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Ruth B. McDowell's Design Workshop: Turn Your Inspiration into an Artfully Pieced Quilt
Quilters who are ready to move beyond the basics--on to creating their own quilt designs--are ready for Ruth B. McDowell’s Design Workshop Full of techniques and insights to take quilt designs far, far beyond the ordinary, this workshop-in-a-book teaches everything there is to know about pieced design. Topics include working with focus, depth of field, and scale; using geometry to adapt images into quilt blocks, and moving from sketches to pieced block diagrams, as well as how to select fabrics, when to use borders, and how to teach Ruth B. McDowell’s methods to other quilters. Beautiful full-color photographs of many previously unpublished quilts offer an endless source of ideas and inspiration. Ready to try something new? Try designing a unique new quilt--with the help of Ruth B. McDowell’s Design Workshop.
* Five practical design exercises
* Stunning photos of many previously unpublished quilts
* Essential companion to Ruth B. McDowell’s Piecing Workshop .
Price: $16.06
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Living Artfully: Create the Life You Imagine
Many people today are looking outside themselves for well-being and happiness when what they're searching for has been inside them all along." -- Sandra MagsamenLiving artfully is expressing who you are through the moments that you create. Living Artfully reminds us to explore and experience life with more heart, meaning, purpose, and joy. It asks us to imagine, to dream big, to believe in ourselves, to celebrate the people in our lives, make each day count, dance when the spirit moves us, laugh out loud, and let our voices be heard. In this beautiful, life-changing book, acclaimed artist and entrepreneur Sandra Magsamen will transform everything you think you know about art, creativity, and personal fulfillment. And she'll show you that you've already got just what you need in your own two hands to create the life of joy and beauty that you want -- for yourself and others. Living Artfully puts you in direct touch with your own imagination, where the only rule is there are no rules. Warm, encouraging, always good-humored, it is full of inspiring stories about people who pursue their own creative impulses and are rewarded with unexpected and delightful results. By following the ten principles of Living Artfully -- Magsamen's own dynamic process of creative thinking and being -- you will embark on an exciting personal journey of self-discovery. You'll learn how to connect with everyone in your life in inventive new ways, through everyday things, caring gestures, meaningful moments, and simple gifts that really make a difference. You'll also discover how, where, and when you can use your own creative language -- the images, words, sounds, foods, or crafts through which you most easily express yourself. To Sandra Magsamen, Living Artfully is connection. It's the ultimate form of communication. It's recognizing and embracing your own powerful, creative abilities. And the first step on the journey to Living Artfully is to rediscover the gifts of imagination, curiosity, and playfulness -- gifts that you already possess. Each chapter presents a wealth of practical and fun ideas that you can tailor to suit your own circumstances and preferences and that will jump-start your imagination and free dormant or forgotten talents. By giving yourself permission to be yourself, you'll embark on a personal renaissance, connecting with your inherent sense of fun and optimism and discovering that even simple tasks of everyday life can become perfect, natural outlets for your newfound creativity. Filled with Sandra's stunning, four-color, signature artwork, Living Artfully is not a how-to book but a why-to -- uplifting, motivational, and fun. It is also a guide into a new cultural movement in which people choose to live with a creative purpose, celebrating the people, places, and moments that make life truly meaningful..
Price: $4.93
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Living Artfully: A Heart-full Guide of Ideas and Inspirations That Celebrate Life, Love, and Moments That Matter
Living Artfully is expressing who you are and connecting with others in inventive new ways, through caring gestures -- an unusual, encouraging card, some homemade treats, a shared cup of tea, an uplifting song emailed during a difficult day. Living Artfully explains how you can create your own messages from the heart to celebrate the people, places, and moments that make your life truly meaningful by using everyday things -- a note in a lunchbox or suitcase, a scrapbook of a trip, a favorite comfort food made on the spur of the moment. This beautifully illustrated, transformative book shares the inspiring stories of people who pursued their own creative impulses or their desires to connect with others and were rewarded with unexpected, delightful results. Here are their secrets, which you can adapt to your own aims and means, people and preferences. Living Artfully also presents ten principles of creative thinking that lead you on an exciting journey of self-discovery. You'll learn to dream big, believe in yourself, and make each day count. Each chapter is filled with practical, fun ideas, from decorative touches (an empty wine bottle can be a unique picture frame) to simple ways to make one-of-a-kind gifts (quotes for hilarious birthday cards) and celebrations your loved ones will never forget (a surprise baby shower in which everyone participates; an anniversary filled with sweetness). Sandra's multitude of appealing ideas and her beautiful artwork will jumpstart your own creativity and invigorate forgotten talents so that you can create the life of joy and beauty that you want -- for yourself and others..
Price: $7.00
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Aging Artfully:Profiles of 12 Visual and Performing Women Artists 85-105
Profiles of 12 women aged 85-105: visual and performing artists actively engaged in the arts. Illustrated with 100+ photos of the lives of the San Francisco Bay Area women. The book challenges stereotypical perceptions and expectations, and documents that old age can be gratifying and filled with creative expression. Included with the book is composer Frances Kandl's "Songs of 7 Women's Lives," based on the interviews by the author..
Price: $12.92
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Jumping Fences: An Artfully Crafted Madness.
Jackie never did believe in second chances Born to wealthy and ambitious parents, Jackie wanted nothing more than to train horses ride them, care for them, and compete them at jumping competitions. But on the eve of his eighteenth birthday, just when he believed himself free to follow his dream, two sudden tragedies changed his life and sent him to the brink of madness. Next, further unhinged by the failure of a sordid affair with a peculiarly unbalanced beauty, Jackie joined the Army, hoping to die. Vietnam agreed with him, however. He became one of the youngest members of a CIA sponsored deep cover operations unit. His decorations came at a price, however. He returned home hardly able to walk. Surely, he couldnt ride. Nor could he return to the military. What was left? First in Europe, then back in America, he began to build a new self, ever more shocking to his own heart and mind. He became haunted by poetic longings, imaginings of past lives, and erotic drives fueled by intellectual quests. Then, one day, almost thirty years later. . . ..
Price: $9.95
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