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Title

Simple times / written by Amy Sedaris and Paul Dinello.

Author

Sedaris, Amy

Publication

New York : Grand Central Pub., 2010.

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Details

Additional Authors

Dinello, Paul

Description

304 pages : color illustrations; 26 cm

Summary

With her special brand of humor, Sedaris shows how to make popular crafts, such as crab-claw roach clips, tinfoil balls, and crepe-paper moccasins; how to remember which kind of glue to use with which material; how to create your own craft room and avoid the most common crafting accidents; and, how to cook your own edible crafts, from a Crafty Candle Salad to Sugar Skulls, and many more recipes.

Subject

• Handicraft
• Handicraft > United States > Humor
• Cooking, American
• Decoration and ornament > United States > Themes, motives
• Handicraft > Humor
• Wit and Humor as Topic
• Artisanat
• Artisanat > États-Unis > Humour
• Cuisine américaine
• crafts (art genres)
• Decoration and ornament > Themes, motives
• Handicraft
• United States

Genre/Form

• Humorous stories.
• Cookbook
• cookbooks.
• Humorous fiction
• Cookbooks
• Humor
• Livres de cuisine.

Note

• "Crafts for poor people"--Jacket.
• Includes index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

The whos and whats of crafting -- The craft of crafting craftingly -- Craft yourself homely -- Nature's way -- The joy of poverty -- Handicraftable -- Safety meeting -- At rest -- Confectioneries -- Out of this world -- Crafting for Jesus -- Pep talk -- Hay burners -- Unreturnable gift giving -- Shut-ins -- Fireside storytelling -- Teenagers have a lot of pain -- Making love -- Sausages -- knowing your knack for knickknacks -- Creative Fridays.

ISBN

• 9780446557030
• 044655703X
• 9780446557047
• 0446557048

LCCN

• 2010928185
• 9780446557030

OCLC

• 548641991
• SCSB-11709722

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library