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Styling Made Simple: Projects and ideas for the home and special celebrations
In Styling Made Simple , experienced stylist Katy Holder shows that beautiful styling ideas are not just for professional stylists or something to be admired in glossy magazines. Here she shares her inspiring and creative ideas to help you style your home or next big occasion with ease, using affordable, easy-to-find materials and simple techniques. Divided into two sections, Styling Made Simple offers styling ideas for around the home as well as for specific occasions. 'Styling With...' shares original projects using materials such as wood, twigs, jars, twine, enamel cups, wrapping paper and luggage tags. The 'Celebrations' chapter focuses on specific occasions, including birthdays, weddings, mother's day, Easter, Halloween and Christmas. For your next dinner party, learn how to arrange canapés or a cheese board, create fun place mats and be inspired by Katy's themed dinner party ideas. If you re planning a DIY wedding, you ll find ideas for table centrepieces, favours and the guest book. And for Christmas, get into the festive mood with reindeer place settings, icicle trees and a speedy canvas Christmas tree. With step-by-step instructions and photographs for each project, Styling Made Simple shows you that beautiful styling is easily achievable.
192 pages, Paperback
Published November 5, 2015
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February 15, 2018
I bought this book knowing that the author is an experienced food stylist and thinking she’d have some good tips to share.
As I bought a physical copy of the book, the first thing I noticed was that the paper and construction quality wasn’t as good as other books in this genre I’ve read recently. (Everything Oz springs to mind).
The book is divided into two sections ‘Projects’ and ‘Celebrations’. I was quite disappointed with the ‘Projects’ which were just a series of basic and not very inspiring makes. These included simple tags with words stamped on them, stones painted with dots, and jam jars with foliage and tea lights. Each of these was given a full page of photo and instructions, which I didn’t feel they were worth.
However, the ‘celebrations‘ section was, in contrast , very good. Unsurprisingly she has clever ideas on food styling (I’d have liked more of these) and her section on children’s parties was really inspiring.
So I’d like to suggest that Holder sticks to styling events in her next book – and make it glossy.
As I bought a physical copy of the book, the first thing I noticed was that the paper and construction quality wasn’t as good as other books in this genre I’ve read recently. (Everything Oz springs to mind).
The book is divided into two sections ‘Projects’ and ‘Celebrations’. I was quite disappointed with the ‘Projects’ which were just a series of basic and not very inspiring makes. These included simple tags with words stamped on them, stones painted with dots, and jam jars with foliage and tea lights. Each of these was given a full page of photo and instructions, which I didn’t feel they were worth.
However, the ‘celebrations‘ section was, in contrast , very good. Unsurprisingly she has clever ideas on food styling (I’d have liked more of these) and her section on children’s parties was really inspiring.
So I’d like to suggest that Holder sticks to styling events in her next book – and make it glossy.
November 27, 2017
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