Give your baking a makeover & add a whole new lease of life to everyones favourite sugar-sweet treat the cupcake! Whether you want to whip up a batch of fairytale faces or pile a plate high with adorable animals this book has no end of decorating inspiration. Even everyday objects like cars flowers & rubber duckies have never tasted so good! & with plenty of holiday-themed suggestions perfect for parties from Valentines to Christmas your cupcakes are sure to always be dressed for the occasion. Including four foolproof cupcake recipes & a comprehensive introduction to ingredients icing techniques & equipment cupcakes have never been so simple...or so sweet! ...

David Sedaris plays in the snow with his sisters. He goes on vacation with his family. He gets a job selling drinks. He attends his brothers wedding. He mops his sisters floor. He gives directions to a lost traveller. He eats a hamburger. He has his blood sugar tested. It all sounds so normal doesnt it? In his new book David Sedaris lifts the corner of ordinary life revealing the absurdity teeming below its surface. His world is alive with obscure desires & hidden motives
- a world where forgiveness is automatic & an argument can be the highest form of love. Dress Your Family in Corduroy & Denim finds one of the wittiest & most original writers at work today at the peak of his form.
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Felicitys fancy dress party is the talk of the school but the theme is a little unusual -- nature! Her friends cant think of what to dress-up as other than a boring old twig or a leaf until Felicity opens their eyes to the beautiful world around them...A stunning novelty book. ...

The aim of this guide is to show riders wishing to improve their competition performance how to avoid throwing away marks through common errors. It demonstrates how with careful preparation newcomers to dressage can learn to perform well right from the first dressage test. The text covers training & preparation mental rehearsal of the test paces & rhythm riding the test movements arriving at a show riding the test & analyzing the judge's comments. ...

Hollywoods most memorable movie moments all have one thing in common-visually stunning costume design. Whether spectacular ...

Dressing the Man is the definitive guide to what men need to know in order to dress well & look stylish without becoming fashion victims. Alan Flussers name is synonymous with taste & style. With his new book he combines his encyclopedic knowledge of mens clothes with his signature wit & elegance to address the fundamental paradox of modern mens fashion: Why after men today have spent more money on clothes than in any other period of history are there fewer well-dressed men than at any time ever before? According to Flusser dressing well is not all that difficult the real challenge lies in being able to acquire the right personalized instruction. Dressing well pivots on two pillars -- proportion & color. Flusser believes that Permanent Fashionability " both his promise & goal for the reader starts by being accountable to a personal set of physical trademarks & not to any kind of random seasonally served-up collection of fashion flashes. Unlike fashion which is obliged to change each season the faces shape the necks height the shoulders width the arms length the torsos structure & the foots size remain fairly constant over time. Once a man learns how to adapt the fundamentals of permanent fashion to his physique & complexion hes halfway home. Taking the reader through each major clothing classification step-by-step this user-friendly guide helps you apply your own specifics to a series of dressing options from business casual & formalwear to pattern-on-pattern coordination or how to choose the most flattering clothing silhouette for your body type & shirt collar for your face. A mans physical traits represent his individual road map & the quickest route toward forging an enduring style of dress is through exposure to the legendary practitioners of this rare masculine art. Flusser has assembled the largest andmost diverse collection of stylishly mantled men ever found in one book. Many never-before-seen vintage photographs from the era of Cary Grant Tyrone Power & Fred Astaire are employed to help illustrate the range & diversity of authentic mens fashion. Dressing the Mans sheer magnitude of options will enable the reader to expand both the grammar & verbiage of his permanent-fashion vocabulary. For those men hoping to find sartorial fulfillment somewhere down the road tethering their journey to the mind-set of permanent fashion will deliver them earlier rather than later in life." ...

The second title in the new Usborne Very First Reading" series designed for younger children to introduce them to reading together with their parents. Parents & children take turns to read from the page (the text clearly marked for who should be reading) & as the books progress in the series the adults read less & less & the child more & more. There are puzzles at the end to check the childs understanding of the text & guidance notes for the parents. Beautiful illustrations help to motivate beginner readers." ...

This is an easy & accessible sticker book filled with opportunities to dress the children in their fancy-dress costumes. Using over 130 big stickers of clothes & accessories children can dress the boy & girl characters for various party themes. Costumes include mermaids pirates princesses knights firefighters astronauts cowgirls superheroes ballerinas robots & fairies though children are allowed to let their imaginations run wild & mix & match as they please. ...

Torn between her dreams & the truth she was faced with an impossible choice.. . Tess an aspiring seamstress is stunned at her luck when the famous designer Lady Lucile Duff Gordon hires her to be a personal maid on the Titanic's doomed voyage. When disaster strikes Tess is one of the last people allowed on a lifeboat
- her employer also survives. On dry land savage rumours begin to circulate: did Lady Duff Gordon save herself at the expense of others? Tess's dream of becoming a skilled dressmaker is within her grasp but now she is faced with a terrible choice. Suddenly she finds herself torn between loyalty to the fiery woman who could help her realise her ambitions & the devastating truth that her mentor may not be all she seems. authentic & honest The Dressmaker is a compelling & vivid story that will have you holding your breath until the last page. * Shortlisted for the Goodreads Historical Novel Award*
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Forced from her fathers humble Norfolk vicarage Ellen Gowan finds herself in an unforgiving London. At fifteen she falls for Raoul de Valentin the dangerous descendant of French aristocrats. Raoul marries Ellen for her brilliance as a designer but abandons his wife when she becomes pregnant. Determined that she & her daughter will survive Ellen begins her long climb to success. Toiling first in an east-end factory she finally opens her own salon in Berkeley Square. One single dress a ball gown created for the enigmatic Countess of Hawksmoor transforms Ellens fortunes & as the years pass her business thrives. She tells the world
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- shes a widow. But then Raoul de Valentin returns & threatens to destroy all that Ellen has achieved.

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