Easy & Elegant Rose Design: Beyond the Garden

I dare you to open this book and not get sucked in by the creativity and beauty of these ideas. Forget Martha Stewart! Ellen Spector Platt came up with pages of unique, stunning, and simple projects that leap off the page. My mother and I have done several of the projects, our favorite being the floral loom, which now hangs above the bed in her newly redecorated bedroom. The pictures are so beautiful, you almost don't want to try to recreate the projects on your own (for fear they won't turn out as good), but the directions are comprehensive and clear, making all of the projects possible for anyone. I call myself "The Anti-Crafter," but I couldn't resist trying some of this stuff. It's too beautiful and too clever to resist.

Ellen Spector's Beyond The Garden: Easy & Elegant Rose Design is a beautiful guide illustrated throughout with full-color photographs by Alan Detrick of more than 30 projects one can undertake to add floral color and life to one's home. From simple arrangements to wreaths, topiaries, potpourris, framed roses and more, Beyond The Garden: Easy & Elegant Rose Design is a superb resource for gifts, crafts, hobbies, or simply freshening up one's house. A selection of tips for selecting, growing, and caring for roses as well as preserving them rounds out this first-rate guide which is especially recommended for rose gardening enthusiasts.