Antique Decorating

Dollmaking for the first time (For The First Time)

Product Description
Cloth dolls and wooden dolls; life-size figures and those as small as clothespins; dolls as ornaments and a complete set of dolls—like a miniature family: oh, what a beautiful doll you can make with this well-illustrated guide at your side. As with all the acclaimed For the First Time books, it teaches the basics, from preparing the patterns to painting the face and styling the hair. The techniques unspool in an easy-to-follow question and answer form—How do I make a simple cloth doll? How do I make a doll with button-on joints?—accompanied by a project. Above all, every page encourages crafters to break the rules, use their imagination, and find ways of making each doll special and personal.
--This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

Double Your Money in Antiques

Product Description
Popular antiques expert George Grotz reveals how to make real money in the antiques trade--must reading for every collector, auction-goer, and flea-market fanatic.

Publisher Description
Popular antiques expert George Grotz reveals how to make real money in the antiques trade -- must reading for every collector, auction-goer, and flea-market fanatic.



B& W photographs throughout

Down Home: America's Country Decorating Book

Early American Antique Country Furnishing

Book Description
Right here we find a price reference to fulfill your expectations of a reliable encyclopedia covering those cherished furnishings found throughout homes from colonial times up through the 1800's. A multitude of furniture, fixtures, appliances, and knick-knacks hundreds of years old are found throughout this volume.

Early American Decorating Techniques: Step-by-Step Directions for Painting and Stenciling

Product Description
Comprehensive guide includes 27 authentic, ready-to-use, full-size patterns for restoring and decorating trays, tinware, boxes, rockers, chairs, walls, and more. Complete instructions.

Easy Curries (Hachette Cooking)

Product Description
Fragrant seafood curries from South India, aromatic curries from Thailand, thick and mild homestyle Japanese curries, and Vietnamese curries that are fresh, herbaceous, and light: these will whet anyone’s palate! Jody Vassallo demystifies all these curries and more. She offers advice on the various spices, and explains how to produce the amazing flavors that make curry dishes such standouts. Plus, these recipes are quick, easy, and accessible to most palates. Start with one of her own curry pastes, or buy a good readymade from the store, and cook up a gentle Kerala chicken stew, tandoori lamb cutlets, a spicy-hot Goan pork vindaloo, baked fish in banana leaves, or spinach dhal. A special section covers pastes, condiments, and rice.

Electrical Basics

Product Description
In the dark about how to take care of electrical problems--and worried about handling breakdowns safely? Teach yourself! You know you could replace a faulty receptacle, add a dimmer switch, or install a recessed lightif only an expert would show you how. That's exactly what this all-in-color book, packed with charts, diagrams, and photos, does: it gives you a thorough, yet amazingly easy-to-understand, overview of basic home electricity. No other manual makes everything from blown fuses to circuitry simple and clear, so that you have the power to take command of the everyday glitches that arise. Get the basics of working with wire, cable, and conduit. Do emergency repairs on breakers, blown fuses, frayed cords, and plugs. Test switches and receptacles; install boxes for light fixtures; and add outlets. Replace ballasts; mount track lighting; and extend circuits. Run cable through a wall, and to the ceiling. Every part is identified and every function described in a wonderfully straightforward way. All the fundamentals are covered--even how to select inexpensive specialty tools. It's the one book you need to learn all the basics.

Everyday Antiques: For Every Room of Your Home

Product Review
With the plethora of antique malls popping up around the country and the enticing availability of on-line auctions, collecting antiques has reached a new height of popularity. Many are looking to decorate their homes with vintage furniture and fabrics--and hopefully for a song. Written especially for the amateur collector, Everyday Antiques takes you from learning how and where to shop to integrating your newfound treasures into your home.

Author J.J. Despain began collecting antiques almost accidentally--but then got the bug. Now an expert shopper, she shares her experiences and offers helpful hints on spotting unusual and quality items in antique malls, flea markets, and yard sales, to mention a few popular venues. Despain encourages you to "buy whatever you fall in love with and use it in any way it fits into your home or life."

A full-color "Gallery of Decorating Ideas" gives ideas on how to integrate antiques into a modern home. "One of the greatest discoveries you might make," Despain says, "is that what was created years ago, in many cases, is of better quality than what is created today." A solid brass reading lamp from the '20s probably works as well as it ever did (Despain does suggest that you consider a new cord as the old one is likely cloth-covered and frayed, making it a fire hazard).

The combination of savvy shopping and decorating advice coupled with good old common sense makes Everyday Antiques enjoyable and inspiring to read. Often humorous, Despain's language is as comfortable and homey as a 1940s down-filled easy chair. --Dana Van Nest

Product Description
For the antiques lover, collectibles fanatic, and anyone decorating a home, finally, here is a guide to using those found treasures in and around the house. Despain presents creative, elegant, and ingenious ways to incorporate antiques into home decor and everyday life. Collectibles are not just for collecting dust!

FabJob Guide to Become a Personal Shopper (FabJob Guides)

Book Description
Personal shoppers are hired to shop for gifts, fashions, and other items for busy people.

Some personal shoppers are employed by boutiques or department stores to assist the stores customers. Others are hired to shop for individuals or corporate clients. As a personal shopper your work may range from buying birthday presents to finding the perfect promotional item for a company to give to important clients.

The book offers advice on how to learn the skills needed to get hired as a personal shopper, including identifying what clients want, finding the best products, and arranging for purchases. You will also learn how to get discounts on merchandise and prevent purchasing disasters.

The guide explains how to get hired as a personal shopper by a boutique, department store, or shopping center. You will learn how to find job openings, prepare a resume, and do well in an interview.

The guide also gives step-by-step information on how to start a personal shopping business, including how to get clients and how much to charge. The CD-ROM that comes with the book includes many helpful samples that can be used in a personal shopping business.

About The Author
The contributors to this guide are Laura Harrison McBride, a veteran shopper who has written about shopping for daily newspapers, and Peter J. Gallanis, former associate editor of a leading fashion retail magazine. In this guide they share insider tips and expert advice from industry experts including the Vice-President responsible for hiring personal shoppers for Saks Fifth Avenue, and personal shoppers who are earning more than $100,000 per year with their own personal shopping business.

Fabric Projects And Creative Decorating Ideas

Book Description
For dazzling decorating, fabric can play a starring role in every room in the house. It can add immediate comfort and warmth to a pillow, cheer to a plain window, or drama to a tailored lampshade. In anything-but-technical text, Fabric explores the almost endless ways textiles can personalize a decorating scheme. Both colors and serene neutrals, homey tickings and stripes, funky florals and luxurious textures are the tools; swagging a gauzy no-sew curtain for an urbane impression, slipcovering dining room chairs for a summer look, or layering on a virtual crazy quilt of vintage textiles for a cottage makeover can be the results. Throughout, you'll find how-to's and do-it-yourself projects, complete with shopping lists and "Fabric Workshops" that offer glimpses into the studios and homes of artists and decorators who have put fabric to use in new and unusual ways. And more than 100 color photographs illustrate all the imaginative ways fabric can give your home the Mary Engelbreit look. This is the fifth book in a series of Home Companion magazine books. Others include: Paint, Plates, Collections, and Leading The Artful Life.

About The Author
In 1998, Mary Engelbreit's magazine had the third-fastest-growing circulation numbers in the industry. In just over three years, the circulation has grown to 650,000 and continues to climb.

Fabulous Barkcloth: Home Decorating Textiles from the 30s, 40s, and 50s (Schiffer Design...

Book Description
This volume pictorially documents many of the outstanding textiles used in homes from the 1930s to the 1950s. Barkcloth, a type of dense, textured cotton weave, was often used in draperies or slipcovers of the era. In recent years, barkcloth has enjoyed a renaissance, now seen covering photo albums, hat boxes, vintage luggage, lampshades, purses, and pillows. More and more modern designers are using vintage barkcloth as inspiration for today's textiles. With over 200 color photographs, this book showcases the beautiful array of patterns, colors, and motifs used on authentic, old barkcloth. It is a valuable resource for designers and all who enjoy these wonderful fabrics.

About The Author
Loretta Smith Fehling began collecting vintage textiles in the 1970s. Her love of vintage textiles led her to design and make one-of-a-kind articles of clothing, which she sells at art festivals around the country.

First Digs: The Quasi-Adult's Guide to Decorating with Style---Without Blowing Your Budget

From Publishers Weekly
Sun, founder of digsmagazine.com, a "home & living guide for the post-college, pre-parenthood, quasi-adult generation," compiles her design and decorating knowledge in this nifty book that deserves to be on the short list of college graduation presents. Sun rushes through pre-move-in decisions (go solo or find a roommate? Live in sin? What's more important-location or size?) before plunging into a bevy of budget-minded decorating tips. Some of the information, like shopping at thrift stores and estate sales, is common sense, but little tips like bringing a blanket, bungee cord and rope to ensure large items make it home in one piece set the book apart. It's chapter four that will end up the most dog-eared, as it's home to a multitude of tips on thoughtfully decorating apartments: finding focal points, paring down to the essentials and planning it out on paper first will all be of tremendous help for novices. By artfully walking the line between open-mindedness and a knowledge of one's own decorating style, those following Sun's advice will be rewarded with an affordably decorated, unique and comfortable home.
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Product Description
Good-bye dorm, so long mom and dad, and hello new digs!  Whether your rent, buy, or share your first home or apartment, getting it to look great without spending a lot of money can be a challenge.  Yee-Fan Sun comes to the rescue with this engaging guide to decorating, refurbishing, and repurposing so you can leave those milk crate bookshelves and sagging futons behind.  Packed with DIY solutions and guidance on how to personalize your new home, First Digs covers everything you need to know to decorate, organize, and maintain a cool, comfortable space that reflects your own unique style.
 
First Digs features:
·        Guidelines on how to prioritize and allocate a miniscule budget
·        Savvy bargain-hunting advice
·        How to spruce up home furnishings
·        Tips on painting like a pro
·        Illustrations throughout
·        DIY projects for lighting, slipcovers, window treatments, wall hangings, and more!
 
Learn how to make the move into your first home a little easier, much more creative, and a lot of fun!