The simplest of saddles, the Mongolian Saddle was designed for long days of riding across the open plains. This book provides the plans to make a tree, and build a saddle which is a valid alternative to the more standard stock or general purpose saddle. Detailed illustrations by Ron Edwards clarify the written instructions.
Some more stunning scenes of Coastal Australia featuring the artistic talent of the late Ron Edwards.
The loose watercolour images are accompanied by an appropriate verse, in the tradition of Japanese etegami, and art form Ron used often.
Stunning watercolour images of our unique landscape by Ron Edwards.
A series of landscpes depicting the outback and rural Australia in vibrant watercolour.
A fabulous gift for a friend overseas.
Beautiful watercolour images and verse by the late Ron Edwards - some cheeky, some funny, some just observations.
Fabulous gift for the bird lover who would like some inspirtation to hang on their wall for a year.
2016 Calendar featuring artwork by Ron Edwards based on Banjo Patterson's famous poem, The Man from Snowy River. A4 pages. Standard public holidays noted on back page.
Cambridge academic, Dr Spencer Avery, arrives in Toowoomba in 2008, both to flee a strained romance in England and to bring his expertise to ‘the colonies’. His arrogant preconception is challenged by the wit and idiosyncrasies of rural Queensland. But, behind the new experiences, danger lurks.
Olga Davidenko is a retired Russian army officer, seeking redemption with the son she had abandoned decades before. International criminals are hunting her knowledge but illness is preventing her remembering.
What secrets could a Russian grandmother be hiding? Street-people and Aboriginal Elders play a major role in helping the police resolve a threatening scenario; while the academic Spencer becomes a reluctant hero, a catalyst to resolving a potential catastrophe.
But has it all been set-up? Is this strange Australian adventure unfolding just by chance? Is Spencer a passenger in an intrigue far beyond his comprehension – a pawn being moved by grand masters?
A tangled web holds the secret to an exciting adventure set in the peaceful landscape of country Queensland.
In his debut novel, The Chess Board, Jim Reay weaves strands of Australian, Russian and European history into an intriguing question of … coincidence or conspiracy? He explores social convention by contrasting the humour of unique characters with the gravity of crime, guilt and redemption. His subtle messages of tolerance and belonging will make you question your own beliefs. This is a novel that makes you think!
Find out more about Jim Reay and read samples of his novels at https://jimreaywriter.files.wordpress.com/2015/09/the-chess-board-sample-chapters.pdf
Aussie themed designs for leatherworkers!
Featuring Australian flora and fauna, this book provides some local alternative designs for you to apply to your leather projects. Using modelling tools - bought or home made you can customise the designs to make them unique to you.
Ron Edwards created the 26 designs contained in this book, which includes the following animals and plants;
brolga, cassowary, crane, galah, geese, hawk, honeyeater, kingfisher, kookaburra, magpie, parrot, peacock, phesant, rosella, seagull, swallow, wren, gumleaves, gumnuts, nastursnums, orchids, philodendron, waratah, waterlilies, and a koala. Lots of designs to keep you busy.
This little book does not contain any projects. It just teaches you to make your own thread for hand sewing.
Commercial leather sewing thread is of a standard thickness, and may not be appropriate for every hand sewing job you have. Making your own thread for hand sewing leather is a dying art. Most people choose to purchase commercial thread and put up with it's limitations. If you can make your own waxed thread, it gives you the freedom to customize your work.
The information in this book is also contained within the book HAND SEWN LEATHER PROJECTS, which covers making the thread, and also gives you projects to do.
Dreams Illusion is a book of poetry by Esk local, Tom Deans.
Tom is a creative soul, Scottish born Aussie who lives in the small?? country town of Esk, about 60klm west of Brisbane as the crow flies.
Tom calls on his past experiences to bring to the reader his heart felt emotions about his life today, and how he travels through these times - the beliefs that help him to deal with all that comes his way.
Catching Legends is an adventure novel written for young adults. Author Jim Reay has written a tale that winds from Scotland to the outback of Central Queensland, and other destinations in between. On one hand it is a fictitious mystery that twists and turns and keeps the reader guessing. On the other hand, Catching Legends raises questions about how history is written, and explores the impact of family disruption across cultures, through current perspectives as well as the attitudes of earlier eras - something that is quite significant in today's world.
A fabulous gift for a teenager, to bring to them a joy we oldies grew up with, but which is an often overlooked form of entertainment nowadays - getting involved in a good book!
Check out Jim's biog and his other novels at http://jimreaywriter.net
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