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Home, Garden, and DIY May 2017
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New Beginnings & Fresh Starts |
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| The Beginner's Guide to Starting a Garden: 326 Fast, Easy, Affordable Ways to Transform Your Yard One Project at a Time by Sally RothThe prospect of revamping a yard is daunting. Where do you start? How do all the various areas come together in a beautiful, cohesive way? The Beginner's Guide to Starting a Garden simplifies the process by showing you how to spend fewer hours (and a minimal amount of money) in the garden by tackling one small area at a time. You'll find garden plans for ten unique areas--the entryway, the shady areas under trees, and more--that can be linked together over time to create a unified yard, and plants that are dependable, easy to find, and look good year after year. You'll also learn the basics of good design, which plants offer the most bloom for your buck, and how to avoid the most common planting mistakes. |
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| Dinner: Changing the Game by Melissa ClarkWhat's for dinner? That's an age-old question asked by hungry people every evening; now, instead of staring into cupboards that have no answers, readers can turn to Melissa Clark's new book for inspiration. The New York Times food columnist organizes Dinner by main ingredient (chicken, meat, egg, fish & seafood, etc.) to change the way you look at dinner - 245 recipes that are fresh and new, yet easy and quick enough to prepare on weeknights. No need to worry about side dishes -- each recipe is meant to be all you need. Want a taste of what's ahead? There's Ginger Pork Meatballs, Maple Roasted Tofu, Blood Orange Chicken, Sweet Potato Dahl, Rustic Shrimp Bisque, Stove-Top Mac and Cheese, and more! |
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Grow Your Handmade Business : How To Envision, Develop, and Sustain a Successful Creative Business
by Kari Chapin
Are you ready to make a living from your craft? Applying her trademark "you-can-do-it" coaching style to the nuts and bolts of business planning, Kari Chapin covers all of the issues involved in turning your creative hobby into a successful business--from mapping out a business plan to expanding production and distribution, finding funding, budgeting, time management, and addressing legal matters. With this definitive guide, you'll discover how to grow your business beyond the dining room table and finally quit your day job.
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Little House Living : The Make-Your-Own Guide to a Frugal, Simple, and Self-Sufficient Life
by Merissa Alink
Shortly after getting married, Merissa Alink and her husband found themselves with nothing in their pantry but a package of spaghetti and some breadcrumbs. Their life had hit rock bottom, and it was only after a touching act of charity that they were able to get on their feet again. Inspired by this gesture of kindness as well as the beloved Little House on the Prairie books, Merissa found that a life of self-sufficiency and simplicity could be charming and blissful. Living an entirely made-from-scratch life - the “Little House” way - she slashed her household budget by nearly half, saving thousands of dollars a year. She started to write about homesteading, homemaking, and cooking from scratch, and over the next few years developed the recipes and DIY projects for her website, LittleHouseLiving.com. With more than 130 simple DIY recipes, gorgeous full-color photographs, and Merissa’s trademark charm, Little House Living is the epitome of heartland warmth and prairie inspiration.
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Projects to Get Kids (and Yourself!) Outdoors
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Best Tent Camping Florida : Your Car-Camping Guide to Scenic Beauty, the Sounds of Nature, and an Escape from Civilization
by Johnny Molloy
Best Tent Camping: Florida guides you to the quietest, most beautiful, most secure, and best managed campgrounds in Florida. Selected from more than 1,000 campgrounds in the forest, in the swamps, and on the coast, each campsite is rated for beauty, noise, privacy, security, spaciousness, and cleanliness. Each profile provides essential details on facilities, reservations, fees, and restrictions, as well as an accurate, easy-to-read map.
Well-traveled outdoors writer Johnny Molloy has used his wealth of experience for this updated edition, choosing only the most pristine campgrounds that include great locales for tent campers and feature fun outdoors activities nearby, most as close as your tent door.
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Born to Be Wild : Hundreds of Free Nature Activities for Families
by Hattie Garlick
Want to save cash, your child's imagination and possibly even the planet? This is the book you need. Packed with great photos of real families in the outdoors, Born to Be Wild contains easy-to-follow instructions for activities that require nothing more than a small person's imagination and access to a little outdoor space. Organized by season and then material, everything you need for hundreds of activities can be found in your kitchen: no expensive art supplies or outward-bound kit required.
Along the way, Hattie Garlick talks to families, organizations, cultures and communities who have rebuilt their relationships with nature with inspiring results, and introduces scientists, psychologists and other experts who explain why nature matters in our children's modern lives.
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Coastal Crafts : Decorative Seaside Projects to Inspire Your Inner Beachcomber
by Cynthia Shaffer
When life’s a beach . . . get crafty! Coastal Crafts carries you straight to the shore, with projects that incorporate seashells, ropes, sea glass, and a range of nautical materials and motifs. Learn how to weather surfaces, make driftwood, and cast sand. With everything from wood frames and hanging jars to decorative sailboats and a knotted necklace with shells and pearls, making these beautiful items lets you celebrate summer all year long.
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A Little Bit of Dirt : 55+ Science and Art Activities to Reconnect Children with Nature
by Asia Citro
Bursting with creative hands-on outdoor science and art activities, A Little Bit of Dirt is full of motivation to get outside and explore. Whether you're investigating the health of your local stream, learning how birds fly, or concocting nature potions, you'll be fostering an important connection with nature. The engaging activities encourage the use of the senses and imagination and are perfect for all ages. Discover more about the natural world waiting just outside your door!
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Contact your librarian for more great books!
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