Author: Barb Kobe
Publisher: Beaver's Pond Press
ISBN: 9780986261800
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
In The Healing Doll Way, Barb Kobe shares stories and images from her transformative experience becoming a healing doll artist, as well as those of many of her students and peers. The book also guides you through the process of making healing dolls for yourself. The act of making a doll can take you through a process of imagination, recovery, and growth. You do not need to be an expert at dollmaking-or artmaking, for that matter-to experience the power of this kind of work. This dollmaking process invites and encourages you to explore a range of perceptions and emotions, and in doing so, reach a deeper level of understanding and acceptance of yourself.
The Healing Doll Way
Cloth Doll Workshop
Author: elinor peace bailey
Publisher: Quarto Publishing Group USA
ISBN: 1610594037
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 131
Book Description
Three leading dolls artists share doll-making techniques, as well as step-by-step instructions to creating beautiful dolls of your own. Patti Culea, elinor peace bailey, and Barbara Willis are three of the leading doll artists and teachers in the country. They are also friends. Each of these artists has her own distinct approach to the design and development of a cloth figure. In this book, each artist’s process will come alive through their choice of fabrics, sketches, simple patterns, and skill-building variations. The book is oriented toward beginning doll makers but offers unique variations and embellishments to please even more experienced doll designers. Two introductory chapters cover basic materials and techniques. Each artist’s chapter includes step-by-step illustrations, instructions, and patterns to make a complete doll, plus variations that create completely new figures. Readers are treated to full color photography and a look inside of each artist’s workspace. A gallery of additional creations by each artist, along with commentary on each work completes the collection. This is a must-have book for any aspiring or experienced doll making.
Publisher: Quarto Publishing Group USA
ISBN: 1610594037
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 131
Book Description
Three leading dolls artists share doll-making techniques, as well as step-by-step instructions to creating beautiful dolls of your own. Patti Culea, elinor peace bailey, and Barbara Willis are three of the leading doll artists and teachers in the country. They are also friends. Each of these artists has her own distinct approach to the design and development of a cloth figure. In this book, each artist’s process will come alive through their choice of fabrics, sketches, simple patterns, and skill-building variations. The book is oriented toward beginning doll makers but offers unique variations and embellishments to please even more experienced doll designers. Two introductory chapters cover basic materials and techniques. Each artist’s chapter includes step-by-step illustrations, instructions, and patterns to make a complete doll, plus variations that create completely new figures. Readers are treated to full color photography and a look inside of each artist’s workspace. A gallery of additional creations by each artist, along with commentary on each work completes the collection. This is a must-have book for any aspiring or experienced doll making.
500 Pendants & Lockets
Author: Marthe Le Van
Publisher: Sterling Publishing Company
ISBN: 9781579908676
Category : Dollmaking
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
Includes pieces crafted from diverse materials and techniques (including forging, casting, forming, and stone setting).
Publisher: Sterling Publishing Company
ISBN: 9781579908676
Category : Dollmaking
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
Includes pieces crafted from diverse materials and techniques (including forging, casting, forming, and stone setting).
Doll Making as a Transformative Process
Author: Pamela Hastings
Publisher: Independently Published
ISBN: 9781091388192
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 146
Book Description
Pamela Hastings, world-renowned doll maker, artist, writer, and teacher guides the reader through a Transformative Process using paper and cloth doll making, with lots of patterns and examples to create fast and simple dolls for fun and life change.
Publisher: Independently Published
ISBN: 9781091388192
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 146
Book Description
Pamela Hastings, world-renowned doll maker, artist, writer, and teacher guides the reader through a Transformative Process using paper and cloth doll making, with lots of patterns and examples to create fast and simple dolls for fun and life change.
I, Doll
Author: Arthur Killer Kane
Publisher: Chicago Review Press
ISBN: 156976297X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 279
Book Description
When the New York Dolls' bassist died suddenly at age 55 in 2004, he left behind not only their timeless music--and many thousands of fans and friends--but a memoir of the Dolls' early years. This distinctive and extroverted voice of an undisciplined showman is presented with an introduction and epilogue by his widow, Barbara. This up close and personal perspective of the band's early days and late nights--including an instance where he locks himself out of the studio in full drag while tripping on LSD--chronicles the glorious, glamorous era of high times, high drama, and low comedy that captures the music, the style, and the life of the all-too-brief existence of the New York Dolls.
Publisher: Chicago Review Press
ISBN: 156976297X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 279
Book Description
When the New York Dolls' bassist died suddenly at age 55 in 2004, he left behind not only their timeless music--and many thousands of fans and friends--but a memoir of the Dolls' early years. This distinctive and extroverted voice of an undisciplined showman is presented with an introduction and epilogue by his widow, Barbara. This up close and personal perspective of the band's early days and late nights--including an instance where he locks himself out of the studio in full drag while tripping on LSD--chronicles the glorious, glamorous era of high times, high drama, and low comedy that captures the music, the style, and the life of the all-too-brief existence of the New York Dolls.
Will I Ever be Good Enough?
Author: Karyl McBride
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1416551328
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 275
Book Description
The first book specifically for daughters suffering from the emotional abuse of selfish, self-involved mothers,Will I Ever Be Good Enough?provides the expert assistance you need in order to overcome this debilitating history and reclaim your life for yourself. Drawing on over two decades of experience as a therapist specializing in women's psychology and health, psychotherapist Dr. Karyl McBride helpsyou recognize the widespread effects of this maternal emotional abuse and guides you as you create an individualized program for self-protection, resolution, and complete recovery.An estimated 1.5 million American women have narcissistic personality disorder, which makes them so insecure and overbearing, insensitive and domineering that they can psychologically damage their daughters for life. Daughters of narcissistic mothers learn that maternal love is not unconditional, and that it is given only when they behave in accordance with their mothers' often unreasonable expectations and whims. As adults, these daughters consequently have difficulty overcoming their insecurities and feelings of inadequacy, disappointment, sadness, and emotional emptiness. They may also have a terrible fear of abandonment that leads them to form unhealthy love relationships, as well as a tendency to perfectionism and unrelenting self-criticism, or to self-sabotage and frustration.Herself the recovering daughter of a narcissistic mother, Dr. McBride includes her personal struggle, which adds a profound level of authority to her work, along with the perspectives of the hundreds of suffering daughters she's interviewed over the years. Their stories of how maternal abuse has manifested in their lives -- as well as how they have successfully overcome its effects -- show you that you're not alone and that you can take back your life and have the controlyouwant.Dr. McBride's step-by-step program will enable you to:(1) Recognize your own experience with maternal narcissism and its effects on all aspects of your life (2) Discover how you have internalized verbal and nonverbal messages from your mother and how these have translated into a strong desire to overachieve or a tendency to self-sabotage (3) Construct a step-by-step program to reclaim your life and enhance your sense of self, a process that includes creating a psychological separation from your mother and breaking the legacy of abuse. You will also learn how not to repeat your mother's mistakes with your own daughter.Warm and sympathetic, filled with the examples of women who have established healthy boundaries with their hurtful mothers,Will I Ever Be Good Enough?encourages and inspires you as it aids your recovery.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1416551328
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 275
Book Description
The first book specifically for daughters suffering from the emotional abuse of selfish, self-involved mothers,Will I Ever Be Good Enough?provides the expert assistance you need in order to overcome this debilitating history and reclaim your life for yourself. Drawing on over two decades of experience as a therapist specializing in women's psychology and health, psychotherapist Dr. Karyl McBride helpsyou recognize the widespread effects of this maternal emotional abuse and guides you as you create an individualized program for self-protection, resolution, and complete recovery.An estimated 1.5 million American women have narcissistic personality disorder, which makes them so insecure and overbearing, insensitive and domineering that they can psychologically damage their daughters for life. Daughters of narcissistic mothers learn that maternal love is not unconditional, and that it is given only when they behave in accordance with their mothers' often unreasonable expectations and whims. As adults, these daughters consequently have difficulty overcoming their insecurities and feelings of inadequacy, disappointment, sadness, and emotional emptiness. They may also have a terrible fear of abandonment that leads them to form unhealthy love relationships, as well as a tendency to perfectionism and unrelenting self-criticism, or to self-sabotage and frustration.Herself the recovering daughter of a narcissistic mother, Dr. McBride includes her personal struggle, which adds a profound level of authority to her work, along with the perspectives of the hundreds of suffering daughters she's interviewed over the years. Their stories of how maternal abuse has manifested in their lives -- as well as how they have successfully overcome its effects -- show you that you're not alone and that you can take back your life and have the controlyouwant.Dr. McBride's step-by-step program will enable you to:(1) Recognize your own experience with maternal narcissism and its effects on all aspects of your life (2) Discover how you have internalized verbal and nonverbal messages from your mother and how these have translated into a strong desire to overachieve or a tendency to self-sabotage (3) Construct a step-by-step program to reclaim your life and enhance your sense of self, a process that includes creating a psychological separation from your mother and breaking the legacy of abuse. You will also learn how not to repeat your mother's mistakes with your own daughter.Warm and sympathetic, filled with the examples of women who have established healthy boundaries with their hurtful mothers,Will I Ever Be Good Enough?encourages and inspires you as it aids your recovery.
The Doll with the Yellow Star
Author: Yona Zeldis McDonough
Publisher: Henry Holt and Company BYR Paperbacks
ISBN: 1250110289
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 78
Book Description
A tender story about the power of love in the face of loss Nine-year-old Claudine doesn't want to leave her much-loved home in France to go live in America, not without her parents. But she knows about the shortages, about the yellow stars Jews must wear, and about Adolf Hitler. And she knows that there are some things she needs to do even when she doesn't want to. It's wartime, and there is much that is different now. There are more things that Claudine will lose to this terrible war. But not everything that is lost must be lost forever. Here is a moving story about lost and found lives, and the healing power of love.
Publisher: Henry Holt and Company BYR Paperbacks
ISBN: 1250110289
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 78
Book Description
A tender story about the power of love in the face of loss Nine-year-old Claudine doesn't want to leave her much-loved home in France to go live in America, not without her parents. But she knows about the shortages, about the yellow stars Jews must wear, and about Adolf Hitler. And she knows that there are some things she needs to do even when she doesn't want to. It's wartime, and there is much that is different now. There are more things that Claudine will lose to this terrible war. But not everything that is lost must be lost forever. Here is a moving story about lost and found lives, and the healing power of love.
The Complete Photo Guide to Doll Making
Author: Barbara Matthiessen
Publisher: Creative Publishing int'l
ISBN: 9781589235045
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
This book is a comprehensive how-to book about all aspects of doll making. It serves as a reference and technique guide for making dolls in a wide variety of styles. Full-size patterns are provided as well as artist galleries for inspiration. The organization provides easy access to information with step-by-step directions and color photos. Other doll-making books focus on one particular doll style. Some are purely inspirational, showing dolls made by other artists and crafters. This book provides complete how-to instruction on all types of dolls.
Publisher: Creative Publishing int'l
ISBN: 9781589235045
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
This book is a comprehensive how-to book about all aspects of doll making. It serves as a reference and technique guide for making dolls in a wide variety of styles. Full-size patterns are provided as well as artist galleries for inspiration. The organization provides easy access to information with step-by-step directions and color photos. Other doll-making books focus on one particular doll style. Some are purely inspirational, showing dolls made by other artists and crafters. This book provides complete how-to instruction on all types of dolls.
Finishing the Figure
Author: Susanna Oroyan
Publisher: C&T Publishing Inc
ISBN: 1607053756
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 165
Book Description
Brilliant doll artist Susanna Oroyan taught us to create figures with depth and imagination; now she focuses on designing their presentation--costume, accessories, furnishings, and embellishments. Covers everything from pattern drafting and basics of costuming to settings, photography, and beyond. Over 300 beautiful color photos of dolls from the world’s top doll artists. Learn how to use elements of design to enhance your figure’s presentation and reflect your own style. Detailed instructions and illustrations, plus Susanna’s insightful tips accompany each phase of the process. Susanna shares her knowledge, then gives you the courage to experiment, expand, and create new techniques of your own!
Publisher: C&T Publishing Inc
ISBN: 1607053756
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 165
Book Description
Brilliant doll artist Susanna Oroyan taught us to create figures with depth and imagination; now she focuses on designing their presentation--costume, accessories, furnishings, and embellishments. Covers everything from pattern drafting and basics of costuming to settings, photography, and beyond. Over 300 beautiful color photos of dolls from the world’s top doll artists. Learn how to use elements of design to enhance your figure’s presentation and reflect your own style. Detailed instructions and illustrations, plus Susanna’s insightful tips accompany each phase of the process. Susanna shares her knowledge, then gives you the courage to experiment, expand, and create new techniques of your own!
Creative Cloth Doll Making
Author: Patti Medaris Culea
Publisher: Rockport Publishers
ISBN: 9781564969422
Category : Cloth dolls
Languages : en
Pages : 134
Book Description
A guide to dollmaking covers the basic techniques, working with embellishments, creating faces, and making the body, and includes three doll patterns with interchangeable parts.
Publisher: Rockport Publishers
ISBN: 9781564969422
Category : Cloth dolls
Languages : en
Pages : 134
Book Description
A guide to dollmaking covers the basic techniques, working with embellishments, creating faces, and making the body, and includes three doll patterns with interchangeable parts.