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Imagine a birthday balloon no bigger than your thumb, a petite piñata as small as a piece of candy, and a Christmas wreath that's tinier than the bow you'd hang on it. You can make each of these mini holiday crafts and more! Spruce up your celebration with fun-sized decorations and gifts. Easy-to-follow instructions and detailed photos guide you through creating your own miniature holiday crafts.

Reduce, reuse, and recycle with ideas from The Craft-a-Day Book. You can put the three Rs to work with these thirty awesome crafts! Using recycled and reusable materials from around the house, school, or a thrift store, you'll find directions for making colorful lanterns from paper and jars, ruffle skirts from t-shirts, scarves and mitts from your favorite old sweaters and socks, and much more. Learn to make bobbles and pom-poms and other easy decorative...

"Readers will learn how to create a variety of survival tools and gear as if they were stranded in the woods with only a roll of duct tape on hand."-- Provided by publisher.

What can you engineer from recycled materials? This books has loads of ideas! Construct an airplane from cardboard and a plastic bottle, transform an old T-shirt into a working wind sock, and build a small city from plastic containers. Detailed instructions and photos of the steps and the finished product will guide crafty engineers-in-training to try these engineering-themed activities. Extend learning with additional photos of the maker process...

"In the next year alone, over one million guitars will be sold. For budding musicians of all ages and hand sizes, this "fret-free" title is sure to strike a pleasing chord! This book covers: how to select the guitar of one's dreams and budget; basic care instructions for keeping in tune; complete guide to guitar basics, from picking notes to strumming chords; fretboard illustrations that accompany each musical exercise string by string; a CD jam-packed...

Bead Jewelry 101, now in paperback, is a complete entry-level course for creating beaded jewelry taught through 30 step-by-step projects that demonstrate fundamental methods for stringing and wirework.
Have you always wanted to try jewelry making but aren't sure where to begin? Bead Jewelry 101 teaches you everything you need to know to create beautiful jewelry with beads.

The Basics walks you through all the

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Discover how a little yarn can go a long, long way...

Over 30 irresistible quick-to-stitch knitting and crochet projects celebrate the new generation of gorgeous gourmet yarns available to knitters and crocheters today.

Say goodbye to old wool and humdrum cotton and hello to fun fleeces and fur, slinky twists of ribbon, luxurious lurex and bubble boucle. As you only need two balls, you can afford to experiment!

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Now in audio: "The definitive guide to musical enjoyment" (Forum).
In this fascinating analysis of how to listen to both contemporary and classical music analytically, eminent American composer Aaron Copland offers provocative suggestions that will bring listeners a deeper appreciation of the most viscerally rewarding of all art forms.

Lean principles were originally developed by the Japanese automotive industry, but Hartman has applied them to farming. As a result, he's been able to drastically cut waste, increase profit, and make his family farm more environmentally and economically sustainable. With ample examples from his one-acre farm in Indiana, Hartman illustrates how to incorporate lean practices, on farms of any size or scale, at each step of the production chain, from...

Wyoming is so closely identified with ranching that it is often known as �the Cowboy State.� The prosperity associated with the cattle industry drew wealthy investors to Wyoming Territory in the 1870s and early 1880s. They stocked the range with thousands of cows and made considerable fortunes until the harsh winter of 1886�1887, when the cattle market collapsed. Many of those early ranchers left Wyoming, which opened the door for the establishment...