Author: Paige V. Polinsky
Publisher: Checkerboard Library
ISBN: 9781532110993
Category : Biography
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
In this engaging biography, readers will learn about the developer of the yo-yo, Pedro Flores. Follow the story of Flores as he popularizes the toy through his Yo-Yo Manufacturing Company then teams up with Donald F. Duncan to create the Duncan yo-yo! Along the way readers will learn how yo-yos are made and how to "walk the dog." Sidebars, historic photos, and a glossary enhance readers' understanding of this topic. Additional features include a table of contents, an index, a timeline and fun facts. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Checkerboard Library is an imprint of Abdo Publishing, a division of ABDO.
Be Crafty
Author: Jodie Davis
Publisher: Be Crafty
ISBN: 9781416206989
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
"The well-loved craft of making yo-yos - cutting circles of fabric to gather and make rosettes - is popular for many reasons. Yo-yos are a perfect way to be penny-wise as they use up fabric scraps, they do not require any special tools, and they are portable and can be constructed in just a few minutes once the technique is learned. Yo-yos are used ina variety of craft projects including quilts, pillow covers, and toys, and they are perfect embellishments for scarves, hats, dresses, and shoes."--P. [4] of cover.
Publisher: Be Crafty
ISBN: 9781416206989
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
"The well-loved craft of making yo-yos - cutting circles of fabric to gather and make rosettes - is popular for many reasons. Yo-yos are a perfect way to be penny-wise as they use up fabric scraps, they do not require any special tools, and they are portable and can be constructed in just a few minutes once the technique is learned. Yo-yos are used ina variety of craft projects including quilts, pillow covers, and toys, and they are perfect embellishments for scarves, hats, dresses, and shoes."--P. [4] of cover.
Japanese Fabric Flowers
Author: Sylvie Blondeau
Publisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 1782212280
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The Japanese word 'kanzashi' originally referred to decorative pins as part of the traditional female hairstyles. These pins were often works of art in themselves, holding in place elaborate floral arrangements made with natural or silk flowers. Today, kanzashi encompasses flowers made from regular fabrics. Sylvie Blondeau shows you how to make 65 of these simply stunning designs. The projects are so easy and fun to make that you will soon be making them for every occasion. Perfect as accessories on clothing, jewellery, home decorations or table adornments for special occasions.
Publisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 1782212280
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The Japanese word 'kanzashi' originally referred to decorative pins as part of the traditional female hairstyles. These pins were often works of art in themselves, holding in place elaborate floral arrangements made with natural or silk flowers. Today, kanzashi encompasses flowers made from regular fabrics. Sylvie Blondeau shows you how to make 65 of these simply stunning designs. The projects are so easy and fun to make that you will soon be making them for every occasion. Perfect as accessories on clothing, jewellery, home decorations or table adornments for special occasions.
Change Maker
Author: John Berardi
Publisher: BenBella Books
ISBN: 1948836807
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 253
Book Description
The health and fitness industry is huge, highly competitive, and often confusing to navigate. This one-of-a-kind book helps you make sense of the chaos, laying out a clear roadmap for career success—for both established professionals and anyone just getting started. With thousands of certifications, seminars, websites, and gurus promising advice, it's difficult for even the best pros to turn their passion for health and fitness into meaningful—and measurable—success. Enter Change Maker. In this definitive career guide, John Berardi—co-founder of Precision Nutrition, founder of Change Maker Academy, and one of the most successful people in the history of the health and fitness industry—shares his blueprint for becoming the ultimate change maker, one with a powerful purpose, an enthusiastic client base, and the ability to fund your own ideal lifestyle. Whether you're new to the industry and looking for a head-start, or you're already an expert but need a fresh approach, consider this your go-to career guide. With six helpful steps, this book covers the range of logistical, financial, psychological, and practical issues that every health and fitness pro needs to know, including how to: • Choose your specialty based on your unique strengths • Identify what your clients really want and deliver it every time • Build new relationships and become a next-level coach • Get new clients, make more money, and manage a thriving business • Nurture and protect your most precious asset, your reputation • Create a life-long, growth-oriented continuing education plan If you work as a trainer, nutritionist, functional medicine doctor, group instructor, rehab specialist, or health coach—or you eventually want to—this step-by-step guide will help you turn your passion for health and fitness into work you find joy in, your clients into raving fans, and your career into something powerful, meaningful, and change-making.
Publisher: BenBella Books
ISBN: 1948836807
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 253
Book Description
The health and fitness industry is huge, highly competitive, and often confusing to navigate. This one-of-a-kind book helps you make sense of the chaos, laying out a clear roadmap for career success—for both established professionals and anyone just getting started. With thousands of certifications, seminars, websites, and gurus promising advice, it's difficult for even the best pros to turn their passion for health and fitness into meaningful—and measurable—success. Enter Change Maker. In this definitive career guide, John Berardi—co-founder of Precision Nutrition, founder of Change Maker Academy, and one of the most successful people in the history of the health and fitness industry—shares his blueprint for becoming the ultimate change maker, one with a powerful purpose, an enthusiastic client base, and the ability to fund your own ideal lifestyle. Whether you're new to the industry and looking for a head-start, or you're already an expert but need a fresh approach, consider this your go-to career guide. With six helpful steps, this book covers the range of logistical, financial, psychological, and practical issues that every health and fitness pro needs to know, including how to: • Choose your specialty based on your unique strengths • Identify what your clients really want and deliver it every time • Build new relationships and become a next-level coach • Get new clients, make more money, and manage a thriving business • Nurture and protect your most precious asset, your reputation • Create a life-long, growth-oriented continuing education plan If you work as a trainer, nutritionist, functional medicine doctor, group instructor, rehab specialist, or health coach—or you eventually want to—this step-by-step guide will help you turn your passion for health and fitness into work you find joy in, your clients into raving fans, and your career into something powerful, meaningful, and change-making.
How to Cake It
Author: Yolanda Gampp
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 1443453900
Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 552
Book Description
From Yolanda Gampp, host of the massively popular, award-winning YouTube sensation “How to Cake It,” comes an inspiring “cakebook” with irresistible new recipes and visual instructions for creating spectacular novelty cakes for all skill levels. On her entertaining YouTube Channel, “How to Cake It,” Yolanda Gampp creates mind-blowing cakes in every shape imaginable. From a watermelon to a human heart to food-shaped cakes such as burgers and pizzas—Yolanda’s creations are fun and realistic. Now, Yolanda brings her friendly, offbeat charm and caking expertise to this colorful cakebook filled with imaginative cakes to make at home. How to Cake It: A Cakebook includes directions for making twenty-one jaw-dropping cakes that are gorgeous and delicious, including a few fan favorites with a fresh twist, and mind-blowing new creations. Yolanda shares her coveted recipes and pro tips, taking you step-by-step from easy, kid-friendly cakes (no carving necessary and simple fondant work) to more difficult designs (minimal carving and fondant detail) to aspirational cakes (carving, painting and gum-paste work). Whatever the celebration, Yolanda has the perfect creation, including her never before seen Candy Apple Cake, Party Hat, Rainbow Grilled Cheese Cake, Toy Bulldozer Cake and even a Golden Pyramid Cake, which features a secret treasure chamber! Written in her inspiring, encouraging voice and filled with clear, easy-to-follow instructions and vibrant photos, How to Cake It: A Cakebook will turn beginners into confident cake creators, and confident bakers into caking superstars!
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 1443453900
Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 552
Book Description
From Yolanda Gampp, host of the massively popular, award-winning YouTube sensation “How to Cake It,” comes an inspiring “cakebook” with irresistible new recipes and visual instructions for creating spectacular novelty cakes for all skill levels. On her entertaining YouTube Channel, “How to Cake It,” Yolanda Gampp creates mind-blowing cakes in every shape imaginable. From a watermelon to a human heart to food-shaped cakes such as burgers and pizzas—Yolanda’s creations are fun and realistic. Now, Yolanda brings her friendly, offbeat charm and caking expertise to this colorful cakebook filled with imaginative cakes to make at home. How to Cake It: A Cakebook includes directions for making twenty-one jaw-dropping cakes that are gorgeous and delicious, including a few fan favorites with a fresh twist, and mind-blowing new creations. Yolanda shares her coveted recipes and pro tips, taking you step-by-step from easy, kid-friendly cakes (no carving necessary and simple fondant work) to more difficult designs (minimal carving and fondant detail) to aspirational cakes (carving, painting and gum-paste work). Whatever the celebration, Yolanda has the perfect creation, including her never before seen Candy Apple Cake, Party Hat, Rainbow Grilled Cheese Cake, Toy Bulldozer Cake and even a Golden Pyramid Cake, which features a secret treasure chamber! Written in her inspiring, encouraging voice and filled with clear, easy-to-follow instructions and vibrant photos, How to Cake It: A Cakebook will turn beginners into confident cake creators, and confident bakers into caking superstars!
Love to Sew
Author: Margaret Fitchett
Publisher: Search Press Limited
ISBN: 1781267693
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 35
Book Description
Sewing is popular with all ages and this series, Love to Sew, focuses on the latest hot trends. The 64 page handy square format gives us room for twenty projects, each with simple step-by-step instructions, beautiful photographs, as well as a basic techniques and materials section at the front of the book. Fabric and thread are all you need to create this wonderful range of stitched confectionary, and once decorated with buttons, ribbons and beads they look good enough to eat. These tempting treats are great fun to make and can be used to decorate your home or provide a special and unique gift for a friend or relative. Projects include a box of chocolates, a fruit tart, a creamy meringue, cup cakes, and much more.
Publisher: Search Press Limited
ISBN: 1781267693
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 35
Book Description
Sewing is popular with all ages and this series, Love to Sew, focuses on the latest hot trends. The 64 page handy square format gives us room for twenty projects, each with simple step-by-step instructions, beautiful photographs, as well as a basic techniques and materials section at the front of the book. Fabric and thread are all you need to create this wonderful range of stitched confectionary, and once decorated with buttons, ribbons and beads they look good enough to eat. These tempting treats are great fun to make and can be used to decorate your home or provide a special and unique gift for a friend or relative. Projects include a box of chocolates, a fruit tart, a creamy meringue, cup cakes, and much more.
Yo-Yo World Trick Book
Author: Harry Baier
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486793990
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
Fifty popular Yo-Yo tricks along with an illustrated history of the toy and its variations plus tips for keeping your Yo-Yo in top condition. Helpful diagrams accompany the easy instructions.
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486793990
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
Fifty popular Yo-Yo tricks along with an illustrated history of the toy and its variations plus tips for keeping your Yo-Yo in top condition. Helpful diagrams accompany the easy instructions.
Game Day
Author: Cindy Cummins
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
ISBN: 1466855932
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 179
Book Description
Get your game on with fifty fun fleecy projects Fleece is a super fabric-available in a ton of colors, prints, and types. There's blizzard fleece, micro fleece, and the newer cuddler fleece-there are SEW many types to choose from. With so much product to choose from in the fabric stores, particularly team-licensed prints for favorite professional sports teams and many university and high school teams, the time is right for a guidebook that addresses the super-easy sewing techniques needed to create your own "go team" spirit gear. In addition to the projects, included are chapters on choosing the right fleece variety, tools, and (new) notions for fleece sewing, and easy sewing and serging techniques to help the sewer create these exciting and fun projects. The over fifty easy projects are designed for Tailgating, Game Time, Men & Women, Kids & Baby, Man's Best Friend, and even includes some No-Sew projects as well. Filled with a wide array of ideas for everything from scarves to blankets to totes to diaper covers, you'll always have something handmade to show off on game day. This book is sure to please sewers and sports fans alike with it's endless possibilities for fun ways to sport their team colors.
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
ISBN: 1466855932
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 179
Book Description
Get your game on with fifty fun fleecy projects Fleece is a super fabric-available in a ton of colors, prints, and types. There's blizzard fleece, micro fleece, and the newer cuddler fleece-there are SEW many types to choose from. With so much product to choose from in the fabric stores, particularly team-licensed prints for favorite professional sports teams and many university and high school teams, the time is right for a guidebook that addresses the super-easy sewing techniques needed to create your own "go team" spirit gear. In addition to the projects, included are chapters on choosing the right fleece variety, tools, and (new) notions for fleece sewing, and easy sewing and serging techniques to help the sewer create these exciting and fun projects. The over fifty easy projects are designed for Tailgating, Game Time, Men & Women, Kids & Baby, Man's Best Friend, and even includes some No-Sew projects as well. Filled with a wide array of ideas for everything from scarves to blankets to totes to diaper covers, you'll always have something handmade to show off on game day. This book is sure to please sewers and sports fans alike with it's endless possibilities for fun ways to sport their team colors.
Quick Trip Quilts
Author: Eleanor Burns
Publisher: Quilt in a Day.
ISBN: 9781891776212
Category : Quilting
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Offers instructions for making a quick trip around the world quilt, a water lily quilt, and a quick quarter quilt.
Publisher: Quilt in a Day.
ISBN: 9781891776212
Category : Quilting
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Offers instructions for making a quick trip around the world quilt, a water lily quilt, and a quick quarter quilt.
Quiltmaker's 1,000 Blocks
Author: Carolyn Beam
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 144024541X
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 529
Book Description
Hundreds of quilt blocks from today's top designers! Quiltmaker magazine has long been regarded as the place to find blocks that range from innovative to traditional, whimsical to sophisticated, classic to unique! Now, these blocks are together in Quiltmaker's 1,000 Blocks. This comprehensive guide covers every block-making approach including applique, foundation-pieced, mixed techniques and pieced. It also features settings and yardages for turning your blocks into beautiful quilts, and quilt-making techniques for easy reference. The editors of Quiltmaker magazine have compiled an extensive block collection that is sure to be a quilter's best friend!
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 144024541X
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 529
Book Description
Hundreds of quilt blocks from today's top designers! Quiltmaker magazine has long been regarded as the place to find blocks that range from innovative to traditional, whimsical to sophisticated, classic to unique! Now, these blocks are together in Quiltmaker's 1,000 Blocks. This comprehensive guide covers every block-making approach including applique, foundation-pieced, mixed techniques and pieced. It also features settings and yardages for turning your blocks into beautiful quilts, and quilt-making techniques for easy reference. The editors of Quiltmaker magazine have compiled an extensive block collection that is sure to be a quilter's best friend!
Simple, Fun and Quickly Done
Author: Terry Atkinson
Publisher: Martingale
ISBN: 1604688351
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
Get ready for quick and clever designs that you'll be excited to make and show off! Popular designer Terry Atkinson shares her fresh stitching style, along with ideas for customizing many of the projects so you can make them truly unique. Includes tons of tips to help you finish projects fast and build your sewing skills Features a wide variety of home-decor items and personal accessories, including zippered bags and pouches, pillows, table runners, hot pads, napkin holders, and more You'll enjoy making these stitch-in-a-weekend projects as gifts or just for you
Publisher: Martingale
ISBN: 1604688351
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
Get ready for quick and clever designs that you'll be excited to make and show off! Popular designer Terry Atkinson shares her fresh stitching style, along with ideas for customizing many of the projects so you can make them truly unique. Includes tons of tips to help you finish projects fast and build your sewing skills Features a wide variety of home-decor items and personal accessories, including zippered bags and pouches, pillows, table runners, hot pads, napkin holders, and more You'll enjoy making these stitch-in-a-weekend projects as gifts or just for you