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Make Something Good Today

A Memoir
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Make Something Good Today is a heartfelt memoir by Erin and Ben Napier, offering a glimpse into their journey of building a life and career rooted in creativity, community, and love. Through personal anecdotes, the couple shares their experiences of revitalising their hometown, embracing challenges, and cultivating happiness in everyday moments. It's an inspiring read about the power of hope, resilience, and the beauty of making something good each day.
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"From Ben and Erin Napier, the stars of the hit HGTV show Home Town, comes ... a memoir that lets us all know that great love stories are possible, big things can bloom in small towns, and there is always magic in the ordinary if you know where to look for it"--

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From Ben and Erin Napier, the stars of the hit HGTV show Home Town, comes Make Something Good Today, a memoir that tells us all to seek out the good in life, celebrate the beauty of family and friends, and prosper within our communities because everything we need in life to be happy is within our grasp.

Long before their hugely popular TV show, an expanding family, or demolition day on their dream home, Erin began keeping a daily online journal to help her stay focused on the positive and count her blessings in life. She never expected that her depictions of small-town life in the tiny swath of Mississippi where she and Ben call home would catch the eye of a television producer and set them off on the journey of a lifetime.

Make Something Good Today offers a behind-the-scenes glimpse into the struggles and triumphs of a couple that America has come to know and love for their easy humour, adoring relationship, and ability to utterly transform a place into something beautiful and personal. This is the poignant story of how Erin and Ben took a small, tight-knit town into their own hands (literally) and used ingenuity, community, and authenticity to rebuild a once-thriving American Main Street. And how, by combining Benโ€™s carpentry skills with Erinโ€™s design eye, Home Town is making it clear to us all that small-town living can feel as big as you make it.

Complete with family photographs, Erinโ€™s hand-painted sketches, and never-before-heard personal stories, this inspirational memoir reminds us all not to give up hope that great love stories are possible, big things can bloom in small towns, and there is always magic in the ordinary if you know where to look for it.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781501189111

Publisher: Simon & Schuster

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 02 October 2018

Country: United States

Imprint: Gallery

Illustration: 4-C throughout

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 25.0mm

Width: 187.0mm

Height: 232.0mm

Weight: 755g

Pages: 240

About the Author

Erin Napier is a designer, author, and entrepreneur. Along with her husband, Ben Napier, she is the cohost of HGTVโ€™s Home Town, coauthor of Make Something Good Today, author of The Lantern House, and founding co-owner of their stores Laurel Mercantile Co., Scotsman General Store & Woodshop, and The Scent Library. She lives in Laurel, Mississippi, with Ben and their two daughters. Learn more at ErinAndBen.co.

Ben Napier is a woodworker and entrepreneur with a degree in history, founder of Scotsman Co. and co-owner of Laurel Mercantile Co. He is a past president of Laurel's Main Street America chapter dedicated to promoting the rebirth of their historic downtown district. Together with his wife Erin, he lives and restores homes in Laurel, Mississippi on HGTVโ€™s Home Town.

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