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Create Household Staples Worth a Second Look
The humble broom is the workhorse of every house—there’s no reason why it shouldn’t be beautiful, as well. Join Cynthia Main, founder of Sunhouse Craft, as she walks you through how to make incredible, but deceptively simple, brooms, sweeps, and hand brushes. These crafty keepsakes are quickly made and easy enough for the first-time maker to complete at the kitchen table. Guided by a master of the craft, you’ll learn everything you need to know about the tools, techniques, and materials necessary to elevate these humble household staples to useful works of art.
Inside you’ll find:
Easy-to-follow instructions and beautiful step-by-step photography that walks you through the entire process.
Design ideas to help you create one-of-a-kind brooms and sweeps.
Valuable resources to help you find and use the few materials and tools required.
Have you ever been in a period of life where normal, everyday responsibilities feel overwhelming? If so, this book is for you.
This might be a time of break-up, loss, when you’re caring for a sick loved one, or simply when a confluence of life factors that make you feel like you’re paddling to stay above water. For Chef Laura Lea, this debilitating season showed up unwelcomely after going through divorce in 2018.
Five years into her business as a holistic chef, she was under daily pressure to display healthy routines and keep up appearances. But reality left her with no appetite and lacking the motivation to even step into the kitchen.
In attempt to cope she found herself relying on fast-food, junky snacks, and lots of wine. Ultimately these choices hindered the process of healing from divorce. Instead, they contributed to her overall feelings of sadness, self-loathing, and exhaustion. She needed a way out.
Drawing upon her decade in the wellness industry and exploration into the science of grief, Laura Lea began cooking her way through the fog. In Recipes for an Aching Heart, Laura Lea presents the recipes she created, as well as the lifestyle and fitness choices that aided her on her journey out of heartache. By following Laura Lea's story, simple recipes, and advice, you can navigate your own way out of heartache and into a healthier place than ever before.
Have you ever been in a period of life where normal, everyday responsibilities feel overwhelming? If so, this book is for you.
This might be a time of break-up, loss, when you’re caring for a sick loved one, or simply when a confluence of life factors that make you feel like you’re paddling to stay above water. For Chef Laura Lea, this debilitating season showed up unwelcomely after going through divorce in 2018.
Five years into her business as a holistic chef, she was under daily pressure to display healthy routines and keep up appearances. But reality left her with no appetite and lacking the motivation to even step into the kitchen.
In attempt to cope she found herself relying on fast-food, junky snacks, and lots of wine. Ultimately these choices hindered the process of healing from divorce. Instead, they contributed to her overall feelings of sadness, self-loathing, and exhaustion. She needed a way out.
Drawing upon her decade in the wellness industry and exploration into the science of grief, Laura Lea began cooking her way through the fog. In Recipes for an Aching Heart, Laura Lea presents the recipes she created, as well as the lifestyle and fitness choices that aided her on her journey out of heartache. By following Laura Lea's story, simple recipes, and advice, you can navigate your own way out of heartache and into a healthier place than ever before.
The Celebration of Phila Hach, a culinary pioneer, and founder of Hachland Hill.
Phila was the author of multiple cookbooks, television star, and once a flight attendant, Phila’s life is best summed up through her poignant observations on life and the delicious recipes that marry her southern roots with her extensive travels.
During her travels as an American Airlines flight attendant, she collected over 3000 recipes from chefs and kitchens along her routes. She shared these recipes on the first televised cooking show in the south. She hosted UN dinners, wrote the first cookbooks for the Cracker Barrel restaurants, was friends with Julia Child and Duncan Hines and managed the food for the 1982 World’s Fair.
In The Hachland Hill Cookbook, Phila’s grandson and former kitchen hand Carter, chronicles Phila’s life and recipes in a loving and long-awaited tribute.
Create Stunning Surfaces with Simply Carved Chips
Chip Carving may be the simplest form of woodworking. With a single knife and only a handful of techniques, you can create beautiful surface designs that will stop people in their tracks. Safe and easily accessible, chip carving can be done almost anywhere you have a work surface or a chair to sit in. A craft deeply rooted in history, you can create designs ranging from the traditional carving patterns of ancient cultures to wholly modern designs of your own making. This book contains everything you need to achieve elegant —and seemingly complex—carved patterns in wood.
Inside, you’ll learn:
Three simple cuts that form the basis of every chip-carved surface.
How to create crisp, clean designs and top them off with the perfect paint or finish.
Sharpening and honing advice to keep your knives gliding smoothly through wood.
How to create intricate designs by following a logical process and steady workflow.
Step-by-step guidance to help your technique and achieve any type of surface carving you can think up.
Beautifully designed practice & carving templates you can copy and incorporate in your own work.
Unlock 20 years of box-making secrets through 10 unique designs with Matt Kenney's "Build Better Boxes.”
You’ll begin with a few simple, but elegant painted boxes that introduce fundamental concepts like cutting miter joints and fitting a lid. Then you’ll progress through several stunning projects that include tea cabinets and jewelry boxes—designs that show just how much you can do with a box. Along the way, you’ll learn smart techniques for joinery like rabbets and dovetails, how to create box sides with grain that flows seamlessly around all four corners, to make your own veneers, and to apply finishes like milk paint and shellac.
Throughout all of the projects, Kenney emphasizes good design and demonstrates several unique design elements that he’s developed, like pulls wrapped in thread, fabric lined bottoms, and grouping individual boxes to create a single piece of furniture. Build Better Boxes, is more than a set of instructions for 10 boxes: In the course of building these designs, you will gain a thorough understanding of key woodworking and design concepts—like wood movement, grain selection, and proportions—that will help you design and make your own boxes.
A FRESH TAKE ON TRADITIONAL BOWL CARVING
Carving your own wooden bowls is more than just a romantic notion (don’t worry, it’s that too). Bowl carving is a rewarding way to create beautiful work with your own hands using only minimal tools. For seasoned and beginner woodworkers, alike, learning traditional bowl carving skills provides unparalleled insight to the basic properties of wood behavior and intimate knowledge of how tool edges interact with grain—invaluable experience that will improve your skills and techniques across all your woodworking endeavors.
Along the way you’ll learn tips and tricks that will keep you safe, help you make informed decisions about your own designs, and give you the confidence to take your work in any direction you’d like. The Handcarved Bowl is not simply the designs and techniques outlined here in easy to-follow instructions, it is a gateway to countless projects and a new understanding of working wood.
INSIDE YOU’LL FIND:
• Step-by-step photos and directions for every stage of the bowl-carving process
• Understanding of the basic bowl forms and the knowledge to create your own designs
• Smart advice on buying, sharpening, and using the few tools bowl carving requires
• Exercises and guidance for self-care that will keep you working safely and injury free for years to come
• The knowledge required to find and harvest wood that has the best potential for creating beautiful bowls
Whether you’re restoring a family heirloom or adding a handcrafted touch to a new design, The Woven Chair is your go-to resource on the art and craft of weaving chair seats. With clear, detailed instructions and beautifully photographed projects, this book provides easy-to-follow direction for weaving with Shaker tape, splint reed, Danish cord, fiber rush, and more. Along the way, you’ll find tips for solving common frame challenges, guidance on structural repairs, and design ideas to help you choose the best materials and patterns to complement chairs of any style. Whether you’re an absolute beginner or an experienced maker, The Woven Chair will become both a trusted shop guide and a source of creative inspiration.
Inside you’ll find:
Detailed, step-by-step photos covering a wide range of hands-on projects
A comprehensive Materials, Tools, and Skills Library
Patterns for advanced splint or Shaker tape weaving
Design tips for chair makers
An inspiring gallery of woven chairs from contemporary makers
An extended reference section providing suppliers and resources for continuing education