Personalize your outdoor haven with one-of-a-kind accents, décor and more Brighten up your backyard with whimsical garden accents, impressive entertaining ideas, simply silly outdoor games and more. It’s never been easier (or more fun) to perfect your open-air space than with Taste of Home Handmade Garden Crafts. From creating an outside Twister game to hanging custom-made votive lights, you’ll transform your yard into the charming space you’ve dreamed of. Make enchanting windchimes from upcycled materials, arrange delightful picnic-table toppers, give Fido a dog-wash station, and jazz up your garden with handcrafted stepping stones, herb markers and miniature fairy wonderlands. You’ll even learn quick ways to dress up your front door, take advantage of summer blooms and make your summer parties the most memorable in town. CRAFTS Tin Can Herb Set Bowling Pin Butterfly Mini Cork Planters Chandelier Birdhouse Ultimate Fairy Garden 3-Tiered Porch Planter Weekend Deck Fountain Bluebird Bed & Breakfast Red, White & Blue Luminaries Weekend Water Fountain Warm Welcome Matt

Describes a variety of outdoor craft projects using plants from your garden.

Stimulate your child’s senses—right in your own backyard! Steer your little ones away from their screens and into the outdoors with projects designed to spark their insight, dexterity and imagination: Just add mud! With parenting blogger Sophie Pickles’s expert guidance, you’ll transform your backyard into a lively space where your children can experiment with different textures—there’s even a taste-safe alternative!—and understand the wonderful world around them. Using natural ingredients that are on-hand or easily obtainable, you’ll help your kids explore concepts like environmentalism, culinary science, creativity and math, while never losing sight of all the delightful sensory stimulation. Bond over the sheer fun of Shape Play, or try out Muddy River for an introduction to physics. Watch them delight in creating their own food station, with projects like Juice Bar and Mud Café. Better yet, help them build the blocks of critical thinking and observational skills, with activities like Mud Investigation and Mini Beast Hunt. With Mud Kitchen Crafts, education meets fun in a major way.

"A treasure trove of one-of-a-kind, beautiful, affordable, and manageable DIY projects for the garden"--Page 4 of cover.

This New York Times bestselling book is filled with hundreds of fun, deceptively simple, budget-friendly ideas for sprucing up your home. With two home renovations under their (tool) belts and millions of hits per month on their blog YoungHouseLove.com, Sherry and John Petersik are home-improvement enthusiasts primed to pass on a slew of projects, tricks, and techniques to do-it-yourselfers of all levels. Packed with 243 tips and ideas—both classic and unexpected—and more than 400 photographs and illustrations, this is a book that readers will return to again and again for the creative projects and easy-to-follow instructions in the relatable voice the Petersiks are known for. Learn to trick out a thrift-store mirror, spice up plain old roller shades, "hack" your Ikea table to create three distinct looks, and so much more.

Add That Certain Je Ne Sais Quoi to Your Home, Effortlessly Rustic and elegant French décor never goes out of style—and with easy yet sophisticated accessories for your home, these 70 projects will transform your space and add that special touch to any room. Jamie Lundstrom’s projects use easy-to-find and recycled objects, as well as new materials, to bring her French vintage style into your life. Projects span every season and category, from sewing to painting and upholstery, including provincial antique baskets, a fantastique Trumeau mirror, a jolie gold leaf frame, boutique plaster of Paris–dipped flowers and a chic antique chair. Featuring simple step-by-step instructions with beautiful photos to help guide you, these projects can be created in just a few hours or less.