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Simple Stunning Parties at Home: Recipes, Ideas, and Inspirations for Creative Entertaining

“When the opportunity for celebrating knocks, answer the door and offer it some champagne!” says Karen Bussen. Author of the bestselling “Simple Stunning” wedding series, Bussen now directs her expert’s eye to a more intimate kind of festivity: the at-home party. Her simple stunning credo, though, remains the same: Create menus featuring wonderful ingredients in no-fuss, crowd-pleasing preparations; combine homemade and store-bought items in fresh, elegant presentations; tailor colors, tableware, and lighting for visual impact; and limit effort, expense, and waste. The book details 12 complete plans for four different kinds of parties—cocktail gatherings, casual suppers, formal dinners, and daytime get-togethers. Each plan includes food and drink menus (with recipes) as well as decor and music suggestions. Following Bussen’s advice, you’ll delight your guests while showcasing your personal style—which is what great parties are all about.

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Laduree: Entertaining: Recipes, Ideas & Inspiration

Ladurée Sucré and Salé have been sold around the world in six different languages, resulting in the sale of over 200,000copies

Ladurée has opened a flagship store in Manhattan, which has queues in front of it from morning to night
After the international success of Ladurée Sweet Recipes and Ladurée Savoury Recipes, Ladurée’s chefs bring us their recipes and ideas for Entertaining. From breakfast to a formal dinner party, brunch with friends, an elegant picnic, family lunch, a snack, high tea, a romantic dinner, supper by the fire and a buffet, Laduree Art of Entertaining presents ten themes, ten moments in the day for which Ladurée shares its advice and ideas for menus and table decoration.

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Ideas & Inspirations for Art Journals & Sketchbooks

If you have been thinking of creating a sketchbook—or if you’ve already started one—you’ll find valuable and inspiring new ideas here. Packed with creative examples and encouraging words, Ideas & Inspirations for Art Journals & Sketchbooks will get you going with examples of sketchbook pages to inspire you, information to help you, and techniques that will make your sketchbook meaningful.

Artist and author Suzanne McNeill reveals everything you need to know to become an accomplished sketch-journalist. She shares insightful tips on choosing a subject, sketching from life, layouts, lettering, covers, and much, much more. You’ll soon be creating your own one-of-a-kind personal books to record personal memories, as you sketch travel adventures, friends, designs, ideas, and events. Your sketch-journal will be wonderfully revealing and uniquely yours—the perfect place to capture a moment, track the changes in your life, interpret your experiences, and just have fun!

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Boost your child’s confidence (52 Brilliant Ideas)

Growing up is a tough business. As children get older and become more independent they can struggle to work out where they fit into the world, and as a parent it’s natural to want to make this potentially scary process as easy and problem-free as possible. But the answer isn’t to be overprotective or mollycoddle your child. To be able to negotiate successfully all the new territories they find themselves in as they grow up children need to be confident, outgoing and unafraid to ask questions, have a go at things, or make mistakes. So how do you prepare your child to be confident, happy and capable of making the most of every opportunity?With the help of “Boost your Child’s Confidence” you can help your child grow into a balanced and self-assured person who can cope with everything life may throw at them. Packed with drama techniques you can practise with your children to help them be more confident and outgoing, “Boost your Child’s Confidence” will help your child shine in every situation, whether at school, at play or with family. With the help of “Boost your Child’s Confidence” you can help your shy and retiring wallflowers blossom into the confident, self-reliant and happy children you know they can be.

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Recycled Bottle Lamps: Instructions, Project Ideas and Inspirations

A thorough introduction to Recycled Bottle Crafting. Complete with practical information and full color photographs, this guide will introduce you to the craft, class and beauty of lighted bottles. With easy to follow instructions, over a dozen decorating ideas and bottle craft inspirations, you will be able to make your own bottle lamps and recycled bottle crafts in no time. Each step is described in detail accompanied with an assortment of illustrated photographs to help guide you through the process. A complete glossary of terms will assist you to easily identify the different lamp parts.

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Quilting Happiness: Projects, Inspiration, and Ideas to Make Quilting More Joyful

Why do you love to quilt?
 
Is it the finished quilt itself, or the experiences you had while making it? Do you find more joy in designing a beautiful pattern or in improvising as you go? Are you happiest when making quilts for yourself or for others? Whether it is delighting in the colors and textures of your materials to the sweet satisfaction of curling up under a handmade quilt, quilting holds infinite possibilities for exploring the many joys of creativity.

In Quilting Happiness, you will find 20 timeless, adaptable quilting projects that will invite you to try a variety of design styles, as well as a wealth of tips and techniques, inspiring stories, and creative exercises to help you discover even more reasons to love quilting. Learn to make an inspiration board, create more meaningful quilts, or find lifelong quilting friends. Use this book again and again as a guide throughout your quilting life to spark your imagination on each rereading. Embrace new ideas on your quilting adventures and enjoy wherever they take you.

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Style Me Pretty Weddings: Inspiration and Ideas for an Unforgettable Celebration

For the 2 million monthly followers of powerhouse wedding blog StyleMePretty.com, the major mainstream hit with serious indie cred (think Domino meets Etsy meets Martha Stewart Weddings), and for all brides looking for fresh new inspiration, editor in chief Abby Larson offers an eagerly awaited, entirely unique, and gorgeously photo-rich wedding resource.

Joyful, love-filled weddings are created with the details that make the couple unique. These touches–letter-pressed table cards with a pet bulldog cameo; a chandelier to which the bride and groom tied hundreds of colorful ribbons; a photograph of the bride’s grandparents fastened around her bouquet–elevate a beautiful day into a deeply personal, unforgettable celebration.

Style Me Pretty has become a go-to destination for planning your own ecstatic wedding. Now, the founder of this beloved site, Abby Larson, offers this gorgeous resource, which includes:

   • Abby’s step-by step guide to determining your couple style, gathering inspiration, and threading it through each element of the celebration
   • 17 never-before-seen Real-Life Weddings—with details on all their special and handcrafted touches, and advice from the brides 
   • 5 Style Blueprints to help you custom-craft your own Classic, Rustic, Whimsical, Modern, or Al Fresco wedding, from paper goods to the cake 
   • 15 Do It Yourself projects, such as glittered vases, linen favor bags, and dip-dyed ombré napkins 

Full of lively and oh-so-lovely ideas, and more than 250 photographs, this swoonworthy volume will help you distill the wide world of wedding inspiration into the most meaningful, utterly original day you can imagine.

 

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The Tarot Activity Book: A Collection of Creative and Therapeutic Ideas for the Cards

Did you know that tarot cards can have a rich and varied life outside of divination? They certainly do when you combine them with expressive arts activities such as writing, making art, and crafting.

In this book, you’ll learn how mixing tarot into the creative process is a fun and powerful way to stimulate your imagination. After all, each card is itself a mini artistic masterpiece, packed with symbolism and meaning. This makes them natural tools for developing self-awareness and personal transformation.

Whether beginner or advanced, if you have an interest in tarot you will find much to enjoy in this book. The nearly 100 activities and exercises will add quite another dimension to your experience with the cards.

This book will also be useful if you are a mental health professional or art teacher who uses the expressive arts in your practice. Inside, you will discover a wealth of creative and therapeutic ideas regarding how to incorporate tarot into the work you do with clients or students.