Reddit mentions: The best seasonal crafts books

Just use normal woodcarving tools. Get a cheap set since you'll be carving soft pumpkin flesh. Buy this book:

Extreme Pumpkin Carving, Second Edition Revised and Expanded:How to Use Relief-Carving Techniques to Create Realistic Features

Used copies are pretty cheap.

And just practice. Ignore the comment about using clay, it's an ENTIRELY different medium, and if your goal is to just do this with pumpkins, work with pumpkins. Though for the record, a little experience with sculpting faces, especially relief sculpting, in any medium will help. Not required though. That book is pretty comprehensive though.

For reference, here's the pumpkin I made last year, using my co-workers face as inspiration. And I've only ever had that book as a way of reaching this sort of thing.

Here is a picture of little Arwen. She was from my first litter of foster babies, but she's gone now to someone else in the cat rescue group until she weighs enough to be fixed. She was the runt of the bunch and was half the size of her siblings! We gave this little lady anything and everything she wanted. Who could resist that little face!?


I would love this awesome Horrorgami book from my Bookses list. Thank you for the contest!

HOME SWEET HOME These look fun =D

Thanks for the contest.

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This book:
https://www.amazon.com/Ultimate-Guide-Pool-Maintenance-Third/dp/0071470174/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1519766394&sr=8-1&keywords=ultimate+guide+to+pool+maintenance

600+ pages of great pool info. I would have gone crazy without this book when I had my pool. The author is "the pool guy to the stars" in LA, and each chapter starts with a funny story about how he fixed some stars pool issue. Can't recommend enough.

Honestly, there isn't one. It all depends on how loose/tight you want your coil, there are a thousand different styles and personal tastes regarding this.

If you're looking for an art project with precise instructions and more structure, this book on amazon has step-by-step instructions on how to make designs detailing the exact length of strips to use for each element.

Will do! :) My future mother-in-law bought me this craft book for Christmas last year. It has tutorials for making a few different styles of papermache sculptures.

I think you might mean an event calendar or birthday reminder book like this one

https://www.amazon.com/Event-Calendar-Perpetual-Celebrations-Anniversaries/dp/1539838358

Horrorgami!

http://www.amazon.com/Ultimate-Guide-Pool-Maintenance-Third/dp/0071470174/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1419117025&sr=1-1&keywords=swimming+pool+maintenance

THINGAMABOB

I was in your situation. We had a quick close and didn't know anything about pools on the day of the closing. Fortunately, our lease was going for another month and the previous owners asked if they could stay another month, so I had time to read a book about pool maintenance. This is the book, by the way.

Seconding The Beauty of Horror (a second book just came out this month, so there are two of them now).

The Edgar Allan Poe book is also fairly creepy.

Here are some I don't own, but have on my wishlist.

• Hallowe'en Colouring Book
  
  
• Molly Harrison's Hallowe'en Colouring Book
  
  
• Colour Your Fright: Artist's Edition
  
  
• Llewellyn's Witch's Colouring Book
  
  
• Colouring Book of Shadows: Book of Spells