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"Are you suffering from CHAOS, otherwise known as can't have anyone over syndrome? If your house is a jumble of dirty dishes, piles of paper, and never-ending laundry, you are probably afflicted. But don't give up hope, because now there's an antidote: the chaos cure."--Back cover.
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From a bestselling author and lifestyle blogger, a DIY guide to home decorating and party planning.
In Cupcakes and Cashmere at Home, Emily Schuman expands on the personal lifestyle advice that her fans loved in her first book and on her popular blog, with a focus on interior design and entertaining at home. The book features never-before-seen content and explores Emily's accessible design philosophy for decorating and creating a fashionable personal...
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Cook colorful, whimsical, eye-catching soaps right in your microwave! It's easy and fun with C. Kaila Westerman's guide to creative soap making. Westerman's recipes are free of harsh chemicals and she encourages you to play with colors, scents, and shapes that the whole family will enjoy - from rubber duckies to sailboats, stars, and gemstones. With an inexpensive soap base, some food coloring, and a bit of imagination, you can quickly create handy...
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Feel like you're trying to dig out from under a mountain of debt without a shovel? Tired of working your tail off just to break even? Is the high cost of living taking all the joy out of life? Unless you're one of the top two percent of wealthiest Americans, all of the above should sound painfully familiar. While they're trying to decide between the ski lodge in Telluride and the Tuscan villa, for the rest of us, it's an endless litany of corporate...
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"Can a decluttered space fuel a creative mind? Heck yes, says organizing expert Fay Wolf, who has helped everyone from Hollywood celebrities to schoolteachers to work-from-home parents achieve a less cluttered, more creative life. Here, Wolf outlines her basic rules for saying goodbye to the stuff crowding up your space and hello to new habits that free you up for the things you're passionate about. And it can all be done in as little as a few minutes...
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER! America’s #1 food magazine shares over 110 crumb-believable dessert recipes and hands-on activities in this kids baking book for ages 8 to 12.
Keep calm and bake on, young chefs! Take your baking skills to the next level—and enjoy knead-to know food trivia, crafts, and games for extra fun in the kitchen.
This collection is packed with tons of recipes for easy sweets and treats, designed with...
Keep calm and bake on, young chefs! Take your baking skills to the next level—and enjoy knead-to know food trivia, crafts, and games for extra fun in the kitchen.
This collection is packed with tons of recipes for easy sweets and treats, designed with...
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Clean smarter, not harder. Donna Smallin shows you how to quickly and effectively clear clutter, destroy dirt, and restore order. With 500 plain and simple strategies for efficiently eliminating the mess in every room, you'll discover how easy it can be to maintain a clean home without devoting hours on end to housework. Learn how to use a spare minute here and there to shorten chores and free up more time to do the things you love.
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Part of a new series of embroidery books and featuring more 100 projects and twenty-one different needlepoint methods, Embroidery pour la Maison includes easy-to-follow directions and plenty of inspiration to personalize aprons, bags, and more. A fun, easy way for do-it-yourselfers to add a touch of charm to every room of the house - kitchen, bedroom, bathroom, living room, laundry room, and office.
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Build a stylishly modern home for your poultry. Backyard chickens meet contemporary design in this inventive compilation from authors Matthew Wolpe and Kevin McElroy. Reinventing the Chicken Coop presents 14 complete building plans for chicken houses that range from the purely functional to outrageously fabulous, with designs that include water-capturing roofs, built-in composting systems, and modernist architectural details. The step-by-step instructions...
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The dirty little secret about most organizing advice is that it's written by organized people, says blogger, speaker, and decluttering expert Dana K. White. But that's not how my brain works. I'm lost on page three. Dana blogs at A Slob Comes Clean, chronicling her successes and failures with her self-described deslobification process. In the beginning she used the name Nony (short for aNONYmous), because she was sharing her deep, dark, slob secret....
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The Greenhorns are a community of more than 5,000 young farmers and activists committed to producing and advocating for food grown with vision and respect for the earth. This book, edited by three of the group’s leading members, comprises 50 original essays by new farmers who write about their experiences in the field from a wide range of angles, both practical and inspirational. Funny and sad, serious and light-hearted, these essays touch on...
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Home management expert Emilie Barnes, whose books have sold more than 4.5 million copies, has a vast collection of home and life organization tips to share. The Quick-Fix Home Organizer is packed with brief, practical, and inspirational ideas to help readers create homes filled with peace and personality. Always warm and encouraging, Emilie motivates her readers to
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This guide offers realistic strategies to improve sleep, nutrition, and wellness by implementing simple habits and routines. It encourages creating a home that feels good, fostering meaningful relationships, and redefining success based on personal values. It also helps align financial strategies with those values, prioritize energizing activities, and disrupt unproductive thought patterns to build motivating new narratives.
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Step by step, this picture book explains how homes are built?from the architect's plans through the arrival of a happy family. The many processes of construction are explained with simple language and bright, clear illustrations, perfect for kids starting to wonder about how the world around them works.--publisher's description
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"Give your child a unique gift of a lifetime--without breaking your checkbook--and you and your kid will have fun making it! Building Unique and Useful Kids' Furniture: 24 Great Do-It-Yourself Projects gives complete step-by-step instructions for building 24 professionally designed one-of-a-kind children's furniture projects that are easy to build and your kids will love. You don't need advanced skills. You don't need specialized tools. You don't...
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Save time and money by building your own beekeeping equipment. Learn to craft equipment that is tailored to your particular climate and setup. Full of insightful tips and covering a variety of hive types, Pisano includes all the basic infrastructure you need to keep your bees happy and active - and your pantry full of honey. Tony Pisano provides step-by-step illustrated instructions showing you how to build hive bodies, supers, covers, stands, frames,...
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A classic of early American architecture, the hewn-log house has a unique rustic charm and character. In this engaging and informative guide, Charles McRaven provides illustrated step-by-step instructions that cover every aspect of building your own log house, from selecting the site and hewing the first log to laying the final chimney stone. Whether you're building a new house or restoring an old one, McRaven offers proven techniques and time-tested...
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Eve has a problem with clutter. Too much stuff and too easily acquired, it confronts her in every corner and on every surface in her house. When she pledges to tackle the worst offender, her horror of a "Hell Room," she anticipates finally being able to throw away all of the unnecessary things she can't bring herself to part with: her fifth-grade report card, dried-up art supplies, an old vinyl raincoat.
But what Eve discovers isn't just old CDs and...