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Home, Garden, and DIY September 2017
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Draw Buildings and Cities in 15 Minutes : Amaze Your Friends wth Your Drawing Skills
by Matthew Brehm
Learn how to draw and sketch your urban environment with quick and easy lessons that will improve your drawing skills while engaging you with a truly inspiring subject. Expert art tutor and writer Matthew Brehm helps you capture the life of the places where you work and spend your free time, as well as the places you visit in your travels. The skills and strategies presented here will help you make a fantastic visual record of the urban places you experience, and help you learn about these places in the process. Responding to the popularity of the Urban Sketchers movement, which has groups in most major cities around the world, artist Matthew Brehm shows you how to capture the city environment speedily and create stunning urban sketches, while also teaching essential drawing skills along the way.
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| 350+ Crochet Tips, Techniques, and Trade Secrets by Jan EatonOffering a treasury of tips, techniques, and trade secrets for crocheters (both new and experienced), this wide-ranging book provides numerous projects and quick fixes for problems crocheters may encounter. It also discusses everything from choosing the right hook and yarn to creating your own designs. Step-by-step color photos enhance the text and will have readers crocheting something fine in no time. |
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| Potted: Make Your Own Stylish Garden Containers by Annette Goliti Gutierrez and Mary GrayIf you're tired of trying to find the perfect (and affordable) planter, stop searching and make your own! Projects are sorted by material (concrete, plastics, metals, terra-cotta, and organic materials) and come with colorful photographs and a list of tools and materials needed. Along with step-by-step instructions that detail how to make a tiled cinderblock planter, flying saucer planter, and 21 more planters, the authors also offer encouragement to try your own ideas. |
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| The Harvest Baker: 150 Sweet & Savory Recipes Celebrating the Fresh-Picked... by Ken HaedrichIncorporating a wide variety of vegetables, fruits, and herbs into muffins, scones, flatbreads, calzones, pizzas, cookies, cakes, pies, and more, The Harvest Baker includes dishes such as tomato slab pie, savory vegetable skillet bread, sweet potato buttermilk biscuits, fresh mint brownies, and three-berry crostata. Recommendations for baking tools as well as recipes for glazes and sauces are also included. This bounty of sweet and savory dishes will inspire and delight gardeners, bakers, and those who just like to eat good food. |
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Homesteading from Scratch : Building your Self-Sufficient Homestead, Start to Finish
by Steven Jones
Homesteading From Scratch is for people who want to do things differently—the type of people who want to eat real food, grow herbs, make cheese, raise baby animals, hunt mushrooms, pick blackberries, unschool their children, can jelly, ferment kraut, farm organically, connect to nature, live intentionally, and more. Guiding readers from desire to full-blown off-the-grid living—and everything in between—this book covers farming, animal husbandry, food preparation, homeschooling, fiber arts, and even marketing. It provides inspiration from other homesteaders, with operations from small to large, who have made a go of it, outlining their successes and failures throughout the process. It helps to democratize the homesteading movement, by providing “ins” for nearly every level of dedication, from the container gardener to full-time farmers. It provides the knowledge necessary to discover homesteading as a movement and as a lifestyle.
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Mom Crafts : DIY Crafts for the Expectant Mom
by Lark Crafts
Celebrate an upcoming arrival—and the mother-to-be—with the practical and charming crafts in this delightful DIY book. Featuring 20 projects to hand-make with love, it includes sewing, quilting, knitting, and embroidery crafts for the newborn, nursery, and mom herself. They range from a high-contrast fabric floor quilt perfect for tummy time and matching, knitted strawberry hat and booties for the baby to a felt night sky mobile for the nursery and a maternity pillow and a lightweight infinity nursing scarf for the mom. Perfect for beginners, the well-illustrated collection includes crafting basics, a stitch gallery, templates, and ideas for personalizing the gifts.
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Quilt Traditions : 12 Striking Projects, 9 Skill-building Techniques
by Devon Lavigne
Sew a slice of life with 12 traditional quilts that prove to be more than just patterns, but storytellers. Each quilt is inspired by life events that everyone can appreciate. Bold blocks shimmer in their use of color and value for handsome quilts with personality. Stretch your skills beyond the basics as you perfect strip piecing, half-square triangles, working with templates, paper piecing, machine appliqué, and sewing curves and set-in seams.
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Pnw Veg : 100 Vegetable Recipes Inspired by the Local Bounty of the Pacific Northwest
by Kim O'Donnel
Simply delicious, healthy “vegetable-forward” recipes are at the heart of this cookbook that celebrates the bounty of the Pacific Northwest. From simple weeknight meals to on-the-go snacks and sweet- tooth satisfying desserts, this book gives you over 100 ways to celebrate seasonal produce, with recipes like Sweet Corn and Red Lentil Soup, Baked Pasta and Greens Casserole, Cherry Fro-Yo, and more. Vegetarians and omnivores alike will be eager to eat their vegetables, and the convenient gluten-free and dairy-free symbols make navigating the book a breeze for reader with dietary restrictions.
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Miniature Moss Gardens : Create Your Own Japanese Container Gardens
by Megumi Oshima
Friendly enough for total beginners and full of ideas and tips that experienced gardeners will love to read about, this moss gardening book brings you information on the following:- Finding and collecting moss
Cultivation and maintenance Choosing soils and other components Designing your garden for visual effect Choosing the best plants for your mini garden How to make a perfect Kokedama or moss ball Enhancing your moss garden with rocks and other elements How to make a gorgeous terrarium and much more! A section on finding moss on city streets, parks and mountains opens your eyes to the beauty that's all around you every day! Moss can be gathered to make a complete and perfect miniature gardening world. Let this fun Japanese gardening book set you on the path to a deeply satisfying new way of expressing yourself.
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| Bravetart: Iconic American Desserts by Stella ParksSo you want to make -- from scratch -- the candy bars, vanilla wafers, toaster pastries, and other sweet treats you usually see in a package? And maybe you'd also like to make snickerdoodles, chocolate pudding, vanilla ice cream, and other classic dishes? You're in luck! Stella Parks, an award-winning pastry chef, spent five years creating the 100+ recipes (and 200 or so variations) in this stunning book, which also includes vintage ads and historical details, including the surprising origin of Key lime pie. |
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Building Natural Ponds : Create a Clean, Algae-Free Pond Without Pumps, Filters, or Chemicals
by Robert Pavlis
Typical backyard ponds are a complicated mess of pipes, pumps, filters, and nasty chemicals designed to adjust pH and keep algae at bay. Hardly the bucolic, natural ecosystem beloved by dragonflies, frogs, and songbirds. The antidote is a natural pond, free of hassle, cost, and complexity and designed as a fully functional ecosystem, ideal for biodiversity, swimming, irrigation, and quiet contemplation. Whether you’re a backyard gardener looking to add a small serene natural water feature or a homesteader with visions of a large pond for fish, swimming, and irrigation, Building Natural Ponds is the complete guide to building ponds in tune with nature, where plants, insects, and amphibians thrive in blissful serenity.
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Focus on: Creative Writing
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| The Art of Memoir by Mary KarrMemoirs have been having a moment for a while now. If you want to write your own and would like an irreverent guide, this funny yet full-bodied bestseller is a good place to start. Mary Karr, a university professor and the author of three acclaimed memoirs (The Liar's Club, Cherry, and Lit), uses examples from her own books (along with others by favorite authors), shares literary anecdotes, and discusses her writing process while identifying the elements of a successful memoir. |
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Now That's Funny! : The Art and Science of Writing Comedy
by Peter Desberg
There is a feeling of pure delight that comes from laughing out loud while watching a hilarious movie or a TV show. Yet as funny as these lines may be, they are the work of people you will never see. The magic behind any comedy hit begins when an idea is hatched in the mind of a comedy writer and is then put down on paper. And while few of us are privy to this fascinating process, for writers Peter Desberg and Jeffrey Davis, the challenge of observing and understanding how comedy is born has culminated in a unique new book, Now That’s Funny! If you’re one of the millions who have enjoyed watching the work of comedy writers, here is an opportunity to go behind the scenes and see the madness unfold. Now that’s funny!
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| Steering the Craft: A 21st-Century Guide to Sailing the Sea of Story by Ursula K. Le GuinPopular author Ursula K. Le Guin presents practical advice on how to pen a good narrative. To that end, she covers the sound of language, point of view and voice, sentence length and complex syntax, narration, grammar and punctuation, workshops and peer groups, and more. Using discussions, examples, and specific practice exercises (such as writing the same scene from different points of view), this book is like a writing workshop you can do at home. |
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| A Poetry Handbook by Mary OliverA lot of us feel about poetry the way we feel about art; we know what we like. If you want to pen some verses that you like or even just want to understand poetry better, Mary Oliver's quintessential book, first published over 20 years ago, offers advice on both. Though this isn't a thick book, she covers a lot of ground here, addressing imitation, meter and rhyme, sound, poem forms, free verse, diction, imagery, revision, the importance of reading poetry, and workshops. Booklist says, "she so deeply knows her craft that she can describe it with perfect simplicity and concision." |
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