Recycling is one of the hottest new trends in embroidery & this is the first book to cover it. Embroiderers recycle for many different reasons: to conserve old pieces of ephemera for the future to give their work a personal touch to convey meaning or simply for economy. Covering both hand & machine embroidery this book is packed with ideas for using many different types of salvaged material such as fabric paper natures materials including dried flowers & tree bark plus plastic wood & metal waste & precious personal objects such as broken jewellery or special souvenirs. Illustrated in colour throughout with work from the worlds leading contemporary embroiderers the book covers: Introduction: Why recycle? * How to collect salvaged objects * Finding your own meaning * Fibre waste * Fabric waste * Recycling old embroidery * Paper & natural waste * Plastic waste * Wood metal & mineral waste * Recycling packaging & books ...

Techniques & procedures for collecting & analysing different types of data are examined & analysed in detail. The skills necessary to promote the effectiveness & validity of research within the creative industries are highlighted in case studies all of which also demonstrate what a well-designed research project can achieve. ...

Creativity is becoming increasingly important in an age of advanced audience sophistication. It's no longer enough to follow standard writing techniques
- becoming a first-class screenwriter demands not only a command of craft but an understanding of how to unleash & harness creativity. The Creative Screenwriter" offers a wealth of inspiring writing exercises designed to help you produce better more exciting scripts. Each essential area of screenwriting is covered in its own chapter from learning how to build stories & finding good ideas to deepening characters & experimenting with structure to enhancing scene writing & improving pitching. Finally a range of innovative DIY Script Surgeries encourage you to find solutions to common screenwriting problems such as overcoming writer's block managing the rewrite & selling your work. This is a book to return to again & again. It is a guide for aspiring screenwriters who want to develop a powerful writing practice; a manual for teachers & students seeking discussion & reflection; a bible for professionals wanting to hone their craft & solve script struggles. It will rekindle the creative spark; remind you of why you love writing; & help to express the stories you want to tell
- & sell!"

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A treasury of all-time favourite soft toys to make: clutch toys a family of mice nursery rhyme characters a rag doll elephants animal backpacks & more. This work

Includes:: easy to follow instructions & patterns & projects that can be made without a sewing machine.

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Creative Visualization has been successfully used in the fields of health education business sports & the arts for many years. Gawain explains how to use mental imagery & affirmations to produce positive changes in ones life. The book contains meditations & exercises that are aimed at helping the practitioner channel energies in positive directions strengthen self-esteem improve overall health & experience deep relaxation. This is the book that launched a movement. Creative visualization works. Oprah Winfrey ...

This lively full-colour illustrated craft book shows how to make a range of handicrafts from fleece & yarn including toys friendship bracelets & braids balls pompoms dolls dolls' clothes & animals. With clear diagrams & step-by-step instructions the book starts by introducing children to basic methods of spinning yarn crocheting knitting & felting. There is a broad range of projects for children of all ages to complete working together with adults. ...

Have you ever struggled to complete a design project on time? Or felt that having a tight deadline stifled your capacity for maximum creativity? If so then this book is for you. Within Creative Workshop you'll find 80 creative challenges that will help you achieve a breadth of stronger design solutions in various media within any set time period. Exercises range from creating a typeface in an hour to designing a paper robot in an afternoon to designing web pages & other interactive experiences. Each exercise

Includes:: compelling visual solutions from other designers & background stories to help you increase your capacity to innovate. This book also

Includes:: useful brainstorming techniques & wisdom from some of today's top designers. By road-testing these techniques as you attempt each challenge you'll find new & more effective ways to solve tough design problems & bring your solutions to vibrant life.



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Overcome Creative Block" & Break Out of Your Norm! Every artist struggles with creativity at one time or another. Creative Workshop Watercolor & Acrylic will help you the watercolor artist explore your creativity & stretch your boundaries while still making the realistic & semi-realistic art that you love to paint. This book is chock-full of hands-on projects techniques & strategies to get you thinking beyond your self-imposed creative boundaries. Mark Mehaffey an experience friendly teacher begins with the basics of designing a strong painting with shape value & color. Once youve mastered these keys to any successful painting-regardless of style-you will have the confidence to be more creative! Mehaffey will show you practical techniques & lead you in experiments with color composition painting surfaces methods of applying paint & more. This book offers creative exercises for every skill level & comfort level as well as demonstrations painting critiques weak/strong comparisons & examples by Mehaffey & a variety of other accomplished artists. With this book in your studio youll be encouraged to have fun while creating wonderful art. In no time you will have a variety of tools for jump-starting your creativity & painting with confidence!

Includes:: bonus DVD on watercolor painting on Yupo (r)!"

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This book is an excellent guide for writers who are starting out or writers who are looking for ways to improve broaden & vary their writing. It focuses on fiction & fiction genre
- science romance horror & crime. It teaches how to create characters set atmosphere develop dialogue & create suspense. The book also covers non-fiction in particular the ways to draw on personal experience to write articles on a wide variety of topics in a number of different styles. There is a chapter on writing for children teaching the specialist skills that
- once mastered
- bring enormous satisfaction to both the writer & the reader. The internets impact on the creative writer & the opportunities it presents are explored & described &
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- there is also a chapter on how to present your work to a publisher & get it into print.




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Creative Writing: A Workbook with Readings" is a complete writing course that will jump-start your writing & guide you through your first steps towards publication. Suitable for use by students tutors writers groups or writers working alone this book offers: a practical & inspiring section on the creative process showing you how to stimulate your creativity & use your memory & experience in inventive ways; an in-depth coverage of the most popular forms of writing in extended sections on fiction poetry & life writing including biography & autobiography giving you practice in all three forms so that you might discover & develop your particular strengths; a sensible up-to-date guide to going public to help you to edit your work to a professional standard & to identify & approach suitable publishers. It also offers: a distinctive collection of exciting exercises spread throughout the workbook to spark your imagination & increase your technical flexibility & control; a substantial array of illuminating readings bringing together extracts from contemporary & classic writings in order to demonstrate a range of techniques that you can use or adapt in your own work. " Creative Writing: A Workbook with Readings" presents a unique opportunity to benefit from the advice & experience of a team of published authors who have also taught successful writing courses at a wide range of institutions helping large numbers of new writers to develop their talents as well as their abilities to evaluate & polish their work to professional standards. These institutions include Lancaster University & the University of East Anglia renowned as consistent producers of published writers." ...