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Two thumbs up!.......2000-04-11
Excellent book for someone interested in any field related to real estate, architecture or construction. Very, very helpful in becoming familiar with zoning, land and construction of different types of homes. Lots of pictures and diagrams. Not just a bunch of reading.
Book Description
Learn how to create a variety of pretty wall murals, decorative borders and wall treatments that are so easy most can be painted in a day! Donna Dewberry provides all the information readers need-everything from getting started and choosing supplies to mastering basic techniques.
Starting with six colorful borders, including vining ivy, rosebuds, hydrangeas, a daisy chain, ferns and more, Donna then demonstrates how to paint four charming wall murals, step-by-step: An old world scene with faux-marble columns, stone floor, arched doorway and tree- lined vista A welcome sign with white picket fence, birdhouse, flowers and leafy tree A formal topiary in an old mossy urn in front of a breakaway brick wall A birdbath under a white garden trellis covered with a pink-rose vine
Readers can take any one, or several, of the design elements in these murals and incorporate them into designs of their own, or they can just copy the complete mural out of the book. Donna also includes guidelines for creating two beautiful and sophisticated wall treatments.
A final chapter provides valuable insights on making a business out of muraling, including pricing your work and finding customers.
Donna Dewberry is the author of Painting Garden Décor with Donna Dewberry, Donna Dewberry's Complete Book of One-Stroke Painting, Decorative Murals with Donna Dewberry and Decorative Furniture with Donna Dewberry. She is one of the top-selling presenters of QVC's shopping network and has appeared on the Carol Duvall show. She paints designers for many well-known home decorating enterprises, including Better Homes & Gardens and Longaberger baskets. She also teaches one-stroke certification classes all over the country Donna lives in Altamonte Springs, Florida.
Customer Reviews:
unique method.......2007-05-23
Very well written and demonstrated. Lots of different projects make the book pretty well rounded and a value
Quick and Easy Murals.......2004-10-01
A great book for those who want to start painting on the walls. While if doesn't show a beginner color worksheets on every element it is great for the intermediate to advanced beginner. There are hundreds of step-by-step photos. The projects that take the most painting skill are the borders. Donna shows you how to paint six wall borders using photos showing step by steps. The four wall murals give a great effect and are truly quick and easy. And then she shows two wall treatments that will show you that you never need to use wall paper again. It is so much easier to repaint than to strip wallpaper. For the more advanced or highly motivated painter Donna has included a section on starting you own Mural business. This book shows you can be a do it yourself muralist.
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Very interesting!.......1999-01-22
I found this book to be very interesting and infomative. The pictures really give you a good idea of what the Academy is all about. I, myself, will be enrolling in July, 1999, and I am definitely glad I read this. It does a great job of describing what a future midshipman should expect. Definitely a great buy!
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Manufacturer: Grosset & Dunlap
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ASIN: 0441321968 |
Book Description
In the third volume of his autobiography, H. L. Mencken looks back on his life and declares it "very busy and excessively pleasant." He imparts the impressive education he received from Hoggie Unglebower, the best dog trainer in Christendom, and the survival techniques he employed at Baltimore Polytechnic, where he learned to protect his fingers from power tools and his character from the influence of algebra.
Mencken also describes the club boxing matches he attended, watching as the combatants in this gentleman's sport genteelly broke both bones and the law. And he recounts his voyage across the Atlantic that he, unlike Columbus, paid for himself. In Naples, he admired the garbage that seemed to have accumulated since Roman times. In Tunis, he searched for the ruins of Carthage. In the Holy Land, he looked for the ruins of Gomorrah, the Hollywood of antiquity, in hopes of finding evidence that the city's unparalleled reputation for wickedness was simply exaggerated.
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The "Bad Boy of Baltimore" Autobiography Vol. III.......1998-09-17
From Ungie Hornblower to nomination for the vice presidency, Mencken serves up autobiographical shorts that'll make you howl. Though he lived on Hollins Street for most of his life, his stories paint a full picture of "Charm City" from 1890-1936 (at least from the eyes of the most feared and respected critic of the time).
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HEATHEN DAYS, 1890-1936.
Manufacturer: Alfred A. Knopf,
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000GS3YEK |
Book Description
A bibliophile's pilgrimage to where book lovers go when they die-Hay-on-Wye.
Paul Collins and his family abandoned the hills of San Francisco to move to the Welsh countryside-to move, in fact, to the little cobblestone village of Hay-on-Wye, the 'Town of Books' that boasts fifteen hundress inhabitants-and forty bookstores. Antiquarian bookstores, no less.
Hay's newest citizens accordingly take up residence in a sixteenth-century apartment over a bookstore, meeting the village's large population of misfits and bibliomaniacs by working for world-class eccentric Richard Booth-the self-declared King of Hay, owner of the local castle, and proprietor of the world's largest and most chaotic used book warren. A useless clerk, Paul delights in shifting dusty stacks of books around and sifting them for ancient gems like Robinson Crusoe in Words of One Syllable, Confessions of an Author's Wife, and I Was Hitler's Maid. He also duly fulfills his new duty as a citizen by simultaneously applying to be a Peer in the House of Lords and attempting to buy Sixpence House, a beautiful and neglected old tumbledown pub for sale in the town's center.
Taking readers into a secluded sanctuary for book lovers, and guiding us through the creation of his own book, Sixpence House becomes a meditation on what books means to us, and how their meaning can still resonate long after they have been abandoned by their public. Even as he's writing, the knowledge of where his work will eventually end up-rubbing bindings with the rest of the books that time forgot-is a curious kind of comfort.
Customer Reviews:
Get Everything That Paul Collins Writes.......2007-07-19
I began with "The Trouble with Tom" and then had to get everything that Paul Collins has written.
Follow this writer; he has wonderful things coming; I am certain of it. "Sixpence House" is charming, honest, intelligent writing; it's on my re-read-often list.
Books!.......2007-03-16
This is an autobiographical account of an extended visit to a town with lots of bookstores in Wales. The mountains of books and the abundant book trivia make this book interesting. And it is enlightening to see an American's view of the town. However, I felt that I was taking up too much space in the Collins' home and I was embarrassed to be eavesdropping on their everyday activities.
Charming........2007-03-06
To me, none of these "stranger-in-a-strange-land" books ever comes close to Peter Maybe but I love them all to a degree and never tire of them. This book tended to be a bit disjointed and rambling but I forgave it because it was, literally, laugh-out-loud funny. It's like a friend who starts out to tell you a certain story, gets distracted at many points, but everything is he says is either so witty or original you don't care. One of the very best parts, for instance, was how Collins breaks down exactly how you CAN tell a modern book by its cover. He's be a great columnist in the vein of "The Polysyllabic Spree" by Nick Hornby.
Sixpence House.......2006-05-07
Paul and his wife and young son decide to leave their San Francisco home and move to a small town in the countryside of Wales called Hay. This town specializes in selling books- mostly really, really old books. The books are sold if they are valuable- if not, they are gradually priced lower and lower, given away free with the purchase of any other book, or finally burned in huge bonfires that rain bits of other peoples' thoughts on the town's inhabitants. This book is not just about the town, it is also about the humor of the family's adjustment to life in Britain, the hopes of a new writer, and the struggles of a young couple to buy their own home.
Quote: "To look for a specific book in Hay is a hopeless task; you can only find the books that are looking for you."
I thought this was a fabulous book. It is half a book about Paul's life and half a book about books, so the author references this or that interesting work he has stumbled across in the town of books (not that I need to be adding anything else to my to-read list at this point, but that's okay). The author is very entertaining, particularly because he is working on getting a book published and on the shelves (Barnvard's Folly) while writing this book and while surrounded by this graveyard for books. I am also entertained by the fact that each chapter is given a persona which is reflected in the title (such as "Chapter Fifteen Beholds the LORD").
A Year in Hay on Wye.......2006-03-17
As opposed to A Year in Provence (to which it is sometimes compared), this book doesn't inspire you to pull up stakes and transfer to the South of France or anywhere else, except maybe to the nearest musty, possibly treasure-laden bookstore, and deepen your appreciation of books. A visit to the California Antiquarian Book Fair a few years back taught me that there are basically two kinds of people -- those who love books for what they are and those that love books for what they do. Collins seems to be that rare bird -- a dweller in both camps. Every booklover knows the joy in finding something they didn't know they'd wanted in the first place. But he includes historical bits, usually hilarious, he's gleaned from his lifelong pursuit of the obscure and quirky. His sidetrips are also wonderfully funny and informative. For instance, while giving an account of what it's like to be in the publishing his own first effort, he segues into a description of, say, dust covers, giving a brief history of their development and what they may tell a prospective buyer, proving you CAN judge a book by its cover. The avid reader will recognize, also, Collins' predilection for making a beeline for bookcases when visiting someone's home. This practice is a shortcut to getting to know a person. Along the same lines, I try to see books on shelves behind people who are being interviewed on camera.
The writing is full of humor, the biographical episodes lively enough to convey a sense of place. But the real joy is in finding there is still much to learn about books as objects rather than books as providers of knowledge and enjoyment.
Book Description
A developmental milestone for toddlers age 24—36 months is learning to sing simple songs such as “Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star,” “Baa Baa Black Sheep,” and others. Here's a collection of the most familiar songs for babies and toddlers.
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SIXPENCE HOUSE
Paul Collins
Manufacturer: Bloomsbury
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000JV7P3A |
Product Description
6 Mass Market Paperback Titles By Gilbert - Be Shot for Sixpence - Empty House - Flash Point - Body of a Girl - Smallbone Deceased
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