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A Ghostly Good Time

Jam-packed with recipes, games, decorations and costumes, this is the quintessential resource to make any Halloween the best one ever. With over 200 instructional and inspirational color photographs, this book has everything you'll need to plan a Halloween party, have the most fun trick-or-treating or enjoy a family Halloween at home. With so many spook-tacular ideas for both children and adults, this guidebook is sure to be the favorite manual for anyone who loves Halloween.

1 issue / £8.50

A Perfect Day eProject

You start with a plastic gum container, striped paper, and index photo prints. You end up with a picture journey card that shows someone how much your time together meant to you. Perfect! From the Lark Crafts book Thank You Notes (printed book ISBN: 978-1-60059-319-2), (eBook ISBN: 978-1-60059-815-9).

1 issue / £0.77

All-in-One Rotary Cutting Magic with Omnigrid

Learn to cut 18 geometric shapes and achieve perfect accuracy with your rotary cutter. 36 bonus block designs!

1 issue / £9.26

Anatomy of a Doll

State-of-the-art fabric printing techniques to use with any brand of inkjet printer or scanner.

1 issue / £13.13

AntiCraft

Readers of Anticraft will be introduced to craft ideas they'd never see in Family Circle or Martha Stewart Living. Filled with projects such as the Curse Your Boyfriend sweater, the Snowball's Chance in Hell arm warmers and a sleek black duct-tape corset, AntiCraft takes an approach much sought after by the growing audience of hot publications like BUST, Ready Made and Craft: transforming traditional crafts into quirky wearable fashion. Featuring a variety of knitting, stitching and beading projects the book instructs, inspires and entertains. Includes quirky sidebars such as "How to tap into your dark side" and "The top five reasons it's good to be an AntiCrafter", plus comic strip art, recipes and more.
About the Author
An avid seamstress, Renée has been designing knitwear for eight years. Her work has been published in Stitch 'n Bitch Nation and she has been teaching knitting, crochet and beading classes for the last two years. Zabet is a lifelong artist and has been writing poetry, songs and short stories for more than a decade. She has been designing knitted objects for the last five years. Together, the two are the co-owners of the highly popular Internet site www.TheAntiCraft.com

1 issue / £13.91

Artful Eggs

With more than 70 amazingly easy decorating techniques, there's no "egg-scuse" for letting an egg go naked again, or waiting until Easter, because here are designs that work all year-round. Not one of the crafting skills is beyond a beginner's grasp: if you can cut, paste, and paint, you can adorn an egg--whether it's the real thing, or one made from plastic, pâpier-maché, styrofoam, or even wood. Découpage an egg with paper napkins, and finish it with a clear varnish to re-create the look of fine china. Or try threading specked quail eggs on silk ribbon along the edge of a charming rustic wreath. From subdued elegance to fabulous funk, there is a wide range of styles to suit every taste.

1 issue / £10.01

Blogging for Bliss

Blogging is hot in the highly creative crafting world—and here is the only how-to book aimed directly at everyone from knitters to altered artists. Thanks to hundreds of gorgeous screen grabs from the very best blogs, a thorough introduction to the tools of the trade, and instructions that virtually take you by the hand, even beginners will swiftly go from blank screen to colorful, enticing pages.

1 issue / £7.73

Build this Bong: Instruction and Diagrams for 40 Bongs, Pipes, and Hookahs

The first book ever to feature detailed directions for bongs, pipes, hookahs, and more, Build This Bong brings both the classics and entirely original showstoppers to the home workshop. Projects of all sorts from a standard gravity bong to a rubber ducky hookah and a state of the art vaporizer come to life with Popular Mechanics-inspired illustrations and simple instructions. No fancy materials necessary: handyman Randy Stratton shows how to construct everything from common household goods. Build This Bong's 40 inventive projects made from melons, coconuts, snow-globes, teapots, and more are sure to be a big, mind-blowing hit.

1 issue / £8.00

Building Homebrew Equipment

Since 1973, Storey's Country Wisdom Bulletins have offered practical, hands-on instructions designed to help readers master dozens of country living skills quickly and easily. There are now more than 170 titles in this series, and their remarkable popularity reflects the common desire of country and city dwellers alike to cultivate personal independence in everyday life.

1 issue / £3.06

Craft Corps

Bestselling author and stitchery dynamo Vickie Howell puts down her needles to pay tribute to her fellow crafters! Her extraordinary new collection features interviews with 30 successful professional craftspeople as well as profiles of a diverse group of approximately 60 amateurs. And every interview includes a photo of the subject, plus a peek at their work or their studio.

1 issue / £9.26

Craft inc. Turn Your Creative Hobby Into a Business

Craft, Inc. is the hipster business primer for entrepreneurial crafters to turn what they do for fun into what they do for money. Pro crafter Meg Mateo Ilasco offers a step-by-step guide to everything from developing products and naming the company to writing a business plan, applying for licenses, and paying taxes. Chapters on sales, marketing, trade shows, and publicity round out the mix. Plus, in-depth interviews with such craft luminaries as Jonathan Adler, Lotta Jansdotter, Denyse Schmidt, and Jill Bliss provide inspiration and practical advice. Accessible, informative, and more than a little spunky, Craft, Inc. paves the way for today's creative minds to become tomorrow's trendsetters.

1 issue / £8.92

Crafty Superstar

Are you a crafter looking for advice on how to make a little bit of money with your skills? Learn how to have fun selling crafty goods, make a bit of money, and maintain your 9-to-5 job!

1 issue / £10.81

Drawer Dividers eProject

Don’t send those plastic or polystyrene clamshell containers to the landfill! Learn how to recycle them in a jiffy into colorful little dividers that will keep your desktop or junk drawer looking spiffy. From the Lark Crafts book Eco Craft (printed book ISBN: 978-1-60059-343-7), (eBook ISBN: 978-1-60059-759-6).

1 issue / £1.55

Eco Books

Here are projects for the “pages”: 40 innovative book-making ideas using recycled and green materials! More than just earth-friendly, they’re also beautiful, clever, and witty, stitched with traditional binding techniques. Egg cartons, wood, beer cans, and cassette tapes morph into covers, while brown bags, coffee filters, and discarded newspapers are transformed into pages.

1 issue / £10.81

Eco Craft

These days we’re all seeking creative ways to protect our planet. Eco Craft delivers the goods with 30 truly beautiful home décor projects that elevate environmental consciousness to stylish new heights. Every project features easy-to-follow instructions and step-by-step color photos, while handy icons spotlight the key techniques, materials and the estimated time to complete each one.

1 issue / £12.36

Extreme Office Crafts

There’s a good reason The Office is so popular: today’s most popular sport is mocking life on the job. After all, the average work environment is filled with undesirable people, unpleasant situations, and hours of clock-watching boredom. So what’s a person to do but get this subversively funny gift book? It’s a sanity-salvaging guide for someone on the fast track to burnout. Waiting for the copy machine? Stuck in a claustrophobic cubicle? Then pillage the supply closet, and make the most of a bad situation by creating projects that range from the ridiculous to the sublime.

1 issue / £4.63

Fast, Fun & Easy® Fabric Boxes

8 basic box designs and 13 projects offer unlimited creative options. Finalist in the USA Book News "Best Book Awards."