Art Workshop for Children is not just another book of straightforward art projects. The book's unique child-led approach provides a framework for cultivating creative thinking and encourages the wonder that comes when children are allowed to freely explore the creative process and their materials.As children work through these open-ended workshops, adults are guided on how to be facilitators who provide questions, encourage deep thinking, ...

Home management expert and bestselling author Emilie Barnes comes to the aid of every clutter keeper with 101 simple ideas to rid rooms of piles, stacks, and disarray. Readers will rediscover space and peace in their home as theystop making excuses for the useless items they keepeliminate junk mail before it junks up a drawertake back control over "stuff"and taste freedomsubtract an item before adding an itemreap the rewards of prioritizing time and spaceBetter than a how-to show, this com...

Here's how to follow through on your good intentions and create a clutter-free living space in only 30 days. Instead of using up precious time off work for a decluttering marathon, this book shows how to clear out the clutter one bite at a time.The book shows how short, efficient decluttering sessions using time after work and brief interludes of free time on weekends can be more effective than a frontal assault on clutter. These short sessions, often carried out with the help of f...

Are you living in a cramped quarters with no space to breathe? Do you feel overwhelmed by all that clutter? Would you prefer to do it yourself than pay a professional organizer?Get ready to add order to your home—one room at a time! With The Everything Organize Your Home Book, 2nd Edition, you’ll learn how to:-Set up a home office anywhere-Maximize closet and shelf space-Discover alternative storage ideas-Sell what you no longer need or want

From the cleaning and homekeeping expert and creator of the wildly popular Clean Mama blog comes a simple and accessible cleaning guide with a proven step-by-step schedule for tidying a home in just ten minutes a day.Becky Rapinchuk, the “Clean Mama,” understands that many people don’t have the time, organizational skills, or homemaking habits to maintain a constantly clean and decluttered living space.In Simply Clean, Becky will help you ...

A clean house means peace of mind. But who has the time to keep on top of it?Fortunately, this book breaks down home organization and gives busy families a solution. Unlike other decluttering books that press for perfection, this flexible guide features tips for each room in the house and helps you tackle your clutter in any way that works for you. With helpful icons that highlight quick tasks more suitable for weeknights as well as time-consuming jobs best left for the weekend, yo...

Rusting and burning, carving and spackling, tarring and flocking: These are just a few of the unique and surprising techniques author Patrica "Trish" Baldwin Seggebruch shares with you in Encaustic Mixed Media!New to encaustic? With Trish leading the way, you can start today! And if you've dabbled in encaustic before, the creative approach and new materials and techniques used in this book will blow you away!Encaustic Mixed Media includes:•

A practical guide to generating less waste, featuring meaningful and achievable strategies from the blogger behind The Green Garbage Project, a yearlong experiment in living garbage-free.Trash is a big, dirty problem. The average American tosses out nearly 2,000 pounds of garbage every year that piles up in landfills and threatens our air and water quality. You do your part to reduce, reuse, and recycle, but is it enough?In The Zero-Waste Lifestyle...

Art journaling is a vital activity for artists who need a place to experiment, draw, paint, document ideas, and continue an interior dialog. This lush, visual book is a must-have volume for both beginning and experienced art journalers. Each chapter presents crucial, basic information for how to get started, and is layered with in-depth sidebars and activities covering advanced techniques, approaches to working, as well as interviews with well-known journaling artists.

When you learn to awaken your family’s creativity, wonderful things will happen: you’ll make meaningful connections with your children in large and small ways; your children will more often engage in their own creative discoveries; and your family will embrace new ways to relax, play, and grow together. With just the simple tools around you—your imagination, basic art supplies, household objects, and natural materials—you can transform your family life, and have so much more fun!Am...

For busy moms, organizing is something that is always on the to-do list but never gets scratched off. In this new book from a trusted organizing expert, readers discover the key to turning a chaotic house into a clutter-free home in no time at all. In order to do this she teaches three simple concepts: consolidate, condense, containerize. Then, once a house is in its prime, just identify and maintain the most important 20% of household tasks and the house will never be a mess again....

Some girls get giddy over a new pair of shoes. Marian Parsons gets giddy over room makeovers. With a lot of ingenuity, a little bit of effort, and a tight budget, she has transformed her home into a beautiful space and filled her heart with a lot more contentment. Thousands have found inspiration at Marian’s blog, missmustardseed.com, and now she shares dozens of new projects, ideas, and DIY adventures in the pages of Inspired You.Marian will remi...