A Very Vintage Christmas embodies the nostalgia and sentimentality associated with the holiday season. Vintage ornaments, lights, decorations, cards and wrapping all conjure up happy memories of Christmases past and serve as tangible mementos of holidays shared with family and friends. In fact, finding these objects, decorating with them and sharing them with others brings an instant feeling of comfort and joy. Coupled with beautiful photographs, tips on collecting, and secret shopping haunts, A Very Vintage Christmas offers a 360-degree look at holiday décor in America and gives suggestions on how to make vintage finds work for todays audience. While each chapter of A Very Vintage Christmas is unique, there is a common thread that runs through them all: the love of beautiful holiday decorations, and the interest in their history, value, and preservation. The book helps the everyday collector and enthusiast to build their own collection and offers tips on how to make the most of what theyve got.
Globe Pequot
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9781493022144
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Hardcover
Junk Drawer Engineering
By Mercer, Bobby
There's no need for expensive, high-tech materials to test your engineering skills - you probably have all you need in your home junk drawer. Each hands-on project in this book will challenge you to come up with a unique solution to a specific design problem. Construct a Pasta Bridge strong enough to support a heavy load, using only dry linguini and glue. Build a Marble Roller Coaster from recycled cardboard tubes, in which the marble "car" jumps a track to land safely at its final destination. Or design an Egg Catch device to safely capture a free-falling egg. Test yourself or use them for friendly competitions - who can come up with the best solution? These 25 open-ended design challenges can be performed for just pennies . . . or less. Each project has a suggested materials list, step-by-step instructions with illustrations for one possible solution, and suggestions on how to adapt each challenge for different ages and skill levels. Educators and parents will find this title a handy resource to teach children problem-solving skills and applied physics, all while having a lot of fun.
Chicago Review Press Incorporated
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9781613737163
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Paperback
Beginner's Guide to Colorwork Knitting
By Austin, Ella
If you long to knit stunning fair isle jumpers and brightly colored blankets for your home this is the perfect book. Learn all the techniques for how to start knitting with color and create really desirable projects as you learn. Choose from brightly colored stripy socks and work your way up to a patterned beanie hat and even a stunning sweater with a colorwork yoke. Even if you can only knit and purl--with this book you'll be making gorgeous colorwork accessories before you know it!
SewandSo
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9781446307410
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Paperback
New Patchwork & Quilting Basics
By Avery, Jo
Build your quilting skills from the ground up. Learn to complete your first quilt from basic pieced strips, squares, and triangles. Established teacher Jo Avery guides you through twelve projects to whet your appetite for quiltmaking and take it a step further. Graduate to intermediate projects with major style as you try out foundation paper piecing, appliqué, and curves. Before long, youll have the confidence and expertise to tackle virtually any quilt pattern!
C & T PUB
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9781617458484
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Paperback
Vintage Beauty Parlour
By Hannah, Wing,
Step back in time to an age of Hollywood glamor, summer-lovin' or punk rock, with this gorgeous collection of vintage hair and make-up styles to recreate at home. The desire for all things vintage has truly made its way back into fashion and, as the demand for classic clothing increases, so do the iconic hair and make-up looks to match. With styles from every decade between the 1920s and 80s, you can recreate the beautiful looks made famous by the music, movie stars and top trends of the times. At a time of dancing, cocktails and underground parties, enter the Jazz Age with the style of a confident Society Gal, perfecting smoky eyes and pin curls to match that little black, beaded dress. Or channel the colorful liberation of the Swinging Sixties where big beehives and dramatic lashes went hand in hand with the groovy patterns found in clothing and accessories.
RYLAND PETERS & SMALL INC
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9781788791892
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Titanic Tragedy
By Maxtone-graham, John
The dean of ocean liner historians uncovers fascinating and unknown aspects of this epic disaster. This is a book unlike any other. Rather than offering simply a detailed retelling of the Titanic sinking on her maiden voyage, John Maxtone-Graham devotes his considerable knowledge and impeccable prose to a discussion of salient, provocative, and rarely investigated components of the story, including dramatic survivors' accounts of the events of the fateful night, the role of newly in-vented wireless telecommunication in the disaster, the construction and its ramifications at the famous Harland and Wolff shipyard in Belfast, and the dawn rendezvous with the rescue ship Carpathia. Richly written and vividly detailed, this is the book Titanic buffs have been waiting for.
W. W. Norton & Company; 1 edition
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9780393082401
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Hardcover
Fun and Easy Finger Knitting for Beginners
By Howell, Vickie
Knitting without needles is crafty fun for the whole family! Bring the joy of finger knitting to your own home with this easy-to-follow, photo-illustrated guide.. Adapted from Finger Knitting Fun by award-winning DIY/lifestyles broadcaster, designer, and author Vickie Howell, Fun and Easy Finger Knitting for Beginners is the complete, family-friendly guide to this classic and enjoyable craft.. Simple, step-by-step instructions and beautiful photos make it easy to learn the techniques and create a wide variety of stylish projects, including jewelry, wearable accessories, wall art, gifts, and room décor, using yarn and other materials such as leather lacing, ribbon, and paracord. Learn it! Learn the basics of finger knitting, including two- and three-finger techniques, methods for joining new colors and strands of yarn, fastening off, and finishing stitches.
New Shoe Press
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9780760390641
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Paperback
Rubber Band Engineer
By Akiyama, Lance
Create projects and projectiles that will fly, float, launch, or roll on their own power with Rubber Band Engineer!So many of the world's most inventive minds, from Ben Franklin to Steve Jobs, were lifelong tinkerers. Their joy in the process is evident in the originality of their work. Maybe that's why so many adults never lose their fondness for the inventive toys they made as kids -- tinkering was fun, and still is, so why stop?Author and Engineer Lance Akiyama shows you how to create twenty-five gadgets of his own design. Most are propelled by rubber bands, while some use levers or gravity for thrust. The combination of simplicity and creativity while using ordinary objects makes these projects so extraordinary! With a wide range of project types, this book takes you beyond the basic rubber band launcher.
Rockport Publishers
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9781631591044
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Print book
Anyone Can Sew
By Gerlings, Charlotte
Sewing is an indispensable skill if you want to become more resourceful, enabling you to fix a button, mend a split seam, or even make your own clothes.This book starts with the basics, such as choosing your equipment and fabrics, before proceeding to guide you through a range of sewing projects, each of them accompanied by step-by-step illustrations and straightforward instructions. Budding stitchers will find themselves turning to these pages time and time again to help them master the essentials of this rewarding craft.The Anyone Can series has been created with the absolute beginner in mind as well as those who would welcome a refresher in the most popular needlecrafts.Other titles in the series are:Anyone Can PapercraftAnyone Can Knit
A Very Vintage Christmas
By Richter, Bob
A Very Vintage Christmas embodies the nostalgia and sentimentality associated with the holiday season. Vintage ornaments, lights, decorations, cards and wrapping all conjure up happy memories of Christmases past and serve as tangible mementos of holidays shared with family and friends. In fact, finding these objects, decorating with them and sharing them with others brings an instant feeling of comfort and joy. Coupled with beautiful photographs, tips on collecting, and secret shopping haunts, A Very Vintage Christmas offers a 360-degree look at holiday décor in America and gives suggestions on how to make vintage finds work for todays audience. While each chapter of A Very Vintage Christmas is unique, there is a common thread that runs through them all: the love of beautiful holiday decorations, and the interest in their history, value, and preservation. The book helps the everyday collector and enthusiast to build their own collection and offers tips on how to make the most of what theyve got.
Junk Drawer Engineering
By Mercer, Bobby
There's no need for expensive, high-tech materials to test your engineering skills - you probably have all you need in your home junk drawer. Each hands-on project in this book will challenge you to come up with a unique solution to a specific design problem. Construct a Pasta Bridge strong enough to support a heavy load, using only dry linguini and glue. Build a Marble Roller Coaster from recycled cardboard tubes, in which the marble "car" jumps a track to land safely at its final destination. Or design an Egg Catch device to safely capture a free-falling egg. Test yourself or use them for friendly competitions - who can come up with the best solution? These 25 open-ended design challenges can be performed for just pennies . . . or less. Each project has a suggested materials list, step-by-step instructions with illustrations for one possible solution, and suggestions on how to adapt each challenge for different ages and skill levels. Educators and parents will find this title a handy resource to teach children problem-solving skills and applied physics, all while having a lot of fun.
Beginner's Guide to Colorwork Knitting
By Austin, Ella
If you long to knit stunning fair isle jumpers and brightly colored blankets for your home this is the perfect book. Learn all the techniques for how to start knitting with color and create really desirable projects as you learn. Choose from brightly colored stripy socks and work your way up to a patterned beanie hat and even a stunning sweater with a colorwork yoke. Even if you can only knit and purl--with this book you'll be making gorgeous colorwork accessories before you know it!
New Patchwork & Quilting Basics
By Avery, Jo
Build your quilting skills from the ground up. Learn to complete your first quilt from basic pieced strips, squares, and triangles. Established teacher Jo Avery guides you through twelve projects to whet your appetite for quiltmaking and take it a step further. Graduate to intermediate projects with major style as you try out foundation paper piecing, appliqué, and curves. Before long, youll have the confidence and expertise to tackle virtually any quilt pattern!
Vintage Beauty Parlour
By Hannah, Wing,
Step back in time to an age of Hollywood glamor, summer-lovin' or punk rock, with this gorgeous collection of vintage hair and make-up styles to recreate at home. The desire for all things vintage has truly made its way back into fashion and, as the demand for classic clothing increases, so do the iconic hair and make-up looks to match. With styles from every decade between the 1920s and 80s, you can recreate the beautiful looks made famous by the music, movie stars and top trends of the times. At a time of dancing, cocktails and underground parties, enter the Jazz Age with the style of a confident Society Gal, perfecting smoky eyes and pin curls to match that little black, beaded dress. Or channel the colorful liberation of the Swinging Sixties where big beehives and dramatic lashes went hand in hand with the groovy patterns found in clothing and accessories.
Titanic Tragedy
By Maxtone-graham, John
The dean of ocean liner historians uncovers fascinating and unknown aspects of this epic disaster. This is a book unlike any other. Rather than offering simply a detailed retelling of the Titanic sinking on her maiden voyage, John Maxtone-Graham devotes his considerable knowledge and impeccable prose to a discussion of salient, provocative, and rarely investigated components of the story, including dramatic survivors' accounts of the events of the fateful night, the role of newly in-vented wireless telecommunication in the disaster, the construction and its ramifications at the famous Harland and Wolff shipyard in Belfast, and the dawn rendezvous with the rescue ship Carpathia. Richly written and vividly detailed, this is the book Titanic buffs have been waiting for.
Fun and Easy Finger Knitting for Beginners
By Howell, Vickie
Knitting without needles is crafty fun for the whole family! Bring the joy of finger knitting to your own home with this easy-to-follow, photo-illustrated guide.. Adapted from Finger Knitting Fun by award-winning DIY/lifestyles broadcaster, designer, and author Vickie Howell, Fun and Easy Finger Knitting for Beginners is the complete, family-friendly guide to this classic and enjoyable craft.. Simple, step-by-step instructions and beautiful photos make it easy to learn the techniques and create a wide variety of stylish projects, including jewelry, wearable accessories, wall art, gifts, and room décor, using yarn and other materials such as leather lacing, ribbon, and paracord. Learn it! Learn the basics of finger knitting, including two- and three-finger techniques, methods for joining new colors and strands of yarn, fastening off, and finishing stitches.
Rubber Band Engineer
By Akiyama, Lance
Create projects and projectiles that will fly, float, launch, or roll on their own power with Rubber Band Engineer!So many of the world's most inventive minds, from Ben Franklin to Steve Jobs, were lifelong tinkerers. Their joy in the process is evident in the originality of their work. Maybe that's why so many adults never lose their fondness for the inventive toys they made as kids -- tinkering was fun, and still is, so why stop?Author and Engineer Lance Akiyama shows you how to create twenty-five gadgets of his own design. Most are propelled by rubber bands, while some use levers or gravity for thrust. The combination of simplicity and creativity while using ordinary objects makes these projects so extraordinary! With a wide range of project types, this book takes you beyond the basic rubber band launcher.
Anyone Can Sew
By Gerlings, Charlotte
Sewing is an indispensable skill if you want to become more resourceful, enabling you to fix a button, mend a split seam, or even make your own clothes.This book starts with the basics, such as choosing your equipment and fabrics, before proceeding to guide you through a range of sewing projects, each of them accompanied by step-by-step illustrations and straightforward instructions. Budding stitchers will find themselves turning to these pages time and time again to help them master the essentials of this rewarding craft.The Anyone Can series has been created with the absolute beginner in mind as well as those who would welcome a refresher in the most popular needlecrafts.Other titles in the series are:Anyone Can PapercraftAnyone Can Knit