Crafts for Fun and Profit Author:Eleanor Van Zandt This is a crafts book with a difference. Here at last is a no-nonsense, easy to follow guide to a wide range of craft skills, especially prepared for the busy housewife with absolutely no previous experience and the minimum of special equipment. To make sure of this, we set a team of beginners to work, and they made most of the objects picture... more »d in these pages. You can, too. The book starts from scratch with every project - there are 18 of them - and explains every technique with simple instructions and clear stp-by-step color photographs. We have used diagrams only where photos simply don't show the technique clearly enough. The book is arranged so that you learn each technique by first making one attractive and useful object - a colorful rug for the living room floor, a spendid set of eye-catching party candles, a handsome mosaic coffee table. Other photographs show more ambitious items that you can go on to make, using variations of the same basic technique. A final section include a whole range of Christmas projects for you and your family to make. A question-and-answer section on marketing your wares and a list of books for the reader who wants to perfect her skills complete the book.« less