Category Archives: Home, Garden & DIY

The Spinner’s Book of Yarn Designs

April 26, 2013 0 Comments the_category Category:Home, Garden & DIY
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By Sarah Anderson Storey Publishing, LLC, $27.50, 256 pages Knitting has had quite an extraordinary resurgence in the last several years. There is something so comforting about creating something beautiful with one’s own hands. But in order to knit, one …

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Starting Seeds

April 26, 2013 0 Comments the_category Category:Home, Garden & DIY
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By Barbara Ellis Storey Publishing, LLC, $8.95, 128 pages Starting Seeds: How to Grow Healthy, Productive Vegetables, Herbs, and Flowers from Seed by Barbara Ellis is a great how-to resource for self-reliance. Ellis’s straight forward and confident style makes even …

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Craft-a-Day: 365 Simple Handmade Projects

December 21, 2012 0 Comments the_category Category:Home, Garden & DIY
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By Sarah Goldschadt Quirk Books, $24.95, 432 pages There is something quite satisfying about creating hand-made items. This book has a simple craft for every day of the year, organized by weekly themes, appropriate to the season. You will find snowflake items …

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The Orchid Whisperer

September 21, 2012 0 Comments the_category Category:Home, Garden & DIY
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By Bruce Rogers Chronicle Books, $19.95, 144 pages Bruce Rogers does not whisper; he announces loud and clear all that you’d want or need to know about the exotic orchid. Once the queen of exquisite corsages, orchid plants have become abundantly …

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Light and Lens: Photography in the Digital Age

September 20, 2012 0 Comments the_category Category:Home, Garden & DIY
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Robert Hirsch Focal Press, $49.95, 496 pages A second-edition release, this is Robert Hirsch’s updated and expanded version of digital image-making theory. Neither software nor camera manual, it covers key methods and elements of digital imaging: limitless shooting, instantaneous results, …

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Steampunk Accessories: 20 Projects to Help You Nail the Style, from Goggles to Cell Phone Cases, Gauntlets, and Jewelry

September 17, 2012 0 Comments the_category Category:Home, Garden & DIY
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By Nicola Tedman, Sarah Skeate Barron’s, $18.99, 128 pages The steampunk movement grows bigger by the day, and more steampunk enthusiasts than ever are turning from passive admirers to active crafters of quality and interesting fashion pieces and accessories. Rings and earrings, …

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Improv Sewing: A Freeform Approach to Creative Techniques; 101 Fast, Fun, and Fearless Projects: Dresses, Tunics, Scarves, Skirts, Accessories, Pillows, Curtains, and More

September 17, 2012 0 Comments the_category Category:Home, Garden & DIY
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By Nicole Blum, Debra Immergut Storey Publishing, $19.95, 317 pages Plenty of sewing books exist to teach the happy sewist how to make this or that, but few books are so delightfully instructional in the art of free-form “improv” sewing as this …

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Art Is Every Day: Activities for the Home, Park, Museum, and City

September 17, 2012 0 Comments the_category Category:Home, Garden & DIY
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By Eileen S. Prince Zephyr Press, $16.95, 165 pages Art Is Every Day: Activities for the Home, Park, Museum, and City by Eileen S. Prince is a thorough book—providing sixty-five different activities for kids and parents to do. The book is divided into …

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So Pretty! Crochet: Inspiration and Instructions for 24 Stylish Projects

August 8, 2012 0 Comments the_category Category:Home, Garden & DIY
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By Amy Palanjian Chronicle Books, $22.95, 160 pages So Pretty! Crochet: Inspiration and Instructions for 24 Stylish Projects delivers seven home décor designs and eighteen fashion pieces from a dozen women passionate about crochet, using easy-to-follow instructions. Each artist provides an insight into her …

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Gardening Vertically: 24 Ideas for Creating Your Own Green Walls

June 27, 2012 0 Comments the_category Category:Home, Garden & DIY
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By Noemie Vialard W. W. Norton & Company, $24.95, 144 pages Don’t worry if you lack garden space, now you can place all you plants on a wall.  Instead of looking at your flower or veggie patch horizontally, instead think of …

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All Together Singing in the Kitchen

February 29, 2012 0 Comments the_category Category:Home, Garden & DIY
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By Nerissa Nields and Katryna Nields Roost Books, $22.95, 253 pages One part music and two parts fun, this how-to-make-merry handbook has the potential to help seasoned musicians and novices alike. Nerissa and Katryna Nields, professional folk musicians, give the reader …

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The End of Molasses Classes: Getting Our Kids Unstuck – 101 Extraordinary Solutions for Parents and Teachers

February 29, 2012 0 Comments the_category Category:Home, Garden & DIY
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By Ron Clark Touchstone, $23.00, 352 pages Here’s a surefire antidote to despondency. Ron Clark’s The End of Molasses Classes launches an exhilarating slap in the face to conventional educators. His solutions to doldrums will bolster every teacher confronting the classroom with a …

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From Our Grandmothers’ Kitchens

February 27, 2012 0 Comments the_category Category:Home, Garden & DIY
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By editors of Cook’s Country Magazine Boston Common Press, $29.95, 214 pages Any America’s Test Kitchen cookbook I ever reviewed I found to be excellent, and this one did not disappoint. This cookbook, however, is a little different. No page-long discussion of …

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Photographing Flowers: Exploring Macro Worlds With Harold Davis

February 24, 2012 0 Comments the_category Category:Home, Garden & DIY
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By Harold Davis Focal Press, $29.95, 207 pages Award-winning professional photographer Harold Davis uses his camera to capture flowers because he says: “They bring grace to the world and the realism, clarity and bravery with which flowers confront the mystery of their …

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Photographing Flowers: Exploring Macro Worlds With Harold Davis

February 24, 2012 0 Comments the_category Category:Home, Garden & DIY
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By Harold Davis Focal Press, $29.95, 207 pages Award-winning professional photographer Harold Davis uses his camera to capture flowers because he says: “They bring grace to the world and the realism, clarity and bravery with which flowers confront the mystery of their …

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