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It's Decorative Gourd Season, Motherfuckers

Author : Colin Nissan

Publisher : Chronicle Books

Page : 68 pages

File Size : 11,63 MB

Release : 2021-09-28

Category : Humor

ISBN : 1797214756

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Book Description

A passionate and profane love letter to fall, the best fucking season of the year. Do you get excited at the first brisk breeze of the year? Are you overcome with delight when you see piles of red leaves? Do you lose your fucking mind at a pumpkin patch? At last, the epically funny internet sensation It's Decorative Gourd Season, Motherfuckers is now a visual tour-de-force, teeming with a cornucopia of perfectly paired photos and seasonal enchantments to make it really fucking sing. Whiffy candles, wicker baskets, motherfucking gourd after gourd, and people going insane they love fall so much? Check! Also included: the equally lifechanging meditation It's Rotting Decorative Gourd Season, Motherfuckers, because all good things must end. Give it to everyone you love, or put it on your fucking coffee table next to a pile of shellacked vegetables to really tie the room together. Perfect for: For anyone who fucking loves fall, and fans of McSweeney's, Go the Fuck to Sleep, Deep Thoughts, the Onion, and the New Yorker.



Decorating Gourds

Author : Sue Waters

Publisher : Schiffer Craft

Page : 0 pages

File Size : 34,16 MB

Release : 2001

Category : Crafts & Hobbies

ISBN : 9780764313127

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Book Description

Discover the wonderful art of gourd carving and produce gourd-geous results in a minimal time! Gourds grow in all shapes and sizes, and no two are alike. This book shows you how to prepare a gourd for decoration, and then lets your creativity soar! Step-by-step photos and text demonstrate several techniques you could use, including carving, woodburning, painting, staining, stenciling, and pine needle weaving. The projects covered here include vessels, a hanging potpourri, and an adorable Santa Claus. Patterns are included to get you started, and a color photo gallery displays finished projects.



Glorious Gourd Decorating

Author : Mickey Baskett

Publisher : Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.

Page : 132 pages

File Size : 27,9 MB

Release : 2005-08

Category : Crafts & Hobbies

ISBN : 9781402727757

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Book Description

Transform simple garden gourds into beautiful and functional decorative objects. Follow the guides to growing, selecting, cleaning, and preparing your gourds. Learn about different methods to decorate the gourds.



Glorious Gourd Decorating

Author : Mickey Baskett

Publisher : Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.

Page : 188 pages

File Size : 35,25 MB

Release : 2003

Category : Crafts & Hobbies

ISBN : 9780806969459

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Book Description

Transform simple garden gourds into beautiful and functional decorative objects. Follow the guides to growing, selecting, cleaning, and preparing your gourds. Learn about different methods to decorate the gourds.



Gourd Pyrography

Author : Jim Widess

Publisher : Sterling Publishing Company

Page : 150 pages

File Size : 45,23 MB

Release : 2007-03

Category : Crafts & Hobbies

ISBN : 9781402745027

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Book Description

A guide to gourd pyrography--using heat to create works of gourd art--that discusses gourd prep and work basics, provides step-by-step instructions for several designs and techniques, and presents secrets from fifty artists.



Beginners Book of Gourd Craft

Author : Kas Hirst

Publisher : Xlibris Corporation

Page : 38 pages

File Size : 43,48 MB

Release : 2015-01-20

Category : Gourd craft

ISBN : 9781499030990

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Complete Book of Gourd Carving

Author : Jim Widess

Publisher : Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.

Page : 228 pages

File Size : 25,11 MB

Release : 2004

Category : Crafts & Hobbies

ISBN : 9781402704420

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Book Description

Jim Widess and Ginger Summit, the best-selling authors of The Complete Book of Gourd Craft and Making Gourd Instruments, have done it again: they’ve produced another winner to delight the many crafters who work with gourds. Large, lavish, and astonishingly comprehensive, this breathtaking volume introduces every tool and every technique associated with gourd carving, offers fabulous projects that advance in difficulty, and presents a gallery of works designed to inspire. See how to choose and prepare a gourd, impress the surface with a design, and work with green gourds. The magnificent methods of decorative carving covered include fretwork, engraving, chip carving, carving with gouges, relief carving, inlay, and deep relief or sculptural carving. Throughout, color photographs of exquisite carved gourds present crafts styles from countries around the world. A Selection of the Crafters Choice Book Club.



Pumpkin Chic

Author : Mary Caldwell

Publisher : Hearst Books

Page : 120 pages

File Size : 35,43 MB

Release : 2005-08

Category : Crafts & Hobbies

ISBN : 9781588162960

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Book Description

Presents an array of projects that use pumpkins, squash, and gourds for autumn decorations throughout the home.



The Decorated Gourd

Author : Dyan Mai Peterson

Publisher : Lark Books (NC)

Page : 128 pages

File Size : 15,59 MB

Release : 2003-08

Category : Crafts & Hobbies

ISBN : 9781579905118

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Book Description

From carving, dyeing, and burning to watercolor effects and antique shading, a professional artist shares her gourd crafting secrets, offering 35 projects, ranging from the practical to the ornamental, many of them with templates.



Making Gourd Musical Instruments

Author : Ginger Summit

Publisher : Sterling Publishing Company

Page : 150 pages

File Size : 30,62 MB

Release : 2007-03

Category : Crafts & Hobbies

ISBN : 9781402745034

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Book Description

Provides step-by-step instructions for making, decorating, and playing more than sixty string, wind, and percussion instruments made from gourds, along with numerous color photos and cultural information on the instruments' places of origin.