Research Blog : hobbies

Crafty Doodads!

just_renny@evpl — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 22:30:00 GMT

Come and join Beth Phillips from the Crafty Connections segment on WTVW Local 7's morning news on Mondays. She will be demonstrating two Valentine's Day crafts!

The first will be a clothes pin magnet with colorful Valentine scrapbook paper and glitter. The second will be a lollipop designed to look like a flower! They are so cute and easy to make! All supplies will be provided.

Please join on Tuesday, January 24 at 6:30PM. Click here to register or call Renny at 428-8200 ext 1238.

Get Ready To Garden

Shh_ImReading@evpl — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 20:59:00 GMT

It's cold and gray outside today, but many gardeners have already started making plans for growing gorgeous flowers and delicious vegetables as soon spring sets in. Several EVPL locations carry gardening magazines, in addition to numerous books, to get you going on whatever gardening projects, big or small, you have in mind this year. Don't have any garden plans yet? Well, these magazines are full of ideas to get you thinking!

Remember, if the EVPL location you frequent doesn't have the magazine title that interests you, you can have holds placed on certain issues to be sent to that location for you to pick up.

	Central Library	East Branch	McCollough Branch	North Park Branch	Oaklyn Branch	Red Bank Branch	Stringtown Branch	West Branch
The American Gardener	Yes!
Better Homes & Gardens	Yes!	Yes!	Yes!	Yes!	Yes!	Yes!	Yes!	Yes!
Birds & Blooms	Yes!		Yes!			Yes!
Country Gardens				Yes!
Fine Gardening	Yes!		Yes!	Yes!	Yes!	Yes!
Garden Design				Yes!	Yes!	Yes!
Garden Gate						Yes!
Horticulture	Yes!		Yes!	Yes!				Yes!
Organic Gardening	Yes!		Yes!		Yes!	Yes!		Yes!

Hobby and craft info galore

googler@evpl — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 22:26:00 GMT

Hobbyists and crafters will be in heaven browsing our new database, the Hobbies and Crafts Reference Center. It contains content from more than 740 magazines and books, as well as access to more than 720 videos and over 140 hobby reports, with detailed "how-to" instructions and creative ideas to meet the interests of virtually every hobby-enthusiast.

Accessed through the Library's databases page (the category is "How-To"), the user is presented with a user-friendly screen dividing the many topics into categories for fun browsing, such as collecting, model building, needlecraft and textiles, paper crafts, etc. For more immediate access to a specific topic, use the search box at the top of the screen.

The result list contains both specific projects, when available, and general information articles (and searchers can use a tab to go directly to the projects, if that's what they're after). The searcher can also use the list of more specific terms that are presented, to narrow the results.

Patterns and instructions are taken from popular magazines and presented in PDF or HTML format. And take note of the "video" tab found for a number of crafts. The short videos are quite informative, and any new knitter needing to learn to cast off, for example, will be happy to have them.