Art Circus! takes the reader on a magical journey into the artistic world where they can discover their creative muse which is waiting to come out and play. It is at heart a technique book for altered artists, but is housed within a wonderful, spectacular fantasy land. The book will bring the reader, the daydreamer, the explorer, the artist, to a place have never been, where they can unleash their artistic dreams and explore hidden worlds through cutting-edge techniques, creative projects, and beautiful images. The book will include easy tutorials on basic digital altering effects for new and vintage images, step by step instruction for projects, a gallery of inspirational projects from other artists, and clip art and vintage images for readers to use in their own projects. The book will cover digital and paper alteration, creating from found and household objects (jars and boxes), will feature playful illustration, vintage imagery, and use a myriad of other mixed-media materials ranging from glitter and wire to crinolin and coloring agents.
Piddlestixs is a magazine for crafters, DIYers, artists and vintage-istas. It taps into the imagination and brings out the creativity in everyone with vintage and trend setting ideas.
This book focusses on the emergence of local governance networks and examines the role of street-level bureaucrats during this process. It aims to identify whether some organizations are favored as state partners, whereas others have a lower chance of becoming part of such networks. Four different potential logics explaining such divergencies are developed. To find out how street-level bureaucrats influence the formation of governance networks this study considers Germany as an empirical case and takes a closer look at the work of volunteer managers. To identify unequal behavior of bureaucrats, a mixed-methods design is used, including qualitative interviews as well as an innovative field experiment.
Mothers are always there for us in good times and bad, sharing our laughter and tears. Celebrate the special love between a mother and child in these heartwarming tales by three beloved historical romance authors... In Joyce Carlow's "Erin's Baby, " young Irish widow Erin Findley would never rest until she found the son who was cruelly taken from her. But with few clues, Erin feels hopeless...until she meets handsome widower Philip Lawson who gives her the promise of a new life -- and the most wonderful surprise of all. To protect his widowed mother, Amanda, from a treacherous uncle, Philip Ramirez demands help from gunslinger Jack Noble in Lisa Higdon's "Philip's Mother." But when sparks ignite between Jack and Amanda, Philip can't abide his mother's love for a man sure to break her heart... unless Jack can convince him that there is a bright future in store for them. Traumatized by his mother's cruel abandonment, six-year-old Luke Pressley almost destroys the tender love between his nursemaid Bonnie Craven and his father, Zach in Maggie James's "A Mother for Luke." But despite Luke's efforts, Bonnie is determined to win the trust of a frightened child, the heart of a good man -- and an everlasting happiness of her own. Rejoice in the unconquerable love between mother and child, the bliss of a man and woman joined in marriage, and the joy that only a mother can bring.
In 1773 England, Lady Keturah Banning Tomlinson and her sisters find themselves the heiresses of their father's estates and know they have one option: Go to the West Indies to save what is left of their heritage. Although it flies against all the conventions for women of the time, they're determined to make their own way in the world. But once they arrive in the Caribbean, proper gender roles are the least of their concerns. On the infamous island of Nevis, the sisters discover the legacy of the legendary sugar barons has vastly declined--and that's just the start of what their eyes are opened to in this unfamiliar world. Keturah never intends to put herself at the mercy of a man again, but every man on the island seems to be trying to win her hand and, with it, the ownership of her plantation. She could desperately use an ally, but even an unexpected reunion with a childhood friend leaves her questioning his motives. Set on keeping her family together and saving her father's plantation, can Keturah ever surrender her stubbornness and guarded heart to God and find the healing and love awaiting her?
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