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How to Show & Sell Your Crafts: How to Build Your Craft Business at Home, Online, and in the Marketplace

Torie Jayne · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 144
Format: Paperback

For crafters who want to take their craft to a new entrepreneurial level, this book is the perfect guide. Using highly-visual, step-by-step tutorials, How to Show & Sell Your Crafts is packed with helpful branding, selling, and merchandising tips that no serious crafter should be without....
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Modern Book Collecting: A Basic Guide to All Aspects of Book Collecting: What to Collect, Who to Buy from, Auctions, Bibliographies, Care, Fakes, Investments, Donations, Definitions, and More

Robert A. Wilson , · Skyhorse Publishing; Reissue edition

Everything you need to know about collecting books, in one classic guide. Modern Book Collecting offers advice that answers all the most important questions a book lover and collector might havewhat to collect and where to find it, how to tell a first edition from a reprint, how to build...
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Bling It Up!: Super Cute Craft Techniques to Add Decoden Sparkle to Phone Cases, Purses, Jewelry & More

Choly Knight · Fox Chapel Publishing

Make your accessories super kawaii with the Japanese art of decoden! Inside Bling It Up!, you ll find 16 outrageously whimsical projects for embellishing your phone case, nail extensions, sunglasses, vanity kit, and even your sneakers with impractical indulgence! Decoden is a highly stylized,...
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The Pet Poo Pocket Guide: How to Safely Compost and Recycle Pet Waste

Rose Seemann · New Society Publishers

Eighty-three million dogs and ninety-six million cats call the United States home. Dogs alone produce enough waste to fill more than 1,091 football fields 1 foot deep in a single year. Add billions of plastic pick-up bags to the mix and season well with tons of litter box waste. Scoop a hefty...
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Secret Gardens

Yves-Marie Allain · Harry N. Abrams
Format: Hardcover

In Secret Gardens, readers experience the magic of discovering beautiful, intricately planned, and meticulously cultivated hidden worlds. More than 200 spectacular images showcase 13 private gardens, extraordinary examples of landscape design that are usually inaccessible to the public,...
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Colorful Stitchery: 65 Embroidery Projects to Personalize Your Home

Kristin Nicholas · Roost Books; Reissue edition

Embroidery has never looked this good or been so colorful--65 projects to stitch your way to a more colorful home. With inspiration and encouragement from designer and colorist Kristin Nicholas, would-be and experienced stitchers alike will find dozens of embroidery projects that...
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Little Needle-Felt Animals: 30 Cute and Easy-to-Make Friends

Gretel Parker · Harper Design
Pages: 96
Format: Paperback

it's so simple! get crafting and create your very own adorable needle-felt zoo.Cute kittens, delightful dachshunds, fabulous foxes, and lovely lions are easy and fun to make when you know how to needle-felt.Needle-felting is a great craft for beginners and the simplest way to create...
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Crochet Lace: Techniques, Patterns, and Projects

Pauline Turner · Dover Publications; Reprint edition

Learn how to use your crochet hook to make delicate lace patterns with this illustrated guide. No previous experience is necessary; aspiring lacemakers will find all the basic techniques here, and experienced readers will discover new insights into the intricacies of filet crochet, motifs,...
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Sew Many Dresses, Sew Little Time: The Ultimate Dressmaking Guide

Tanya Whelan · Potter Craft; Spi edition

With her "choose-your-own-adventure" approach to sewing, Tanya Whelan offers an invaluable collection of patterns that empowers sewers to become designers. The trick is a set of patterns for 6 skirts and 8 bodices that line up perfectly at the waist, plus an additional 4 sleeve...
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Gardens in Detail: 100 Contemporary Designs

Emma Reuss · The Monacelli Press
Format: Hardcover

Explore 100 gardens from around the world with this illustrated guide to the design elements of each - from historical style to planting and landscape design. This comprehensive reference offers gardens from many periods of history - Islamic, Renaissance, English Landscape, Arts &...
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