Home, Garden, and DIY
January 2021
Recent Releases
Creative pottery : innovative techniques & experimental designs in thrown & handbuilt ceramics
by Deb Schwartzkopf

"With Creative Pottery, master new techniques as you learn how to make innovative functional forms, from teapots and juicers to serving trays and cake-stands. Hand-builders and wheel-throwers welcome!"
The what to eat when cookbook : 135+ deliciously timed recipes
by Michael F Roizen

A sequel to the popular What to Eat When shares dozens of recipes specifically designed to help bolster longevity, weight loss and disease prevention, sharing plan-based, high-nutrition recipes that can be strategically consumed to support busy schedules. Illustrations.
Practical Pop-Ups & Paper Engineering : A Step-by-Step Course in the Art of Creative Card-Making: More Than 100 Techniques and Projects, in 1000 Photographs
by Trish Phillips

Learn the mechanics of making your own paper pop-ups and novelty cards, with over 100 innovative techniques and projects to followBook Annotation
The complete guide to no-dig gardening : grow beautiful vegetables, herbs, and flowers - the easy way!
by Charlie Nardozzi

A nationally recognized garden writer offers step-by-step instructions for building healthy, easy-to-plant garden soil by adding layers or organic matter using one of several different no-dig techniques. Original. Illustrations.
How to Write One Song
by Jeff Tweedy

What it is: a personable, thoughtful, and fun guide to writing one song that takes the reader, bit-by-bit, through the process and also covers creativity and inspiration.

Want a taste? "Songs, to me, are much more like individual thoughts than other works of art are. They are hard to hold on to -- airlike and ephemeral." 

About the author: Grammy Award winner Jeff Tweedy is a veteran singer, songwriter, guitarist, and a founding member of the band Wilco. 
Making a List
Making With Meaning : More Than 20 Meditative and Creative Crochet Projects
by Jessica Carey

What it is:  Featuring more than 20 different crochet patterns to inspire you as you make time for making, the book offers instructions to those who want to begin their crochet journey and teaches how to crochet through detailed explanation and visual guidance. Projects vary in skill level but are all designed for readers to be able to free their minds, leaving space for stitch-repetition to kick in.

Why it's different: Including essays focused on gratitude, creativity, and living with intention, among other topics, the book invites you to take time to reflect on these themes and their presence in your life.. 
 
Bread : Mix, Knead, Bake - a Beginner’s Guide to Bread Making
by Adams Media

What's inside: In Bread, you will find 100 recipes for any level of bread making including both sweet and savory treats for you to craft. You will find tips and tricks to make both classic and unique recipes from buttermilk potato bread to Tuscan white hearth bread and cinnamon raisin braids to Italian ciabatta. Perfect for any carb lover, this book is essential to making all your favorite breads right at home!

Recipes include: Sourdough, Baguettes, Cinnamon Swirl bread and more.
Sew step by step : how to use your sewing machine to make, mend, and customize
by Alison Smith

"Make, mend, and customize your own wardrobe with this highly photographic beginner's guide to machine sewing. Discover how to read a pattern, use a sewing machine, and sew basic stitches, seams, and hems. Explore how to put those skills to use to create, personalize, upcycle, and repurpose clothes and soft furnishings. Fully illustrated and easy to use, Sew Step by Step covers all the essential skills and techniques for successful machine sewing"
Meals, Music, and Muses: Recipes from My African American Kitchen
by Alexander Smalls with Veronica Chambers

What it is: a delightful mix of recipes, musical musings, and tales from the author's childhood and his opera career, plus photos.

Recipes include: Deviled Eggs; Gullah Dirty Rice; Fried Catfish Plate; Buttermilk Mac and Cheese; Grits and Sage Sausage Gravy; Spicy Okra Shrimp Soup; Sweet Potato Biscuits; Blackberry Cobbler.

About the author: Chef Alexander Smalls is a James Beard Award winner and a former opera singer who won a Grammy and a Tony as a cast member of Porgy and Bess.
Contact your librarian for more great books!
McKinney Public Library System
101 E. Hunt St.
McKinney, Texas 75069
972-547-7323

www.mckinneypubliclibrary.org