Using safe, everyday ingredients, provides projects for making soap, including instructions for molded bar and liquid soap, bath fizzies and salts, bubble baths, body powders, and lip glosses.

This book, divided into beginner, intermediate, and advanced categories, offers instructions for animal origami projects, such as a cat head, a doggie head, a clam, a bat, a stingray, a peacock, and a whale.

The latest entry in the popular In an Afternoon� series focuses on quick and easy techniques for paper mosaics-a simpler method than the tile and glass versions, but equally attractive. Written by highly regarded author Marie Browning, it's sure to become the next Afternoon success. Here is everything you need to get started: information on supplies and tools, including the different kinds of available paper, trimmers, backings, and coatings; how-to instructions on the basic techniques (cutting to size, assembling the pieces); numerous photographs; and projects-such as a Poker Box and Marbled Oval Tray-designed to build skills even as they inspire. A Selection of the Crafters Choice Book Club.

Crafts involving paper manipulation, like collages, quilling, paper tole, and chigiri-e, to create many projects.

Describes the history, uses, and manufacture of soap.

Presents full-color illustrated instructions for creating forty-five metal projects with lessons on hammering, embossing, decoupage, and other techniques.

Classic techniques—contemporary projects! This second entry in the new Paper Crafts Workshop series proves that traditional methods of crafting can produce some of the most exquisite greeting cards ever. Every idea is eye-opening and lovely: paper lacework, a form of paper weaving knownas papuela, silhouette cutting, iris folding, paper embroidery, paper piercing (Ornare), kaleidoscope folding, and more. With plenty of photos and description to lead the newcomer through every step, and patterns when needed, crafters won’t be able to resist making every card. Best of all, the supplies and papers needed to create these unique designs are all easily found at neighborhood scrapbooking stores.