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Home, Garden, and DIY May 2020
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Sew Step by Step: How to Use Your Sewing Machine to Make, Mend, and Customize by Alison SmithFeatures more than 200 step-by-step techniques. If you've never used a sewing machine before, or if you want to refresh your skills, Sew Step by Step gives you the essentials. Taking you through the basics, including the features of a sewing machine and the qualities of different fabrics, this simple handbook will soon have you making and mending your own clothes and home furnishings .
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The Defined Dish: Healthy and Wholesome Weeknight Recipes by Alex SnodgrassWith gluten-free, dairy-free, and grain-free recipes that sound and look way too delicious to be healthy, this is a cookbook people can turn to after completing a Whole30. This book is for anyone looking to reintroduce healthful ingredients like tortillas, yogurt, beans and legumes.
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Martha Stewart's Organizing: The Manual for Bringing Order to Your Life, Home & Routines by Martha StewartA practical, beautifully photographed how-to guide for organizing not only your home, but also your life, using routines and monthly checklists and offering hundreds of ideas, projects, and tips that cover cooking, home care, gardening, scheduling, and more. This book is lovely to look at, wonderfully organized, and includes surprises such as recipes and crafts.
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The Backyard Homestead Book of Building Projects
by Spike Carlsen
In this wide-ranging volume, carpenter Spike Carlsen shares his expertise in crafting sustainable, DIY outdoor structures. Experienced builders can jump right in to projects like the Two-Wheel Cart or the Top Bar Beehive, while beginners may want to start with the Flowerpot Smoker or the Lawn Bag Stand until they feel more comfortable with the required tools and skills, all of which are described in accessible terms. Visual learners will especially appreciate the exploded diagrams of each project.
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The creator of the popular design blog A Subtle Revelry uncovers the best and least intimidating ways to work with the most popular crafting materials—from spray paint and concrete to thread, wax, and paper—and presents more than thirty easy projects to get everyone started.
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Indian-ish: Recipes and Antics from a Modern American Family by Priya KrishnaCollects recipes for the home cook that merge Indian and American cuisine, including such dishes as tomato-cheese masala toast, roti noodle stir-fry, herby avocado sandwich, and garlic-ginger chicken with cilantro and mint.
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A Way to Garden: A Hands-On Primer for Every Season by Margaret RoachAn updated version of the gardening expert's 1998 book, which offers many tips and is arranged by a plant's life cycle over the course of a year. It also thoughtfully explores how both the author and the gardening world have changed over 21 years.
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