For both new and more experienced jewelers, this thorough class in wax carving teaches a fun, effective, and easy way to create beautiful pieces! Low maintenance and easy to do at home, wax carving requires just a handful of tools and inexpensive materials--and you can work on your kitchen table. Master jeweler and teacher Emilie Shapiro makes her hands-on techniques accessible to anyone, as she leads readers through the fundamentals, explaining how...

After she loses her engagement ring and her phone is stolen during a hotel fire drill, Poppy Wyatt, discovering an abandoned phone in a trash can, crashes into the life of the phone's owner, businessman Sam Roxton, when she uses his phone to make her wedding preparations. I 've lost it. The only thing in the world I wasn't supposed to lose. My engagement ring. It has been in Magnus's family for three generations. And now the very same day his parents...

"No matter how you come into this world, you come out broken ... In six intense short novels connected by the themes of crime, corruption, vengeance, justice, loss, betrayal, guilt and redemption, Broken is #1 international bestseller Don Winslow at his nerve-shattering, heart-stopping, heartbreaking best. In Broken, he creates a world of high-level thieves and low-life crooks, obsessed cops struggling with life on and off the job, private detectives,...

The art of soldering can open up a new world of creative possibilities for jewelry makers. Chin guides you through every step, from choosing a torch to basic techniques to setting stones and using inlay.

Through the basics section crafters will easily master the fundamentals of using either a soldering torch or iron, and make such gorgeous items as fashionable earrings, playful tiaras, unique frames, and pretty boudoir bottles.