Download or read book Famous Five Vintage Notebook written by Kinkajou and published by Frances Lincoln. This book was released on 2016-05-03 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Famous Five Stationery range is smashing, absolutely smashing! The classic images in this thrilling product will conjure up the long-forgotten adventures of childhood, recapturing the essence of adventure, japes, scrapes and of course, lashings of ginger beer! The Famous Five Notebook has a textured cover, beautiful colour inserts and lined paper to record all the jolly thrilling adventures of your own life.

Download or read book Simply Retro with Camille Roskelley written by Camille Roskelley and published by C&T Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2013 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers a fresh interpretation of classic quilting blocks in twelve projects simple enough for beginners.

Download or read book Digital Retro written by Gordon Laing and published by Sybex. This book was released on 2004-09-21 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book tells the story of the classic home computers that paved the way for the PCs we use today - from 1977s pioneering MITS Altair to the latest swivel screen designs of the iMac and the Tablet PC.

Download or read book The Complete Book of Retro Crafts written by Suzie Millions and published by Sterling Publishing Company. This book was released on 2008 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Baby boomers feeling nostalgic, hipsters longing for the handmade, and anyone interested in going retro can stop right here! This is the definitive guide to the fun and quirky world of retro crafts, written by a diva of the style. It’s jam-packed with history and wonderful images from vintage pamphlets, collections, and flea market hunts. Everything memorable is included, from the ridiculous to the sublime, along with the lowdown on collecting, Junking 101, and creating a crafting group. Forty retro-inspired projects run the gamut from glitter frames and matchbox purses to bottlecap men and teacup ladies, plus lovable Plastic Flower Pixies; the Sparkling Sputnik and its desk-top compadre, the Beauty Orb; and the unforgettable Reinbeer. Variations and creative suggestions will keep readers inspired.

Download or read book In Love with Paper Crafts written by Leisure Arts and published by Leisure Arts. This book was released on 2011 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Love with Paper Crafts, -Endearing designs from Paper Crafts magazine celebrate love of all kinds, from valentines to wedding wishes and family ties. Cards, bags, boxes, albums, sweet gifts, and more.

Download or read book Sew Retro written by Judi Ketteler and published by Voyageur Press. This book was released on 2010-07-10 with total page 147 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sewing never goes out of style, and today it is more popular than ever! Sew Retro offers twenty-five stylish, vintage-inspired sewing projects—beautiful bags, essential skirts, unique pillows, and more—that are a pleasure to sew, thanks to easy instructions, helpful diagrams, and a pocket of ten full-size patterns. This fun, inspirational book also uncovers sewing’s colorful history, from the introduction of the sewing machine to the modern DIY movement, and features interviews with today’s hottest fabric and pattern designers, including Amy Butler, Betz White, Barbara Brackman, Emma Brennan, Judie Rothermel, and Kathy Miller of Michael Miller Fabrics. Filled with gorgeous project photography and quirky vintage illustrations that bring the 1920s, 1940s, 1950s, and beyond to life, Sew Retro celebrates sewing yesterday and today. Learn more about Sew Retro and enjoy bonus projects and tutorials at www.sewretrothebook.com!

Download or read book Notebooks written by Athol Fugard and published by Theatre Communications Group. This book was released on 2013-10-15 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Fugard registers and captures the keen images that are the very stuff of vibrant theatre."--Time

Download or read book Shine On How To Grow Awesome Instead of Old written by Claire Cook and published by Marshbury Beach Books. This book was released on 2015-12-17 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A veritable fountain of exciting and practical suggestions for women who want to make sure that even though one cannot help growing older, she can indeed keep from growing old.”—Pamela Kramer, Examiner If you're a forty-to-forever woman who's interested in aging well, don't miss this motivating and inspiring book. Join New York Times bestselling author Claire Cook (Must Love Dogs, Never Too Late) on a transformative journey that will help you shake off all those worries about getting older and embrace what can be the most vibrant, creative and empowering chapter of your life. Claire wrote her first book in her minivan at 45. At 50, she walked the red carpet at the Hollywood premiere of the adaptation of her novel, Must Love Dogs, starring Diane Lane and John Cusack. With another milestone birthday on the horizon, she was old enough to know the signs: "It was time to get my act together. Again." Shine On: How To Grow Awesome Instead of Old speaks to midlife women everywhere and is filled with Claire's trademark humor, heart, honesty and encouragement. “Full of inspirational quotes as well as practical suggestions, this is a perfect book to begin a new year on the right foot.”—Laurie Nerat, Looking on the Sunnyside Find out more about Claire and read excerpts of her books at ClaireCook.com. Stay in the loop for new releases and giveaways at ClaireCook.com/newsletter/. “I highly recommend this new book. You’re never too old to get started!”—Sharon’s Garden of Book Reviews “Dedicated to “forty-to-forever women,” Shine On offers sage advice not just on aging well, but living well. With her trademark wit and honesty, Claire Cook covers everything from big picture motivation on following your dreams and remembering to have fun, to practical, hands-on tips on fitness, healthy eating, and her favorite beauty products . . . Claire Cook’s wisdom, candor, and effervescent enthusiasm shine on in every word she writes.”—Stephanie Burns, Book Perfume

Download or read book If You Can Cut You Can Collage written by Hollie Chastain and published by Quarry Books. This book was released on 2017-11-07 with total page 131 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If You Can Cut, You Can Collage is specially designed for people who feel like they can't make art. Want to know a secret? You can! You just need a little inspiration, instruction, and confidence. Collage is a wonderful creative outlet, particularly for people who want to make art, but don’t feel they have the skills or confidence for other endeavors. You can still explore and experiment with color, composition, and various themes and end up with exciting and often unexpected results. If you Can Cut, You Can Collage takes some of the mystery out of collage through easy illustrated pages that show you the basic techniques of collecting and cutting imagery, composing and adhering compositions, and then provides a wealth of exercises that get readers going on their own creative projects. We’ll get you started with simple, focused, projects like making a collage with only circles, where you’ll learn important concepts like how to create a focal point, how to use repetition successfully, how to achieve contrast, balance, symmetry, and more. You’ll be incorporating vintage ephemera, typography and lettering, and even urban and found materials in no time!

Download or read book How to Catch a Love Rat written by Dawn Anna Williamson and published by Balboa Press. This book was released on 2016-10-27 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How to Catch a Love Rat blends self-help and dating advice within a darkly acerbic fictional narrative, told through the adventures of Dylan. Dylan Sheriden: private investigator to tortured lovers everywhere. No-nonsense and trying to rewrite the dating rule book, shes seen and heard it all. Only problem is, how can she believe real love still exists in the face of overwhelming evidence to the contrary? Dylan catches rats of the large love variety that plague the lives of good people everywhere deep down shes as damaged as the next person but fronting it well - so if you think youre the only one dating disasters have ever happened to, think again! If youre perpetually unlucky in love, clueless about men, desperate to play amateur detective, or just want a heavy dose of relationship realism, then this is the book for you. How to Catch a Love Rat will resonate with confused singletons, scorned lovers, and stealth addicts everywhere.

Download or read book American Writers written by Leonard Unger and published by Charles Scribner's Sons. This book was released on 1974 with total page 628 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The four volume set consists of ninety-seven of the pamphlets originally published as the University of Minnesota pamphlets on American writers. Some have been revised and updated.

Download or read book The Husband Who Refused to Die written by Andrea Darby and published by Troubador Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2018-11-28 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Andrea Darby’s The Husband Who Refused to Die tells the story of Carrie Colwell’s struggle after husband Dan dies unexpectedly and leaves behind an extraordinary ‘wish’ – one that turns out to have difficult repercussions.

Download or read book Lawless Spaces written by Corey Ann Haydu and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2023-01-17 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While a highly publicized sexual assault case threatens to destroy her and her mother, sixteen-year-old Mimi Dovewick tries to understand their tense relationship by reaching out to the women of her maternal line through the journals they all kept.

Download or read book All About Us written by Ashley Erin and published by Ashley Erin. This book was released on with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It took twenty-four hours for Emma’s world to shatter, leaving her broken. Returning to her childhood home, Emma wonders if it could be exactly what she needs to heal. Dane finally has a chance at the girl he lost all those years ago. When Emma blows back into his world, he knows he won’t let her go again. They’re drawn together, their chemistry undeniable. Emma just needs to decide whether she’s willing to risk her heart when it’s just begun to heal.

Download or read book The Art of Prompts 2 written by Kevin Ashley and published by Kevin Ashley. This book was released on with total page 133 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Art of Prompts 2 has hundreds of examples and prompt tips to help you create beautiful illustrations, comics, greeting cards, stories, articles and so much more with generative AI! You don't need to be an expert: the book comes with easy-to-use tools to help you save, experiment and share your prompts with Livebook, and instantly publish your creations online with the visual Prompt Maker, Story Maker, Comics Maker, Image Maker and more! This book is a great resource for anyone interested in digital art, creativity, writing and artificial intelligence. Includes hundreds of illustrations and tips on making beautiful digital art with all modern AI models: Google Gemini, OpenAI, Midjourney and more. Enjoy browsing through a gallery of hundreds of illustrations made with prompts, try them yourself and have fun! Make beautiful art and content easily! Includes easy-to-use online tools and 200+ beautiful illustrations and tested prompts you can copy-and-paste to jump start creating artwork instantly, or experiment live with Livebook. Learn to instantly create professional digital art for your projects, books, documentation, research, or business: Illustrations Stories Comics Greeting Cards Articles What’s so special about this book? It explains how to make prompts to generate art and creative content - a very useful skill for any artist or hobbyist making art with powerful artificial intelligence tools. Enjoy browsing through a gallery of hundreds of illustrations made with prompts and have fun! Easy-to-follow and well structured The book is well structured, so you can quickly find your genres or styles of illustrations or artwork and use hints, guidance and copy-paste prompts that I tested while working on this book, or use Livebook (included) to create prompts, notebooks and more. Save time and start with best practices Creating a great artwork with artificial intelligence takes time. The book provides best practices and tested prompts to get started quickly. What is a prompt? A prompt is a loosely defined input, like a phrase or instruction that tells A.I. what to do. The art of creating prompts is just like the art of talking to people: if you’re skilled in this art you’ll get fantastic results! More creative AI resources: What’s new in this book: besides lots of new prompt tips, each prompt in this book is available online on Livebook, a new resource where you can keep and share your prompts, play, experiment, make articles, posts, illustrations, books, websites, and more. Livebook helps you creating content based on just your ideas (no special skills necessary), and provides a content management platform for generative AI, with lots of easy-to-use generative AI tools built-in: the visual Prompt Maker, Comics Maker, Greeting Card Maker, Story makers, and tons of templates as part of the Prompt Mania prompt garden. Ta-Da! Meet the Prompt Maker: one of the new tools included in Livebook simplifies prompt engineering, shortening the path from your ideas to content: the tool will automatically make awesome visual and text prompts for you, saving you typing and time from a single idea. Prompts made by Livebook Prompt Maker fit any transformer, and significantly improve the output quality for Google, OpenAI, Midjourney, and other models. Also in the book: multi-modal prompts - for video, images, text and more! While the first Art of Prompts book focused purely on imaging and art, I decided to include more tips in this book that also cover text and videos. So, in addition to vision and images, in this book you’ll find entirely new comics, text and conversation sections, including Google tools and new models like multi-modal Gemini, that explains the art of getting what you want from machines and artificial intelligence. This book is to make anyone productive with AI, you don’t need to be a data scientist to use methods and tools I share here. I recommend checking books in this series for the background of many methods explained here. Livebook for Business brings a comprehensive generative AI solution for businesses, teams and organizations. For example, at the US Olympic and Paralympic Committee, Livebook powers AI Coaching that teams and coaches as part of long-term Team USA readiness program for LA Olympics 2028! It is the first ever content management system (CMS) designed from the ground up to work with generative AI. Livebook generative AI kiosk had been installed at the Computer History Museum in Silicon Valley, next to the first computers and processors, entertaining visitors with generative stories. Hope you enjoy this book, learn, and have fun!

Download or read book Retro Curved Pieced Quilts written by Erin Grogan and published by Fox Chapel Publishing. This book was released on 2023-12-19 with total page 459 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ·An exciting retro-inspired project guide for modern quilters seeking out-of-the-box novelty designs ·Features 15 colorful and fun quilt projects that incorporate curvy piecing, hand stitched elements, and novelty designs of records, peace signs, flowers, and more ·Projects for pillows, wall hangings, and throws include easy-to-follow step-by-step instructions with coordinating illustrations, diagrams, and photography ·Includes four different technique tutorials for sewing curves, raw edge applique, the Daisy Dresden Quilt Block, and Big Stitch Quilting

Download or read book American Writers written by Jay Parini and published by American Writers. This book was released on 2001 with total page 664 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Among the 18 writers included in the" Supplement" are: Andre Dubus George Garrett William Kennedy Jerzy Kozinski Mary Oliver E. Annie Proulx Anne Rice And more