The Green Bride

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Green Bride Guide

The Green Bride Guide is a comprehensive, easy-to-access resource for anyone interested in planning a green wedding. It provides readers with general advice and specific eco-friendly ideas for making their wedding more beautiful and more sustainable. The Green Bride Guide emphasizes elegance, ease, individual taste, and the sense that there’s no need to give up a treasured ideal of a wedding in order to lessen its impact on the Earth.

Using a simple chronological structure, The Green Bride Guide makes planning a green wedding easy.

Chapter topics include: Engagement, Location, The Eco-Chic Bride, Greening the Groom and Bridal Party, Green Save-the-Dates, Invitations & Wedding Websites, Sustainable Flowers, Transportation, Guest Comfort, The Green Ceremony, The Green Reception, Green Food & Drink, Green Music & Memories, Green Gift Giving and Receiving, and Green Honeymoons.

Each section offers low, medium and high end ideas, with resources and web links in each category to help you plan a green wedding on any budget. The Green Bride Guide is an invaluable reference tool for any environmentally conscious pair looking to start their lives together in a way that is consistent with their values and beliefs.

 

CRYSTAL CHIC

 

Custom Jewelry with dazzling details by Debbi Simon

 

 

ABOUT THE BOOK:

Learn how to make fashionable jewellery and embellish it with sophisticated CRYSTALLIZED™ – Swarovski Elements. Author and artist Debbi Simon has created a collection that ranges from sophisticated filigree pendants to funky resin rings. With Crystal Chic, you’ll learn how to:

·                          shape elegant filigree components

·                          play with modern metal chain and findings

·                          embellish fabric, fibre, and leather

·                          mold and enhance polymer clay

·                          apture treasure in resin settings

·                          and much more!

You’ll be introduced to the techniques of working with hot-fix crystals and taught how to incorporate metal, resin, wood, plastic, polymer, and more, into your own designs. Thirty unique, step-by-step jewellery projects, bonus accessory projects such as stamping and resin-making, and other hot-fix crystal applications are included.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR:

Debbi Simon, CREATE YOUR STYLE with CRYSTALLIZED™ – Swarovski Elements Ambassador, is an accomplished artist and jewellery designer. Her work is exhibited in juried and invitational shows. Her jewellery has been published in BeadStyle and Bead & Button magazines.

 

BEAD AND WIRE JEWELRY EXPOSED

by Margot Potter, Katie Hacker, Fernando DaSilva

 

ABOUT THE BOOK:

In Bead and Wire Jewelry Exposed, authors Katie Hacker, Fernando DaSilva and Margot Potter, all CREATE YOUR STYLE with CRYSTALLIZED™ – Swarovski ElementsAmbassadors, offer over 50 high-fashion jewellery pieces made using unique techniques that reveal typically hidden components like beading wire, cording, findings, tubing and chain as the central focus of the design. While the pieces may look complex, the techniques are simple enough for beginners - yet sophisticated enough for veteran jewellery crafters. A comprehensive getting started section gives crafters information on the supplies, tools and techniques they'll need to make all of the projects in the book, and the broad range of styles guarantees appeal for all audiences.

ABOUT THE AUTHORS:

Katie Hacker is a well-known author, designer, teacher and all-around crafty girl. She presents beading lessons on each episode of the public television series Beads, Baubles and Jewels and contributes beading projects to a variety of publications. Her books about beading and crafts have sold more than half a million copies. Learn more about Katie at katiehacker.com Fernando DaSilva is an accomplished jewellery designer, demonstrator and man of style. He has created original pieces for Beadalon, Swarovski and several beading magazines. To see more of Fernando's work, visit his website at dasilvajewelry.com.Margot Potter is the author of three Impatient Beader titles for North Light Books and is the mastermind behind the Impatient Blogger (margotpotter.com). In her spare time, Margot is an on-air spokeswoman for the Marcasite Suspicion line of jewellery sold on QVC.