style to Your Home

Caitlin Atkinson · Timber Press
Pages: 256
Format: Print book

Discover the simple beauty of adding natural style to a space!

Not everyone has a garden - but with only a handful of materials and a little bit of time, everyone can bring the beauty of nature into their home. Plant Craft features projects inspired by the natural...
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Bright Bazaar: Embracing Color for Make-You-Smile Style

Will Taylor · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 191
Format: Hardcover

Dive into a refreshing take on color from one of the world's leading interiors bloggers, Will Taylor of Bright.Bazaar, West Elm's "go-to blogger for color inspiration." What began as a popular blog attracting over 400,000 readers a month is now a gorgeous, color-popping...
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Bud Hastin's Avon & C.P.C. Collector's Encyclopedia: The Official Guide for Avon Bottle Collectors (Bud Hastin's Avon and Collector's Encyclopedia)

Bud Hastin · Collector Books; 14 edition
Pages: 652
Format: Paperback

Avon, the world's largest manufacturer and distributor of cosmetics, fragrances, and costume jewelry, is also responsible for one of the biggest hobbies in the U.S., Avon collecting. Since 1969, Bud Hastin's Avon Products & California Perfume Co. Collector's Encyclopedia has been...
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Bead Embroidery

Shelley Cox · Search Press; Spi edition

This series of Essential Stitch Guides has been produced in close collaboration with the RSN with the aim of providing a set of definitive works on traditional embroidery techniques.
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Handmade Gatherings: Recipes and Crafts for Seasonal Celebrations and Potluck Parties

Ashley English · Roost Books
Format: Hardcover

Celebrate the seasons and connect with your community through parties tothrow in collaboration with your friends. Handmade Gatherings offers:? 16 seasonal party ideas ? 52 recipes ? 32 crafts and activitiesFrom the décor, to the entertainment, on down to the recipes themselves, Handmade...
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Make Your Own Ideabook with Arne & Carlos: Create Handmade Art Journals and Bound Keepsakes to Store Inspiration and Memories

Arne Nerjordet · Trafalgar Square Books
Pages: 168
Format: Paperback

A keepsake; a treasure trove; a work of art. A source of inspiration; a method of organization; a peek inside the chaos and creativity of our own minds. An ideabook can be any one of these, or all of them, or something else entirely: a collection of memories, a way to store recipes or patterns,...
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A Dog's History of the World

Laura Hobgood-Oster · Baylor University Press,
Pages: 188
Format: Print book

Canines and humans have depended upon one another for tens of thousands of years. Humans took the initial steps of domesticating canines, but somewhere through the millennia, dogs began dramatically to affect the future of their masters. In A Dog's History of the World, Laura Hobgood-Oster...
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The Collectors Encyclopedia of Flow Blue China

Mary Frank Gaston · Collector Books
Pages: 160
Format: Print book

With well over 400 photos illustrating many of the popular patterns as well as different types of objects are featured along with marks of over 160 English and non-English manufacturers, this volume presents a full-color survey of this topic. The separate Price Guide reflects the current...
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Teeny-Tiny Mochimochi: More Than 40 Itty-Bitty Minis to Knit, Wear, and Give

Anna Hrachovec · Potter Craft
Format: Paperback

This title is suitable for advanced beginner to intermediate-level knitters who want fun, witty, irresistibly tiny patterns to make as gifts for friends, cute accessories and decorative items. In Teeny-Tiny Mochimochi, toy knits designer Anna Hrachovec presents more than 30 super-cute,...
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Plumbing

Steve Cory · The Taunton Press
Pages: 249
Format: Print book

Stanley's Plumbing: A Homeowner's Guide is a comprehensive, visual handbook packed with step-by-step photographs and authoritative, reliable information. Eventually, every homeowner needs to repair, replace, or upgrade a plumbing fixture. Save heaps of money by learning...

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Repairing Old Clocks and Watches

Anthony J. Whiten · Van Nostrand Reinhold
Format: Hardcover

This book is for amateurs, with the author describing how to make alterations out of simple and easily obtainable materials, or how to avoid the necessity for expensive tools at all. He also describes how to dismantle and assemble movements, what may go wrong with them, and how to set faults...
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Crazy for Crochet: 70 Projects You'll Love to Make: Hats, Slippers, Sweaters, Bags, Pillows, Blankets, Potholders, and More

Lilly Secilie Brandal · Trafalgar Square Pub
Pages: 168
Format: Print book

A crochet hook and a few colorful balls of yarn are all you need to conjure up the prettiest accessories and loveliest garments - for adults and children, house and home, from easy to challenging. Everything you need to get started is right here: clear, detailed guidance through the basics...
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Yarn Happy

Turid Lindeland · Sellers Publishing
Pages: 127
Format: Print book

The dramatic icy colors and shapes of beautiful Rosendal, Norway and a Scandinavian antique sock pattern are the inspiration for Yarn Happy. Turid Lindeland gives traditional patterns a modern twist by using non traditional color palettes, the cool shades of ice and the vibrant colors of summertime....
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