Author: Calvo, Janit

Brand: Timber Press

Features:

• TIMBER

Binding: Paperback

Number Of Pages: 248

Release Date: 14-06-2017

Details: Product Description A not-so-mini trend   The Gardening in Miniature Prop Shop is the next big thing for the crafters and gardeners already captivated by gardening small. Organized by playful themes—including gardens around the world, holidays, and fantasy gardens—it’s a fun-filled guide to creating one-of-a-kind gardens and the accessories that make them shine. Thirty-seven projects are included with fully illustrated, step-by-step instructions. For a Japanese garden, you will learn how to create a miniature sand garden. For a Halloween garden, you'll learn how to make a flying ghost and zombie. And for a space garden, you'll learn how to make a tiny space ship and alien.  The Gardening in Miniature Prop Shop is for anyone enchanted by the whimsy of creating a tiny world.   Review “Digs deeper, instructing readers in how to build their own accessories for themed potted worlds. . . . tending to a tiny garden offers a satisfying kind of challenge: the cultivation of a light and the ability to slow down in order to focus on something so small.” — Publishers Weekly “This fun, strongly recommended book gives miniature enthusiasts the opportunity to customize their minigardens with unique scenes and pieces.” — Library Journal starred review “Do you know someone who loves fairy gardens (and who doesn’t really)? This book takes the trend to the next level showing crafty gardeners how to accessorize their mini creations.” — HGTV “The next big thing for crafters and gardeners captivated by gardening small. . . . Become enchanted by the whimsy of creating a tiny world.” — Gambit “Sets out 37 projects for crafters and gardeners who are enchanted by the whimsy of creating a tiny world.” — The Irish Garden​ From the Back Cover Janit Calvo captured hearts and imagi­nations with Gardening in Miniature. In this enchanting follow­up, she shares step­-by-­step instructions for creating 37 magical accessories to bring your mini gardens to life. Ideal for novices and experienced miniaturists alike, The Gardening in Miniature Prop Shop builds a fresh path to the joys of growing your own tiny living world. About the Author Janit Calvo is an artist, miniaturist, gardener, author, photographer, and entrepreneur. She gardens with her husband in Seattle, Washington, and is surrounded by her award-winning miniature worlds of all shapes and sizes in among her full-size gardens. Pioneer of the miniature garden hobby and the founder of Two Green Thumbs Miniature Garden Center and the Miniature Garden Society, Calvo graduated with honors from the Ontario College of Art and Design. She has won awards at the Seattle Miniature Show and the Soriculture Garden Art Show. Find out more at miniaturegarden.com. Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved. Introduction There is no other pastime as diverse, adaptable, and accessible as gardening in miniature. It is a collection of a number of other hobbies merged into a single incredibly creative one. And it appears that we’ve taken the best and easiest aspects of these leisure pursuits and left the hardest parts of them behind. We don’t break our backs gardening and landscaping: we use spoons for shovels, forks for rakes, and we find ways to grow slow and small. We play with plants and with the garden. We casually build small hills and dales in our gardens; we eortlessly carve riverbeds and move property boundaries on a whim. We dream of different ways to plant and repurpose tiny plots morning, noon, and night. We begin a fresh garden design from scratch with every new pot we pick up, or every garden bed we till, something full-size gardeners simply cannot do. We can appreciate all kinds of miniature and dwarf plants and include leggy shrubs and broken trees in our work because we will use them as authentic additions to our miniature garden scenes. We adore tiny conifers with their little buds and needles not as collectors, but because they are genuine landscap

Package Dimensions: 8.9 x 7.8 x 0.6 inches

Languages: English