The book starts at the beginning of what you need to make clay beads and other clay items. All the materials and how to use them making your items. Sophie shows techniques of how to make different beads. The book will walk you through how to process the clay, textures to use to make different designs. How to place the beads on tray to bake, the tempature and length of time. This is the only book you will need to begin you journey with making beads. She suggest the make of pasta machine to purchase to prepare the clay. Which is a great machine. Her designs are beautiful and her techinque is captured in the step-by-step illustrations. The photos are taken in step-by-step. Making this book worth much more than the purchase price. Follow her directions, add your personal touch to the beads and jewelry, sell your finished piece of jewelry. You will make your money back in this one piece. I am a beginner to polymer clay. Making Jewelry from Polymer Clay by Sophie Arzalier is a must have for any person who has the desire to become a jewelry designer. Thank you Ms. Arzalier for your time, knowledge, and beautiful illustrations that will lead many of us to dive into the polymer clay world of jewelry.