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Home, Garden, DIY
November 2025 |
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Party People: A Cookbook for Creative Celebrations
by Brie Larson
Celebrate any occasion (really, any occasion!) with 100 creative recipes and endless ideas for your next party, from Academy Award-winning actor Brie Larson and former Milk Bar culinary director Courtney McBroom Brie Larson and Courtney McBroom found each other through food--a huge vat of molten queso, to be exact. They've been throwing food-filled parties together ever since. From game nights to themed birthday parties and their annual Hot Dog Appreciation Festival, they can find a reason to celebrate just about anything. While their debate over whether or not a hot dog is a sandwich will never end, Brie and Courtney can agree that food always tastes best when you cook it and eat it with the ones you love. They wrote Party People to help you create meaningful connections with the ones you love, whether that's with family, friends, or yourself. And with recipes like Old Pal cocktails, Cheesy Jenga Bread, and Dueling Roast Chickens, they have you covered. Technically, this is an entertaining cookbook. But Brie and Courtney are serving up more than party tips and menus. They give you the tools to spark a new dining revolution in your home, one where connection takes center stage and entertaining is an afterthought. Now, go forth and party!
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Beginner's Guide to DIY & Home Repair: Essential DIY Techniques for the First Timer
by Jo Behari
Start doing your own household repairs and simple renovations without the expense of calling in a professional. Full of expert advice, this practical beginner's handbook features easy instructions for all the home DIY basics, from painting and wallpapering to simple plumbing, changing a lock, using power tools, fixing a squeaky board and much more.
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Having People Over: A Modern Guide to Planning, Throwing, and Attending Every Type of Party
by Chelsea Fagan
Become the perfect host and learn how to foster community as an adult with this modern guide to hosting every type of gathering. In a world that often feels disconnected and transactional, there's nothing more radically hospitable than welcoming people into your space, your table, and your life. In this accessible, inviting book on hosting and entertaining, author, CEO, and internet big sister Chelsea Fagan guides readers on creating moments worth staying in for. From designing the right space, to crafting a menu that won't keep you in the kitchen all night, to revitalizing the lost art of cultivating grown-up communities, this book will make you the perfect host at every budget. Having People Over includes guides for: - Curating a space optimized for entertaining, so people can drop by without it sending you into a tailspin.- A brief history of the cocktail hour--and its imagined future--including recipes with and without spirits. - The 101 tutorial for all things dinner parties inviting guests, setting the table, planning a menu, creating a mood board, and actually enjoying the evening yourself.- Facilitating a (platonic) adult sleepover--and why you definitely should!- How to be good guest wherever you go, from when to show up, to what to bring, to what absolutely not to do. With chic, stylized photography and charming, illustrative line drawings throughout--providing everything from sample tablescapes to charcuterie board maps--and plenty of actual recipes for your next gathering, Having People Over will transform your relationship to entertaining, one apéritif at a time.
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Waterwise Garden: Sustain Your Garden Through Drought and Flood
by Tom Massey
Use every drop of water to design, grow, and love your water-saving garden. Truly successful and sustainable gardens depend on one thing: water. Whether you have too much or not enough, water is at the root of your garden, bringing life to plants, the soil, and biodiversity. But with our changing climate, extreme weather events, and limited resources, how do you make a beautiful, useful, and long-term waterwise garden? Discover how to design a garden that will use water efficiently, work out the water flow in your garden, the key plants to grow for a changing climate, and how planting can be used to soak up excess water. This is the ultimate guide to dealing with water anywhere you garden. Whether dealing with flash flooding or ongoing summer droughts, creating sustainable drainage solutions or designing a container pond, now is the time to make your garden waterwise.
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Craft Your Cure: 25 Craft and Upcycling Projects to Heal and Bring Joy
by Gemma Longworth
A creative journey of art, craft and DIY activities to restore your mind, furniture and home, written by a TV personality with a background in art therapy. Creativity has proven benefits to our mental health, and this unique craft book shows you how to make with memories, heal through art and repair your mind. Gemma Longworth shares a collection of 25 craft and DIY projects designed to soothe our minds during difficult times. For Gemma, art has brought her comfort and connection when she has experienced loss and grief, and her personal story is woven throughout her book. With warm encouragement, Gemma demonstrates that art is about having fun and leaving perfectionism at the door. Learn how to: - use paper craft to create an origami box- make a comforting cushion- create pinch pots out of clay- draw daily doodles for healing- knit a chunky scarf- learn embellishing techniques to mend clothes- repair and upcycle furniture. With advice on how colour affects mood, how to create vision boards, how to weave memories into your projects, how to heal through meditative crafts such as drawing, and how repairing clothes and furniture can mend a broken heart, this book gives all the tools you need for your healing journey. Whether you're brand-new to crafting or a seasoned pro, turn trash into treasure with this restorative arts and crafts book.
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