Category Archives: Craft

Build your hobby with Booko: The Collage Ideas Book

What you can create with collage knows no bounds. Expertly curated The Collage Ideas is an exciting collection of new collage ideas will inspire collage artists at every level.


Build your hobby with Booko: Mastering Kilns and Firing

Lindsay Oesterritter provides a crash course in the most accessible methods of alternative firing with minimal equipment in Mastering Kilns and Firing.


Build your hobby with Booko: Dried Flowers

Love flowers? The gorgeous book Dried Flowers by Morgane Illes offers a new approach to flower arranging with dried botanicals, helping you to preserve flowers forever through drying and pressing.

Build your hobby with Booko: Macrame

Ready to propel your knotting to the next level? Fanny Zedenius is back and ready to take your macrame up a notch with her beautiful second book Macrame 2. Click the link to buy yourself a copy.

Build your hobby with Booko: Baskets

Ever fancied making something for your home? Basket making has been around for centuries and we think this modern guide will motivate you to get making. Click the link above for more details.

Today’s clever pick is Baskets.

Build your hobby with Booko: The Flower Expert

They say hobbies are great for the soul but we think they are also great to do with friends. This month we’re encouraging you to explore those hobbies you’ve always wanted to try.

The Flower Expert is for anyone who has wanted to dabble in floristry.

The healing power of reading

Reading and writing can be acts of courage that bring us closer to others and ourselves. In this Ted Talk author Michelle Kuo shares how teaching reading skills to her students in the Mississippi Delta revealed the bridging power of the written word as well as the limitations of its power.