Product Description

Now crafters can create their own tabletop fountains and add beautiful accents to their living rooms, bedrooms, kitchens, gardens and more. The author first explains the tools, techniques and materials needed to create fountains then shows how to make 15 gorgeous fountains using everything from lava rock and bamboo to shells and clay pots.

Each project is detailed with step-by-step instructions and full color photos to ensure that readers efforts turn out just right. Plus, they'll learn to incorporate flowers, driftwood, candles, figurines, crystals, plants and more to personalize their fountains and create works of stunning beauty and extraordinary calm that their friends will marvel at for years to come.

* 15 projects that include a wide variety of stunning and surprising styles
* Each fountain is adaptable to the reader's taste as well as to the availability of materials
* Other books on this topic show fewer step-by-step instructions and less variety

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #733220 in Books
• Published on: 2001-03-25
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 128 pages

From Booklist
Although fountains do not necessarily rely on common household objects for their construction, Mannion streamlines the process by, first, providing an illustrated tool list and, second, by designing 15 patterns to emulate. The creative impetus came from both the author's professions as a social worker and coach and an interest in feng shui. Indoor fountains that energize plant life, calm pets, and relax people are his trademark. A few of the skills necessary might need to be learned separately, including soldering and the workings (and fixings) of submersible pumps. So there's a lot to be said for putting together a collage of stones and shells, and bamboo and rocks, that burbles away. A good foundation course in practicalities--such as cord hiding, fountain cleaning, and distilled versus tap water--enhances the basic and specific how-to instructions. Barbara Jacobs
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About the Author
Paris Mannion has been building fountains since 1995 and is the author of Create Your Indoor Fountain: Expressions of the Self. She teaches fountain-making classes, writes a monthly fountain-making newsletter, and sells fountain supplies online.