[PDF] Our Maker Life eBook

Author : Our Maker Life
Publisher : Abrams
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 21,63 MB
Release : 2021-04-20
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN : 1683359933

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Our Maker Life—the beloved knit and crochet collective that has become an engaged movement—presents a much-anticipated volume of patterns and stories to tempt their thousands of followers and makers everywhere The Our Maker Life (OML) community consists of knitters, crocheters, yarn dyers, makers, business owners, pattern designers, bloggers, and social media influencers who are dedicated to creating handmade items. What began as an idea to hop offline and meet up in person has grown into an international community of makers passionate about the fiber arts. Their mission? Join together to network, connect, inspire, and make. There’s a growing desire for more content from the Our Maker Life community, and the group has become a household name in just four years. After self-publishing two story and pattern collections, OML is building on their success and speaking to a wider audience with this first book—drawing attention to the potential that exists among the makers of the world. OML has big ambitions and it’s their motivation that makes them such an exciting and aspirational group. Their book offers, firsthand, the joy and fun of creating work by hand, and it will inspire readers with its empowering message of embracing creativity for a better everyday life—and a better world.

Author : Jeffrey Breslow
Publisher : Post Hill Press
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 48,41 MB
Release : 2022-08-30
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1637584385

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In his captivating memoir, Jeffrey Breslow tells how: •Creating a game is a mix of Rube Goldberg, Santa’s elves, mass production, and the bottom line. •He oversaw two multi-million dollar businesses that earned profits for more than four decades. Even while the industry transformed itself from using cardboard and plastics into electronics, his companies never acquired debt and never borrowed money from a bank! •He overcame the terrible misfortune of a deadly workplace shooting and led his shaken employees through the tragedy and back to running a thriving business. Millions of people around the world have played with games and toys Breslow and his partners invented—perhaps you have, too! Now, read Breslow’s remarkable story and see how a flash of inspiration, followed by hard work and ingenuity, brought these wonderful games to life.

Author : Kelly Brooks
Publisher :
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 19,69 MB
Release : 2018-05
Category :
ISBN : 9780986369728

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Fiber art stories, visuals, and patterns

Author : Jaime Schmidt
Publisher : Chronicle Books
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 33,31 MB
Release : 2020-09-08
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1797201484

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Supermaker is a guide to business and career development by Jaime Schmidt: acclaimed entrepreneur, founder of Schmidt's Naturals, and icon of the Maker Movement. In Supermaker, she shares how you too can start or grow your own business with advice on branding, product development, social media marketing, scaling, PR, and customer engagement, all based on her own hard-won mastery. In just seven years, Jaime Schmidt went from making natural products in her Portland, Oregon, kitchen to turning her brand into a household name and selling her company to Unilever—without sacrificing the integrity of her product or her creative vision. • Readers learn how to get ahead on their own terms and while maintaining their commitment to fair and sustainable principles. • A valuable resource to the ever-growing community of business owners and entrepreneurs who want to go from maker to magnate. • Candid advice from an industry disruptor. Following her growth from farmers' market stand to international brand, Jaime's book is a riveting mix of inspiration, the honest airing of mistakes, and indispensable instruction. Supermaker empowers and unites the next generation of entrepreneurs. • A go-to guide for the passion-to-profit journey. • The perfect read for aspiring entrepreneurs, makers, creatives, and anyone with an interest in natural products, selling your products online, retail strategy, and digital marketing. • Great for anyone who enjoyed Start Something That Matters by Blake Mycoskie, Craft, Inc: Turn Your Creative Hobby into a Business by Meg Mateo Ilasco, and The Girls' Guide to Starting Your Own Business: Candid Advice, Frank Talk, and True Stories for the Successful Entrepreneur by Caitlin Friedman.

Author : Stephen Wolfram
Publisher : Wolfram Media
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 23,72 MB
Release : 2016
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781579550035

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This book of thoroughly engaging essays from one of today's most prodigious innovators provides a uniquely personal perspective on the lives and achievements of a selection of intriguing figures from the history of science and technology. Weaving together his immersive interest in people and history with insights gathered from his own experiences, Stephen Wolfram gives an ennobling look at some of the individuals whose ideas and creations have helped shape our world today. Contents includes biographical sketches of: Richard Feynman Kurt Godel Alan Turing John von Neumann George Boole Ada Lovelace Gottfried Leibniz Benoit Mandelbrot Steve Jobs Marvin Minsky Russell Towle Bertrand Russell Alfred Whitehead Richard Crandall Srinivasa Ramanujan Solomon Golomb

Author : Carlos Whittaker
Publisher : Zondervan
Page : 143 pages
File Size : 45,39 MB
Release : 2014-04-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0310337984

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Life is made of moments. What are you doing to make the most of them? In Moment Maker, Carlos Whittaker shows you how to make each moment count, so those moments add up to a life rich with meaning, deeply satisfying, and full of purpose. Every day we have an opportunity to make our lives meaningful, to make them matter. Yet, for so many of us, we let too much of life happen without taking notice. For author, speaker, and podcaster Carlos Whittaker, living deliberately has become a way of life. Making moments that are significant, memorable, or impactful are a part of how he navigates each day, and it has forever changed the landscape of his story. In Moment Maker, Carlos shares powerful stories and examples from ordinary life, as well as insights from Scripture, that have formed his practical and meaningful game plan for living on purpose and with purpose. In these pages, he will guide you to: Increase awareness of your surroundings, the people you encounter, and the needs of others Recognize opportunities that present themselves and be encouraged to seize them Discover how to create, receive, and rescue key moments in everyday life Unlock the satisfaction of living to the full depth of your life's potential The beauty of having a moment-making life is that it does not require a big investment of time, energy, or money. It simply requires a commitment to pay attention. All around you there are opportunities to meet a need, shift your focus, and begin healing. It is time to become a Moment Maker.

Author : Our Maker Life Inc
Publisher : Our Maker Life Publishing
Page : pages
File Size : 18,53 MB
Release : 2017-03-01
Category :
ISBN : 9780986369711

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Our vision for MAKE Volume One is simple: to highlight the knit and crochet community in a beautiful, minimalist style book that in between creating our beautiful pieces, we can curl up with yarn and a warm beverage to enjoy the beauty of handmade. The Our Maker Life movement has thousands online across the world but the OML team knows, appreciates and published MAKE to help tell makers' stories that could be a page-long and lifelong treasure to cherish. In this book, you will enjoy reading a combination of moving maker stories, find inspiration from stylish lookbooks, and make amazing full pattern pieces from top makers in the handmade community! As you enjoy exclusive maker stories from We Are Knitters co-founder Alberto B. Reyes, Hailey Smedley of Ozetta, Jessica Carey of The Hook Nook, Teresa Carter of DebrosseNYC, Sharrel Paul of Mud and Yarn; full patterns from Nicole of Miskunn, Jess of Make and Do Crew, and many more, we know this book highlighting nearly 30 makers will make you laugh, cry, and perhaps best of all - inspire you to make!