The Super-Bride's Guide for Dodging Wedding Pitfalls


Book Description

Coordinating all the details of a wedding can be exasperating, especially if you're short on time and juggling budget constraints. This book offers practical tips to help reduce stress during the planning process, avoid common wedding pitfalls and keep your wedding on track. It includes: a plan to get organized, advice on setting and sticking to a budget, money-saving tips, helpful hints and fun ideas to make your wedding unique. The perfect solution for busy brides on a limited budget.




A Taste of Memories


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Memories of special meals prepared by loving family members evoke powerful emotions in all of us. These favorite dishes, commonly known as "comfort food", remind us of times and places in our lives that generate feelings of safety, warmth and joy. Inside you'll find more than 100 recipes from American cooks, spanning a period from the early 1900s to the 1980s. I've also included a few family comfort food stories and photos that will warm your heart as well as your tummy, plus a bit of history about popular food trends during each decade. These recipes are simple, hearty fare, but all are tried and true family favorites, like meatloaf, macaroni and cheese, chicken pot pie and banana pudding. I hope you enjoy this glimpse of comforting foods from our past and use these recipes to create your own taste of memories for the future.




Ten Common Home Decorating Mistakes and How to Avoid Them


Book Description

This step-by-step decorating guide offers helpful hints and creative ideas for furniture layouts, color schemes, lighting, window treatments, accessorizing and more that can help you avoid common home decorating mistakes and achieve the results you want. Whether you plan to start with an empty space or decorate using the furniture you already own, these easy-to-follow suggestions can help make your rooms more functional and attractive, using whatever budget you choose.




Easy Microwave Desserts in a Mug


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With thousands of copies of the Easy Microwave Desserts in a Mug cookbook now in print, dessert-lovers around the world are enjoying these quick and delicious treats. This Third Edition includes more than 100 single-serving mix recipes for desserts, breakfast treats and hot beverages that are prepared, cooked and served in a mug in less than 5 minutes, like Chocolate Brownie, Peach Cobbler, Apple Pie, Blueberry-Lemon Coffee Cake, Cranberry Oat Scone and Chai Tea Latte. They're perfect for today's on-the-go families or singles, seniors and college dorm students. They make fun cooking projects for kids and unique, inexpensive gifts.




Self-publishing on a Budget


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Do you long to be a published author but think it's an impossible dream? Learn how to turn that dream into reality with the information in this step-by-step self-publishing guide. It offers helpful advice on writing and editing your manuscript, book layouts and text fonts, designing a book cover, choosing a binding style, finding an affordable printer and promoting and selling your book. Don't pass up the chance to see your work in print. Self-publishing is easy, affordable and fun. You can do it and this book will show you how!




Pearls of Wisdom for Creating a Joyful Life


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After 58 years of living and learning, author Gloria Hander Lyons realized that she had finally reached a point in her life where she felt a sense of joy. Not certain how she arrived at this stage, she felt it was important to reflect on this phenomenon and pass along her clonclusions. Unfortunately, she learned these lessons as a result of making the wrong choices, but you won't need to make the same mistakes; you can learn fom hers. That's why she wrote this guide, so that other women, both young and old, might be spared some of life's pain and frustration. So she offers you these pearls of hard-earned wisdom and inspirational quotes in the hope that they will speed you on your way to a more joyful life. Share the joy!




Flamingos, Poodle Skirts & Red Hots: Creative Theme Party Ideas


Book Description

Learn how to host theme parties that will make your event stand out from all the rest. This simple guide for successful party planning includes 33 party themes based on historical periods, travel locations, movies, books, holidays and more. Delight your friends with a 1920's Speak-Easy, a Sizzling Red Hot Birthday, a Sunset Caribbean Caper or a "Mad-Hatter" Bridal Shower. Also included are clever ideas for invitations, decorations, party favors, food displays and fun activities for guests. You'll be the hostess with the most creative ideas when you plan your next party using Flamigos, Poodle Skirts and Red Hots.




What's Up with That?


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Have you ever encountered a situation that seemed so bizarre your only response was, "What's up with that?" This book includes 19 humorous short stories that depict some of these "head-scratching" moments you might have encountered. If you've ever eaten at a restaurant where the lights were so dim you couldn't see your food, been trapped in an elevator with someone wearing so much cologne you couldn't breathe, or been stuck in a traffic jam in the "drive-thru" lane at a fast food restaurant, then you can relate! Life in modern-day America can be challenging-to say the least-so why not look at the humorous side and vent some of our stress through chuckling instead of exploding? Take a few moments to sit down, relax and enjoy these light-hearted tales! Read a few of the stories at www.BlueSagePress.com.




Quick & Easy Sandwich Wraps


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Sandwich wraps are made from typical sandwich fillings that are wrapped inside a tortilla or other type of flatbread. They¿re perfect for an on-the-go lunch, a great way to use up leftovers, or for adding new flavors to your meals. This book includes tips for creating your own wraps, with suggestions for healthy choices, plus six sandwich filling recipes and 42 sandwich wrap recipes (both hot and cold) and that you can put together in a jiffy for a satisfying meal for breakfast, lunch or dinner.




40 Favorite Impossible Pies


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If you're not familiar with the concept of the "Impossible Pie", you're in for a real treat. A popular invention from the 1970s, these main dish pies are made using baking mix in a batter that is poured over cooked meat, cheese and vegetables in a pie plate and form their own "crust" while they bake. This book has 30 main dish recipes for hearty, budget-conscious entrees your family will love, like Chicken Quesadilla Pie and Philly Cheese Steak Pie. Tuck a couple of slices in your lunchbox for a tasty lunch. Also included are ten scrumptious dessert recipes you can stir up and bake in a jiffy, like Brownie Pie and Cheesecake Pie. For more FREE recipes, visit www.BlueSagePress.com