Easy-to-Make Arts and Crafts Lamps and Shades (Dover Craft Books)

Book Description

Step-by-step guide for 16 projects shows how to turn inexpensive materials into a wide range of attractive, functional objects. Instructions are provided for creating table lamps, a dining room dome, a lantern, the shade for a drop light, newel post lamps, an electric candle sconce, and more.

Customer Reviews:

Way over my head!.......2007-09-04

This book didn't peak my interest in Shade making.....I was hoping to find a simple wood plan and all the ones I liked seemed way over my skill level.

What a wonderful surprise!.......2007-08-24

I work in both wood and metals and was expecting a basic volume of metalsmithing techniques. To my surprise, this book can be used in metalsmithing (example: dimensional layout drawings awayla), but it focuses on the use of colored paper (instead of mica or stained glass) and cardboard (instead of metals) Although it explores a medium I ordinarily use to design and make mock-ups, the drawings can easily be used in the metal shop using solder or riviting as a fastener instead of glue and tape and mica or glass in the place of paper.

Please note: These are vintage lighting designs put together by Popular Mechanics during the Arts & Crafts era and I would recommend it to anyone interested in this period of design and technique. Although some of the designs are a little 'dumpy', it would take little time or effort to change them to your liking. This book is a steal!

good book if you have a base in wood working.......2006-02-01

I like this book as reference for lamps in the arts and craft style however if you are looking for lots of step by step instructions you are out of luck. if you are looking for a good reference book and can visualise a project based on a few black and white drawing and some instruction then this book is for you.

Jolly Holidays: A Ho-Ho-Holiday Collection of Festive Recipes Light Hearted Memories & Easy Crafts to Make & Give (Gooseberry Patch)

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Unless You Are Lucky Enough To Get To Live Under
One of the best of the Gooseberry patch

Jolly Holidays: A Ho-Ho-Holiday Collection of Festive Recipes Light Hearted Memories & Easy Crafts to Make & Give (Gooseberry Patch)
Gooseberry Patch
Manufacturer: Gooseberry Patch
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Plastic Comb

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Coming Home for Christmas: Cherished memories, family recipes, easy how-to's and delicious gifts from the heart of your holiday home.
Welcome Home for the Holidays (Gooseberry Patch)

ASIN: 188805297X

Book Description

A nostalgic trip through the holidays from the start of the Christmas season all the way through New Year's Day! Chock-full of tasty, tried & true recipes like Christmas morning muffins, glazed raspberry-orange turkey and hugs & chips cheesecake, Jolly Holidays Cookbook is also brimming with fun and festive crafts, glorious gift mixes, simple treats to make & give, cheery tips and heartfelt memories of holidays past.

Customer Reviews:

Unless You Are Lucky Enough To Get To Live Under .......2007-09-01

a rock during the holiday season--you are probably going to have to be involved in some kind of festivities. Whether the whole family shindig or the mandatory office potluck, let's face it we all have to grow up and face the music sometime. Sometimes that music is "Jingle Bells" and we're stuck. This book of the series I really like when I am too tired during the season. It has good "mixes" that can be created, packaged and make lovely hostess or office pal presents. It has a lot of good beverage ideas in general that are easy. Sometimes if you just break down and buy that 30 cup coffee maker for $, you can be the king/queen of the holiday potlucks with the delicious Wassail and hot beverages recipes
located here. This is the kind of book even old Scrooge should have for backup during the mandatory holidays at the end of the year.

One of the best of the Gooseberry patch.......2005-09-28

I usually like to tab the pages of the recipes that I would like to try, but I would have to tab this entire book! I recently made the apple cinnamon bars for my daughters 5 k class and they were such a hit! ( They were for Johnny Appleseed Day 9-26)
I just cant say enough good things about this particular book! So many different ideas & recipes, so little time!

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Make It Easy Make It Light by Laurie Burrows Grad
Forty Pounds Lighter
Forty Pounds Lighter
This is THE cookbook for busy health-conscious food lovers

Make It Easy Make It Light
Laurie Burrows Grad
Manufacturer: Simon and Schuster
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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Book Description

Make It Easy, Make It Light offers a tempting array of quick, light dishes for the taste-conscious, time-conscious, and health-conscious cook. The "light" approach to cooking is a sensible return to balance and the basic foods that made up the traditional American diet before processed and fast foods became a way of life.

The author provides more than 200 recipes for appetizers, soups, salads, and entrees that are rich in flavor and nutrition while low in fat, sodium, sugar, and calories. Entrees range from Rock Cornish Game Hens Glazed with Cranberry Chutney and Baked Fish with Papaya Salsa to a selection of pizzas, pastas and calzone. Fresh baked breads and savory desserts, such as Hot Strawberry Souffle and Italian Lemon Cheesecake are included as well, and accompanied by calorie counts.

Customer Reviews:

Make It Easy Make It Light by Laurie Burrows Grad.......2001-11-17

I have tried at least 10 recipes from this cookbook and all of them have been excellent. What I like about these recipes are that they are great for company because they can be made easily and served very elegantly.

Forty Pounds Lighter.......1999-12-21

"Make It Easy Make It Light" helped me loose forty pounds after the birth of my daughter almost twenty years ago.

The book was a great inspiration to me and encouraged me to continue my search for good, low-fat recipes. The recipes in this book are good for the most part, but not haute cuisine of the lean set.

I highly recomend this book to get you started on the road to healthier eating.

Forty Pounds Lighter.......1999-12-21

"Make It Easy Make It Light" helped me loose forty pounds after the birth of my daughter almost twenty years ago.

The book was a great inspiration to me and encouraged me to continue my search for good, low-fat recipes. The recipes in this book are good for the most part, but not haute cuisine of the lean set.

I highly recomend this book to get you started on the road to healthier eating.

This is THE cookbook for busy health-conscious food lovers.......1998-03-01

This cookbook is packed with creative healthy recipes that are easy and quick to cook. Unlike most cookbooks in the "quick & easy" category, these recipes are good enough to serve to company! Each recipe specifies servings, calories, preparation and cooking time. Each is accompanied by suggestions for accompaniments and variations that are superb. The introduction to the cookbook covers how to switch to a lighter diet and what cooking utensils and larder items you should have on hand. I've given this cookbook to my mother, my sister and friends, all of whom LOVE the cookbook. NEED I SAY MORE?

Enlightened Chocolate: More Than 200 Decadently Light, Easy-to-Make, and Inspired Recipes Using Dark Chocolate and Unsweetened Cocoa Powder

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Enlightened Chocolate: More Than 200 Decadently Light, Easy-to-Make, and Inspired Recipes Using Dark Chocolate and Unsweetened Cocoa Powder
Camilla V. Saulsbury
Manufacturer: Cumberland House Publishing
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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Book Description

Including both savory and sweet chocolate recipes, Enlightened Chocolate is filled with more than 200 luscious, inviting recipes that let you have your chocolate and eat it too, but with less fat, fewer calories, and maximum chocolate flavor. The first compendium cookbook ever that is exclusively devoted to light chocolate recipes using antioxidant-rich dark chocolate and cocoa powder, it is divided into five chapters:

* Chocolate, Morning to Noon

* Chocolate Cookies & Other Petite Treats

* Let Them Eat (Chocolate) Cake

* Chocolate Dessert Decadence

* Savory Chocolate (including sauces, spice rubs, salsas, and other condiments)

All of the recipes in Enlightened Chocolate are straightforward and rely on easy-to-find ingredients. None of them will daunt, not even the chocolate soufflé with raspberry sauce or chocolate crème brulée.

In addition, Enlightened Chocolate provides a brief history of chocolate as "medicine," as well as easy-to-follow explanations-in lay terms-of the most current scientific information regarding the health benefits of chocolate and cocoa. The role of chocolate flavonols in the promotion of cardiovascular health is elucidated, as is how to select and store chocolate and cocoa powder for maximum flavor and maximum health benefits.

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Manufacturer: Pocket Books
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ASIN: B000GVTWES

The Quick and Easy Make An Extra Income, Accounting & Finance and eCommerce for Neon Lights On-line Biz Package (3 CDs)
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The Quick and Easy Make An Extra Income, Accounting & Finance and eCommerce for Neon Lights On-line Biz Package (3 CDs)
Jasputin Z Moore
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The Quick and Easy Make An Extra Income, Godfather Principles and Accounting & Finance for Nursery Night Lights On-line Businesses 3 CD Course
Lucas Z Brown
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The Quick and Easy Make An Extra Income, Inner Game and Biz Networking for Exit Lights On-line Businesses 3 CD Course
Phillip Z Brown
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The Quick and Easy Make An Extra Income, Inner Game and Godfather Principles for Garden Lights On-line Businesses 3 CD Course
Lucas Z Brown
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The Quick and Easy Make An Extra Income, Inner Game and Sales Models for Black Lights On-line Businesses 3 CD Course
James Z Brown
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Beast Wars Transformers: The Unofficial Guide with Price Guide (A Schiffer Book for Collectors)
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Beast Alvarez Strikes Back!

Beast Wars Transformers: The Unofficial Guide with Price Guide (A Schiffer Book for Collectors)
J. E. Alvarez
Manufacturer: Schiffer Publishing Ltd.
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0764315129

Customer Reviews:

Beast Alvarez Strikes Back!.......2007-06-25

Transformers are back. Jobie Alvarez is back! This book is a Beast (no transformers pun intended)! The Quadrilogy is complete! It's this book story about these two Beast Transformers who fall in love with one another. They want to have a baby Transformer but can't conceive on earth do to The Dreadknocks. So they adopt this baby girl Transformer from the Planet Naboo but they are kind of pensive since the baby is missing a converter and can't change from a Chevy Malibo into robot form. So all the baby girls' friends think she's mentally challenged and is banished to the retarded transformer school with the rest of the challenged. Professor Xavier uses his mind meld to melt cheese and turn the Transformer family into cheese. But they stop him and enroll their adopted girl Transformer child into regular school where like Lindsay Lohan in Mean Girls finds that life as a teenager has it's ups and downs. And the girl Transformer is really hot and just needs a makeover to become Queen of the High School prom. So that's just what happens and she becomes Queen and gets a new Chevy Malibu as a graduation gift from her parents which is odd because essentially she's a Chevy Malibu forced to ride in a Chevy Malibu. Is Jobie Alvarez a good writer or what. He rocks and so does this book!

Jobie Alvarez knows how to create a story in the Beast Transformers universe and again melts your pupils with exquisite words and adjectives. I highly recommend this book. I recommend all 4 of them. I stack all 4 up and put chairs on them. They make me feel taller. Sometimes I take chucks of the books and stuff them in my shoes. It's like a 3 for 1 offer when you buy this book. And if Jobie signs it for you one day you can sell it on Ebay for half it's value! It's hot. It's Transformers. It's now. It's Jobie. It's most Alvarezie!

Beast Wars Transformers: Unofficial Guide.

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Beast Wars Transformers: Unofficial Guide.
J.E. Alvarez
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Cybertronian TRG Unofficial Transformers Guide to Beast Wars

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Cybertronian TRG Unofficial Transformers Guide to Beast Wars
Various
Manufacturer: Antarctic Press
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Making Teddy Bears to Treasure
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Making Teddy Bears to Treasure
Brian Gibbs
Manufacturer: North Light Books
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Binding: Hardcover

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This unique collection of teddy bears to treasure is guaranteed to become a family heirloom, adored by both young and old alike. Ten wonderful designs capture the qualities that make bears so adored by all. They include Jolly, who plays a lullaby inviting sleep to even the most active; and Barney who, with his uniquely bent legs, will happily sit anywhere. Bracken's back reveals a hidden compartment for stowing secrets. Teddy Edward, a traditional, fully jointed bear fashioned from golden mohair, is destined to become a family favorite.

Each bear is made using materials and methods that are designed to withstand the most energetic of hugs. Step-by-step color photographs ensure that each stage of bear making is easy to follow from tracing the patterns and cutting out the fabric, to adding the features and personalizing the finished bear. Whoever they're being made for, each is sure to become a treasured companion, to be passed down through the generations and cherished by all.

Beautiful Animal Dolls: Handcrafts to Treasure
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Miriam Gourley
Manufacturer: Sterling/Chapelle
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“A simple, old-fashioned concept...Mother-daughter team Stone and Lowe have obviously perfected the how-tos... theirs begins by telling all—materials, tools, and the basic shaping and attachment instructions. There are more than 35 projects with dolls fashioned on zoo and farm creatures as well as anthropomorphic beings....Color photographs are plentiful.”—Booklist.

A Century of Dolls: Treasures from the Golden Age of Doll Making (Courage Books)

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A Century of Dolls: Treasures from the Golden Age of Doll Making
Wonderful Photographs
Search

A Century of Dolls: Treasures from the Golden Age of Doll Making (Courage Books)
Pamela Sherer
Manufacturer: Courage Books
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 1561384976

Customer Reviews:

A Century of Dolls: Treasures from the Golden Age of Doll Making.......2005-11-20

What a splendid present this will make. First there is the absolute size, and superb quality of this book. It measures OVER a foot square; the photos are full plate almost 3D in sharp precision detail, and the binding is a premium sewn type. As for the subject this volume concentrates on ceramic dolls; so Barbie lovers look elsewhere! For those starting out in this marvelous hobby, the ceramic doll is one with those precise lifelike features, frequently of large size. They typically have soft bodies, and detailed ceramic faces, feet and hands. You'll love the pictures, they are really beautiful, and the costumes are incredible. Unfortunately they are generally above the normal family's toy budget, but truly I have recently seen some fine new ceramics recently for reasonable prices; would you believe the $12 to $20 range! i suspect if you know what to look for you can buy one or more of these and they may appreciate. Doll collecting of these real looking ceramics is best left to careful children like my 3, or adults. My kid's have dozens of these and actually play with them. They do not break them! Of course my girls have 100's of Barbies too, and these are given a bit rougher handling. I recommend storing them separately. The ceramics, while delicate, are just to beautiful to be ignored. This book goes back a 100 years to show the amazing range of expression and costume possible. The whole family will love this special one of a kind folio!

Wonderful Photographs.......2003-09-14

I have owned this book for several years and still consider it a photographic treasure of antique dolls. With its golden cover of a blonde, antique doll, it has been a regular part of my Christmas decor since I purchased it. Each pair of pages has a charmingly set up photograph on one side, and a few paragraphs written about the doll on the other side. Some of the information is personal and some of it is about the type of doll shown, but it is all briefly written. It is a nice introduction for the beginner, but the experienced collector will find no new information. Buy this book for the wonderful photographs of a wide variety of antique dolls in well thought out displays because it is a photographic documentation, but don't buy it for the written information because there is little.

Search.......2000-10-04

I am searching for this book for a friend, it really is of no interest to me.

Teddy Bear Treasures: Making Movable Wooden Toys

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Teddy Bear Treasures: Making Movable Wooden Toys
Alan Bridgewater , and Gill Bridgewater
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At Home With Beatrix Potter: The Creator of Peter Rabbit
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A place I'd like to visit

Ten stars

A DELIGHT FOR THOSE WHO LOVE BEATRIX POTTER'S BOOKS

Blend of Biography, Original Sketches and Scenic Photography

At Home With Beatrix Potter: The Creator of Peter Rabbit
Susan Denyer
Manufacturer: Harry N. Abrams
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The richly illustrated At Home with Beatrix Potter will delight the many admirers of the artist and writer of children's books. Her beloved characters--Peter Rabbit, Jemima Puddle-Duck, and their whimsical friends--were inspired by the English countryside, which she grew to love during summer vacations as a girl. In 1905, at the age of 40, Potter bought Hill Top Farm overlooking Esthwaite Water in the Lake District, a region of hills and lakes famous for its glorious landscapes. She continued to buy property in the area with her royalties, and by the time she died 37 years later, she had amassed over 4,000 acres. She fought vigorously to preserve the beauty of the Lake District and its rural ways, leaving her estate to the National Trust, Britain's leading conservation agency. This book, written by an official of the Trust, is a tribute to the jewel of the estate, 17th-century Hill Top Farm. Potter restored and furnished it as a showcase of English country ways, though she actually lived in a large cottage nearby. Her substantial collection of Lake District antiques reflected the influential Arts & Crafts movement, which emphasized the integrity of handmade objects in a period of increasing mechanization. The book takes us on a tour of the farm, alternating the artist's original photographs and watercolors with photographs of the building and countryside as they look today. Several two-page spreads of the garden in early summer and the Lake District in late autumn are especially beautiful. Unpretentious, solid, charming, understated: At Home with Beatrix Potter embodies the rustic virtues that Beatrix loved. --John Stevenson

Book Description

The creator of Peter Rabbit, Samuel Whiskers, and Jemima Puddle-Duck, Beatrix Potter (1866-1942) is one of the best-loved children's book authors of all time. Yet few in America are aware of the role she played in protecting some of England's most beautiful landscapes and in designing romantic interiors and a lovely garden at Hill Top, her beloved Lake District farmhouse.

Taking the reader through her picturesque house and the breathtaking scenery around it that inspired many of her famous stories, this charming book is the first to look at the intimate connection between the English countryside and Potter's work. Her own exquisite sketches and watercolors, as well as personal ephemera, appear alongside specially commissioned full-color photographs, revealing a home filled with treasured old furniture and beautiful objects and celebrating an artist-storyteller whose legacy as a conservationist at last receives the attention it deserves.

Customer Reviews:

A place I'd like to visit.......2007-08-24

What a beautiful book. Clear, inviting photos, and interesting information. A book you will enjoy reading and sharing.

Ten stars.......2003-01-05

Being the big fan of Beatrox Potter, the woman and not just the author I was overjoyed to get this as a gift recently and the book is a treat for the eyes. While it has pages and pages of stunning photographs as well as her own water colours, it is the text and complete history of her farms that is awesome.

That and reading and seeing photographs of her as well as her farms and reading why she bought each property and the breeds of sheep she raised was of special interest to me. I loved seeing the inside of her farms, although I had seen the inside of a few, via the National Land Trust to whom she left her properties.

I loved the photographs of Beatrix and how she was so eccentric, kind yet firm and a woman ahead of her time. And it was nice to read that she was a true homestead style woman who had the waste not want not mentality, as well as a deep appreciation for quality and hated to see old bridges torn down for modern ones, although she was quick to make sure the stones and plants, wood and other things being discarded by some, didn't end up in some dump area but were recycled into new walls and buildings and plantings on her property.

This is a book a cottage gardener, keeper of sheep. painters, stone masons and anyone who loves working with their hands will love. As well as sincere environmentalists and organic gardeners and farmers.

A DELIGHT FOR THOSE WHO LOVE BEATRIX POTTER'S BOOKS.......2000-04-07

AT HOME WITH BEATRIX POTTER is a delight to the eye and the spirit for those who love this children's author and her "little books." It is written by Susan Denyer of Britain's National Trust. (Potter's property was left to the National Trust.) The focus of the book is Hilltop Farm, the first farm Beatrix Potter acquired. Although she lived across the road in Castle Cottage, Potter often used Hilltop for its library, guestroom, and workplaces. She also used it to display her "treasures." This book reveals her love of nature, the English Lake District, and of old things--carved dressers, chests, spinning wheels are a few of the "gems" portrayed. Two-page color spreads convey the beauty of the Lake Area, where Potter became a major landowner, sheepfarmer, and a happily married woman. It is wonderful to see the original places, buildings, and objects that she incorporated into her books (examples are shown side by side). The book's layout, photographs, and design are first-rate. Reading this book reminded me of THE PRIVATE WORLD OF TASHA TUDOR and its wonderful photographs by Richard Brown. Like Tudor, Potter drew what she knew and preferred country to city life. (Tudor also was a working farmer in New Hampshire.) Finally, this book presents information about Beatrix Potter and the things and people she loved in an informative and respectful way. This book is not a biography, and Denyer avoids the biographer's temptation to "sum up" or "explain" Beatrix Potter. Rather, we draw our own conclusions after being exposed to the things Potter loved. The select bibliography at the book's end provides a list of works on and by Potter (her journals and letters have been published) that is very helpful to those who want to know more about this author. This is a book to treasure.

Blend of Biography, Original Sketches and Scenic Photography.......2000-04-04

This book is a balanced combination of biographical information, Beatrix Potter's sketches and paintings, and exceptional scenic photography of the Lake District she helped preserve. It also details the exterior and interior of a house she owned which provided the backgrounds for many of her book illustrations. The side-by-side comparisons were interesting, even though the house seemed to be more of a showpiece than her actual residence. (Thus, the book title is somewhat misleading.) I found this book to be of exceptional quality and, although the text was sometimes overwrought with property, town and house names, the book includes many captioned photos and a map that allow the reader to appreciate the area in which she lived.

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