In just one afternon, you can set a table with beautiful plates and platters that you painted yourself! With today's new paint products, and advice from a top crafts author, you will transform store-bought glass into unique and decorative items. Instructions cover a wide assortment of paint types: oven-bake acrylics; air-dry frosted enamels, crystals, and gels; and oils. Terrific techniques range from simple brush strokes enhanced with outlines to sponging and stamping to textured looks with tools. Follow the full-scale patterns to make Artichoke and Olives or Sunny Day Home decorative plates. Personalize a soup mug with the Bee Happy design; coffee mugs with Hens 'n' Chicks; and tall mugs with a Happy Birdhouse. Other wonderful projects include a Starry Night Votive Holder, a Tulip Impressions Lamp, a Field of Funky Flowers Hurricane Shade and Plate, spectacular tiles, and a variety of vases. 35 great glass designs in all. The author lives in Decatur, GA. 112 pages (all in color), 8 1/2 x 10. NEW IN PAPERBACK

Don't just send a card--give someone special a handmade keepsake! Making pretty, personalized greeting cards has never been simpler or more fun. these eye-catching projects will help you celebrates any occasion, from birthdays to holidays, by letting loved ones know that you remember them warmly.

This book will serve you well if: You're new to traditional stained glass painting and are uncertain which brushes, paints and tools to buy - this book will tell you what you want to know. The accompanying 12 free videos will also introduce you to the key techniques. You've painted stained glass for a while but still worry "Is it my lack of skill which is the problem, or is it my brushes, paints and tools which stop me achieving the results I want?" - this book will guide you to the answer. And the 23 free designs will give you an excellent resource with which to practise. You're a teacher who wants your students to experience the joy of mastering this wonderful craft - this book will show you the smallest, most effective set of brushes, paints and tools to place before them so they can triumph. From designers and painters Williams & Byrne, and featuring entries from the journal of the forgotten Victorian craftsman Nathaniel Somers, this book will demonstrate how few possessions you really need to paint stained glass. This is Book 1 of The Glass Painter's Method.

A SHOCKING NOVEL OF SEX AND HORROR The old painting was done on glass, and found beneath the ruins of the ancient, decaying French mansion that Emily Hastings' sister, Irene, had inherited from the estate of the Marquis de Garac. The cold and distant Monsieur Philippe Gastion informed them that the painting was a forgotten masterpiece and should be given a place of honor. Soon afterwards, Irene became mysteriously ill, and other signs of imminent danger pointed directly toward Emily. There were rumors of the cruelty and unbridled sexuality of the long-deceased owners. A strange black cat haunted the house, and the crumbling mausoleum out back was never to be visited. And then the image on the glass painting began to change!

Murano Glass and its Collectors in Aesthetic America / Melody Barnett Deusner -- Venetian Mosaics and Glass in the United States, 1860-1917 / Sheldon Barr -- "Where Have Titian's Beauties Gone?" : Sargent and Whistler on the Streets of Venice / Stephanie Mayer Heydt -- Interweaving Worlds : Antique and Revival Lace in Italy and in the United States, 1872-1927 / Diana Jocelyn Greenwold -- Sparks of Genius : American Art and the Appeal of Modern Venetian Glass / Crawford Alexander Mann III -- Biographies / Brittany Emens Strupp, Crawford Alexander Mann III.