Accomplished artist Charles Evans will have you painting in no time with these cleverly-constructed projects that can each be completed in a matter of minutes. Packed with simple techniques & top tips that will ensure successful results every time Charles' easy-to-follow instruction will help improve your painting skills at once. It helps you learn professional hints & tricks about using watercolours & watercolour pencils which offer extra flexibility & convenience. It

Includes:: varied projects for outdoors & indoors ranging from simple landscapes to more complex compositions from pets to still lives. It reveals inspirational pages from Charles' own sketchbooks that clearly demonstrate the immediacy of this medium.

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Korean cooking is one of the best-kept culinary secrets enjoyed by the adventuresome few who seek out barbeque houses & noodle joints famous for their deliciously complex & fresh flavors. Now with Celia Hae-Jin Lee as your guide Korean cooking becomes as simple to make at home as it is satisfying to eat. More than 70 recipes for favorites like spicy Kimchi & Barbeque Beef Ribs give busy home cooks wonderfully succulent meals that can be prepared in a mere 30 minutes. Using ingredients that are readily available & techniques already familiar to the average cook these Korean specialties can easily be dinner any night of the week. Imagine sitting down to a sumptuous & fragrant dinner of Dumpling Soup with Rice Cakes after a long day of work. A hot summer afternoon just begs for a picnic basket filled with Chilled Cucumber Soup delicate Chicken Skewers with Green Onions & Seaweed Rice Rolls. Impress your friends with enticing Spicy Stewed Mussels accompanied with Red Bean Rice & Garlicky Sauteed Eggplant. ...

With this book in one hand & a brush in the other you can learn how to create different finishes & effects with paint to change everyday rooms & furnishings into something special all for the price of a pot of paint. The first section of the book tells you everything you need to know before you start
- how to prepare surfaces properly choose the right paint for the right place use the best tools & select a colour scheme that will work with the room in question. Then the 50 different techniques are divided into nine sections: colour washing; distressing & aging; fabric effects; wood effects; stone effects; metallic effects; stencilling & printing; stripes checks & spots; & varnishing & glazing. There are step-by-step photos showing how to achieve the finished look backed up by inspirational photos showing the effect used on walls & doors furniture & floors. Learn how to bring old second-hand furniture bang up to date or how to give modern pieces a softly aged appearance as well as ways to treat & transform floorboards doors & plastered walls all with the aid of a pot of paint & a brush. Whatever the style of your interiors Quick & Easy Paint Transformations" will show you the best way to makeover your home."
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Quick & Easy Pillows & Cushions" offers 50 gorgeous projects to make a variety of cushions all with step-by-step illustrations to guide you through the process. There are projects for every room of the house & to suit all styles from the simplest wrap-over cushion that only takes an hour or so to make to a pretty kitchen chair seat cover with a frilled edge that will teach you new techniques. Recycle old fabrics with a beautiful patchwork project or decorate a plain cushion with a collection of vintage brooches. Give an old wooden bench a new lease of life with a padded seat cushion or turn your bedroom into a sophisticated boudoir with a quirky round cushion with a pom-pom braid decoration. Whatever your taste & whatever your skill level you will find a project you will love to make." ...

Quick & Easy Sewing with Your Serger teaches readers all about the serger & presents 15 projects that help them develop the skills & techniques they need for both decorative & functional serging. The projects include fashion makeovers fashion accessories home accents & specialty gift items. The projects make the most of the sergers special functions & capabilities. As with the other books in the series the early chapters present all the information the reader needs to get started
- a discussion of all the features & components of a serger the many styles available & how to thread & stitch perfectly. Several projects showcase the varied techniques including a vintage sweater makeover ready-to-wear jacket trim & window curtains. Readers gradually build skills as they apply what they learn. This book features the step-by-step approach of the other books in the series in keeping with SINGERs reputation for reliable practical instruction.
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Toddler mealtimes can be a battleground. & for busy parents time for preparing food is in short supply. The UK's number-one expert on feeding children Annabel Karmel is on hand to help. In this new Quick & Easy book she offers 130 recipes that can be rustled up in minutes. With an eye on nutritional content & appeal for children as well as speediness for hassled mums & dads she solves mealtimes in an instant. With plenty of tips & tricks to encourage your child to eat from savoury to sweet for breakfast snacks lunch & dinner Annabel's Quick & Easy Toddler Recipes will make for mellow mealtimes. ...

Good public speakers are made not born
- or so thinks Dale Carnegie the pioneer of personal business skills. Yet business social
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This is an exciting & innovative collection of 22 simple but extremely effective wedding cake designs suitable for those new to cake decorating. There are designs for tiered cakes stacked cakes single tiers & shaped cakes. All of the cakes are decorated with sugarpaste or chocolate.

Includes:: delicious recipes for the cake itself
- including madeira chocolate carrot & fruit
- & basic techniques on stacking cakes & using pillars & separators.



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Written in 1956 but still relevant & throught-provoking today this book is an absolute revelation on test flying with the British aircraft organisations & manufacturers in the 1950s. Written with refreshing frankness & truth
- which allegedly finally cost him his job at the Daily Express"
- this account details what really went on behind the scenes in the defence world. Waterton pulls no punches in recounting the non-cooperation of civil servants in improving/altering recognised faults (often minor) when developing aircraft
- to the cost of lives lost. This is an astonishing insight into the workings of the British aircraft industry."


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At the end of the First World War more than 192 000 wives had lost their husbands & nearly 400 000 children had lost their fathers. Few people remained unscathed. The Quick & the Dead pays tribute to the families who were left behind while their husbands fathers & sons went off to fight & the generations that followed. Through a unique collection of more than fifty interviews private diaries & a remarkable collection of unpublished letters written by the soldiers to their families back home The Quick & the Dead is a history of those who are commonly forgotten & neglected when the fallen are remembered on Armistice Day. ...