Blocks for 14 different, easy-to-piece floral designs and 16 leaves with clear piecing diagrams for every block.

Learn how to make stunning flowers and figures with latex balloons, wire, and air. Margie Padgitt provides detailed instructions for many air or helium-filled floral designs, wired balloon flowers, and her own invention- fantasy balloon figures made with wire, latex balloons, and other materials. You don't need to be a professional balloon artist to learn these techniques, just a creative person. After learning the methods described in this book, you'll be able to create your own unique designs. In this book you'll find: > Air or helium-filled flowers using round and animal balloons > Multiple wired floral designs > Multiple figures such as fairies, elves, ballerinas, a mermaid, a seahorse, and much more! > Detailed instructions and photos of each step > Suggestions for using these items in decor Use the designs in this book for parties, weddings, or special events - even as cake toppers

Step-by-step, easy to follow instructions make the traditional art of creating dried flowers by hand accessible to everyone.

Faux Florals for Your Wedding is the first craft book on the latest bridal trend: accessories and decorations with gorgeous silk flowers. More and more couples are choosing faux florals because they're easier to craft than fresh, can be made ahead, offer more choices of flowers and colors, can be safely transported far away, won't wilt, are non-allergenic, and later are keepsakes or home decorations. Above all, faux florals have become amazingly realistic. Faux Florals for Your Wedding is the first book about turning those fabulous florals and wedding craft supplies into romantic, personalized wedding designs. The thirty projects, plus abundant variations in colors and styles, include bouquets, boutonnieres, corsages, headpieces, ceremony accents, centerpieces, toasting glasses, and favors. Step-by-step, photographed instructions ensure professional results even for beginners. This complete guide includes the basics of wedding flowers and faux florals as well as a fill-in organizer. With Faux Florals for Your Wedding, the flowers will be as beautiful, original, and lasting as their love. Fifty projects for bouquets, bridal-party accessories, flowers for the ceremony and reception. Easy projects, no experience needed. All other wedding floral books are about fresh flowers.

Flowers are a classically timeless way to decorate a cake for a special occasion. With flowerpaste there is no limit to the range of flowers, foliage or berries that can be created – both real and fantasy. All that is required are the right materials, equipment and technique. In Creating flowers from flowerpaste, Colette Laura May guides the reader through step-by-step tutorials to create stunning floral displays to adorn cakes for all occasions. With over 860 images, this book describes the equipment and materials required and demonstrates the essential techniques required to get started. It includes thirty-eight step-by-step tutorials for the creation of all aspects of floral displays: flowers, buds, leaves, foliage, berries and seedpods. Finally, there is guidance on the creation of fantasy butterflies to enhance floral displays and instruction on the construction of seventeen specific sprays and arrangements. Includes templates and a useful list of suppliers.

Fantasy House is a collection of poems as told by Tom Lynch Jr. to his poetically enlightened friends. About the Author Tom created a world on his own within himself, a place he knows he belongs, so as he lives his endless life staying brave and courageous through this tale called living, he's simply wanting to go home over the rainbow and in his heart's soul knows he'll be there someday.

Offering an abundance of information and inspiration, Homemade is a revelatory addition to the craft world—the ultimate reference book on crafting and also a warm, engagingly written book that combines history and personal narrative with the science that makes a craft possible and the passion that inspires it. Carol Endler Sterbenz is a crafter, a teacher, a homemaker, a wife, and a mother. Raised by immigrant parents who taught her the enduring value of resourcefulness and creativity, she makes her lifetime of experience and infinite enthusiasm the foundation for Homemade. Sterbenz provides readers with not only practical information and direction but also a philosophy and methodology of crafting that build confidence and ability, making it easy to achieve truly professional results. Teeming with clear, reliable, and thorough information on everything from tools and materials to techniques, Homemade is an essential guide to seven of the most beloved crafts: beading, the flower arts, paper crafting, hand printing, decoupage, decorative embellishing, and children’s arts and crafts. Crafters—beginners and veterans alike—can turn to Homemade to learn which glues and finishes to use, how to form a perfect beaded loop, assemble a miniature robot, hollow out an egg, emboss paper, make a hand-tied bouquet, or transform a chandelier. Overflowing with hundreds of techniques; easy-to-follow step-by-step directions supported by more than eight hundred beautiful and precise hand-drawn illustrations, diagrams, and patterns; and countless insider secrets and troubleshooting tips, Homemade is an indispensable go-to reference no crafter should be without.

The Perfume Companion is a beautifully illustrated compendium of almost 500 recommended scents. It organizes and explores fragrances in a bid to guide readers toward new favourites. Filled with vibrant descriptions and specially commissioned detailed illustrations that bring the fragrances and their beautiful bottles to life, it is the ideal introduction to the complex world of scent.

Cake decoration is an art that can turn your everyday baking into a beautiful display of skill and creativity. With the right instruction anyone can learn how to create marvellous designs following fun, quick and innovative techniques. Alan Dunn's "Creative Cakes" covers a variety of cake decorating methods, ranging from more elaborate designs to several simple and straightforward ideas that can be followed by the amateur cake decorator with ease. The featured concepts are suitable for a variety of occasions, including wedding, engagement, anniversary and birthday cakes and a special section guides the reader through simple step-by-step instructions for elegant and stylish flower decorations. If you are looking for the most inspired and innovative cake decoration ideas, this book will exceed your expectations.