Kate Gatski

Kate Shoup

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Kansas

The easy way to build an online craft business from scratch

Starting an Etsy Business For Dummies offers expert advice for artists and entrepreneurs looking to build an online craft business from scratch. You'll get invaluable information on how to set up an Etsy shop, write compelling item descriptions, photograph your work, engage the Etsy community, understand fees, and find your muse when it takes a holiday.

In the last couple of years, the DIY movement has transcended the big-box hardware stores, and has taken on a new format in the savvy crafting arena. Starting an Etsy Business For Dummies shows you how to create, manage, and successfully sell handmade wares, vintage goods, and DIY supplies using the world's largest online handmade marketplace.

 * Coverage new to this edition includes the latest in flash sale partners; best practices for applying SEO to your shop and listings; new tools for sellers; and much more
 * Includes tips for increasing local sales by connecting with other local vendors through seller communities
 * Covers harnessing the power of Pinterest to promote (and protect) your business

If DIY is your domain, Starting an Etsy Business For Dummies gives you the skills, knowledge, and know-how to create a successful business that pays.

Starting an Etsy Business for Dummies®

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Bret Lott

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

North Carolina

On Being a Writer, on Being a Christian

Writing is both a significant and intimate activity. Acclaimed novelist Bret Lott reflects on his life through five essays exploring everything from the importance of literary fiction to the pain of personal loss.

Letters and Life

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#paperback #quilting #gardeninspired #hobbies #home #projects

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Ohio

Garden-Inspired Projects for the Home

All the joys of a summer bouquet can be yours year-round with 9 unique designs from Quilts Japan magazine.

A Bouquet of Quilts

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Sharon Jones

Burn after Writing-Prop-Five Below

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Doug Stillinger

Colorado

This complete guide to folding ten paper airplanes features step-by-step illustrations, along with trimming and tweaking tips that present basic principles of flight. Includes forty sheets of flight-tested, ready-to-fold paper, printed on both sides in a variety of twenty colorful patterns.

The Klutz Book of Paper Airplanes

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#nonfiction #crafts #hardcover #hobbies #artsandcrafts #cute #felt #handmade 

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

New York

30 Simple & Stylish Felt Projects

Provides instructions and patterns for completing thirty different projects, including finger puppets, flowers, a fall garland, and coasters.

Felt Sew Good

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Catherine Failor

Wisconsin

Herbal Shower Gels, Conditioning Shampoos, Moisturizing Hand Soaps, Luxurious Bubble Baths, and More

Make our own liquid soaps and body products right in your kitchen. Catherine Failor shows you how to use her simple double-boiler technique to create luxurious shower gels, revitalizing shampoos, energizing body scrubs, and much more. Step-by-step instructions teach you how to turn basic ingredients like cocoa butter, lanolin, and jojoba into sweet-smelling liquid soaps. You'll soon be experimenting with your favorite oils and additives as you craft custom-made products that are kind to your nose and gentle on your skin.

Making Natural Liquid Soaps

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This listing is for 7 vintage and modern craft magazines ranging from 1975-2004. They are in fair condition and most have pattern pieces for projects still intact inside. Addresses on magazines have been marked out. #crafts #craftmagazines #artsandcrafts #art #hobbies #crafting #vintage 

Texas

Lot of Vintage Craft Magazines

Carol Taylor

California

Weaving, Looming, Stringing, Wiring, Making Beads

Instructions for more than fifty-five projects to create bead jewelry by using the skills of weaving, looming, stringing, wiring, and making beads.

Creative Bead Jewelry

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A Stylish Introduction to Finger and Arm Knitting

Who knew you could actually knit without needles? Put down those complicated knitting projects that take forever to finish. Knitting Without Needles brings cool home, gifts, and clothing accessories--cowls, totes, rugs, poufs, scarves, and more--within arm's reach. An all-in-one resource for a new kind of craft, this book shows you how to loop yarn with your fingers or your forearms with thirty patterns that are simple to follow and produce stylish results. Best of all, many of them knit up fast--in less than an hour! Even if you've never picked up knitting needles, you can easily master the techniques to make fun knits with kids and for kids (a princess crown, baby booties) and even last-minute gifts (a statement necklace for your fashionista friend). With stunning photography, plenty of step-by-step photos, and a detailed resource section, Knitting Without Needles is your go-to for a new way to knit.

Knitting Without Needles

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Explorations in Mixed-Media Mapmaking

Explore your Creative Self with Mixed-media Maps

You don't have to be a world traveler or a professional cartographer to embark on a grand journey of self-discovery through mapmaking. Personal Geographies gives you the tools and techniques you'll need to create artful maps of your self, your experiences and your personal journey. Chart the innermost workings of your mind, document your artistic path and create an unfolding maze of your future dreams and goals.

Inside Personal Geographies you'll discover:

   * 21 mixed-media map projects featuring artistic techniques like working with alcohol inks and pochoir, painting on a black surface and carving custom stamps
   * Insight into the world of traditional and contemporary maps and how they relate to and inspire personal mapmaking
   * A gallery of maps by contributors from around the world to spark your own creativity


From mapping your head, hands and heart to recording powerful memories or experiences, the maps in Personal Geographies are a gateway into the fascinating and meaningful world of you.

Personal Geographies

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This book encompasses the history and instructions for quilt-making; traditions passed down through the generations of women in the Appalachia region. There is no dust cover and the back shows considerable wear. Published in 1973, the pages are in very good condition. 

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

Arkansas

The Mountain Artisans Quilting Book

This beautifully bound book includes instructions, illustrations and templates for several quilting projects (see Table of Contents in photos). 

Quilt Shop Series

Piecemakers Country Store

Patricia Nelson

Special Effects for Quilts and More

Create shimmering waves with silver thread. Make flowers out of fluffy yarns. Stitch delicate leaves, stars, vines, and more -- no fancy sewing machine required! A world of ideas for easy machine embroidery is packed into this authoritative guide. Book jacket.

Creative Machine Stitching

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Excellent condition other than the writing and sticker in the front cover (see pictures). #nature #birding #birds #birdwatching #hobbies #stressrelief #conservation #biology

Missouri

Interviews with Acclaimed Birdwatchers

How and why did our most acclaimed birdwatchers take up birding? What were their early experiences of nature? How have their professional birding careers developed? What motivates them and drives their passion for wildlife? How many birds have they seen?

Mark Avery and Keith Betton, passionate birdwatchers and conservationists, interview members of the birdwatching community to answer these and many other questions about the lives of famous birdwatchers. They take you behind the scenes, and behind the binoculars, of a diverse range of birding and wildlife personalities.

Behind the Binoculars includes interviews with: Chris Packham, Phil Hollom, Stuart Winter, Lee Evans, Steve Gantlett, Mark Cocker, Ian Wallace, Andy Clements, Mike Clarke, Debbie Pain, Keith Betton, Roger Riddington, Ian Newton, Stephanie Tyler, Mark Avery, Stephen Moss, Alan Davies and Ruth Miller, Rebecca Nason and Robert Gillmor.

Behind the Binoculars

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#paperback #woodworking #hobbies #colorpics

Maryland

The Practical Woodworker 

Phyllis Fiarotta

Previously owned.  Edge, cover and corner wear.  Age related stains and discoloration.

Pennsylvania

Instructions for making a variety of useful and decorative objects using raw materials from nature.

Snips and Snails and Walnut Whales

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Drawing pad a few pages (about 5) have been taken out that were used

Drawing Sketchbook Set

#crafts #hobbies #hardcover #cross-stitch #Christiantheme 

Florida

Heavenly Cross-Stitch

Debbie Garrett

Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

A Comprehensive Guide to Celebrating, Collecting, and Experiencing the Passion

Collectors and non-collectors will experience the passion for collecting dolls in Ms. Garrett's second, FULL COLOR, black-doll reference book, which is a comprehensive celebration with up-to-date values of over 1000 vintage-to-modern black dolls. Doll genres celebrated, referenced, and valued include early dolls and memorabilia, cloth, fashion, manufactured, artist, one-of-a-kind, celebrity, and paper dolls. `A to Z Tips on Collecting,¿ `Doll Creativity,¿ and loads of `Added Extras¿ will entertain, enlighten, excite, and encourage the most discriminating collector. Readers will experience five years of the author's continuous and extensive doll research combined with nearly 20 years of doll-collecting experience. Black Dolls: A Comprehensive Guide to Celebrating, Collecting, and Experiencing the Passion, is an informative, must-have reference for any doll collector¿s library.

Black Dolls

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Dollhouses

Jean Leinhauser

Book is in excellent condition. Dust cover shows normal wear and tear from age (see photos). 

Contains photos, patterns, and instructions for knitting and crocheting a variety of afghans.

Weekend Afghans

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Harriet Hargrave

Sharon Craig

The ultimate how-to book for Quiltmakers. 
Book is in excellent condition. Only defect is inside back cover is separating slightly at bottom (see photo).

Two of quilting's most respected teachers combine their styles to present a complete reference guide and project book that beginners and experienced quilters alike will always keep near the sewing machine. This book is a necessary reference for every quilter's library!

The Art of Classic Quiltmaking

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From the man who taught Jay Leno to shave with Jif® Peanut Butter and helped Rosie O'Donnell condition her hair with Reddi-wip® comes the first gardening book that tells you how to use the brand-name products sitting in your pantry right now to help you solve all your gardening problems.

The ever-inventive Joey Green returns with countless new ways to utilize products you'll find around your house-- saving yourself a trip (or trips!) to the garden center.

Joey Green's Gardening Magic is a treasure trove of inexpensive, quirky tips, like how 
* Boost a compost pile with Coca-Cola®
* Control Japanese beetles with Wesson® Corn Oil
* Fertilize a lawn with Maxwell House® Coffee
* Protect tomato seedlings with Dixie® Cups
* Lubricate a lawn mower with Jif® Peanut Butter
* Deter deer with Bounce®
* Feed your flowers with Lipton® Tea Bags

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Kate Gatski; Kate Shoup

Starting an Etsy Business for Dummies®

Bret Lott

Letters and Life

Jennifer Rounds; Cyndy Lyle Rymer

A Bouquet of Quilts

Sharon Jones

Burn after Writing-Prop-Five Below

Doug Stillinger

The Klutz Book of Paper Airplanes

Christine Leech

Felt Sew Good

Catherine Failor

Making Natural Liquid Soaps

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Lot of Vintage Craft Magazines

Carol Taylor

Creative Bead Jewelry

Anne Weil

Knitting Without Needles

Jill K. Berry

Personal Geographies

Alfred Allan Lewis

The Mountain Artisans Quilting Book

Peacemakers

Piecemakers Country Store

Patricia Nelson

Creative Machine Stitching

Mark Avery; Keith Betton

Behind the Binoculars

Stephen Corbett

The Practical Woodworker

Phyllis Fiarotta

Snips and Snails and Walnut Whales

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Drawing Sketchbook Set

Marie Barber

Heavenly Cross-Stitch

Debbie Garrett

Black Dolls

Valerie Jackson

Dollhouses

Jean Leinhauser

Weekend Afghans

Harriet Hargrave; Sharon Craig

The Art of Classic Quiltmaking

Joey Green

Gardening Magic