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Cut Paper Pictures: Turn Your Art and Photos into Personalized Collages

CLOVER ROBIN · Rock Point
Pages: 184
Format: Hardcover

Cut Paper Pictures allows you to create personalized art with amazing depth and texture that's fun and easy to make no matter what your skill level. Offering step-by-step instructions, visual inspirations, and even a library of unique colors and textures, visual artist Clover Robin...
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Beehive Alchemy: Projects and recipes using honey, beeswax, propolis, and pollen to make your own soap, candles, creams, salves, and more

Petra Ahnert · Quarry Books
Pages: 160
Format: Flexibound

From crayons to cough drops, cookies to candles, Beehive Alchemy offers a comprehensive introduction to incorporating the miracle of bees into everyday life.Beehive Alchemy is a continuation of Petra Ahnert's best-selling Beeswax Alchemy. With this new book, beekeepers (and bee lovers)...
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Diary in Stitches: 65 Charming Motifs - 6 Fabric & Thread Projects to Bring You Joy

Minki Kim · C&T Publishing / Stash Books
Pages: 128
Format: Paperback

Artist Minki Kim turns her own daily sketchbook challenge into 65 stitchable drawings to mix and match. Embroider and appliqué the whimsical, easy-going way with 6 useful projects to make and share, like a patchwork pouch, a statement pillow, and a sweet wallhanging. Minki's uplifting...
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Seamless Sewing Projects

Veronica Yang · Capstone Press
Pages: 48
Format: Library Binding

This collection of how-to projects will take a crafty kid's imagination to the next level. Building on a base interest of sewing this book will show kids the basics--and beyond!
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Junior Maker

INC DORLING KINDERSLEY · DK Children
Pages: 80
Format: Hardcover

Make, play, explore, and learn with this project-packed book of discovery.Little ones will love to get in on the maker fun with this cool book that supplements and complements the subjects they learn at school, while also encouraging hands-on interactivity and play.With clear step-by-step...
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Improper Cross-Stitch: 35 Properly Naughty Patterns

Haley Pierson-Cox · St. Martin's Griffin
Pages: 128
Format: Hardcover

A fun, witty, nerdy, and irreverent craft book for the modern cross-stitcher.Sometimes it's good to be a little...improper. Profane, funny, and smart, Haley Pierson-Cox's IMPROPER CROSS-STITCH invites the modern crafter to bring personality and humor to their cross stitch projects....
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Hypertufa Containers: Creating and Planting an Alpine Trough Garden

LORI CHIPS · Timber Press
Pages: 224
Format: Paperback

Hypertufa containers - also known as troughs - are rustic, striking, versatile, and perfect for small, Alpine plants. A mix of cement, perlite, peat, and water, they are simple and affordable to make at home. Hypertufa Containers details everything a home gardeners needs to know to make...
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Homemade Perfume: Create Exquisite, Naturally Scented Products to Fill Your Life with Botanical Aromas

ROEL WESTRA · Page Street Publishing
Pages: 192
Format: Paperback

How do I make essential oils at home? How many roses do I need to make rose-scented perfume? In the world of natural homemade products, crafters have a lot of questions about effectively extracting scent from plants. Finally, here is the book they have been waiting for, with answers they...
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Adorable Pom Pom Animals: Dogs, Cats and Other Woolly Friends

KAZUKO ITO · Tuttle Publishing
Pages: 96
Format: Paperback

Just a bit of winding, tying, trimming and fluffing is all it takes to make anyone feel creative!Pom poms are suddenly showing up again everywhere - as fashion accessories, home decor items and toys. Adorable Pom Pom Animals shows you how to use yarn to sculpt cuddly pets and mascots in different...
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Sky Girls: The True Story of the First Women's Cross-Country Air Race

Gene Nora Jessen · Sourcebooks
Pages: 416
Format: Paperback

"A beautiful and inspiring book...fascinatingly told." -- Donna Shirley, former head of the U.S. Mars program, NASAThe exhilarating true story of the unsung pioneers who blazed a pathway towards a new era of female aviation...The year is 1929, and on the eve of America's...
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