Crafting from pregnancy to your babys first birthday!

The arrival of a new baby is not only a cause for celebration, but

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Details: Crafty handmade gift ideas to help you create presents at home Handmade Gifts covers all the popular crafts such
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Handmade Graphics offers a detailed insight into a diverse range of handmade processes & techniques including drawing, painting, printing, 3D & mixed media collage. This book showcases unique, innovative & contemporary designs made using a wide variety of materials & methods from a range of emerging & established international contributors. As well providing a number of step-by-step workthroughs that stretch the limits of conventional usability, reinvent traditional, h&-making methods, & break all the rules along the way. This ideas-packed handbook offers a comprehensive 'toolbox' of low-tech materials, high tech equipment, old school tools & subtly subverted methods & processes. This book has 175 pages & is 29.5cm x 19cm x 1.4cm. ...

For many of us, our home is the center of our life. It is the place where our families meet & mingle, where we share our meals & share our dreams. So much more than just a space to live, our homes offer us a place of comfort, nourishment, & love for us & for our children. In Handmade Home, Amanda Blake Soule, author of The Creative Family & the blog Soule Mama.com, offers simple sewing & craft projects for the home that reflect the needs, activities, & personalities of todays families. As Amanda writes in the introduction, ? As a crafter, I?m always looking for the next thing I want to make. As a mama, I?m always looking for the next thing we need?to do, to have, to use?as a family. The coming together of these parts is where the heart of Handmade Home lies.? Filled with thirty-three projects made by reusing & repurposing materials, all of the items here offer a practical use in the home. From picnic blankets made out of repurposed bed sheets to curtains made out of vintage handkerchiefs, these projects express the sense of making something new out of something old as a way to live a more financially pared-down & simple life; lessen our impact on the earth; connect to the past & preserve a more traditional way of life; & place value on the work of the hands. Also included are projects that children can help with, allowing them to make their own special contribution to the family home. More than just a collection of projects for handmade items, this book offers the tools to create a life?and home?full of beauty, integrity, & joy. Projects include: ? Papas Healing Cozy: This hot water bottle cover becomes a simple way to offer comfort to a sick child ? Baby Sling: A simple pattern for an object that offers so much to a small child?refuge from the world & a place to lay their head next to a parents heart ? Beach Blanket To-Go: Repurpose old sheets to create the perfect picnic blanket for special outdoor meals ? Cozy Wall Pockets: A creative solution for storing a childs small treasures ...

A collection of recipes, personal stories & photographs that capture the breads & home bakers of Europe. It

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A trip to a spa for a spot of pampering has always been seen as an expensive, one-off treat – until now.

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Add a unique touch to your card & papercraft making projects with these gorgeous Handmade with Love Stickers! This pack



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The Republic of Gilead offers Offred only one function: to breed. If she deviates, she will, like dissenters, be hanged at the wall or sent out to die slowly of radiation sickness. But even a repressive state cannot obliterate desire
- neither Offred's nor that of the two men on which her future hangs.
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Step in to the world of the Ancient Egyptians! Wear your own beaded collar, challenge a friend to the ancient game of senet, make papyrus paper, learn to write in hieroglyphs, measure time with a water clock & paint a life size pharaoh. This fantastic book combines informative text with brilliant hands-on projects that bring this ancient civilisation to life! This awesome book gives young learners a comprehensive introduction to a fascinating period in history which looks at their food & drink, how they dressed, the buildings they lived in, their beliefs & festivals, family life & how their society was organised. ...

Step in to the world of the Ancient Greeks! Make a Minotaur mask, wear a chiton, write your name in ancient Greek, paint a fresco, design a mythical creature & build a Greek temple. This fantastic book combines informative text & unique activities that brings this ancient civilisation to life. This awesome book provides young learners a comprehensive introduction to this fascinating period in history including their food & drink, how they dressed, the buildings they lived in. their beliefs & festivals, their family life & how their society was organised. ...