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Creative Home Decorating

by Hazel Kory Rockow Julius Rockow

Interest in home decoration is at a higher pitch today than ever before. Modern techniques of production have made home furnishings available to all persons and at all income levels. Home decoration is a creative activity. As such, it is guided by principles and aesthetic values common to all the creative arts. Trial and error is uneconomical of money, time and effort and, all too often, never transcends error. For this reason, the authors have emphasized principles throughout the book, as well as their practical application.

Creative Kids' Murals You Can Paint

by Suzanne Whitaker

Paint Imaginative Murals Especially for Kids!Transform an ordinary room into a playground of imagination. Creative Kids' Murals You Can Paint blends inspiration with instruction so you can create the perfect mural for every special child you know.More than 50 whimsical wall paintings by author and children's muralist, Suzanne Whitaker, offer you a range of unique ideas, themes and color combinations, complete with 32 step-by-step demonstrations that make these murals easy and fun to recreate on your own walls. All the guidance you need is in this book, including:Start-to-finish steps for painting kids' favorites like a castle, Mother Goose characters, sports paraphernalia, bunnies, dog and cat, letters, numbers and much moreClear instruction for choosing materials, performing basic techniques, preparing surfaces, selecting colors and creating customized compositionsSeveral theme-based galleries of additional designs for extra inspirationYou can paint murals exactly as they're shown or use them as a jumping off point to design your own. These step-by-step demos allow you to mix and match mural components to suit you and your child's preferences.Wow your family and friends! With this guide, you really can paint creative kids' murals.

Creative Milieux: How Urban Design Nurtures Creative Clusters

by Quentin Stevens

The so-called ‘creative industries’ are increasingly being presented as an important tool of urban regeneration and economic development. Until now, research on the clustering of such activities has been limited to economics, geography and urban policy. This book is the first to gather together emerging research in urban design and spatial planning that explores what characteristics of the built form of cities support the distinctive activity patterns of various creative industries, and how and why they cluster together at a range of local scales. The book offers detailed case studies and comparative analyses of creative city neighbourhoods on five continents. Contributions examine urban forms, building types, and other qualities of place that attract and retain creative workers and foster creative production, outlining a range of methodologies for studying them. Taken altogether, Creative Milieux offers new insights for urban design practice, and for its role in wider urban policy. This book was originally published as a special issue of the Journal of Urban Design.

Creative Regions in Europe

by Nick Clifton Caroline Chapain Roberta Comunian

Creative and cultural industries, broadly defined, are now considered by many policy makers across Europe at the heart of their national innovation and economic development agenda. Similarly, many European cities and regions have adopted policies to support and develop these industries and their local support infrastructures. However this policy-making agenda implicitly incorporates (and indeed often conflates) elements of cultural and creative industries, the creative class and so on, which are typically employed without due consideration of context. Thus a better understanding is required. To this end, this book features eight research papers, split evenly with regard to geographical focus between the UK and continental Europe (the latter covering Spain, Germany, France, Luxemburg and Belgium individually and in combination). There is also a similar division in terms of those focusing primarily on the policy level (the chapters of Clifton and Macaulay, Mould and Comunian, Pareja-Eastaway and Pradel i Miquel, Perrin) and those of the individual creative actor (the chapters of Alfken et al, Bennett et al, Wedemeier and Brown). This book was previously published as a special issue of European Planning Studies.

Creative Spaces: People, Homes, and Studios to Inspire

by Angie Myung Ted Vakadan

This debut book from acclaimed Los Angeles lifestyle brand Poketo proves creativity can be sparked anywhere. From a colorful desk in a tiny closet to expansive homes, Creative Spaces explores the lives, homes, and studios of 23 artistic entrepreneurs, authors, and designers through a collection of inspired interiors from across the country that brings art into the everyday. With stunning photography, intimate profiles, and unexpected takeaways, the book showcases an eclectic mix of creatives, including artist Adam J. Kurtz, ceramicist Helen Levi, and DJ Chris Manak, among others. Fusing lifestyle with interior design, this peek into the spaces and lives of creative professionals will motivate dreamers and thinkers to become doers and makers.

The Creative Vegetable Gardener: 60 Ways to Cultivate Joy, Playfulness, and Beauty along with a Bounty of Food

by Kelly Smith Trimble

With interest in vegetable gardening booming, lifestyle editor and master gardener Kelly Smith Trimble offers designs, ideas, and inspiration for making the vegetable garden a joyful, creative space that reflects each gardener's distinctive aesthetic, integrates beauty with functionality, and offers a sanctuary for both people and pollinators, along with a bounty of nutritious, homegrown food.

Creative Vegetable Gardening

by Joy Larkcom

Joy Larkcom believes passionately that a vegetable garden, whatever its size, can be as beautiful as a conventional garden of flowers and shrubs. In Creative Vegetable Gardening she shows how the principles of good design can be applied to a kitchen plot and how to use the vibrant textures, colours, and forms of vegetables, herbs and fruit to create glorious effects and intriguing patterns without jeopardizing their productivity. Inspirational colour photographs of potagers and kitchen plots capture the essence of the creative approach to vegetable growing. Techniques are described in clear stages and illustrated with full-colour step-by-step artworks, while an A-Z directory includes more than 150 edible plants with key facts on their cultivation, supplemented with ideas on how to grow them to maximum ornamental effect. Beautifully illustrated, intricate plans of five types of potager - formal, informal, small, urban and winter - add to the wealth of inspirational information.

Creative Vegetable Gardening: Accenting Your Vegetables With Flowers

by Joy Larkcom

Joy Larkcom believes passionately that a vegetable garden, whatever its size, can be as beautiful as a conventional garden of flowers and shrubs. In Creative Vegetable Gardening she shows how the principles of good design can be applied to a kitchen plot and how to use the vibrant textures, colours, and forms of vegetables, herbs and fruit to create glorious effects and intriguing patterns without jeopardizing their productivity. Inspirational colour photographs of potagers and kitchen plots capture the essence of the creative approach to vegetable growing. Techniques are described in clear stages and illustrated with full-colour step-by-step artworks, while an A-Z directory includes more than 150 edible plants with key facts on their cultivation, supplemented with ideas on how to grow them to maximum ornamental effect. Beautifully illustrated, intricate plans of five types of potager - formal, informal, small, urban and winter - add to the wealth of inspirational information.

Creative Wood Letters: 35 Simple Craft Projects for Decorating Your Home

by Krista Aasen

<p>Krista Aasen of The Happy Housie blog presents a collection of 35 creative projects that can brighten up the walls of any house. <p>Decorating wood letters is a fun and simple project for the home, from a child's name in a bedroom to an uplifting message above the mantel. But how do you achieve the pin-worthy results of the stylists you see online? Enter Krista Aasen of The Happy Housie blog, whose crafting experiments with wood letters have been shared hundreds of thousands of times. <p>In Creative Wood Letters, Aasen reveals unique ideas and techniques to craft beautifully decorated letters inspired by everything from nature to art using maps, vintage book pages, photo transfer, paper flowers, washi tape, succulents, driftwood, metallic paints, lights, and more. With a wide variety of styles from rustic and beachy to cute and sparkly, this book's wood letters are perfect for gracing the walls, shelves, and nooks of kitchens, bedrooms, and beyond.</p>

Crepe Paper Flowers: The Beginner's Guide to Making and Arranging Beautiful Blooms

by Lia Griffith

With 30 projects and an introduction to both crafting paper flowers and working with crepe paper, this book is full of inspiration and expert advice for beginners. If you have a Cricut Maker, you can download the templates to your machine so you can enjoy your own homemade bouquets in no time.Crepe paper is the best material for creating paper flowers, especially for beginners. It's forgiving and malleable--easy to cut, bend, curl, and shape into peony petals, daffodil trumpets, chrysanthemum blooms, and more. And if you have a Cricut Maker, you can easily cut out the shapes from templates you download for free on Lia Griffith's website using a code. Then, follow instructions for crafting the flowers to arrange and display in vases and pots and as bouquets and wreaths.

Crescita & Coltivazione della Marijuana

by Hiddenstuff Entertainment

Il manuale definitivo e passo a passo per far crescere e coltivare la marijuana. Impara come far crescere la cannabis con passi facili da seguire dall'inizio alla fine. Impara ed inizia a far crescere in poche ore. Istruzioni semplici e facili da seguire. Utilizzando le strategie di crescita più efficaci puoi far crescere le tue piante come fanno i professionisti. Qui i contentuti: -Progetta la tua area per la coltivazione -Illuminazione -Aerazione -Come monitorare la crescita delle piante -Tipologie di ambienti per la crescita -Contenitori -Nutrienti -Innaffiare le piante Risparmia tempo e denaro utilizzando questo manuale definitivo. --> Vai all'inizio della pagina e clicca su aggiungi al carrello per comprarlo immediatamente Disclaimer: This author and or rights owner(s) make no claims, promises, or guarantees about the accuracy, completeness, or adequacy of the contents of this book, and expressly disclaims liability for errors and omissions in the contents within. This product is for reference use only.

Cricut Maker 3 für Anfänger: Meistern Sie Ihren Cricut, Cricut Design Space und innovative DIY-Projekte

by Valerie D. Hering

Willkommen in der wunderschönen Welt des Cricut Maker! Dieser Leitfaden wurde zusammengestellt, um Ihnen dabei zu helfen, sich in der Bastelwelt von Cricut und den zahlreichen und faszinierenden Funktionen des Cricut-Geräts zurechtzufinden, damit Sie im Handumdrehen mit der Umsetzung einzigartiger DIY-Projekte beginnen können! Sie waren bestimmt auf der Suche nach einem Buch, das all Ihren Bastelbedürfnissen gerecht wird; Sie sind an der richtigen Stelle. Dieses Handbuch zeigt Ihnen, wie Sie Ihre Cricut-Maschine einrichten, mit Holz, Vinyl, Leder, Papier usw. arbeiten. Das Zusammenstellen dieser genialen Designs kann Ihre Fähigkeiten oft an die Grenzen bringen, wenn Ihr Schneidegerät nicht leicht zu verstehen ist. Verzweifeln Sie nicht, denn dieses Buch deckt alle Aspekte ab und bietet Ihnen umfassende Lektionen zur richtigen und einfachen Verwendung Ihres Cricut Makers. Jeder Abschnitt dieses Buches wurde speziell für Sie zusammengestellt, um Ihnen dabei zu helfen, praktische Erfahrungen zu sammeln und sich mit Ihrem neuen Gerät vertraut zu machen Cricut Maker 3. Sie werden intelligente Möglichkeiten entdecken, Funktionen wie den Cricut Design Space, benutzerdefinierte Materialeinstellungen, die Verwendung des besten Zubehörs für jedes Projekt und vieles mehr zu nutzen. Wenn Sie den Cricut Maker mit dem Cricut Explore Air oder Cricut Joy vergleichen, werden Sie feststellen, dass er leistungsstärker und hinsichtlich der Steuerung und anderer Funktionen etwas fortschrittlicher ist. Daher wurde der Fokus auf die kleinsten Details gelegt, um sicherzustellen, dass sowohl Neulinge als auch erfahrene Leute so schnell wie möglich das Beste herausholen können. Hier finden Sie eine Zusammenfassung dessen, was Sie von diesem Buch erwarten; - Einrichten Ihres Cricut Maker 3 - Machen Sie sich mit dem Gerät vertraut - Spielen im Design Space - Ve

Cricut Maker 3 para principiantes: Domina tu Cricut, Cricut Design Space y proyectos innovadores de bricolaje

by Valerie D. Hering

¡Bienvenido al hermoso mundo de Cricut Maker! Esta guía se ha elaborado para ayudarte a navegar por el mundo artesanal de Cricut, las numerosas e intrigantes funcionalidades del dispositivo Cricut, para que puedas comenzar a realizar proyectos de bricolaje únicos en poco tiempo. Debes haber estado buscando un libro que satisfaga todas tus necesidades de manualidades; Has venido al lugar correcto. Este manual le mostrará cómo configurar su máquina Cricut, trabajar con madera, vinilo, cuero, papel, etc. La mayoría de las veces, armar esos diseños ingeniosos puede llevar sus habilidades al límite cuando su dispositivo de corte no es fácil de comprender. No se desespere, ya que este libro cubre todos los ángulos en un intento de brindarle lecciones completas sobre la manera adecuada y fácil de utilizar su Cricut Maker. Cada sección de este libro se ha elaborado pensando en usted para ayudarle a adquirir experiencia práctica y a establecerse con su nuevo Cricut Maker 3. Descubrirá formas inteligentes de utilizar funciones como Cricut Design Space, configuraciones de materiales personalizadas, utilizar los mejores accesorios para cada proyecto y mucho más. Cuando comparas Cricut Maker con Cricut Explore Air o Cricut Joy, descubrirás que es más potente y un poco más avanzado en su control y otras funciones. Por lo tanto, se ha prestado atención a los detalles más pequeños para garantizar que tanto los principiantes como los experimentados puedan dar el mejor paso lo antes posible. Aquí hay un resumen de lo que obtendrá de este libro.; Configurando tu Cricut Maker 3 Familiarizarse con el dispositivo Jugando con el espacio de diseño Conexión de su dispositivo móvil o PC con su Cricut Maker Usar bolígrafos Cricut Carga y descarga de su tapete Cricut Accesorios y herramientas necesarias Trabajar con una variedad de tipos de materiales en su Cricut (Trabajar con vinilo, Trabajar con HTV) Proye

Crime Prevention and the Built Environment

by Richard H. Schneider Ted Kitchen

With a comprehensive analysis, this book links theory, evidence and practical application to bridge gaps between planning, design and criminology. The authors investigate connections between crime prevention and development planning with an international approach, looking at initiatives in the field and incorporating an understanding of current responses to the growth of technology and terrorism.

Crime Prevention through Housing Design

by Rachel Armitage

This book presents a comprehensive review of the impact of residential design on crime focusing upon research, policy and practice both in the UK and internationally, appealing to both academics and practitioners within the fields of crime prevention, urban planning and architecture.

Crime Prevention Through Housing Design

by Paul Stollard

This book provides specific guidance for architects, planners, and housing managers on designing to deter crime. While every estate and neighborhood has different problems which require unique solutions, the process which leads to the solutions will be the same.

Crime Prevention Through Housing Design

by Paul Stollard

This book provides specific guidance for architects, planners, and housing managers on designing to deter crime. While every estate and neighbourhood has different problems which require unique solutions, the process which leads to the solutions will be the same. This book provides specific guidance for architects, planners, and housing managers on designing to deter crime. While every estate and neighbourhood has different problems which require unique solutions, the process which leads to the solutions will be the same.The first three chapters review the various theories of crime prevention through design, and abstract from them a series of six key principles which can be applied to all housing projects. The remaining five chapters outline the practical application of these principles in the assessment, design and construction processes.The text of this book has been compiled and updated from two educational packages produced by the Institute of Advanced Architectural Studies and the Safe Neighbourhoods Unit. These were Safe as Houses (1988) and Safer Neighbourhoods (1989). Videos produced as part of those educational packages are available for use with this book.

The Crisis Hits Home: Stress Testing Households in Eastern Europe and Central Asia

by Victor Sulla Victoria Levin Erwin R. Tiongson Kalanidhi Subbarao Ashley Taylor Naotaka Sugawara Anna I. Gueorguieva

The crisis threatens the welfare of about 160 million people in the Europe and Central Asia (ECA) region who are poor or are just above the poverty line. Using pre-crisis household data along with aggregate macroeconomic out-turns to simulate the impact of the crisis on households--transmitted via credit market shocks, price shocks, and income shocks--this report finds that adverse effects are widespread and that poor and non-poor households alike are vulnerable. By 2010, for the region as a whole, some 11 million more people will likely be in poverty and over 23 million more people will find themselves just above the poverty line because of the crisis. The aggregate results mask the heterogeneity of impact within countries, including the concentration of the poverty impact in selected economic sectors. Meanwhile, stress tests on household indebtedness in selected countries suggest that ongoing macroeconomic shocks will expand the pool of households unable to service their debt, many of them from among the ranks of relatively richer households. In fact, already there are rising household loan delinquency rates. Finally, there is evidence that the food and fuel crisis is not over and a new round of price increases, via currency adjustments, will have substantial effects on net consumers. Lessons from last year's food crisis suggest that the poor are the worst hit, as many of the poor in Albania, Kyrgyz Republic, and Tajikistan, for example, are net food consumers, with limited access to agricultural assets and inputs. The resilience of households to macroeconomic shocks ultimately depends upon the economy's institutional readiness, the flexibility of the economic policy regime, and the ability of the population to adjust. However, compared with previous crises, the scope for households to engage in their traditional coping strategies may be more limited. Fiscal policy responses in the short-term are also constrained by rapidly falling revenues. Governments in ECA have to make difficult choices over what spending items to protect and what items to cut, social protection programs to reform and scale-up, and new interventions to mitigate the impact of the crisis.

Critical Landscape Planning during the Belt and Road Initiative

by Ashley Scott Kelly Xiaoxuan Lu

This open access book traces the development of landscapes along the 414-kilometer China–Laos Railway, one of the first infrastructure projects implemented under China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) and which is due for completion at the end of 2021. Written from the perspective of landscape architecture and intended for planners and related professionals engaged in the development and conservation of these landscapes, this book provides history, planning pedagogy and interdisciplinary framing for working alongside the often-opaque planning, design and implementation processes of large-scale infrastructure. It complicates simplistic notions of development and urbanization frequently reproduced in the Laos–China frontier region. Many of the projects and sites investigated in this book are recent “firsts” in Laos: Laos’s first wildlife sanctuary for trafficked endangered species, its first botanical garden and its first planting plan for a community forest. Most often the agents and accomplices of neoliberal development, the planning and design professions, including landscape architecture, have little dialogue with either the mainstream natural sciences or critical social sciences that form the discourse of projects in Laos and comparable contexts. Covering diverse conceptions and issues of development, including cultural and scientific knowledge exchanges between Laos and China, nature tourism, connectivity and new town planning, this book also features nine planning proposals for Laos generated through this research initiative since the railway's groundbreaking in 2016. Each proposal promotes a wider "landscape approach" to development and deploys landscape architecture’s spatial and ecological acumen to synthesize critical development studies with the planner's capacity, if not naive predilection, to intervene on the ground. Ultimately, this book advocates the cautious engagement of the professionally oriented built-environment disciplines, such as regional planning, civil engineering and landscape architecture, with the landscapes of development institutions and environmental NGOs.

Critter Control: A Homeowner's Guide to Getting Rid of Rodents, Deer, Bears, Foxes, Skunks, Birds, Snakes, and Other Pests

by Larry Grupp

The sprawl of suburbia, destruction of wildlife areas, overregulation of game animals, and reduced popularity of hunting and fishing have resulted in more and more people coming into direct contact with wild animals on a regular basis. In this invaluable do-it-yourself guide, veteran outdoorsman Larry Grupp gives readers a comprehensive "toolbox" of specific devices and strategies to deal safely, legally and effectively with more than 30 common North American pests, including deer, bears, raccoons, rabbits, beavers, porcupines, skunks, foxes, coyotes, rats, squirrels, bats, birds, fish and reptiles. Understanding these critters and how to best control them is the basis of this information-packed manual. You will learn when to be cautious, when to be accommodating and when and how to take direct action if the animals must be eradicated. The primary tools for dealing with unwanted creatures are fences, repellants, fumigators and traps. Grupp examines each solution and tells the reader how to most effectively and economically use them. He also provides a helpful table for using specific baits and lures to trap various varmints. City and country dwellers alike will find the answers they need to rid their homes and properties of destructive wildlife once and for all.

Crochet Baby Gifts (Bernat Bonus Book #542031)

by Bernat

Blankets, booties, blocks, mobile, bibs, and bears OH MY! Delightful baby gifts to crochet using Bernat Baby Coordinates and Bernat Cottontots. You'll never run out of baby shower gift ideas with this book. All patterns labeled "Easy." This is a nice book for the beginning crocheter as it includes instructions for every stitch used in these patterns.

Crochet Taxidermy: 30 Quirky Animal Projects, from Mouse to Moose

by Taylor Hart

Crochet Taxidermy puts a new twist on amigurumi, the popular Japanese method of creating considerably cute stuffed animals with oversized heads. In this delightful collection, heads of animals from farm and forest, sea and safari come to life with irresistible details like the drowsy eye (for the shy deer and sleepy octopus) and fuzzy yarn (for the skittery skunk’s stripe and lazy lion’s mane). Step-by-step instructions and adorable photos guide you through these 30 easy crochet patterns. Most require just one skein of yarn, so they’re affordable and quick to crochet!

Crocheted Wreaths for the Home: 12 Gorgeous Wreaths and 12 Matching Mini Projects for All Year Round

by Anna Nikipirowicz

Create stunning, seasonal wreaths for every month of the year, plus matching mini projects.Wreaths are not just for Christmas—they can be used to decorate your home all year round! Anna Nikipirowicz shows you how to create sumptuous, crocheted wreaths and other decorations that will grace your home and look beautiful, whatever the season.There is a wide variety to choose from, including spring, summer, autumn, and winter wreaths plus a gorgeous succulents wreath and Easter, Halloween, and Christmas wreaths. These lovely yarny creations are festooned with flowers, leaves, and other decorations such as birds, owls, pumpkins, stars, bunnies, and foxes. If you love the look but don’t want to make an entire wreath, Anna also includes other smaller decorations such as garlands and terrariums.There are also three delightful tiny wreaths to make, featuring a hedgehog, a mouse and a robin. Each main project has a smaller accompanying project to make, and if you love crochet, you’ll love Anna’s imaginative designs.Praise for Crocheted Wreaths for the Home“12 beautiful wreaths to adorn your home are designed to give visual pleasure and a talking point feature to any room…. I loved the Summer wreath, you can make your own color choices to give each design a personal or original look. Perfect for every crochet lover, but you will need an understanding of the craft.”—Postcard Reviews“The Succulents Wreath…includes directions for a charming terrarium of crocheted succulents, while other wreaths are accompanied by necklaces, brooches, and pincushions. Every project is beautifully photographed, making the book a stunning as well as useful manual for any crocheter looking to up their decor game.”—Interweave Crochet

Crops in Pots: 50 cool containers planted with fruit, vegetables and herbs

by Bob Purnell

There are few things more rewarding than picking your own homegrown ingredients for a salad, pasta dish or stew. The flavour of freshly harvested produce is far superior to anything you can buy in the supermarket. What's more, you have the satisfaction knowing that it was your own handiwork, and you're able to control whether or not to use chemicals.You don't need a huge amount of space in order to get a worthwhile crop. A wide range of edible plants can be grown successfully in containers and many are just as much a delight to the eye as to the tastebuds.This book has 50 great ideas for growing fruit and vegetables in containers. Your hanging baskets, window boxes and pots will be colourful, beautiful to look at and produce plentiful crops.

Crops in Tight Spots

by Alex Mitchell

Short of outdoor space but want to grow fruit and vegetables? Congratulations. Really, lucky you. Not for you the back-breaking trudge of tending large spaces of land, the weeding, digging and pest vigilance. Gluts? They will mean nothing to you. Instead you can look forward to small but perfectly formed bursts of flavour. Handfuls of fresh leaves, berries and tomatoes, just when you want them, and at arm's reach. As more of us live in cities with restricted outside spaces, growing food becomes all the more important, not just for the delicious results, but as a mindful way to connect us to the seasons and to nature. Full of tried-and-tested, fool-proof crop ideas exclusively tailored for containers, raised beds and small gardens, Crops in Tight Spots guarantees vegetable growing success for even the most newbie of gardeners and limited of spaces.

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