Teaches girls ages 9-16 how to make their own albums. Heidi Schueller will teach girls the basics of materials and techniques, talk about how to get great photos, and demonstrate 17 layouts that girls can make for themselves.

With simple techniques targeted to a wide and general audience, this guide eliminates the intimidation from an all-too-often technical craft.

If You Collected It, You Can Scrap It! Empty those shoeboxes and "junk" drawers, collect your photos, explore the attic-and create keepsake albums to display and share! 28 projects celebrate all the best days and special memories of your life. Scrapbook page ideas and full instructions from dozens of top artists. Complete materials lists including where-to-buy info. Don't keep your memories locked away any longer! Jan helps you sort, sift and select treasures to create amazing pages you can enjoy, display, and share. Step-by-step instructions and materials lists are included so you can re-create your favorite pages, or adapt the ideas for one-of-a-kind pages of your own.

Ready, Set, Scrap! If you have stacks upon stacks of photos just waiting to be put to good use, turn to the amazing ideas in Get It Scrapped! to fire up your creative engines! Whether your photos are digital files or prints, everything you need to know for organizing your images, analyzing what you have and making a plan for the layouts you'd like to create is right here at your fingertips. Author and artist Debbie Hodge offers her unique methodology for creating several common page types in this must-have resource. Learn how to scrap a variety of page types including events, everyday life, collections, moments, the world around you and yourself. • Discover a wealth of information on basic page formats, album types and sizes, photo storage and organization, creative journaling, photography and more. • See how three featured artists approach the craft and the unique ways they put their own personal spin on the stories they share. • Broaden your skills to design two-page layouts, create focal point blocks, design secondary groupings, tell a story in pictures and much more. It's time to shake the dust off that photo box, lay those snapshots out on the craft table and get scrapping!

The time to save the planet is now. Ready? Set? Green! Living green means reversing climate change, but it also means protecting your kids and pets, improving your own health, and saving money. And it doesn't necessarily demand a radical overhaul of your life-just some simple adjustments, such as switching to healthier cleaning products and driving fewer miles each week. Written by the visionaries at Treehugger.com, the most heavily trafficked site of its kind, Ready, Set, Green is the definitive (and recyclable) guide to modern green living. It offers solutions to make your home, office, car, and vacation more eco-friendly. For example: - Using a dishwasher instead of hand washing will save you 5,000 gallons of water annually. - Eating less beef will save you 250 pounds of CO2 per year. - Washing your clothes in cold water instead of hot will save 200 pounds of CO2 annually. - Replacing three of your home's most frequently used lightbulbs with compact fluorescent bulbs will save 300 pounds of CO2 every year. Including advice on how to properly insulate your house, cancel junk mail, and choose fruits and veggies wisely, Ready, Set, Green will help you change the future of the planet and restore balance to your daily life.

Want to be a scrap quilter? Great! Want to think like a scrap quilter? Learn from a master! Lissa Alexander has spent three decades honing her scrap-quilting talents, and in her first solo book, she offers page after page of tips for making dazzling scrap quilts bursting with colors, prints, and textures. Learn Lissa's secrets for deciding which fabric combinations work (and understanding why others don't). Best of all, with a dozen patterns to choose from you'll discover how to (finally!) use your unique stash to make scrap quilts that sing. Includes a preface by renowned quilt historian Barbara Brackman.

Basic reading skills have declined steadily among America's children over the past twenty years, and it's up to parents to nurture and encourage their children in their most teachable years. Written with insight and wisdom by a woman who proved these techniques on her own eleven children, this book is a simple, thorough, and very affordable tool that shows parents how to develop a love of reading in their pre-school children. Ready, Set, Read! helps any child become a better, more enthusiastic reader, and gives parents the satisfaction of knowing they play a vital role in their children's achievement.

Presents a guide to creating scrapbooks, discussing supplies, tools required to design samples, writing tips, layouts, projects, and ideas for throwing a scrapbooking party.

Cheerful, adorable crafts that kids will love! Childhood is supposed to be magical. Instead of generic bedding, add some whimsy to children's bedrooms with fanciful quilts and huggable pals that looks like they jumped right off the fabric. From playful puppies to retro robots, this fanciful collection from author Antonie Alexander offers easy-to-follow directions for making one-of-a-kind creations! Inside you'll find: • 10 themed quilts with more than a dozen matching stuffed toys • Basic quilting, piecing, applique and finishing instructions • A digital link to download quilt templates and full-size soft toy patterns in a ready-to-print PDF

Are you buried in scraps—big pieces, small pieces, hunks, chunks, strips, and parts? Bonnie K. Hunter fans will love her newest book of playful string-quilt projects! Sew a dozen vibrant quilt patterns using the small leftovers from other projects that seem too tiny to save, yet too big to toss. Learn Bonnie’s basics for foundation piecing narrow fabric pieces 3/4” to 2” wide, turning them into dazzling scrappy blocks and one-of-a-kind quilts. Have a string piecing party with a best-selling author, the great Bonnie K. Hunter Love your leftovers! Become a scrap quilt addict, sewing fabric strings and crumbs into brand new blocks Hunter fans will love this offering of twelve “use it all” patterns in her signature style