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Home, Garden, and DIY September 2021 |
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| Let's Make Dumplings! A Comic Book Cookbook by Hugh Amano and Sarah BecanWhat it is: a fun, friendly comic cookbook about Asian dumplings, both traditional and new, that covers dumpling history, pantry essentials, instructions for folding and freezing, and cooking techniques.
Recipes include: Sesame Chicken Dumplings; Crab Rangoon; Beef and Kimchi Mandu; Wonton Soup; Fried Sesame Balls; Duck Sauce.
Read this next: For more comic cookbooks, try Let's Make Ramen by the same authors, Robin Ha's Cook Korean, or Lauren Thompson and Tsukuru Anderson's Cooking Comics, which is good for new cooks. |
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Creative Polymer Clay : Over 30 Techniques and Projects for Contemporary Wearable Art
by Heidi Helyard
What's inside: "Over 30 techniques and projects for contemporary wearable art; 10 easy yet exciting techniques including slab and cane making, marbling and color mixing, inlay techniques, printing onto clay, surface embellishments and more to create 20 unique jewelry pieces".
What it is: A "comprehensive guide to modern polymer clay techniques" which "can be used to create one-off, contemporary jewelry pieces with minimal tools and equipment".
Who it's for: "The projects in this book vary in complexity, but are accessible to both novice and advanced makers alike. If you are a beginner, the extensive step-by-step photos and instructions will help you develop your polymer clay skills" (from Hoopla).
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Fresh Bento : Affordable, Healthy Box Lunches Your Kids Will Adore!
by Wendy Thorpe Copley
What's inside: "With over 45 themed bento box options to choose from, this book allows you to create lunch with a selection of food that you know your kid likes to eat. Substitutions and other suggestions are included to accommodate picky eaters and allergies." (from Hoopla).
Recipes include: "A Spidery eight-legged Bento containing figure-eight pastries, eight-shaped tomato skewers and a blackberry spider; An out-of-this-world Astronaut Bento featuring apples, avocados, almonds, dried apricots and an almond butter and apricot jam sandwich" (from Hoopla).
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| Modern Mending: How to Minimize Waste and Maximize Style by Erin Lewis-FitzgeraldWhat's inside: beginner-friendly techniques for cleverly mending damaged fabrics; tips and tool recommendations; inspiring case studies that include jeans, shirts, dresses, oven mitts, and more.
Read this next: For other thoughtful DIY mending books, pick up Nina and Sonya Montenegro's Mending Life or Noriko Misumi's Joyful Mending or her Mending with Love. |
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The vegetable garden pest handbook : identify and solve common pest problems on edible plants
by Susan Mulvihill
What it's about: "Pests in your garden are a challenge no one wants to face but very few gardeners manage to escape. Instead of turning to synthetic chemical sprays, baits, and dusts, Mulvihill shows you how to handle even your worst pest woes naturally".
You'll learn to identify common vegetable garden pests, based on both the damage they cause and their physical appearance. Then you'll discover the most effective organic pest-control products to minimize damage while still preserving pollinators and other beneficial insects" (adapted from back cover).
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If You Like: The Home Edit
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Organized Enough : The Anti-perfectionist's Guide to Getting--and Staying--organized
by Amanda Sullivan
Who it's for: "If you're looking to clean up but not clean out, if you want to declutter but don't want to throw out eighty percent of your stuff, if you want to be able to find matching socks in the morning but don't want a color-coded sock drawer, you've come to the right place" (from publisher description).
What you'll learn: Amanda Sullivan's proven approach. . . [for] how to make cleaning up effortless and automatic. With seven concepts to help you define your goals and seven essential habits to keep chaos and clutter at bay" (from publisher description).
Topics include: Seperating what's "stuff" and what's sentimental, setting up systems so they can run on autopilot, letting go of guilt, and more (adapted from catalog summary).
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| The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing by Marie KondoWhat it is: a massively popular, thoughtful guide to sorting through your belongings category by category using the KonMari method, which means identifying the items that bring you joy and then organizing what's left in order to create a home you love.
Why you might like it: It's a quick read, and Marie Kondo combines a holistic philosophy with no-nonsense advice (like how to fold socks).
Media buzz: Teaming with Netflix again (after 2019's Tidying Up with Marie Kondo), the Japanese expert's Sparking Joy arrives on August 31. |
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| Outer Order, Inner Calm: Declutter & Organize to Make More Room for Happiness by Gretchen RubinWhat's inside: a charming, customizable approach to decluttering and organizing that can help readers feel calmer and happier; more than 150 tips (such as taking a photo of a space to view it with fresh eyes).
Why you might like it: This absorbing small book offers a friendly tone, a wide variety of helpful advice, pertinent quotes, and calming monochrome drawings.
Author buzz: Gretchen Rubin, a personable writer who always does her research, wrote the bestsellers The Four Tendencies and The Happiness Project and is currently working on a book about the five senses. |
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| Martha Stewart's Organizing: The Manual for Bringing Order to Your Life, Home & Routines by Martha StewartWhat it is: a practical, beautifully photographed how-to guide for organizing not only your home, but also your life, using routines and monthly checklists and offering hundreds of ideas, projects, and tips that cover cooking, home care, gardening, scheduling, and more.
Why is it a good thing? It's lovely to look at, wonderfully organized, and includes a few surprises, such as recipes and crafts. |
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| Decluttering at the Speed of Life: Winning Your Never-Ending Battle with Stuff by Dana K. WhiteWhat it is: a chatty, judgement-free, and pragmatic guide to decluttering room-by-room by the blogger at "A Slob Comes Clean."
Why you might like it: She humorously addresses building a decluttering mindset, using containers as limits, and dealing with other people's clutter and special situations.
Want a taste? "I've consciously decided to view my home as a place to live instead of a place to store all my great ideas and their attached stuff." |
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Contact your librarian for more great books!
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