Product Details 基本信息 ISBN-13 书号 978-0762452385 Author 作者 Climo, Liz Pages Number 页数 160页 Publisher 出版社 Running Press Book Publishers Publication Date 出版日期 2014年09月23日 Product Dimensions 商品尺寸 1.9 x 17.8 x 24.1 cm Language 语种 ENG Book Contents 内容简介 Artist Liz Climo has charmed her fans with her comic world of whimsical animal characters, where everyone from grizzly bears, dinosaurs, rabbits, and anteaters grapple with everyday life with wit and humor. Through her comics, we discover that an armadillo can dress for Halloween, a dinosaur can be a loving parent ... and a rhino can squeeze orange juice This new collection features more than 100 of her comics, starring her beloved characters in all kinds of funny situations, from celebrating holidays to helping friends. Liz Climo is a character artist for The Simpsons TV series and has worked on The Lebrons and Seth Macfarlane's Cavalcade o

The ideal accompaniment to every store's silk floral section, this guide shows crafters and home decorators how to create beautiful and timeless silk floral arrangements that make every holiday even more special. From garlands and table arrangements to door decorations, it features 19 step-by-step projects for a range of festive holidays, including Easter, Valentine's Day, Halloween, Thanksgiving and Christmas. Each project includes complete materials lists, numbered steps and in-depth instructions that guarantee gorgeous results. Inspiring beauty shots show every arrangement in glowing detail, and a special "Getting Started" section covers basic techniques and supplies. Best of all, floral styles range from traditional to contemporary, providing the perfect project for every decor.

Whether you inhabit a studio or a sprawling house with onechallenging space, Maxwell Gillingham-Ryan, co-founder of the mostpopular interior design website, Apartment Therapy, will help youtransform tiny into totally fabulous. According to Maxwell, size constraints can actually unlock yourdesign creativity and allow you to focus on what's essential. Inthis vibrant book, he shares forty small, cool spaces that willchange your thinking forever. These apartments and houses demonstrate hundreds of inventivesolutions for creating more space in your home, and for making itmore comfortable. Leading us through entrances, living rooms,kitchens and dining rooms, bedrooms, home offices, and kids' rooms,Apartment Therapy's Big Book of Small, Cool Spaces is brimming withingenious tips and ideas, such as: Shifting the sense of scale through contrasting colors Adding airiness by using transparent collections Utilizing the area under a loft bed for a kitchen andmini-bar Tucking an office

An attractive alternative to piecing traditional patterns! *Discover the fun of folding fabric pieces and make your quilts more visually interesting without adding complex cutting and piecing steps. *Enjoy 15 simple folding techniques, then apply these techniques in 11 fabulous quilt projects. A bonus section includes 5 more folding techniques for endless pattern possibilities. *Realistic, step-by-step illustrations make folding fabric a snap! Each project is complete with yardage, cutting, and sewing instructions. *To illustrate the abundant applications of folded fabric, a colorful gallery showcases photos of blocks and block combinations - all made using the various folding techniques in the book. AUTHORBIO: Joyce received a National Quilting Association grant to study the use of Native American designs by quilters. This study directly led to Joyce writing five books. She has now written over a dozen books and 70 articles on quilting subjects. Quilting appeals to Joyce for the aspects of encouraging creati

Is your home a storage nightmare? Well, there's no need to despair any longer. Withstep-by-step directions, hands-on instructions, and valuable insights and tips that show you how to find storage space for all your belongings, The Complete Home Organizer gets you started and then helps you maintain an organized home. This comprehensive guide is filled with more than 250 color photographs and questionaires, lists, and diagrams that will have you looking at your home--and all the unused, available storage space it contains--in a new and creative light.

Santa Fe-style decorating is a coast-to-coast trend. Hundredsof thousands have scoured Christine Mather’s previous books, eagerto incorporate Santa Fe design elements into their own homes. Now,in Santa Fe Houses, Mather combines concrete and practicalhome-decorating suggestions with the beautiful photographs of herlongtime collaborator, Jack Parsons, creating an invaluable guidefor anyone interested in building, decorating, or remodeling a homein Santa Fe style. Santa Fe Houses draws inspiration from the four traditionalNative American elements—fire, earth, water, and air—and shows howthey can be used to wonderful effect in kitchens and dining rooms,entry-ways and living rooms, bedrooms, bathrooms, porches, andpatios. Along the way, Mather showcases furniture, rugs, lighting,hardware, tiles, shutters, and other expressions of the Santa Felook, and ends with a comprehensive directory of sources.

THE ACCESSORIES WE DISPLAY, THEIR COLOR AND TEXTURE, abundanceor restraint, similarity or variety, combine to establish a uniquepersonality for each room. The way we put them together is art.Focusing on tablescapes, wall decorations, mantels, and fabrics,Charles shows not just the results, but the wonderful journey andprocess of giving a room its soul and identity. Charles Faudree wasnamed one of America s top 100 designers. He maintains a retailshop and his Charles Faudree Collection of fabric is marketedthrough Vervain. He s the author of four previous books publishedby Gibbs Smith. He lives in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Jenifer Jordan hasbeen a photographer of home interiors and architecture for morethan 25 years. She has photographed all of Charles Faudree s booksand also Modern Country. She lives in Tulsa. Finishingaccessories-by far the most important part of decorating

Renowned bead embroidery artists Heidi Kummli and Sherry Serafini share their secrets for creating beautiful beadwork. This inspiring book is perfect for those who want to learn to create gorgeous jewelry and art pieces and those seeking design ideas. Discusses tools, adhesives, and materials and has an illustrated guide to favorite stitches, fringes, and finishing techniques.

Bonsai trees, with a strong heritage in Japanese tradition,are the artistic miniatures of the plant world. Combining thenatural and the artificial, they are as intricate as they aredelicate. Each bonsai, in addition to resembling a full-size tree,must adhere to Japanese aesthetics of design and presentation,determined by centuries of example. In other words, bonsai areliving sculptures. In this book, acclaimed photographer Jonathan M.Singer showcases over 300 photographs of bonsai taken in some ofthe most respected private and public collections in the UnitedStates and Japan. Most notably, Singer was granted specialpermission to photograph the collection of the Omiya Bonsai ArtMuseum in Japan, considered the Mecca of bonsai, where photographyis normally prohibited. He is the first (and only) photographer inthe world to shoot the most famed bonsai trees in Japan, some ofwhich received the coveted Prime Minister's Award. Singer also hadthe opportunity to capture the work of Masahiko Kimura, thought tobe the mo

Big-eyed, blonde, and beautiful, Barbie took over the world in 1959 with little more than a white-and-black striped bathing suit and a pair of high heels. Today, Mattel sells three Barbies a second, and children in more than one hundred and fifty countries know her name.Now, on her fiftieth anniversary as cultural icon, Assouline presents the ultimate collector s volume on the world s most popular doll. Encapsulating her history, chronicling her fashion, and imagining her life as a woman of mystery, glamour, and fun, Barbie presents this totemic figure as never seen before in vivid dioramas of Barbie at work and play and in portraits of vintage dolls and accessories. A muse for children and adults, designers and artists, writers and cultural critics, Barbie remains a powerfully evocative and enigmatic reflection of our dreams, our hopes, and ourselves.