The Bust DIY Guide to Life: Making Your Way Through Every Day

Hardback

Main Details

Title The Bust DIY Guide to Life: Making Your Way Through Every Day
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Debbie Stoller
By (author) Laurie Henzel
Physical Properties
Format:Hardback
Pages:368
Dimensions(mm): Height 251,Width 194
Category/GenreHandicrafts, decorative arts and crafts
ISBN/Barcode 9781584798965
ClassificationsDewey:745.5
Audience
General

Publishing Details

Publisher Stewart, Tabori & Chang Inc
Imprint Stewart, Tabori & Chang Inc
Publication Date 1 October 2011
Publication Country United States

Description

Whether it's sewing clothes, making cheese, or growing a garden, the modern appeal of "do-it-yourself" projects has a broader reach than ever. And who better to teach us how to DIY our lives than the \u00fcber-crafty editors of BUST, the quirky, raw, and real magazine "for women who have something to get off their chests"? In The BUST DIY Guide to Life, magazine founders Debbie Stoller (of Stitch 'n Bitch fame) and Laurie Henzel have culled more than 250 of the best DIY and craft projects from its 15-year history. Organized by category - beauty and health, fashion, food and entertaining, career, finance, travel, and sex - and written in BUST's trademark brazen and witty style, this quintessential DIY encyclopedia from the quintessential DIY magazine is eclectic, empowering, hilarious, and downright practical, truly capturing the spirit of women today. Praise for the BUST DIY Guide to Life: "This lifestyle manual will come in handy when you need anything from a headache remedy to a dirt-cheap wedding." - Entertainment Weekly "Has tips on beauty, fashion, and finance, too, all with attitude. But our dog-eared pages? Decorating, all the way." -- Los Angeles Times "It's a rare do-it-yourself book that combines instructions for both homemade pot holders and Tantric sex. But The Bust DIY Guide to Life isn't your typical how-to manual. The book, by Bust magazine cofounders Laurie Henzel and Debbie Stoller, is an irreverent yet informative guide to much of what life throws your way - removing laundry stains, lubricating a bicycle chain, even planning a wedding on the cheap." - Akron Beacon Journal "Looking for one source to provide answers on how to do practical things? This is it! A friendly compendium that shows you (with many pictures and diagrams) how to replace a broken zipper, make soap, turn your bell bottoms into straight-leg jeans, how to buy an old house, how to buy a vintage car, how to skateboard and lots more." - The Fresno Bee

Author Biography

Debbie Stoller and Laurie Henzel are the founders and publishers of BUST magazine--Stoller is the editor in chief and Henzel is the creative director. Stoller is also the co-author of the BUST Guide to the New Girl Order and the Stitch 'n Bitch knitting book series. Stoller and Henzel both live in New York City.