I was collecting books from beside my husband's chair the other day and found one that I had to sign out to myself. The little Scottie dog bookend on the cover of Scroll Saw For The First Time by Dirk Boelman(ANF 745.513 BOE) caught my attention.
I opened the book and saw very clear instructions and photographs showing how to begin working with a scroll saw and what techniques to use for various projects.
Full colour photographs of various projects just make you want to get down to business. How about making a jigsaw puzzle picture out of a family photograph?
Or maybe you have children or grandchildren who would love the articulating skeleton painted to shine in the dark. These and the other thirteen projects are inspiring.
I am almost convinced to take up this new hobby.
Now, can I do it at the same time as I am reading novels and snacking on chocolates? Hmmm. Try it and let me know.
Or you can try some or all of these other titles.
Wings : A History Of Aviation From Kites To The Space Age by Tom D. Crouch. 2003. (ANF 629.13 CRO)
Here is the whole story from the invention of the airplane to the emergence of the whole aviation industry and the miracle of flight in outer space that has effected how we live in our world.
The Gecko's Foot : Bio-Inspiration : Engineered From Nature by Peter Forbes. 2005. (ANF 620.0042 FOR)
Observing the natural world has led to many innovations, like Velcro, and will be bringing us many more. This bio-inspiration is the new engineering frontier.
Reparations by Stephen Kimber. 2006. (FIC KIM)
Two boyhood friends, one black, one white, grow up and apart. Twenty-five years later they meet again in a courtroom.
The Black Dahlia Files : The Mob, The Mogul, And The Murder That Transfixed Los Angeles by Donald H. Wolfe. 2005. (ANF 364.152309 WOL)
Wolfe's investigation of the sixty-year-old murder uncovered clues that point to a mafia boss, a crooked doctor, and one of the most powerful men in California.
Hadrian's Wall by William Dietrich. 2004. Fiction. (FIC DIE)
Tribune Marcus Flavius has displaced the brutal war veteran Galba Brassidias as the commander at Hadrian's Wall. These two sworn enemies are rivals for a Roman bride who has also aroused the fire of Arden Caratacus, a Celtic chieftan.
Full Bloom : The Art And Life Of Georgia O'Keeffe by Hunter Drohojowska-Philp. 2004. Biography. (ANF 759.13 DRO)
Here is the woman behind the art, revealed through her work, her letters, and dozens of interviews with those closest to O'Keeffe during her lifetime. Includes many photographs, extensive footnotes and a very good index.
A Sudden Country: A Novel by Karen Fisher. 2005. Fiction. (FIC FIS)
Set during the 1847 Oregon migration, this story follows two characters, James MacLaren, an ex-Hudson's Bay Company trader, and Lucy Mitchell, a remarried widow, who join forces to make a safe passage through the West.
Super-Sized Kids : How to Rescue Your Child From The Obesity Threat by Walt Larimore, Sherri Flynt, and Steve Halliday. 2005. (ANF 618.92398 LAR)
Parents and their involvement are the key to getting their children off to better health and fitness.
Knowing what to do to make changes in lifestyle and how to do it is the challenge.
- For more information or to request books online, go to www.virl.bc.ca