Presented in four chapters: Close to Home, In League with Nature, Above the Horizon, and Occasional Angels; this unique book features 47 multicultural angel craft projects in a wide range of media. Each angel is presented with full step-by-step instructions and photos of the completed project. In addition, each is assigned a special use, for example, friendship angel, welcome angel, dream protector angel, heavenly muse, etc. 
Among the many well-known artists featured are: Latina crafter and writer Kathy Cano-Murillo, folk artist and toy designer Suzi Carson, Louisiana folk artist Lorraine Gendron, designer and crafter Dawn Houser, and craft author and TV personality Kathy Peterson.

Angel Crafts

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Harrison, Holly

Crafts & Hobbies

Rockport Pub

For many people, art is at once a form of self-expression and discovery. Perhaps that's why collage—which is based on the idea of spontaneously layering images and symbols—is a favorite medium for crafters of all kinds. This book approaches the topic by theme: 5 chapters present 20 projects that deal with expressing personal creativity, exploring and recording relationships, dreaming and wishing, finding inspiration in nature, and creating visual memoirs. The instructions tell how to create a personalized project, sharing necessary techniques while suggesting ideas for substituting personal themes and materials. The directions are a starting point to encourage the reader's own artistic journey, guiding the reader to contemplate, explore, and express thoughts and feelings through the medium of collage. An inspirational gallery concludes the book, with another 26 projects by leading artists in the field. Whether a person's passion is stamping, decoupage, painting or paper art, this book shows how various collage techniques can combine to help any crafter or artist improve their craft and enrich their soul.

Collage for the Soul: Expressing Hopes and Dreams Through Art

Grasdal, Paula

Quarry Books

Today more than ever, you can’t judge a book by its cover. Why? Because two of the hottest new trends in bookmaking are pushing the boundaries of what it means to write, read, and experience a book. 
This exciting guide explores the creative processes behind altered books when artists make their own distinctive mark on an already published workand collaborative journals in which many artists come together to create a unique single work. 
Readers will learn how to alter treasured books through collage, paint, layering, sewing and more. And they’ll learn how communities of artists can come together to select a topic, set up a project, and ultimately publish or show their finished collaborative work. 
Filled with easy, how-to projects and beautiful gallery photos, this book will help artists of any ability to create books that tell unique and personal stories.

Altered Books, Collaborative Journals, and Other Adventures in Bookmaking

The perfect book for any angel lover. This collection of 47 handmade angels will charm, delight, and inspire you, whether youÆre a skilled crafter or just someone who loves these heavenly figures. This glittering collection features full-color photographs, easy step-by-step instructions, and great ideas for using these angels as special-occasion gifts or decorations, or just for fun.
There are projects that symbolize love, health, strength, teens, friendship, and more. The angels fit all styles and tastes; some are elegant, others are simple or primitive, while others exemplify their ethic origins. There are plenty of tips and techniques as well as an artist directory and product resource guide.

Angel Crafts: Graceful Gifts an dInspired Designs for 47 Projects

Bathrooms are no longer the most neglected, tiniest rooms in a home. Homeowners want bathrooms that are luxurious in terms of space and amenities; they want their bathroom to be a spa getaway they can escape to after a hectic workday. This explains why bathrooms are the most redesigned room in a home, after the kitchen. They are also the hardest room in a house to design. Every cubic foot of space counts. More importantly, owners want them to be functional as well as exquisitely beautiful.
This book showcases a wide range of bathroom designs, from exacting floor plans down to the little details such as built-in storage and digitally controlled thermal shower jets. It is useful for both the do-it-yourselfer and the homeowner who wants to paint a clear picture for an architect or a builder. It also provides a full range of styles and options, detailed resource listings, and sidebars to help consumers with their decision making.

Complete Bathroom Design: 30 Floor Plans, Plus Fixtures, Surfaces, And Storage Ideas

More than 60 new mixed-media collages by leading mixed-media artists. Mixed-media collage artists are embracing, unearthing, and reconstructing the flotsam and jetsam of modern life with abandon, integrating discards along with a range of art materials and novel techniques to create compelling, new works. Original, idiosyncratic, and delightful, this catch-as-catch-can approach to making art is inspiring and can have eye-catching results. It can also have its own set of technical challenges. Mixed-Media Collage takes you into the studios of five talented mixed-media artists: Laurinda Bedingfield, Barbara De Pirro, Paula Grasdal, Sharon McCartney, and Teesha Moore. The artists reveal their own step-by-step processes, offer tips on working with unconventional materials, and share their insights on creativity and finding inspiration. A deluxe gallery features forty never-before published mixed-media pieces, complete with detailed descriptions of the work and the materials used to create them. In-depth chapters detailing the work and techniques of Laurinda Bedingfield, Barbara De Pirro, Paula Grasdal, Sharon McCartney, and Teesha Moore Techniques for making faux encaustics out of acrylic gel medium (no hot palette or wax required), adding stitching to paper, layering surfaces, finding inspiration in texts, building shrines and book-page panels out of sew-through interfacing, using simple printmaking techniques to create one-of-a-kind collage materials, building three-dimensional photo collages, and more A special feature by best-selling author Jennifer Crusie, who shares her thoughts on the connections between writing and collage, as well as several previously unpublished assemblages she has used as a tool to plot and edit her books A humorous essay by best-selling author Alisa Kwitney, who shares her thoughts on the connections between writing and collage, and explains why she can't use collage as a tool for anything

Mixed-Media Collage: An Exploration of Contemporary Artists, Methods, and Materials

Santa Fe police detective Pascal Ruiz becomes disenchanted with his job after solving the high-profile theft of a Stradivarius violin. That is until the captain asks him, off the record, to look into the disappearance of his niece's boyfriend, Bobby Pilot. Pilot, staying out at Diamond Tail Ranch south of Santa Fe while his girlfriend has a part in a TV western, has been struggling to write an article on the Penitentes, a religious order known for its Holy Week reenactments of Christ's last day on earth, while he also prepares for the upcoming Easter procession to Chimay . Ruiz finds Pilot alive but unconscious in an abandoned pueblo, clothed in a Jesus costume and tied to a cross. He suspects the Penitentes and believes the costume is one recently stolen from a Santa Fe Opera storage building. But the pueblo is on the San Felipe Reservation, not in Ruiz's jurisdiction. Tribal police take over the case, and Ruiz attempts to wheedle his way in by befriending the tribal police captain. In his desperation to link the two cases, he crosses the line and puts his career in jeopardy.

Rites & Wrongs

Literature & Fiction

Golden Word Books

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