Dips: Great Recipes for Spreads, Salsas, Fondues and Other Party Fare

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Like Mother, LIke Daughter.......2006-07-10

This has become a favorite over the last 15 years. Now that our daughter is married and entertaining, I am ordering a copy for her kitchen.

delicious, unique dip recipes.......1999-06-08

Dips are a mainstay of American entertaining, and this recipe book offers marvelously delicious and unique dips for all occassions. With 125 recipes and numerous tips, Susan Puckett's book is easy to read, presenting a new recipe on each page. The ingredients are readily available and creatively combined.And the book's price makes it a fun hostess gift!

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This new edition of the classic reference is enhanced with hundreds of new color photographs depicting a wide array of collectors' treasures. Victorian hatpins, required to fasten large hats, and the holders used to store them when not in use, are presented in close views with extensive text to interpret their use and place them among popular historical fashion accessories. Precious and everyday materials alike are found in hatpins, and the holders are generally glass or porcelain. This new book will be a valuable aid to collectors and all who are interested in period costume, jewelry, and memorabilia

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Hat Pin Bible.......2005-12-14

This 200 page compendium complete with photographs, illustrations, history (including legal rulings and laws regarding the hat pin's use as a weapon), etc. is the hat pin fancier's bible.

The hatpin and hatpin holder collectors bible.......1998-10-05

This superb book will interest the collector and historians alike. It is a great tribute to Lillian Baker, the queen of hatpin collectors. She passes on her tremendous knowledge and experience with the aid of a well catalogued album. This shows colour plates of many hatpins indexed by the different types of materials used. Gold, silver, brass, glass, porcelain, ivory and many other hatpins adorned with diamonds, pearls, amethysts, etc show what a diversity of collections are possible. They are catalogued by type, manufacturer, style or period over the past 150 years or so. A historical perspective on their development shows how they were made and the many types of legitimate fixings. Examples of fake hatpins are also shown. There is also a similar catalogue of a vast range of hatpin holders and vanity sets also in colour. The book is worth the money for the pictures alone and is what you would expect of the author who managed to persuade friends with rare and expensive or unusual hatpins and holders to allow them to be catalogued. There is even an explanation of the origins of pinmoney and the need for hatpin to be one word not two. The only disappointment is the lack of any indicator of values, as this was also the authors area of expertise. This book is unlikely to be repeated so buy it now - it will be a collectors piece soon.

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Hatpins and Hatpin Holders Encyclopedia
Lillian Baker
Manufacturer: Pacific Northwest Books
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 1878815032

Iridescent hatpins and holders from the Carnival glass era

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Iridescent hatpins and holders from the Carnival glass era
Jerry Ferris Reynolds
Manufacturer: J. Reynolds
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Binding: Unknown Binding
ASIN: B0006QI57I

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Hatpins and Hatpin Holders
Lillian Baker
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ASIN: 0891452249

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A full-color identification and value guide filled with useful information and beautiful photographs. This easy-to-use resource has descriptions, sizes, and dates. 2000 values. AUTHORBIO: Lillian Baker was an author for more than four decades. Her first book on Hatpins Hatpin Holders in 1976 was the first and only worldwide definitive book on the subject. She also authored 100 Years of Collectible Jewelry, Plastic Jewelry of the 20th Century, Fifty Years of Collectible Fashion Jewelry, Art Nouveau Art Deco Jewelry, and Creative Collectible Miniatures. REVIEW: This book is a compilation of dinnerware pieces and pieces of information gained from letters, trade publications, and conversations with pottery people. It is intended to generally acquaint readers with pottery terms and production methods as well as gain insight into the major dinnerware companies in America. The pieces shown for each company represent only a small portion of what was available from the company.

The collector's encyclopedia of hatpins and hatpin holders

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The collector's encyclopedia of hatpins and hatpin holders
Lillian Baker
Manufacturer: Collector Books
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Collector's Encyclopedia of Hatpins & Hatpin Holders

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Collector's Encyclopedia of Hatpins & Hatpin Holders
Lillian Baker
Manufacturer: Elbee Publications
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Encyclopedia of hatpins and hatpin holders: Price guide

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Encyclopedia of hatpins and hatpin holders: Price guide
Lillian Baker
Manufacturer: Baker
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ASIN: B0006E2SXM

Hatpins & Hatpin Holders - Illustrated Value Guide

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Hatpins & Hatpin Holders - Illustrated Value Guide
Lillian Baker
Manufacturer: Collector Books
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000LS1B5Y

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If you're not content with ordinary chairs and tables, shelves and cabinets, and especially if you enjoy rescuing flea-market finds and giving them a face-lift, you'll enjoy the wonderfully offbeat projects in Painted Wooden Furniture. Folk-art motifs, florals, nature themes, neoclassical designs, and trompe l'oeil effects adorn a variety of wooden pieces, all clearly presented with step-by-step directions and color photos. There's even a charming circus-tent bookcase and a chair painted to look like fake fur. Most of the techniques are fairly simple, and the results are delightful.

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An awesome guide to exciting painted furniture........1998-09-16

This is the book I've been waiting for!! the pictures are clear, exciting and colorful. Directions are step by step with color photographs to guide you along the way. This book is not your typical drab color painted furniture - this will add excitement to those one of a kind projects that everyone will comment on. A must-have for the adventurous painter who's an artist deep down!!

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Hibiscus and 1920's Mystery

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3 excellent + 2 poor books = a very good bargain

Charlie Chan: Five Complete Novels: The House Without a Key; The Chinese Parrot; Behind That Curtain; The Black Camel; Keeper of the Keys
Earl Derr Biggers
Manufacturer: Avenel Books
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ASIN: 0517347075
Release Date: 1988-12-12

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Hibiscus and 1920's Mystery.......2007-08-17

You can almost feel the gentle trade winds of Hawaii during the 1920's in these two classic novels by Earl Derr Biggers. Romantic and full of atmosphere, they are a most enjoyable read that was our first introduction to Charlie Chan. Biggers was always a great romance writer who simply incorporated mystery into his books to propel the story forward. This was never more evident than in The House Without a Key and The Chinese Parrot. Some Chan fans are less fond of the first two books featuring Charlie because he is not the central focus as in later novels, but it is for that very reason I find them to be his best.

Biggers' second Chan entry, The Chinese Parrot, follows the pattern of the first as a young Bob Eden finds both mystery and romance involving the delivery of some pearls. Chan is along for the ride, of course, and there is plenty of atmosphere and a dash of romance in the old-fashioned vein to keep the reader interested. One must begin with where it all started, however, and The House Without a Key is an enduring masterpiece of mystery and romance.

The story centers around young and very proper John Quincy Winterslip of Boston, who has been sent to retrieve the elder Minerva Winterslip from the semi-barbaric Pacific Islands of Hawaii. When his ship stops in San Francisco on its journey to the islands, however, John Quincy's idea of who he is begins to change, and the possibility that there is a world outside of Boston and Beacon Hill begins to take shape. A mysterious errand in the city by the bay for the black sheep of the family, Dan Winterslip, also living in Hawaii, will begin an adventure that will in the end make him a man.

The murder of Dan Winterslip shortly before John's arrival will reveal old family secrets from a time when Hawaii was wild and dangerous, and a port for all the world. John Quincy does not understand the nostalgia Minerva and others feel for this time in Hawaii's history. But there is romance in those trade winds blowing the cocoa palms. John will meet Carlota Egan, a girl who could not be further away from the fiancee awaiting him back in Boston. But as John Quincy begins to help his lovely cousin Barbara and Minerva get to the bottom of Dan's murder, Boston seems like a distant memory.

Luckily for John, Hawaii's best police detective will help him unravel the clues that will lead to an exciting revelation, and in the process become his friend. That detective is Charlie Chan. An Asian who has been in Hawaii many years, Chan navigates the mystery with little to go on, but with much wisdom and humor. The Charlie Chan of The House Without a Key is subtle and endearing. Chan may be Chinese, but his very American take on a piece of pie he is not happy with is a hoot!

Biggers truly makes both his characters and the islands of Hawaii come alive in his first novel in which Charlie Chan appeared. His descriptions of Hawaii through the eyes of those characters are nostalgic and filled with beauty. The House Without a Key is that rare novel which can be read with pleasure by both those who love a good mystery, and those who love a light and atmospheric romance. If both are your cup of tea, this great classic is definitely for you.

Having Charlie Chan's first two appearences together again is fabulous for his many fans. They are great reads during summer when things are bright and cheery, or during winter, when you want to escape. Make yourself one of those drinks with an umbrella in it, or just grab your oversized Hawaiin luau shirt and head on out to the lanai to begin your adventure.

Romance, historic settings, race relations, and murder.......2002-04-19

Between 1925 and 1932, Earl Derr Biggers wrote six novels about Charley Chan, a fictional Chinese detective, who was to become a pop culture icon through his representation in Hollywood movies. It is said that the author based his character on a genuine Chinese detective in Honolulu named Chang Apana that he read about while vacationing in Honolulu. In a time when "white priviledge" was assumed, Detective Chan overcomes racial barriers as he pursues white murderers in a white society. The only other Chinese in evidence in these stories are servants and laborers. The novels take place in the Honolulu and California of post World War I America and the descriptions of these long-gone settings are wonderfully rich and rewarding. Each story not only tells how a puzzling murder is solved, but also has a sub-plot of young people finding true love. Romance, historic settings, race relations, and a murder mystery are all the earmarks of a Charley Chan novel. They are a joy to read and much better than the movies of the 1930s and 1940s. I am disappointed that the book has only five of the six Charley Chan novels. Included in this volume are: The House Without a Key (1925); The Chinese Parrot (1926); Behind That Curtain (1928); The Black Camel (1929); and, Keeper of the Keys (1932). The one novel left out is: Charlie Chan Carries On (1930). I hope that someday we will be able to buy all six in one volume with an introductory essay that gives some background on the author and discusses the influence of these novels.

3 excellent + 2 poor books = a very good bargain.......1998-09-27

This anthology of five novels written between 1925 and 1932 break cleanly into two groups. The first three books (House without a Key, Chinese Parrot, and Behind that Curtain) are clever, entertaining and quite enjoyable. That last two are contrived with the proverbial red herrings dragged everywhere to confuse the issue but not to add to the enjoyment. An interesting footnote to 'House without a Key' is its characters' comments that the beauty of Hawaii is being destroyed by the commercialism and tourists. This, in 1925.

My advice is read the first three books and stop at that point. You'll have gotten your money's worth and you'll avoid the bitter aftertaste the latter two books impart.

Complete Book Of Window Treatments & Curtains: Traditional & Innovative Ways To Dress Up Your Windows

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Complete Book Of Window Treatments & Curtains: Traditional & Innovative Ways To Dress Up Your Windows
Carol Parks
Manufacturer: Sterling
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ASIN: 0806906138

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“Not only explains decorating jargon but also provides ideas, guidelines, and instructions for covering windows in dozens of different styles. Non-sewers will appreciate the attention paid to planning and answers to questions.”—Booklist. “Practical advice with clear, easy-to-follow instructions.”—Library Journal.

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review of Window Treatments and curtains by Carol Parks.......2000-08-21

after checking out this book from our local library, I simply had to have it. I have started to make my own window treatments amd this book gave good discriptive terms that were easy to understand. The pictures made the projects less intimating. This book is easy to understand with basic but important information

The Complete Book of Curtains and Drapes

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Add Style to Your Windows!
The Secrets of Making Classy Curtains

The Complete Book of Curtains and Drapes
Lady Caroline Wrey
Manufacturer: Overlook Hardcover
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ASIN: 0879514302

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Her books have sold over 100,000 copies in the United States and her seminars across the country are always sold out. SheÂ's the worldÂ's foremost authority on window treatments, and her name is Caroline Wrey. The New York Times wrote, Â“To Lady Caroline, diamonds are not a girlÂ's best friend, but table clamps, Velcro, and a staple gun are.Â”

Combining her skill as an accomplished seamstress, an artistic eye that takes a dim view of boring curtains, and her experience as a teacher, The Complete Book of Curtains and Drapes is the definitive book on the creation of this most vital element of interior design, inspiring both beginners and experts to create luxurious living environments.

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Add Style to Your Windows!.......2006-04-07

This covers all the details of measuring the window and deciding on style, fabric, etc. Learn to make standard drapes, swags, Austrian and Roman blinds, tie-backs and rosettes to dress your windows. The big color photos show lush room setting with handsome curtains.
I used the book mostly to look at styles and fabrics, but for a sewer, this book has all the how-to you could want.

The Secrets of Making Classy Curtains.......2005-01-12

The Complete Book of Curtains, Slipcovers, and Upholstery

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The Complete Book of Curtains, Slipcovers, and Upholstery
Marguerite Maddox , and Miriam Morrison Peake
Manufacturer: Pocket
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ASIN: 0671775154

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The Complete Curtain Book
Isabella Forbes
Manufacturer: Conran Octopus Ltd
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The Complete Book of Soft Furnishings: Upholstery, Curtains and Blinds, Cushions and Covers

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The Complete Book of Soft Furnishings: Upholstery, Curtains and Blinds, Cushions and Covers
Dorothy L. Gates , Eileen Kittier , and Sue Locke
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The complete book of curtains, slipcovers & upholstery

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The complete book of curtains, slipcovers & upholstery
Marguerite Maddox
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The Complete Book of Curtains, Slipcovers and Upholstery
Marguerite Allirite Maddox and Miriam Morrison Peake
Manufacturer: Gramercy Publishing Company
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The Complete Book of Curtains, Slipcovers and Upholstery
Marguerite and Peake, Miriam Morrison Maddox
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The Complete Book of Soft Furnishings: Upholstery, Curtains & Blinds Cushions & Covers

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The Complete Book of Soft Furnishings: Upholstery, Curtains & Blinds Cushions & Covers
Dorothy L. Gates , Eileen Kittier , and Sue Locke
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