Brini Maxwell's Guide To Gracious Living: Tips, Tricks, Recipes and Ideas To Make Your Life Bloom

Who can turn the world on with her style? Brini can! In the first season of her hugely popular show on the Style Network, domestic diva Brini Maxwell made a big splash with her unparalleled personal flair and novelty know-how. Now, just in time for the second season of "The Brini Maxwell Show," this up-and-coming icon of retro classic style has created a fun and fabulous guide to living the beautiful life, welcoming readers into the colorful, upbeat world that has already won her a cult following.

Here Brini offers her favorite tips, tricks, and ideas for decorating, cooking, dressing, entertaining, and even housekeeping with spirit and panache. She approaches every challenge on the domestic front-from how to perk up a room to what to eat for breakfast to how to pack a suitcase-with a winning combination of creativity, élan, and resourcefulness. Designed with the same hip, mid-century modern look as her television show, the book includes more than 100 household hints and recipes, funky full-color illustrations, and photographs of Brini in action. Brini Maxwell's Guide to Gracious Living is sure to bring a host of new fans to this offbeat goddess of stylish domesticity.

Brini Maxwell was inspired by the thrift store purchase of a set of '50s nesting bowls to create her public access program, "The Brini Maxwell Show," in 1998. The show developed a cult status and was picked up in 2003 by the Style Network. Brini has been interviewed on CNN, MSNBC, E! Entertainment Television, and Late Night with Conan O'Brien, among other programs. She lives in New York City.