Heavenly Snowflakes Stained Glass Coloring Book


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Each of these eight gem-like snowflakes are symmetrical in shape, yet amazingly different. Most have six points surrounding a center, and all they need to give off a special glow are colors from an artist's palette. Add shades of your own choice, place the pictures in a bright window, and admire the stained glass effects.




Snowflake Designs Coloring Book


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The unique patterns of snowflakes are limitless — and so are the coloring possibilities this beautiful book has to offer! Here are 30 expertly rendered illustrations of nature's most dazzling creations, as individual flakes and in scattered storms. Simply add your creative spirit to this blizzard of designs and watch each snowflake flutter to life.




Catalog of Copyright Entries


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Snowflakes & Quilts


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The author of Kaleidoscope Quilts shows how to create a stunning snowflake quilt, including how to draft a design, make templates, and piece successfully. Paula’s incredible quilts capture the delicate, three-dimensional effect of winter’s snowflakes. Learn how to create the endless variations found in snowflakes using the techniques and materials of quilt making! • Full-size patterns for making 11 of the snowflake designs from Paula’s quilts • Step-by-step instructions explain how to draft a design, make templates, and piece successfully • Paula reveals her strip-piecing techniques for “Power Stitching” • Learn methods for using your fabrics to create “Seemingly Seamless Seams” “Paula explores the collision of precise geometry and lush splinters of color and pattern. In this book, she reveals her unique technique with characteristic intelligence and humor.” —Stacy C. Hollander, Senior Curator, Museum of American Folk Art, New York City “Much like a child mesmerized by fireflies, I cannot get enough of looking when I see [Paula’s] quilts. Riveting, dazzling, hypnotizing—these are the words that spring to mind when I behold Paula’s art.” —Kenneth R. Trapp, Curator-in-Charge, Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian American Art Museum




Math Games Lab for Kids


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Math is the foundation of all sciences and key to understanding the world around us. Math Games Lab for Kids uses over fifty hands-on activities to make learning a variety of math concepts fun and easy for kids. Make learning math fun by sharing these hands-on labs with your child. Math Games Lab for Kids presents more than 50 activities that incorporate coloring, drawing, games, and making shapes to make math more than just numbers. With Math Games Lab for Kids, kids can: Explore geometry and topology by making prisms, antiprisms, Platonic solids, and M bius strips. Build logic skills by playing and strategizing through tangrams, toothpick puzzles, and the game of Nim. Draw and chart graphs to learn the language of connections. Discover how to color maps like a mathematician by using the fewest colors possible. Create mind bending fractals with straight lines and repeat shapes. And don't worry about running to the store for expensive supplies Everything needed to complete the activities can be found in the book or around the house. Math is more important than ever. Give your child a great experience and solid foundation with Math Games Lab for Kids.




100 Amazing Paper Animal Snowflakes


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Create endless animal themed snowflakes with the unique and imaginative templates that crafters and artists will love! Let it snow... animals! In 100 Amazing Paper Animal Snowflakes, artist and teacher Marion Nichols proves that this popular form of papercutting can yield far more than just pretty geometric designs. Crafters young and old can create her astonishing animal-themed designs by photocopying the full-sized templates, then folding and cutting along preprinted guidelines. The templates range in complexity from easy to challenging, so papercrafters of all ages and at all skill levels can snip these fantastic flakes. Eight of the designs are also printed on colored paper, all ready to fold and cut.




Treasury of Year-Round Preschool Activities


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Designed for busy teachers, daycare workers, and parents, this book contains weekly activities, lesson ideas, arts and crafts and cooking activities for preschool age children.




The Transformative Power of Metaphor in Therapy


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Narrative or metaphor therapy utilizes the patient's own memories and anecdotes as a method for tapping into and confronting the many layers of the complex inner self. The book is particularly innovative in the using narrative or metaphor therapy with adults suffering from severe mental illness. Unlike other books on the use of narrative therapy, this book focuses on the use of pre-scripted narratives that can be used with individuals to examine their personal situations, as well as techniques to guide individuals in the development of their own narratives. A comprehensive and detailed guidebook for narrative therapists, this book addresses various experiential therapeutic interventions.




Crafting Conundrums


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Designed for crafters, puzzle lovers, and pattern designers alike, Crafting Conundrums: Puzzles and Patterns for the Bead Crochet Artist provides methods, challenges, and patterns that offer a springboard for creative exploration. All are illustrated with beautiful color diagrams and photographs. Experienced bead crochet crafters looking for a project may choose to skip ahead to the pattern pages and begin crocheting from an abundance of unique, mathematically inspired designs. Those wishing to design their own patterns will find many useful tools, template patterns, and a new methodology for understanding how to do so even without using math. Puzzle lovers without previous knowledge of bead crochet will also find ample inspiration for learning the craft. The first part of the book describes the basic requirements and constraints of a bead crochet pattern and explains what makes designing in this medium so tricky. The authors present their new design framework and offer insight on how best to approach design choices and issues unique to bead crochet. The second part presents a series of bead crochet design challenges informed by colorful bits of mathematics, including topology, graph theory, knot theory, tessellations, and wallpaper groups. Each chapter in this section begins with a design puzzle accompanied by an introduction to the mathematical idea that inspired it. The authors then discuss what made the challenge difficult, present some of their solutions, and describe the thinking and ideas behind their approach. The final part contains nearly 100 original bead crochet patterns, including solutions to all the design challenges. This part also provides a tutorial on the fundamentals of bead crochet technique. Behind the deceptively simple and uniform arrangement of beads is a subtle geometry that produces compelling design challenges and fascinating mathematical structures. In color throughout, Crafting Conundrums gives both math enthusiasts and crafters an innovative approach to creating bead crochet patterns while addressing a variety of mathematically inspired design questions. Supplementary materials, including demo videos, are available on the book’s CRC Press web page.




Adobe Creative Suite 6 Design and Web Premium Digital Classroom


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Expert book-and-video package gives you complete training on Creative Suite 6 Design Premium! The next best thing to having your own private instructor guiding you through Adobe Creative Suite 6 Design and Web Premium at your own pace is this terrific book-and-video training tool from the expert instructors at AGI. More than 25 self-paced lessons teach you the basics of page layout, vector graphics, photo editing, document management, web design, animation, file management, and much more. Each step-by-step lesson is accompanied by exercises and video tutorials to make the concepts and techniques crystal clear. You'll find instruction for the complete suite, including InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop, Dreamweaver, Flash, Fireworks, and Adobe Bridge. Features full-color, step-by-step instructions that make even the most complicated tasks easy to understand, while the video training enhances the content covered in the book Combines an 800+- page full-color instructional book along with lesson files and video training from expert instructors Covers each component of the complete Adobe Creative Suite 6 Design and Web Premium package, including InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop, Dreamweaver, Flash, Fireworks, and Adobe Bridge Adobe Creative Suite 6 Design and Web Premium Digital Classroom is an effective way to master all the powerful tools in Adobe Creative Suite 6 Design and Web Premium at your own pace. Note: The DVD and other supplementary materials are not included as part of the e-book file. These materials are available for download upon purchase.