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  <title><![CDATA[Kaleidoscope: Ideas And Projects to Spark Your Creativity]]></title>
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  <default-description> Indulge your creative cravings! Explore dozens of stories, exercises and  instructive projects, all designed to feed, encourage and sometimes flex  your creative muscle. You'll tap into the joy of drawing, be encouraged to  create art in bed, create your own folded-paper shrine, discover the  liberation of stream-writing, practice idea brainstorming, make your own  duct-tape purse, learn to quiet the negative voice in your head, dream up  your own creative studio space and much, much more. Inspiring art and  eye-candy on every page--a Kaleidoscope of creative energy awaits you  today!</default-description>
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  <original-publication-year type="integer">2007</original-publication-year>
  <original-title>Kaleidoscope: Ideas And Projects to Spark Your Creativity</original-title>
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  <read_at>Tue Apr 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Lots of beautiful illustrations and inspiring stories . . .pulled my sorry ass out of a moderate depression . . . love it!]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sun Mar 30 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Once you get past the goofy letter from the author in the beginning where she insults the intelligence of her readers by assuming that nobody has any idea what a zine is (um... what kind of rocks does she expect her readers to be under?), this is a very inspiring book.  It's laid out beautifully, th...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/19290497">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[A delightful and inspiring book.  There are a lot of books out there about altered journal and ATC.  Most I find are eye candy books with more pictures than ideas.  I find these books to be cute and fun to look at but not inspiring. Mostly I think the books are for the author to brag about their art...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/14644533">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Fri Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[i picked this one up on a whim at the library...i love the way it is laid out. a group of designers/authors contributed to the overall theme. there are some how-to's with step outs but it is mostly inspirational with little creative pep talks.  while the book is altered art based, the ideas can be a...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/18001341">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Thu May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book is BRILLIANT as a &quot;man I'm stumped what can I do?&quot; just to inspire in general.  It's not a book of projects to duplicate, but rather projects that encourage one to push boundaries and try something new.  How does the phrase go?  Art is about making mistakes and keeping the good o...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/26409007">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book stays out on my art worktable. I constantly refer back to it for new ways of jumpstarting my creativity and trying out new mixed media techniques for my altered art or art journals. Everytime I open it, I find something new and inspiring!]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sat Jan 17 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[The book was absolutely beautiful, no question about that. I just expected it to be more project oriented than it was.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Creative challenges and projects pulled together from many contributors by a Zine Queen. Very energetic, with quality writing and art. Inspirational, and in a short-attention span/busy-life friendly way.]]></body>
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  <read_at>Thu Nov 06 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Made by the editors of a 'zine, so it reads like a 'zine. And it has the rough, often difficult to read typefaces and graphics of a 'zine. But there are some cool ideas in here.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[a great book for inspiration - lots of projects and exercises to get the creative juices flowing.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Helps spark some random creative thoughts... <br/>Nice pics and drawings, cool ideas..]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Visually interesting, even if you won't create any of the projects.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Greeaat source for creativity prompts.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Awesome and varied, lots of different stuff]]></body>
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