|summary=David Savage is a master furniture maker and one of the artists featured in the book, so he is not – as he says himself – a neutral observer and nor can he be neutral in choosing who to include in the book. Having said that, the pictures alone will tell you that he has chosen people who create furniture of great beauty and – often – originality. It's the text that makes the book shine, though – as it seeks not to give a critical appreciation of each man and one woman's work, but to look at what makes them tick, what drives them on and how they have handled the good times as well as the bad. It is, if you like, ten in-depth biographies of artists who work in a common medium and ten shorter pieces about those we should look out for in the future.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>4770031211</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Patricia Wing
|title=Creative Parchment Cards: Incorporating Siesta Grids
|rating=4
|genre=Crafts
|summary=Here at Bookbag we've long admired Patricia Wing's ability not just to produce beautiful hand-made cards but to guide us through the process of making them. We've seen her regularly in 'Crafts Beautiful' magazine, so we know that she's a name that you can ''rely'' on. Equally reassuring is the fact that she came to card making in middle age – giving hope to anyone who feels that they have left it too late to learn a new craft. We know that we're in a safe – and very creative – pair of hands.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0956951708</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Chris Barnardo
|title=Dadcando: Build, Make, Do ... the Best Way to Spend Quality Time with Your Kids
|rating=4
|genre=Crafts
|summary=The ideas in this book originated as a [http://www.dadcando.co.uk/ website] that Chris Barnardo set up for divorced and separated fathers to help them spend quality time with their children Now he's written a book that although aimed at single fathers is equally as useful for married dads, and mums too or grandparents or carers to inspire crafty ideas of things to make with kids.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0852652011</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Jean Baggott
|title=The Girl on the Wall: One Life's Rich Tapestry
|rating=4
|genre=Autobiography
|summary=Jean Baggott is now seventy two and in the final year of her history degree at Warwick University. After almost a lifetime of bending her life to the needs of other people she has decided that now is the time to look after herself – the eleven year old girl whose picture hangs on her wall. She plans to achieve what that girl would want her to achieve and from this she's found great fulfilment.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848311265</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Marion Bataille
|title=Abc 3d
|rating=4
|genre=Crafts
|summary=Wow. This is an ABC book with a difference. The publisher's notes say it's "astoundingly beautiful" and it is. Marion Bataille's careful, ingenious alphabet pops up from the pages to amaze and entrance all who look. From A, a proud pyramid on the inside cover, to Z, standing on its side at the end, each letter of our alphabet has a personality of its own. E morphs into F, V mirrors itself and becomes W, and U is a cascade of parabolas.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0747595798</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Pamela Brooks
|title=How to Research Local History
|rating=5
|genre=Crafts
|summary=Find out all about your house, village or town, the subtitle of this book announces. In my view, it tells you much more than that. For any historian, and not just in the field of purely local studies, this volume is probably as near to indispensable as they come.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1845282760</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Adele Ramet
|title=Writing for Magazines
|rating=4
|genre=Crafts
|summary=From being an avid reader (and maybe a passionate book reviewer) to writing for magazines yourself is a pretty logical progression. Yet like any other competitive field in life, it's a very hard one to get into – and doubtless getting harder all the time.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1845281616</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Michael Oke
|title=Times of Our Lives
|rating=3.5
|genre=Crafts
|summary=I am currently writing my autobiography as a long-term project and something to leave for my children, so I was interested to receive ''Times of Our Lives'' by Michael Oke, which is advertised as ''the essential companion for writing your own life story.''
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>185703970X</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Judy Reeves
|title=A Writer's Book of Days
|rating=5
|genre=Crafts
|summary=I have always written really – diaries every day for years, letters, stories, poems… Ciao and Dooyoo fitted into this perfectly and increased my confidence, as I received better feedback over time, gaining crowns here and Premium Fund payments on Ciao. I am not a particularly confident person, I have quite low self-esteem at times, but I love writing and believe it is my one talent. I think everyone has something they are good at.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1577311000</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Paul Bryn Davies
|title=Dragons in Watercolour (Fantasy Art Series)
|rating=4
|genre=Crafts
|summary=This is where my love of the fantasy art range of books from Search Press continues...
So far I have reviewed [[Painting Fairies in Watercolour by Paul Bryn Davies|Painting Fairies in Watercolour]] and [[Painting Unicorns in Watercolour by Rebecca Balchin|Painting Unicorns in Watercolour]] and I'm pleased to say that this book lives up to my expectations as much as the last books did.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1844483827</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Emma Callery
|title=The Calligraphy Handbook
|rating=4
|genre=Crafts
|summary=I chose to try and learn calligraphy, as it was something that would enhance all my many other craft projects. So did this book help me?
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184448307X</amazonuk>
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