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This book is a perfect guide for anyone who wants to host top-notch, elegant gatherings. Lady Caroline Wrey provides practical suggestions for all aspects of entertaining, from setting the table to sending thank-you notes. The book is lavishly illustrated with photographs that are sure to inspire any party planner. Plus, it offers great tips on how to plan ahead for a successful event. Recommended for anyone who wants to host memorable parties!

"Elite Weapons for LEGO Fanatics" is a must-read for LEGO enthusiasts who are interested in building functional replicas of weapons and tools. The book provides step-by-step instructions on building 13 models, including a fully automatic combat rifle and a grappling hook gun. With details on where to find the LEGO pieces and a comic book story featuring a hero using the weapons in action, this book is perfect for those who want to take their LEGO building skills to the next level.

Airbrushing 101 is a great read for beginners who want to learn airbrushing techniques. The book provides a series of start-to-finish projects in different categories like T-shirts, automotive, body and face painting, and more. Readers will benefit from the basic strokes that form the foundation for almost all airbrush art. Additionally, the book includes interviews with different artists to explore their approach, preferred materials, and how to avoid common mistakes. Airbrushing 101 features over 400 color photos to guide readers through each step in creating different types of airbrush art.

If you're looking for a hobby that allows you to preserve your memories in a creative and tangible way, "The Ultimate Practical Guide to Scrapbooking" by Alison Lindsay can be your perfect companion. With Lindsay's seasoned insights and easy-to-follow projects, both beginners and experienced scrapbookers will find inspiration. Her hands-on approach and the book's rich illustrations will help you transform your photographs and mementos into meaningful keepsakes.

The complementary crafts of creative greetings cards and decorative scrapbooking have soared in popularity in recent years. Each offers the opportunity to create carefully tailored and highly personalized designs that celebrate life's special events, and to delight family and friends. This lavish practical reference book is a compendium of 350 inspirational ideas, craft techniques and fabulous designs shown in evocative photographs.An introduction to each craft details all the materials and equipment that are needed to get started. Easy techniques for making and decorating card and scrapbook page backgrounds follow, and there are tips on choosing design themes, putting colours and patterns together, and choosing embellishments to personalize each design. Hundreds of versatile craft techniques are featured such as papercraft, stamping, stencilling, paint techniques, modelling with air-drying clay, simple sewing and embroidery. There is a section that looks at getting the most from a digital camera and learning how to crop photographs for best effect.Make a greetings card to celebrate New Year, a cute and colourful fluffy rabbit for a first birthday, a traditional and festive Christmas card, or an opulent gilded card for a wedding anniversary. Create memorable scrapbooking pages to remember a child's birthday party, use treasured sepia-tinted photographs for a heritage display of a family wedding, and use embellishments and mementoes for a lasting impression of a special holiday abroad.Every technique and project is clearly explained in more than 2100 step-by-step photographs. With hundreds of fantastic ideas to suit all tastes and every occasion, this is the ultimate source book for all crafters. The easy-to-follow projects use simple and effective methods and materials that are ready to hand, while more advanced ideas stretch the more skilled crafter