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Home, Garden, and DIY November 2017
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City Farmhouse Style : Designs for a Modern Country Life by Kim LeggettCome along on the hunt to coveted country sources and the best secret antiquing spots, and learn how to create country farmhouse style in your city dwelling. Author Kim Leggett is the creator of City Farmhouse, an interior design business, pop-up antiquing fairs, and vintage store. She is also a legendary “picker” and favorite designer to celebrity clients (and country-style mavens) including Meg Ryan, Ralph Lauren, Sheryl Crow, and Phillip Sweet and Kimberly Schlapman of Little Big Town. In City Farmhouse Style, Leggett offers great style advice, breaking down the design vocabulary that makes for fresh country style (no matter the setting). The popularity of farmhouse style has designers, homeowners, and fans in search of inspiration to create this look in all its rural glory. City Farmhouse Style is the first design book of its kind to focus entirely on transforming urban interiors with unfussy, welcoming, country-style decor.
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A captivating collection that celebrates the wonderful recipes from the Betty Crocker archives in a package that appeals to the modern cook. Betty Crocker's Lost Recipes is the ultimate treasure for the most devoted Betty Crocker fans, as well as cooks who are interested in recipes with a retro/nostalgic twist. Eighty percent of the book includes tried-and-true recipes that simply aren’t readily available in today’s cooking repertoire—mainly from-scratch recipes that are hard to find. Twenty percent is a fun look back at some of the cooking customs of the past that are worth remembering. Features include ideas like “How to Throw a Hawaiian Tiki Party,” and the robust introductory pages contain interesting stories, anecdotes, and artwork from Betty Crocker’s history. Recipes are carefully curated to ensure that they are still relevant, achievable, and made with available ingredients—think Beef Stroganoff, Chicken à la King, Waldorf Salad, and Chiffon Cake. These lost recipes are ready to grace the tables of a whole new generation of cooks.
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This stylish, instructive book from The Great British Sewing Bee’s Jenniffer Taylor shows you how to make and adapt your own clothes in a simple, no-fuss way, to fit your personality and your shape. Using Jenniffer’s fun and imaginative ideas, this book will teach you how to get started transforming unloved items of clothing into new and exciting outfits; how to customize clothes with doilies, tassels, tie-dyeing and block printing; and finally how to measure yourself, create patterns and make clothes from scratch, including dresses, skirts, tops, trousers and a coat. The book is packed with all the tricks of the trade that Jenniffer has learned along her sewing journey, and will get you started on your own #sewingrevolution!
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| Smitten Kitchen Every Day: Triumphant & Unfussy New Favorites by Deb PerelmanWith her humorous, personable writing style and beautifully shot photos, award-winning blogger and best-selling author Deb Perelman gives readers delicious, do-able recipes for breakfast, stews and soups, vegetable mains, meat mains, and sweets of all types. You’ll want to put these recipes in your Forever Files: Sticky Toffee Waffles (sticky toffee pudding you can eat for breakfast), Everything Drop Biscuits with Cream Cheese, and Magical Two-Ingredient Oat Brittle (a happy accident). There’s a (hopelessly, unapologetically inauthentic) Kale Caesar with Broken Eggs and Crushed Croutons, a Mango Apple Ceviche with Sunflower Seeds, and a Grandma-Style Chicken Noodle Soup that fixes everything. You can make Leek, Feta, and Greens Spiral Pie, crunchy Brussels and Three Cheese Pasta Bake that tastes better with brussels sprouts than without, Beefsteak Skirt Steak Salad, and Bacony Baked Pintos with the Works (as in, giant bowls of beans that you can dip into like nachos). |
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The Art of the Visit is an invaluable resource for the socially minded. During tough economic periods people tend to visit with family and friends for a mini-vacation instead of taking more expensive trips. Full of anecdotes from the author’s experiences, The Art of the Visit establishes the ground rules for successfully spending time with those people who are most dear to us, and illustrates the dos and don’ts of extended visiting from start to finish. From hosting your in-laws for the weekend to spending a week with family or friends, you'll find plenty of good, commonsense ideas that will ensure a fabulous time for both host and guest.
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Cook's Illustrated All-Time Best Holiday Entertaining by America's Test KitchenWith decades of experience turning out perfect turkeys, the experts at Cook's Illustrated are no strangers to pulling off a great holiday meal. All-Time Best Holiday Entertaining gathers 75 spectacular, foolproof recipes - including such offerings as herbed roast turkey, mushroom lasagna, creamy corn pudding, and classic pecan pie - from our extensive archives to help you confidently prepare memorably festive feasts for years to come.
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Celebrate the special moments in your life, big and small, with this warm and welcoming illustrated lifestyle and entertaining guide, complete with delicious healthy recipes from actress, fashion icon, entrepreneur and New York Times bestselling author of Pretty Happy Kate Hudson. In Pretty Happy Kate Hudson shared her wisdom and advice for living a healthy, strong, and mindful life. In Pretty Fun she shares her philosophy behind gatherings, how to be in the moment, make them uniquely yours, embracing occasions to just be together. A beautiful, fun, and nourishing guide filled with dozens of dazzling color photos, fabulous recipes for healthy and even some indulgent snacks and beverages, and infused with Kate’s mindful and healthy approach to life, Pretty Fun will help you plan a year of special events, while remembering the healing power of gathering and celebration.
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| The Unexpected Houseplant: 220 Extraordinary Choices for Every Room in Your Home by Tovah Martin; photographs by Kindra ClineffMaybe you're a pro at decluttering, making drinks, and hosting parties; what else can you do to prepare for visitors? Liven things up with unusual houseplants! Forget ficus trees and Boston ferns, and try out conifers, fruit trees, and carnivorous plants, as well as more familiar favorites. Comprehensive, up-to-the-minute, and gorgeously photographed, The Unexpected Houseplant is for beginners, green thumbs, decorators, and anyone who wants to infuse a bit of surprising green into their décor. |
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