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Creating bonsai, an ancient art form that encourages meditation and contemplation, can be an intimidating art to start because of its intricate and precise nature. But David Squire's new book, Complete Starter Guide to Bonsai for Beginners, is a gentle but complete beginner's guide to the craft. Starting with the definition of what a real bonsai is, the author discusses the spirit and aesthetics of creating bonsai then continues with the materials needed, how to prune, pinch, water, feed and display your piece. The book also includes a chapter on indoor bonsai and outdoor bonsai, then concludes with a beautiful gallery of bonsai trees. Feel calmer and more focused by learning how to raise bonsai trees.

In the foreword of Planning & Designing Your First Garden: 50 Ways to Add Style for Personal Creativity, P. Allen Smith states, "Helen has outlined 50 ways to add style to express one's personal creativity in the garden--when in fact her 50 will inspire at least 50 more ideas." Rather than force her own creative ideas on you, author, gardener, and horticulturalist, Helen Yoest teaches you how to recognize and act on your own creativity. Sections include Garden Basics, Garden Styles, Garden Elements and Your Garden Environment. Learn about the importance of carving out the perfect space for your needs, how to create rhythm, scale, and balance along with curb appeal to help personalize your space, creating a sustainable garden environment where plants and animals can live together.

Master the art of carving expressive people--with just one knife! Charles Banks, professional carver, longtime instructor, and author of Learn to Whittle Fascinating People in Wood reveals how to take a single blank and turn it into literally hundreds of different characters, both male and female. With illustrated techniques for achieving everything from different hairstyles and facial expressions to painting impressive details without fear, you have everything you need to create showstopping characters with just a knife and a hunk of wood.

As popular as birdhouses are, many are designed with aesthetics in mind, rather than the bird's preferences and needs. Not so for the projects in Making Bird-Friendly Birdhouses. Lifelong birder Melvin "Bird Man Mel" Toellner and pro woodworker Matt Maguire walk you step-by-step through 15+ projects for safe birdhouses that birds find conducive to their natural nesting habitats. Birdhouses include residences for bluebirds, wrens, robins, chickadees, owls, and even a bat house! With additional sections on distribution maps, detailed plans, mounting instructions, and tips on attracting birds to your yard, this book has everything you need to create a successful backyard haven for the winged friends in your life.

Learn Your ABCs Flip Book features 3 different beautifully illustrated alphabets showcasing animals and children forming each letter of the alphabet. Each letter of the alphabet can be flipped to show the same letter at the same time or different combinations of letters that will form over 1,000 different words. Bound with a child safe plastic binding, printed on extra thick paper with a backer card will hold up to hours and hours or learning fun.

Based on the award-winning The Paper Girls ShowT that promotes the "maker" mindset to imagine, design and create solutions to overcome daily challenges, Paper Girls Show Origami Craft Book for Kids introduces beginner origami and paper crafts to young readers while simultaneously teaching valuable lessons. This special edition comes complete with 100 paper folding sheets, stickers and detailed step-by-step instructions for 20 super fun paper folding projects. Each project correlates to a Paper Girls Show episode that can be found viewed by scanning a QR code link right in the book.

Despite their best efforts to scare all who meet them, these super silly monster creations from author and artist Marie Browning will end up making kids laugh and smile as they go from page to page in this engaging monster coloring book. This super fun filled activity and coloring book for kids features monster themed coloring pages, word search puzzles, how to draw your own monster activities, seek and find puzzles, word games, all wonderfully themed around positive messages and lessons for young kids that parents will appreciate. Super silly monster stickers also included!

A cuddly toy that you can hardly wrap your arms around because it's so huge and huggable: that's what every child wants! Huggable Amigurumi: Crocheting Teddy Bears and Other Cute, Cuddly Friends contains detailed and easy-to-follow instructions for 14 extra-extra-large crocheted animals--from the funny floppy-eared rabbit to the waddling penguin to the giant teddy bear, kids will have so much fun cuddling their new amigurumi friends. By using a particularly thick crochet yarn, the animals, which are more than three feet tall, don't take much more time to crochet than normal-sized cuddly toys. In addition, the Nordic pastel colors blend wonderfully into every home, so that the big cuddly friends are not only a real eye-catcher in the children's room, but also on the living room sofa.

Aspiring and experienced seamstresses or seamsters in their now have their ultimate guide to sewing. Sewing Workshop for Young Makers features 40 awesome patterns for young people who enjoy sewing including a charm bag, a tied headband, braided bracelets, a cactus cushion, a retro purse, message banners, a maxi sweatshirt and more! Each creation can be made on a sewing machine by following the super simple instructions that are accompanied by illustrated steps and diagrams. In a world where it is increasingly important to be frugal, instead of buying their next wardrobe, kids can now make their own!

Quilters inevitably have short lengths of full fabric widths as well as smaller leftover pieces from creating countless projects. The beauty is those scrap pieces can be tamed for re-use but are often thrown aside into a growing pile of unorganized leftovers. When scraps are methodically organized and stored, quilters are rewarded with more time to spend on designing and quilting verses spending hours searching for the perfect scraps. SusanClaire walks quilters through setting up a pantry, piece by piece, and also what to do with larger fabric yardage stacks up. Includes QR codes to videos from the author demonstrating her highly efficient organization method created exclusively for quilters!

Ultimate Beginner's Guide to Free-Motion Quilting is a must have book providing invaluable information on finishing including an overview on working with long arm, mid arm, and domestic machines. Learn about threading, color selection, and ruler work. This free-motion quilt book will make you as excited to finish as quilt as when you started. With beautiful hand doodling, easy-to-follow, full-color step-outs, and even a gallery of Sherilyn's personal quilt collection, it's a wealth of instruction and inspiration.

Complete Guide to Natural Home Remedies is a comprehensive guide including 100+ recipes and nearly 70 applications to understanding those herbs and oils to help the mind, body and soul. Herbal remedies include everything from teas to ointments to tonics and tinctures. They help with ailments such as bug bites and stings, food poisoning, insomnia, shingles, sore throat, acne, arthritis and so much more! With the recipes and their uses in the forefront this book is the go-to guide for home remedies.

Complete Guide to Growing and Cultivating Herbs and Spices is a must-have book for all garden aficionados. It's packed with practical information for propagating, growing, using, and preserving herbs and spices in large or small spaces to help make you more self-sufficient. Author Linda Gray emphasizes clay pot and container gardening for small spaces. Each plant profile contains growing advice for each herb or spice including how to prepare the soil, when to sow and plant, when to harvest and gather, and how to use each herb and spice in food. Herbs include aloe vera, basil, bay leaves, lavender, lemon balm, lovage, and more! Spices include caraway, chili peppers, garlic, horse radish mustard, poppies, saffron and others! Be inspired to create new culinary delights with herb and spice infused recipes, complete with beautiful full-color photography. Become more self-sufficient and one with nature when you grow and cultivate your own herbs and spices.

Make anyone look twice, maybe three times, to see if it is a photo or a colored pencil drawing. Photorealistic Colored Pencil Drawing Workbook: Learn Essential Techniques through 16 Projects explains step-by-step how to achieve super realistic results. Over 550 photos will guide you through several technique building projects teaching you how to achieve great results from colored pencils. Learn how to draw different textures from the smooths surface of a grape and apple to the super fine fur texture of a cat or scales of a snake. Tips on blending, selecting colors, with specific focus on how to draw eyes.

Time to Rejoice Coloring Book features inspirational scenes and designs showcasing today's most popular Hymns including Amazing Grace, How Great Thou Art, Doxology in additional to the most recognized and often quoted Bible verses including Corinthians 12:9, John 3:16 and Philippians 4:13. Each page is perforated for easy removal, printed on acid free archival paper.

Enjoy coloring the beautiful flora and fauna of our world including tigers, lions, and leopards; birds, butterflies and beetles; and jellyfish, crabs and seahorses. With tips on coloring techniques and a gallery of completed examples, Animal Kingdom Mandalas Coloring Book: Magnificent Creatures Great and Small will breathe new life into your coloring practice. Designs are printed on acid-free museum quality paper with perforated edges, and the back side of each majestic mandala image has an inspirational quote about animals and the world in which we live.

How to Make Backyard Fairy Garden Accessories is a fun and approachable guide to creating adorable little outdoor accessories for your fairy garden including fairy doors, benches, window, chairs and tables Authors Anna-Marie and Andrew Fahmy combine their two passions, the outdoors and nature crafts, providing step-by-step instruction for creating welcoming whimsical fairy-themed spaces for your garden, small yard space or even a container. Over 20 projects are beginner friendly with only one requirement -- bring your imagination. Also included is an inspirational gallery of fairy gardens, houses and hand-made accessories!

Although truck efficiency and performance are priorities for operators and drivers, their pride in their vehicles shows itself in the way that so many are customised and decorated. Ferdy De Martin & Xavier Stefaniak have selected 29 examples of currently working trucks whose decoration is an art form, ranging from the delicate and subtle to transport rococo - a phantasmagoria of images in bright colours. The imaginative designs, high standard of craftsmanship and superb finish create unique vehicles that are immediately recognisable and attract devoted followers. Over 250 fantastic photographs are accompanied by concise captions that are both enthusiastic and illuminating; the authors do full justice to the trucks. The text is in English with synopses in French, and each truck is presented with a number of photographs to show off both the overall designs as well as the details of exteriors and interiors. This is a truly international selection of machines, with eighteen of the twenty-nine trucks featured from Europe, eight from North America and three from the UK. Original manufacturers include Volvo, Scania, Mercedes and Peterbilt.

Fun and easy sticker "painting" for little hands, First Fun Sticker Painting: Colorful World includes everything children love about our world: mythical creatures, the sea, outer space, lady bugs and more! Each bright and colorful sticker collection has a guide so exacting little ones can create their "paintings" just like the sample, or budding artists can create their own designs in an abstract or Picasso style. Stickers help little ones improve their dexterity, learn their colors, and entertain themselves building "paintings" sticker by sticker. This adorable activity book will appeal to toddlers and preschoolers alike -- all of whom love stickers -- and will keep them busy and off tech, which parents love. All the pages in the book are perforated for easy removal.

Kids will love this exciting new graphic novel for children! In this Ninja Kitties story, children will learn about the power of teamwork! One morning, Prince Drago is feeling frustrated and unappreciated. When he later hears the troublesome Fang Gang has stolen eggs from Farmer Fluff, Drago decides he can handle this problem all on his own. After confronting the Fang Gang, Drago quickly learns he shouldn't have come alone. Read and find out how it ends and what Drago learns!

In this awesome new graphic novel for children, kids will learn to never give up on themselves! Mia is struggling with her special water power and she wants to give up being a Ninja Kitty, but wise Grandma Tabby encourages her. While she spends all day practicing in the forest, a fire breaks out at the castle and the royal kitties rush to put out the flames -- but they need Mia's help now more than ever! Find out what happens in this encouraging Ninja Kitties picture book for kids that teaches them that if they try something and fail, they can try again. If they practice and never give up, they will eventually succeed!

Kids will love this exciting new graphic novel for children! It's a beautiful day and Zumi, Hana, and Drago are busy bustling about to prepare for a visit from Piglandia's King and Queen. Meanwhile, the mischievous trio--Winty Wolf, Cody Coyote, and Jed Jackal--are up to no good; they're destroying the Emerald Bridge and people could get hurt! Read and find out what happens next in this charming new picture book for kids, where they'll learn about the power of teamwork, listening to others, and working together!

Kids will love this exciting new graphic novel for children! It's an empowering story where kids will learn to always be themselves! One day, Bee-Bee is self-conscious about his honey powers--he thinks they're nothing compared to all the cool things his siblings can do. But when Kitlandia falls under attack, Bee-Bee's honey-sticking powers are exactly what the Ninja Kitties need to save the town! An uplifting picture book for kids that teaches them the valuable lesson of being yourself, children will also learn why comparison is the thief of joy.

The perfect sticker painting book for little hands, First Fun: Sticker Painting Animals and Friends is a fun and engaging activity book for kids to have a blast making tons of sticker creations! Filled with 12 sticker painting designs -- each picture comes with a set of high-quality stickers and a helpful reference photo for children to either recreate what they see on the opposite page or make their own original design however they wish! Made from high-quality paper with perforated edges for easy removal and display.

Whether you have a rudimentary knowledge of sewing or you've been sewing for years, Sewing Perfect Little Bags and Totes is a must-have guide for any kind of crafter! Featuring 15 easy-to-make pouch and bag sewing patterns, plus tutorials for various styles and techniques for applying straps, pockets, and hardware, have a blast mixing and matching to sew all kinds of bags! From a simple clutch to an organizational tote or even a reusable gift bag, this guide will show you tons of the most common techniques used in bag making to build your sewing skills!

Cute, clever, and fun for all, make super sweet amigurumi crochet projects that are two creations in one! Crocheting Reversible Amigurumi Projects is a delightful book of inside-out animal crochet patterns created with traditional and faux fur yarns. Filled with tips, tricks, and techniques to build your skills and ensure success for every design, this exciting guide features eight adorable amigurumi projects that are reversible and transform into a whole new design. Each piece can also be made into nonreversible stuffed animals or hand puppets. From a fox that becomes a cat and a snowball that becomes a penguin to an otter that becomes a squirrel or mouse, these designs are truly one-of-a-kind and offer something special to the craft of amigurumi crochet.

"Great for both beginners and experienced enthusiasts alike, this inspiring punch needle embroidery guide features 18 on-trend and super cool tattoo art-inspired projects and a total of 47 designs that feature bold colors and a sassy twist to traditional techniques. With easy-to-follow instructions, stunning photography, ready-to-use punch needle patterns to guide you through each punch needle project, you'll create amazing wall hangings, coasters, cushion covers, denim jacket accents, and more, all with a modern flair. Also included are insightful opening sections on all the punch needle basics to know before you begin.--