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Home, Garden, and DIY February 2021 |
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Happiness is Baking : Favorite Desserts from the Queen of Cake by Maida HeatterMaida Heatter is one of the most iconic and fondly remembered cookbook authors of all time. Her recipes, each a modern classic, are must-haves in every home baker's bag of tricks: her cookies, cakes, muffins, tarts, pies, and sweets of all kinds range from extravagantly special to the comforting and everyday. Her brown-sugary Budapest Coffee Cake, her minty Palm Beach Brownies, her sophisticated East 62nd Street Lemon Cake, and many other desserts have inspired legions of devotees. Happiness Is Baking reproduces Maida's best-loved recipes in a fully illustrated new edition with a foreword by Dorie Greenspan. Developed for foolproof baking by experienced cooks and novices alice, these recipes bear Maida's trademark warmth, no-nonsense style, and her promise that they will work every time. Happiness Is Baking is the perfect gift for anyone who loves baking--or who knows the happiness that comes from a delicious dessert.
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100 Days of Real Food Fast & Fabulous : The Easy and Delicious Way to Cut Out Processed Food by Lisa Leake Along with family-friendly recipes, 100 Days of Real Food: Fast & Fabulous incorporates ideas for adult, big-kid, and little-kid packed lunches and new seasonal meal plans and shopping lists--everything you need for accessible, quick, and real home cooking. Lisa also includes a "CliffsNotes"-style resource section packed with easy guidelines on how to buy real food, supermarket staples (including her Top 10 Shopping Lists by Store), the truth behind more than a dozen grocery store myths, and other handy kitchen tips (such as food prep guides and storage cheat sheets). Making and enjoying healthy meals the whole family will love doesn't have to be difficult, boring, or expensive. With this essential cookbook, illustrated with color photos for every single recipe, you'll see just how fast and fabulous good home-cooked meals can be.
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Nature Play at Home: Creating Outdoor Spaces that Connect Children with the Natural World by Nancy Striniste Access to technology has created a generation of children who are more plugged in than ever before--often with negative consequences. But there is a solution. Unrestricted outdoor play helps reduce stress, improve health, and enhance creativity, learning, and attention span. In Nature Play at Home, Nancy Striniste gives you the tools you need to make outdoor adventures possible in your own backyard. With hundreds of inspiring ideas and illustrated, step-by-step projects, this hardworking book details how to create play spaces that use natural materials--like logs, boulders, sand, water, and plants of all kinds. Projects include hillside slides, seating circles, sand pits, and more.
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Make Yourself at Home : Design Your Space to Discover Your True Self by Moorea SealThis book is all about beautifying your life inside and out. Organized room by room, each chapter delves into what each room represents in our lives, and how we can feel at home in our spaces and at home in ourselves. You don't have to have the perfect life or perfect home in order to infuse your space with your signature spark and feel comfortable in your space. Each of the six room chapters includes: A deeply personal essay from online curator and style maven Moorea Seal; Exclusive looks into her beautiful personal space and tips for infusing your home with comfort and creativity; Two inspired, on-trend, beginner-friendly DIY projects to personalize and decorate your home on a budget; Droolworthy looks into the homes and inspiring lives of a diverse set of creative women, with their best tips and tricks for comfortable, creative decor.
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Stitch Camp : 18 Crafty Projects for Kids & Tweensby Nicole BlumIn today's thriving maker culture, kids are hungry for hands-on guidance in creating stylish wearables and practical objects, or hacking and customizing existing ones. Authors Nicole Blum and Catherine Newman get them started with complete instructions for mastering six favorite fiber crafts. Step-by-step photos teach kids ages 9-14 the basics of how to sew, knit, crochet, felt, embroider, and weave, plus how to make three projects for each craft. From woven patches and a knitted backpack to embroidered merit badges and a crocheted bracelet, the fresh, kid-approved projects encourage creative variations and build confidence along with valuable life skills.
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Creating Clever Castles & Cars (From Boxes and Other Stuff)by Mari Rutz MitchellSuitable for ages 3 to 8 years, this title helps kids learn to move from an idea to making it happen. It allows kids learn to improvise by creating something out of 'nothing'. It lets kids develop valuable social skills - cooperation, problem-solving, and respect for new ideas.
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Junior Maker by Inc. Dorling KindersleySpecific step-by-step instructions and visuals help young readers and makers explore subjects such as space, nature, history, animals, and science. Crafting ideas appear next to excellent illustrations and photographs and fun fact informative text that is easy to read. What looks like inspirational material helps to teach children these important topics and make it exciting for them. Every fun educational experiment is based around basic household items and inexpensive and easy-to-find art supplies to keep things simple. Little creators can expect to use familiar things like buttons and marshmallows to map our solar system, make a bottle jetpack while learning about gravity, design a rain gauge to measure rainfall, and much more.
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Clay Lab for Kids : 52 Projects to Make, Model, and Moldby Cassie StephensSquishy, colorful, and infinitely shapable, clay just might be the most versatile art material for kids. Author-artist-teacher Cassie Stephens has created all-new clay projects for kids of all skill levels. Start with the basics of rolling, coiling, and pinching pots, and move up to making "Jurassic fossils," animal marionettes, monster magnets, and boxes with secret compartments. All of the projects use kid-friendly, no-kiln clay (air-dry, homemade, and polymer) and water-based paints, perfect for home and classroom, plus there's an entire chapter of recipes for mixing up inexpensive homemade clays in the kitchen. When creating with clay, kids are introduced to a wide range of cognitive and manual skills: they'll work three-dimensionally; make figurative models; use their imaginations in making jewelry and toys; design with color; and decorate with paints.
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