Month after month, the Good Things column in Martha Stewart Living provides inspiring ideas for making everyday life just a little bit better and a little bit more stylish. Good Things is a varied selection of wonderful crafts projects, recipes, and hints for decorating your home, organizing your life, and of course, for giving as gifts.

Family photographs will look best massed together in richly colored, hand-painted wood frames. Dry gourds make gorgeous Thanksgiving centerpieces, but Good Things shows how to transform them into bird feeders. Utilitarian manila rope is wound around an inexpensive lamp and topped with a parchment shade for a refined room accent. Cherry kitchen towels are used as a shortcut to a dishy apron. And flower baskets for transporting Easter eggs strike just the right note of warmth, good cheer, and style.

Good Things is a rich source of ideas that you, your family, and friends will appreciate and savor.