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Home, Garden, and DIY May 2019
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| Seasonal Flower Arranging: Fill Your Home with Blooms, Branches, and Foraged... by Ariella Chezar with Julie Michaels; photos by Erin KunkelWhat it is: a beautifully written guide arranged by season that encourages the use of locally grown flowers and provides flexible, step-by-step instructions for 39 floral projects.
Don't miss: the eye-catching color photos and the section about creating a cutting garden.
Reviewers say: "a delightful companion for gardeners, florists, or armchair naturalists" (Publishers Weekly, starred review). |
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| Where Cooking Begins: Uncomplicated Recipes to Make You a Great Cook by Carla Lalli MusicWhat it is: a modern cookbook (ordering staples online is encouraged) showcasing the author's six most-used cooking methods, 70 flexible recipes, her shopping philosophy, and tips for a pared-down kitchen.
Author buzz: Though Carla Lalli Music is Bon Appétit's Food Director, this book focuses on her life as a home cook.
Try this next: new cooks should check out Mark Bittman's or America's Test Kitchen's clearly written books featuring well-tested recipes. |
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| The Inspired Houseplant: Transform Your Home with Indoor Plants from Kokedama... by Jen StearnsWhat it is: a "stellar" (Library Journal), beginner-friendly book that demystifies house plants, especially for those with brown thumbs.
What it does: walks readers through plant selection (with profiles of common houseplants), plant care (potting, watering, pruning, and more), and several special plant projects (bowl gardens, kitchen gardens, etc).
Don't miss: the color photos and the section on incorporating plants into your home's style, be it minimalist, rustic, or eclectic. |
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Container vegetable gardening : Growing Crops in Pots in Every Space
by Liz Dobbs
This book will show you how to use the latest practices of high-density patio gardening to grow delicious vegetables, herbs and fruits in containers, window boxes, and hanging baskets. Imagine the satisfaction of diving into a plate full of food that you grew yourself. Stepping out onto your patio and picking fresh ingredients for a meal is a special experience that is possible almost all year long. Whether you want to learn how to grow lemon trees in pots or to create your very own salsa window box with chilies, dwarf tomatoes, scallions, and coriander―Container Vegetable Gardening will show you how!
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Dinner made simple : 35 everyday ingredients, 250 easy recipes
by Real Simple
Think you'll never win at weeknight cooking? Think again. Your favorite ingredients are deliciously reimagined in Real Simple's latest cookbook that shows you how to spin 35 family staples into hundreds of hassle-free dishes. Organized from apples to zucchini, Dinner Made Simple is filled with 350 easy, quick dishes-many ready in 30 minutes or less-to help you get out of your recipe rut. With 10 ideas for every ingredient, you'll never look at a box of spaghetti, a bunch of carrots, or a ball of pizza dough the same way again.
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| The Less Is More Garden: Big Ideas for Designing Your Small Yard by Susan MorrisonWhy you should read it: It takes a lifestyle-based approach to garden design that'll help aspiring gardeners turn their modest-sized yards into personalized spaces.
What's inside: inspiring color photographs, thoughtful questions, and suggestions for livable, low-maintenance designs using appropriate plants, furniture, and hardscaping. |
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| Learn to Paint in Acrylics with 50 Small Paintings by Mark Daniel NelsonWhat it is: an accessible how-to book for beginners that cleverly drops the intimidation factor by having readers paint on small (5x5) canvases, boards, or pieces of paper, working their way through 50 paintings, which start simple and progress as skills are acquired.
Want more? Try Claire Watson Garcia's Painting for the Absolute and Utter Beginner or Annie O'Brien Gonzales' The Joy of Acrylic Painting. |
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| Goodbye, Things: The New Japanese Minimalism by Fumio SasakiWhat it is: a contemplative memoir and guide to minimalism with color photos by a Japanese book editor who got rid of all of his books.
Topics include: what minimalism is and why it's grown in popularity; tips on decluttering; why we own so much stuff; the positive changes in the author's life since going minimalist.
Other decluttering options: books by Marie Kondo, Peter Walsh, Joshua Becker, Francine Jay, or Dana K. White. |
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Contact your librarian for more great books!
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Newmarket Public Library 438 Park Ave. Newmarket, Ontario L3Y1W1 905-953-5110www.newmarketpl.ca |
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