How to Draw a Cup of Coffee and Other Fun Ideas for Home and Garden [Spiral-bound]

Joy Sikorski (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: July 1, 1998

The outrageous sequel to the best-selling How to Draw a Radish (55,000 sold!), Joy Sikorski's newest is the perfect stay-at-home passport to fun. Turning her curious creativity to the fertile territory of home and garden, Joy offers a host of essential crafts and useful suggestions: how to turn an overgrown lawn into a mystical maze, transform a dull cement sidewalk into a fancy brick path, make edible Louis XIV furniture, and much, much more. In between easy home improvement projects, readers can learn to draw an octopus, a rolling pin, a flying saucer, and a zigzag dog, in addition to other satisfying methods of amusing yourself chez vous. So toss those stuffy decorating manuals out the door! Don't pull up another weed! How to Draw a Cup of Coffee is the antidote to domestic productivity.

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About the Author

Joy Sikorski is a New York-based writer and illustrator whoes major literary influences include Edward Lear's Complete Book of Nonsense, Dr. Seuss's One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish , and Herman Melville's Moby Dick .

Product Details

• Spiral-bound: 176 pages
• Publisher: Chronicle Books (July 1, 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0811819027
• ISBN-13: 978-0811819022
• Product Dimensions: 6.6 x 5.9 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 14.9 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,325,032 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars This is what an overactive imagination can produce, December 7, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: How to Draw a Cup of Coffee and Other Fun Ideas for Home and Garden (Spiral-bound)

This is fun, clever, comical, cute, fanciful and fabulous. Read it, use it, learn from it and just enjoy it - dont' think just read and then try your hand at making pancake sculptures, drawing puddy cats and sunflowers, making a coat of arms and making the best apple pie in the world. Suitable for all ages but you must have an open mind otherwise you might think the author was little crazy when she wrote it!

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A wonderful book, July 31, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: How to Draw a Cup of Coffee and Other Fun Ideas for Home and Garden (Spiral-bound)

If you are looking for a fun gift look no further! this book is an exellent peice of work from people of all ages! It is fun and creative and never boring! Read it and give it a try!

3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Truly a masterpiece! and it is fun, too!, November 28, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: How to Draw a Cup of Coffee and Other Fun Ideas for Home and Garden (Spiral-bound)

When I read this book I shouted aloud, "Eureka!" It is so much fun, and the author is a nut, in a good way. I bought it for all my friends, too.