Learn how to create breathtaking bouquets from the masterflorists of Flower School New York. Trendsetting celebritydesigners, whose high-profile clients include Calvin Klein, GiorgioArmani, Anna Wintour, Gucci, and Tom Ford, join forces withentrepreneur Eileen Johnson at this famed floral arranging school.They now offer instruction and insight into the art and aestheticof flower arranging taught by a faculty of world-renowned florists.Discover the tips and techniques for handling and combining flowersand creating hand-tied bouquets, seasonal arrangements, flowers forentertaining, mixing flowers and fashion, and much more.

Big-eyed, blonde, and beautiful, Barbie took over the world in 1959 with little more than a white-and-black striped bathing suit and a pair of high heels. Today, Mattel sells three Barbies a second, and children in more than one hundred and fifty countries know her name.Now, on her fiftieth anniversary as cultural icon, Assouline presents the ultimate collector s volume on the world s most popular doll. Encapsulating her history, chronicling her fashion, and imagining her life as a woman of mystery, glamour, and fun, Barbie presents this totemic figure as never seen before in vivid dioramas of Barbie at work and play and in portraits of vintage dolls and accessories. A muse for children and adults, designers and artists, writers and cultural critics, Barbie remains a powerfully evocative and enigmatic reflection of our dreams, our hopes, and ourselves.

Renowned bead embroidery artists Heidi Kummli and Sherry Serafini share their secrets for creating beautiful beadwork. This inspiring book is perfect for those who want to learn to create gorgeous jewelry and art pieces and those seeking design ideas. Discusses tools, adhesives, and materials and has an illustrated guide to favorite stitches, fringes, and finishing techniques.

Is your home a storage nightmare? Well, there's no need to despair any longer. Withstep-by-step directions, hands-on instructions, and valuable insights and tips that show you how to find storage space for all your belongings, The Complete Home Organizer gets you started and then helps you maintain an organized home. This comprehensive guide is filled with more than 250 color photographs and questionaires, lists, and diagrams that will have you looking at your home--and all the unused, available storage space it contains--in a new and creative light.

Santa Fe-style decorating is a coast-to-coast trend. Hundredsof thousands have scoured Christine Mather’s previous books, eagerto incorporate Santa Fe design elements into their own homes. Now,in Santa Fe Houses, Mather combines concrete and practicalhome-decorating suggestions with the beautiful photographs of herlongtime collaborator, Jack Parsons, creating an invaluable guidefor anyone interested in building, decorating, or remodeling a homein Santa Fe style. Santa Fe Houses draws inspiration from the four traditionalNative American elements—fire, earth, water, and air—and shows howthey can be used to wonderful effect in kitchens and dining rooms,entry-ways and living rooms, bedrooms, bathrooms, porches, andpatios. Along the way, Mather showcases furniture, rugs, lighting,hardware, tiles, shutters, and other expressions of the Santa Felook, and ends with a comprehensive directory of sources.

Your Seed Bead Style offers a fun and satisfying wayto enhance seed beading by focusing on the addition of unexpectedmaterials. This collection of projects features chapters oncrystals and glass, pearls, metals, gemstones, and fibers. Eacheditor-tested project includes a basics section, a list ofsupplies, how-to instructions, and clear illustrations andphotography. Techniques range from square stitch to herringbone.Crystals and glass can be employed in a Russian snake stitch or apeyote stitch necklace. Pearls can be added for a beachcomber'sbracelet or a Gothic chevron necklace. Also here are unique ideasfor expanding standard stitching.

It is an indispensible visual resourcefor anyone looking for interior design inspiration. Although oftenseen as functional and formal, the dining room is one of the mostimportant rooms in any home - it is a space that projects yourpersonality and style more than any other. Filled with superbfull-colour photography, "Design Inside: Dining Rooms" is an idealsource of inspiration and guidance for anyone wanting to createtheir perfect dining space.

This resource gives novice knitters easy-to-follow instructions and tips for creating beautiful picture knits the first time out! With more than 50 color designs and motifs, knitters will discover a variety of fun and simple projects in this guaranteed guide to success. Row-by-row instructions and color charts easily lead knitters through motifs of varying difficulty. This unbeatable reference features motifs of geometric shapes, birds, flowers and childhood themes, which can easily be incorporated into purses, bags, sweaters and wall hangings. -More than 50 full-color illustrations easily guide knitters through projects -Level of difficulty indicator helps knitters prioritize projects -Easy-to-follow instructions suit any level knitter

Product Details 基本信息 ISBN-13 书号 9781476747019 Author 作者 Belton, Claire Pages Number 页数 176页 Publisher 出版社 Touchstone Books Publication Date 出版日期 2013年10月29日 Product Dimensions 商品尺寸 16开 Language 语种 ENG Book Contents 内容简介 Who is Pusheen? This collection of oh-so-cute kitty comics--featuring the chubby, tubby tabby who has taken the Internet by storm--will fill you in on all the basics. Things you should know about Pusheen. Birthday: February 18 Sex: Female Where she lives: In the house, on the couch, underfoot Her favorite pastime: Blogging, sleeping Her best feature: Her toe beans Her favorite food: All of them Pusheen is a pleasantly plump cat who has warmed hearts and tickled funny bones of millions worldwide with her signature GIF animated bops, bounces, and tail wiggles. Now, Pusheen is ready to make the leap from digital to print in her first comic collection Learn what makes

This book helps designers handle those odd projects by detailing all the inside info they so desperately need--from specs and templates, to quick fixes and gritty solutions. Projects cover: * menus, order forms, catalogs and annual reports * compact disks, hang tags, labels, polybags and videos * book covers and magazines * self-mailers, invitations, advertisements and solicitations * signage, billboards and trade show booths * awards, forms, buttons, tickets and more Designers will find a bounty of approaches and solutions, insider advice for working with printers, photographers, illustrators, and tips for stopping emergencies before they start. Scott Boylston is a professor of graphic design at the Savannah College of Art and Design. He previously worked as an art director for a New York City design firm, where he developed packaging for cosmetic companies, including Estee Lauder, Elizabeth Arden, and Yves Saint Laurent. * Provides sketches, illustrations and instructions

Whether you inhabit a studio or a sprawling house with onechallenging space, Maxwell Gillingham-Ryan, co-founder of the mostpopular interior design website, Apartment Therapy, will help youtransform tiny into totally fabulous. According to Maxwell, size constraints can actually unlock yourdesign creativity and allow you to focus on what's essential. Inthis vibrant book, he shares forty small, cool spaces that willchange your thinking forever. These apartments and houses demonstrate hundreds of inventivesolutions for creating more space in your home, and for making itmore comfortable. Leading us through entrances, living rooms,kitchens and dining rooms, bedrooms, home offices, and kids' rooms,Apartment Therapy's Big Book of Small, Cool Spaces is brimming withingenious tips and ideas, such as: Shifting the sense of scale through contrasting colors Adding airiness by using transparent collections Utilizing the area under a loft bed for a kitchen andmini-bar Tucking an office

THE ACCESSORIES WE DISPLAY, THEIR COLOR AND TEXTURE, abundanceor restraint, similarity or variety, combine to establish a uniquepersonality for each room. The way we put them together is art.Focusing on tablescapes, wall decorations, mantels, and fabrics,Charles shows not just the results, but the wonderful journey andprocess of giving a room its soul and identity. Charles Faudree wasnamed one of America s top 100 designers. He maintains a retailshop and his Charles Faudree Collection of fabric is marketedthrough Vervain. He s the author of four previous books publishedby Gibbs Smith. He lives in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Jenifer Jordan hasbeen a photographer of home interiors and architecture for morethan 25 years. She has photographed all of Charles Faudree s booksand also Modern Country. She lives in Tulsa. Finishingaccessories-by far the most important part of decorating