Around the World with 80 Artists is an arts and crafts book like nothing you’ve seen before. We have 80 artists from all over the world contributing to this amazing creativity book.
Learn to make paper crafting ideas.
Get the opportunity to learn from the designs of the best artists in the world.
Discover simple tricks of paper printing and paper designs.
Find out new ideas for drawing and printing from 80 artists.
You will find information for the beginner to intermediate to the advanced crafter and artist, but most of all you’ll be able to see that creativity is something that holds this earth together and brings us all closer together.
Zen Masters are known to say things which appear to be shocking, but are used as devices which can suddenly bring you to the present moment. This collection includes 365 Existential Zen Quotes by various Zen Masters and philosophers which will take you on a contemplative and philosophical journey. The quotes presented here are simple but are pregnant with deep-meaning and subtlety that makes them worth reading again and again. They will also motivate you to meditate. Start your day with a Zen Quote, and have a Zensational day ahead!
Everyone struggles to address their deepest inner thoughts, their true authentic self. Writing is a great way to get your feeling down on a paper. Give yourself permission to write your answers without any judgment.The goal is to see what you can learn about yourself and the way you take care of yourself. Self Reflection prompts and questions will help you to map out future goals and organize your thoughts. Even if you feel stuck at the moment, having a collection of journal writing prompts can help you connect with your inner self.Journal prompts of self awareness allows you to reflect on your self esteem, goals because no one understands you better than You. Getting real with yourself and asking yourself the hard questions is the best way to learn more about yourself. Not only you will feel more connected to yourself but also you will be able to make more authentic decisions for your future.The questions are more about you, emotions, thoughts, experiences, future plans , daily activities, dealing with problems,, fears, career, family, mistakes and more which can help you cleanse your mind and soul, so that you can have a clear view of your emotions, priorities in life.Reminder: be kind to yourself :)Taking time for yourself and getting feelings out in a safe way is important for your well-being.Last but not least, be honest with yourselfHowever you decide to write, do yourself a favor and write honestly. This journal is to help you connect with your deeply held value and beliefs.
Families do not always fit into neat boxes, do they? Neither do the ones in Therus & Valair, a novel in the fantasy fiction genre. The lands of Therus and Valair, are home to magic, mortals, shifters, and dragons, where quests and escapades go hand in hand.
What starts as a mission by Goron Scaeva to find a guard to protect his independent daughter, Fallon Tulen, morphs into more than what he planned. While traveling to another clan to procure a warrior, he discovers information about a coming war that will impact all in Therus. Whether you are a magical being in Valair, or among the mortals in Therus, the best adventures happen with family and good friends, the family you create, are by your side. Facing war, finding a life partner, dealing with different cultures, traveling to new lands, confronting dragons, or swapping tales around the campfire while holding your favorite tankard of ale, are better when shared with those who have your back.
Life without a little chaos and shenanigans would be boring even in the enchanted lands of Valair.
My name is Timothy Mitchell, the author of books: The Mat, It's The Law, The DASH. Now my current and likely my favorite. Raised by PIMPS, PLAYERS and MURDERERS.
This book is a true reflection of my life, from childhood to my teenage years. Growing up, I saw many things someone my age shouldn't have seen.
What stood out most to me, was the people who really lived their life as a PIMP, Player and Murderer. They always felt the need to sit and tell me about LIFE...
The first thing they taught me was how PIMPS, PLAYERS and MURDERERS operate.
A PIMP:
Has mind control.
A PLAYER:
Keeps things and situations hidden.
A MURDERER:
It's all about the surprise.
This is very negative way to live life. Just think there are people living like this.
Whether you know it or not. Normal every day people has this done to them every day...
In this book you will learn how this is done to everyday normal people. It can't be stopped but it can be controlled.
Purchase this book to get more control of your LIFE!!!
Sometimes unimaginable endings are the Prelude of Great Beginnings.
Elizabeth Wakefield is a closeted Romantic because she’s surrounded by men who are not. Discovering on Valentine’s Day the remnants of an intimate dinner, an empty engagement ring box, and her spouse having sex in her bed, drives Liz from her contaminated home to find other living arrangements. At the same time, at work, she fights for equal treatment against a glass ceiling weaponized by a prejudiced, and misogynistic Branch Manager.
Soon Liz is embroiled in an acrimonious divorce, which could financially cripple her, while her office struggle is just as perilous. If she doesn’t reach her production goals before the end of the month, a career milestone will be denied her. She needs to close a big account immediately.
Meanwhile, Prescott Hamilton, also a frustrated Romantic, yields to family pressure and proposes to their choice of a suitable wife, a mistake he soon regrets. To survive his loveless entrapment, he becomes an arrogant workaholic, browbeating his employees with unreasonable demands, to earn the reputation of someone no one wants to deal with.
But when Elizabeth Wakefield’s unsolicited investment mailing reaches his desk, despite Prescott Hamilton’s instruction to the contrary, it could be the solution to their business problems. However, the Global Pension Account might be too big for her assignment, while his biased intention is to make it a temporary transfer…that is, until they meet…and then their other problem becomes obvious…too.
A riveting, non-fiction tale that lays bare the secrets many families would take to the grave. When Chantel’s brother, Roy, is sexually abused by her mom’s boyfriend, Chantel is concerned. However, her mother chooses to buy her son’s love and silence and sacrifices her son’s innocence by keeping her pedophile boyfriend around. However, this evil follows its course and, 25 years later, all three of Roy’s kids fall prey to the boyfriend. When Chantel attempts to call her mom out for keeping the boyfriend around, her entire family turns against her and tries to silence her—even her own daughter! For how long will Chantel’s family sacrifice their loved ones to protect the sexual predator living among them? How deep will this scandal go in the family?
This year French fashion house Celine set the Internet abuzz with the release of its spring 2015 print campaign. The ads quickly went viral, blazing a path across Instagram, Twitter and the blogosphere before hitting The New Your Times, Forbes and The Atlantic. At the center of all the attention was the face of the campaign: 80-year-old author Joan Didion.
Two days later, French luxury label Saint Laurent debuted another eye-catching ad featuring 71-year-old Joni Mitchell. Not to be outdone, Kate Spade and jewelry designer Alexis Bitter rolled out campaigns featuring 93-year-old style legend Iris Apfel. A short time later, L'Oreal announced that it had signed 65-year-old '60's icon Twiggy as its latest brand ambassador, going 69-year-old Helen Mirren.
These are only the latest members of a sorority of senior being tapped by major brands with earlier trailblazers including Jessica Lange, 65 for Marc Jacobs Beauty: Charlotte Ramping 69, for Nars: Catherine Deneuve, 71 for Louis Vuitton: and Anjelica Huston, 63 for Gap. The trend has led many to wonder whether the notoriously youth-obsessed world of fashion and beauty is finally accepting-even embracing- women of a certain age.
Four years in the making the Prime Book is available for purchase at theprimeboo.org
The Prime book is a collection of over 80 stunning black and while portraits and essays that are a true celebration of women. Each Woman, ranging in age from 35 to 104 was photographed without makeup and reproduced with no retouching or Photoshop alteration. The book is a self-described labor of love for photographer for publications including The New York Times, Forbes, Esquire, Newsweek and Architectural Digest. With a foreword by the American scholar and New York Times best selling author Brene Brown and an introduction by the founder of Philosophy Beauty, Christina Carlino, Prime includes over 84 never before published essays written by the subjects.
It’s been a bit of a tightrope walk raising two girls these last 23 years. Like many parents, I am particularly sensitive to the pressure my girls are subjected to in the media. Every day, young girls are exposed to images of women “perfected” with the help of technology. Advances in Photoshop regularly facilitate the elongation and general distortion of what is natural. This unrealistic form is consistently represented across almost all of media, with blemish-free, wrinkle-free, and even pore-free skin. It’s hard enough for growing girls to maintain a positive self-image without narrowing the scope of socially acceptable “beauty”. through manipulation.. The National Center for Biotechnology information concluded 50% of girls and young women are unhappy with the way they look. For years I photographed celebrities for magazine covers and features as well as movie posters and ads only to see the finished product highly altered from the original image.
I realize through my photography assignments how far from reality the representation of today's female status symbols has become. This was the impetus behind a change I gradually made in my technique. I began to simplify the way I chose to light and compose my portrait work. Ultimately it was an early -2000 Harper's Bazaar feature of supermodels without make up that inspired my idea to create the prime book. I wanted to depict women in a positive authentic way. I chose to shoot in black and white in a fairly tight composition without any makeup, jewelry or retouching. I wouldn’t say I had to pry the mascara from their clenched fingers but it was not always easy. Over the next 4 years I photographed over 120 women from around the country from the age of 35 to 104. Each woman was asked to write an essay about what they thought it was to be in their prime. What followed was an facinating collection of stories celebrating personal milestones and professional achievements. The women’s essays are filled with the challenges life has thrown them and the choices they have made. All of the women who’ve participated in the book seemed to share an independent spirit that inspired their rejection of conventional definitions of womanhood while challenging accepted notions about aging. My hope was that readers would see the names, look into the faces, and hear in their own words details of the journey that has shaped these extraordinary women.
Alice always believed her life was ordinary. She's devoted, a good girl who has always done what was right. Until the day she inherited a mysterious family heirloom from a father she never knew. An heirloom that is the key to unleashing the unfathomable magical properties hidden within Alice's blood. Powers she knew nothing about and can scarcely comprehend. With the appearance of two strangers claiming to be warlocks, the unravelling of years-old secrets and misrepresented bloodlines begins.
Luke will stop at nothing to gain the right to rule, even if it means manipulating Alice and her newfound powers for his own gain. The only thing stopping him from achieving his throne is the one thing with which his powers cannot seem to help. He must learn to love.
Dimitri would do anything for Alice. He owes a debt to her family that can never be repaid, but falling for Alice was not how he planned to repay it.
Can Alice come to terms with who she has become? Will she learn who to trust before it is too late?
Heirdom is a fantastical tale steeped in magic and action. At its core, it is a story of discovering love, the value of friendship, and the sacrifices people make for those they care about.
"It feels like he's always in my head, whether he's speaking to me or not, just sitting in the shadows of my mind, silently watching me."
"There were so many layers to him. I wondered if the ones that stirred madness would someday consume those that sought to be good."
FALLING is the first collection of short stories by Erik Van Achter. It was during his stay at Brown University that Erik first started writing various fictions dealing with the life and the way of living of students at Ivy League Universities. Most characters exist in real life, some are even the writer’s friends but fiction took hold of them casting a net they rarely escape from. Their bright lives, where the sky supposedly is the limit, is defied by the basic laws of (human) gravity. Some survive the fall, others don’t. Fate, coincidence and destiny rule their world.
Being well versed in short story theory, Erik van Achter has experimented with genre’s many possibilities. What has interested him most is piecing together small fragments, hoping a story might arise and lead a real life and an afterlife. The mythical world of Ivy League is just a setting. In fact the human condition controlled by uncontrollable events is at the center of the tales. Sometimes characters literally fall but stay alive, sometimes characters fall from grace, looking for redemption or sadly die. The short story collection which can be read as a short story cycle consists of 14 short stories all dealing with exceptional characters in an exceptional milieu. It is published by XLibris, Bloomington Indiana- U.S.A.
Falling, Tales from the East Coast is available at Barnes and Noble and Amazon.com or at the Publisher’s website.
She dreams of having a family, but her marriage is in trouble. A chance encounter with her childhood love brings back a flood of emotions. Did she make the wrong choice? Could this be her lost love?
Anna is a talented artist married to Oliver. For years, they have been hoping for a child, but their dream of starting a family remains unfulfilled.
Oliver is the quiet and reserved type, the heir to his family's fortune. Now, more than ever, he needs to push back against his family's belief that Anna was never the right choice for him.
The death of a former art teacher and friend takes Anna back to the place where she spent her childhood. There, she reencounters her childhood sweetheart, Marc. With his fiery brown eyes and tremendous desire for adventure, he cannot be more different than Oliver.
With buried feelings and a dark secret that she shares with Marc resurfacing, Anna has to face her past. Did she make the right decision at the time? For whom does her heart beat today?
You. Forever. is a deeply moving story of trust, betrayal, and forgiveness, of friendship and enmity, of destroyed hopes and new dreams – and the struggle for true love.
Where there is love, there is also hope. But how much can true love forgive?
Order your copy now and accompany Anna on her journey to find true love.
Nothing can be as exciting or stressful as preparing for a family reunion. For those responsible for the planning it can be a never ending nightmare filled with more changes than anyone could ever anticipate. There is also an opportunity to bring your family closer together and have the satisfaction of knowing you were the architect of that moment.
The Family Reunion Bible is the perfect book for everyone going through the struggle of planning and coordinating their biggest family event of the year. Filled with insight and strategies taken from the author’s experiences planning adventures and vacations for his own family, this must read guide will help reduce your stress and make your reunion successful and rewarding.
The Family Reunion Bible covers important topics like:
Locations
Lodging
Transportation
Current medical considerations
Contingency planning
Budgeting
And so much more!
Your family reunion is important to so many. Ensuring you do it right not only guarantees them a good time but will spark the wheels of imagination for the following one. If your reunion is coming up and its your turn to host it, this book is an invaluable tool to help you succeed.
In the process of Zoowee earning the title of D'uzo, he is visited by a powerful spirit, and his encounter with the diety leaves him with supernatural abilities, making him one of four powerful sages. Zoowee and other sages are now called upon to keep the world from falling apart, only this time, their interests are not all aligned.
The Nazi Socialist Alliance has resurfaced and is beginning to materialize their plan for world domination. On an ordinary day, a teenager named William Armstrong awakens to find his brother missing, running away to join the Nazis. His family is devastated. On the same day, he is kidnapped and taken to a secret location.
There, he encounters a team from the U.S.S Omega Alliance who have travelled back in time to meet him. Shocked and surprised, he discovers that the Nazis have wreaked havoc everywhere in the future. That he is one of the chosen ones who must travel back in time and prevent the Nazis from acquiring a certain technology.
As reality and the gravity of the situation begins to sink-in, he realizes that he must do what is required. Accompanied by a trusted team of comrades, he leads a mission into the past. Fraught with imminent dangers, he must confront the enemy and disrupt their evil plans. His team must act with precision and speed.
Time is running out with no guarantees of success. Nothing is certain. Armstrong must face the unknown and embrace the elusive peril that is lurking at every turn. Will he make it or vanish into oblivion? Will the Nazis with their prowess and intelligence obliterate the entire team?
In this action thriller, you will come across a man who must be strong in the quest to rid the world of evil. You will witness up close his determination, courage, and the desire to get the job done despite the many challenges ahead.
It is an adventure that will keep you on the edge of your seat, eagerly turning the pages to see what lies ahead. It is an exceptionally inspirational and captivating story.
Long before anyone in the mainstream media was sounding the alarm about COVID-19, I was meticulously tracking all of the emerging news around it and doing my best to sound the alarm about all of the anomalous characteristics carried by its genetic signature, and analyzing the ensuing geopolitical implications of its spread. Realizing that gain-of-function research was plausibly behind its origins, I began a petition to reinstate the moratorium against this far-too-risky research method, which is all the more important as American and Chinese finger-pointing has intensified we seem to be headed towards an intractable cycle of blame and geopolitical escalation, instead of focusing on the risks presented by allowing further gain-of-function research to occur.
And after being submitted back in April, finally in August 2020 and after months of the mainstream scientific press decrying the idea as a “conspiracy theory,” my dad and I became the first authors to publish a peer-reviewed paper arguing that COVID-19 may well be the result of a viral gain-of-function research experiment that leaked out of a lab. Since the last time I formally studied science was 20 years ago when I took AP Bio, although I did the research and writing my dad served as a technical sounding board, basically acting as a thesis advisor and editor would.
My father and I would end up working with a rag-tag bunch of internet strangers, with the two of us forming the nucleus of what would become D.R.A.S.T.I.C. Research throughout 2020.
Prior to my incarceration, I’d spent my college summers and a bit of time afterwards working as an analyst for the NSA (a position I might have left a bit hastily) where I realized that the most dangerous threat against America wasn’t terrorists attacking us from the outside, but instead a socioeconomic implosion due to the racial inequities perpetuated by the various policies that have bulwarked inequality throughout almost all of our history, most recently the War on Drug’s destruction of the black family. So I left to write a book to dispel the myth of the Die Hard-esque super terrorist and explain the phenomenon as the inevitable response to widespread social inequality, you can find Tremble the Devil available in its entirety free online.
