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Thirty Chic Days: Practical inspiration for a beautiful life

Is it possible to live a chic and elegant life if you don’t live in Paris, or even France? Instead of daydreaming about running away to the City of Light, ‘Thirty Chic Days’ invites you to put on your French-tinted sunglasses and view your everyday through an enchanting and motivating filter. Inside this book you will find thirty chapters (or ‘days’) full of joie de vivre sharing fun and exciting ways to bring your ideal chic life into being. ‘Thirty Chic Days’ is a warm, encouraging and fanciful guide on living a simple and beautiful French-inspired life. Enjoy dozens of delicious no-cost ideas and feel inspired to uplevel yourself and your surroundings in an effortless and enjoyable way. Through her popular blog howtobechic.com author Fiona Ferris provides thousands of women from all around the world with tools and inspiration to elevate the everyday from mundane to magical. Contents: Day 1 Have a Paris state of mind Day 2 Eat real food Day 3 Bathe yourself in mystique Day 4 Make up your eyes Day 5 Create and guard your secret garden Day 6 Be your own French aunt Day 7 Honour your body with chic movement Day 8 Be beautifully positive Day 9 Support your signature charity Day 10 Simplify your life for abundance Day 11 Adopt a low-drama way of being Day 12 Curate your wardrobe like it is your own bijou boutique Day 13 Indulge in your femininity Day 14 Design the life of your dreams Day 15 Cultivate serenity and calmness in your life Day 16 Create a sanctuary at home Day 17 Take exquisite care of your grooming Day 18 Little and often Day 19 Socialise in a relaxed manner Day 20 Be your own chef Day 21 Inspire yourself Day 22 Build rest and repose into your daily routine Day 23 Be financially chic Day 24 Live a life of luxury Day 25 Collect contentment in petite measures Day 26 Make every day magical Day 27 Embrace creativity and enjoy the benefits Day 28 Think of your home as if it were a boutique hotel Day 29 Walk your errands Day 30 Immerse yourself in sensuous beauty Bonus Day Take inspired action If you enjoyed Jennifer L. Scott’s ‘Lessons from Madame Chic’, Tish Jett’s ‘Forever Chic’ or Shannon Ables’ ‘Choosing the Simply Luxurious Life’, you will love ‘Thirty Chic Days’!

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Bold and Bright: Chic and exuberant interior inspiration from Brazil

As yet relatively undiscovered, Brazilian interiors have a verve, sophistication, and confidence that lifts the spirits and appeals to the eye.

The carefully curated homes featured in this book display all the vibrant personality of the region and their use of exuberant color, design, and pattern is truly life enhancing.
During the 1950s and 60s, with its gleaming new space-age capital Brasilia, Brazil was in the vanguard of architecture and design and its interiors still possess a generous dash of glossy modernity and mid-century chic. This sleek contemporary glamour is combined with the rustic, natural materials that are in such generous supply on the South American continent rough-hewn stone, exotic dark woods and an abundance of jungly greenery.
From city perches in the urban jungle to country homes amid soaring mountains and beach houses sitting serenely above long, unspoilt beaches, Bold and Bright provides a fascinating glimpse into a selection of real-life Brazilian homes.

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How to Live Well – Chic Inspiration – How to be Slim and Healthy

In 2010 I started my blog ‘How to be Chic’ as an online inspiration journal to write about creating a simple and beautiful French-inspired life. This book is a collation of mini-essays from ‘How to be Chic’ and contains my first three ebooks together in one volume. I offer you fun and useful ways to elevate your daily way of being, which can often be done instantly and without cost. For the most part all that is needed is a change in the way you are thinking. You may find a new idea which will instantly resonate, causing you to transform the way you do things and begin to effortlessly achieve your personal goals. That’s when the magic happens! Have you ever noticed how you can read something uplifting and it switches your mindset so you end up having a better day than you might have otherwise. What you focus on becomes more prevalent in your life, so why not choose to focus on something beautiful. ‘How to Live Well’ contains practical and easy ways to bring more peace and elegance into your life. ‘Chic Inspiration’ gives encouragement to create your own version of a truly charmed life. ‘How to be Slim and Healthy’ is focused on the topic of blending the European way of eating into your own life wherever you may live – for pleasure, slimness and good health. Please join me for weekly inspiration on living a simple and beautiful French-inspired life at howtobechic.com and pick up my free special report ‘21 ways to be chic’ while you are there.

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Seed Bead Chic: 25 Elegant Projects Inspired by Fine Jewelry (Lark Jewelry & Beading Bead Inspirations)

Upscale, elegant, CHIC: these 25 handcrafted projects look like the fine jewelry you’d find in high-end boutiques. But why splurge when all it takes to make them are some seed beads and intermediate-to-advanced skills? Featuring a variety of stitches—including the author’s newly created right-angle ladder stitch—these stunning pieces cover everything from earrings to brooches. Gorgeous photographs, diagrams, and helpful tips make the beading process simple and pleasurable!

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Chic & Unique Vintage Cakes: 30 Modern Cake Designs from Vintage Inspirations

Bestselling cake decorating author Zoe Clark shows you how to take inspiration from your favourite vintage clothing, furniture, items and keepsakes to create stunning vintage cake designs. From elegant tiered lace and floral cakes to amazing jewellery box and carousel shaped novelty cakes, each of the 10 incredible cake designs is accompanied by two smaller designs for vintage-inspired cupcakes, cookies, fondant fancies and more. Includes all the cake recipes you need, and simple step by step instruction for all the essential cake decorating techniques, from covering cakes and stacking tiered cakes, to piping royal icing and stenciling. Zoe even breaks down advanced suspension techniques into easy to follow steps so that you can create stunning shaped novelty cake designs at home.

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Rachel Ashwell’s Shabby Chic Inspirations

Welcome to Rachel Ashwell’s world: as beautiful as it is comfortable, as inspiring and spontaneous as it is practical and personal. In this book, Rachel shares her inspirations and her humour, celebrates the charm of the old and battered, and demonstrates time and again how interiors touched with Rachel’s magic transcend fashionable trends, extending a calming, personal welcome to all. In this new book, Rachel takes us to homes in the US – from a shabby shack on Malibu’s oceanfront to a ranch on the wide, open spaces of Texas and to the wooded hills of the Catskills – and in the UK – from a houseboat and a city townhouse to a centuries-old manor house deep in the country, and Rachel’s own London apartment. All the houses, regardless of their size or location, embody Rachel’s ethos and share the same qualities: a respect for beautiful objects from the past, an extravagant sense of comfort, an eye for the unexpected and that signature touch of bling. All are inviting, artistic, soulful, inspired and inspiring, beautiful, gentle, considered and, in their own way, perfectly imperfect.