New York Times best seller Ever since Gabrielle Stanley Blair became a parent, she’s believed that a thoughtfully designed home is one of the greatest gifts we can give our families, and that the objects and decor we choose to surround ourselves with tell our family’s story. In this, her first book, Blair offers a room-by-room guide to keeping things sane, organized, creative, and stylish. She provides advice on getting the most out of even the smallest spaces; simple fixes that make it easy for little ones to help out around the house; ingenious storage solutions for the never-ending stream of kid stuff; rainy-day DIY projects; and much, much more.

For a book about small things, this one is certainly big on ideas presenting everything needed to create pages for miniature scrapbooks and charming mini albums. Included are special design tips and techniques for working with smaller pages, easy-to-adapt layouts, and cute ideas for little gift books. 100 photos

What About the Words? Creative Journaling for Scrapbookers provides the advice, examples and inspiration scrapbookers need to help them record their memories and experiences in the most engaging and expressive way possible. Inside, readers will find: • Borrowed words: Create pages that use words directly from other sources such as ads, quotes and song lyrics. • Simple starts: Draft your journaling in the form of single words or simple phrases. • Just the facts: Generate a series of questions and answers to express your sentiments or make lists that tell it just like it is. • Get creative: Use innovative formats such as letters, narratives, turning points, milestones, dialogue and other creative forms to compose unique and original journaling. With over 30 unique journaling formats, What About the Words? packages all the essentials for creative journaling in one comprehensive source.

Exotic flowers, peacock feathers, dragonflies, and other floral and animal motifs take on the sinuous beauty associated with Art Nouveau in this stylish coloring book. Sixty-three full-page illustrations, based on classic designs.

Consumer Electronics is the first book of its kind, and comprehensively covers the theory, applications and maintenance of various audio/video systems, telecommunication systems and electronic home/office appliances. The book completely covers the

Taking crafters beyond the borders of their scrapbook pages, Creating Keepsakes: The Ultimate Guide to Photo Keepsakes is the perfect motivator for anyone overwhelmed with the idea of digging into years worth of photos. Thanks to the editors of this incredibly popular scrapbooking magazine, treasured memoriesin the form of photos and other memorabiliacan take on new life in amazingly imaginative ways.

Ready, Set, Scrap! If you have stacks upon stacks of photos just waiting to be put to good use, turn to the amazing ideas in Get It Scrapped! to fire up your creative engines! Whether your photos are digital files or prints, everything you need to know for organizing your images, analyzing what you have and making a plan for the layouts you'd like to create is right here at your fingertips. Author and artist Debbie Hodge offers her unique methodology for creating several common page types in this must-have resource. Learn how to scrap a variety of page types including events, everyday life, collections, moments, the world around you and yourself. • Discover a wealth of information on basic page formats, album types and sizes, photo storage and organization, creative journaling, photography and more. • See how three featured artists approach the craft and the unique ways they put their own personal spin on the stories they share. • Broaden your skills to design two-page layouts, create focal point blocks, design secondary groupings, tell a story in pictures and much more. It's time to shake the dust off that photo box, lay those snapshots out on the craft table and get scrapping!