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Advantages: Full of great 'crafty' ideas for children of different ages.
Disadvantages: None

...books relating to arts and crafts for children, here are some of them: * Gift Wrapping and Greeting Cards * The Only Kid's Party Book You'll Ever Need * Creative Gift Wrapping * Mask Making: Get started in a new craft with easy-to-follow instructions * Fancy Dress ~ Price ~ My hardcover ISBN: 0-600-61240-6 was £14.99 but cheaper paperbacks are available from amazon.co.uk ... Read review

Advantages: God ideas, plenty to try, clear instructions
Disadvantages: Some materials might be hard to source

Creative Digital Crafts is subtitled Creating Crafts Using Digital Photos and Art. Unlike most books that cover digital photography, this one is packed full of ways to use your images in rather more creative ways than just sticking them in an album. If you're the sort of person who enjoys crafts and customising things with your own little flourish then Creative Digital Crafts will be right up your street. The author, Helen Bradley has put together ...
...and Heat Transfer projects. Very helpfully, the book starts with a list of the projects with each being graded for computer skill and craft skill levels so you can easily see which ones are suitable for beginners or might be of interest to more advanced users. The first thing that struck me was the number of products I'd never heard of such as inkjet printable slide transfers, much like you get with Airfix model aircraft kits but in A4 size. Armed ... Read review

Advantages: Wonderful, inspiring, a good text for making one think and see in new ways
Disadvantages: A few colour plates or images would be nice

...from her table to read the first page, and found that I simply could not put it down. 'The Art of Life and Vice Versa', the subtitle said - something I have long aspired to understand is the interplay of art and life in its many facets and influences. According to author Michael Kimmelman, chief art critic for the New York Times and frequent author on art and cultural topics, studying art and those who devote themselves to art 'provides us with clues ...
...Kimmelman's early examples is of the dentist Hugh Francis Hicks, whose home was a makeshift lightbulb museum (with more than 75,000 lightbulbs in his collection from all manner of times, places and devices). This is not mere enthusiasm, but an abiding love that made his interest a matter of art. One of Kimmelman's intentions here, which he has achieved, was not to confront or approach art from the standpoint of an art critic, an art historian, or ... Read review

Advantages: EXCELLENT PICTURES WITH GREAT SUBJECTS
Disadvantages: SOME PICTURES APPEAR BLURRED ( JUST HOW IGNORANT CAN ONE GET)

IT SEEMS VERY STRANGE TO ME THAT PEOPLE WHO CRITISISE ARTISTS ONLY CRITISISE THEIR PAINTINGS WITHOUT ACTUALLY LOOKING INTO THE ARTISTS THEMSELVES. HAVING RECENTLY HEARD ONE CRITIC STATE THAT MONET'S PICTURES SEEM BLURRED...I WAS AMAZED. DO PEOPLE NOT KNOW THAT MONET SUFFERED FROM GLAUCOMA.. AND THAT IN FACT IF ONE LOOKS INTO HIS PAINTINGS IN CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER...THEY WILL SOON DISCOVER THAT HIS EARLY PAINTINGS WERE CRYSTAL CLEAR... APPARENTLY ... Read review

Advantages: hugely informative, overwhelming amounts of knowledge
Disadvantages: can be confusing at first, book is written in fragmented format

...the subject can change (by performing the change on you). Tricks Of The Mind is an incredibly enjoyable and informative education read and I recommend it to anyone who is interested in the world of the human mind, beliefs and expectation, hypnosis and NLP, body language and psychic abilities. ... Read review