"Depicting houses and gardens in needlwork is a perennial interest among stitchers....Jenkins gives instructions for designing charts of one's own home along with examples of architectural and garden components that may be used....The black-and-white charted designs are intended as a point of departure for stitchers designing their own samplers....Of particular interest in the full-color examples offered by the author is the clever use of a variety of canvaswork stitches to imitate brickwork, stone, and plants...."--Library Journal.
 128 pages, 132 color illus., 18 b/w illus., 7 1/2 x 10 1/4.

House & Garden Samplers

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Jenkins, Mary

Crafts & Hobbies

David & Charles, UK

Making Welsh Quilts: The Textile Tradition That Inspired The Amish?

Making Welsh Quilts

KP books

Create beautifully stitched samplers inspired by the subjects closest to your heart--your own home and garden. 
Any home can make interesting embroidery, and with all the know-how for the beginner and experienced needleworker, Picture Your Home in Counted Thread shows you how. Sample designs for a variety of house styles, together with explanations and photographs, are provided to guide and inspire. 
The author revives techniques from the past, combining them with styles of today to stunning effect. A comprehensive section covering an abundance of stitches shows you how to work the threads to suggest texture and to create warmth and interest in the design. Using the careful step-by-step instructions, advice on color, layout, borders and framing, you can create lovely and unusual samplers featuring your own house and garden.

Create Your Home in Counted Thread

David&Charles

This one-of-a-kind reference to Welsh quilts explains in extensive historical detail and instructions an age-old tradition that inspired the Amish style. From rich fabrics and colors, to simple patchwork designs and decorative patterns, Making Welsh Quilts guides quilters to a collection of fantastic Welsh quilts. 
Traditional hand piecing and quilting techniques, as well as machine quilting, are featured in the collection of 10 projects. A variety of quilts, including Pennsylvania Echo, Pinwheel, and Paisley Star, are explained in step-by-step instructions and diagrams. Fifty color illustrations demonstrate each finished quilt, helping to create a unique resource that both instructs and inspires quilters. 
-Guides quilters through 10 quilts, including hand and machine-made projects 
-Covers traditional Welsh quilting techniques 
-Reference sections direct quilters to equipment suppliers, and introduce Welsh quilt designs

Claridge, Clare

Krause Pubns Inc

Very rare hardcover book, written by Elvis' cook and maid. She shares stories and memories of her days taking care of Elvis and Priscilla. Includes rare photos of the interior of Graceland when Elvis lived there, (very different from the way it is now).

Elvis, Memories Beyond Graceland Gates

Biographies & Memoirs

Arts & Literature

Eastland Pub Co

Guide to Star-Gazing: A Familiar Explanation of the First Principles of Astronomy [Signed M.J.].

History

Nabu Press

Life was simple for Betty Ann Sunshine when she was growing up way down in the backwoods of Alabama. Sometime later on in life Betty met Bobo Coxs, the man of her dreams. Little did she know that her life was about to be turned into a nightmare, a dark and shadowy nightmare that she would never forget.

A Mother's Love, A Husband's Abuse, An Unheard Cry

lulu.com

Holler, Heaven and Home: A Journey of Faith

Holler, Heaven and Home is an inspirational book with an Appalachian flavor. It's homespun stories and songs from the hills and hollers of eastern Kentucky will take you on a journey that shows the depths of faith during the good times and the bad. It chronicles the author's journey as her faith was on a firm foundation then wavered through the difficult time of her husband's cancer diagnosis and then, once again, restored. The book also reveals how God's plan and purpose for our lives are often shown through the building blocks of adversity.

Religion & Spirituality

Christian Books & Bibles

WestBowPress

Performance appraisals are used in the overwhelming majority of workplaces. Yet, most organizations that use appraisal--and a similar percentage of givers and receivers of appraisal--are dissatisfied with the process. Many are beginning to deeply question whether appraisal is necessary and consistent with the work culture espoused by progressive organizations. Abolishing Performance Appraisals provides an insightful, well documented look at the flaws of appraisal--including its destructive, unintended effects--and offers practical guidance to organizations that want to move on to more progressive approaches to coaching, feedback, development, and compensation. While many books prescribe cures for appraisal, this is the first to focus exclusively on eliminating appraisal altogether and creating alternative, non-appraisal approaches based upon progressive and healthier assumptions about people. The authors expose and dispel the widely accepted myths and false assumptions that underlie common management strategies surrounding the five key functions of appraisal--coaching, feedback, development, compensation, and legal documentation. They then offer step-by-step practical guidance on implementing alternative non-appraisal strategies that deliver the objectives of each function. And they suggest ways to give supervisors and managers the freedom to choose for themselves the most effective ways of working with people. Filled with real-life examples, resources, tools, and detailed practical advice, Abolishing Performance Appraisals is an entirely fresh and radically different view of performance appraisal and its functions that will help people start over and discover new and more effective approaches.

Abolishing Performance Appraisals: Why They Backfire and What to Do Instead

Business & Money

Coens, Tom

Management & Leadership

Berrett-Koehler Publishers

Destined to Overcome: Daily Declarations to Win at Life!

Delasber Sanders

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