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Bust DIY Guide To Life: Making Your Way Through Every Day (2011)

by Laurie Henzel(Favorite Author)

3.88 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

1584798963 (ISBN13: 9781584798965)

languge

English

genre

Food & Cookbooks

publisher

Stewart, Tabori and Chang

review 1: Up front: I read Bust as a teenage girl so there's always going to be a soft spot for the genuine-girl-power! writing style. Do you also enjoy bright and positive girls-can-do-anything writing? This book has got it.The projects cover an impressive breadth of topics from personal to house to sewing to cooking to pretty much anything. They are styled interestingly and modernly in a series of well done photographs. There's lots of step-by-step photo essays and it was really lovely to be flicking through the book.But I haven't ended up actually using it. There seems to be an astonishing amount of equipment I'd need to buy, an insistence that thrift shops can give you any supplies (I don't live near any thrift stores), and many of them require space to actually put into place. ... moreAnd in a way, they teach you how to do the project in the book, not the actual craft itself. In covering so much, there's not much space to elaborate, to allow you to gain an understanding of the craft itself, so that if you can't do it as printed, you feel like information is missing. It's a great reference to understand what crafts will solve that issue but I'd use a different book to actually learn the DIY craft.
review 2: I am a Bust girl! Seriously, I remember years ago hearing about the mag and scouring my Barnes & Noble trying to find it. I own Debbie Stoller's Stitch and Bitch books. I DIY! So happy to have cool, fresh projects all in one fantastic book. In true Bust style, the projects are retro cool and simple to do, using easily found and/or repurposed materials. A book to treasure and gift to my girlfriends! Thanks Debbie! less

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