Published books by Kathy Cano-Murillo

Here are my books!

Crafty Chica's Art de la Soul: Glittery Ideas to Liven Up Your Life (Rayo Books)
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The Crafty Chica Collection, this is like a greatest hits book that includes my favorite projects from my first two books. It's a great deal - two in one!!!

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This is the latest one. It's called The Crafty Diva's Lifestyle Makeover Book and it is a hip craft book for girls ages 8-13.

From the back cover
Are you ready for a makeover?
We all fall into ruts now and then. You know the feeling. You look into the mirror and say, "Time for a change!" Yes, you are adorable the way you are, but a little makeover magic can't hurt! The Crafty Diva's Lifestyle Makeover is your one-stop shop to getting things rolling. Flip through the pages to find an overflowing gift basket of crafty ideas, all designed to add more pop to your popularity, flava to your food, and sass to your style. Redo your room with a set of hippie-chick sheets, dare to be social with a new sleepover suitcase, or soothe your spirit with a veg-out meditation pillow. There's something for every part of life! Just follow the tips in each chapter and you'll go from shy girl to fly girl in no time at all.
Look inside to find:
* More than 50 all-new, never-before-seen projects
* A quiz to find out which areas of your life need spicing up
* Tips on everything from meeting new people to starting your own zine, picking the right sunglasses, doing yoga, making your room look bigger, and much, much more!
** The other book is my debut novel, Love Shine, which sold in July 2007 to Grand Central Publishing. Look for it on bookshelves in summer 2009!

I also have a super fun sewing coming out Spring 2009 through Potter Craft.

Click on links to order. Book signings are also available at my workshops (see "events and workshops page at left).



Crafty Diva's Lifestyle Makeover: Awesome Ideas To Spice Up Your Life

The Crafty Diva's DIY Style Book
This is the ultimate crafting adventure for teen and tween girls! Filled with more than 50 all-new, do-it-yourself craft projects, this colorful, fun guide celebrates the many sides of today's girls. Snappy mini-chapters are organized by "style" from the Animal Lover and Beautiful Bohemian to the Drama Queen and the Flashy Fashionista. Each features three chic, affordable step-by-step projects illustrated with whimsial pictures and color photos. Whatever their skill level or unique style, tweens will love making, sharing and showing off these fun and easy projects!

La Casa Loca: Latino Style Comes Home
Latino style is a huge and growing trend in home decorating and fashion. Latina personality Kathy Cano-Murillo takes the explosive colors and iconography of Latino style and merges it with pop art to create an inspirational craft book with a hip, contemporary sensibility. The twist: readers can create their very own casa loca crazy house by hand. Cano-Murillo offers a fabulous array of easy, inexpensive projects to liven up the interior and brighten the garden, to throw killer fiestas and take restful siestas, to live—and look—the Latino style. Use T-shirt fabric to make toss pillows with fringe or turn inexpensive soft-drink bottles into fabulous glittery vases. Use a glue gun to transform an ordinary garden into a Mexicali masterpiece complete with a Bonita Birdfeeder and Milagro Tree Ribbons. Heighten the hues in any home with Margarita Candles and Campy Terra Cotta Patio Lights. Ditch standard party fare for playful Loteria Wine Glass Charms, spicy serving bowls, and Frida Kahlo placemats.

This is the stuff of La Casa Loca—an ethnic treat for the senses that brings the exciting, classy-meets-campy Latino style home to hip decorators everywhere.

Making Shadow Boxes & Shrines
Throughout history, human beings have kept physical reminders and mementos of loved ones, popular icons, and significant life events. Shrines and shadow boxes-three dimensional collages set into a box or housing-have become popular ways of collecting and displaying these meaningful objects as an artistic assemblage. This special book pays tribute to our very human need to connect emotionally with the people and occasions that have made us who we are-in a way that enables readers to explore their personal history through their artistic work. Illustrated with beautiful full-color examples, it offers ideas for 32 shrines and shadow boxes with themes ranging from personal expression to memory keeping to historical tributes and celebrations-as well as an awe-inspiring gallery of 10 more professionally designed works.

By creating projects both physically beautiful and spiritually moving, readers from any walk of life can capture and honor their memories, hopes, and dreams in a personal and meaningful way.
Other books featuring Kathy and her work

Wild With a Glue Gun
This book is so awesome! Not only does it have super funky projects and inspiring ideas for creating a crafting group, it also has a nifty Crafty Chica profile! I'm so honored to be included! Read my review

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Memory Keepsakes

Collage for the Soul




Angel Crafts




Gifts From the Southwest Kitchen




Arizona: Art of the State