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In this must-listen audiobook, Australia’s leading book mentor Natasa Denman shares the proven tips and strategies that will set you up for your book writing success. Natasa has helped hundreds of people just like you, from all around the world, go from uncertain, fearful and confused, to published authors.

The rhythm, ritual, and pleasure of knitting are celebrated in this new collection for lovers of both knitting and literature. In Knitting Pearls, two dozen writers write about the transformative and healing powers of knitting. Lily King remembers the year her family lived in Italy, and a knitted hat that helped her daughter adjust to her new home. Laura Lippman explores how converting to Judaism changed not only Christmas but also her mother's gift of a knitted stocking.

Discover the transformative power of crocheting and knitting in The Healing Hook. This inspiring guide is not just about crafting; it’s about finding peace, joy, and creativity through the rhythmic art of yarn work. Whether you’re a seasoned artisan or a complete beginner, this book offers something for everyone.

In Knitting Yarns, twenty-seven writers tell stories about how knitting healed, challenged, or helped them to grow. Poignant, funny, and moving, Knitting Yarns is sure to delight knitting enthusiasts and lovers of literature alike.

Handmade is a profound meditation on the eternal value of manual work, creativity, human fallibility, and the stubborn pursuit of quality work. Rogowski tells his life story of how he became a craftsman and how years of persistent work have taught him patience, resilience, tolerance for failure, and a love of pursuing beauty and mastery for its own sake.

As children, we made things: snowmen, paper boats, eccentrically costumed plays. That making fired our minds and imaginations - it altered our small worlds and shaped who we became. Exploring craft traditions and forms of making from across centuries and cultures, Clare Hunter encourages to engage with the world afresh. To use our hands again, to see beauty in unexpected places, to play and protest and embrace imaginative possibilities.

A hilarious, heartfelt romp that will bring you home to yourself. You don’t have to be a knitter to fall in love with this book - any person who’s ever made anything with their hands will dive joyfully into these minutes and come back up renewed and ready to create. Honest, funny, and full of warmth, Herron’s tales, each inspired by something she knitted, will speak to anyone who’s ever loved (or lost). From her very first sweater (a hilarious disaster) to the yellow afghan that caused a breakup (and, ultimately, a breakthrough), every chapter has a moving story behind it.

In The Yarn Whisperer: Reflections on a Life in Knitting, renowned knitter and author Clara Parkes ponders the roles knitting plays in her life via 22 captivating, poignant, and laugh-out-loud funny essays. Recounting tales of childhood and adulthood, family, friends, adventure, privacy, disappointment, love, and celebration, she hits upon the universal truths that drive knitters to create and explores the ways in which knitting can be looked at as a metaphor for so many other things.

This audiobook will help you in taking your first steps towards maintaining a bullet journal. Use your bullet journal to unleash your creativity, stop procrastination, clear your head so you can work towards achieving your life goals, and get your life back on track. Your bullet journal is the most powerful tool you will ever come across that can actually change your life and help you realize your dreams. Having a bullet journal and maintaining a bullet journaling habit is an absolute must for you if you feel you are not able to realize your true potential.

In this moving account, Peter Korn explores the nature and rewards of creative practice. We follow his search for meaning as an Ivy-educated child of the middle class who finds employment as a novice carpenter on Nantucket, transitions to self-employment as a designer and maker of fine furniture, takes a turn at teaching and administration at Colorado's Anderson Ranch Arts Center, and then founds a school in Maine: the Center for Furniture Craftsmanship, an internationally respected nonprofit institution.

You are just about to discover the amazing benefits, uses & natural remedies of the miraculous mineral called Epsom salt! Thanks to this easy and practical Epsom salt guide, you can quickly learn simple tips and strategies that will help you conjure up simple holistic solutions for your everyday maladies - for your health, beauty, home and garden - and it only takes minutes!

Craft enthusiasts are no doubt already aware of the joys of making and the frustration when you must put aside your project and go back to your day job or to less enticing tasks around the house. But there is more to crafting than the simple enjoyment of a creative hobby. Drawing on the firsthand accounts from everyday crafters, Craftfulness considers the vital well-being effects to be gained from the simple expression of your creativity and investigates the soul cleansing and stress relieving benefits of making things by hand.

Author and YouTuber Zoey Arielle opens up about her struggle with loving all the things in life we bring home. A hoarder in disguise, Arielle has mastered the tools needed to embrace simplicity and the minimalist philosophy. Life can stress anyone out. So, by embracing minimalism, you’ll be saying good-bye to stress and everything that you never needed anyway. Discover a greater focus and true freedom as you live your new life with a real sense of gratitude for everything and everyone around you.

Creating colorful candles by themselves, with various shapes and pleasant scents, is certainly a way to have fun and test your manual skills using your imagination. But how do you make candles artisanally? All this is possible using the right ingredients and following step-by-step a very simple procedure contained in this audiobook, directly at home, and turn this magnificent hobby into a real, highly profitable business! Making candles will be a pleasant pastime, not tiring, and will give the satisfaction of being able to decorate your home with objects made with your own hands.

Are you ready to have some fun with pottery making and learn the easy steps of making your own pots? How about figuring out how to become the best at it in a short period of time? How about all the different types of pottery available for you to learn? How about the ins and outs from making a pinch pot to coil pots? This author walks you through the steps from start to finish! The complete walkthrough guide from basic pottery to glazing!

They’re scented, fizzy, and fun, but adding a sizzling bath bomb to your tub is doing far more good for your health than just stimulating your senses with some fizz, color, and flowery aromas. You’re about to learn how to transform your bath tub into one of the safest and most powerful healing therapies ever discovered.

Have you ever tried to search for the right outfit in a hurry? Imagine being late for an appointment. You open your wardrobe and always feel overwhelmed by the number of items. Does this sound familiar? Now just imagine you were able to open your wardrobe and clearly see all the items inside it with just a few glances. Imagine if you could just pick up two items already knowing they'll fit well together. Creating a capsule wardrobe can solve all these clothing problems, and the best part is you don't have to trash all your clothes and buy new expensive items.

Do you ever dream of uncovering ancient trinkets and rare treasures at the beach, in the park, or even in your own backyard? If metal detecting as a hobby is something you’ve been considering, but have no idea where to begin, then look no further! The Beginners Guide to Metal Detecting is the ultimate all-inclusive guide for those eager to start their hunt for hidden gems.

In tales from 21 knitters, Clara Parkes examines a subject that is irresistible to us all: the yarn stash. Anyone with a passion has a stash, whether it is a collection of books or enough yarn to exceed several life expectancies. With her trademark wry, witty approach, Parkes brings together fascinating stories from all facets of stash-keeping and knitting life - from KonMari minimalist to joyous collector, designer to dyer, spinner to social worker, scholar to sheep farmer.

Featuring 14 original fairy tales, Faerie Knitting is an entrancing collection of stories of love and loss, trust and perseverance. Seamlessly woven into the plot of each tale is a magical garment or accessory inspired by the bravery and self-reliance of the tale’s heroine and brought to life through an imaginative and bespoke knit pattern. From the "Blue Heron Shawl" and the "Love Never Ending Cowl", to the "Three Wishes Mittens" and "Amulet Necklace", each project is as wearable as it is magical. Faerie Knitting is a rare gift for creators - and lovers - of magic.