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The Art of Kumiko is a step-by-step guide to creating a classic Japanese craft in the modern workshop with only minimal tools.

Matt Kenney distills and shares what he's learned in 20 years of box making using step-by-step photos that walk you through the process of creating 10 beautiful designs from scratch.

The Art Of Chip Carving is an easy to follow, step-by-step guide to one of the world’s most ancient and widely practiced forms of woodcarving.Anyone, from the completely inexperienced beginner to the veteran craftsperson, can learn to use simple, inexpensive tools and techniques to carve striking decorative designs in wood. Chip carving is an especially good introduction to working wood for the inexperienced because of its low cost-of-entry, and because it puts the most essential concepts of woodworking front and center: safety, precision, and how understanding the nature of the wood itself leads to successful results.This guide is loaded with the technical information you need to start chip carving—the few tools you need and how to sharpen them, how to select and prepare wood for carving, how to transfer carving patterns, how to carve safely and precisely, and how to read and understand wood grain. Clay also teaches the basics of good carving technique, provides step-by-step guidance through two practice boards to build your skills, and then walks you through ten beginner projects that allow you to put your skills to use.The Art Of Chip Carving goes beyond any other how-to manual by introducing techniques and projects for learning freehand carving, and how to use the simple shape-vocabulary of chip carving to create your own carving designs in the style of traditional European folk carvings.

Vic Tesolin's Projects from the Minimailist Woodworker teaches the basics of furniture making using step-by-step photos detailing the process of building handsome projects any woodworker will be proud to create.A follow-up to Vic's much-lauded first book, The Minimalist Woodworker, this book is a celebration of the small tool set needed to create beautiful work and and expansion of the techniques and skills learned in that first book. Like a seasoned woodworker lending a helping hand in the workshop, Vic Tesolin, aka "The Minimalist Woodworker," is a master at demystifying the craft of woodworking so that anyone with any skill level can dive in and do good work. With Projects from the Minimalist Woodworker and even a modest toolset, anyone can develop their skill and enjoy unlimited hours in their shop.You'll learn to build a variely to pieces including a handsome dovetailed box, a wall cabinet, a storage chest, and handy shop projects like a handplane and a marking knife.

Key Selling Points:¿ Due to the surge of those working at home, especially in the wake of Covid-19, hands-on crafts like woodworking are on-the rise. ¿ The move toward a more simple lifestyle and a focus on self-reliance has spurned interest in hands-on crafts. ¿ Requiring only a few handtools, bowl carving makes woodworking affordable to a broad audience. ¿ No book has ever detailed the process of bowlcarving in this amount of detail. ¿ Woodworking blogs are rising in popularity as younger, less-serious woodworkers and makers promote the pleasures of woodworking and the community. Audience¿ Hobbyist woodworkers ¿ Homeschoolers ¿ Parents of children learning virtually¿ Hands-on makers and crafters¿ Educators, teachers, and instructors

A Kitchen Staple, Made By YouThe humble broom lives in every home but is the workhorse of the house. There’s no reason why it shouldn't be beautiful as well. Join Cynthia Main, founder of Sunhouse Craft, as she walks you through how to make incredible, but deceptively simple, brooms, sweeps, and hand brushes. Easy enough to do at the kitchen table, and quick enough to make as gifts, you will learn the tools, techniques and materials necessary to supply your kitchen.With beautiful step-by-step photography, and clear, insightful instructions, you’ll have everything you need to pick up a handful of broom corn and make these incredible objects for you and yours.

Have you ever been in a period of life where normal, everyday responsibilities feel overwhelming? Where even getting out of bed in the morning is a feat, let alone making a meal for yourself and your family? If so, this book is for you. This might be a time of break-up, loss, when you're caring for a sick loved one, or simply when a confluence of life factors that make you feel like you're paddling to stay above water. For Chef Laura Lea, this debilitating season showed up unwelcomely after going through divorce in 2018. Five years into her business as a holistic chef, she was under daily pressure to display healthy routines and keep up appearances. But reality left her with no appetite and lacking the motivation to even step into the kitchen. In attempt to cope she found herself relying on fast-food, junky snacks, and lots of wine. Ultimately these choices hindered the process of healing from divorce. Instead, they contributed to her overall feelings of sadness, self-loathing, and exhaustion. She needed a way out. Drawing upon her decade in the wellness industry and exploration into the science of grief, Laura Lea began cooking her way through the fog. In Recipes for an Aching Heart, Laura Lea presents the recipes she created, as well as the lifestyle and fitness choices that aided her on her journey out of heartache. By following Laura Lea's story, simple recipes, and advice, you can navigate your own way out of heartache and into a healthier place than ever before.

Key Selling Points: ¿ Due to the surge of makers and hands-on millenials, interest in the craft of woodworking is on-the rise. a.A search for ¿wood furniture¿ returns over 60,000 results on Etsy.com b.Ellen DeGeneres first competition show ¿Design Challenge¿ featured six woodworkers¿ The Maker Movement continues to boom with an estimated at $29 billion in revenue and 139 million Americans 18+ participating.¿ Simplicity in lifestyle, technology, and activity remains a Top 5 Trend in 2015 ¿ Reduces the complexities of woodworking to a manageable and inexpensive collection of tools and fundamental techniques.¿ Woodworking blogs are rising in popularity as younger, less-serious woodworkers and makers promote the pleasures of woodworking and the community. Audience ¿ Makers and crafters¿ Hobbyist woodworkers ¿ Educators, teachers, and instructors ¿ Home schoolers

- The author, a trained holistic chef from the National Gourmet Institute in NYC, is on the cutting edge, along Gwyneth Paltrow and Jamie Oliver, of the healthy, fresh, and flavorful home-cooking movement. - The Laura Lea Balanced Cookbook is based on the idea of clean eating so you don't have to choose one type of diet; it's about a balanced, healthy, and clean eating approach. Even small changes to your diet will make you feel great. - With helpful menus, shopping lists with easy to find items, and quick, delicious recipes, The Laura Lea Balanced Cookbook provides a bridge for people who still think healthy food represents hard-to-find ingredients, labor-intensive preparation, and tasteless meals. - Healthy home-cooked meals are the cornerstone for connecting with family, and friends. - No diet, no dogma, just good food for a healthier, happier life. Audience:- Cooking enthusiasts. - Anyone seeking add a healthy approach to their eating/cooking habits but don?t want to be tied to a specific diet.- Home cooks looking for tasty, healthy meals for their family.- Young, busy professionals wanting to eat healthier but don?t have a lot of time.

Featuring recipes drawn from familiar classic dishes and new favorites, Laura Leäs new book, Simply Laura Lea, offers delicious home-cooked food without sacrificing healthy eating.In Simply Laura Lea the author of The Laura Lea Balanced Cookbook and creator of LLBalanced.com offers a collection of over 130 delicious, balanced, and healthy recipes based on the food she eats every day. Unlike diets that prescribe food restrictions that are neither attainable nor desirable on a long-terms basis, Laura Lea promotes an attainable approach to cooking and eating healthy for life. All of the recipes collected here follow the LL Balanced Approach to Food:Focus on whole, fresh foods that make you feel great.Ditch any preconceived idea of what you should eat, and list to your body; it is your best wellness guru.Indulge in moderation, and occasionally, not in moderation!Have fun and don¿t take yourself, or your food, too seriously. Enjoy food in a relaxed atmosphere and in the company of dear ones.Above all, practice self-love and patience in the kitchen. It will translate to the rest of your life.In Simply Laura Lea, you¿ll find familiar dishes that can be cooked in 30 minutes or less. And with ingredient lists comprised of a limited number of easy-to-find items, recipes are approachable and easy-to-follow for new or seasoned home cooks. As Laura Lea likes to say: "No diet, no dogma, just great healthy food."

Old School Heat Goes Global Food is great; food with a story is better. Food with a story you haven¿t heard before is best of all. Entrenched in the city¿s history, Nashville Hot Chicken is an addiction of sweet, spicy salvation to those whöve had it. In The Hot Chicken Cookbook, Timothy Davis, a Nashville resident and Hot Chicken devotee, traces the dish¿s origins back to the 1930¿s and follows the trail to its white-hot buzz of today. Featuring over two- dozen recipes from the finest Hot Chicken restaurants in Nashville and beyond, The Hot Chicken Cookbook tells the tale of Music City¿s fiery bird going global to influence a world of chefs and eaters.

Introduce children to the craft of woodworking and watch their executive function skills thrive.The Guide to Woodworking with Kids is a culmination of craftsman Doug Stowe¿s four-decade career in woodworking and nearly twenty years of working with students K-12 in his Wisdom of the Hands woodworking class at the Clear Spring School in his hometown of Eureka Springs, Arkansas. This comprehensive guide offers step by step instruction for teachers, parents and grandparents to offer safe woodworking opportunities to their students and kiddos as a way of developing a wide range of valuable life-skills. Based in part on the philosophies of Froebel¿s Kindergarten and Educational Sloyd, this book illustrates the importance of doing real, hands-on activities in school and at home that enable students to:Think things through for themselvesDevelop skill, originality and inventivenessExplore their own self-interestsPlan, organize and execute meaningful workPrepare to profitably employ leisure timeBe handy and resourcefulDevelop both character and intellectCreate useful beauty to benefit family, community and selfThe Guide to Woodworking with Kids is more than a woodworking book, it¿s gives parents, grandparents and teachers the confidence, encouragement, and the insight needed to safely engage children in life-enhancing creative arts.