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Flower School : Mastering The Art Of Floral Design
How is your flower garden doing? Conditions have been great for my roses, daisies, and lilies, and I often cut some for the house. Unfortunately, I don’t have a great artistic sense and my bouquets are a bit of a jumble.
I need to study Paula Pryke’s Flower School : Mastering The Art Of Floral Design [...]
Outdoor Kitchens : Ideas For Planning, Designing, And Entertaining
Here is a book for next year. Outdoor Kitchens : Ideas For Planning, Designing, And Entertaining by Joseph R. Provey (2008. ANF 643.3 PRO) is a full-colour, glossy page book filled with photographs, diagrams, instructions, and suggestions for anyone contemplating living in their backyard.
Apparently, people today are bombarded with technology all their waking hours and [...]
My Mother’s Wedding Dress : The Meaning And Memory Of Clothes In Our Lives
I just could not put down My Mother’s Wedding Dress : The Meaning And Memory Of Clothes In Our Lives by Justine Picardie (2006. ANF 391.2019 PIC).
Picardie is a fashion journalist and this memoir is part fashion report and part sociological examination.
She begins by talking about her mother’s wedding dress, a black French cocktail dress [...]
Prefabulous : The House Of Your Dreams, Delivered Fresh From The Factory
A few years ago my husband and I had a new house built. We looked into the possibility of a prefab but did not find a design we liked. If the book Prefabulous : The House Of Your Dreams, Delivered Fresh From The Factory by Sheri Koones (2006. ANF 643.2 KOO) had been available then [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )My Kind Of Place : Travel Stories From A Woman Who’s Been Everywhere
Susan Orlean is a travel writer with a difference. Her writings for the New Yorker magazine have delighted readers for over ten years, and now those of us who never even crack open the magazine can enjoy her observations in her book My Kind Of Place : Travel Stories From A Woman Who’s Been [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Eat Dessert First!
The Red Hat Society began in 1998 when Sue Ellen Cooper started giving her friends a red hat and a copy of “Warning”, a poem about a woman in purple clothing and a red hat. The significance of this was to remind them that life is short and every day is a gift that needs [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Earth Then And Now : Amazing Images Of Our Changing World
Now and then pictures are always intriguing. Earth Then And Now : Amazing Images Of Our Changing World by Fred Pearce (2007. ANF 550 PEA) is a veritable feast of images. Who doesn’t like to see and marvel at what the passage of time or the forces of man and nature can [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )The Pyramids And The Sphinx
I think the fascination with the pyramids of Egypt and the pharaohs who had them built is a genetic thing. Everyone I know has gone through the King Tut’s tomb phase, and I suspect that the following for Indiana Jones and his adventures stems from this same captivation.
The Pyramids And The Sphinx by Corinna [...]
The Town That Forgot How To Breathe
The Town That Forgot How To Breathe by Kenneth J. Harvey (2003. FIC HAR) is an eerie story. I chose it because it was set in Newfoundland and I have enjoyed many other stories set there. This one was very different.
Bareneed is a small port town not far from Port de Grave. [...]
My Turquoise Years
I just finished a trip down memory lane. I joined Marion Farrant in 1960 in her memoir My Turquoise Years(2004 ANF 813.54 FAR). There she was at thirteen living with her Aunt Elsie and Uncle Ernie in Cordova Bay just outside Victoria, seeing her father every second weekend, and hearing stories about her mother’s exotic [...]
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