Information about the history of paper and its uses accompanies instructions for making different types of papers and objects such as flowers, trays, lanterns, and more from paper.
Miracle Springs, North Carolina, is famed for its healing springs. But bookstore owner Nora Pennington has a tendency to land in a different kind of hot water. Though she loves to practice bibliotherapy by finding the perfect books for her customers while listening to their secrets, she also likes to bury her nose in the occasional local crime . . . Nora escaped her past a decade ago. So it feels like a visit from another world when Kelly Walsh—the woman her ex-husband left her for—walks through the door of Miracle Books along with her son. Kelly hasn’t come to gloat, though. As it turns out, she’s been dumped too. She’s also terribly ill, and all she wants from Nora is forgiveness. Shockingly, however, this woman who’s been the victim of so much misfortune is about to become a murder victim. Who would do such a thing? Certainly not Nora, but that doesn’t stop the gossip and suspicion—especially after Kelly’s brother claims that he saw the two women arguing. In seeking justice for Kelly, The Secret, Book, and Scone Society joins forces with the sheriff’s department, but they’ve barely begun their probe when life throws another wrench. After serving a twenty-year sentence, Estella’s father returns to Miracle Springs. And when his past comes back to haunt him, it might be more than the four friends can handle.
Henri Matisse is one of the leading figures of modern art. His unparalleled cut-outs are among the most significant of any artist's late works. When ill health first prevented Matisse from painting, he began to cut into painted paper with scissors as his primary technique to make maquettes for a number of commissions, from books and stained glass window designs to tapestries and ceramics. Taking the form of a 'studio diary', the catalogue re-examines the cut-outs in terms of the methods and materials that Matisse used, and looks at the tensions in the works between finish and process; and drawings and colour.
Hans Christian Andersen, the Danish storyteller whose fairy tales are known all over the world, was also a gifted artist. He made hundreds, perhaps thousands, of paper cuttings of swans, clowns, toy theaters, windmills, angels, and other whimsical images. Often he made the paper cuttings while telling a story, then gave them to the children listening to him. In this inspired biography, Beth Wagner Brust tells the story of Andersen as an artist who used his many talents to escape the poverty into which he was born and who entertained others with not only his famous stories but also his innovative and original art.
Paper-cutting artist Boo Paterson offers step-by-step instruction in cutting out intricate creatures of all sorts (orangutan, sloth, kangaroos, butterflies, elephants, and more--fifteen in all) and the forests in which they live. The book includes detailed black-and-white templates for cutting, as well as removable art paper (cream, plus four other colors) to cut or use as backing. Ideal for beginners and irresistible to those wanting to develop their skills, the book offers information on tools and materials, alongside clear, step-by-step instruction in the basics of papercutting. Chapters are packed with proj-ects of varying complexity, complete with full color images of the finished work and easy-to-use templates showing where to cut or bend the paper. The book also features a chapter on how to frame pieces and display completed work.
Mario Spinelli is a Catholic, Italian-American young man from New York with a bright future in the paper industry. When the small paper mill where he is carving out his career is bought and then closed by industry giant Global Printing and Writing, he is forced to transfer to a huge, state-of-the-art mill in rural Arkansas to keep his career on track. His New York attitude quickly brings him trouble with the locals. He can't wait to escape his misery and return north until he meets and falls in love with a beautiful hometown engineer, Alisha Ann Reynolds. Mario joins in the antics of his coworkers, for whom bass fishing is the supreme entertainment. Through personal heroics and tragedy, he must rely on his steadfast faith in his struggle to win Alisha Ann's heart and acceptance with his peers.
A dazzlingly original memoir, Paper Cuts takes us inside the mind of a young Oxford academic devastated by severe mental illness. ‘I have a small line of red dots on the back of my left hand, where the needle goes in. I have had hundreds of ketamine injections, more than anyone else, perhaps. The needle goes in, and the truth comes out. Sometimes I am a child again. Sometimes I have the innocence of a child, but I am not innocent. I know too much. I have known too much.’ With Paper Cuts, Stephen Bernard boldly lives through the trauma of childhood abuse and mental illness. He writes to escape and confront, to accuse and explain. Each morning when he wakes, Stephen Bernard must reconstruct his self: every night he writes himself a letter to be read the next day. The fractured, intensely personal narrative of Paper Cuts follows a single day in his life as he navigates a course through the effects of mania, medication and memories. ‘Beautifully written... Brilliant’ Henry Marsh ‘Distinguished and desolating... The saving grace is the writer’s undaunted eye for the beauty of the world’ Hilary Mantel ‘Chilling, riveting, extraordinary, wonderful’ Roddy Doyle ‘It is an extraordinary book in its unblinking truthfulness’ Hannah Jane Parkinson, Observer
This book integrates art production, art history, art criticism, and aesthetics into 56 lessons for middle school classes. There are also 17 reproducible pages on art concepts to use as study guides. (Adapted from back cover).
After experiencing his father’s early death at the age of 45, Anton Andryakov knew he had to come up with a plan to help himself, and others, make the most of what life has to offer. Using his experience gained from the U.S. Marine Corps and as a life coach, Andryakov shares his unique perspective on health and wellness to motivate people of all ages to make the most of the life they’ve been given. Just as taking care of the Earth is the only way to have a healthy place to call home, taking care of our bodies is the only way to have a healthy society. Divided into four sections, Death by 1,000 Paper Cuts provides helpful advice in the areas of Mindset, Internal Health, Nutrition, and Movement. Throughout these sections is the reminder of the importance we must place on self-care in our everyday lives.