It's Decorative Gourd Season, Motherfuckers
It's Decorative Gourd Season, Motherfuckers

Author: Colin Nissan

Publisher: Chronicle Books

Published: 2021-09-28

Total Pages: 68

ISBN-13: 1797214756

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A passionate and profane love letter to fall, the best fucking season of the year. Do you get excited at the first brisk breeze of the year? Are you overcome with delight when you see piles of red leaves? Do you lose your fucking mind at a pumpkin patch? At last, the epically funny internet sensation It's Decorative Gourd Season, Motherfuckers is now a visual tour-de-force, teeming with a cornucopia of perfectly paired photos and seasonal enchantments to make it really fucking sing. Whiffy candles, wicker baskets, motherfucking gourd after gourd, and people going insane they love fall so much? Check! Also included: the equally lifechanging meditation It's Rotting Decorative Gourd Season, Motherfuckers, because all good things must end. Give it to everyone you love, or put it on your fucking coffee table next to a pile of shellacked vegetables to really tie the room together. Perfect for: For anyone who fucking loves fall, and fans of McSweeney's, Go the Fuck to Sleep, Deep Thoughts, the Onion, and the New Yorker.

Glorious Gourd Decorating
Glorious Gourd Decorating

Author: Mickey Baskett

Publisher: Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.

Published: 2005-08

Total Pages: 132

ISBN-13: 9781402727757

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Transform simple garden gourds into beautiful and functional decorative objects. Follow the guides to growing, selecting, cleaning, and preparing your gourds. Learn about different methods to decorate the gourds.

Making Gourd Musical Instruments
Making Gourd Musical Instruments

Author: Ginger Summit

Publisher: Sterling Publishing Company

Published: 2007-03

Total Pages: 150

ISBN-13: 9781402745034

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Provides step-by-step instructions for making, decorating, and playing more than sixty string, wind, and percussion instruments made from gourds, along with numerous color photos and cultural information on the instruments' places of origin.

Making Gourd Dolls & Spirit Figures
Making Gourd Dolls & Spirit Figures

Author: Ginger Summit

Publisher: Sterling Publishing Company

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 236

ISBN-13: 9781402732201

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"If you're an artist looking to explore a versatile medium or are interested in making dolls, look to nature's bounty. Learn a variety of classic techniques as you create projects. Comes with a gallery of inspiring work by talented artists."--adapted from back cover.

Creative Rims for Gourd Art
Creative Rims for Gourd Art

Author: Marianne Barnes

Publisher: Schiffer Craft

Published: 2014

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780764346149

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In gourd art, there is a vast array of material that can be used when carving and decorating a gourd. When it comes to doing the rim, the options are just as varied. The best rims are those that complement the gourd's overall design. The rim "completes" the gourd--it makes the gourd look finished. Through more than 200 color images and tutorials from contributing artists, learn how to finish the rims of gourd bowls using chip stone, tubular beading, paper, coiling, leather, wire, clay, pine needle, and flowers. The rims illustrated range from the very simple to the extremely elaborate. A gallery of completed works will inspire your own creative ideas. This book is perfect for gourd artists of all skill levels.

Painting Gourds with the Fairy Gourdmother
Painting Gourds with the Fairy Gourdmother

Author: Sammie Crawford

Publisher: Schiffer Craft

Published: 2013

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780764343094

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The Fairy Gourdmother provides patterns, color palettes, supply lists, and step-by-step instructions for painting and beautifully decorating gourds.

The Decorated Gourd
The Decorated Gourd

Author: Dyan Mai Peterson

Publisher: Lark Books (NC)

Published: 2003-08

Total Pages: 128

ISBN-13: 9781579905118

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From carving, dyeing, and burning to watercolor effects and antique shading, a professional artist shares her gourd crafting secrets, offering 35 projects, ranging from the practical to the ornamental, many of them with templates.

Complete Book of Gourd Carving
Complete Book of Gourd Carving

Author: Jim Widess

Publisher: Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 228

ISBN-13: 9781402704420

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Jim Widess and Ginger Summit, the best-selling authors of The Complete Book of Gourd Craft and Making Gourd Instruments, have done it again: they’ve produced another winner to delight the many crafters who work with gourds. Large, lavish, and astonishingly comprehensive, this breathtaking volume introduces every tool and every technique associated with gourd carving, offers fabulous projects that advance in difficulty, and presents a gallery of works designed to inspire. See how to choose and prepare a gourd, impress the surface with a design, and work with green gourds. The magnificent methods of decorative carving covered include fretwork, engraving, chip carving, carving with gouges, relief carving, inlay, and deep relief or sculptural carving. Throughout, color photographs of exquisite carved gourds present crafts styles from countries around the world. A Selection of the Crafters Choice Book Club.

Grandma and the Great Gourd
Grandma and the Great Gourd

Author:

Publisher: Macmillan

Published: 2013-03-05

Total Pages: 34

ISBN-13: 1596433787

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On her way to visit her daughter on the other side of the jungle, Grandma encounters a hungry fox, bear, and tiger, and although she convinces them to wait for her return trip, she still must find a way to outwit them all.

Easy Pumpkin Carving
Easy Pumpkin Carving

Author: Colleen Dorsey

Publisher: Fox Chapel Publishing

Published: 2020-10-01

Total Pages: 79

ISBN-13: 1607654946

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Create the best jack-o-lantern on the block with this handy guide. Get tips and tricks for spooktacular pumpkin carving, with innovative techniques, inspirational color photos, and 12 ready-to-use carving patterns.