• 28 stylish DIY jewelry projects with step-by-step how-to photos. • Everything beginners need to tackle their first jewelry project. • Covers the full range of jewelry mediums—beads, findings, wire, hemp and leather. • Easy ideas for necklaces, earrings, bracelets, bangles, chokers and rings. • Skill-building tutorials teach essential techniques. • Includes beginner’s guide to basic tools and materials.

Beginners will learn safe and easy techniques for soldering to create custom pendants, rings, bracelets, earrings and more.

Learn how to clean, repair and revive old jewelry pieces so you can wear them or resell them.

This ground-breaking book is the first to bring an ecological focus to theatre and performance design, both in scholarship and in practice. Ecoscenography weaves environmental philosophies and practices across genres and fields to provide a captivating vision for the future of sustainable theatre production. The book forefronts leading designers that are driving this emerging field into the mainstream through their relational and reciprocal engagement with place, audiences, materials, and processes. Beyond its radical philosophy and framework, Ecoscenography makes a compelling case for pursuing an ecological ethic in theatre and performance design, not only as a moral imperative, but for the extraordinary possibilities that it offers for more-than-human engagement. Based on her personal insights as a leading ecological researcher and practitioner, Beer offers a rich resource for scholars, students and practitioners alike, opening up new processes and aesthetics of theatrical design that enhance the environmental and social advocacy of the field.

Brad Lowe, a New York City socialite wanted what his parents had, love, compassion for each other and the finer things in life. While stationed with the United States Air Force as a B52 co-pilot during the Vietnam War, he fell in love with Cantana, a nineteen-year-old Thai girl while on Rest and Recuperation leave. After losing the love of Cantana, he continued his search, which led him to success, love and romantic failures. Cantana’s memory continued plaguing him for years and played a huge role in his path to become one of the world’s renowned jewelers thus creating what most women in the world want, ‘Jewelry’. In the end, it was a question that his mother asked that led Brad to the love of his life while opening a store in Dallas Texas. Afterwards, he received a letter from Bangkok that interrupted his life and drew him back to Thailand. What he found in Bangkok took him by total a surprise.