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Handmade Wedding: 35 Handcrafted Projects to Make Your Special Day Unique
by Cico Books
Your wedding day is a fantastic opportunity to get creative and make beautiful items at a fraction of the cost of buying new, in a far more environmentally-friendly way, and all with your own handmade touch. Exquisite handcrafted invitations will be a pleasure for your guests to receive, while confetti boxes are great for storing rose petals. Make anemone centerpieces and a dramatic hydrangea garland to decorate your reception hall, and why not make your own bouquet with your favorite flowers or an everlasting giant paper rose that will really make a statement? Whether you are planning an intimate ceremony or a celebration for hundreds of guests, Handmade Wedding is packed with original ideas that you will love to make. (Amazon)
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Wood Plank Projects: 30 Simple and Creative DIY Décor Ideas for Your Home and Garden
by Carrie Spalding
Want to make a statement in your home? Look no further than the humble yet versatile wood plank! Reclaim, recycle, and repurpose wood planks to create unique, stylish home décor pieces that are guaranteed to bring warmth and beauty into your living spaces--all on a budget!
Featuring thirty DIY tutorials for both indoors and outdoors, Wood Plank Projects includes simple beginner projects that will be ready in an hour, as well as larger and more impressive pieces--with step-by-step instructions and beautiful photographs. Find projects for every room in the house, from rustic photo frames and farmhouse clocks to outdoor benches and reclaimed tabletops.
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Flower Market: Botanical Style at Home
by Michelle Mason
Michelle's inspiration for Flower Market: Botanical Style at Home is the wide variety of seasonal plants and flowers available right outside her shop. Buying locally and in tune with the seasons is at the heart of her philosophy Using salvage and reclaimed objects as props and backdrops, Flower Market: Botanical Style at Home is brimming with texture, colour, pattern and exciting and inspiring ways to group and display flowers, plants and succulents. In Flower Market: Botanical Style at Home Michelle draws on her design experience, playing with shapes, colours and textures to create combinations that work well together, blending layers of hue and pattern, to show how to make the most of fresh flower purchases and bring botanical style into the home. Informative and engaging, and stunningly illustrated with Michelle's own photographs, this book begs to be picked up by anyone interested in the botanical world with an eye for vintage charm.
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Sew Outdoor Living : Brighten Up Your Garden With 25 Colourful Projects
by Debbie Shore
Sew your garden a makeover with this inspirational new book from Debbie Shore. Using easy-to-follow instructions and clear photography, Debbie talks you through how to sew beautiful items for outdoor living - everything from decorative accessories for the patio, such as seat cushions and bunting, to practical items for gardeners, such as a kneeling pad, a handy hold-all for storing small garden tools, and a gardener's apron with pockets.
Ensure your garden looks stunning come rain or shine, with colourful handmade placemats, bolster cushions, tablecloths and table decorations. Perfect for sewers of all abilities who enjoy their gardens or who want to make a gift for someone who does.
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Canadian Art Book Project
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Greg Curnoe
by Judith Rodger
Passionately and unapologetically Canadian, artist and activist Greg Curnoe (1936-1992) transformed his hometown of London, Ontario, into an important city for artistic production. Born in 1936, he strongly rejected the idea of moving to "the centre" (Toronto or New York) and spearheaded London Regionalism, a movement that focused on everyday life and turned away from the metropolitan mores of the 1960s and 1970s art scene. Greg Curnoe: Life & Work chronicles the artist's significant and provocative career and documents how his striking and brightly coloured painting, sculpture, video, and photography made a powerful imprint on this country's cultural landscape.
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Shuvinai Ashoona
by Nancy G. Campbell
Born in Kinngait (Cape Dorset) in 1961, Shuvinai is part of a famed dynasty of artists that includes her grandmother Pitseolak Ashoona and her Sobey Art Award-winning cousin, the late Annie Pootoogook. In the mid-1990s Shuvinai began producing detailed, primarily monochromatic drawings depicting the natural landscapes and traditions of the North. By the late 1990s, however, her attentions shifted to fantastical creatures, dreamlike landscapes, and aerial-perspective representations of a global community, expressed in vivid colour. Shuvinai Ashoona: Life & Work explores the world of an artist whose rich graphic imagery conveys an intricate and textured personal vision. Using pencil, pen and ink, and markers to render dense, highly imaginative drawings, Shuvinai creates art that reflects the intersection of values between the traditional and the contemporary in the North.
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Molly Lamb Bobak
by Michelle Gewurtz
The daughter of celebrated photographer Harold Mortimer-Lamb, Vancouver-born artist Molly Lamb Bobak (1920-2014) joined the Canadian Women's Army Corps in 1942 and was sent overseas to London, becoming the first Canadian woman war artist. She brashly captured women's military life and roles during the Second World War in her paintings, illustrated diaries, and drawings, depicting female military training as well as dynamic scenes of marches and parades. Upon her return to Canada, Bobak married fellow war artist Bruno Bobak, and the couple settled in Fredericton, New Brunswick, where they lived and worked for over half a century. One of the first Canadian female painters to earn her living as an artist, Bobak was elected to the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts in 1973 and presented with the Order of Canada in 1995. Molly Lamb Bobak: Life & Work traces the career of this pioneering Canadian painter and the diverse range of her artistic output, from her still lifes and interiors to her crowd scenes and self-portraits. It explores Bobak's legacy as a painter and educator and what it meant to be a female artist in mid-twentieth-century Canada.
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Lionel LeMoine FitzGerald
by Michael Parke-Taylor
Born and raised in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Lionel LeMoine FitzGerald (1890-1956) imbued his art with the beauty and essence of his surroundings. Although he became the Group of Seven's tenth member in 1932, his style was vastly different from his counterparts in Ontario. His realist images of domesticity revealed his focus on the extraordinary aspects of everyday life rather than the Canadian wilderness.
Quiet in personality and passionate about art, as both principal and teacher at the Winnipeg School of Art from the 1920s to the 1940s FitzGerald inspired a generation of students. During the last years of his life, his West Coast sojourns in British Columbia saw his painting style move toward abstraction.
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ICYMI: Library Journal's Best Books in Crafts and DIY for 2018
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Amy Herzog's Ultimate Sweater Book: The Essential Guide for Adventurous Knitters
by Amy Herzog
Yarn and fiber enthusiasts everywhere will celebrate the latest addition to Amy Herzog's beloved knitting series (which includes Knit to Flatter,and Knit Wear Love). This essential guide details every aspect of sweater knitting, starting with instructions for four basic sweater types: yoke, raglan, drop shoulder, and set-in sleeve. Patterns are offered in multiple sizes and yarn gauges for broad appeal. Following the basics for each of the four sweater types are a diverse range of customizing options, including how to add a hood, cowl neck, turtleneck, pockets, and zip or cardigan front, just to name a few. Amy's clear instruction and expert tips expand the many knitting possibilities, creating the essential knitting resource for knitters everywhere.
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By Hand: The Art of Modern Lettering
by Nicole Miyuki Santo
Introduces the essentials of lettering and provides thirty projects that utilize the skill, from watercolor placecards to cozy pillows.
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