Download or read book Dolls in Canada written by Marion E. Hislop and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 1997-10 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dolls in Canada is two books in one. The first section is a personal and engaging look at dolls which make up our heritage; pioneer dolls, native people's dolls, dolls from various cultural groups in Canada, dolls from legends and stories, dolls in different styles and materials, and dolls by Canadian artists. Part two contains easy-to-follow instructions on how to make over fifteen different types of dolls, from rag dolls to jumping jacks, from hanky panky dolls to clothespeg dolls.
Download or read book The Foxfire Book of Appalachian Toys and Games written by Linda Garland Page and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2018-06-15 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Part oral history and part rule book, The Foxfire Book of Appalachian Toys and Games is a joyous collection of memories of playing indoor and outdoor games; of making dolls, homemade board games, playhouses, and other toys--each with complete instructions and the flavor of southern Appalachia. Every toy and game has been tested by the Foxfire students and is devised to make or play yourself, without major expense, complicated parts, or electricity. Originally published in 1985, the book includes familiar games like marbles, hopscotch, and horseshoes, as well as more obscure entertainments such as stealing the pines, crows and cranes, and thimble. Here, too, are instructions for constructing playhouses, noisemakers, puzzles, and whimmy diddles. The book also provides information on special games traditionally played on Sundays and holidays. For those who are tired of worn-out batteries and electronic toys and for anyone curious about the playtimes of an earlier generation, The Foxfire Book of Appalachian Toys and Games is a welcome and entertaining guide.
Download or read book Fun for Kids III written by Marion F. Gallivan and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An index to children's craft books published since 1991. Provides a guide to craft instructions alphabetically by project, or by type of material used.
Download or read book The Apple Doll written by Elisa Kleven and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR). This book was released on 2007-07-24 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lizzy loves the big apple tree in her yard more than anything. So when the first day of school comes, she picks a beautiful apple, turns it into a makeshift doll she names Susanna, and takes it along to keep her company. But her teacher tells her that dolls aren't allowed at school. Even worse, her sister says that Susanna won't last forever. Then Lizzy's mom shows her a way to turn Susanna into a real apple doll. And with the help of Susanna the Apple Doll, Lizzy overcomes her shyness at school and makes plenty of new friends to bring home to play in her beloved apple tree. Detailed, delightful collage illustrations accompany this sweet story about one girl's success in bringing together her home world and her school world. Instructions for making an apple doll just like Susanna are included!
Download or read book Deadtime Stories Invasion of the Appleheads written by Annette Cascone and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2012-07-03 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Another creepy tale for beside the campfire or beneath the covers from "Twisted Sisters" Annette and Gina Cascone's Deadtime Stories—now a hit show on Nickelodeon! Katie and Andy Lawrence thought moving to a new town—especially one named Appleton—was awful enough. They were wrong. When their parents take them to Appleton's famous apple orchard for a haunted hayride, weird things start happening. The ghouls who haunt the orchard seem spookily real. The kids they see are acting very strangely, like robots or...zombies. Then Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence disappear—and in their place, Katie and Andy find creepy shrunken applehead dolls! Now Katie and Andy have to find a way to turn their parents back to normal—before it's too late At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Download or read book Natural Creativity written by Amy Dean and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 1998-04-21 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Creativity is essentially nothing more than awareness: the ability to take notice, to pay attention, to perceive, to examine, to probe, to weigh, to study, to look, and to heed. A big part of creativity is discovery, and the natural world is one big treasure hunt, full of potential, possibility, and priceless possessions. Natural Creativity will interest craftspeople and artists of all ages, and van be used to promote family projects. It teaches how to rediscover awareness, appreciation, and reverence for every little thing in life. It shows us ways to exercise natural creativity, using nature's raw materials to make natural crafts, thereby integrating personal creativity and ingenuity with nature. In addition, the book raises awareness about America's early settlers with tales and information that heighten the appreciation of traditional American crafts. In addition, you can use Natural Creativity to guide you on a stimulating journey of creative exploration. Find our more about your natural surroundings as well as your own innate creativity by trying some of the simple and easy-to-follow exercises that are described at the end of each chapter. For more of a challenge, try out the more complicated projects that are scattered throughout the book. These activities make wonderful projects for the whole family to share.
Download or read book Handmade for Profit written by Barbara Brabec and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2002-10-10 with total page 381 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new edition contains all the information you need to get started selling at a the retail level and keep growing. It includes Barbara's own priceless advice, plus a whole new collection of the best marketing strategies and selling secrets of nearly a hundred successful craftspeople, artists, designers and publishers in the author's network. This edition also includes two new chapters: 'Resources' and 'Selling on the Internet', a crash course that will save web beginners hundreds (if not thousands) of pounds.
Download or read book You written by Fan Ogilvie and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2008-10-28 with total page 141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: About KNOT: A Life “This is not only a moving, insightful family memoir, recognizing the way pain and attachment are braided too intricately for separation. Fan Ogilvie has also made an artful, writerly work, bringing cadences and sentences that recall Gertrude Stein to the immediacy of these materials.” -Robert Pinsky Poet Laureate “Gulf Music”, newest collection About Fan Ogilvie’s poetry: “Fan Ogilvie’s poetry has a delightful intelligent trend that takes the reader through surreal and unexpected meanderings. Her quick twists surprise and at the same time unveil a keen sensitivity with piercing intuition that seizes both contrast and beauty. The settings, staged to etch her visions, become a continuous challenge in which we are directly involved.” -Anny Ballardini poet and creator of Fieralingue, the Poet’s Corner, a web site “Fan Ogilvie’s poems are truly wondrous in their jaded and hopeful musings on modern life both in a highly poetic and colloquial tone. In her poems we hear ourselves....” -Carrie McGath poet and reviewer of Fulcrum, an Annual of Poetry and Aesthetics in Literary Review Magazine “Fan Ogilvie is one of the most sensitive and articulate poets alive when it comes to registering the shifts of nature and subtle changes in the cosmos of the mind. Each poem is an amazingly finely-tuned gauge for capturing the processes that form lived experience.” -Katia Kapovich, poet “Gogol in Rome” “Cossacks and Bandits” “Whoever said that the modern lyric is dead has not read Fan Ogilvie.” -Philip Nikolayev poet and critic “Monkey Time” “Letters from Aldenderry” editor of Fulcrum, an annual of Poetry and Aesthetics
Download or read book Agricultural Crafts and Handicrafts written by Henry Gilbert and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Ebony Jr written by and published by . This book was released on 1984-03 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Created by the publishers of EBONY. During its years of publishing it was the largest ever children-focused publication for African Americans.
Download or read book The Heirloom House written by Sherry Lefevre and published by Skyhorse. This book was released on 2015-10-20 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inspiration for Every Home Decorator with a Passion for the Past The Heirloom House is a humorous personal account of two interlocking obsessions: eBay and the quest to create a vacation house that looks and feels like a family heirloom. Beginning with recollections of her childhood summers in Nantucket, author Sherry Lefevre narrates the development of her personal aesthetic: wanting everything people with old inherited houses have. When she receives a bequest that allows her to purchase her own ramshackle summerhouse, she clicks on eBay and emerges two months later with a house fully furnished with other people’s ancestral treasures, from toile curtains to taxidermy, at a more-than-affordable price. Filled with photos and drawings, The Heirloom House invites readers to follow Lefevre’s eBay searches and imitate her heirloom-hunting strategies. Antique treasures are classified and eBay “search words” are suggested to assist the reader’s own treasure hunting. Anecdotes, both informative and entertaining, enliven descriptions of the antique objects acquired, and while the whole endeavor is relayed with humor, the underlying message is a serious one: with enough love, anyone can have an ancestral home—an heirloom house.
Download or read book Make it II written by Mary Ellen Heim and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Incorporates handicraft projects in needleworking, electronics, woodworking, toy-making, fence-building, and a myriad of other practical and decorative crafts.
Download or read book Draw Play written by Jami Davenport and published by Cedrona Enterprises. This book was released on 2020-07-19 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All you’ll ever be is a pretty face. Star running back Bruce “Bruiser” Mackey has heard those words his entire life, especially after his twin brother’s tragic accident. He might use his surfer-boy good looks to land lucrative endorsements for his secret charity, but he hates books being judged by their covers. Which is why it’s wrong that his friend Mackenzie Hernandez is intent on giving herself a makeover. Sure, Mac and her father have been reeling financially since her brother disappeared three years ago, and Steelheads management gives an annual scholarship that might get her life back on track, but he can’t imagine anyone smarter, sexier, or more beautiful than Mac already is. He can’t keep his hands off her—and the more they spend time together, the less he wants to. She’s perfect as is. One way or another, he’ll make sure the team’s tomboy groundskeeper gets a full ride. And between the two of them, they can learn to accept what’s behind them and look downfield to a future full of win. Keywords: football romance, football novel, sports romance, Seattle, football, urban romance, alpha male, sports hero, football star, professional football, football player, gly duckling, model hero, friends to lovers, mystery Previously published as Backfield in Motion in 2013. This version has been updated, rewritten, and re-edited. For fans of: Helena Hunting, Elle Kennedy, Catherine Gayle, Toni Aleo, Jami Davenport, Kelly Jamieson, Sarina Bowen, Sawyer Bennett, Carly Phillips, Kennedy Ryan, Nana Malone, Brenda Rothert, Elise Faber, Kate Meador, Victoria Denault, Mira Lyn Kelly, Odette Stone, Jennifer Lazaris, Lisa B Kamps, Cathryn Fox, Samantha Lind, Samantha Whiskey, Stacey Lynn
Download or read book Colonial America written by Susan Schneck and published by Scholastic. This book was released on 1991 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains information on the day-to-day lives of colonial americans and activities for grades 1-4.
Download or read book Encyclopedia of American Folk Art written by Gerard C. Wertkin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-08-02 with total page 724 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For a full list of entries, contributors, and more, visit the Encyclopedia of American Folk Art web site. This is the first comprehensive, scholarly study of a most fascinating aspect of American history and culture. Generously illustrated with both black and white and full-color photos, this A-Z encyclopedia covers every aspect of American folk art, encompassing not only painting, but also sculpture, basketry, ceramics, quilts, furniture, toys, beadwork, and more, including both famous and lesser-known genres. Containing more than 600 articles, this unique reference considers individual artists, schools, artistic, ethnic, and religious traditions, and heroes who have inspired folk art. An incomparable resource for general readers, students, and specialists, it will become essential for anyone researching American art, culture, and social history.
Download or read book The Get Over Yourself Self Help Book and Other Essays written by Sylvia Shawcross and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2011-11-18 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Get-Over-Yourself Self-Help Book and Other Essays presents a collection of vignettes, narratives, and rants that detail the often absurd business of getting on with life. In an attempt to aspire to a so-called higher life, many of us fear both death and youth, reaching for perfection through the latest technical gadgets that encourage us to cling to preconceived notions of ourselves and to define ourselves through a text message. But is that really any way to truly live? Baby boomer columnist and curmudgeon Sylvia Shawcross believes that satirists have a purpose in this worldto help others to laugh at the absurdity of life. In her second compilation of humorous reflections, Shawcross begins with a hilarious recounting of the frustrating chain of events that occur when she attempts to replace a broken remote at the electronics store and continues with a series of lighthearted essays where she reveals the unconventional and often wacky behavior of those she encounters daily. From the reasons behind rampant consumerism to the forced reprogramming behind ten-digit dialing, Shawcross contemplates issues of global importance while encouraging all of us to wake up and smell the high-priced lattfor sadly, as she says, this is just how it is. The Get-Over-Yourself Self-Help Book and Other Essays provides an eye-opening, amusing glimpse into the mind of a curmudgeon in all her unabashed glory.
Download or read book Original Sins written by Lisa Alther and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2010-12-14 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Five childhood friends with big plans face the changing realities of life in Tennessee in the 1960s in this novel from bestselling author Lisa Alther As Sally and Emily Prince and Jed, Raymond, and Donny Tatro sit under their beloved Castle Tree in rural, segregated Tennessee, they dream big dreams. But the journey from these dreams to reality is a long one. As they move into their teens, each faces challenges they could never have imagined. Sally and Jed may take a traditional route as head cheerleader and football captain in their sports-frenzied town, but can their love survive some unexpected bumps in the road? Emily and Raymond, always the outsiders, move north during the civil rights movement and must consider their connection to Southern roots and traditional gender roles. And Donny, as an African-American teen, will endure the effects of generations of discrimination and class boundaries as he tries to live out his dreams in their small factory town. Along the way, the five will fall in love, change one another’s lives, grow apart, and come together again. In this sweeping novel, Alther brings to life characters both tragic and comic as they live through the changing American socio-economic landscape of the 1950s and ’60s. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Lisa Alther, including rare photos from the author’s personal collection.
