Donna Dewberry's Painted Garden: 15 Projects You Can Paint

Beautify your outdoor decor with Donna Dewberry's Painted Garden! Donna's garden is filled with bright flowers and friendly birds and butterflies adorning everything from garden stakes and glass candleholders to wooden planters, metal wind chimes and more. Inside you'll find 15 all-new projects featuring Donna's famous One Stroke painting techniques.

Open this guide and see how easy it is to transform ordinary outdoor furniture and accessories into unique decorative objects. Donna makes every project fun and achievable, even for beginners. You'll find:

• Hundreds of colorful step-by-step photos
• Special instructions detailing all of Donna's one-stroke techniques
• Tips for selecting durable paints and weather-proofing projects for outdoor use
• An inspiring gallery of projects for outdoor decorating ideas

*Author is a well-known and successful TV personality with regular how-to shows on PBS and HSN

*Combines latest craze for large outdoor living spaces with Donna's colorful decorative designs

*Provides perforated "Color Recipe Cards" and storage pocket for ease of color matching

Donna Dewberry's Painted Garden features 20 step-by-step projects painted on outdoor furniture and accessories using tough and durable acrylic paints that resist fading and weathering. From Adirondack chairs and patio tables to planters, window boxes, porch pillows and butterfly houses, there's something here for every taste and budget. Readers will enjoy the beautiful color photos of Donna in the garden as well as sidebars of Donna's favorite gardening and outdoor entertaining tips and hints. A bonus section called "Donna's Color Recipes" presents all the paint colors used in the book on handy recipe-sized cards readers can tear out and take to the store to reference colors.

Donna Dewberry is without doubt the most successful and well-known decorative painter ever. She has done nine books for North Light since 1998. She is contracted through 2007 with PBS stations nationwide for her program 'One-Stroke Painting with Donna Dewberry' and is also a regular presenter on the Home Shopping Network. Her designs are licensed for home dècor fabrics, wallpapers, borders, stick-ons, bedding, etc. Donna's most recent North Light books are Donna Dewberry's Designs for Entertaining (2006) and Painting Fabulous Flowers with Donna Dewberry (2006).