How to Make Jewellery with Tatty Devine

How to Make Jewellery with Tatty Devine
Author: Harriet Vine
Publisher: Virgin Publishing
Total Pages: 125
Release: 2011
Genre: Jewelry making
ISBN: 9780753540121

Tatty Devine are the cult jewellery brand of this generation. Named one of the top 50 coolest brands in the world byDazed and Confused, their pieces are individual, brim with personality, and are the most covetable accessories around. Within three months of making their first piece in a tiny studio off Brick Lane in 1999, Tatty Devine's founders, Harriet Vine and Rosie Wolfenden, had Harvey Nichols and Browns stocking their fledgling line, andVogueshooting their first collection. InHow To Make Jewellery With Tatty Devine, Harriet and Rosie bring their decade-plus experience of accessory-making to the page, with a quirky, creative guide to making your own stunning jewellery. The book includes basic techniques for creating your own necklaces, earrings, rings, cuffs and more, as well as various pieces for you to make, created by Tatty Devine.

How to Make Jewelry with Tatty Devine

How to Make Jewelry with Tatty Devine
Author: Harriet Vine
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 128
Release: 2013-02-05
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN: 1101631945

Jewelry is all about self-expression, fun and shiny things. But when most people think about jewelry, they usually think about making chains and traditional beading. The much more thrilling truth is that you can make jewelry from just about anything: keys, playing cards, tape measures, jigsaw pieces, pages from magazines… How to Make Jewelry with Tatty Devine shows you all the basic tools and techniques you need to get started, and most importantly, helps you get your imagination racing. In no time at all, you’ll be whipping up a tape measure rosette, a hip leather cuff, a bow-tie necklace, and more.

Queen Victoria's Bathing Machine

Queen Victoria's Bathing Machine
Author: Gloria Whelan
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 40
Release: 2014-05-06
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1442458852

Prince Albert comes up with a royally creative solution to Queen Victoria’s modesty concerns in this true story that reveals an overlooked splash of history. Poor Queen Victoria! She loves to swim, but can’t quite figure out how to get to the water without her devoted subjects glimpsing her swimming suit. (Because, of course, such a sight would compromise her regal dignity.) Fortunately for the water-loving monarch, it’s Prince Albert to the rescue with an invention fit for a queen! This quirky tale about the longest reigning monarch in British history is as fun as it is authentic, and the book includes a picture of the actual bathing machine Prince Albert created.

Call Me Anna

Call Me Anna
Author: Patty Duke
Publisher: Bantam
Total Pages: 338
Release: 2011-04-13
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0307788660

The Star: The public saw her as a gifted child star: the youngest actor to win an Oscar for her role as Helen Keller in The Miracle Worker and the youngest actor to have a prime-time television series bearing her own name. The Nightmare: What the public did not see was Anna Marie Duke, a young girl whose life changed forever at age seven when tyrannical mangers stripped her of nearly all that was familiar, beginning with her name. She was deprived of family and friends. Her every word was programmed, her every action monitored and criticized. She was fed liquor and prescription drugs, taught to lie to get work, and relentlessly drilled to win roles. The Legend: Out of this nightmare emerged Patty Duke, a show business legend still searching for the child, Anna. She won three Emmy Awards and divorced three husbands. A starring role in Valley of the Dolls nearly ruined her career. She was notorious for wild spending sprees, turbulent liaisons, and an uncontrollable temper. Until a long hidden illness was diagnosed, and her amazing recovery recovery began. The Triumph: Call Me Anna is an American success story that grew out of a bizarre and desperate struggle for survival. A harrowing, ultimately triumphant story told by Patty Duke herself—wife, mother, political activist, President of the Screen Actors Guild, and at last, a happy, fulfilled woman whose miracle is her own life.

How To Start a Creative Business

How To Start a Creative Business
Author: Doug Richard
Publisher: David & Charles
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2013-05-19
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN: 9781446302736

This book is an invaluable resource for any creative with a great business idea. Starting your own business does not need to be a complicated and daunting process and serial entrepreneur, Dragon's Den investor and business educator Doug Richard, shows you how. He sets out a ten-point plan teaching creatives how to shape their startup business into a success. Written in plain English, without the dense text and technical jargon of other business books, and illustrated with visual cues to help the message stick, Doug's practical advice is accessible to all. Real-life case studies are interspersed throughout from successful creative startups that include, Tatty Devine, Paul Smith, Time Out and LoveFilm, which expand upon the theory and bring it to life. In 10 chapters, Doug asks the fundamental questions any aspiring creative entrepreneur must answer. By following the questions from start to finish, and working through the get your hands dirty activities, you will get the theory first and then apply that theory in a practical way to the real world and your own business. By the time you reach the last question, you will have the foundation of a very solid creative business. You will answer: What do we do or need that people need or want? Who is our customer? Who is our competition? What is our pricing model? And more! Doug walks you through the process for researching, answering and, ultimately, overcoming the challenges posed by these questions for your own business plan. Whether you are passionate about craft, design, advertising, antiques, film and video, music, performing arts, or any other creative field, this fantastic guide will help you start your business today!

Gemologue

Gemologue
Author: Liza Urla
Publisher: Antique Collector's Club
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2018
Genre: Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN: 9781851498819

Liza Urla is the author of the jewelry blog, Gemologue https://gemologue.com/tag/jewelry-blog

Frida Kahlo

Frida Kahlo
Author: Gannit Ankori
Publisher: Reaktion Books
Total Pages: 242
Release: 2013-10-15
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1780232225

Frida Kahlo stepped into the limelight in 1929 when she married Mexican muralist Diego Rivera. She was twenty-two; he was forty-three. Hailed as Rivera’s exotic young wife who “dabbles in art,” she went on to produce brilliant paintings but remained in her husband’s shadow throughout her life. Today, almost six decades after her untimely death, Kahlo’s fame rivals that of Rivera and she has gained international acclaim as a path-breaking artist and a cultural icon. Cutting through “Fridamania,” this book explores Kahlo’s life, art, and legacies, while also scrutinizing the myths, contradictions, and ambiguities that riddle her dramatic story. Gannit Ankori examines Kahlo’s early childhood, medical problems, volatile marriage, political affiliations, religious beliefs, and, most important, her unparalleled and innovative art. Based on detailed analyses of the artist’s paintings, diary, letters, photographs, medical records, and interviews, the book also assesses Kahlo’s critical impact on contemporary art and culture. Kahlo was of her time, deeply immersed in the issues that dominated the first half of the twentieth century. Yet, as this book reveals, she was also ahead of her time. Her paintings challenged social norms and broke taboos, addressing themes such as the female body, gender, cross-dressing, hybridity, identity, and trauma in ways that continue to inspire contemporary artists across the globe. Frida Kahlo is a succinct and powerful account of the life, art and legacy of this iconic artist.

Unfaithful Music & Disappearing Ink

Unfaithful Music & Disappearing Ink
Author: Elvis Costello
Publisher:
Total Pages: 689
Release: 2015
Genre: Autobiography
ISBN: 0399167250

A personal introspective by the influential pop songwriter and performer traces his Liverpool upbringing, artistic influences, creative pursuit of original punk sounds, and emergence in the MTV world.

Come to the Edge

Come to the Edge
Author: Christina Haag
Publisher: Random House
Total Pages: 306
Release: 2012-01-10
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0385523181

The Love Story of JFK Jr. and Christina Haag • New York Times bestseller When Christina Haag was growing up on Manhattan’s Upper East Side, John F. Kennedy, Jr., was just one of the boys in her circle of prep school friends, a skinny kid who lived with his mother and sister on Fifth Avenue and who happened to have a Secret Service detail following him discreetly at all times. A decade later, after they had both graduated from Brown University, Christina and John were cast in an off-Broadway play together. It was then that John confessed his long-standing crush on her, and they embarked on a five-year love affair. Glamorous and often in the public eye, but also passionate and deeply intimate, their relationship was transformative for both of them. Exquisitely written, Come to the Edge is an elegy to first love, a lost New York, and a young man with an enormous capacity for tenderness, and an adventurous spirit, who led his life with surprising and abundant grace.

The Accidental Medium

The Accidental Medium
Author: Tracy Whitwell
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
Total Pages: 253
Release: 2022-05-26
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1529087538

The Accidental Medium is the first book in a hilarious series from Tracy Whitwell featuring Tanz, the accidental medium who, with the help of the dead, is about to become an unwilling crime-solver. Tanz is a wine-loving, straight-talking, once-successful TV actress from Gateshead, whose career has shrivelled like an antique walnut. She is still grieving for her friend Frank, who died in a car crash three years ago, and she has to find a normal job in London to fund her cocktail habit. When she starts work in a ‘new age’ shop, Tanz suddenly discovers that the voices she’s hearing in her head are real, not the first signs of madness, and that she can give people ‘messages’ from beyond the grave. Alarmed, she confronts her little mam and discovers she is from a long line of psychic mediums. Despite an exciting new avenue of life opening up to Tanz, darkness isn’t far away and all too soon there’s murder in the air . . .