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Dessert For Two: Small Batch Cookies, Brownies, Pies, and Cakes

Christina Lane · Countryman Press; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

Dessert for Two takes well-loved desserts and scales them down to make only two servings! Who doesn't love towering three-layer cakes with mounds of fluffy buttercream? Who can resist four dozen cookies fresh from the oven? Wouldn't you love to stick your spoon into a big bowl...
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The Baking Soda Companion: Natural Recipes and Remedies for Health, Beauty, and Home

SUZY SCHERR · Countryman Press
Pages: 192
Format: Paperback

75 ways to make life easier -- with baking sodaEveryone has baking soda on hand to help cookies rise and keep the pantry smelling fresh. But this simple compound also has dozens of other applications for health, cleaning, gardening, and more.In The Baking Soda Companion, Suzy Scherr explains...
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Conran on Color

TERENCE CONRAN · Conran
Pages: 224
Format: Paperback

Terence Conran shares a lifetime of experience as one of the world's leading designers and retailers to explain how to make the most of color in your home. Subtle and allusive, bold and invigorating, color is one of the single most powerful elements in design and decoration. Even its absence...
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Beautiful: All-American Decorating and Timeless Style

Mark D Sikes · Rizzoli
Pages: 256
Format: Print book

The first book from interior designer Mark D. Sikes is a celebration of American style today, showcasing chic and accessible ideas for every home. Modern and unfussy, Mark D. Sikes's interiors are classic takes on California indoor/outdoor living, with natural fibers and crisp coloration,...
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Crepe Paper Flowers: The Beginner's Guide to Making and Arranging Beautiful Blooms

Lia Griffith · Clarkson Potter
Pages: 192
Format: Paperback

With 30 projects and an introduction to both crafting paper flowers and working with crepe paper, this book is full of inspiration and expert advice for beginners. If you have a Cricut Maker, you can download the templates to your machine so you can enjoy your own homemade bouquets in no time.Crepe...
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How to Manage Your Home Without Losing Your Mind: Dealing with Your House's Dirty Little Secrets

Dana White · W Publishing
Pages: 240
Format: Print book

Bring your home out of the mess it's in and learn how to keep it under control. "The dirty little secret about most organizing advice is that it's written by organized people," says blogger, speaker, and decluttering expert Dana K. White. "But that's not how my brain...
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Second Bloom: Cathy Graham's Art of the Table

Alexis Clark · Vendome Press
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover

Artist, collector, and entertaining guru Cathy Graham shares her secrets for gracious living and memorable get-togethers in Second Bloom. Graham covers the essential elements that make every event shine - flowers, paper components, table setting, and food presentation. Quentin Bacon's...
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Garden photography workshop : expert tips and techniques for capturing the essence of your ... garden

Andrea Jones · Timber Press
Pages: 220
Format: Paperback

Learn to take better garden photos! One of the most rewarding aspects of gardening is sharing its beauty, both physically with those who visit and virtually with those who only see it on a screen. But capturing a garden's true essence is difficult, and often the moments worth sharing...
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House Beautiful Style Secrets: What Every Room Needs

SOPHIE DONELSON · Harry N. Abrams
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover

From the country's most popular interior design magazine comes a stylish, in-depth look at what it takes to make any room beautiful. House Beautiful Style Essentials: What Every Room Needs is an inspiring and hardworking handbook that shows readers how to create the rooms of their dreams...
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Super Woman Rx: Unlock the Secrets to Lasting Health, Your Perfect Weight, Energy, and Passion with Dr. Taz's Power Type Plans

TASNEEM M D BHATIA · Rodale Books
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

Modern womanhood often means juggling multiple roles -- businesswoman, mother, spouse, homemaker, and more -- all while being expected to look perfectly composed. In other words, it means being superhuman. The truth is, it can seem impossible to maintain our health while navigating our busy...
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DIY Industrial Pipe Furniture and Decor: Creative Projects for Every Room of Your Home

James Angus · Ulysses Pr
Pages: 128
Format: Print book

Stylish designs for urban chic projects using the world's most indispensable building material - industrial pipesNo longer banished beneath the kitchen sink, the standard plumbing pipe has burst onto the industrial furniture scene as the coolest thing in modern decor. Featuring 25 step-by-step...
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Gardening for Butterflies: How You Can Attract and Protect Beautiful, Beneficial Insects

Scott Hoffman Black · Timber Press
Pages: 287
Format: Print book

Library Journal Starred Review Welcome the world's most exquisite visitors to your garden! Gardening for Butterflies, by the experts at the Xerces Society, introduces you to a variety of colorful garden guests who need our help, and shows you how to design a habitat where they will thrive....
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Practical Botany for Gardeners: Over 3,000 Botanical Terms Explained and Explored

Geoff Hodge · University Of Chicago Press
Format: Book

Gardening can be frustratingly shrouded in secrecy. Fickle plants make seemingly spontaneous decisions to bloom or bust, seeds sprout magically in the blink of an eye, and deep-rooted mysteries unfold underground and out of sight. Understanding basic botany is like unlocking a horticultural...
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The Plant Lover's Guide to Tulips

Richard Wilford · Timber Press, 2015.
Pages: 222
Format: Print book

Tulips steal the show in spring when their bright, finely cut flowers light up the garden. Their incredible color range includes almost every imaginable hue from pure white through pastels, rich reds and purples to near black, while their shapes are equally varied and may be short-stemmed,...
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Modern Mix: Curating Personal Style with Chic & Accessible Finds

Eddie Ross · Gibbs Smith
Pages: 223
Format: Print book

In this richly illustrated style guide from an unabashed hoarder of all things beautiful, design editor and entertaining expert Eddie Ross reveals his insider secrets to creating exciting interiors, table settings and parties with chic and accessible finds that celebrate who you are and what...
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