Terrarium Craft: Create 50 Magical, Miniature Worlds

Zusatztext Recommended for indoor gardeners and crafters alike. Library Journal Terrariums are back! but in much more stylish forms than their aquarium-type predecessors. Akron Beacon Journal This how-to book is delightful [and] inspirational. Cleveland Plain Dealer Beautiful photographs! creative designs and thorough instructions. San Francisco Chronicle Provide[s] examples of how to turn a common houseplant into a striking showpiece. Washington Gardener Terrarium Craft earned our admiration not only because of the elegance of design by Aiello and photos by Kate Baldwin! but also for the clarity brought to step-by-step instructionsa bevy of beautiful designs. The trouble will be choosing just one. The solution: Do several. The Oregonian Original and fun [with] tons of why didn't I think of that? ideas. Fresh Home Simple growing tips and chic design know-how in an easy-to-follow! lovely-to-read format. Creating your own terrarium will definitely be next on your crafty to-do list. Dwell Magazine Stunning projects. West Coast Crafty Spark[s] your creativity and inspire[s] you to make your own magical little glass world. SharingNaturesGarden.com Terrarium projects perfect for next fall/winter when I can't get outside to play in the garden! Danger Garden Blog Informationen zum Autor Amy Bryant Aiello studied photography and installation art at PNCA in Portland, Oregon, where she and her husband own Artemisia (artemisiaon28th.com), a popular boutique specializing in terrariums, indoor gardens, and fine art.Kate Bryant lives and gardens in Portland, Oregon. She has contributed to gardening books, newspapers, and magazines including Portland Monthly, in which her column and gardening blog, Plantwise, are featured.Kate Baldwin is a food and lifestyle photographer in Seattle, Washington, whose work appears frequently in advertisements, magazines, and books, and can be seen at www.katebaldwinphotography.com. Klappentext Create your own enchanting, unique world Making a terrarium is shockingly easy. For starters, you'll learn how to choose the right container, soil, plants, and decorative objects, and how to keep your terrarium looking its best. Need inspiration? Just turn to the 50 easy-to-follow, step-by-step terrarium projects. You'll find lush rainforests, windswept seascapes, sun-drenched deserts, and wildly inventive fantasy scenesall on a scale to grace your table top or windowsill. Terrarium Craft gives you the practical advice and imaginative ideas you need to fashion your own miniature masterpiece. Our natural world is filled with boundless beauty, from the most delicately random arrangements of bark, moss, and lichen on the forest floor to graceful heaps of seaweed, driftwood, and shell tossed up on a beach. In this book, you will learn how to distill the beauty of these natural elements into artful terrariums. The fifty terrariums shown in these pagesloosely grouped by inspiration into forest, beach, desert, or fantasyincorporate a range of fascinating components, including exquisite plants, lichen, moss, bark, stone, sand, and shells. Every project contains a materials list, as well as detailed instructions for composing and caring for the terrarium (all of which builds on the practical information covered in the first part of the book). And while each of the compositions is beautiful enough to be worth recreating, they were really designed to inspireto serve as catalysts to ignite your own creativity and personal vision. Far from being meticulously planned, they were made with what artist Amy Bryant Aiello had available at her shop at the ...

“Recommended for indoor gardeners and crafters alike.” —Library Journal

“Terrariums are back, but in much more stylish forms than their aquarium-type predecessors.” —Akron Beacon Journal

“This how-to book is delightful [and] inspirational.” —Cleveland Plain Dealer

“Beautiful photographs, creative designs and thorough instructions.” —San Francisco Chronicle

“Provide[s] examples of how to turn a common houseplant into a striking showpiece.” —Washington Gardener

“Terrarium Craft earned our admiration not only because of the elegance of design by Aiello and photos by Kate Baldwin, but also for the clarity brought to step-by-step instructions…a bevy of beautiful designs. The trouble will be choosing just one. The solution: Do several.” —The Oregonian

“Original and fun [with] tons of “why didn’t I think of that?” ideas.” —Fresh Home

“Simple growing tips and chic design know-how in an easy-to-follow, lovely-to-read format. Creating your own terrarium will definitely be next on your crafty to-do list.” —Dwell Magazine

“Stunning projects.” —West Coast Crafty

“Spark[s] your creativity and inspire[s] you to make your own magical little glass world.” —SharingNaturesGarden.com

“Terrarium projects perfect for next fall/winter when I can’t get outside to play in the garden!” —Danger Garden Blog

Autorentext

Amy Bryant Aiello studied photography and installation art at PNCA in Portland, Oregon, where she and her husband own Artemisia (artemisiaon28th.com), a popular boutique specializing in terrariums, indoor gardens, and fine art.
Kate Bryant lives and gardens in Portland, Oregon. She has contributed to gardening books, newspapers, and magazines including Portland Monthly, in which her column and gardening blog, Plantwise, are featured.
Kate Baldwin is a food and lifestyle photographer in Seattle, Washington, whose work appears frequently in advertisements, magazines, and books, and can be seen at www.katebaldwinphotography.com.

Klappentext

Create your own enchanting, unique world
 
Making a terrarium is shockingly easy. For starters, you’ll learn how to choose the right container, soil, plants, and decorative objects, and how to keep your terrarium looking its best. Need inspiration? Just turn to the 50 easy-to-follow, step-by-step terrarium projects. You’ll find lush rainforests, windswept seascapes, sun-drenched deserts, and wildly inventive fantasy scenes—all on a scale to grace your table top or windowsill.
 
Terrarium Craft gives you the practical advice and imaginative ideas you need to fashion your own miniature masterpiece.
 

Zusammenfassung
Terrarium Craft features 50 original designs that you can re-create or use as inspiration for your own design. If you've always wanted to have a bit of nature in your own home, without the labour of a garden, Terrarium Craft will show you exactly how to create your own verdant, enchanting world.

Leseprobe
Our natural world is filled with boundless beauty, from the most delicately random arrangements of bark, moss, and lichen on the forest floor to graceful heaps of seaweed, driftwood, and shell tossed up on a beach. In this book, you will learn how to distill the beauty of these natural elements into artful terrariums.

The fifty terrariums shown in these pages—loosely grouped by inspiration into forest, beach, desert, or fantasy—incorporate a range of fascinating components, including exquisite plants, lichen, moss, bark, stone, sand, and shells. Every project contains a materials list, as well as detailed instructions for composing and caring for the terrarium (all of which builds on the practical information covered in the first part of the book). And while each of the compositions is beautiful enough to be worth recreating, they were really designed to inspire—to serve as catalysts to ignite your own creativity and personal vision. Far from being meticulously planned, they we…