Designers create worlds and solve problems using design thinking. Look around your office or home -- at the tablet or smartphone you may be holding or the chair you are sitting in. Everything in our lives was designed by someone. And every design starts with a problem that a designer or team of designers seeks to solve. In this book, Bill Burnett and Dave Evans show us how design thinking can help us create a life that is both meaningful and fulfilling,...

Selected as a Gardens Illustrated Recommended Read
Hand-Built Outdoor Furniture covers twenty step-by-step, fully illustrated projects with hundreds of clear and easy-to-follow photographs. Finished pieces include simple items include a trellis, a flower box, and a plant stand and more complicated projects include a chaise lounge, a sectional with built-in storage, and a slat bench. Katie Jackson's projects...

Presents seventy-five projects for making garden structures and accessories using inexpensive, readily-available materials, including such items as rustic fencing, plant markers, painted terracotta pots, stakes, hypertufa planters, and sieves.

Describes how to incorporate stone into a garden, including how to examine the soil, select the best stones to use, and build structures such as walkways, fountains, rock gardens, and walls.

As a true fan of DIY or one who loves DIY, you will undoubtedly appreciate the Cricut Machines, which have great success and enable you to create many original projects. You can cut different materials, custom T-shirts, sewing projects, postcards, birthday invitations, banners, creative lamps, stickers, bracelets, embossed creations, blackboards, custom cups, and glasses, cut out letters or pictures to make scrapbooking, and much, much more. This...