Shelagh Duffett Folk Art

Nova Scotia Potluck: Yummy Food for Friends and Family by Shelagh Duffett

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A must for every kitchen:) This is my own cookbook! Chock full of really yummy food.0 points

Where Women Create: Inspiring Work Spaces of Extraordinary Women by Jo Packham

More than twenty superstars from the world of craf more...0 points

More than twenty superstars from the world of crafting--including Anna Corba, April Cornell, Sandi Genovese, and Andrea Grossman--offer their expert advice on how to design a work space where creativity can blossom. Like the bestselling Business of Bliss, it's practical, inspirational, and beautiful to behold.Research by Craft Trends Magazine reveals that 89% of all crafters are women, and that they want to work in an environment conducive to creating their art. This invaluable and very special....0 points

Kids Create!: Art & Craft Experiences for 3- To 9-Year-Olds (Williamson Kids Can! Series) by Laurie Carlson

Over 150 creative craft and art activities for chi more...0 points

Over 150 creative craft and art activities for children ages three to nine years old. Laurie Carlson has captured the joy of creating while introducing the basics of working with paper and paste, clay and dough, printmaking, sculpture, and various other techniques. Includes time guides and degree of difficulty levels.0 points

Card Art: Create Treasured Greetings from Fabric & Paper (Create & Treasure (C&T Publishing)) by Susan Terry

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%u2022More than fifty original card designs plus twelve gift tags%u2022Fuse fabric to paper to make striking "papric"%u2022Cards fit in standard envelopes for easy mailingWhy settle for store-bought? Combine paper crafts with fabrics to make unique, expressive one-of-a-kind cards. Author Susan Terry gives instructions for twelve gift tags and more than fifty memorable cards that will be cherished long after commercial cards would be landfill. And because each card is handmade, each card is a per...0 points

Creative Visualization: Use the Power of Your Imagination to Create What You Want in Your Life (Gawain, Shakti) by Shakti Gawain

Creative Visualization has been successfully used more...0 points

Creative Visualization has been successfully used in the fields of health, education, business, sports, and the arts for many years. Gawain explains how to use mental imagery and affirmations to produce positive changes in one's life. The book contains meditations and exercises that are aimed at helping the practitioner channel energies in positive directions, strengthen self-esteem, improve overall health, and experience deep relaxation. This is the book that launched a movement. "Creative...0 points

Creative License, The: Giving Yourself Permission to Be The Artist You Truly Are by Danny Gregory

When Danny Gregory's life was turned upside down b more...0 points

When Danny Gregory's life was turned upside down by tragedy, he learned to cope by teaching himself to draw. The result was a complete transformation of his life, his priorities, his career, and the way he saw the world. In handwritten chapters full of his lush watercolor illustrations, Danny now offers readers a program for reconnecting to their own creative energies, using drawing as an example. He gently instructs us in the art of allowing ourselves to fail, giving up the expectation of perfe...0 points

The Artists' Halifax: Portraits of the Town and Harbour through 250 Years<br />Selected from the collection of the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia by Mora Dianne O'Neill

For the past 250 years, Halifax and its residents more...0 points

For the past 250 years, Halifax and its residents have been a favourite subject of visiting and local artists. This book presents a collection of more than 100 works of art which show the city at every stage in its history.This selection of images is drawn from hundreds of paintings, drawings, etchings, lithographs and sketches in the rich collection of the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia. Many early paintings by military artists show the growth of the town and surrounding area. Later works by distin...0 points

The Painted House of Maud Lewis: Conserving a Folk Art Treasure by Laurie Hamilton

For many years, Maud Lewis was one of Nova Scotia' more...0 points

For many years, Maud Lewis was one of Nova Scotia's best-loved folk painters. In the 1990s she was embraced by the rest of the country when the landmark exhibition of her work The Illuminated Life of Maud Lewis travelled across Canada. By the time the tour was over, half a million people had become acquainted with her delightful work. Between 1938, when she married Everett Lewis, until her death in 1970, Maud Lewis lived in a tiny one-room house near Digby, Nova Scotia. Over the years, she paint...0 points

Maud Lewis: An Intimate Look at the Life and Work of One of Nova Scotia's Best Loved Folk Artists

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Joe Norris: Painted Visions of Nova Scotia by Bernard Riordon

Joe Norris was one of North America's greatest fol more...0 points

Joe Norris was one of North America's greatest folk artists. He was born in Halifax, Nova Scotia, and lived in Lower Prospect, Halifax County, Canada. For much of his life, he worked as a fisherman and construction worker. At the age of 49, a severe heart attack forced him into retirement and, at the encouragement of a visiting nurse who provided him with materials and prodded him to do a little painting each day, he began to make pictures for himself and for friends. Joe Norris is probably best...0 points