BOOKSTORE BLOG: September 2009

1,000 Artist Journal Pages

Price: $16.50

Journals offer their makers a safe place to dream, doodle, rant, and reinvent themselves. They offer viewers rich, visual inspiration. There is a fascination with these revealing and often beautiful pages of self-exploration and personal expression. Journals offer a tantalizing, voyeuristic view of an interior life.

This would be the first book to offer examples of over 1000 journal pages in one eye-catching, visual format, and would attract a wide swathe of artists who fully embrace or experiment with this medium.

Journaling has seeped into popular culture in a big way and this collection provides a wide array of ideas, techniques and themes to inspire and inform mixed media and journaling enthusiasts.

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1, 2, 3 Skein Crochet (Paperback)

Price: $13.46

Requiring only three skeins of yarn or less, this collection provides a variety of designs that are fun and fast to finish.

Using up remnants from previous projects or trying out samples of more expensive yarns, these designs are more flexible in order to make use of materials not feasible for larger projects. Topics feature ideas for men, women, and children, the home, pillows, and throws—and projects that are just plain fun.

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1, 2, 3 Scrapbooks (Paperback)

Price: $19.00

Whether you are an experienced scrapbook enthusiast or just getting started, this book offers a treasure trove of page designs and great ideas. Readers will find dozens of recipes that show how to use a full range of art and craft materials to create beautiful and unique enhancements for scrapbook pages. Each recipe includes a complete listing of materials, shows several variation ideas, and includes complete instructions.

You will learn how to use special embellishments, such as ribbons, silver charms, foil, beads, and other objects of significance such as keepsakes, keys, jewelry, and coins, to add personal style and pizzazz to your treasured scrapbook pages.

This book is the most comprehensive technique book for scrapbooking, and one you will refer to over and over again for inspiration.

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