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	25 Beaded Knits She's back! Debbie uses a variety of beaded knitting techniques to create an array of delightfully detailed fashion and home projects that are sure to catch your eye. All embellished with creative beadwork with helpful tips suggesting alternative ideas and designs for each project - you'll be brimming with your own ideas in no time at all. Packed full of cushions and blankets, home accessories, fashionable essentials and additions to your wardrobe, this myriad of delectable designs will surely suit all tastes and abilities.Designed for the modern knitter, each project offers detailed explanations of materials required and skills needed so that you have all the information you need at your fingertips. The book includes a section outlining all beading techniques with easy-to-follow instructions and step-by-step photography to satisfy knitters of all skill levels. Whether you want to create a stunning evening scarf or a decorative cushion for your living room, use beads to enhance all your knitting projects, leaving them nothing short of bead-dazzling! (25,000 words). Author: Debbie Abrahams Publisher: Anova Books ISBN: 9781843404248 Format: Hardback Book Online Price: $49.99
	Hardware Style It's the most creative how-to book to come along in years, and it's now at a great price These 100 great ideas will change the way do-it-yourselfers look at their local home improvement center--and revolutionize home decor. With a layout inspired by the store's floor plan, this abundantly photographed guide tours all the different departments, from plumbing to hardware, electrical to lawn and garden, suggesting a host of imaginative ways to use what's on the shelves. Many of the projects take advantage of the latest decorating trend, repurposing, where items conceived for one function are used in an entirely different, original way. With only basic techniques, craft curtain tiebacks from welded chain, transform glass or metal screens into coasters, turn copper plumbing pipe into candleholders, and much more. Author: Van Le Publisher: Lark Books,U.S. ISBN: 9781579906078 Format: Paperback Book Online Price: $25.95
	Easter The coming of spring has been celebrated since ancient times. Nature is at her most exuberant, and the glories of the reawakening natural world are there to be enjoyed. This beautiful little book draws inspiration from all this abundance to provide decorative ideas and traditional recipes in celebration of Easter and the new season. Easter captures the spirit of spring, with practical ideas and inspirational projects for the home. Abundant blossoms and the first flowers of the year can be arranged in simple posies or displays, and lush foliage and soft feathers collected on country walks make charming decorative effects. Eggs have for centuries been dyed and decorated as part of the Easter tradition, and there are creative projects in this book for treatments using natural dyes, decoupage, stencilling and gilding. The end of Lent means that convivial feasting plays a large part in the celebrations, and the final section of the book features an irresistible collection of traditional treats, including Truffle-filled Chocolate Eggs, Simnel Cake, Easter Bread and Pashka. Step-by-step sequences illustrate the projects and recipes, and exquisite colour photographs evoke the freshness of the emerging year. This wonderful celebration of Easter and spring will help you to capture the essence of the season and festival with glorious natural decorations and time-honoured foods. Author: Tessa Evelegh Publisher: Anness Publishing ISBN: 9781844763405 Format: Paperback Book Online Price: $12.95
	Craft of Silversmithing This book takes a fresh look at the ancient craft of silversmithing with 18 projects that teach a solid body of skills. This full-color, comprehensive manual provides artisans with a thorough understanding of silver's properties: what it is and how it behaves. Beginning, intermediate, and advanced techniques are explained and then applied to craft amazingly beautiful items. You can use brushing, sawing, piercing, and polishing procedures to fashion a simple bud vase. You can progress to a baby rattle or candleholder created with soldering, sinking, dapping, and forging techniques. Author: Alex Austin Publisher: Lark Books,U.S. ISBN: 9781600591310 Format: Paperback Book Online Price: $29.99
	Robert Warren's Guide to Painting Water Scenes Painting water effects can be a challenging task for any artist. This book allows everyone, from those taking their first plunge to seasoned painters, to create light-filled water scenes in a matter of hours! Renowned artist and teacher Robert Warren shares his own special secrets for capturing crashing waves to placid lake reflections by starting with an acrylic underpainting and finishing with oils. Author: Robert Warren Publisher: F&W Publications Inc ISBN: 9781581808513 Format: Paperback Book Online Price: $39.99
	Tremendous Toy Trucks This book appeals to every dad and grandfather who's ever wanted to make a toy. These trucks are simply wonderful toys: realistic without being fussy, functional as toys without being crude. They are toys that every wood-worker would be proud to make, and that every child would want to have. Les Neufeld has designed and made a number of marvellous toy trucks and construction equipment that are remarkable for their simple and functional design. The 12 step-by-step projects he offers include * dumper trucks * tow tuck * log loader * tanker truck * semi-tractor trailer * * flat deck truck * cement truck * logging trucks * bucket loader * grader * * skidder * forklift * Monster truck * Author: Les Neufeld Publisher: Taunton Press Inc ISBN: 9781561583997 Format: Paperback Book Online Price: $34.99
	Dolls' House Shops, Cafes and Restaurants In this inspirational guide to shops, cafes and restaurants, the leading British writer in the dolls' house field concentrates on design and decoration and, with numerous photographs and clear instructions, shows how to achieve realistic and stunning effects in period and modern settings. The book is packed with ideas for dolls' house enthusiasts, and there are styles to suit all tastes and budgets: traditional shops based on styles from the sixteenth century to the present day, as well as store departments to set in room boxes, Victorian pubs, traditional and modern cafes and restaurants, and much more, extending the potential of the dolls' house hobby. It features: ready-made shops tools and equipment practical advice decoration assembling a shop or room box from a kit simple shop and cafe fittings to make inexpensive materials traditional specialist shops clothing stores food stores continental shops English and French cafes Spanish coffee lounge Sydney cafe bar Thai, Indian and Japanese restaurants and Chinese tea house. Author: Jean Nisbett Publisher: Guild of Master Craftsman Publications Ltd ISBN: 9781861084552 Format: Paperback Book Online Price: $44.99
	The Practical Picture-framing Handbook This is the essential practical guide to making and decorating over 100 frames, shown in over 600 colour photographs. It is bursting with ideas for beginners, as well as challenging techniques for those with some frame-making experience. It contains projects of every style and type, from classic wooden frames made with traditional joinery techniques, to fun and colourful customized contemporary ideas made in all kinds of media, with no craft skills required. Learn how to make a tenon and mortise joint, a hexagonal frame, or a box frame for a collection of objects. This beautiful, practical book is for everyone interested in learning about picture framing and acquiring the skills necessary to make their own frames. Beginning with the materials and equipment required for frame-making, the introductory chapter shows you how a frame is assembled, and guides you through the process. Once you have mastered the basic wood frame, there are projects that build on the level of competence you have achieved. With over 100 projects, this book is an essential guide and sourcebook of ideas for making both simple and complex frames. This book is not only an essential guide and manual for all required techniques but also an inspirational sourcebook of creative ideas. Author: Rian Kanduth Publisher: Anness Publishing ISBN: 9781844762781 Format: Paperback Book Online Price: $24.95
	1000 Glass Beads They're the very best in contemporary glass beadmaking, 1000 dazzling and unique examples by an international array of artists. This color survey has it all: the beads come single or in multiples, in jewelry or sculptural pieces, flameworked and kilnformed and their diversity and beauty are amazing. Julia Skop's intriguing Secret Surprise showcases clear glass beads with millefiori slices at the ends. Bruce St. John crafts his beads out of diachroic glass, then fuses and coldworks them at the lapidary well after completion. Nebula Black Necklace, from Rene Roberts, features an organic-looking focal bead adorned with fine metal leaf, glass shards, and a subtle dot decoration. An artist's comment and detail image accompany many of the photos. A Selection of the Crafters Choice Book Club. Author: Valerie Van Arsdale Shrader Publisher: Lark Books,U.S. ISBN: 9781579904586 Format: Paperback Book Online Price: $39.99
	Almost Ready to Fly A revolution in radio control aircraft modelling is here. The traditional route to flying an R/C model was to purchase materials (or a kit of parts) and build one's own model. This approach is rapidly disappearing as well-designed and affordable 'Almost Ready To Fly' models dominate the market. This book is a response to the changing market, it aims to provide all the information the budding R/C flyer cannot get from within the packaging of the model he has, or is about to, purchase: model types available ARTF and RTF, moulded foam, moulded GRP and injection electric, I.C. powered, gliders and helicopters getting started trainers, which ones to buy and why joining a club - or going it alone radio equipment electric power learning to fly preventative maintenance and repairs more advanced ARTF models and aeromodelling abbreviations and terms. It covers the latest and most exciting development in radio control model flying - off the shelf, out of the box and ready to fly! It provides all the essential information that the instructions in the box don't offer! Author: David Boddington Publisher: SPECIAL INTEREST MODEL BOOKS ISBN: 9781854862426 Format: Paperback Book Online Price: $39.99
	Big Bead Jewellery Now returning to mainstream fashion, chunky jewellery is everywhere, but it can be alarmingly expensive to buy. Big Bead Jewellery contains 35 easy-to-follow projects for making statement jewellery pieces that will look stunning and elegant, both day and evening. Using simple techniques that don't involve heat or soldering, Deborah Schneebeli-Morrell reveals the secrets of how to make glamorous but reliable jewellery to treasure - and the surprise is that many of the materials and stones are deceptively inexpensive. Taking a modern, organic approach, and allowing the natural shapes and colours that are unique to each piece to dictate the design, Deborah creates necklaces, earrings and bracelets with an eclectic collection of materials, including glass, plastic and wooden beads, semi-precious stones and pearls, as well as reinventing broken jewellery and found pieces, and incorporating textiles and buttons into the pieces. How to find and create the best colour combinations, as well as textures and materials that complement each other, are vital steps: and Deborah shows you what really works. Next, she offers a detailed glossary of the materials to use, including an up-to-date guide to the new stones on the market and a section on how to make the most of old pieces that need a new lease of life. Using the best of the new materials, the core of the book works through 35 projects in photographic step by step, showing how to choose and use one-offs and groups of stones and beads in jewelled pieces, many with variations and additional ideas. Projects are presented in four chapters: 'From the Sewing Box', 'Treasures from the Earth', 'The Glory of Glass Beads' and 'Pearls, Silver & Sparkle'. Author: DEBORAH SCNEEBELI-MORRELL Publisher: CICO BOOKS ISBN: 9781904991496 Format: Paperback Book Online Price: $34.95
	Building Bots This is the definitive guide to designing and building warrior robots. It walks robot enthusiasts of all ages step-by-step through the design and building process, enabling them to create any number of customised warrior robots. With a strong emphasis on safety, chapters include designing a robot, choosing materials, radio control systems, electric motors, robot batteries, motor speed controllers, gasoline engines, and drive trains. Clear instructions are accompanied by photographs, line drawings, and detailed diagrams throughout. For inspiration, a colour section showcases a variety of glorious fighting machines along with their statistics. Profiles of well-known designers and builders also enliven the text. For beginners, there is machine shop 101 and robot physics, and, of course, chapters on weaponry that include spinner robots, thwackbots, cutting blade robots, lifters, and chameleon robots. When the bot of their dreams is built, suggestions on where to compete and game-day strategies and tactics help readers take the next step. An extensive resource section lists parts suppliers, pertinent Web sites, a radio frequency chart, and a glossary. Author: William Gurstelle Publisher: A Cappella Books,U.S. ISBN: 9781556524592 Format: Paperback Book Online Price: $45.95
	The Blacksmith's Craft Blacksmithing is one of the traditional lost arts deserving re-discovery by anyone interested in do-it-yourself building and crafting. Creating one's own apparatus from metal enhances wood-working, stonework, building, and restoration work. Traditional builder and historic preservation consultant Charles McRaven shows how practical, simple, and rewarding the forging of hand tools can be. Having discovered blacksmithing himself when he moved back to the land in the 1970s, Charles McRaven tells readers all they need to know to set up their own smithies and begin blacksmithing. Over the years, McRaven claims he has made almost every mistake that can be made while perfecting his skills, and he shares this hard-won knowledge with readers in a readable and humorous style. The simple and clear instructions supplemented by the step-by- step photography, show how to build a forge, how to make and/or acquire tools, and how to use those tools to create utilitarian items of lasting beauty and durability. Author: Charles McRaven Publisher: Storey Books ISBN: 9781580175937 Format: Paperback Book Online Price: $34.99
	Charmed Sprinkled with pearls, hearts, stars and gemstones full of symbolism, a charm bracelet is the ultimate in meaningful jewellery. Following the development of modern jewellery-making methods that do not require soldering, and the craze for customizing that has brought a cornucopia of contemporary charms to the market, the new jeweller now has the chance to make long-lasting, pretty, high-quality pieces at home. In her first book, accomplished contemporary jeweller Gabriella Sellors shows you how to design and create your own beautiful pieces using a wide variety of inexpensive materials and charms, such as faux pearls, freshwater coloured pearls, glass, semi-precious stones, and silver and gold charms. Gabriella begins with a glossary of charms and their meanings, and also provides a masterclass in creating and designing charms, showing you which materials work best with each other and which set each off. The main projects feature 50 designs for charm bracelets, necklaces, earrings and rings, as well as bag and mobile phone charms. Through chapters 'Protection and Healing', 'Love', 'Zodiac' and 'Colour', she shows you how to create charms for every occasion - charms for friendship, birthstone charms for birthdays and semi-precious charms for protection against negative energy. She also makes use of new charms on the market to personalize gifts for friends and family - a fairy charm for a friend's safety while travelling, handbag and shoe charms for your shopping-mad friend, and a series of symbolic flower charms for a bouquet of bridal charms. Including ethnic charms from the Orient, such as jade, coins, amber and the characters for love, hope, peace and joy, as well as designs for the traditional Western celebrations of anniversaries, holidays, coming of age and friendship, the book is a compendium of practical advice and inspiration for you to create unique pieces of lasting beauty. It features 50 stunning unique jewellery designs suitable for every occasion. Projec... Author: Gabriella Sellors Publisher: CICO Books ISBN: 9781904991502 Format: Hardback Book Online Price: $34.95
	Crochet Hats! Fast, fun, and relaxing, crocheting a hat is a rewarding way to practice basic skills, try out new stitches, or tackle particularly challenging patterns. Hats invite experimentation and creativity. The finished piece is so small that pulling out rows of stitches or going all the way back to the beginning of a project is never too heartbreaking, and making more than one is a natural urge! Crochet Hats! features 15 original patterns for pretty, new looks - classic as well as cutting edge, sunny and light as well as cosy and warm. Created for every skill level, Candi Jensen's hat designs also encourage stitcher's to venture beyond their comfort zones and experiment with new yarns, different colour combinations, and more complicated stitches. Hats provide the perfect opportunity for playing with new ideas. From cables to brims to beads, Jensen's hats feature something for every head. An adorable baby cap makes a lovely shower gift, a colorful cotton sun hat screens summer beach rays, and diamond shapes on angora and wool sparkle on the ski slopes. Many designs will work for men too, with a bit of colour adjustment. Packaged in Storey's best-selling die-cut series, with the signature at-a-glance, chart-format instructions, Crochet Hats! will be irresistible to fashionable crocheters who want to show off the terrific looks achievable with a ball of beautiful yarn and a hook. Author: Candi Jensen Publisher: Storey Books ISBN: 9781580176323 Format: Hardback Book Online Price: $24.99
	Crochet in No Time Surprisingly easy and quick, the techniques of crochet are simple to master and impressive pieces can be achieved without expertise. With just one stitch motion to learn, the rows grow fast, while making a crochet motif, such as a decorated square, is a satisfying quick fix. The rows can grow in a linear way, which is ideal for beginners, or you can work freehand to create your own effects. The speed and portability of crochet means it is the ideal pastime to enjoy while travelling on the train, waiting for the bus, or taking a work break. Unlike knitting, crochet has no machine equivalent, so each piece of crochet is unique. This quality is just one of the reasons for the revival of crochet in Europe and the US. Ethnic-inspired garments are set to be the great trend of the rest of this decade, and a new generation of crochet makers are discovering the joys of creative fulfilment combined with creating the latest look. These stunning projects, all designed with speed in mind, come complete with a step-by-step techniques section so you can get started right away. Author: Melody Griffiths Publisher: CICO Books ISBN: 9781904991410 Format: Paperback Book Online Price: $39.95
	The Complete Idiot's Guide to Cigars Approximately 10 million Americans smoke cigars today, while cigar bars are popping everywhere. This book features a run-down of cigar terms, sizes and shapes and teaches readers how to clip, light, and smoke a cigar and even how to deal with an uneven burning cigar how to care for cigars, judge a good cigar, use tobacconists to help in their selections, and match drinks and meals with cigars. It also offers concise guidelines on how cigars are rated today, a run-down of the popular brands, and an overview of the new labels appearing on the market. Chapters cover the history of cigar tobacco, and famous real life and fictional smokers. Also includes a special section on cigars and the opposite sex. Tad Gage was a pioneer in the efforts that initiated today's consumer love affair with cigars. He served as editor and publisher of The Compleat Smoker, this country's first four-color quarterly magazine on cigars, pipes, tobacco, and spirits that debuted in 1990. He has authored numerous articles on cigars and serves on the executive committee for Chicagoland Pipe Collector's Club, which annually hosts the largest pipe, cigar, and tobacco convention in the U.S. Mr. Gage lives in Chicago. Author: Complete Idiot's Guide, Tad Gage Publisher: Alpha Books ISBN: 9781592575916 Format: Paperback Book Online Price: $26.95
	The Complete Idiot's Guide to Knitting and Crocheting A best-selling guide that gets readers hooked! Now with gorgeous color photos! aThe knowledge you will gain from reading and using this book will bring you great satisfaction.aaNancy J. Thomas, editorial director of Lion Brand Yarn Company co- author of Vogue Knitting: The Ultimate Knitting Book and former editor of Knitteras Magazine, Vogue Knitting, and Family Circle Easy Knitting Updated and completely revised, this guide has been a bestseller ever since its first publication. Plus, itas the only book to include knitting and crocheting, with both comprehensive instructions and exciting patterns. Readers will get: a[ A 32-page, full-color section featuring finished projects a[ Goof-proof instructions to get them knitting and crocheting in no time a[ Expert advice on how to correct common knitting gaffes a[ Terrific tips that will help them decipher knitting and crocheting patterns a[ Easy ways to check their gaugeaand what to do when it doesnat match the pattern Author: Complete Idiot's Guide, Barbara Breiter & Gail Diven Publisher: Alpha Books ISBN: 9781592574919 Format: Paperback Book Online Price: $29.95
	Decorative Sewing Learn to make the most of basic materials and how to use the unexpected. The 20 original step-by-step projects show you how to combine techniques. This is a comprehensive book on all kinds of fabric embellishment techniques, and includes fabric painting, using ribbons, and much more. There are many books on the market that teach simple sewing, but little for the sewer who has mastered basic skills and wants to add further embellishments to fabric items. This book contains a myriad of practical step-by-step techniques for all kinds of decorative sewing, fabric painting, ribbonwork and beading, along with dozens of ideas for expanding upon those techniques. Nothing is very complicated, but everything is creative, exciting and above all, decorative. Learn a range of useful embroidery stitches, applique and patchwork techniques, and how to add pin-tucking, ruching or gathers. Embellishment techniques include beading, ribbon trimming and weaving, fabric painting, printing and making tassels, cords and crochet trims. Techniques can be applied to existing items, to give a much-loved but sadly unfashionable shirt a new lease of life, or used to customise bed linen to co-ordinate with a decorative scheme. However, there are also simple items to make from scratch, such as a pin-tucked bag or silk and ribbon cushion. All the templates and patterns you need are at the back of the book. Author: Sarah Beaman Publisher: Anova Books ISBN: 9781843403531 Format: Hardback Book Online Price: $49.99
	Eco Colour Eco Colour fills a gap in the literature and uses an exciting range of projects to demonstrate a variety of techniques, some of them entirely new processes developed by the author. Projects range from solar dyeing to dyeing with 'ice-flowers'. The result is a range of pure natural colours produced with the least possible harm. Author: India Flint Publisher: Murdoch Books ISBN: 9781741960792 Format: Hardback Book Online Price: $65.00