Homemade Gift Ideas Around the Web
If you have more time than money-or simply love to give your own created special gifts, homemade gift ideas will be your best choice. Homemade gifts are some of the best gifts I give at Christmas. It makes the gift more personal and special. Is there anyone who does not like to receive a gift that contains your own thoughts and ideas? I always searched the internet to find some of the best gift ideas to make. The following are some wonderful craft projects ideas I want to try.
1, Sock Monkey
This will cost you no money, all you need is one pair of men extra large socks and a bag of cotton batting as well as two white buttons. This is a sewing based craft and not too complicated to make.
2, Candy Wreath
You can add the candy on the wreath, the number of candies vary from person to person. If you want to hang your wreath, all you need to do is cutting a piece of ribbon and wreath into a loop. Any children would love this cute candy wreath.
3, Homemade Ornaments
Make a homemade photo ornament of your friends to capture the special memories in our life.
4, Gifts in a Jar
These mixes in a jar are really easy and inexpensive to make. And you can give the gift to anyone in any occasion. In addition, you can also decorate the jars to make them really gorgeous looking.
5, Heavenly Bath and Body Recipes
Oils are essential properties of body recipes; all the materials needed you can find in supermarket or health food store. Create some bath salts, body scrubs, and bath bombs; they are not only the unique gift ideas for other persons, but also worth to keep them for your own.
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Wilton 570-1121 Easy Flex 3-Piece Silicone Spatula Set, Blue $5.91 Silicone Baking Accessories. Silicone is the Wonder Kitchen Tool: it can be used in the oven (up to 500F/260C), toaster over, microwave, refrigerator and freezer and it is virtually unbreakable. These silicone utensils are the perfect tool cold foods: Jell-O, ice sculptures, Candies and hot foods: cake, muffins, bread, pies, main and side dishes and so much more! The flexibility makes removing foo… |
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Wilton 4-Tier Stacked Cupcake and Dessert Tower $12.81 Dessert Tower 4 Tier-16.25″X12″. WILTON-Stacked Dessert Tower. What a great way to display cupcakes; appetizers; brownies; fruit and other party treats! This stand consists of four stacking sections with angled tiers for the best view of decorated desse… |
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Wilton 2104-6667 12 Piece Cupcake Decorating Set $4.57 Create all kinds of fun cupcake designs perfect for celebrations or everyday treats! Includes star tips 1M (rosettes, stars, and drop flowers), star tip 22 (zigzags, pull-out stars), round tip 12 (outlines, dots, messages), and Bismarck tip 230 for exciting filled cupcakes, plus 8 disposable bags, and an instruction booklet. 12 pieces total! Made in USA/Imported…. |
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Bob Ross: Getting started with Oil Colors [VHS] $6.21 Getting Started with Bob Ross DVD. An introduction to Bob Ross’ popular Wet-on-Wet painting technique. Bob Ross, host of TV’s favorite ‘Joy of Painting’ show, gives you an overview of his technique and shows you how to paint ‘Mountain Summit’ using his unique materials (materials sold separately). This full-screen DVD features English voice and subtitles plus Spanish, French, Mandarin Chinese, Ger… |
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Craft and Gift Ideas: Quick and Easy Sewing Series $9.99 … |
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Dremel 290-01 0.2 Amp 7,200 Stroke Per Minute Engraver includes Letter and Number Template $17.46 Engrave, decorate, or personalize a wide variety of materials–from metal to plastic to wood and leather–with the Dremel 290-01 7,200 Stroke Per Minute Engraver. This handy tool includes a letter and number template for infinite artistic possibilities. It also features a soft-grip body, replaceable carbide engraving point, and variable stroke control..caption {font-family: Verdana, Helvetica neue… |
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Duck Brand 1398228 1.88-Inch by 10-Yard Duck Tape, Cosmic Tie-Dye $0.01 Patterned Duck Tape. Excellent for coordinating repairs, color-coding materials, and crafting applications. Patterned Duck Tape. Excellent for coordinating repairs, color-coding materials, and crafting applications. Duck Tape features high performance strength and adhesion characteristics. Tears easily by hand without curling and conforms to uneven surfaces. Comes in a variety of fun patterns incl… |
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Command 17204 Medium Picture-Hanging Strips, 6-Sets $3.29 Make any space yours with the Command Medium Picture Hanging Strips, a damage-free solution for decorating your home or office. Ideal for frames and other items 12 pounds or less, these handy strips will lock your pictures securely onto the wall. Thanks to the innovative Command Adhesive strips, you can mount and remount them without damaging your walls–no nails, tacks, or tape required.Medium Pi… |
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Hop Blu-ray Combo Pack (Blu-ray+DVD+Digital Copy+UltraViolet) $10.98 From the makers of Despicable Me comes an all-new comedy about candy, chicks and rock n roll! He was destined to be the Easter Bunny, but all he wanted to do was rock! When teenage E.B. (voiced by Russell Brand) leaves for Hollywood in pursuit of his dream to become a rockstar drummer, he meets Fred (James Marsden), an out-of-work slacker with his own lofty goals. Together the two encounter a seri… |
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Getting Started: Watercolor Painting Techniques $9.32 MARTIN/F. WEBER-Susan Schweewe Getting Started Watercolor Painting Techniques DVD. Join Susan Scheewe; host of the popular television series; Scheewe Art Workshop; as she shows you the techniques of watercolor painting. Learn simple techniques to create beautiful watercolor paintings: such as brush strokes; washes; glazing; masking; wet in wet; and many more! This package contains one full- screen… |
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Gift Wrapping: Creative Ideas from Japan $3.95 Much care and thought go into gift giving. And the way a gift is wrapped can say a lot about the care and thought that went into its selection. This easy-to-follow, idea-packed volume draws on traditional forms and techniques of Japanese wrapping to create unusual, attractive, and surprisingly simple ways to wrap presents of all shapes and sizes. The Japanese combine a love of ceremony with an equally strong fondness for giving and receiving presents. They have developed a sophisticated system employing many interesting and eye-pleasing ways to wrap all kinds of gifts. This tradition is evident in techniques such as layering several sheets of paper to create a color contrast or subtle shading effect, wrapping part of the gift and leaving pan visible, using origami-like folds to decorate or add interest, and fashioning soft wrappings from large squares of colorfully patterned cloth called furoshiki. The author draws on his extensive knowledge of this Japanese tradition and his experience in other forms of paper craft, including doll making, to create sixty-six imaginative gift wrappings. All sixty-six ideas are shown in beautiful color plates and accompanied by step-by-step instructions that take you from the materials you need to the finishing touches. Let these exciting and creative wrappings add a new dimension to your gift giving. |
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Wrap It Up: 100s of Fast, Fun, and Festive Gift Wrapping Ideas $4.33 "Wrap It Up" offers hundreds of clever and inviting ideas to give your presents an extra flourish that loved ones are sure to appreciate. Using both traditional wrapping paper and ribbons, combined with some simple trims found in craft or stationery stores or unusual materials like maps, posters, cellophane, or newspaper, there is a wide range of inviting schemes for all occasions. With inspired color combinations and clever use of materials now you can bring a decorative touch to even the simplest package. Instead of using ribbons for bows, try reusing materials found around the home like twine, buttons, decorative buckles, scarves, or even dog collars. Anything can be used as an unexpected decoration. There are also traditional ribbon-wrapped and flower-bedecked packages, but done in a unique manner with ideas that you don’t see elsewhere, like threading buttons through the ribbons before tying them around the packages, or wrapping a strip of torn newspaper around the middle of the package, under an elegantly tied bow, for an interesting and striking effect. With "Wrap it Up" you can turn even the most ordinary gifts into something special: a unique present for someone you care about. |
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Cookie Craft Christmas: Dozens of Decorating Ideas for a Sweet Holiday $14.66 Make every Christmas a cookie craft Christmas The holidays offer just the right combination of cold weather and family togetherness for cookie crafters to elevate their skills to showstopping new heights. With more than 60 new Christmas cookie designs, along with festive New Year’s cookies and lovely Hanukkah treats, "Cookie Craft Christmas" delivers colorful inspiration to cookie decorators just when they need it most. Each spread features a full-page, close-up photograph of one cookie cutter shape with detailed decorating instructions on the facing page. Some pages feature one gloriously decorated cookie, while others might feature two or three interpretations of the same shape – ornaments in complementary colors, Christmas trees decorated in varying styles, or gingerbread men wearing a rainbow of colors and patterns. Decorating instructions are as simple as tinting cookie dough green before baking Christmas trees or as intricate as piping hair on a gingerbread grandma, creating a frilly pattern for her apron, and decorating her dress using a pretty feathering technique. Techniques are described in full in a Decorating Glossary, and cookie and icing recipes are included. Fresh inspiration and fabulous decorating ideas fill the pages of this handy little sourcebook. It’s the perfect gift for anyone who has ever picked up a pastry bag. |
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Snazzy Jars: Glorious Gift Ideas $7.99 Marie Browning, author of Jazzy Jars, Really Jazzy Jars, and Jazzy Gift Baskets, is here with more dazzling techniques and projects to please the discerning crafter. And her ideas are snazzier than ever before! These great gift jars are painted and découpaged, ornamented with polymer clay, embellished with mosaics, covered with beads and charms, topped with decorative lids, or coated with resin. Memory jars feature a photo collage; others, fun for kids, have felt or foam creatures. Because an empty jar simply begs for a filling, there are also recipes for homemade mixes and other treats that store beautifully inside—including cocoa, soups, granola, and candy. |
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Zodiac Gift Guide: Gift Ideas for Sun Signs $14.11 This handy guide, illustrated throughout in full color, is designed to assist you in choosing just the right gift for anyone based on his or her zodiacal Sun Sign. First, a short introduction to astrology describes how the twelve signs and their element families (fire, earth, air and water) relate to our individual nature, temperament, traits, needs, desires and focus in life. Following are two pages for each sign. The first describes the personality, and the particular likes and dislikes that suggest what is most significant to keep in mind when you’re selecting a gift for this sign type. The second page offers a wide variety of suggestions from least expensive to extravagant, with a range of ideas in between. This attractive book could be a nice little gift in itself |
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Jazzy Jars: Glorious Gift Ideas $2.99 “More than 45 one-page patterns, complete with color photographs and directions….Of inordinate help, even more so than the jars, are the ideas for filling the packaged jar….A good source.” – Booklist. |
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101 Creative Gift Ideas Under $10: Along with 101 Memorable Gift Ideas Shared by Others $14.03 This book contains all the ingredients for the most memorable low-cost gifts ever. Including ideas from real people, recounting their most memorable gifts. 202 gift ideas that will simplify your life and add a splash of inspiration. |
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Jazzy Pots: Glorious Gift Ideas $6.99 Mickey Baskett–writer, editor, and expert on crafts of every kind–presents creative and fun ways to transform the humble clay pot into a thing of beauty. With a little imagination, simple crafts skills, and these fabulous projects–all photographed in color–anyone can turn basic clay flowerpots into jazzy, snazzy ornaments and gifts. Several talented designers show how, as they present more than three dozen ideas for decorating pots with paint, decoupage, and other easy-to-master techniques. Many of the decorations will brighten a garden, including the pretty Découpaged Tabletop Fountain and a Whimsical Feeder to welcome birds, which has wings and a tail cut from a milk jug and a smiling beak made from a plastic funnel. Other great items include a Snow Fairy, Cherry Tray, and Gingerbread Cookie Jar. Every project comes complete with patterns, worksheets, painting examples, and assembly diagrams. |
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Best of Christmas Ideas (Better Homes & Gardens Crafts) $5.99 Whether you incorporate handmade items as part of your decor, celebrations, or gift giving, adding a personal touch to Christmas makes the holiday season even more special. Christmas Ideas is packed with easy and inspirational ways to help beautify and personalize your holiday season. You’ll get ideas for festive decorating schemes, stunning themed trees, quick-to-make ornaments and cards, appealing gifts, and easy crafts. So before you adorn your home or begin penning your Christmas cards, turn to this gorgeous book for: Projects that bring a handmade touch to holiday décor, gifts, and celebrations. Step-by-step instructions for craft projects. Ideas for holiday entertaining including kitchen-tested recipes. Gorgeous color photos that offer inspiration and guidance. Christmas Ideas is a treasure-trove of holiday merriment – a perfect source for creating unforgettable Christmas celebrations and traditions you’ll be proud to share with family and friends. |
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Gift Wrapping with Textiles: Stylish Ideas from Japan $18.5 In Japanese culture, it is customary to put as much care into the wrapping of a gift as into choosing the gift itself. The way a gift is wrapped and the material in which it is presented are considered expressions of the giver’s feeling toward the recipient. Now, using techniques that have been part of Japanese tradition for generations, Chizuko Morita offers readers innovative and unique ideas for using the Japanese art of wrapping with cloth in very contemporary ways. In a matter of minutes, a swatch of cloth known as a furoshiki can be fashioned into an elegant wrapping for a CD, a book, a bottle of wine, a box of chocolates, even a soccer ball. And unlike paper gift wrap, if you get it wrong the first time, you can just undo the knots and start again. Not only are the wraps fool-proof, they rely on only three basic knots. INCLUDES: * Stunningly original wrapping ideas * Gift-wraps for wine, books, CDs, pictures, posters, balls, and boxed items of all sizes * Based on techniques that have their roots in centuries-old Japanese traditions of wrapping for gift-giving also * Additional ideas to freshen up everyday items such as pillows, baskets, and more * New thoughts for decorating the breakfast and dinner table * Add an elegant touch to flowerpots, planters, or a bouquet of flowers * Make an instant magazine "rack" or knapsack |
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The Art of Giving: Gift Ideas to Delight the Senses $3.95 Gift giving is a universal custom, but in today’s harried world many of us have moved away from the more considered and creative aspects of what should be a very personal act. It should be a gesture of love, friendship, celebration, acknowledgment, and thanks. "The Art of Giving" is filled with inspirational ideas and practical information for the discerning gift giver on how to achieve beautiful, artful, and thoughtful gifts. Taste, smell, and touch are the pivotal chapters. They draw on our capacity to indulge ourselves and those we love through each particular sense. Each chapter is filled with ideas and tantalizing images, as well as practical information on how to create and present wonderful gifts. Another chapter, on wrapping, will show you how to achieve expert finishing touches and inspired solutions to the most awkward of gift shapes. From handcrafted soaps and homemade potpourri to beautifully wrapped candies and an entire picnic for two, the endless variety of ideas in this book offer something for everyone. Turn to the back of the book for recipes, templates, diagrams, labels, and other do-it-yourself essentials to tell you how to do it all. For anyone who wants to create and give gifts that are more expressive, meaningful, and heartfelt than something grabbed off the shelf or ordered over the phone, "The Art of Giving "offers a wealth of inspiration and practical advice. |
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Great Ideas $47.78 Highlights from Penguinas Great Ideas series in an affordable six-book boxed set The perfect gift for the true book lover, the Great Ideas series offers groundbreaking works by some of historyas most prodigious thinkers packaged with beautiful type-driven covers that highlight the bookmakeras art. Now six favorites from our initial list of twelve are available as a boxed set: "Common Sense," by Thomas Paine "Meditations," by Marcus Aurelius "On the Shortness of Life," by Seneca "The Prince," by NiccolA Machiavelli "Why I Am So Wise," by Friedrich Nietzsche "Why I Write," by George Orwell Offering great literature in great packages at great prices, the Great Ideas Boxed Set is ideal for those readers who want to explore and savor the great ideas that have shaped our world. |
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Ideas – Subscription $231.55 Ideas is the ultimate guide to fresh, modern living for women with creative flair and a passion for life. These women care for their families and the people around them and cherish them by expressing their own individuality in everything they do. They love to entertain and decorate their home with their unique style. The magazine provides an outlet for creativity and offers readers practical, creative content that transforms the mundane into the extraordinary. It’s a source of inspiration for craft, decor, entertainment and food. Ideas readers are stylish, sophisticated, modern, educated, bala |
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Better Homes and Gardens Best of Christmas Ideas $14.73 Deck the halls with tons of ideas and projects that help make the season bright Whether you incorporate handmade items as part of your decor, celebrations, or gift giving, adding a personal touch to Christmas makes the holiday season even more special. "Christmas Ideas" is packed with easy and inspirational ways to help beautify and personalize your holiday season. You’ll get ideas for festive decorating schemes, stunning themed trees, quick-to-make ornaments and cards, appealing gifts, and easy crafts. So before you adorn your home or begin penning your Christmas cards, turn to this gorgeous book for Projects that bring a handmade touch to holiday dcor, gifts, and celebrations Step-by-step instructions for craft projects Ideas for holiday entertaining including kitchen-tested recipes Gorgeous color photos that offer inspiration and guidance "Christmas Ideas" is a treasure-trove of holiday merriment–a perfect source for creating unforgettable Christmas celebrations and traditions you’ll be proud to share with family and friends. |
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Kirigami Greeting Cards and Gift Wrap $3.94 This book explores the Japanese art of paper cutting through a collection of kirigami greeting cards and gift wraps from well-known craft author and expert Florence Temko. The projects in this book provide great ideas for every occasion, with Heart Variations For Your Valentine, Pop-ups, Dress-up Paper Dolls, Gift Box Borders, Woven Gift Wrap, Appliqued Gift Bag, and many, many more The projects and simple instructions will appeal to anyone who crafts for fun or as an activity. This is a wonderful book for anyone who enjoys creating with their hands. Renowned origami artist Florence Temko fills this book with truly unforgettable projects. |
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Really Jazzy Jars: Glorious Gift Ideas $3.94 Marie Browning’s best-selling" Jazzy Jars "delighted crafters with its clever, yet wonderfully easy, suggestions for turning the humble jar into a breathtaking gift package. The creative fun continues in this follow-up collection, which has dozens of all-new, even better projects, patterns, techniques, and ideas. There are spectacular options galore: decorative painting with permanent enamel glass paints, decoupage, altered art, polymer clay, gluing and embellishing with trims or found objects, quick and easy lid decorations, special tags and labels, and much more. Fill up that empty jar, and make it complete, with an entire section of recipes for layered mixes and other foods. Tie a bow around the finished jar, and voila The perfect present to make anyone happy. "A Selection of the Crafters Choice and Homestyle Book Clubs." |
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Holiday Ideas $19.99 “Over 200 festive ideas for cranking up celebrations for every holiday imaginable! – Christmas . . . Here’s your one-stop Christmas programming center. You’ll find everything you need for the merriest Advent and Christmas season ever — goofy games, crazy carols, outrageous outings, and silly skits to fill even the biggest Christmas stocking. And, of course, Christmasy meetings and lessons to help your kids focus on the real reason for the season. – Easter & Lent . . . Worship activities, reenactments, Bible lessons, meeting plans, and service projects, all designed to commemorate the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ. Plus games, puzzles, craft projects, and scavenger hunt ideas — all tied to an Easter theme. – Valentine’s Day . . . Play a memorable February 14th with these icebreakers, games, songs, activities, and Bible lessons — all about love, whether human or divine. – Thanksgiving . . . Wait until you see the potful of ideas that youth workers from Cape Cod to all points west have cooked up for you — Thanksgiving craft projects, skits, outings, parties, service projects, and Bible lessons. Plus More . . . All kinds of party and meeting ideas for St. Patrick’s Day, New Year’s, Halloween, Super Bowl Sunday, April Fool’s Day, Mother’s and Father’s Day celebrations, and graduation. Whether you’re a youth worker or a recreation director in a church, school, club, or camp — Holiday Ideas is your storehouse of proven, youth-group tested ideas.” |
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Simeon’s Gift [With CD (Audio)] $3.95 CD included with a reading by Julie Andrews Edwards In a faraway time and place, a humble musician named Simeon sets out on a quest. Thirsting for knowledge and eager to improve his craft, he risks losing all that is important to him, including the love of his beautiful Sorrel. The journey brings many discoveries, and though he tries hard to absorb the vast new tapestry of sounds and ideas before him, the scope of choices eventually becomes overwhelming. Dispirited, he turns for home — and alone in the grace of nature, he experiences a series of wondrous events that lead him to the discovery of his own true self, and the glorious gift he has to offer. Julie Andrews Edwards and Emma Walton Hamilton — with stunning illustrations from Gennady Spirin — weave a magical tale with a timeless lesson about beauty, music, and the power of giving. |
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Fresh Ideas in Dried Flowers $3.94 Projects are grouped into centerpieces, hanging arrangements and holiday decorations, plus a bonus gift gallery with more quick decorating ideas. |
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Ideas Into Words: Mastering the Craft of Science Writing $15.56 "I am so proud to be Elise’s student. Read this book and I suspect you will be too." — from the foreword by Robert Kanigel, author of The Man Who Knew Infinity "In Ideas into Words, Elise Hancock has managed to write a guide to science writing that is not only comprehensive — she answers every question I could have imagined asking and then some — but also wise, vivid, and an awful lot of fun. I wish I’d had something like this to help me when I was starting out." — Michael D. Lemonick, author of Other Worlds: The Search for Life in the Universe, winner of the American Institute of Physics Writing Award "Elise Hancock’s excitement is infectious. One puts her book down and feels drawn to a keyboard." — Joel Havemann, editor, Washington bureau of the Los Angeles Times From the latest breakthroughs in medical research and information technologies to new discoveries about the diversity of life on earth, science is becoming both more specialized and more relevant. Consequently, the need for writers who can clarify these breakthroughs and discoveries for the general public has become acute. In Ideas into Words, Elise Hancock, a professional writer and editor with thirty years of experience, provides both novice and seasoned science writers with the practical advice and canny insights they need to take their craft to the next level. Rich with real-life examples and anecdotes, this book covers the essentials of science writing: finding story ideas, learning the science, opening and shaping a piece, polishing drafts, overcoming blocks, and conducting interviews with scientists and other experts who may not be accustomed to making their ideas understandable to lay readers. Hancock’s wisdom will prove useful to anyone pursuing nonfiction writing as a career. She devotes an entire chapter to habits and attitudes that writers should cultivate, another to structure, and a third to the art of revision. Some of her advice is surprising (she cautions against slavish use of transitions, for example); all of it is hard-earned, astute, and wittily conveyed. This concise guide is essential reading for every writer attempting to explain the world of science to the rest of us. |
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Great Gift Ideas Using Scrapbook Materials $3.95 This book features tons of gifts to create using scrapbooking materials. The photographs are beautiful with a full material list, along with detailed instructions that are are complete, accurate, and easy to understand. Yet the projects themselves are stunning and make delightful gifts Decorated paint cans, CD holders, cards, frames, tin dolls, pin cushions, wall baskets, gift magnets, note cards in a tin, journals and mini scrapbooks, jewelry, clocks, and much more This book is jam-packed with inspiration. The best part is that most crafters already have the materials. |
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Dream Room Designer Gift Set $9.99 Discover your personal style and design a dream room that’s just for you! Dream Room Designer is packed with ideas for exciting room makeovers and themed craft projects. Includes: Dream Room handbook; style wheel; room set with wallpapers and floor coverings; sticker accessory sheet. |
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Christmas Art Ideas $5.95 This easy-to-use craft book is a great resource for inspirational ideas for parents and teachers Adults and children alike will love decorating their homes with these beautiful and sophisticated creations. |