Share the love with more than forty cake decorating ideas for weddings and other special occasions from the author of Sweet and Simple Party Cakes. Indulge in this fresh and contemporary collection of irresistible cakes to suit every romantic occasion, from traditional wedding cakes to quirky Valentine’s treats and cupcakes to enjoy with loved ones. The author not only shows the reader how to create beautiful cakes with ease but also advises on the best ways to transport, display, and serve, and even offers instructions on how to make coordinating favors and gifts. The versatility of each cake will ensure readers will be creating them year-round for all of those special occasions.

Review: "Written to stress the crosscurrent of ideas, this cultural encyclopedia provides clearly written and authoritative articles. Thoughts, themes, people, and nations that define the Romantic Era, as well as some frequently overlooked topics, receive their first encyclopedic treatments in 850 signed articles, with bibliographies and coverage of historical antecedents and lingering influences of romanticism. Even casual browsers will discover much to enjoy here."--"The Top 20 Reference Titles of the Year," American Libraries, May 2004.

This romantic novella is for DRAMA lovers. Here two people meet by chance, creating feelings and memories. The story delves into their journeys as they navigate life's challenges and try to move on from the past. With emotional depth and poignant moments, MY UNFORGETTABLE LOVE FOR YOU explores themes of meeting our true love. Ultimately, it leaves readers pondering our choices and the human heart's resilience.- **MY UNFORGETTABLE LOVE FOR YOU.**

New in Paper Whether they're wisps of sheer organza, lean slatted blinds, or full formal curtains, your window treatments define your style. Through lavish photographs, this book shows how to make a romantic statement with your windows that will wake up an entire decorating scheme. Find out how to enhance your home's architecture and use treatments to soften a room's lines, add color and warmth, and emphasize good proportions and improve bad ones. See how elegant simplicity can be, with billowy white muslin curtains or basic floral prints. Choose traditional English country, perhaps with swag and tail; dress windows for privacy; and take a close-up look at everything from tiebacks to shutters. Whichever you decide on, your room will have an exciting new focus.

Author Nealay Patel’s distinct sense of style and color appeals to crystal lovers looking for inspiration and new design ideas. Readers learn to use weaving, wire-working, and other creative techniques, like stitching with crystals and beading wire, to create ten truly unique jewelry sets. Beading wire is easy to find and use with little investment; it is also very forgiving and can be reshaped as many times as necessary. Clear step-by-step instructions and thorough, easy-to-follow photos and illustrations are included for each piece. Other chapters cover specific techniques such as crimping, creating a simple loop, working with thread, and opening and closing jump rings. These projects present a modern, Victorian-style look with a new twist.

Romantic Anti-capitalism and Nature examines the deep connections between the romantic rebellion against modernity and ecological concern with modern threats to nature. The chapters deal with expressions of romantic culture from a wide variety of different areas: travel writing, painting, utopian vision, cultural studies, political philosophy, and activist socio-political writing. The authors discuss a highly diverse group of figures - William Bartram, Thomas Cole, William Morris, Walter Benjamin, Raymond Williams, and Naomi Klein - from the late eighteenth to the early twenty-first century. They are rooted individually in English, American, and German cultures, but share a common perspective: the romantic protest against modern bourgeois civilisation and its destruction of the natural environment. Although a rich ecocritical literature has developed since the 1990s, particularly in the United States and Britain, that addresses many aspects of ecology and its intersection with romanticism, they almost exclusively focus on literature, and define romanticism as a limited literary period of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. This study is one of the first to suggest a much broader view of the romantic relation to ecological discourse and representation, covering a range of cultural creations and viewing romanticism as a cultural critique, or protest against capitalist-industrialist modernity in the name of past, pre-modern, or pre-capitalist values. This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of ecology, romanticism, and the history of capitalism.