A handy guide tells you where to find, buy, and prepare gourds, and how to decorate them with leather dye, egg dye, paint, shoe polish, decoupage, airbrushing, waxed linen, dyed raffia, and beads. Select your projects: storage containers, ladles made from dipper gourds, bowls, musical instruments, masks, jewelry, piggy banks, birdhouses, toys, candle-holders, and luminaries. Once you see how many beautiful decorative and practical objects you can make with gourds - using a variety of easy techniques - you'll want to begin crafting with them right away. With each technique, there will be an exciting project to complete. As you progress through the book, you'll use your new skills in more challenging ways, working on pieces that are increasingly complex and intricate. Bonus: a gallery of stunning designs by finished artists that show what can be accomplished with gourds. FREE SHIPPING! To order by phone call toll-free: 866-596-9982