Gilding For The Novice A Comprehensive Guide To Adding Shine To Your Home
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Gilding for the Novice: A Comprehensive Guide to Adding Shine to Your Home
Discover the art of gilding and transform ordinary objects into gilded treasures with Gilding for the Novice: A Comprehensive Guide to Adding Shine to Your Home. This comprehensive guide unlocks the secrets of this ancient craft, empowering you to bring a touch of luxury and sophistication to your home décor projects. With clear instructions, expert tips, and inspiring project ideas, Pasquale De Marco takes you on a journey through the world of gilding, covering everything from choosing the right gilding technique to creating stunning decorative effects. Learn how to apply metal leaf and bronze powders with precision, explore hand-painting and antiquing techniques, and discover the magic of using spirit dyes and chemicals to create intricate patterns and designs. Whether you're a seasoned DIY enthusiast or a novice crafter, Gilding for the Novice: A Comprehensive Guide to Adding Shine to Your Home provides a step-by-step guide to gilding on various surfaces, including wood, metal, glass, and fabric. Transform furniture, picture frames, home accents, and even architectural elements into gilded masterpieces. Inside this book, you'll find: * In-depth explanations of different gilding techniques, including metal leaf application, bronze powder application, patination, and antiquing. * Detailed instructions on preparing surfaces for gilding, ensuring optimal adhesion and a flawless finish. * A comprehensive guide to creating stunning decorative effects, such as hand-painting, distressing, and using spirit dyes and chemicals. * Inspiring project ideas for gilding furniture, picture frames, home accents, and architectural elements, with step-by-step instructions and helpful tips. * Troubleshooting advice for common gilding issues, helping you overcome challenges and achieve professional-looking results. With Gilding for the Novice: A Comprehensive Guide to Adding Shine to Your Home, you'll unlock your artistic potential and transform your home into a gilded haven. Embark on a creative journey and discover the joy of adding a touch of golden elegance to your everyday surroundings. If you like this book, write a review!
Shine from the Inside Oracle
There's no magic pill for self-love so this empowering oracle deck will help you discover the magic within and break free of the fear that holds you back from shining your light. This 44-card self-love oracle and guidebook creates a fun and playful approach to making friends with your inner mean girl to help you build confidence, resilience, and reclaim your personal power. Whether you're feeling stuck or needing a motivational kick in the butt these cards will help you to believe in yourself, overcome overwhelming negative thoughts, and encourage you to manifest your wild and crazy dreams. This tool for self-discovery embodies empowerment, equality, courage, freedom, sisterhood, and the space to be your authentic self, unapologetically. Let these cards guide you back home to your soul's sacred center and may you remember just how badass you truly are because you are meant to SHINE! You are exactly where you need to be.Brittney Carmichael is a trailblazing Lightworker on a mission to inspire you to SHINE from the inside. Founder of Shine School®, co-founder of The Elevated Life®, plus she's 99% unicorn. Find out more on www.brittneycarmichael.comCover Illustration and Design by Jena Kane
Beginners Guide to Goldwork
This popular book by Ruth Chamberlin now returns as a Search Press Classic, with an updated design and preface on the author by the illustrious embroiderer Mary Corbet. A needle art that dates back over a thousand years, goldwork embroidery involves sewing with lavish metal threads. It has been prized and often used by religious orders and royal households for its opulence and the way the light glimmers and plays on the beautiful metallic designs. Those in love with this brilliant style of embroidery can now create their own with easy-to-follow, step-by-step guide. Through calm and deliberate instruction, Chamberlin's book aims to teach the reader how to create a personal sampler - a piece of embroidery containing a mixture of designs and stitches, which shall provide a basis for future projects and enable readers to continue on their goldwork journey. With multiple stitch techniques - from simple laid stitch to the more complex basket stitch, several design motifs with corresponding templates that can be used, and a luminous gallery of finished work interspersed throughout, Chamberlin's work gently introduces beginners to the exquisite needle art of goldwork embroidery.