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The Simple Simon Guide to Patchwork Quilting is a beginner guide to falling in love with quilting and sewing, featuring eight traditional blocks, their history, how-to make and how to use each block in quilts and quilt projects.

Fashioning Origami merges accessorizing with the constructive art of paper folding, sharing with readers the legend of folding symbols, history and benefits of origami while teaching readers how to fashion dozens of different paper motifs, combined with beads and other jewelry findings to create charms, earrings, bracelets, necklaces and key fobs.

Seven million (and counting) page views can't be wrong. "A Spoonful of Sugar Designs," the craft blog Lisa Cox shares with her daughter Sarah, is the perfect touch of charm and pinch of creativity that inspires us to sew.

Hear that voice inside your head? The one that nitpicks all your new ideas? That's your monkey. This hypercritical little critter loves to make you second-guess yourself. It stirs up doubt. It kills your creativity. But it can be stopped. And acclaimed author Danny Gregory is here to show you how. After battling it out with his own monkey, he knows how to shut yours down. Gregory provides insight into the inner workings of your inner critic and teaches you how to put it in its place. Soon you'll be able to silence that voice and do what you want to do--create. Now follow his lead and Shut Your Monkey.

All you need to know to trace your ancestors in Poland, the Czech Republic and Slovakia, from identifying your immigrant ancestors and their ancestral village to using records in the old country.

Experimentation and Technique: Innovative techniques that allow artist to play and experiment with new materials and processes while creating small-scale art.

Advice on threading, tension, differential feed, and needles relevant to all models; tips for using decorative threads that result in masterful finishes, cover stitch and more--it's all here in Serger Essentials!

In Sensational Soutache Jewelry Making, you'll learn the basic techniques of soutache embroidery, and then get creative with 15 easy-to-follow projects for bracelets, earrings, brooches, rings and necklaces. Get inspired by author Csilla Papp's ideas, then use your imagination to put your own twists on projects.

Transform Your Blog into a Book! The world of blogging changes rapidly, but it remains one of the most efficient ways to share your work with an eager audience. In fact, you can purposefully hone your blog content into a uniquely positioned book--one that agents and publishers will want to acquire or that you can self-publish successfully. How to Blog a Book Revised and Expanded Edition is a completely updated guide to writing and publishing a saleable book based on a blog. Expert author and blogger Nina Amir guides you through the process of developing targeted blog content that increases your chances of attracting a publisher and maximizing your visibility and authority as an author. In this revised edition you'll find: - The latest information on how to set up, maintain, and optimize a blog - Steps for writing a book easily using blog posts - Advice for crafting effective, compelling blog posts - Tips on gaining visibility and promoting your work both online and off - Current tools for driving traffic to your blog - Strategies for monetizing your existing blog content as a book or other products - Profiles of bloggers who received blog-to-book deals and four new "blogged-book" success storiesWhether you're a seasoned blogger or have never blogged before, How to Blog a Book Revised and Expanded Edition offers a fun, effective way to write, publish, and promote your book, one post at a time.

Discover Your Voice and Enthrall Readers!

When it comes to writing weapons, most authors shoot from the hip--and miss. The Writer's Guide to Weapons will help you hit your target every time.

Relax and restore with Zen Doodle coloring pages!

.CreativeGIRL features art projects that teach you how to draw and paint your story using pencils, watercolor paints and simple mixed-media supplies.

With the fun and easy techniques in Gina Rossi Armfield's No Excuses Watercolor, your excuses for not painting with watercolor don't stand a chance!

Fine Art Tips goes "behind the paintings" to show how 24 of today's top artists transform dabs of paint into incredible still lifes, landscapes, portraits and wildlife art. Along the way, they generously share practical, real-world tips on everything from evoking the illusion of sparkling water to professional networking.

Unleash your inner beasties!.Draw 43 crazy-cool monsters step by step! Learn to draw a variety of eyes, mouths, horns, legs and feet, and make mix-and-match monsters. Create four breeds of monsters, including freestyle, alien, mashups and robots. Spot monster-making inspiration all around you, from animals and insects to jelly beans and toasters.

Nimble will help you discover how to develop a creativity that is strategic and also able to cross platforms, industries or sectors. You'll discover a creative thinking process that allows you to generate scalable ideas that are both sticky and stretchy.

Exercises and techniques to loosen up, experiment and create expressive mixed-media works in abstraction.

Featuring real-life letters from The Farmer's Wife magazine, Laurie Aaron Hird's new book commemorates the strength and hope of the farm women of the Great Depression.