With the friendly medium of polymer clay and the step-by-step instructions in this book, you can achieve the same magical results! Inside, Katherine leads you through then utterly charming projects, such as a sweet little bluebird, a basset hound and a white-tailed fawn. And that's just the start! The "Making Changes" chapter will help you create your own original animal creations by changing poses, making realistic bases, and even modeling your animals to look like bronze, fade and other materials.

    This title reveals the secrets of this ancient method, explaining over 200 signs and symbols you are likely to see in the leaves. A cup and saucer based on an Edwardian original accompany the book.

    The deification of Zen teachers by their followers has been a problematic issue in American Zen; this book provides a healthy antidote, presenting four men and one woman who have lived and died in Zen within the rich context of their personal lives and their culture, so that we can fully understand what makes a Zen master in Japan.

    Since tea itself was discovered thousands of years ago, tea drinkers have been drawn to the foretelling shapes formed by the leaves settling in a cup and to the inexplicable metaphysical energy that surrounds them. Now, for the first time, this irresistible package makes the complicated skill of tea-leaf reading accessible to anyone, whether to foretell the coming day, week, or year, or to find out more about a certain life topic.With 200 illustrated cards, each portraying a traditional symbol in tea-leaf reading, along with a discussion of the history of tea, how to read tea-leaf fortunes, and interpretive information on the 200 symbols, Tea Leaf Fortune Cards are perfect to use alone or in a group -- a fun, fascinating way to discover what the future holds -- to plan for it and to correct course.-- The first package of its kind -- 200 illustrated cards teach the timeless art of tea-leaf reading-- Cards feature the universal symbols and meanings commonly found in tea leaf reading -- now everyone can read their fortune

    Collected by Linda Evans Shepherd, these stories deliver true tales from everyday life. They involve the issues that most of us are heir to; they lift up the God-transformed human spirit; they demonstrate God's concern for our well being. Written in the first person, each short narrative presents a life scenario, and then peaks with reminders of Heaven's proximity, and the Father's ability to make "all things work for good".

    It looks at both traditional and newer forms of language assessment, and the challenges posed by new views.