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Painting and Decorating Furniture

Painting and Decorating Furniture shows how to breathe new life and color into your old wood, metal or plastic laminate cabinets, desks, dressers, tables chairs and cushions. If you have never put paint brush to furniture, don't worry. The author has tailored projects to all skill levels and guides you through basic painting, staining, varnishing and stripping techniques. With this book as a guide, even the most artistically challenged will achieve stunning results. Materials include the latest in durable, safe, easy-clean-up, water-based paints and finishes. All steps are simply explained and accompanied by clear photographs. Projects combine popular treatments such as sponging, dragging and smooshing with block printing, metallic leafing, crackled varnish, antiquing, decoupage and other fine art and furniture finishes. Simplified demonstrations let you beautify furniture with freehand, decorative and folk painting. Stenciling and other projects include patterns. The adventurous will find treatments featuring mosaic, tile and some delightful surprises.

Making Doll's House Miniatures With Polymer Clay

Do you think making furniture for a doll's house is too complicated? Not at all--when you're working with polymer clay. This marvelous and versatile material easily simulates a variety of textures, including stained glass, wooden furniture, marbled tables, and more, and hardens in an ordinary oven. So, go ahead and decorate, with this definitive guide to manufacturers, tools, safety, and crafting. Fill the kitchen with tiny vegetables, utensils, and appliances, and the living room with a mantelpiece clock, bookshelf and Tiffany lamp. Serve dinner in the dining room, and build a bedroom so cozy you'll want to live there yourself! There's not a domestic detail you won't find, from the kitchen sink to a potted plant!
Making Doll's House Miniatures With Polymer Clay
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Painting and Decorating Furniture

Painting and Decorating Furniture shows how to breathe new life and color into your old wood, metal or plastic laminate cabinets, desks, dressers, tables chairs and cushions. If you have never put paint brush to furniture, don't worry. The author has tailored projects to all skill levels and guides you through basic painting, staining, varnishing and stripping techniques. With this book as a guide, even the most artistically challenged will achieve stunning results. Materials include the latest in durable, safe, easy-clean-up, water-based paints and finishes. All steps are simply explained and accompanied by clear photographs. Projects combine popular treatments such as sponging, dragging and smooshing with block printing, metallic leafing, crackled varnish, antiquing, decoupage and other fine art and furniture finishes. Simplified demonstrations let you beautify furniture with freehand, decorative and folk painting. Stenciling and other projects include patterns. The adventurous will find... Painting and Decorating Furniture
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Marty (DVD)

Delbert Mann's big-screen remake of Paddy Chayefsky's 1953 teleplay, one of the most successful works of film's Golden Age, stars Ernest Borgnine as Bronx butcher, Marty Piletti. A good-natured man, if plain and overweight, the 34-year-old bachelor has become fed up with the dreariness of life with vacant, dead-end friends like Angie (Joe Mantell), omnipresent relatives like his cousin Tommy (Jerry Paris), and his nagging mother, Theresa (Esther Minciotti), with whom he shares a house. Often rejected by women, he feels that he is too unattractive to marry, and is far from eager to endure further humiliation. Still, Marty finds himself at a local dance hall, where he angrily refuses a man who offers him a few bucks to take home a blind date who has turned out to be a dog. The butcher seeks out the humiliated woman, Clara (Betsy Blair), who's in tears, and after he comforts her, they return to the dance. As Marty confesses similar experiences of his own to Clara, he realizes that he may have... Marty (DVD)
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401 Woodworking Patterns

Filled with great ideas for woodworking projects including patio furniture, kitchen gadgets, outdoor decorations, and birdhouses, this beginner`s guide to making beautiful and useful things from wood covers all of the basics while providing tips to help readers build like the pros. Original.
401 Woodworking Patterns
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