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The Art of Gardening: Design Inspiration and Innovative Planting Techniques from Chanticleer

To visit Chanticleer is to step into a world of beauty and creativity that few other gardens can match. Each of its many areas—including formal borders, woodland glades, and a fantasy garden planted among ruins—offers a unique embodiment of color, texture, and form. The sources of this distinctive blend of inspiration and practical craft are at the heart of The Art of Gardening. In these pages, you’ll learn techniques specific to different conditions and plant palettes; how to use hardscape materials in a fresh way; and how to achieve the perfect union between plant and site. And Rob Cardillo’s exquisite photographs of exciting combinations will be sure to stimulate your own creativity. Whether you’re already under Chanticleer’s spell or have yet to visit, The Art of Gardening will enable you to bring the special magic that pervades this most artful of gardens into your own home landscape.

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Motivation in 7 Simple Steps: Get Excited, Stay Motivated, Achieve Any Goal and Create an Incredible Lifestyle (Motivation, Success, Motivational Books, Lifestyle Design) (Volume 3)

Stop Procrastinating and Start Achieving- Discover the 7 Powerful Steps That Will Help You Leave the World of Excuses and Create Your Perfect Lifestyle
Your Dream Life Wants You to Take Action NOW. Today! 
Dear Friend, 
Do you ever feel like your life is happening so fast that you slowly forget about your dreams, goals and ambitions? Do you sometimes feel like you could do more and be happier if you only had “more luck” or were slightly “more motivated”? 

If so, then this motivational book will be the inspirational gate that leads you to an amazing new way of successful living. You are just about to explore the best motivational techniques that will help you get excited, stay motivated, move forward and keep on track so that you can achieve personal success the way you want. 

But, more importantly, the motivational tools from this book will help you become more focused, confident and responsible for your life. They will help you unleash unlimited inner motivation and create an ultimate vision for your life. You will finally embrace the joy and fulfillment that the process of reaching your goals and living your life by design offers you. 

The motivational techniques that you are just about to dive into are universal- they can help you reach all kinds of goals (health, fitness, finances, work, lifestyle—you name it!). 

Here’s a Short Preview of the Life-Changing Lessons That Will Help You Create a New, Stronger and Super Motivated Version of Yourself:
-How to get on motivational fire and be unstoppable; 
-How to get rid of excuses; 
-How to make progress in all areas of your life (health, social, relationships, fitness, finances, business, career and others) not just one; 
-How to travel back to the past and make friends with your emotions; 
-How to re-define yourself, love yourself and cultivate self-acceptance; 
-How to re-define your goals, spice it up, make it juicy and get super excited for what is just about to happen; 
-The best tools to take massive action and create as many positive reminders as you can possibly think of; 
-What to do to overcome adversity and challenges; 
-How to deal with criticism and haters; 
-The Law of Attraction vs the Law of Action- how to create balance that works for you 
-What to do when you lose motivation and passion; 
-The best strategies to stick to your plan, keep going and never give up- overcome obstacles and see good in bad; 
-How to get ready to achieve more; 
-The best ways to create your success rituals; 
-How to toughen up and grow your emotional muscles; 
-How to get rid of limiting beliefs that prevent you from taking action; 
-The secrets of gratitude and how to use them to your advantage to achieve more and be happier 

+ BONUS CONTENT: Free Complimentary Book: “Holistically Productive”- How to Create More Time, Focus and Wellbeing in Your Life 

Let’s face the truth… 
Each day you don’t take action is another day you wasted your potential. Most people aren’t living, they are surviving. They don’t want to create their own lives. 
But you want to live YOUR DREAM. You want to be in charge, right? So get busy living the life you want! 
Get busy NOW. 
Grab your copy of “Motivation in 7 Simple Steps” today and become unstoppable like you have always wanted! 

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Every Last Piece: 12 Beautiful Design Inspirations Using Scraps, Strings and Applique

Make the most of your stash with these twelve striking quilt designs!

Learn to use fabric pieces of every size, from scraps to yardage, in Every Last Piece. Author Lynn Harris demonstrates numerous ways to maximize how you use fabric in quilts, including string-pieced blocks, mini star blocks, applique, sawtooth borders and more! Traditional designs are refreshed by giving them a scrappy look while other quilts offer minimalist charm when small scraps are used on broad backgrounds. The quilt gallery, as well as the projects themselves, will inspire you to design in ways you never imagined.

Whether you’re working on a gift, joining a quilt-a-long or heading to a fabric swap, you’ll love using Every Last Piece!

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Great Garden Design: Contemporary Inspiration for Outdoor Spaces

This book presents the best garden designs of the last five years from more than 50 top garden designers. It offers design solutions for every situation, every area, all tastes and budgets, and any size of garden. It draws on the talents of celebrated designers such as Tom Stuart Smith, Luciano Giubbilei, Cleve West, Dan Pearson and Joe Swift. It also showcases the work of lesser-known designers whose innovating designs deserve wider recognition.

The process of garden design requires many thousands of small decisions in the pursuit of the most appealing solutions for outdoor spaces. But this book makes the complex process simpler by offering ample choices of contemporary design for you to explore what’s possible, what’s practical and what’s affordable.

Comprising garden rooms, ornamental details, styles and planting ideas, this book will appeal to every forward-looking garden owner, whether they manage a small or medium sized garden, a roof terrace, balcony or courtyard space. It offers cutting edge solutions for those seeking an entirely new look as well as key details that can make all the difference.

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Visual Design Solutions: Principles and Creative Inspiration for Learning Professionals

Enhance learners’ interest and understanding with visual design for instructional and information products

No matter what medium you use to deliver content, if the visual design fails, the experience falls flat. Meaningful graphics and a compelling visual design supercharge instruction, training, and presentations, but this isn’t easy to accomplish. Now you can conquer your design fears and knowledge gaps with Visual Design Solutions: a resource for learning professionals seeking to raise the bar on their graphics and visual design skills. This informal and friendly book guides you through the process and principles used by professional graphic designers. It also presents creative solutions and examples that you can start using right away. Anyone who envisions, designs, or creates instructional or informational graphics will benefit from the design strategies laid out in this comprehensive resource.

Written by Connie Malamed, an art educator and instructional designer, this book will help you tap into your creativity, design with intention, and produce polished work. Whereas most graphic design books focus on logos, packaging, and brochures, Visual Design Solutions focuses on eLearning, presentations, and performance support. Visual Design Solutions includes practical guidelines for making smart design choices, ways to create professional-looking products, and principles for successful graphics that facilitate learning. Ideal for instructional designers, trainers, presenters, and professors who want to advance from haphazard to intentional design, this book will help them realize their design potential.

Gain the knowledge and confidence to design impressive, effective visuals for learning Increase learner comprehension and retention with visual strategies offered by an expert author Serves as a reference and a resource, with a wealth of examples for inspiration and ideas Addresses an intimidating topic in an informal, friendly style

In four parts, the book provides a thorough overview of the design process and design concepts; explores space, image, and typography; and presents workable solutions for your most persistent and puzzling design problems. Get started and begin creating captivating graphics for your learners.

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Architectural Trim: Ideas, Inspiration and Practical Advice for Adding Wainscoting, Mantels, Built-Ins, Baseboards, Cornices, Castings and Columns to your Home (Home Design Details)

Sound advice for the finishing touch

Decorative trim, such as baseboards, moldings, wainscoting, and casings, adds warmth and depth to otherwise sterile rooms. Home Design Details: Architectural Trim provides practical advice and inspiration for wall, ceiling, door, window, stairway, and built-in trim for every room of the home. The relatively low cost to install new trim coupled with the fact that installation requires only a few tools, makes installing trim a popular home improvement job. While many books cover the basics of installing trim, Home Design Details: Architectural Trim goes a step further and explains why popular designs work so effectively, and how to recreate them in your own home. It is the only book on the subject that breaks apart the details of each room in the home and provides specific information on why design decisions were made each step of the way. Each detail is featured in a three-dimensional illustration so the reader can see how each piece of trim or molding was created. Simple step-by-step DIY projects are provided as well as comprehensive information for making the right design decision for any space.

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Pedagogy and Space: Design Inspirations for Early Childhood Classrooms

The intersection of architecture and education is a new and burgeoning area of interest. This book blends architectural design information with theory-based content explaining the foundations of early childhood environments. Colorful photographs of intentionally designed spaces will inspire early childhood professionals and architects alike as they dream, plan, build, and revamp settings. Inspired by the groundbreaking architectural book A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction (Oxford University Press, 1977), this resource aims to glean architectural information regarding important design patterns in an environment and utilize them to provide insight into early childhood environments that are both developmentally appropriate and aesthetically pleasing.

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How to Draw & Paint Fashion & Costume Design: Artistic inspiration and instruction from the vintage Walter Foster archives (Walter Foster Collectibles)

How to Draw & Paint Fashion & Costume Design, the third book in the Walter Foster Collectibles series, contains yet another extraordinary collection of vintage Walter Foster titles from the 1940s through the 1960s, including Female Fashion, How to Draw and Paint Today’s Fashions, How to Draw and Paint Fashions, and the Art of Costume Design. In addition to providing an overview of basic drawing and painting techniques, artists will learn how to capture figures in various poses, as well as the dynamics of facial features and expressions, and other elements of drawing. Additionally, this colorful 128-page book features easy-to-follow step-by-step instructions for rendering a range of early 20th-century fashions and theatrical costumes. From casual wear and formal gowns to textures, hats, and shoes, artists who are fond of vintage fashion and eras gone by will appreciate the book for both its instructional qualities and aesthetic and collectible values.

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