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Design Mom: How to live with kids: A room-by-room guide
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Gabrielle Stanley Blair
If you’ve ever looked at a decorating book and lamented that everything in it looks too fragile, fussy, or expensive for a family with kids, Gabrielle Stanley Blair is here to remind you that "design doesn’t have to disappear when kids appear." Starting with the entryway -- that Bermuda Triangle of shoes, coats, and bags -- Blair (a mother of six) walks you through the whole house, offering attractive, functional style solutions that will enable your household to run smoothly. In addition to practical design tips, she also shares some parenting insights that can help you create a harmonious home in which the whole family feels comfortable.
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A girl and her greens: Hearty meals from the garden
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April Bloomfield with J.J. Goode
In her latest outing, James Beard Award-winning chef April Bloomfield turns her attention toward the vegetable kingdom, using simple, seasonal ingredients to craft a satisfying range of dishes. Recipes such as spring peas with mint, roasted and raw fennel salad, and onions with sage pesto are well-reasoned (explaining not only how, but why), and are presented in a colourful, conversational style filled with entertaining anecdotes. This lively cookbook will be most appreciated by flexitarians who don't mind sprinkling some bacon on their broccoli.
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The art of cardboard : Big ideas for creativity, collaboration, storytelling, and reuse
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Lori Zimmer
The Art of Cardboard showcases the grand and imaginatinve scale of cardboard art and design. Inside, you'll find jaw-dropping cardboard creations from around the world! You'll discover the process of each art form, as well as tricks of the trade, from small clever projects to huge art installations. Much more than a book about "neat" cardboard designs, Lori Zimmer guides you through amazing large-scale art production, immersive environments, working from intuition, collaboration, the artist's role in society, alternative creative economies, contemporary mythology, storytelling and more. With such a readily available material, what will you create?
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Tipsy treats : Alcohol-infused cupcakes, marshmallows, martini gels, popsicles, and more!
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Autumn Skoczen
Autumn Skoczen developed the first-ever cupcake shot, one where the alcohol is added after the cupcake is baked so it doesn't dissolve in baking. In Tipsy Treats she provided the basics of baking with alcohol, how to make alcoholic frosting and filling, common problems of baking and tips for troubleshooting, and great recipes for jello and pudding shots, and alcoholic marshmallows, popsicles, ice cream, and brownies.
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Modern DIY upholstery : Step-by-step upholstery and reupholstery projects for beginners and beyond
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Vicky Grubb
"Modern DIY upholstery" shows the hobby sewer or complete newcomer how to make the leap into home upholstery taking you gently by the hand, demonstrating the simple techniques you need to bring your love of fabric to upholstered items for the home. Not a dry, highly technical professional upholstery manual, this bright and accessible book presents 10 simple projects using modern methods that are quick and easy to achieve.
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Kitchen kulture
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Michelle Galindo
An insightful survey of new, established, and unconventional ideas in contemporary kitchen design. From small-scale multifunctional cupboard kitchens to expansive living and cooking environments, the book features kitchens that are as individual and charismatic as the personalities that use them. It includes high-tech innovations by well-known kitchen manufacturers and surprising kitchen concepts for everyday life, as well as improvised cooking sites for galleries or open-air events.
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Beautiful boxes : design and techniques
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Doug Stowe
Making wooden boxes is one of the best ways to develop overall proficiency in woodworking. Boxes are relatively quick to build, require only a small amount of material, and can be made in the smallest of woodshops. And, of course, they make wonderful gifts! In this all-new collection of boxes from one of America's premier box makers, Doug Stowe shows how to design and build eight distinctive boxes, ranging from a Greene & Greene-style jewellery box to a "letter box" with sloping lid reminiscent of a Jefferson lap desk.
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"It is easily overlooked that what is now called vintage was once brand new." ~ Tony Visconti, American record producer
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Vintage quilt revival: 22 modern designs from classic blocks
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Katie Clark Blakesley, Lee Heinrich, and Faith Jones
Blending the classic and the modern, this vibrant look at using traditional blocks in 21st century-style quilts will appeal to a diverse range of quilters. Included are intermediate-level patterns for 20 traditional quilt blocks, many of which use foundation piecing, and all of which come with a suggested project such as a bag, pillow, pouch, or entire quilt. If you'd rather show off all of your new blocks at once, you can also combine them in an attractive, retro-modern sampler quilt. Using bright colors and bold designs but still maintaining that quaint, old-fashioned look, these projects may be hard for quilters to resist.
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Vintage crafts: 75 do-it-yourself decorating projects using candles, colors, and other flea market finds
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Clara Lidstrom
If you love prowling the flea market for bargains or scouring the Internet for upcycled designs, you'll definitely want to check out this collection of shabby-chic craft projects. Here you'll find tons of ideas for repurposing vintage items (champagne box bookshelves; baby shoe planters) and putting scraps to good use (decoupaged cabinets; lace-covered speakers), interspersed with low-budget, eco-friendly household tips and pointers for exploring flea markets. Highlighted by winsome photos, this is an "idiosyncratic and inspiring romp" (Publishers Weekly) through the world of retro-inspired DIY.
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Vintage cakes: Timeless recipes for cupcakes, flips, rolls, layer, angel, snack, chiffon, and icebox cakes for today's sweet tooth
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Julie Richardson
A modern baker struck gold when old filing cabinets left in her new bakeshop revealed a trove of vintage cake recipes, some from as long ago as the 1920s. Now home bakers can relive never-forgotten childhood favorites like Blackout Cake, the decadent World War II-era dark chocolate treat named for state-side port blackouts that hid docked U.S. Navy ships. Champagne Cake, an airy, pink-frosted white cake dream, starred in ladies' luncheons of the 1950s. Fans of Cheryl and Griffith Day's The Back in the Day Bakery Cookbook will love sampling Vintage cakes, too.
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Style me vintage: Clothes: Easy techniques for creating classic looks
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Naomi Thompson
Are you longing to dress like a flapper or a bobby soxer, but not sure how to begin? Start with this photo-illustrated guide from UK-based stylist Naomi Thompson. Ideal for the beginning vintage enthusiast, this volume takes a bare-bones, decade-by-decade approach, detailing different women's fashions from the 1920s-1980s, providing tips for finding and buying vintage clothes, and offering suggestions for getting the right fit and building your look. To complete your vintage transformation, consult the other books in the Style Me Vintage series, covering hair, make-up, accessories, and more.
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