Style Statement: Live By Your Own Design
10 best books like Style Statement: Live By Your Own Design (Carrie McCarthy): City Chic: An Urban Girl's Guide to Livin' Large on Less, The Woman's Comfort Book, SoulCollage: An Intuitive Collage Process for Individuals and Groups, Creative Is a Verb: If You're Alive, You're Creative, Cultivating Your Creative Life: Exercises, Activities & Inspiration for Finding Balance, Beauty & Success as an Artist, Where Women Create: Inspiring Work Spaces of Extraordinary Women, Inner Excavation: Exploring Your Self Through Photography, Poetry and Mixed Media, This I Know: Notes on Unraveling the Heart, You Must Revise Your Life, Always Maintain a Joyful Mind: And Other Lojong Teachings on Awakening Compassion and Fearlessness [Book and CD]
City Chic: An Urban Girl's Guide to Livin' Large on Less
| Author | Nina Willdorf |
| ISBN | 1402200544 |
Urban Girls work hard and play even harder. They have an eye for style that is only slowed by a budgetary bottom line. They live the lifestyles of the not-at-all-rich and the not-just-yet-famous. Soon enough, they will be superstars, oozing savoir-faire. But for now, before they assume the helm of the...
| Author | Jennifer Louden |
| ISBN | 0062505319 |
With over 200 prescriptions for giving yourself a break, this book helps the reader to sort out guilty feelings about self–nurture and to define her comfort/self–nurture needs.
In this book the author delivers a host of creative and comforting programmes like the self–care schedule,...
SoulCollage™ is a process through which you contact your intuition and create an incredible deck of cards which have deep personal meaning and which will help you with life's questions. Following the simple SoulCollage directions, your hands move fragments of cut-out magazine pictures around,...
| Author | Patti Digh |
| ISBN | 1599218836 |
This only took me 5 months to read. It is a book to read slowly and savor. Definitely a book to buy and write in the margins. My expectations were high for this book. I wanted to be inspired. The book is nicely designed. The photographs and illustrations are interesting, sometimes funny, and thought-provoking....
| Author | Alena Hennessy |
| ISBN | 1592537863 |
Cultivating Your Creative Life: Exercises, Activities, and Inspiration for Finding Balance, Beauty, and Success as an Artist is a multi-faceted book where creativity and wonder intermingle to show how to live a creative and balanced life while moving toward your goals. You’ll find ideas for keeping...
| Author | Jo Packham |
| ISBN | 1402712294 |
More than twenty superstars from the world of crafting--including Anna Corba, April Cornell, Sandi Genovese, and Andrea Grossman--offer their expert advice on how to design a work space where creativity can blossom. Like the bestselling Business of Bliss, it's practical, inspirational, and beautiful...
| Author | Liz Lamoreux |
| ISBN | 1440303096 |
Express the art within you
There are clues all around you--sounds, textures, memories, passions--just waiting for you to shine a light on them, and unearth the most intimate form of expression--the self-portrait. Inside Inner Excavation, author Liz Lamoreux will be your guide, along with...
| Author | Susannah Conway |
| ISBN | 0762770082 |
Part memoir, part creative journal, This I Know chronicles Susannah’s journey through bereavement and healing, taking the reader on a ride into the possibilities of unravelling — and healing — her own life too. It’s a guidebook of sorts, a collection of thoughts and theories, with creative...
| Author | William Stafford |
| ISBN | 0472063715 |
If you want to better understand how William Stafford approaches writing, this book may help with that. Through a combination of essays, poetry and interviews, Stafford presents what I can only describe as a kind of philosophy of writing, including his approach to helping others find their own voice....
| Author | Pema Chödrön |
| ISBN | 1590304608 |
For centuries Tibetan Buddhists have relied on a collection of fifty-nine pith teachings (called lojong in Tibetan) to help them develop wisdom and compassion amid the challenges of daily living. In this book Pema Chödrön introduces these transformative teachings and offers guidance on how to...
Better than Beauty: A Guide to Charm
| Author | Helen Valentine |
| ISBN | 0811834514 |
While beauty makes a first impression, charm lasts a lifetime. It's the perfect simplicity of manners--a winsome blend of kindness, confidence, and grace.
Better than Beauty resuscitates the long-lost art of charm with hints, tips, and tricks guaranteed to boost our charm quotient. First...
The Lucky Guide to Mastering Any Style: How to Wear Iconic Looks and Make Them Your Own
| Author | Kim France |
| ISBN | 1592404022 |
On the heels of the fabulously successful Lucky Shopping Manual comes the complete handbook for creating a great look based on ten iconic styles —packed with more than 450 color images.
With a circulation of 1.1 million, Lucky magazine has taken America’s most dedicated shoppers by storm,...
The Bombshell Manual of Style
| Author | Laren Stover |
| ISBN | 0786866942 |
In this glittering beauty and lifestyle guide packed with pearls of wisdom, Laren Stover has compiled everything a woman needs to know to live the Bombshell life: from how to dress and make an entrance to what to eat and where to shop. It tells readers what makes a Bombshell tick; road-tested outfits for...
Unfurling, A Mixed-Media Workshop with Misty Mawn: Inspiration and Techniques for Self-Expression through Art
| Author | Misty Mawn |
| ISBN | 1592536883 |
Unfurling is a creative workshop in book form, offering a unique mix of motivation and technique exercises to get your creative juices flowing. Written by Misty Mawn, these pages will inspire anyone who wishes to open up more to the process of making art. The book begins with art exercises in drawing...
Collage Lab: Experiments, Investigations, and Exploratory Projects
| Author | Bee Shay |
| ISBN | 1592535658 |
Collage Lab offers artists and crafters a fun and experimental approach to making art. The book is organized into 52 different labs which may, but don't need to be, explored on a weekly basis. The labs can be worked in any order, so that readers can flip around to learn a new mixed-media technique or be inspired...
Craft-a-Doodle: 75 Creative Exercises from 18 Artists
| Author | Jenny Doh |
| ISBN | 1454704225 |
Using a simple doodle as a starting point, 18 artists take you on an inspirational, crafty journey! Filled with inventive prompts designed to fuel the imagination, these 75 exercises motivate crafters to pick up a pencil, brush, or marker, and explore their artistic voice. From quick “try it”...
Art Journal Freedom: How to Journal Creatively with Color & Composition
| Author | Dina Wakley |
| ISBN | 1599636158 |
Art Journal Color! Art Journal Composition! Art Journal Freedom!Color is all around us and we often find ourselves drawn to particular combinations or arrangements. But how can you effectively and artistically capture those eye-catching compositions in your art journal?
It's true, art...
Crafting a Meaningful Home: 27 DIY Projects to Tell Stories, Hold Memories, and Celebrate Family Heritage
As the second decade of the 21st century begins, we’re more compelled than ever to find refuge in our homes and personalize our living spaces with DIY projects that celebrate who we are and where we’ve been. In Crafting a Meaningful Home, Meg Mateo Ilasco shares 27 projects that tell personal stories...
The Fabulous Girl's Guide to Decorum
| Author | Kim Izzo |
| ISBN | 0767910109 |
Good manners will make you fabulous. Good manners will make you sexy. The well-mannered get invited to more dinner parties, see their career aspirations blossom, and have a wider array of friends and eligible suitors. So if you want to become your most fabulous self, read on–The Fabulous Girl’s...
Small-Space Container Gardens: Transform Your Balcony, Porch, or Patio with Fruits, Flowers, Foliage, and Herbs
| Author | Fern Richardson |
| ISBN | 1604692413 |
Small? Yes. A concrete slab populated with plastic chairs and an abandoned grill? Not anymore.
Small-Space Container Gardens layers practical gardening fundamentals with creative solutions, encouraging us to think “outside the pot.” You'll learn how to tackle unique...
Three Black Skirts: All You Need to Survive
| Author | Anna Johnson |
| ISBN | 0761119396 |
It's the real thing. It's about getting your life together. It's about looking damn fine. It's about man handling. It's about the casa question. About solitude. About stain removal. Whether you're a young woman just out of school and starting a career or a successful thirty-something, if you're still...
Making an Impression: Designing Creating Artful Stamps
| Author | Geninne Zlatkis |
| ISBN | 1454701250 |
Popular illustrator and stamper Geninne Zlatkis has a passion for nature and color that distinguishes her work. These 20 beautiful projects--including cards, an embellished journal and tote, and decorative wall pieces--provide the keys to Geninne's creative process and image-making process....
Creative Illustration Workshop for Mixed-Media Artists: Seeing, Sketching, Storytelling, and Using Found Materials
| Author | Katherine Dunn |
| ISBN | 1592536360 |
Whether you have experience drawing or are completely new to it, this exciting workshop-style book provides practical, inspiring, and creative exercises which will expand your drawing skills and provide a framework for integrating illustration with other mixed-media techniques, With a focus...
