Lifestyle and Hobbies

A bird knocks insistently on your window, your cat brings you a lizard, you find yourself face to face with a spider or you dream of an elephant ... what if each animal had a message for you? Animals have always been a source of fascination for humans–we love to watch them, learn about them and keep them as pets. But what if animals could actually communicate with us? In this complete guide, you

Dive into the mesmerizing world of this traditional Japanese stitching technique and create timeless art.

The essential guide to needlepoint for beginners and experts alike, with over 100 stitches and techniques demonstrated with photos and diagrams. Alongside the stitch directory, you'll find all the information on materials, equipment and stitching techniques and 10 easy and accessible projects with full-colour charts.

Discover the magic of growing plants from seed with this beautifully illustrated card deck. Featuring 52 plants from flowers to herbs, each card shows the full lifecycle of the plant, explores its uses and reveals some of the myths and stories behind its name, with a beginner’s guide to growing from seed in the accompanying 16 page booklet.Learn how to identify seeds, when best to plant them and w

Pursue your quilting interest in new ways with this 1,000-piece jigsaw puzzle featuring Bonnie K. Hunter's gorgeous quilts. Like piecing together fabric scraps to make a quilt top, this pastime will give you a sense of satisfaction and fulfillment. Enjoy it yourself, or share your love of quilting with the puzzle aficionado in your life-this one makes a great gift for quilters, Bonnie Hunter fan

From the duo behind the New York Times bestseller Bad Manners: The Official Cookbook come healthy crowd-pleasing recipes to entertain with attitude (previously published as Thug Kitchen Party Grub: For Social Motherf*ckers). Bad Manners: Party Grub answers the question that they have heard most from their fans: How the hell are you supposed to eat healthy when you hang around with a bunch of assh

Unleash your creativity with 50 versatile stitches in a stylish on-the-go card deck. Perfect for on-the-go embroidery and the ideal gift for embroidery fans of all levels. The perfect tool to help you select and create 50 useful embroidery stitches, this innovative card deck of inspiring designs can be easily slipped into your bag for on-the-go stitching. The sturdy box contains a 16-page book

In the vein of popular nature decks like the Sibley Backyard Birding Flashcards and Midnight Magic: A Tarot Deck of Mushrooms comes a magic-infused plant identification deck for beginner foragers, with 50 common plants and their uses, drawn from the book Enchanted Foraging by geoscientist and wildcrafter Ebony Gheorghe.

Create your own graphic novel and comic book characters with this practical and inspiring guide, with step-by-step exercises and practice pages. In this stylishly packaged, full-color book you'll find everything you need bring your stories to life, from creating characters, to making a storyboard and coloring in with inks.

Mending Matters explores sewing on two levels. First, it includes more than 20 hands-on projects that showcase current trends in visible mending that are edgy, modern, and bold—but draw on traditional stitching. It does all this through just four very simple mending techniques: exterior patches, interior patches, slow stitches, darning, and weaving. In addition, the book addresses the way mendi

Make mistakes vanish with this set of five erasers featuring characters from Studio Ghibli's award-winning film Spirited Away. Eraser sleeves include Chihiro, Haku, No Face, Yubaba, and Radish Spirit-all packaged to look as if they are crossing the bridge into the spirit world!

Continuing their partnership with Japanese animation giant Studio Ghibli, this season Chronicle publishes three collectible stationery products a postcard set, a hardcover sketchbook, and a plush journal all featuring artwork inspired by the Studio's Academy Award winning film SPIRITED AWAY. The year 2021 marks the 20th anniversary of the film's release!

Updated annually, MICHELIN National Map Germany (map 718) will give you an overall picture of your journey thanks to its clear and accurate mapping scale 1/750,000. Our map will help you easily plan your safe and enjoyable journey in Germany thanks to a comprehensive key, a complete name index as well a clever time & distance chart. Michelin's driving information will help you navigate safely in a

It's high time you gave yourself a healthy dose of self-love. The fact is, you deserve it. You are a magnificent, radiant being. You are divine. And you are awesome. The sooner you start embracing that and treating yourself accordingly, the sooner your life will begin to unfold with compassion, purpose, ease, health, and vitality. In this card deck from "New York Times "best-selling author Kris

Honoring the spiritual nature of all beings; this is the essence of the wedding vows from Conversations with God. Thus, these are not simply vows, but something more: an outward manifestation of our deepest inner truth.These vows were spoken by Neale Donald Walsch and Nancy Flemming-Walsch at their own marriage, and are featured in Book 3 of the Conversations with God series. As Neale writes, "We

Writer and beekeeper, Jack Mingo, who set up his first backyard hive in 2004, offers his humorous and unique observations of the world of the mystical, matriarchal, gentle, sweet bee in "Bees Make the Best Pets." Full of fun facts, Mingo shares a potpourri of bee and bee-keeping trivia; practical tips and legend and lore. And here are just some of the reasons bees make the best pets: They don'

Her dream escape is about to become a nightmare… Kimberley King has spent the last five years trying to outrun the reason she left the police force. Her life is a mess and she’s desperate for change. So when she is randomly selected for the new series of the hit show LoveWrecked, she can’t pass up the chance to win the £100,000 prize. All Kimberley needs to do is couple up with one of her fellow