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46 |  Making Gourd Headpieces: Decorating and Creating Headgear for Every Occasion. C. Angela Mohr. With simple tools and supplies already in the house or from the local craft shop, the author demonstrates how tomake a variety of tiaras, barrettes, seasonal headbands, and hat pins from pieces of gourds. In fact, with a gourd thinking cap like the one shown in this book, you can create your own from gourd parts. • 81/2" x 11" (215 x 279mm) •259 images • 64 pp. • 978-0-7643-2869-5 • PB • $15.00 / £13.99 / 19.95 CAD Making Gourd Ornaments. Angela Mohr. Clear instructions and 162 color photos teach readers to create Christmas ornaments from miniature, hard- shelled gourds. Designs include birdhouses, snowmen, angels, tree balls, tree toppers, and wall hangings. Instructions proceed from initial gourd cleaning to final painting, wood burning, and the installation of hangers. • 8 1/2" x 11" (215 x 279 mm) • 162 color photos • 64 pp. • 978-0-7643-2716-2 • PB • $12.95 / £11.99 / 17.95 CAD Making More Gourd Ornaments. C. Angela Mohr. Make a Santa head from a banana gourd, a snow couple from mini-bottleneck gourds, and paint, ribbon, and beads to make shiny ornaments from egg gourds. With 203 color images and step-by-step directions, both the beginner and advanced gourd artist will have fun decorating this holiday season. Features a gallery of completed projects that will inspire new innovations of your own. • 8 1/2" x 11" (215 x 279 mm) • 203 color images • 64 pp. • 978-0- 7643-3620-1 • PB • $19.99 / £18.99 / 28.99 CAD Miriam Joy’s Wax Design Technique. Miriam Joy. Using less than one crayon on a gourd makes wax designs easy to learn, inexpensive, and practical. Illustrated instructions guide you through six fun projects. Chapters include preparing your gourd, the basics of wax design, embellishing your designs, suppliers, and a gallery of completed works. This instructional how-to guide is a great addition to the library of any gourd artist, woodworker, or other crafter. • 8 1/2" x 11" (215 x 279mm) • 251 color imag- es • 64 pp. • 978-0-7643-4467-1 • PB • $19.99 / £18.99 / 28.99 CAD New and Different Materials for Weaving and Coiling. Marianne Barnes. Over 350 color images display the rawmaterials, techniques, and final works of art created in weaving and coiling baskets and decorating gourds. Where to find, collect, and how to prepare natural materials ranging from vines and reeds to plants and grasses are explored. Projects from weavers and gourd artists are included • 81/2" x 11" (215 x 279 mm) • 358 color photos • 208 pp. • 978-0-7643-3992-9•PB•$29.99 / £27.99 / 42.99CAD One Gourd at a Time: A Beginner’s Guide. Tricia Sutton. For crafters who like the idea of work- ing with gourds but don’t know where to begin, this beginner’s guide provides basic techniques. Step-by- step instructions and 361 color images take you through 21 projects. Chapters include cleaning and cutting gourds, coloring and decorating, and easy- to-do projects with your left-over gourd pieces. A gallery of completed projects will further inspire you • 8 1/2" x 11" (215 x 279 mm) • 361 color images • 96 pp. • 978-0-7643-4146-5 • PB • $24.99 / £22.99 / 35.99 CAD Painting Gourds with the Fairy Gourdmother®. Sammie Crawford. Bring your gourds to life through these ten whimsical and fun gourd projects. Sammie Crawford, the Fairy Gourdmother, provides patterns, color palettes, supply lists, and step-by-step instruc- tions for painting and beautifully decorating a gourd snowman, witch-in-training, baby chimp, wall pock- et, Christmas oil lamp, and a magi • 81/2" x 11" (215 x 279 mm) • 209 color photos, 16 patterns • 80 pp. • 978-0-7643-4309-4•PB•$16.99 / £15.99 / 23.99CAD Time for Gourds: 8 Clock Projects. Sammie Crawford. With 199 color images, patterns, color palettes, supply lists, tips for preparing the gourd, and step-by-step directions, eight clock projects will make an ideal accessory to your décor or a gift to family members and friends. This new how-to book is perfect for gourd crafters and woodworkers of all levels. Themes include cats, zebras, the seashore, Christmas, and many more • 8 1/2" x 11" (215 x 279 mm) • 199 color photos, 14 patterns • 80 pp. • 978-0- 7643-3981-3 • PB • $16.99 / £15.99 / 23.99 CAD Wax on Gourds: Decorative Techniques for Transforming Gourds & Rims. Miriam Joy. With over 340 detailed photos, popular teacher Miriam Joy explains the inexpensive materials needed and the basic steps of the low-cost, high-impact wax design technique. Next are step-by-step instructions for four examples of creative wax technique designs on gourds, plus four stunning rim treatments • 81/2" x 11" (215 x 279mm) • 341 color images • 96 pp. • 978- 0-7643-5225-6 • PB • $19.99 / £18.99 / 28.99 CAD | OTHER CRAFTS Weaving on Gourds. Marianne Barnes. Five proj- ects show how to combine basket weaving and gourd art. Twine on a gourd, add undulating tapestry to a gourd basket, and make a continuous twill woven gourd. Includes 200 color photographs, step-by-step directions, and a gallery of completed works • 81/2" x11" (215x279mm) •200color images&3b/wpatterns • 112 pp. • 978-0-7643-3565-5 • PB • $19.99 / £18.99 / 28.99 CAD Carving Gunstocks: Power Techniques. Jose Valencia. With 250 color photos, all the steps need- ed to transform a plain gunstock into a work of art are explained, from creating patterns, removing factory checkering, and using a high speed power pen and bits to create scroll, basket weave, and maple leaf patterns, along with realistic wildlife carvings • 8 1/2" x 11" (215 x 279 mm) • 250 color photos, 7 b/wpatterns •64 pp. •978-0-7643-3370-5• PB • $16.99 / £15.99 / 23.99 CAD GUN-RELATED CRAFT Guns and Gunmaking Tools of Southern Appalachi: The Story of the Kentucky Rifle. John Rice Irwin. The people of the iso- lated mountain valleys of Appalachia tell how they make and use the Kentucky and related firearms and the supplies that go with them, both in the past and today as tradition con- tinues • 11"x 8 1/2 (279 x 215mm) • 315 illus. • 118 pp. • 978-0-916838-81-2 • PB • $14.99 / £13.99 / 19.99 CAD Powder Horns: Fabrication & Decoration. Jim Stevens. 275 color photos illustrate working, shaping, decorating, and finishing techniques, including inlays, engrailing, and scrimshaw. Leather strap weaving and braiding methods are also provided for carrying the finished horn in an authentic manner. For inspi- ration, a photo gallery shows finished powder horns and a contact list includes the artists featured • 8 1/2" x 11" (215 x 279 mm) • 275 color photos • 176 pp. • 978-0-7643-3489-4 • PB • $29.99 / £27.99 / 42.99 CAD Best of How to Haunt Your House. The Mitch- ell Family. This frightening decorating guide provides inspiration and instruction on how to lift your coffin lid a little higher and transform your house and yard into the best haunted attraction in the neighborhood this Halloween season! • 8 1/2" x 11" (215 x 279 mm) • Over 490 color photos • 128 pp. • 978-0-7643-6169-2 • HC • $24.99 / £22.99 / 35.99 CAD HOLIDAY CRAFTS Best of How to Haunt Your House, Volume II: Dozens of Spirited DIY Projects for Parties and Halloween Displays. Lynne & Shawn Mitchell. Create a spooky memory for visitors coming to party or trick-or-treat with more than 20 DIY projects for haunting your house. With a bit of theatrics and light, you can create your own flying phantasms, giant jointed-leg spiders, a coffin, and other spooky displays. • 81/2" x 11" (216 x 280mm) •Over 450 color photos • 128 pp. • 978-0-7643-6199- 9 • hardcover • $24.99 US / £22.99 / 35.99 CAD Creating Christmas Ornaments from Polymer Clay. Bridget Albano. Add a personal touch to your Christmas celebration with ten adorable, whimsical ornaments of your own making. Create Santa, two different reindeer, a snowman, a penguin, a ginger- bread man, a gift-bearing polar bear, a puppy in a stocking, and more • 8 1/2" x 11" (215 x 279 mm) • 266 color photos, 10 patterns • 64 pp. • 978-0-88740- 850-2 • PB • $12.95 / £11.99 / 17.95 CAD Delicious Christmas Decorations at Historic Houses and Your Home. Patricia Hart McMillan. Using decorations of fruits and greens from historic homes across the nation, this book provides essential details to creating colorful decorations for your entryways, con- soles, and mantels, with instructions for drying your own fruit • 91/8" x 81/8" (231 x 206mm) •75 color images •96pp. •978-0-7643-3726-0 • HC • $19.99 / £18.99 / 28.99 CAD Wax on Crafts Holiday Projects. Miriam Joy. Create bright and cheerful designs for the holidays using a box of crayons and a few simple tools! With easy instructions and 400+ images, you can turn inexpensive and everyday items into family treasures. Decorate tile magnets, ornaments, and other medi- ums. Use wax with paper, wood, glass, metals, boxes, eggs, and felt • 8 1/2" x 11" (215 x 279 mm) • 410 color images • 96 pp. • 978-0-7643-4955-3 • PB • $19.99 / £18.99 / 28.99 CAD 100 New York Calligraphers. Cynthia Maris Dantzic. Encompassing a wide range of calligraphy in many languages and hands, or styles, this book presents a visual treasury of works by 100 contem- porary scribes, all of whom were either born in New York or studied or worked in the city. • 9" x 12" (228 x 304mm) • 629 color images • 240 pp. • 978-0-7643- 4898-3 • HC • $50.00 / £45.99 / 73.00 CAD LETTERING How to Haunt Your House Halloween Craft Fun: Scary Projects the Whole Family Can Make. The Mitchell Family..Turn your home into a haunted house for a spirited Halloween. 11 delight- fully scary decoratingprojects for kids ages eight andup, usingpaper,wood, crepepaper, cheesecloth, andbeads. If you canwield a utility knife, a dab of glue, and a brush, you’re ready. •81/2" x 11" (215 x 279mm) •580 color images • 192 • 978-0-7643-6614-7 • PB • $24.99 / £22.99 / 35.99 CAD An Introduction to Arabic Calligraphy. Ghani Alani. World master Alani helps you use ink and a qalam—a traditional reed pen—to create time- lessly decorative lines of Arabic script. This guide explains the art’s 1,500-year history; how to choose materials and prepare your tools; basics about the Arabic language; and exercises to help you suc- cessfully write and join the letters • 81/2"x11" (215 x 279 mm) • 304 color & b/w images • 80 pp. • 978- 0-7643-5173-0 • HC • $24.99 / £22.99 / 35.99 CAD