What's your favorite holiday? Halloween? Valentine's Day? Share your holiday spirit with all your friends by throwing a holiday party! Don't worry if you're not sure where to begin. We'll give you tips and tricks on decorations, invitations, and activities for your party. And if you want your bash to have a special theme?say, "New Year's Eve Dance Marathon"?we've got ideas for you there too! Take a look inside this book and start planning a holiday event that everyone will be talking about?until you host your next party, of course.
"Known for his bold and refreshing take on color, Will Taylor, the founder of Bright Bazaar--one of the world's leading interior design blogs--shares his secrets to choosing colors that work for every room in your house. Structured around the different spaces within the home, the book breaks down the how, when, and where of using different shades and color combinations"--
Introducing the lifesaving cookbook for every mother with kids at home—the book that solves the 20 most common cooking dilemmas. What’s your predicament: breakfast on a harried school morning? The Mom 100’s got it—Personalized Pizzas are not only fast but are nutritious, and hey, it doesn’t get any better than pizza for breakfast. Kids making noise about the same old lunch? The Mom 100’s got it—three different Turkey Wraps, plus a Wrap Blueprint delivers enough variety to last for years. Katie Workman, founding editor in chief of Cookstr.com and mother of two school-age kids, offers recipes, tips, techniques, attitude, and wisdom for staying happy in the kitchen while proudly keeping it homemade—because homemade not only tastes best, but is also better (and most economical) for you. The Mom 100 is 20 dilemmas every mom faces, with 5 solutions for each: including terrific recipes for the vegetable-averse, the salad-rejector, for the fish-o-phobe, or the overnight vegetarian convert. “Fork-in-the-Road” variations make it easy to adjust a recipe to appeal to different eaters (i.e., the kids who want bland and the adults who don’t). “What the Kids Can Do” sidebars suggest ways for kids to help make each dish.
Charlie Scola has been a leading innovator in party planning for 30 years. Affectionately known as "PartyCharlie," he has catered events for major studios, celebrities, dignitaries, executives, and world figures. He has planned parties for Elton John, Tom Cruise, John Travolta, Bon Jovi, Eric McCormack, Charlie Sheen, and Aaron Spelling to name a few. An eternal optimist, Charlie's greatest pleasure is spreading joy through outrageously fun parties. In this book, PartyCharlie presents five steps for creating the energy for an outrageously successful party, providing readers with the necessary ingredients to plan and host memorable events that guests will rave about.
A benevolently owned, NY based, family-owned magazine publishing company, is taken over by a huge, for profit-minded, media conglomerate. Those who helped build this successful company soon find that their lives have changed and not for the better. It is a fictional suspense genre novel. Kirkus Discoveries called it, " ... a sharply observed saga of workplace tyranny. . The author clearly knows his territory."
Definitive in every way, Ugly Christmas Sweater Party Book includes the history of the event, how to throw the perfect party, what to wear, and how to judge the all-important ugly Christmas sweater contest. But most important, Ugly Christmas Sweater Party Book is packed with more than 100 hilarious, full-color photos of outrageously ugly Christmas sweaters, including Scarf Face, Wreath Witherspoon, and Ryan Treecrest. It’s a must-have for the millions who plan to throw or attend an ugly Christmas sweater party, and a sidesplitting look at the funniest, craziest, most unbelievable holiday sweaters you can imagine—authorized by Team Ugly, the recognized experts on ugly Christmas sweater parties. Praise for Ugly Christmas Sweater Party Book: “Part party primer, part not-so-tongue-in-cheek appraisal of holiday sweater fashion, this title delivers on both aspects.” —Library Journal
A Cozy Take on Meals Will Have You Stoking the Home Fires! Author Ashley Rodriguez has focused her career on teaching people the importance of a good meal at home, first with Date Night In, a relationship cookbook that brought the romance back to home-cooked meals at home. For her next book, she's turning the focus outward. Let's Stay In is all about effortless hospitality, meaningful family meals, and an appreciation for the magic of meals shared with others. Families, neighbors, friends, and loved ones will find a different kind of love around the table together, connecting over memorable meals. The recipes walk you through every meal of the day with delicious breakfasts, easy lunches, inviting dinners, and Ashley's signature incredible desserts: Breakfasts of Red Lentil and Chickpea Stew with Poached Eggs, Breakfast BLTs, and Spiced Raisin Scones Midday meals of Zucchini, Gruyere & Basil Quesadillas, Ricotta, Speck and Plum Salsa Tartine, and Ivy's Split Pea Soup Table-groaning dinners of Steak Tacos with Radish and Pickled Onions, Oven Baked Risotto with Squash and Rosemary Candied Walnuts, and Grilled Leg of Lamb with Green Sauce Sweets and drinks like Blood Orange Poppy Seed Upside Down Cake, Guava Coconut Punch, The Easiest Pear Tart, and Cardamom Cream Soda Ashley is a natural teacher, and the recipes flow off the page as effortlessly as the conversation at a great meal. She practices what she preaches, too, making time to bring her busy family and loved ones together for meals as often as possible. Staying in can become an easy habit to adapt, helping to center each person at an inviting table. It's the easiest kind of aspirational cooking and gathering, helping home cooks of any level to say "let's stay in!"
How can you make cakes, cookies, and candy even MORE fun? Award-winning blogger Heather Baird, a vibrant new voice in the culinary world, has the answer: Cook like an artist! Combining her awesome skills as a baker, confectioner, and painter, she has created a gorgeous, innovative cookbook, designed to unleash the creative side of every baker. Heather sees dessert making as one of the few truly creative outlets for the home cook. So, instead of arranging recipes by dessert type (cookies, tarts, cakes, etc.), she has organized them by line, color, and sculpture. As a result, SprinkleBakes is at once a breathtakingly comprehensive dessert cookbook and an artist's instructional that explains brush strokes, sculpture molds, color theory, and much more. With easy-to-follow instructions and beautiful step-by-step photographs, Heather shows how anyone can make her jaw-dropping creations, from Mehndi Hand Ginger Cookies to Snow Glass Apples to her seasonal masterpiece, a Duraflame(R)-inspired Yule Log..
This Beautiful 100 Page Party Planner is just what you need to plan your perfect Dream Day! Perfect for planning a Bat Mitzvah, Bar Mitzvah, Quinceanera, Milestone Birthday Party, Milestone Anniversary Party, Graduation, Family Reunion, Engagement Party, Baby Shower, Neighborhood Block Party, Retirement Party or any other special event.It Includes: A Nameplate An organized and well thought out Party planning Checklist (10-12 Months Out, 6-9 Months Out, 3-5 Months Out, 6-8 Weeks Out, 3-5 Weeks Out, 1-2 Weeks Out, The Day Before!) Budget Planning Sheet Expense Tracking Sheet Party Schedule Planning sheet Menu Planning Sheet Entertainment/Games Planning Sheet Guest List Organizer, 2 pages Party Seating Chart, 4 pages Song Playlist Forms, 2 pages Gifts Records Sheets, 2 pages Party Plans Notes Pages, 80 pages to fill with your thought, ideas and plans to make your prefect party dreams come true!
This cool title introduces kids to planning different kinds of holiday parties such as earth day, valentine's day, Halloween and more. It begins with party-planning basics and guides kids through the process of having their own holiday party. Sample invitations, menus, and fun party activities are included. Step-by-step instructions and photographs make the projects like making lucky Irish soap favors or 4th of July pinwheels. Kids will find a lot of really cool ideas for entertaining their family and friends. Checkerboard Library is an imprint of ABDO Publishing Company.