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From simple Roman and roller shades to glorious cascade and Austiran designs, this book contains an aspiring array of shades for windows of all proportions, shapes, sizes and styles.

"If your taste extends to the odd side of traveling, [this is your ticket]."--"Booklist."

Making your own mineral makeup is easy and inexpensive, and these 79 recipes detail how to customize for skin type and color. Formulations for eye shadow, foundation, concealer, blush, highlighter, and more will help you create mineral-based powders free of fragrances, parabens, and toxins. You’ll also learn to make simple and safe lip balms and glosses. Many recipes include ingredients that help promote healthy skin, and the in-depth ingredient glossary and at-a-glance substitution chart identify properties such as oil-absorbing and healing, while also highlighting vegan options, so you can create cosmetics that meet your skin’s needs and reflect your personal values.

"McHugh remains one of our most important and unusual poets." --Publishers Weekly, starred review

“In the full bloom of spring, in a beautiful garden, in a place called Lumbini, a prince was born.” So begins the extraordinary story of the life of Siddhartha Gautama, the prince who would become the enlightened Buddha, the Awakened One. This classic tale follows Prince Siddhartha’s journey of truth-seeking and discovery, including his life-altering encounters with human suffering and his realization of the Four Noble Truths. Today, millions of people all over the world follow the Buddha’s teachings on meditation, selflessness, and compassion. Rendered here in exquisite original watercolor illustrations, this inspiring story is brought to life for young readers curious about one of history’s most monumental and influential figures.

Make your cozy space your happy place! These dreamy crafts and projects will help you define your personal style and transform your room into a uniquely-you zone! Create easy, funky bedskirts, twinkly fairy light displays, canopies, pillows, curtains, and more for a relaxing, calming, magical space to dream in!

Words and forms challenge each other in a collection of new poems and selections from the author's five previous books.

I was born and raised in the Colorado Desert of Southern California. The thermometer hanging in the shade behind our house, routinely read 125 to 132 F on the hottest days. We so-called "desert rats" had our ways of coping with these extremes. In 1966, I stopped coping. I was nine and my world came to a screeching halt when Mother passed away. Dad had to threaten a spanking every morning to get me out of bed. Oh, I'd make it to the bus and my fourth grade class, but I walked in a fog. Or maybe, it was a blinding sand storm, and the shifting whispering sands were seeping into my bones and filling in the oasis where my heart once lived. I was parched to my soul. I began to think of Grandma, my mother's mother. Grandmother had two green thumbs. She could just look at something and it would grow! She had rose gardens and plum trees. We had creosote and mesquite. She had a front yard full of green grass. We had bleached sand. Grandma's heart was deep as a well. I came out of my fog long enough to request that my father take me to Grandma. This he granted and once a month we would spend a whole weekend - a hundred miles away in Yucaipa - with Grandma. One day, my father mentioned that my grandmother was born before the turn of the century. I suddenly realized just how old she was! Grandma had such an eternal presence about her that her age never occurred to me, even though we celebrated her birthdays. Now, Grandma had a date of 1896 associated with her. She had been there for cowboys and Indians and genuine original horsepower. I flooded her with questions about her life at my age. Grandma said, "I will tell you about our family history so you will not be lost, without roots." This book is a collection of those wonderful stories.

A powerful, immersive and intimately candid memoir exploring the light and shade that co-exist in love, family and the arts, from celebrated stage and screen actor Heather Mitchell 'A gentle collection of musings on an extraordinary life; unpretentious and honest, full of stoic wisdom.' Tim Minchin 'An extraordinary life told in tender detail, capturing triumph, love and tragedy with a beautiful humanity.' Annabel Crabb Heather Mitchell is an esteemed Australian stage and screen actor, and yet behind the scenes her real life has taken many remarkable twists and turns. Training an unflinching spotlight on her most formative memories, Heather illuminates the heartbreaking secrets, sexual encounters, family dramas and creative pursuits that have shaped her life as a woman, an actor and a mother. Told with raw candour and spellbinding lyricism, Everything and Nothing draws back the curtain on a unique and fascinating life. 'Heather's perspective on life and love speaks straight to the soul. Is there anything she can't do?' Toni Collette 'This book is a joy. Everything and Nothing makes you feel life more keenly.' Anna Funder