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Crafting a Colorful Home: A Room-by-Room Guide to Personalizing Your Space with Color

Kristin Nicholas · Roost Books
Pages: 176
Format: Hardcover

Knit, stitch, and paint your way to a more colorful and happy home with color expert and crafter Kristin Nicholas. Learn how to make your home sing through handmade crafts and a bold use of color. Kristin Nicholas, color expert and all-around master crafter, shares her secrets to selecting...
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The Complete Idiot's Guide to Making Natural Soaps

Sally W. Trew · ALPHA
Format: Book

Leave no soapstone unturned! Soapmaking has always been a popular craft with a dedicated group of followers, but with the explosion of urban homesteading and people looking to go green, noncrafters are now joining in on the fun. Whether its making natural soap to live greener, give as gifts,...
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Country Living Spooky & Bright: 101 Halloween Ideas

Country Living · Hearst; Spi edition
Format: Book

When October arrives, thoughts turn to Halloween and all things scary. To make your holiday marvelously macabre, Country Living has a collection of 125 creepily cool ways to create meaningful memories for family and friends. With ghoulish delight, Spooky & Bright revels in Halloween's...
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The Urban Gardener

Matt James · Mitchell Beazley
Pages: 224
Format: Print book

In The Urban Gardener, garden designer and lecturer Matt James provides an approachable, practical guide to making the most of an urban garden, including: How to design an urban space - from balconies and roof terraces to courtyards, basement areas and window ledges. Ten ways to improve...
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Dog-Gone Good Cuisine: More Healthy, Fast, and Easy Recipes for You and Your Pooch

Gayle Pruitt · St. Martin's Griffin, 2014.
Pages: 194
Format: Paperback

Dog-Gone Good Cuisine is a fun, healthy recipe book for humans and their canine kids. While there are other, successful doggie cookbooks in the marketplace, Pruitt's second offering is unique in that the homemade dishes are intended to be enjoyed by chef and puppy together. It includes...
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Bobbi Brown Beauty from the Inside Out: Makeup * Wellness * Confidence

Bobbi Brown · Chronicle Books
Pages: 224
Format: Print book

Bestselling author and world-famous makeup artist Bobbi Brown reveals her secrets to radiant beauty in this gorgeous lifestyle guide. Featuring the best beauty food recipes, fitness tailoring, recommendations on nutrients, and restorative yoga and mindfulness, Bobbi lays the foundation...
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My Handmade Wedding: A crafter's guide to making your big day perfect

Marrianne Mercer · Search Press Limited
Pages: 127
Format: Print book

Ideal for creative, budget-savvy brides and grooms to be, this practical, friendly guide will help couples plan and personalize their big day. It begins with a chapter on organization: assessing your needs and your budget, selecting a theme and a style and working out what to do when. It then...
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Dead Snails Leave No Trails, Revised: Natural Pest Control for Home and Garden

Loren Nancarrow · Ten Speed Press
Pages: 186
Format: Paperback

A practical guide to repelling indoor and outdoor pests using organic methods, updated with new information on getting rid of bedbugs and dust mites, plus includes updated online resources. If you've ever had a swarm of fruit flies in your kitchen or a gopher wreaking havoc in your yard,...
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Chunky Winter Knits

Lion Brand® Yarn Company · Leisure Arts
Pages: 48
Format: Print book

75545 Chunky Winter Knits An ideal yarn for beginners, super bulky Lion Brand® Wool-Ease® Thick & Quick® is perfect for easy designs such as the extra-warm accessories in Chunky Winter Knits. Projects include Quick Cable Mittens, striped Campus Stroll Hat and Scarf, Color-Tipped...
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Fifty Railroads that Changed the Course of History

Bill Laws · Firefly Books
Format: Hardcover

Praise for previous titles in the series: Fifty Minerals That Changed the Course of History Interesting, affordable and readable.... Offers the reader an opportunity to delve further into each mineral's historical significance in an accessible way. -- Booklist Fifty Animals That...
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Perfume: A Century of Scents

Lizzie Ostrom · Pegasus Books
Pages: 384
Format: Print book

Signature scents and now-lost masterpieces; the visionaries who conceived them; the wild and wonderful campaigns that launched them; the women and men who wore them -- every perfume has a tale to tell.Join Lizzie Ostrom on an olfactory adventure as she explores the trends and crazes that...
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Color Concrete Garden Projects: Make Your Own Planters, Furniture, and Fire Pits Using Creative Techniques and Vibrant Finishes

Nathan Smith · Timber Press
Format: Print book

Discover the countless ways you can craft with color and concrete! Concrete is the perfect medium for outdoor crafts. It is versatile and durable, and it looks even better with time. Add the unexpected element of color, and you have the perfect recipe for vibrant, modern outdoor decor....
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Black & Decker The Complete Guide to Finishing Basements: Projects and Practical Solutions for Converting Basements into Livable Space

Editors of Cool Springs Press · Cool Springs Press; Second edition
Format: Print book

A fact-filled, 240-page manual that covers every aspect of designing and planning a basement conversionremodeling project. With more than 600 color photographs, this book goes into thorough detail on crucial subjects like moisture and climate control, egress, ventilation, lighting, and many...
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Bloodhound in Blue: The True Tales Of Police Dog Jj And His Two-Legged Partner

Adam David Russ · Lyons Press
Format: Hardcover

He was born in rural Missouri, and it was immediately clear that he was different from the rest. He caught his first criminal when he was just two years old. By his sixth birthday, he had located burglars, missing children, drug dealers, rapists, and murderers—including Utahs most wanted...
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