The fundamentals of felting including choosing fibers and colors, making flat felt and boiling felt, and stitching felt are demonstrated in 20 beautiful projects in a range of contemporary colors in this beginner's guide. Projects include a cloche hat, a child's jacket, slippers, delicate scarves, square and inlayed throw pillows, and a long-lasting rug. Each project is presented with simple step-by-step instructions, illustrations, and alternative samples and suggestions that help felters to create their own designs. Felters can bring this highly handcrafted style into their wardrobes and home decor with these simple and beautiful pieces.
Sweet & Simple Needle Felted Animals provides detailed instructions to create your own cute and cuddly collection of needle felted pets, barnyard buddies and mascots. These adorable furry figurines make beautiful gifts and accessories that you can carry around or wear. This DIY needle felting book includes step-by-step instructional color photos and texts that couldn't be easier to follow. It shows you how to make the central shape, attach the components, add the details and then attach the finding. And voila! Your accessory is ready to be worn and appreciated! The animals you can make include: A playful Kitten A sweet miniature Dachshund Puppy A mommy Pig and her Baby Piglet A downy Duck and Ducklings A saucy Squirrel A friendly Chipmunk A pair of adorable White Bunnies A trio of brightly-colored Parakeets A fairytale Bear And a host of other miniature animals and charms With over 20 charming projects, great techniques and helpful tips, this is a craft book that felting beginners and experts alike will enjoy and treasure. Grab some wool roving and your felting needle and get crafting!
She was rescued once before and vowed never to let a man control her again… Lena Andersen knows what it’s like to live in hell. Kidnapped by a predator and then saved by a gruff, hardened man fighting his own demons, she’s living in a state of wariness and fear. Then the unthinkable happens. She’s taken—again. And there’s no way her savior will find her this time. Former Special Forces Operative Gray Pierce was held hostage during his final days in the Army. The last man to join the Shadow Ops Team, he’s also the last man to have a soft spot for a woman. The beautiful and unattainable assistant to his boss isn’t the type of woman to fall for a guy like him, but he’s exactly the type of man she needs. When Lena is kidnapped for a second time, Gray will burn down the world to find her. The heat between them could light an inferno, but will they be able to trust enough to fall for each other as well? Gray, a standalone novel, is book seven in the sizzling Shadow Ops Team series.
BOOKER PRIZE WINNER • NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A novel that follows a middle-aged man as he contends with a past he never much thought about—until his closest childhood friends return with a vengeance: one of them from the grave, another maddeningly present. A novel so compelling that it begs to be read in a single setting, The Sense of an Ending has the psychological and emotional depth and sophistication of Henry James at his best, and is a stunning achievement in Julian Barnes's oeuvre. Tony Webster thought he left his past behind as he built a life for himself, and his career has provided him with a secure retirement and an amicable relationship with his ex-wife and daughter, who now has a family of her own. But when he is presented with a mysterious legacy, he is forced to revise his estimation of his own nature and place in the world.
Presents felt-related crafting ideas for holidays and special occasions, including such projects as leprechaun finger puppets, miniature pumpkins, Thanksgiving table runners, and Christmas ornaments.
Chicago cartoonist Sarah Moon tackles life's real issues with a healthy dose of sharp wit in her syndicated comic strip Just Breathe. As Sarah's cartoon alter ego, Shirl, undergoes artificial insemination, her situation begins to mirror Sarah's own difficult attempts to conceive. However, Sarah's dreams of the future did not include her husband's infidelity: snag number two in Sarah's so-called perfect life. With Chicago—and her marriage—in the rearview mirror, she flees to the small Northern California coastal town where she grew up, a place she couldn't wait to leave. Now she finds herself revisiting the past—an emotionally distant father and the unanswered questions left by her mother's death. As she comes to terms with her lost marriage, Sarah encounters a man she never expected to meet again: Will Bonner, the high school heartthrob she'd skewered mercilessly in her old comics. Now a local firefighter, he's been through some changes himself. But just as her heart is about to reawaken, Sarah discovers she is pregnant. With her ex's twins. It's hardly the most traditional of new beginnings, but who says life and love are predictable… or perfect? The winds of change have led Sarah here. Now all she can do is just close her eyes… and breathe.
This is a collection of articles, photography, and illustrations by some of the most innovative thinkers writing about yoga, inspired living and the places where the two meet. Some books on yoga will teach you a posture, how to hold a pose. Through compelling exposition, artful photography and delightful illustrations, Inspired Lives teaches how people think expansively to bring yoga to their lives. The best from the Utne Award winning, Ascent Magazine, Inspired Lives presents dynamic stories in heartfelt prose that distills the essential teachings of yoga into the art of living life.
By reading this book you will discover that nothing that really matters in life can be easily obtained, but that the end result is always worthwhile. Life in general is not linear, it has ups and downs and it is important to always keep our heads up so that at the moment when we will make our introspection, we will remember with pleasure the moments lived.
The Afterloch is the second narrative collection of the Unleash The Loch series. Primarily mental philosophy, it establishes a narrative which exists mostly in the minds of those who are stuck in situations without knowing what has happened. Cursed or blessed with unconsciousness and a lack of being able to immediately remember and reflect upon where they have been and what has happened to them, very little communication and incidence ensues and they all end up somewhat trapped in the philosophical mentalities they are snagged into by being void of any connection to any true fictional reality. If no-thing much is happening, all they can really do is 'think' and 'think' they do; but much of their inner lives is philosophy, religion, and social -judicial histrionicism. Essentially nothing is really happening in terms of conversation and incidence. But what unravels is how even when seemingly nothing is happening, so much can be happening inside peoples' minds. Moreover something is happening in terms of their contexts. More a concourse of philosophy and thinking than any true narrative entertainment, what unravels stands in difference to the consistent fictional element of the earlier book and predicates a somewhat sinister expos on the problems of living a life in the mind. At bottom if fiction is not happening, philosophy is. And if such is in somewhat uncomfortable situations, fanaticism is bred.
The most valuable gift you can give yourself or others is feeling lighthearted. Ute Devika shows that setting our emotional landscape on happy mode is an easy practice that feels good. She offers precious insights into a variety of ways to live an enchanted life while building resilience to anxiety. Coaching, HeartMath, Energy Medicine, Laughter Yoga and Meditation are empowering paths she describes with passion. Lighthearted is an enriching book offering knowledge as well as practical exercises bound to ignite the zest that helps with breaking free from heaviness. Devika connects dots between disciplines, and weaves together a multitude of ideas and stories. She alternates among two styles: Reflections on essential practices, as well as a personal narration of her own stories exploring them. This colorful mix brings her message alive. In each chapter Devika takes you on a journey that is about discovering another facet of the art of shifting into uplifting emotions. She brilliantly argues why this is the most essential skill to develop at this point in time. Have you ever asked yourself how to break free from feeling bogged down? Then this book is for you. Have you wondered what it would take to evolve into a competent Life Coach, Yoga Teacher, or practitioner of energy healing? Reading about Devika’s transition inspires courage to go for it.
