Constantly moving her brood from one rental to another, Weldon's mother eked out a living by writing romances and, once the war cut them off from London publishers, embarked on stopgap handicraft projects like painting face-powder boxes.
Patterns for Better Living, our 112-page catalogue picturing more than 700 woodworking and handicraft projects, is $3.95.
During her visit to Nassau, Madam Wu presented the Bahamian government with a grant of $250,000 for various technical, agricultural, handicraft and cooperative projects.
Together with his artist and curator friend, Zuo Jing, he began a two-year research project focusing on handicraft traditions in Bishan, inviting artists and designers to work with local craftsmen to create new products using their old techniques.
Bring books and things to read, card for playing, board games, puzzles for children, nature guides for birds or flowers, a knitting project, or other handicraft.
This project is feminine handicrafts, it's mathematics, it's ecology - it crosses those boundaries".
She won a prize for budding entrepreneurs for a project selling Cambodian handicrafts online, and was invited to San Francisco and the Google headquarters, which is where she realized how much money Google makes, which in turn caused her to wonder about its business model.
It has a handicraft shop, cafes and several construction projects in the works.
The state should create special economic zones to encourage investment, should provide export incentives for handicraft s and horticulture, and should complete pending rail and road projects.
Ms. Parmar's moment of liberation came roughly 20 years ago, when the not-for-profit Sewa Project formed a unit in her village to help preserve endangered handicrafts and, equally, to provide the people who make them a form of alternative employment.
