Easy-to-follow instructions for knotted bracelets with embroidery floss. Colorful bracelets are fun for kids and teens! Friendship knows no boundaries—it covers the world. It comes in all languages. The idea of making a bracelet to celebrate and share friendship began in Central and South America. The legend of the wish began with the bracelets: One person makes a bracelet and ties it around the arm of a friend, who makes a wish. When the bracelet falls off by itself, the wish will come true! Friendship Bracelets 101 is filled with all the basics you need to get started making friendship bracelets. Color photos and step-by-step instructions make it easy for the beginner, and a variety of fun designs and knots will keep you learning and creating. Step-by-step instructions Clear knotting diagrams Inspirational color photos of finished bracelets Learn to make bracelets, headbands, barrettes, coin purses, and keychains Patterns for braiding chevrons, stripes, waves, zigzags, diamonds, and more Inexpensive, easy-to-find embroidery floss and cotton thread are all the materials you need Make a unique gift to share with friends at school or church, or with your club or team mates, with Friendship Bracelets 101!

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The Desire For Trading And Sharing Tokens Such As Friendship Bracelets Has Become More Popular Than Ever. Learn Over Two Dozen Braiding Techniques And How To Use The Popular Braiding Wheel In This Easy Book.

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Celebrate the gift of unconditional and unending friendship with this empowering coloring book. Suzy Toronto's uplifting words and delightfully zany characters encourage you to live a life worth coloring and stand for all that is good and right in the world. Her fun and distinctive illustrations will inspire you to get out of your comfort zone, go with the flow, and dare to live a full and wacky life no matter what comes your way.

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Jump on the wagon! Leading fabric designer and quilter Edyta Sitar has created 15 gorgeous scrappy Half-Square Triangle Block Quilts for you that are fun and easy to make. Triangle Block Exchange Programs make it fun. Laundry Basket Quilts Half-Square Triangle Exchange Paper makes it easy with 25 half-square triangles at a time! Just stitch and cut, choose a project, and see your quilt come colorfully alive. Fifteen Triangle Block Quilt Projects include bed quilts, wall quilts, table toppers, table runners, and a tote bag. With more than a dozen projects and Edyta's suggestions on exchanging triangle blocks through shops, friends, guilds, and retreats, you'll quickly see how easy it is to get started giving and receiving triangle stashes in delightful ranges of colors and fabrics.

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This book follows the history and development of Brian Harris Transport Limited, the original red, green, and yellow liveried lorries that made the trek between Devon and Scotland at regular intervals for over fifty years. In 1946, Brian's father, Jerry, and Sam Miners formed Harris & Miners; with their fleet of two Ford trucks and one Commertipper, these two men took on the ultimate haulage challenge of the time: road vs. train. The outcome was that Harris & Miners were offered a contract to haul 'Devon Grate' Candy fire surrounds to Glasgow in 1947. Young Brian Harris began driving for his father in an Albion Chieftain in 1960. When Jerry Harris passed, Brian bought out the Miners family and the company became Brian Harris Transport Limited. With his fleet of ERF lorries fitted with Gardner engines, Brian set about running the company in a way only understood by him. Over the course of its existence, the company utilized a vast quantity of magnificent machines, including the first ERF 'A' series in that area, the Leyland Roadtrain and one Leyland DAF. Brian Harris died in April 2012 and his funeral was attended by over 600 people from all over the UK. This new edition gives an update to the events that have taken place since the second edition was published in 2007, including the eulogy given by the author at the funeral, as well as 82 previously unpublished photographs. [Subject: Transportation]

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Discover how to build rustic furniture from cut timber in this comprehensive guide for woodworkers. Award-winning outdoor writer and photographer Alan Garbers shows how to use raw logs to make stylish eco-friendly pieces. Alan provides detailed, practical information on procuring and processing logs, with sage troubleshooting advice based on years of experience. Learn which species look best with the bark on, and which work better with the bark off. Find out why wood may shrink, warp, or crack, and how to deal with rot, decay, and insects. Get expert guidance on all the woodworking techniques you need to know, from steam bending and joinery to sanding, gluing, and finishing. From Tree to Table offers instructions for making charming cabin-style beds, tables, benches, lamps, coat racks, kiva ladders, and more.

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Splendid collection of over 300 appealing holiday images — all top-quality graphics from rare sources — offers busy commercial artists, graphic designers, and craftworkers an inexhaustible supply of hearts, flowers, cupids, flags, eagles, pumpkins, black cats, witches, Easter eggs, Christmas trees and other festive motifs. Printed one side only with acid-free paper and ink.

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Enter a world of creative self-expression with this relaxing coloring book for grownups. Inside this big collection you’ll find 96 enjoyable art activities with groovy subjects like peace signs, sugar skulls, folk art, happy campers, mandalas, and more. These awesome designs offer a fun and easy way to unleash your inner artist. Thaneeya McArdle’s transcendental art explores a visual language of shape, form, line, and color. Each vibrantly detailed illustration is designed to exercise your creativity. Beautifully colored finished examples are provided, along with a handy guide to basic art techniques, from patterning and combinations to shading and color theory. This therapeutic coloring book is perfect for decorating with markers, colored pencils, gel pens, or watercolors.

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Enter a world of creative self-expression with this relaxing coloring book for adults. Inside this big collection, you’ll find 96 enjoyable art activities with groovy subjects like peace signs, sugar skulls, folk art, happy campers, mandalas, and more. These awesome designs offer a fun and easy way to unleash your inner artist. Thaneeya McArdle’s transcendental art explores a visual language of shape, form, line, and color. Each vibrantly detailed illustration is designed to exercise your creativity. Beautifully colored finished examples are provided, along with a handy guide to basic art techniques, from patterning and combinations to shading and color theory. This relaxing coloring book is perfect for decorating with markers, colored pencils, gel pens, or watercolors. The spiral binding is designed to lie flat for easy coloring, with pages printed on high-quality, extra-thick paper that won’t bleed through.

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Mental exercise provides just as many benefits for dogs as physical exercise does. But once you have basic training—sit, down, come, stay—under your belt, what can you do to build your dog’s brainpower? Take your pup’s repertoire of skills to the next level with an array of games that challenge his body and mind alike. Training your dog in the course of play also allows you and your dog to have fun together while continuing to strengthen that ever-important human–canine bond. Inside Fun & Games for a Smarter Dog: •A dog’s perception of play and the science behind the success of play-based training •Using treats and good timing to encourage desired behaviors •Step-by-step instructions for fifty brain games that teach new behaviors and increase a dog’s intelligence, including adaptations for different skill levels •Increasing your dog’s physical abilities and mental acuity as he learns •Socialization and how it affects your dog’s attitude toward interacting with other dogs •Introducing your dog to new canine playmates

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Learn Your ABCs Flip Book features 3 different beautifully illustrated alphabets showcasing animals and children forming each letter of the alphabet. Each letter of the alphabet can be flipped to show the same letter at the same time or different combinations of letters that will form over 1,000 different words. Bound with a child safe plastic binding, printed on extra thick paper with a backer card will hold up to hours and hours of learning fun. A must-have early learning book to jump start and support a child's reading efforts.

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Make Your Dog the Most Stylish Pooch on the Block Pamper your favorite pooch with this inspiring collection of cute canine accessories. Featuring dozens of doggie designs, there’s something here for every pet’s personality. Fun Accessories to Sew for Your Dog shows how to make your own one-of-a-kind creations: from leashes, toys, collars, cushions, and dining mats to storage baskets, sunscreen caps, carrier bags, and even an Elizabethan cone collar. You’ll discover plenty of ideas for making fun and functional gear. Step-by-step photos and clear instructions make these projects so easy to follow, it’s a walk in the park! Inside Fun Accessories to Sew for Your Dog 22 pet-friendly DIY projects Cool designs for attractive, practical dog gear. Step-by-step photos make each project easy to follow. Fun and functional ideas for leashes, beds, toys, collars, cushions, carrying pouches and more. Advice on stitching, measurement lists, and tips on tools and materials.

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Foam crafts are easy and so much fun. Make puppets, pencil toppers, masks, head bobbers, animal boxes, magnetic frames, and more! Foam is a fantastic, child-friendly medium. It is very malleable and versatile as well as colorful and safe. If you have foam sheets, precut shapes, glue, and scissors, you can make an amazing variety of fun and useful projects. There are so many interesting things to make in Fun Fun Foam 2 at home with your child, at a children's party, or with a camp or scout group. Projects in this book include: *Puppets to turn toys into performance art *Pencil toppers to make schoolwork fun *Masks for a party or playdate *Head bobbers for whimsical fun *Animal Boxes to hold little treasures *Magnetic frames for the refrigerator *Desk organizers to hold school supplies *And more. In addition, there are basic tips and skills detailed, including tracing patterns, how to shade edges, laying and gluing foam, and punching and scoring foam safely.

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Have fun as you color from the farm! An excellent farm animal coloring book for kids ages 3-6, this book features 23 charming and contemporary mandala designs of happy cows, smiling sheep, yummy strawberry jam, sunny skies, and so much more! With repeating circular patterns, brightly colored outlines, and even a dedication page on the back of each design to gift their finished piece to a special someone, this mandala coloring book offers young children a creative coloring experience to express themselves as they decompress! Thick heavy stock pages are perfect for markers, crayons, colored pencils, or even paints, and come with perforated edges for easy removal and display.

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Are you ready to become a world-class spin master? Fun with Fidget Spinners is the must-have ultimate fidget spinner trick book! Hit the big leagues of fidget spinning with this new one-of-a-kind guide. You’ll soar to new levels of fidget skill with awesome spinner stunts and games from YouTube's GeekBite host David King. Impress your friends with pro moves like the hot potato, the no-looker, the hat trick, the high toss, the nose spinner, and more! Check out today’s most popular spinners, and learn how to care for and customize your own collection. Discover why fidgeting is actually good for you, and the cool science behind it. Embrace the fidget spinning lifestyle as you track your progress and tricks in a handy workbook.

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Did you think embroidery was complicated, confined to flowers, and a major undertaking? This cute, quirky, and clever little book will dispel those myths and inspire you to take up a needle and thread, even if it’s for the first time ever. Fun with Stitching offers simple and easy embroidery ideas to add a light-hearted touch to clothes, home accessories, and gifts. Each design is shown on a different object, whether it be a French café on an apron, cheerful weather clouds on canvas shoes, or a beaming moon on a lampshade, and is accompanied by straightforward instructions and suggestions for other uses. This is a book for new sewers, young embroiderers, and anyone looking to bring a light-hearted touch to their home or wardrobe.

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A must-have project guide for chip carvers of any skill level, Functional Chip Carving Designs for the Home features a compilation of 36 original projects from the archives of Woodcarving Illustrated. Useful as they are decorative, carve a collection of achievable chip carved designs for your home and everyday life! From bowls, boxes, and beard combs to Christmas decorations, coasters, coffee scoops, and so much more, each original project includes detailed step-by-step instructions, coordinating photography, full-size chip carving patterns, complete supplies and tools lists, and expert tips.

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How to keep hand and power tools sharp for increased efficiency and improved quality! Here is what you need to know about the numerous sharpening instruments available, such as grinders and bench stones, and which ones you will need. But John Kelsey offers more. He wants woodworkers to embrace the fun and spirit of sharpening rather than viewing it as a rainy day chore. He explains how and why frequent sharpening attention enhances efficiency and quality. He offers sharpening techniques for hand tools such as planes, chisels, saws, and gouges and explains the importance of using well-maintained blades and bits to extend the life of power tools. Kelsey offers sharpening tips and methods, and photographs offer a display of equipment and accessories. Everything is offered in plain-spoken language that you would expect from the trusted uncle or woodshop teacher who got you started. Now you can get a sharp edge on molding cutters, router bits, and (of course) knives. Sharpening gouges is also addressed, along with a handy shop-made jig to assist you. Maintain your bits, hand tools, and carving tools. Kelsey includes sections on bench stones, bench grinders, and other sharpening supplies as well as helpful shop recommendations. This book will not only jumpstart you but should also help you improve your skills, which makes it quite enjoyable.

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Lavishly illustrated with over 400 photos, this is the ultimate introductory guide to the fine art of using the lathe to shape wood into boxes, bowls, toys, and other beautiful objects.

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If you love cats and you love to color, get ready for hours of relaxing creativity. Talented artist Brenda Abdoyan presents 32 adorable felines for you to bring to life with beautiful colors. Brenda’s intricately detailed, whimsical illustrations cover the full range of kitty moods and personalities. She encourages you to develop your own coloring style with expert advice and a full-color gallery of inspiring finished examples. Printed on one side only of high-quality extra-thick paper, each four-footed friend is accompanied by cute cat quotations and sayings of whiskered wisdom. Perfect for decorating with markers, colored pencils, or watercolors, each page is perforated for easy removal and display.

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The Funny Animals Activity Book is filled with 90 engaging and entertaining games and puzzles for children ages 6-10. Playful illustrations of elephants, giraffes, sloths, monkeys, and foxes are showcased throughout. Games and puzzles include a simplified variation of Sudoku, labyrinths, seek-and-find, mazes, word searches, coloring page activities, spot-the-difference, find the shadow, and learn to draw. Perforated pages for displaying when complete.

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16 sturdy, functional and attractive woodworking projects using ordinary 1-by and 2-by lumber and basic woodworking tools. Includes detailed materials list, step-by-step instructions, and an assembly drawing showing how all the pieces fit.

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Meet the amazing beasts that roam our planet with Future Genius: Animal Kingdom! Learn all about animals, from the gigantic elephant to the tiny mouse, through awesome videos, brain teasers, quizzes, puzzles, and more. Scan the interactive QR codes for exclusive video content and listen to the sounds each and every animal makes, find out how you measure up against them, and discover some incredibly cool facts about Earth’s stunning species. And that’s not all: watch the world’s fastest cat race across land, a raccoon solve a Rubik’s Cube, and other amusing things about animal species from around the world in our videos. You’ll also get to solve word games, color, play spot-the-difference, and much more. An action-packed activity book for kids, Future Genius: Animal Kingdom is one of the most fascinating books about wild animals available today that kids are sure to love!

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Super fun and super cool, meet the creatures that ruled the Earth before humans! With over 50 exciting activities, from fill-in-the-blanks and word scrambles to spot-the-difference picture puzzles, drawing prompts, and so much more, Future Genius: Dinosaurs is an action-packed learning adventure for kids. They’ll learn all kinds of fascinating facts about dinosaurs – including how these creatures came to exist, what sounds they made, and what they looked like – and they’ll discover the answers to tons of burning questions, like did dinosaurs have feathers or were they covered in scales, how big were they, and how did they evolve? At the conclusion of each chapter are puzzles and activities to quiz children on what they learned! Also included are interactive QR codes to scan to view awesome videos. With this interactive and engaging activity book for kids, discover how these diverse reptiles lived and hunted in the sky, on land and in our planet’s ancient waters.

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Think you know everything there is to know about your body? Think again! Future Genius: Human Body is an interactive activity book for kids that contains all of the secrets about your brain, muscles, skin, eyes, and more, told with the help of incredible videos, illustrations, and over 100 fun facts. Inside, you’ll find out that you were born with roughly 300 bones, how your body makes 25 million cells every second, how your nose can pick up about a trillion smells, and how you can make yourself faster, stronger, and healthier than ever with our fun physical games. Work out our brain-teasing puzzles, quizzes, crosswords and word searches, discover how the human body works, and why you’re one of the most advanced living things on the planet!

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Get ready for lift-off and journey through outer space with Future Genius: The Solar System! Explore our cosmic backyard through awesome videos, brain teasers, quizzes, experiments, puzzles, sudoku, and so much more. Also included are amazing pictures and illustrations, plus video QR codes for an interactive learning experience that brings the page to life! You’ll get up close and personal with all of the planets in the solar system – from Mercury, the fastest planet around our sun, to the giant planet of Jupiter and its massive storms. Discover how our solar system was born and design your own spacecraft to travel to one of the coldest worlds in the known universe. An out-of-this world activity book for kids, Future Genius: The Solar System is one of the most fascinating and engaging space books available today that kids will love!

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Attention, beaders! Unusual pendants, bracelets, tassels, dolls, earrings, and more await you here in Garden of Beading. With these instructions, you'll be able to create your own miniature bags, dolls, necklaces, pendants, and so much more! Here are tips for starting and ending thread, how to zigzag through beads, and suggestions on needles, beads, and thread to use to ensure your project is of the utmost quality. The fabulous projects here, all illustrated, include: *Spring Floral Necklace *Earrings and Bracelet *Circle of Friends Pendant *Egyptian Bracelet *Earth Angel *Ancient Mother *Love Angel's Bag *Goddess *Angel of Love *Tribal Doll *Pixie Doll *Tiny Goddess *Tassels *Floral Doll *And more! The designs here were all developed with cylinder beads in mind. Author and beading enthusiast Lisa Ann Claver suggests using Miyuki Delicas or Toho Aikos brand beads, but says you can substitute a standard 11-inch seed bead in her designs—the only thing to keep in mind is that the final design might be longer and narrower when not using a standard cylinder bead. For best results, she recommends against using a standard "craft" bead. Craft beads tend to be uneven and can result in inconsistent beadwork. These gorgeous projects will excite and inspire you to create more elaborate and beautiful bead projects than you've ever made before. Don't wait. Get beading!

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Adding a touch of nature to your home décor does not require a green thumb. Easy projects with step-by-step instructions make indoor gardening fun and easy.

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You'll love the designs for painted clay pots, plant pokes and more!

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Loaded with complete plans and easy-to-follow construction tips, Garden DIY offers a creative mix of both practical and decorative projects for gardening enthusiasts. Brother and sister team Samantha and Daniel Johnson present 20 hands-on projects for aspiring horticulturalists. From a hummingbird feeder, bee-friendly flower gardens, cold frames, and trellises to compost bins, birdbaths, sundials, and a mason bee lodge, clear step-by-step color photographs guide the reader through each hands-on project. An introduction to the DIY mindset explains the positive benefits and satisfaction of building things yourself and provides an overview of the basic tools and skills needed to complete each task.

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Gnomes are everywhere in this quirky adult coloring book! Featuring 32 charming line art designs of garden gnomes taking naps under trees, peeking through tall grass, smiling in flower beds, and so much more, Garden Gnomes Coloring Book is the perfect outlet to express your creativity among charismatic characters! Plus, fun and playful jokes and captions complement each illustration for an added element of delight. Also included are tips on coloring techniques and materials, as well as a gallery of fully-colored examples to get you inspired before you begin. Using gel pens, markers, crayons, colored pencils, or watercolors, each design is printed on a single side of high-quality, extra-thick paper to resist bleed through. Perforated edges make for easy removal and display of completed designs.

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Create a colorful garden with tiles galore! A beginner-friendly guide, Garden Mosaics opens with insightful chapters on understanding the materials, tools, and techniques necessary to prepare and get started. Using ceramic, vitreous glass, marble, mirrors, or granite tiles, you’ll move on to create 19 stunning mosaic garden projects that range from simple to elaborate, from one-of-a-kind pots, garden ornaments, and bird baths to stepping stones, garden tables, wall panels, and more! Each design contains step-by-step instructions and coordinating photography, as well as pattern templates. Authors and talented mosaicists Emma Biggs and Tessa Hunkin have written more than 5 books on mosaic art, design, and techniques.

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Unusual pendants, bracelets, tassels, dolls, earrings and more await the advanced beader.

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Escape to a magical garden where birds make magical nests, kittens trick-or-treat in a pumpkin patch, and so much more. In this whimsically charming coloring book for adults, color 80 imaginative scenes to life and express your creativity! Featuring colored examples to inspire you before you begin coloring new and interesting fairytale art that you’ve never seen before until now, fill each page with your favorite art materials! Some designs span across spreads to fully capture a wider scope within each enchanting scene, while other illustrations stand alone on an individual page.

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In this colorful Garden Ponds Made Easy title, authors Dennis Kelsey-Wood and Tom Barthell have provided an essential guide for first-time pond enthusiasts. The authors outline all of the considerations for starting out with a new pond, including determining the site, style, size of the pond, and deciding on the construction of the pond (whether preformed, concrete, or fiberglass). Garden Ponds offers a chapter on water which discusses water chemistry factors, volume of the pond, and pond surface. Other important factors involve the aeration, filtration, drainage, and maintenance of a clean (algae-free) pond. Special features, including waterfalls, fountains, and watercourses, electricity, and landscaping are addressed in detail, all accompanied by color photographs and drawings. A chapter on pond construction details every step of the project from creating a blueprint to securing the foundation. The infinite choices involved with stocking the pond with fish and plants can be overwhelming for the first-time pond owner, and the authors give excellent advice about making smart choices for a harmonious, beautiful garden pond. A special chapter on seasonal pond care gives the pond keeper recommendations for maintaining the pond all year long. Resources and glossary included.

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Garden Secrets for Attracting Birds provides information that readers can use to turn their yards and gardens into a mecca for birds. The book details the habits and tendencies of many popular North American birds and shows the plants and trees that attract specific species. Readers will find a combination of photography and beautifully rendered color illustrations depicting each type of bird.

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Garden Secrets for Attracting Birds provides valuable insight on turning your yard and garden into a mecca for birds – many of which are pollinators! From hummingbirds and finches to orioles, woodpeckers, warblers, and so many more, this must-have resource will show you how to build a healthy and productive ecosystem for birds and pollinators right in your backyard! Featuring detailed profiles of several popular North American birds, their unique characteristics, and the plants and trees that attract them, also included are maps of their seasonal locations, interesting information on their behaviors, which seed mixes, feeders, and shelters each bird species prefer, and so much more. Easy-to-read and jam-packed with insightful information, readers will find a combination of photography and beautifully rendered color illustrations depicting each type of bird.

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Whether you're just starting your very first garden, or you've been gardening for years, you might as well incorporate what you grow into your daily meals! Garden to Table is a practical and accessible guide that will show you how to preserve, can, and cook easy, healthy recipes from the vegetables you've cultivated all year round! No big gardening space or gardening experience needed! Featuring expert guidance on how to freeze, can, and dry many popular fruits and vegetables, Garden to Table also includes over 100 recipes that include vegan, vegetarian, heart-healthy, and keto/low-carb options. From canning recipes to appetizers, main dishes, and big salads organized by season for year-round consumption, this complete self-sufficiency guide has everything you need to know to preserve and serve fresh, healthy foods from home. Author Kayla Butts is a professional dietitian, cooking and nutrition instructor, small-scale Texas farmer, and a clinical nutrition manager with a Master's in Science in Nutrition.

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The ultimate organic gardening resource, Gardening for Geeks provides readers with everything they need to know about designing, building, and sustaining their own garden. Filled with step-by-step processes, helpful diagrams, and expert tips on the best practices, this book covers it all for anyone who dreams of gardening, even the city dweller. Starting off with the basics and progressing into more advanced concepts for a wide scope of gardening strategies and techniques, this is a comprehensive and geeky look at your favorite hobby. Founder of Gardenerd and author, Christy Wilhelmi shares her expertise to break down the biology and ecology of gardening in an easy, breezy writing style that will make you appreciate and understand gardening even more than you did before!

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Gardening: The Complete Guide will satisfy those readers who enjoy the process of gardening as much as the finished product. It contains equal parts of inspirational photographs and hands-on instructional pictures. The book presents the latest gardening techniques for the 21st century gardener with an emphasis on time-saving, efficient practices. There is considerable space devoted to growing herbs, flowers, vegetables, and fruit. This book is perfect for the gardener who wants to know how things grow and why certain practices are more effective.

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This book by historical transport expert Graham Edge is a comprehensive study of a Manchester company whose name became revered in over forty countries. It traces the story from the origins of the firm in 1868 until it ceased engine production almost 130 years later. In 1929 L Gardner and Sons Ltd perfected a small high-speed, direct injection diesel engine, the world's first for an engine of its size. The company soon developed this into the first purpose-built automotive engine of its type. This renowned Gardner LW series was also revolutionary in its use of lightweight aluminium alloys. Because diesel fuel was more economical than petroleum spirit for most of the last century, and especially in the 1930s, Gardner's was able to capitalise on a huge and growing market. Their diesel engines went on to gain an unrivalled reputation for reliability and economy in buses, coaches, lorries, rail, shipping and industrial installations. Their heyday was probably from the end of the Second World War to the early 1960s, a time when their order book was always full. As well as telling the story of the company's engineering achievements (and setbacks), the author also brings to life some of the personalities involved, not least the members of the Gardner family. Although they were 'engineers par excellence', some of the 'could be quite irascible!' By the 1970s Gardners were being left behind by changes in the transport market and also faced damaging industrial relations. In 1977 they became part of the Hawker Siddeley group. This is a reprint of a book first published in 2002 and revised in 2006. Graham Edge was able to draw on knowledge freely provided by former sales director Dion Houghton. The superb photographs are mainly from the archives of Dion Houghton and Paul Gardner, the great-grandson of the founder. Each photograph has a detailed caption and the book's Appendices include production figures.

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Author David Perlowin states his purpose in writing this guide, ?This book is intended to inform beginning and experienced hobbyists about selection, proper housing, feeding, general maintenance, and breeding of?” garter snakes and water snakes. Since these snakes are inexpensive and docile, they are commonly the first choice of young hobbyists (aka children). Perlowin’s commonsense advice can help beginners decide whether or not these snakes are the right pets for them and their families. Garter and Water Snakes offers information on a number of selected species to assist keepers in the proper care of their chosen snakes, From the genus Thamnophis, the author covers Butler’s garter snake, aquatic garter snake, black-necked garter snake, western terrestrial garter snake, checkered garter snake, Plains garter snake, common garter snake, western ribbon snake, and eastern ribbon snake. From the genus Nerodia, American water snakesalt marsh snake, green water snake, plainbelly water snake, southern water snake, diamondback water snake, northern water snake, brown water snake, and Oriental garter snake. This Advanced Vivarium Systems title includes information about selecting and purchasing a healthy water or garter snake, housing and maintenance needs, feeding, handling, breeding, and health care. A separate chapter on diseases and disorders provides a complete primer on health needs and veterinary care. Resources and index included.

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Gears, in one form or another, are a part of most mechanisms, but they are by no means as simple as they appear.?Gears & Gear Cutting for Home Machinists?is a practical, hands-on guide for anyone who wants to cut gears inexpensively on a lathe or milling machine. This book teaches the fundamentals needed to design gears and gear trains using plain, simple, non-technical language that keeps the level of mathematics down to its simplest form. It covers all the questions raised by enthusiasts who have watched the author, Ivan Law, demonstrate gear-cutting techniques at exhibitions throughout Britain, where his advice on engineering matters is constantly sought. With 12 insightful chapters on tooth forms and sizes, rack and pinion gears, bevel wheels, worm gears, and more,?Gears & Gear Cutting for Home Machinists?is thoughtfully illustrated with technical diagrams and photographs.

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Editor Julie Bergman states in her introduction to Geckos that the purpose of this book is ?to provide the reader with a straightforward, practical source of information on selecting and keeping geckos.” Her colorful guide achieves that aim and more, as it offers an authoritative overview of the many geckos available today, including the extremely popular leopard gecko and crested gecko as well as various day geckos, Madagascan geckos, new Caledonian geckos, micro-geckos, and tokay geckos. For their amazing colors, interesting behaviors, longevity, and attractive appearance, geckos are favored by beginning hobbyists. Colorfully illustrated, Geckos provides guidelines for keepers who wish to add a gecko to their vivarium and maintain their pet in excellent health and condition. The editor provides an introduction to gecko characteristics including size, feet, eyes, color and pattern, scales, shedding, reproduction, tail, sexing and activity, to help beginners better understand the anatomy and behavior of these fascinating lizards. This Advanced Vivarium Systems title includes information about selecting a healthy gecko, handling, housing needs, water and feeding requirements. A separate chapter ?Keeping Geckos Healthy” provides a complete primer on the health needs and veterinary care of these rewarding reptiles, including quarantine and acclimation considerations, stress, parasites, and specific disorders.

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Using gel to make candles is quick, easy and the results are spectacular!

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Looking for a colorful, fun, and easy way to personalize your notebooks and clothing? Gel Jotters are fun ideas for decorating just about anything with gel rollers and milky pens. Gel Pen Doodles is packed with cool Gel Jotters that will inspire oodles of doodles to personalize notebooks, journals, reports, folders, backpacks, hats, shoes, and more. These tips will show you how! Armed only with a selection of gel pens, you will learn a range of cool and stylish doodling techniques, including: *Crosshatch *Dots *Shading *Swirls *Scribble *Fill in Solid *Character *Negatives *And more! Once you have mastered these, you will be able to apply them to any of the hundreds of creative concepts contained in this guide. A whole range of stunning designs for flowers will bring a prize-winning gardener's flair to your personal journal, or perhaps even help you to decorate a meaningful card for a friend. You'll be able to brighten up your lecture notes with intricate borders of climbing roses, hearts, buzzing bees, or anything else that might help boost your memory. Why not design a molecule or a specific geometric shape in the margins of your notes? With these simple yet intricate sketching skills, the only limit is your imagination! If you need to freshen up your font game, you'll find plenty of funky alphabets here! If you're a fan of giraffes, snakes, or chameleons, you'll soon be able to show it with these lettering ideas. Likewise with tigers and fish—even moose! You needn't confine yourself purely to notepads, journals, and letters, however. Find out how to fold and embellish items such as paper fortune tellers, cootie catchers, shrink art, mini books, picture frames, lunch bags, and paper airplanes! Got some old, white sneakers that have seen better days? You can revamp those with your gel pens too! The same goes for baseball caps, backpacks, and satchels. The makeover tips in this guide will allow you to develop and showcase your own unique style. With this expert guidance, you'll gain a distinctive flair for gel pen doodling as well as the confidence to experiment with your own techniques, alphabets, and cool clothing conversions. These super sketching tips are guaranteed to inspire you and allow your creativity to run totally wild!

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Discover the amazing Gelli Arts® plate—a revolutionary printmaking surface that makes it easy to produce beautiful, one-of-a-kind artwork with amazing colors and textures! This book will show you how to use gelatin printing to create 32 stunning designs of layered prints, decorative pages for art journals, fabric for quilting, greeting cards, and more! Gelli Arts® Printing Guide teaches you all the basics you need to know on supplies, how to get started, and the best techniques for making colorful backgrounds, textured pages, multiple layers, and basic borders. Perfect for both beginners and experts, durable and reusable Gelli Arts® plates are easy to clean so you can quickly change paint colors and move on to your next project. This newly expanded edition contains an updated gallery of art featuring the latest Gelli Arts® plate techniques. Wonderful results can be obtained quickly, and simple variations give each print its own unique personality!

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