At the age of 18, after three grueling years of unexplained leg and back pain, Kevin Sharp was diagnosed with Ewing's Sarcoma, a form of bone cancer. Kevin, through this horrific and possibly life-ending diagnosis, was forced to literally grow up overnight and make decisions that no 18-year-old should be forced to make.
This volume teaches and illustrates fun, needle-felted projects to add to your collection of Wool Pets. The instructions include wet-felting and various embellishment techniques along with the needle felting and discusses the ways that folk art and nature inspire the projects. Heirloom hand-crafted wooden or cloth toys, birds and other animals have inspired and influenced the projects which have been translated into needle-felted art.
This adorable book shows how to make a wide variety of birds by needle felting—sculpting wool roving into a three-dimensional figure using a special barbed needle. Each project includes a fun photo of the project with step-by-step instructions that result in 20 types of feathered friends! With Felted Feathered Friends, you'll learn to make endearing creatures such as: - A snowy owl - A peacock - A Great Blue Heron - A bluebird - A robin - A flamingo - A pair of lovebirds - And much more These delightful creations will put a smile on anyone's face, and witheasy-to-follow directions and the author's enthusiastic and expert guidance, anyone can take part in the feathered fun!
Ted Shuttle is the most amazing Teddy Bear. To read his stories is every Parent & child's must. He catches snakes for a living but has a lovely family of bears that throughout the stories ahead has lots of adventures. Ted catches but doesn't hurt his snakes he sells them to zoos and animal collectors. Ted has a tussle or two with the large snake. Just wait to see what happens.
Criticism and Compliment examines the poems, plays and masques of the three figures who succeeded Ben Jonson as authors of court entertainments in the England of Charles I. The courtly literature of Caroline England has been dismissed by critics and characterised by historians as propaganda for Charles I's absolutism penned by sycophantic hirelings. Kevin Sharpe questions the assumptions on which these evaluations have been based. Challenging the traditional argument for a polarity between court and country cultures in early Stuart England, he re-reads the plays, poems and masques as primary documents of political attitudes articulated at court. Far from being confined to a decade or a party, the courtly literature of the 1630s is relocated within the broader humanist tradition of counsel. Through the language of love - a language, it is argued, that was part of the discourse of politics in Caroline England - the court poets criticised fundamental premises of the King's political ideology, and counselled traditional and moderate modes of government.
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