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Essential Oils for Mindfulness and Meditation: Relax, Replenish, and Rejuvenate

Heather Dawn Godfrey PGCE BSc · Healing Arts Press
Pages: 160
Format: Paperback

A hands-on guide showing how essential oils can support and enhance meditative and mindful practices * Details safe and effective methods to incorporate essential oils into your mindfulness or meditation practice * Explains the many ways essential oils benefit the mind, such as how odors...
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Starting & Saving Seeds: Grow the Perfect Vegetables, Fruits, Herbs, and Flowers for Your Garden

Julie Thompson-Adolf · Cool Springs Press
Pages: 160
Format: Hardcover

Grow fabulous food and flowers from seeds, then save seeds to make next year's garden even better. Creating dinner from food you've grown provides a fantastic sense of accomplishment. Now, imagine the pleasure of starting plants from seeds, tending them, planting them in your garden,...
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American Cookie: The Snaps, Drops, Jumbles, Tea Cakes, Bars & Brownies That We Have Loved for Generations

ANNE BYRN · Rodale Books
Pages: 336
Format: Paperback

From the beloved author of the bestselling Cake Mix Doctor series and American Cake comes a delicious tour of America's favorite treats, cookies, and candies. Each of America's little bites -- cookies, candies, wafers, brittles -- tells a big story, and each speaks volumes about what was going...
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Paint, Play, Explore: Expressive Mark-Making Techniques in Mixed Media

Rae Missigman · North Light Books
Pages: 160
Format: Paperback

Discover the marks for your most authentic art! Mixed-media artist Rae Missigman identifies herself as a "mark-maker." Ever in the forefront of her art, organic shapes and graphic marks are what give her work a sense of authenticity. With an adventurous, anything-goes attitude...
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Glitter!: A Celebration of Sparkle

Adams Media Corporation · Adams Media
Pages: 160
Format: Hardcover

Indulge your shiny side and embrace your glitter obsession with this collection of all things sparkly - featuring history, trivia, quotes, and tips on how to use glitter safely and responsibly to decorate your clothes, your home, and your body! Once confined to the craft aisle and the hands...
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Loom Knitting Primer

Isela Phelps · Griffin, 2016.
Pages: 144
Format: Print book

The "must-have" book for loom knitters by the top expert on the subject is now updated to reflect the newer looms on the market. Like the previous edition this new edition still contains everything you need to know about loom knitting, like gauge, yarn thickness, increasing,...
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Amigurumi Monsters 2: Revealing 15 More Scarily Cute Yarn Monsters

Joke Vermeiren · Meteoor Books
Pages: 120
Format: Paperback

Do you wonder what might be hiding in your yarn stash, making it bigger every day? Come closer, carefully lift the balls on top and you might just get a glimpse of the yarn monsters dwelling underneath the threads! They come in every shape and color, and even though they look scary at first...
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Unicorns, Dragons and More Fantasy Amigurumi: Bring 14 Magical Characters to Life!

Amigurumipatterns.net · Meteoor Books
Pages: 120
Format: Paperback

Whip out your crochet hook and summon your coziest chair: the crochet spells in this brand-new collection will work their magic to bring 14 fantastical amigurumi to life! The cute creatures in this magical world will charm you all. Go for a swim with the mermaids and nymphs, go Nessie-spotting...
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Beginner's Guide to Linocut

Susan Yeates
Format: Paperback

Learn to create beautiful and practical linocut prints at home with this contemporary guide to a well-loved traditional art form. Linocut and screenprinting have undergone a resurgence in recent years; this book teaches the basic techniques for learning to make your own prints at home,...
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Understanding Photography: Master Your Digital Camera and Capture That Perfect Photo

SEAN T MCHUGH · No Starch Press
Pages: 250
Format: Paperback

Comprehensive, heavily illustrated volume introduces the concepts and techniques of digital image capture, including exposure, composition, histograms, depth of field, advanced lighting, lens filters, shutter speed, and autofocus.Understanding Photography will teach you the core concepts...
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