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Making Metal Jewelry: Projects, Techniques, Inspiration

A favorite book with crafters is now reissued with a fresh new layout!
No soldering is required to make these metal necklaces, rings, bracelets, and earrings; they’re cold-connected, using such easy-to-learn skills as piercing, sawing, riveting, and joining. So even beginning jewelers can get completely professional results. Work with a variety of metals in sheets, wires, and tubes. Create your own chains, ear wires, clasps, and other findings from wire jump rings. Learn metal texturing and finishing techniques such as chasing, etching, and adding a patina. Find out how to make simple settings for pearls, beads, and stones. Then set your creativity free on projects like a Circle Brooch with Thorn Clasp, Layered Cuff Bracelet, and Polka Dot Tube Earrings.

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Pop Painting: Inspiration and Techniques from the Pop Surrealism Art Phenomenon

A unique behind-the-scenes guide to the painting process of one of the most popular artists working in the growing, underground art scene of Pop Surrealism.

Get ready for a behind-the-scenes look at the painting tools, methods, and inspirations of one of the top artists working in the growing field of Pop Surrealism. For the first time, beloved best-selling author and artist Camilla d’Errico pulls back the curtain to give you exclusive insights on topics from the paints and brushes she uses and her ideal studio setup, to the dreams, notions, and pop culture icons that fuel the creation of her hauntingly beautiful Pop Surrealist paintings.

With step-by-step examples covering major subject areas such as humans, animals, melting effects, and twisting reality (essential for Pop Surrealism!), Pop Painting gives you the sensation of sitting by Camilla’s side as she takes her paintings from idea to finished work. This front row seat reveals how a leading artist dreams, paints, and creates a successful body of work. For fans of Camilla and the underground art scene, aspiring artists looking to express their ideals in paint, and experienced artists wanting to incorporate the Pop Surrealist style into their work, Pop Painting is a one-of-a-kind, must-have guide.

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Behavioral Science: Tales of Inspiration, Discovery, and Service

The 20th century saw major advances in the quality of life for most of us. For many, however, there was little progress. Children with autism and many severe developmental disorders often ended up in large state run institutions with little hope of ever leaving. Our educational system left many students unable to read. Cars were becoming safer but drivers lagged behind. Treatments for breast cancer were advancing but too often they were not started early enough to save the life of the patient. Management practices in many organizations were reminiscent of the early industrial revolution. These and other problems called for a new approach to understanding behavior. Fortunately, a small group of scientists met this challenge and a new science of behavior emerged. Armed with decades of research on how behavior changes, they began to change the world. Here you will meet a few of these pioneers. They will tell you their stories in their own words. They will tell you how and why they abandoned traditional methods and sought new and better solutions to the persistent problems of our society. You will get to know them as passionate people with a deep commitment to science and making the world a better place. CAUTION: Their fervor is contagious!

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Inspiration & Gratitude Guided Daily Journal: 6″x9″ notebook with purple cover 202 Pages undated daily prompts Two Page Spread per Day – Ideal journal … images, drawings, doodles and free writing.

This guided daily journal & undated diary has 202 pages (enough space for 100 days i.e. just over 3 months) with daily prompts and a spacious two page spread per day with plenty of space for free writing and adding your own image or drawing. The pages are undated so you can start your creative journey whenever you wish. The journal is especially useful for reflection and idea generation as well as expressing gratitude. This journal is essential for those who love the idea of prompts for inspiration but also want plenty of space for freehand writing and drawing.

This is a perfect journal for a diary and is great for jotting down and planning your ideas or can be used as a progress journal for all your ideas. and inspirations.

The journal has a soft yet sturdy cover and is perfect bound so pages will not fall out. The compact and handy-sized 6″x9″ format means there is plenty of room for your thoughts and reflections.

Handy 6″x9″ format.
202 pages for writing and reflection.
White Opaque Paper with grey/black lines.
Soft, sturdy cover.
Perfect bound so pages will not fall out.

Part of the Inspirational Journal series with cover design by annumar – “Inspired by Life”. Our notebooks all have a distinctive and often inspirational colorful cover.

Other versions of this notebook available with 362 pages (180 days) or 7”x10” format. Also with various inspirational covers in numerous color variations.

To see our full range of notebooks and journals visit us at Spicyjournals.com or click on the Amazon author link for Spicy Journals above.

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Block A Day: 365 Quilting Squares for Patchwork Inspiration!

A quilting book you’ll treasure every day of the year!

If you’re on the lookout for fresh inspiration for your next block, here’s the biggest and best compendium ever. Combining both ideas and how-to with 365 different blocks to choose from, Block a Day has everything you need and want from a quilting book. Designs range from creative twists on well-loved classics to brand-new blocks in a whole range of different styles. There are blocks here to appeal to a whole range of abilities, whether you’re a beginner or experienced quilter, and the book is arranged in a vivid rainbow of color. Ranging from scarlets and pinks all the way across the spectrum to purple and violet, it’s a treat for your eyes. Block a Day is the quilting book you’ve been looking for!

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Inspiration 2016 Monthly Personal Planner

Inspiration Softcover Monthly Planner: The lush photography and inspirational passages in this personal planner calendar are sure to provide joy and rejuvenate the spirit. These softbound personal planners fit easily into a purse or briefcase. A beautiful image wraps around the front and back covers, and each interior spread features a full-color image and a spacious two-page monthly calendar grid that is ideal for keeping track of events and appointments. These personal planners also have clear protective covers and inside pockets that are perfect for holding receipts, business cards, and other small paper items. BrownTrout is committed to sustainability.Features a spacious two-page monthly calendar gridA beautiful image wraps around the front and back coversFits easily into a purse or briefcaseIncludes plastic cover for durability and inner pocket for reciepts

Product Features

  • Inspirational Quotes
  • Height: 8.250 inches. Width: 7.250 inches.
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Quilt Local: Finding Inspiration in the Everyday (with 40 Projects)

For Heather Jones, inspiration can be anywhere. For her debut book, Quilt Local, she designed a collection of 20 quilts, each inspired by objects and places close to home—country roads, cityscapes, street signs—the landscape of her existence. Then, in a fascinating exercise in color theory and design play, she reworked each one in a second palette to show what a striking difference just a few basic changes can make.
 
Pattern by pattern, Jones takes readers behind the scenes of her process, sharing photographs of her sources of inspiration, sketchbook pages, and the finished quilts. In addition, she offers an accessible lesson in color theory as it applies to quiltmaking.

Product Features

  • STC-91768
  • 9781617691768
  • Brand New Item / Unopened Product
  • Abrams Publishing
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Sea & Sky in Acrylics: Techniques & Inspiration

Dave White introduces the simple but effective techniques that he uses to paint stunning, dramatic seascapes with beautiful, realistic skies. He demonstrates spattering, blending backgrounds, painting horizons, finger painting clouds and foam. There is expert advice on the anatomy of waves and how they rise and collapse, creating ripples, surf, foam and spray. Clear instructions show how to paint effective reflections and beaches to improve your seascapes. The sky section shows effective techniques for painting all types of cloud, with some innovative methods such as tipping up the surface to let dilute paint run, to create cirrus clouds. Dave’s method of creating depth in sea, beach and sky using lines projected from the vanishing point will radically improve readers’ seascapes. There is a section of moods and sunsets full of beautiful, dramatic examples. Finally three step by step projects show how to paint a beach panorama with a rolling wave, a spectacular sunset over a calm sea and waves crashing on rocks.

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From Humor to Inspiration: Jokes, Reflections and Quotes to Enliven Your Day

“From Humor to Inspiration”, by noted pastor and speaker Fr. Mathew Vellankal is a rare blend of laughter-inducing jokes and soul-searching reflections. Humor is the best antidote to boredom. Humor is a great leveler — it cuts through class, status, position or other ranks. Ability to laugh at the funny stories and trifles about others will help us also to laugh at our own foibles and mistakes, to rid ourselves of our false ego. Humor can help remove anxiety and tension. I would say a chuckle in time can save you a few wrinkles on your forehead; a hearty laugh might help ward off even a heart attack! From Humor to Inspiration takes you beyond mere lung- splitting laughter. It leads you to ponder on the more precious values that guide our life. The inspirational messages and thought provoking reflections, apt quotations from Scriptures and pithy sayings in the book help one to look at life with a totally new perspective.