Light and paper are an extraordinary combination for crafters. Here are fifteen foolproof projects that bring them together - with stylish effect. Unlike other paper shade books, this one emphasizes contemporary looks with projects for lampshades, candle shades, chandeliers, sconces, and window treatments. Easy instructions are included for making shades in a variety of papers including marbled, vellum, handmade papers, corrugated, recycled, Japanese papers, and exotic fiber papers. Also included are templates, patterns, and techniques for piercing, folding, pleating, and other decorative methods that affect the way the light shines through the paper.

The Paper Shade Book: Simple Techniques for Making Beautiful Lampshades

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Driscoll, Maryellen

Crafts & Hobbies

Rockport Publishers

A fresh take on a popular topic: bringing the outdoors in. 
This book presents fresh, modern crafts to make with your own garden flowers or store bought flowers and garden greenery. There is a wide variety of projects, including dried florals, herb decorations, mosaic, decoupage, and nature printing. 
Traditional crafts get a modern feel from the vibrant color choices, mod patterns and fun streamlined shapes. These "nature crafts" could be used as gifts or decorating accents for the home.

A Gardener's Craft Companion

Salamony, Sandra

Quarry Books

Lampshades and Lighting includes foolproof instructions for a variety of stylish lighting projects, and covers various techniques and materials for crafting them. Beyond lampshades you'll discover ideas for candles, shades, sconces and window treatments, and choose the right paper for your project from the everyday to the exotic. You'll learn how to pleat, fold and pierce paper for different looks and effects. Helpful patterns and templates are included. To get the best effect from your efforts, this handbook illustrates and explains lighting concepts and the best schemes for various rooms.

Lampshades & Lighting: The Project and Decorative Sourcebook

Skolnik, Lisa

Thunder Bay Pr

Now in paperback: the most comprehensive home-cooking reference book ever-with 5,000 fabulous insider kitchen tips and over 900 great-tasting recipes from food experts across the country. Whether you cook a little or a lot, plain or fancy, healthy or hearty, for your family or just for fun, this is the one book that does it all-faster and easier than you ever dreamed. Find out how to choose the juiciest oranges, perk up limp asparagus, rescue any over-salted dish, and crack an egg with one hand. Get down-to-earth answers to the cooking questions that you face every day. Or, if you're simply tired of the same old meals night after night, discover hundreds of easy recipes that put great-tasting food on your table in a jiffy.

Brilliant Food Tips and Cooking Tricks: 5,000 Ingenious Kitchen Hints, Secrets, Shortcuts, and Solutions

Cookbooks, Food & Wine

Joachim, David

Schloss, Andrew

Newberry, Jan

Piccuito, Paul E.

Cooking Education & Reference

Rodale Books

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