The Gnome Project
One Woman's Wild and Woolly Adventure
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- $9.99
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- $9.99
Publisher Description
What do you do when life is too chaotic? How about felting a gnome? Or 365 of them, one for each day of the year.
Artist and wool crafter Jessica Peill-Meininghaus decided that she needed a project to teach herself follow-through in life. She settled on making one of her popular felted-wool gnomes every day for a year. With pipe cleaners and wool roving, amidst the chaos of raising four children and moving cross-country, Peill-Meininghaus felted her way through hundreds of charming, pointy-hatted, often bearded characters.
Lavishly decorated with photos of each charming creation, The Gnome Project is the surprising and magical story of what happens when we commit to something small. (Hint: It's something very big, as in making life more meaningful.) Here is her inspirational tale, complete with gnome-making instructions.
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Photos of adorable gnomes lurk on nearly every small page of this book, but don't be fooled. Those little creatures are indeed sweet and debut author Peill-Meninghaus includes adequate instructions for needle-felting them but they can't save this dull slog. Peill-Meninghaus decided to make a gnome a day for a year in order to develop her "ability to achieve anything." The book explains how making gnomes steadied her during a difficult time when she and her family moved from the West Coast to Maine. Nothing much happens, though she finds "doing the single-mom thing" hard, and the author doesn't adequately explain why the gnomes kept her going. "My diligence in the making of these small creatures was steadfast" is the kind of insight she settles for, repeatedly. And the gnomes look so much alike that, cute as they are, if you've seen one gnome, you've seen 'em all.
