Antique Door Hardware - A Book of Stencils


Book Description

Growing up in New Orleans, I have a deep appreciation for old houses and their unique architectural characteristics. I have always been fascinated by the details and decorative ornaments created by the skilled craftsman of the past. I created this collection of stencils in order to reintroduce some of those details - at least in a faux finish. These stencils should add a little fun and even some humor to the doors in your home while they introduce a touch of the past.




Playing with Stencils


Book Description

DIV With 20 clever step-by-step projects and a stunning gallery of inspirational stencil designs from leading artists,Playing With Stencilswill leave you ready to stencil just about anything. You will design floor tiles stencils inspired by German paper-cutting, you will stencil furniture, shower curtains, a floor cloth, planters, a wall canvas, wallpaper, and even a cake. You will make paper dolls with clothing, stencil beautiful “lace� stationery, stencil custom yardage to use for simple upholstery projects or pillows, make a concert poster, and even stencil a faux rag rug! Stencil art has been around for years, often used for home decorating and for simple crafts, but has gained current interest and cache due it's guerilla use as street art (often making a political statement), and has become a worldwide subculture. Stencil graffiti has given stencil art a new sheen of coolness. This book will show you how to incorporate that look into your work, your accessories, and your home. You’ll become inspired to use stencils in your journaling, in collage, on fabric, on totes, and in art pieces designed to be hung on walls—and you will know how to create fantastic custom designs./div




Oriental Designs, a Book of Stencils


Book Description

This collection of stencils includes a Chinese Dragon, Bamboo, Oriental Figure with Coolie Hat, Ying Yang Koi, a Bonsai Tree, & Three Cranes. Also included are the Chinese Symbols for Eternity, Friendship, Happiness, Harmony, Long Life, Peace, Prosperity, Tranquility, Truth, and Dragon. This collection was assembled for you, the artist and crafter, to use as a guide in creating some great works of art by combining the images with symbols. Paint them on paper for framing, furniture, or fabrics for pillows or curtains to bring a little of the Orient into your home. Just use your imagination and the possibilities are endless!




Make Your Own Haunted House with 36 Stickers


Book Description

Fill an eerie, 3-story house with bats, spiders, a vampire, tombstone, skeleton, mummy, black cats, and other fiendish fabrications.




Alabama Studio Sewing Patterns


Book Description

A compendium for Alabama Chanin crafters collects all of the patterns from her first three books on an accompanying CD and offers illustrated instructions and patterns for 12 new skirts, dresses, tops and jackets. 20,000 first printing.




Young House Love


Book Description

This New York Times bestselling book is filled with hundreds of fun, deceptively simple, budget-friendly ideas for sprucing up your home. With two home renovations under their (tool) belts and millions of hits per month on their blog YoungHouseLove.com, Sherry and John Petersik are home-improvement enthusiasts primed to pass on a slew of projects, tricks, and techniques to do-it-yourselfers of all levels. Packed with 243 tips and ideas—both classic and unexpected—and more than 400 photographs and illustrations, this is a book that readers will return to again and again for the creative projects and easy-to-follow instructions in the relatable voice the Petersiks are known for. Learn to trick out a thrift-store mirror, spice up plain old roller shades, "hack" your Ikea table to create three distinct looks, and so much more.




Grandmother Thorn


Book Description

*Audio Enhanced Read-Along EbookNominee for 2017 Cybils Award, Best Fiction Picture Book, Children's and Young AdultGrandmother Thorn treasures her garden, where not a leaf, twig or pebble is allowed out of place. But when a persistent plant sprouts without her permission, Grandmother begins to unravel. "Her hair became as tangled as the vines on her fence. Her garden fell into disrepair. One morning, she did not rake the path." A dear friend, the passage of seasons, and a gift only nature can offer help Grandmother Thorn discover that some things are beyond our control, and that sweetness can blossom in unexpected places.







Asses and Angels


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Gail Black is living proof that success and failure in life are interwoven like the tangled brambles in a thicket of wild berries. Asses and Angels shares the moving story of her personal path through life as it wove through tangled fields of good and evil. She learned to hope and survive on her journey from abuse to achievement. Born just as World War II intensified, Gail grew into a spirited little girl and then into a woman who never forgot that each day was a new opportunity with the possibility of success and happiness. Family health challenges compelled her to mature early. Religious control, physical abuse, and financial manipulation caused her to experience divorce, widowhood, and annulment. Learn how she prevailed in male-dominated business ventures and environmental battles as she farmed her land. Her grit, sense of humor, work ethic, and love for her farm helped insure her entrepreneurial success in the business of making fruit syrups with her grandmother's recipe.




Early American Stencils on Walls and Furniture


Book Description

Uses photographs and text to illustrate the variety of stencils used as decorative art during the early nineteenth century