Ann shows you how to crochet colorful, patterned tubes of beads and turn them into stylish designs.

Anna shows you how to create scrapbook pages that celebrate the important people and events in your life.

Susan Ure--a prolific author and guest on The Christopher Lowell Show--presents an invaluable introduction to the most exciting, fastest-growing trend in crafts: mixing altered art with scrapbooking. It’s all about taking an existing volume and embellishing the pages until a unique, personal scrapbook emerges. Ure covers it all, from choosing materials to creating a pleasing composition.

Includes 50 projects for shoes, range from strappy Asian Pumps with a high heel and floral design to beaded rope mules dotted with small pearls. Choose from shoes meant for weddings, fancy pairs for a night out, and casual ones for everyday or the beach. This work also includes boots and a few patterns for baby footware.

This unique combination craft and gift book celebrates girlfriend power--the special bond women share with their closest companions. Here are gifts friends can give to each other or make together to mark a birthday, anniversary, a baby's birth, a housewarming, to lift spirits or share quiet times. Intimate girl-talk anecdotes, inspiring quotes, and countless ideas for being a good friend are interspersed between designer-quality projects featuring decoupage, calligraphy, collage, beading, and more. Make a Feel Good Sugar Cookies treat, a Not Just for Hats Box, Very Relaxed Bath Salts, Quartz Necklace and Earring Set, a Kindred Spirits Scrapbook, gift wrap and cards, and share your love of crafting and good friends when you plan a Girls' Night In crafting party.

Crafters looking for time-saving and economical ways to use their supplies and talents will welcome this guide to the newest scrapbooking trend: creating charming miniature scrapbooks. It features award-winning designers showcasing their own fabulous work, sharing their favorite techniques, revealing the inspiration behind each idea, and providing instructions. They even offer hints on how to personalize each appealing project, including ones dedicated to family events, like picnics and birthday parties; a gratitude journal; and an " I Love You Because" mini-book. An introductory section covers techniques and supplies; making a template; constructing small books from scratch; ideas for bindings; and folding techniques.