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|author=Rebecca Jones
|title=The Colouring Book of Cards and Envelopes - Christmas
|rating=5
|genre=Crafts
|summary=Have you ever opened a Christmas card and had a sense of deja vu? It might be that you've already had a couple just like this one (it's one of the more popular ones being sold by M&S this year...) or you recognise it the design which a major charity sold ''last'' Christmas - and which they started selling off at half price in the Boxing Day Sale. Either way, you don't feel particularly ''special''. An embroidered card is lovely, but not everyone has the skills and if you buy them they're a frightening price. But I've just discovered a relaxing, satisfying way of producing individual cards at a reasonable price: ''The Colouring Book of Cards and Envelopes: Christmas''.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857637266</amazonuk>
}}
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|author=Molly Manners and Alex Worrall
|summary=Bouncing between his studio in upstate New York and the sites of various English sojourns, woodcarver David Esterly's seems to be an idyllic existence. Yet it's not all cosy cottages in the snow and watching geese and coyotes when he looks up from his workbench. There is an element of hard-won retreat from the trials of life in this memoir, but at the same time there is an argument for the essential difficulty of the artist's life. 'Carvers are starvers,' a wizened English carver once told him. Certainly there is no great fortune to be won from a profession as obscure as limewood carving, but the rewards outweigh the hard graft for Esterly.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0715649191</amazonuk>
}}