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Home, Garden, and DIY September 2022 |
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Al fresco: Inspired ideas for outdoor living
by Julie Pointer Adams
Featuring delicious recipes and surprising ideas, this guide to finding unique ways to explore the outdoors highlights the pleasures of sunset cocktails, sharing a potluck meal around a campfire and toasting marshmallows while telling ghost stories.
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Ultimate guide: Home repair and improvement
by Charles T. Byers
Inside this information-packed 608-page book, you will find easy-to-follow instruction on everything you need to know about a wide range of subjects including plumbing and electrical repairs, heating and cooling, roofing and siding, cabinets and countertops, remodeling, walls and ceilings, trimwork, floors, stairs, masonry, insulation, ventilation, and much more. Along with more than 325 home projects and repairs that will add value to your house and property, information is provided on tools, materials,and basic skills, plus how-to photo sequences. With this must-have resource, you'll find plenty of direct DIY wisdom on how to make the most of your home!
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Around the kitchen table: Good things to cook, create and do - the whole year through
by Sophie. Hansen
"A giftable and inspiring source book for easy-to-integrate-into-a-busy-life projects and inspirational ideas to bring more little moments of joy into our lives. Includes seasonal recipes, creativity prompts, craft and seasonal planting and garden ideas.Around the Kitchen Table will deliver inspiration and encouragement on a daily basis - ideas for rituals, repetitions, family traditions, small and big ways to count the days, from the joy of sourdough starters, growing herbs from seed, to making your own Christmas wreath or the liberating act of morning journaling, these are simple pleasures that will fill you up with goodness and encourage you to step even a little outside your comfort zone, grab a pencil and paper and start to draw."
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Wonderland: Adventures in decorating
by Summer Thornton
Interior decorator Summer Thornton believes in designing with the wildest abandon: her world is one of nickel tubs, marble fireplaces, whimsical textiles, surprising patterns, and secret gardens. Often described as maximalist with a modern, fresh sensibility, Thornton manages to achieve highly polished, sophisticated interiors that indulge in a lighthearted, almost irreverent sense of whimsy.
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Pies are awesome: The definitive pie art book; step-by-step designs for every occasion
by Jessica Leigh Clark-bojin
Let pie baker extraordinaire Jessica Leigh Clark-Bojin take you by the oven mitt and spirit you away to a delicious, magical, new world of pie-sibilities in this first-of-its-kind pie art book! Whether you are a master baker, a little pie-curious, or just want to drool over the pictures while you lounge in your fuzzy socks, Jessica will show you just how easy it is for you to become your own pie-oneering pie artist!.
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Foolproof picnic: 60 delightful dishes to enjoy outdoors
by Marina Filippelli
Discover 60 simple, easy-to-share recipes that celebrate throwing down a blanket and enjoying the sunshine. Marina Filippelli, food stylist and writer, offers up perfect summer recipes you'll want to make time and time again. With everything from delicious sandwiches, savoury snacks and dips to portable pies, tarts and frittatas, summer salads, sweet things and a selection of drinks, this book is the ultimate guide to taking your picnic to the next level.
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| Pieometry: Modern tart art and pie design for the eye and the palate by Lauren KoWhat's inside: vibrant colour photos plus instructions for making 50 of Instagram star Lauren Ko's geometrically intricate tarts and pies.
Savory and sweet: recipes have creative flavour combinations like the Mother of Swirl (spicy maple nut pie with a dragon fruit crust) and the Herb Appeal (sausage and sun-dried tomato pie with a carrot crust).
Doughs include: Basic Pie Dough, Blueberry Pie Dough, Spinach Pie Dough, Nutella Pie Dough, Whole Wheat Cheddar Pie Dough. |
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| The book on pie: Everything you need to know to bake perfect pies by Erin Jeanne McDowellWhat's inside: an appealing guide to pie that covers equipment, ingredients, toppings, and more, as well as over 100 recipes and variations.
Doughs include: Gluten-Free Pie Dough, Caramelized Pie Crust, Basic Nut Crust, Phyllo Dough Crust, Herby Olive Oil Press-In Crust.
Pies include: Mixed-Berry Hand Pies, Classic Key Lime Pie, Birthday Cake Pie, Breakfast Pie, Green Veggie Quiche, Reuben Pie. |
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