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Coming Soon!
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Become your own shoe designer with Marty’s upcoming book "Altered Shoes - A Step By Step Guide To Making Your Footwear Fabulous." In it, you’ll find 20 of Marty’s own designs and she’ll tell you how to do it all yourself. From stilettos to cowboy boots, from sandals to high-top sneakers, there are ideas to suit every taste in footwear. So rescue those shoes you’ve banished to the back of your closet – they deserve to be revamped and recycled! All it takes is some paint, fabric, rhinestones, ribbon and a trusty glue gun.
“Altered Shoes” is due out in February and Marty’s loved working on it with F & W Media, one of the great publishers when it comes to all books artsy-craftsy. Her editor Jennifer Claydon has just been spectacular. “Altered Shoes” is already available for pre-order on Amazon.com, just in case you were interested.
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Yes, it’s our very own book! "Beading Vintage-Style Jewelry: Easy Projects with Elegant Heirloom Appeal" by (Lark/Sterling Publishing). Written by Marty Stevens-Heebner and her colleague Christine Calla, it even goes with our recycling theme – ‘cause there’s a
section on revamping jewelry you’ve already got. We usually call it “cannibalizing” but
our publisher suggested the tamer “revamping” moniker. And given what a spectacular job
they did photographing everything and laying out the book, right down to the terrific type
fonts, we decided to heed their advice.
We love love love this book, and can honestly say we’d buy it…if we
hadn’t already written it. The jewelry designs are guaranteed to make you sparkle,
the instructions are clear and we made sure to provide plenty of inspiration. Also, given
that Marty’s a thorough history geek (“And proud of it!” says she), she took it upon herself
to study the history of jewelry – so there’s a whole bunch of “Tidbits” sprinkled throughout
the book that tell you things like what the first recipe for making fake pearls was. Snail
slime was one of the key ingredients. Yep – snail…slime.
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