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Whether it is something to wear with your 'most favourite' pair of jeans or with your dress for the school party, you will never have a 'bad hair day' again! Learn all the beading techniques, from making simple strands for 'fringed' bobby pins and tiebacks to fashioning intricate-looking 'beady' creatures and charms to attach to hair combs and scrunchies. Ages 8 to adult. ... Read more

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it got boring
it got boring, reading a book.it should of been a kit. ... Read more

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The cheapest way to start a business is from home. But whatever its size, any business needs preparation and planning, marketing and financial management. This fully revised and updated guide deals with every related topic, such as finding a viable idea, raising finance, budgets, bookkeeping, legal and taxation issues and sales and marketing. It provides essential information for anyone running their own small business, including how to gauge when the time has come to expand or sell up. ... Read more

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Taken from a series which provides ideas for the most popular of children's activities, this book offers ideas on how to create costumes from everyday materials. ... Read more

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Traces the development of the pottery industry from the cottage industry kilns of the 16th and 17th centuries to the large idiosyncratic factories of the 19th century. ... Read more

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Sparkly dragonfly hair clips, delicate illusion chokers -- here are all the popular head-to-toe fashions. Dazzling hair decorations: One is never enough with beaded bobbie pins; beaded dragonfly and ladybug clips; multiple illusion headbands with special accent beads; and the absolute newest sparkling 'hair snappers'. The latest look in bracelets: string up an armful of assorted power bead bracelets; loads of designs for multicoloured seed bead charm bracelets; and glittery Austrian crystal bracelets. Necklaces galore: See how easy it is to create the delicate wire, illusion, and tattoo looks that are all the rage; and how to weave stars, pearls, butterflies, or other favourite accent beads into patterns you design. Learn all the beading techniques: Use the double-weave to fashion delicate bugs, bees, and butterflies as embellishments; create loomed bead bracelets, clothing decorations, and other awesome accessories. If you are wishing preteens would open a book for a change, here's your answer, for Jazzy Jewellery will be dog-eared for sure. Ages 8-14. ... Read more

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A great jewelry book!
I borrowed this book from the library and I already like it. There's a ton of different styles,so that you'll never get bored. For the most part the jewelry looks pretty easy to make. There are some harder things too though. The instrucions are easy to follow with black and white pictures to show you how different techniques are done.There's a section in the back that tells you the basic beading tools and beads you need to have,what the tools are used for,techniques,and other helpful stuff. The jewelry is really cute and not old fashioned or anything. A lot of the stuff looks like something you'd buy at a store.I'd give this book 6 stars if I could! If you want to make jewelry I'd diffently buy this book!

Introduce girls to the world of beads
This is a book of real beading techniques, using authentic beading supplies to introduce the world of beads and jewelry-making to young teens.There are lots of projects to choose from, including necklaces, earrings, bracelets, rings, headbands, ponytail holder, hair clips, etc.Most of the projects use seed beads, but many other beads can be used, too.Techniques show beading on jewelry wire, memory wire, and thread, and the use of standard supplies and tools such as crimp beads, clasps, pliers, and wire cutters.

There is only one true-life photo that shows the finished jewelry, and it's on the cover in color.However, in the photo, the teen model is wearing a ton of jewelry, and the details and styles cannot be seen.The same photo is shown enlarged on the first page of the book in black and white, but still does not give a clear idea of the finished products.The book would be so much more motivating if the projects were shown in color photographs.The black and white illustrated instructions are pretty good, simple and easy enough to follow, but the drawings result in a cartoon-like look, as if this is not an art, but "crafts for kids".

For girls (or boys) who are really interested in learning the art of jewelry beading, the book is really a great start.The book itself is not "pretty" or motivating, so the young beader will need to be able to envision the end product and follow the instructions and diagrams carefully.

Jazzy Jewelry : Power Beads, Crystals, Chokers, & Illusion a
Excellent book.My 12 year loved the book, easy instuctions. ... Read more

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Chapters: Kay Bailey Hutchison, Samuel B. Kent, John Connally, Gene Nichol, James Baker, Diane Wood, Robert Schwarz Strauss, Lloyd Bentsen, Ralph Yarborough, Tom C. Clark, George P. Bush, William Wayne Justice, Ron Kirk, Paul Begala, Johnny Sutton, Federico Peña, William C. Conner, William Reynolds Archer, Jr., Edith Jones, Kristen Silverberg, W. Page Keeton, Samuel T. Bledsoe, David Frederick, Joe Jamail, Sarah Weddington, Grier Raggio, Reynaldo Guerra Garza, Andrew L. Jefferson, Jr., Callie V. Granade, John Andrew Young, William Curtis Bryson, C. Pope Caldwell, Orlando Luis Garcia, Thomas Mengler. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 182. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Elton Ray Hutchison (1978-present) Kathryn Ann Bailey Hutchison, known as Kay Bailey Hutchison (born July 22, 1943), is the senior United States Senator from Texas. She is a member of the Republican Party. In 2001, she was named one of the thirty most powerful women in America by Ladies Home Journal. The first woman to represent Texas in the U.S. Senate, Hutchison also became the first Texas U.S. senator to receive more than four million votes in a single election. Hutchison is the most senior female Republican senator, and fifth most senior female senator, having assumed office in June 1993 behind Senators Barbara Mikulski (D-MD, 1987), Dianne Feinstein (D-CA, 1992), Barbara Boxer (D-CA, Jan. 1993), and Patty Murray (D-WA, Jan. 1993). Hutchison was born in Galveston to the former Kathryn Ella Sharp and Allan Abner Bailey, Jr., an insurance agent. She has two brothers, Allan and Frank. Hutchison grew up in La Marque, Texas. She married her first husband, John Pierce Parks, a medical student, on April 8, 1967; they divorced in 1969. She married her second husband, Ray Hutchison, in Dallas on March 16, 1978. They have ...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=367818 ... Read more

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Diane Bentley Baker, originally from San Mateo, California, has been a spinner and dyer for almost 35 years.After a long career as a word processor, she now lives with her husband and a long yellow cat in Eugene, Oregon.She teaches in the fiber arts and is an avid photographer, poet and writer.Some of her articles can be seen in Spin-Off Magazine and various fiber arts newsletters. ... Read more

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Major Disappointment
This book does not use the mechanism of time travel. What happens is that the protagonist, Poma, dies and is resurrected every ten years. She is supposed to be following the path to the color royal purple and her journeys take her to different time periods and different cultures. This book is not historically or culturally accurate. In one scene, when Poma is in Japan, she is taught the Japanese tea ceremony in about five to ten minutes. Not possible. When she is with a group of nomads, who are expert dyers through the use of herbs and other plants, there is a description of Poma sitting next to a field of crocuses. I researched that and there were crocuses in 480 A.D., but they were saffron crocuses. Saffron crocuses were very valuable and would have made the nomads wealthy, but apparently these experts in plant life never noticed a whole field of wealth sitting right next to them. There is no mention anywhere in the book that Poma learns anything other than medicine, dyeing, weaving, and knitting. Yet, when she is confronted by a wild animal, she miraculously pulls out a bow and arrow to shoot it. Poma does something that is called one-needle knitting. Actually, the correct name is nalbinding. Then in 1400s Constantinople, she is taught to knit with circular knitting needles. Sorry, but there is no archeological evidence that there were circular knitting needles in 1400s Constantinople - they are a modern invention. As a fiber artist, I was excited to find a time traveling fantasy novel dealing with the fiber arts. However, the cultural, scientific, and historical inaccuracies, along with editing inaccuracies and no richness of language (it reads like an outline for a book, not an actual book), made this a huge disappointment. I would not recommend it.

Fascinating Read
An incredible journey with time traveler Poma as she travels through skillfully woven history and cultures along the silk road in search of the Royal Purple. The loves and lives of Poma are engrossing in themselves and the visual scenes of another time and place add to the pleasure. ... Read more

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This utterly wonderful novel recaptures that last summer of 1970 at Barebones Lake. ... Read more

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Last Summer at Barebones
This was a great book.Although it took me about 35 pages to get into it, it turned out to be one of my favorites.You really felt what the characters were going through.Most of us can relate to being teenagers and feeling left out or seeing what it was like for my parents to raise us in that time.I couldn't put the book down and would love to read more by Diane Baker Mason.Her writing reminds me of Wally Lamb.

Barebones
To anyone who likes to laugh and cry all in one sitting I reccommend this book to you.A great novel; Diane Baker Mason really knows how to pull you into her characters and become attached to their unique personalities.A fantastic read from beginning to end......GO DEE

Good Summer reading
"Last Summer at Barebones" is a perfect Summer book. I enjoyed the story and was rooting for Dee.
I do agree that the ending kind of stunk. It seemed too rushed.Other than that, great book.

Amazing book can be hard to read
This book takes you right back to the 60's and 70's as quick as a time machine. But it's hard to read at times, because it's so gruellingly honest. Fortunately it's also extremely funny. The ending is a double whammy. Just when you think it's over she hits you again, in a different way. It's a really important book to read, especially for anyone who still feels bad because they were or are picked on for being fat. I couldn't put it down!

Couldn't have been better
Barebones (to me anyway) was about family -- how family members fit and relate, their perceptions of each other, their misperceptions about themselves.It's also a great growing up story.Characters were individuals with foibles and eccentricities. Mason made them lively and interesting (and sometimes silly) but even while she was poking fun at them, you could feel that she cared about them and respected them -- that's a neat trick.

And I had no problem with the ending -- it was plausible and it fit the characters. ... Read more

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Members of the Society for the Scientific Study of Sexuality describe virtual every aspect of American sexual behavior and values. The volume contains sections on basic premises, religious and ethnic factors, autoerotic pattern heterosexual and homosexual behaviours, cross-gendered persons, and more. ... Read more

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okay shape
the book was not in as good shape as the description indicated. Some of the pages were loose and are falling out of the book. I would not buy from this seller again. ... Read more

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This book is for those who wish to heal. We are so much more than we have even dreamed that we are. We have no boundaries, no limits. Everything that we have ever wished that we are, or could be, is now, more than any other time in our history, ours to hold and realize. A part of this limitless potential is our ability to make well, to undo, to Heal.The book starts at the beginning of the healing process with simple, easily followed exercises which can begin to unlock the healing potential which is inherent in all of us. Nobody needs to feel left out of these abilities.Whatever level of experience you have of healing, this book explains in simple uncomplicated language that does not use mysticism or any form of ritual, how to understand the "Chakras" and the way in which our daily lives influences them, to relate medical conditions to the chakras and to learn methods which will bring the chakras back into balance, both for yourself and for others. These methods apply equally to humans and to ... Read more

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Inspiration for I'm Different came from remembering her own experience of being the only child in her kindergarten classroom who wore glasses, and from watching the struggles of her children and her students while learning to accept themselves and their imperfections. The book is an attempt to defend children from a world where perfection reigns, image is defined by the media, and attention is merited and dispersed most generously to those who excel. The book's message is to help children see their imperfections, differences, and life's scars, both inner and outer, as evidence that their uniqueness is intended as a gift inspiring them to their greatest potential. ... Read more

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In our rushed, stressed society, it's sometimes difficult to spend meaningful time as a family. Now Starhawk, Diane Baker, and Anne Hill offer new ways to foster a sense of togetherness through celebrations that honor the sacredness of life and our Mother Earth.

Goddess tradition embraces the wheel of life, the never-ending cycle of birth, growth, love, fulfillment, and death. Each turn of the wheel is presented here, in eight holidays spanning the changing seasons, in rites of passage for life transitions, and in the elements of fire, air, water, earth, and spirit. Circle Round is rich with songs, rituals, craft and cooking projects, and read-aloud stories, as well as suggestions for how you can create your own unique family traditions. Here are just some of the ways to make each event in the cycle of life more special:

• Mark Summer Solstice by making sweet-smelling herb pillows for good dreams
  
• Send a teenager off to college with the Leaving Behind and Carrying With rituals
  
• Comfort an injured child with the Tree of Life meditation
  
• Commemorate a loved one by planting or donating a tree
  

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Great!
I really love this book, it's daily help and
full of love. Thank you!

A great resource
This is a wonderful book to go back to again and again.Our family has owned this book for eight years and we still enjoy the stories and recipes.It is unique and in my opinion one of the best.

circle round
great reference guide for goddess inspired spirituality. contains recipes and crafts for the family, as well as great stories to read. i love this book.

In need of a book
This is a great book to help you teach your children Wicca. It is also a helpful guide for adults. Starhawk once again writes a great book.

A classic text all year round
A must for any creative pagan household with or without kids, this features a year's worth of celebrations, crafts, recipes, and lore.A great conversation starter and inspiration for integrating the wheel of the year into daily life.It's not preachy or patronizing, and is a great non-threatening way to introduce these traditional concepts to your family and friends.Get it with the cd of music if you can. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Journal of Southern History, published by Southern Historical Association on November 1, 2004. The length of the article is 570 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Baptist Faith in Action: the Private Writings of Maria Baker Taylor, 1813-1895.(Book Review)
Author: Diane C. Vecchio
Publication: Journal of Southern History (Refereed)
Date: November 1, 2004
Publisher: Southern Historical Association
Volume: 70Issue: 4Page: 911(2)

Article Type: Book Review

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