Colorful, daring nail art is today’s hottest fashion trend, popping up in chic fashion spreads and on celebs walking the red carpet. But store-bought polishes aimed at appealing to the masses are generally uninspiring in hue and appearance. Homemade Nail Polish shows you how to create your own signature polishes using readily available tools and materials. Whether you are looking to match your nails with a specific dress or just have fun playing with shades and hues, this unique guide is the key to stunning original nail art design, featuring one-of-a-kind colors. With step-by-step instructions, detailed photos, and recipes for dozens of different polishes — including cremes, shimmers, glitters, and more — Homemade Nail Polish has you whipping up ahead-of-the-curve colors in no time. From safe handling guidelines and a detailed explanation of each ingredient’s function to tips on bottling, labeling, and naming original creations, everything is right here for making polishes for personal use or as thoughtful handmade gifts. A section on tricks for expert application, easy removal, and drop-dead gorgeous nail design takes custom-made manicuring to a new level of self-expression.

Learn how to fashion vibrant cremes, shimmers and shades. Add sparkle with glamorous glitter. Craft adorable labels and gifts. Paint perfect patterns with pro tricks and style one-of-a-kind nail art.

"Fed & Fit offers meal preparation guides and incorporates practical application tools that are centered around the 'Pillars' to ensure complete success and make transitioning to a healthy lifestyle a positive and rewarding experience. Fed & Fit also features expert techniques and fitness recommendations from New York Times Bestselling author and fitness coach Juli Bauer, "--

Crafting with nail polish is fast, easy, and perfect for everyone! Learn how to add marbling effects to coffee mugs and dishware, give splashes of color to sunglasses and phone cases, and embellish shoes, hair accessories, and so much more. Chica and Jo Craft with Nail Polish features 27 fun projects that can be accomplished in minutes with step-by-step instructions for painting techniques on a wide range of surfaces - from wood and paper to glass and plastic - so you can have fun with affordable nail polish in new ways!

“Transcendent.” —New York Times Book Review “Magnificent.” —Village Voice “Sparkling.” —Publishers Weekly Francesca Lia Block’s dazzling debut novel, Weetzie Bat, is not only a genre-shattering, critically acclaimed gem, it's also widely recognized as a classic of young adult literature, having captivated readers for generations. This coming-of-age novel follows the eponymous Weetzie Bat and her best friend Dirk as they navigate life and love in a timeless, dreamlike version of Los Angeles. When Weetzie is granted three wishes by a genie, she discovers that there are unexpected ramifications…. Winner of the prestigious Phoenix Award, Weetzie Bat is a beautiful, poetic work of magical realism that is perfect for fans of Laura Ruby, Neil Gaiman, and Kelly Link.

Care for your hands, feet, and nails with these simple, natural recipes and crafts. Using some of natureÕs best ingredients, such as cocoa powder, olive oil, beeswax, and oats, youÕll make essential homemade recipes like a Sea Salt Hand Scrub, a Cooling Sore Muscle Butter, and a Nail Strengthening Serum. Craft your very own handmade sachets to freshen up stinky shoes, and learn to master the manicure with personalized press-on nail stickers and wraps. Relax and rejuvenate with these fun, refreshing crafts and recipes for at-home mani-pedi magic!

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.

Producing Women examines the ways femininity is produced through new media. Michele White considers how women are constructed, produce themselves as subjects, form vital production cultures on sites like Etsy, and deploy technological processes to reshape their identities and digital characteristics. She studies the means through which women market traditional female roles, are viewed, and produce and restructure their gendered, raced, eroticized, and sexual identities. Incorporating a range of examples across numerous forms of media—including trash the dress wedding photography, Internet how-to instructions about zombie walk brides, nail polish blogging, DIY crafting, and reborn doll production—Producing Women elucidates women’s production cultures online, and the ways that individuals can critically study and engage with these practices.

Happy Homemade Vol. 2 contains 20 projects for making gorgeous clothes for boys and girls aged 4--10. The easy-to-follow instructions are accompanied by detailed diagrams, beautiful full-colour photographs and full-sized pull-out pattern sheets. Japanese Craft books are hugely popular, with hundreds of blogs and online craft-communities devoted to their unique aesthetic and meticulous detail. Previously only accessible to Japanese-speakers and those with sewing skills advanced enough to attempt to interpret the patterns with no instruction, this translation will appeal to an already-devoted following and also engage with a whole new market.

If you, like me have family and friends who all seem to have birthdays and anniversaries in the same months of the year, gifting can become a financial problem especially if the gift list is larger than your budget. In order to make gifting a pleasure instead of a constant headache, I have devised a list of suggestions that could help with the budget.