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Crafty Minx: Creative Recycling and Handmade Treasures - Softcover

Doust, Kelly

 
9781741964950: Crafty Minx: Creative Recycling and Handmade Treasures
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1741964954 ISBN 13: 9781741964950
Verlag: Murdoch Books, 2009

Inhaltsangabe

Kelly Doust shares her practical tips to help make your own delectable crafts from discarded materials, and a positive impact on the environment in the process. Including over 75 projects which give traditional crafts a modern makeover - from brightly patterned summer beach bags and cotton apron tops to cosy lambs' wool throws and cashmere-covered hot water bottles, or a soft toy for a friend's new baby - this book is broken down into the four seasons of the year for easy inspiration, and to carry you through the year creatively. Bringing you stories about great vintage finds and new ways of looking at the treasures within our own homes, thrift stores and local flea markets, it reflects the huge cultural shift taking place right now towards recycling and buying locally. No matter where you live or what your circumstances, discover just how easy it is to be a crafty minx. Key points: beautifully presented and filled with photographs, diagrams, instructions and tips to support the projects; features practical and innovative ways to get creative with recycled fabrics, paper and hand stitching; written in a lively manner that will enthrall and inspire.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Kelly Doust has been making and reinventing things in her own trial-and-error way since she was a girl, and scouring flea markets and charity shops for recycled fashion and homewares from her early teens. For the better part of a decade, she worked in book publishing and public relations in Sydney, Hong Kong and London, and as a freelance writer on the side. She was a regular contributor to Vogue magazine, with her essays and articles appearing in Dazed & Confused, The South China Morning Post's Lifestyle section and various other magazines and newspapers in Australia, Hong Kong and the UK. Her short stories and poetry have also been published in a number of collections.

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Verlag
Murdoch Books
Erscheinungsdatum
2009
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1741964954
ISBN 13 
9781741964950
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
272
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