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Home, Garden, and DIY May 2018
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Perfect frozen yogurt : 106 recipes for creamy, low-fat, slightly tart frozen yogurts, pies, cakes, and treats
by Nicole Weston
Learn to make frozen yogurt at home that’s just as light, smooth, and delightful as what you buy. You’ll use Greek yogurt as a base and a basic ice cream machine to make these 56 flavor recipes that range from traditional to artisanal, including black cherry vanilla, toasted coconut, peach Melba, chai spice, watermelon, maple bacon, chocolate malted, pistachio, and browned butter pecan. An additional 50 recipes for treats like blueberry sugar cookie sandwiches, brownie baked Alaska, Neapolitan semifreddo, cinnamon bun pops, and salted caramel swirl bonbons ensure this is the sweetest guide ever to making and enjoying frozen yogurt.
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| Vogue Knitting: The Ultimate Knitting Book by The Editors of Vogue Knitting MagazineWhat it is: an updated edition of a beloved knitting reference with over 1600 color images, step-by-step illustrations, and totally new sections that address designing sweaters, shawls, and accessories.
Reviewers say: "Trust Vogue" (Booklist); "an essential addition to the knitter's bookshelf" (Library Journal). |
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Making Tiny Toys in Wood : Ornaments & Collectible Heirloom Accents
by Howard Clements
Create charming holiday decorations that double as small toys with this easy-to-follow guidebook. Full-size patterns and step-by-step instructions are provided for 15 working wooden toy ornaments. From tugboats and tractors to windmills and wagons, these nostalgic moving toys make great Christmas ornaments as well as keepsake gifts for family and friends. And these simple projects don't take a lot of time, wood, or tools to make. They’re a great way to reuse and repurpose scrap wood, and require only minimal painting. All you need is a scroll saw, a drill, and some glue to create memorable family heirlooms. You can create them assembly-line style and fill a tree—or make a lot of gifts—with just an afternoon’s work. Better yet, get a youngster or two involved in the cutting, painting, and assembling.
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Rescue, Restore, Redecorate : Amy Howard's Guide to Refinishing Furniture and Accessories
by Amy Howard
Whether you dream of restoring an heirloom to its former beauty, or just want to modernize a flea market treasure, Amy Howard has the design and refinishing secrets you need. Here are all the furniture finishing recipes, techniques, and tips that have made Howard’s beloved classes sold-out success stories, and made Howard herself the go-to guru of refinishing and “use what you have” redecorating. Try your hand at unique painted and faux finishes, and experiment with gold leaf, distressing, and marvelous graining effects. Along the way, you will learn a treasure trove of techniques, as Howard shares before-and-after makeovers from her studio and offers impeccable step-by-step instruction in all that is needed to achieve each look.
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Country Living Mini Makeovers : Easy Ways to Transform Every Room
by Country Living Magazine
No major remodeling necessary! Sometimes, all it takes are a few small changes to refresh your home and make you happy. These micro-decorating ideas from Country Living add beauty to every room, whether you’re swapping your old coffee table for an antique bench, creating an eye-catching display in a passageway, or energizing your bedroom by playing with different patterns. You’ll discover new possibilities for things to do, make, buy, and repurpose, and every chapter shows how to revive any space, from living and dining rooms to entryways, mudrooms, home offices, and porches.
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Home Sweet Maison : The French Art of Making a Home
by Danielle Postel-Vinay
A sophisticated lifestyle guide demonstrating how to decorate a home in accordance with French style describes the author's years of immersive research into the French home aesthetic and explains how to incorporate the cultural warmth, beauty and rituals of a full and connected life. 50,000 first printing.
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Popular Mechanics How to Fix Anything : Essential Home Repairs Anyone Can Do
by Popular Mechanics
Got a squeaky floor or a rattling door? Is your grout a color you don’t recognize anymore? From quick fixes like linking broken chains and patching drywall to more involved projects like replacing a fuel line and bleeding your brakes, Popular Mechanics How to Fix Anything is the handy and reliable go-to guide for the most common household problems offering a primer on plumbing, unexpected hacks like using a golf tee to fill a stripped screw hole, instructions for tuning up the garage door, and so much more. Throughout the book Roy Berendsohn, Popular Mechanics’ senior home editor, answers questions about the trickiest fix-its, including how to deal with a recurring ceiling cracks or get rid of that stench from the kitchen sink.. And because it’s organized room by room, from basement to bathroom to bedroom, it’s simple to find the solution you need—so you won’t have to hire someone else to do the job.
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2017 James Beard Award Winners
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| Taste of Persia: A Cook's Travels through Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran... by Naomi DuguidWhy you should read it: Delicious recipes plus stories from Naomi Duguid's travels as well as compelling photographs, facts about the five countries she visited, and an annotated bibliography make this book a James Beard winner in the International category.
Recipes include: Cabbage Dolmas, Spinach Borani, Kurdish White Beans, Mint Dumplings, Tabriz Meatball Soup, Beef Stew with Onion and Tomato, Marinated Pork Kabobs, Fruit Leather, and Cardamom Cookies. |
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| Dorie's Cookies by Dorie GreenspanWhat it is: This James Beard Winner in the Baking and Dessert category offers techniques, tips, and a variety of creative, mouthwatering recipes.
Recipes include: Melody Cookies, Almond Crackle Cookies, Chocolate-Cornflake Haystacks, Blueberry Buttermilk Pie Bars, Snowy-Topped Brownie Drops, and Honey-Blue Cheese Madeleines.
Look for: the Beurre and Sel section, which includes all the recipes from the author's popular-but-now-closed Manhattan cookie store. |
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