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Restore. Recycle. Repurpose.: Create a Beautiful Home

Randy Florke · Hearst; Country Living edition
Format: Hardcover

Renovation that’s eco-friendly…AND economically smartFrom Country Living contributing editor Randy Florke (Your House, Your Home) comes a gorgeous guide to decorating sustainably and inexpensively.  Providing inspiration as well as instruction, Florke shows how everyone...
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Patternmaking for a Perfect Fit: Using the Rub-off Technique to Re-create and Redesign Your Favorite Fashions

Steffani Lincecum · Potter Craft
Format: Book

What’s the Secret to Sewing Great-Fitting Garments?The Rub-off—the Insider’s Technique for Creating a Great-Fitting Pattern! Do you love to sew your own clothes but find it difficult to make commercial patterns fit? Has your favorite blouse seen better days but is no longer...
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The Know Maintenance Perennial Garden

Roy Diblik · Timber Press, 2014.
Pages: 216
Format: Print book

We've all seen gorgeous perennial gardens packed with color, texture, and multi-season interest. Designed by a professional and maintained by a crew, they are aspirational bits of beauty too difficult to attempt at home. Or are they? The Know Maintenance Perennial Garden makes a design-magazine-worthy...
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Sharpening woodworking tools : how to achieve the sharpest cutting edges with traditional techniques

Rudolf Dick · Schiffer Publishing
Pages: 222

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The Hero's Closet: Sewing for Cosplay and Costuming

Gillian Conahan · Harry N Abrams
Pages: 208
Format: Print book

Cosplayers rejoice! The Hero's Closet is the ultimate DIY guide to creating unique and fantastical homemade costumes This essential handbook offers detailed, step-by-step instructions that cover the basics of sewing costumes (which often require skills not found in standard sewing...
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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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The Curated Closet: A Simple System for Discovering Your Personal Style and Building Your Dream Wardrobe

Anuschka Rees · Ten Speed Press
Pages: 272
Format: Print book

Is your closet jam-packed and yet you have absolutely nothing to wear? Can you describe your personal style in one sentence? If someone grabbed a random piece from your closet right now, how likely is it that it would be something you love and wear regularly? With so many style and shopping...
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Victoria Beautiful Wedding Flowers: More than 300 Corsages, Bouquets, and Centerpieces

Diane Wagner · Hearst; Reprint edition
Format: Paperback

The ultimate guide to creating gorgeous corsages, bouquets, and centerpieces for a beautiful wedding is now in paperback! Brimming with stunning photographs, Beautiful Wedding Flowers shows how to create a magical wedding filled with lovely floral decorations, handcrafted wreaths and ornaments,...
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The Joy of Less

Francine Jay · Chronicle Books
Pages: 286
Format: Print book

Francine Jay pioneered the simple living movement with her self-published bestseller, The Joy of Less. In this fully redesigned and repackaged edition - featuring never-before-seen content - Jay brings her philosophy to more readers who are eager to declutter. Rather than the "crash...
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Modern Terrarium Studio: Design + Build Custom Landscapes with Succulents, Air Plants + More

Megan George · Fons & Porter
Format: Print book

Give terrariums a modern makeover! Clean lines and bold color: these aren't your average terrariums. Author Megan George presents 25 easy-to-make terrariums and living landscapes that push the boundaries of traditional terrarium design indoors. From hanging brass himellis adorned with...
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Adorkable Bubble Bath Crafts: The Geek's DIY Guide to 50 Nerdy Soaps, Suds, Bath Bombs and other Curios that Entertain Your Kids in the Tub

BRITTANIE PYPER · Page Street Publishing
Pages: 144
Format: Paperback

Kids can have a blast making epic homemade bath products everyone will enjoy. Themed around today's most popular movies, games and television shows, crafts include Alien Hand Soap, Wizard Potion Bubble Bath, Building Block Bath Crayons and Unicorn Poop Sugar Scrub. These crafts are designed...
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The Great Beanie Baby Bubble: Mass Delusion and the Dark Side of Cute

Zac Bissonnette · Portfolio
Format: Hardcover

A bestselling journalist delivers the never-before-told story of the plush animal craze that became the tulip mania of the 1990s In the annals of consumer crazes, nothing compares to Beanie Babies. In just three years, collectors who saw the toys as a means of speculation made...
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Country Living Porches & Outdoor Spaces

Cathy Cavender · Hearst; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

Whether for a porch, patio, deck, sunroom, or garden; and whether the style is classic, rustic, retro, or flea-market funky, there are plenty of ideas here for you. Get timeless good looks on a budget, revamp with paint and simple furnishings, bring interiors outside, and incorporate charmingly...
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Allie Aller's Stained Glass Quilts Reimagined: Fresh Techniques & Design

Allie Aller · C&T Publishing
Pages: 100
Format: Paperback

Quilt the look of stained glass! This rich resource of approachable techniques will let you jump right in with 6 stained glass style quilts, from dazzling wallhangings to throws and bedcovers. Outline pieced and appliquéd shapes 3 ways -- using trims, couching, and bias fabric strips....
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