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- Anyone who is a cat lover will love this book...
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Amber, a Very Personal Cat and Conversations With Amber
Gladys Taber
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ASIN: 0940160412 |
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Anyone who is a cat lover will love this book..........2000-02-09
and anyone who isn't "owned by a cat", as Taber puts it, will want to be.
In these two books combined into one volume, Taber writes of her day-to-day relationship with her Abyssinian cat named Amber. Taber has intuitive insights into the workings of the feline mind and through this work clearly shows how important pets can be to our daily lives and welfare. Amber was a fortunate cat indeed to have such an owner, or rather, to own Gladys Taber!
Reading this book has made me think of writing my own book about my cat, it was so enjoyable to read about her cat.
I thought of taking one star away due to some of Taber's inaccurate medical advice for cats (i.e. do NOT ever give aspirin to a cat as Taber indicates), but her intentions were good. Just remember while reading this book that for medical advice concerning your cat, see your veterinarian.
I LOVED IT!.......1998-11-14
I loved this book from the first page to the very end. It's a perfect book to read to lift your spirits or to escape into a different world. I absolutely reccomend it to everyone who loves cats.
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Coykendall's Second Sporting Collectibles Price Guide
Ralf, Jr. Coykendall
Manufacturer: Lyons Pr
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ASIN: 1558211772 |
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Rose lovers rejoice! The stunning arrangements in A Bouquet of Roses offer fresh inspiration and trade secrets from professional stylist and floral designer Christina Wressell. Her expert advice makes the most of the world s most popular flower, with tips on finding and selecting the best varieties, making bold color choices, displaying arrangements in unique containers, and preparing and conditioning stems and petals for lasting results. Arranged by color, thirty glorious bouquets feature a profusion of varieties. From elegant home accents such as vintage bowls bursting with heady blossoms to handheld bouquets like classic bridal arrangements to the wonderfully surprising addition of a lavish Victorian kissing ball, there are designs in here for every occasion. Beautifully photographed and budding with inspiration and straightforward instruction, A Bouquet of Roses is a true celebration of the most beloved of flowers.
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BEAUTIFUL ARRAY OF ROSES!.......2006-03-23
I'm a florist and I really enjoy using this book when I'm meeting with Wedding clients. It displays a large variety of different types of roses-great for the people who think of a rose as a single, red stem.
Wow...this is a great book.......2006-02-09
I heard of this book while flipping through a magazine.
Decided to give it a try and I love it. If you love having flowers in your home, than you have to have this book. The author really knows her stuff, and I love the pictures.
not just another pretty flower book.......2005-06-25
The photographs are so pretty. I gave several as a gift at a lunch the other day. However, the best thing about this little book is the information about roses and how to arrange them. It also provides names of every rose used and good alternatives to garden roses which are not readily available from my florist. I was able to overcome my fear of doing flowers for the first party in my new house! My husband thinks I should change careers.
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Roses: Inspirations for Beautiful Gifts, Crafts and Displays
Gilly Love
Manufacturer: Lorenz Books
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Binding: Hardcover
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ASIN: 1859672116 |
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Roses and creativity!.......2001-07-21
This book was so helpful in giving me creative ideas for roses that I would never have thought of. This a great book at a great price and I highly recomend it for anybody who is looking for creativity!
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Whether you love roses for their delicate petals, astonishing range of colors, or sweet, seductive scent, Barbara Milo Ohrbach's gorgeous book, Roses for a Scented Room, will inspire you to fill every room in your house with a lovely array of edibles, decorations, and perfumed bouquets. A fascinating history of roses is included--from the ancient Romans to World War II, roses have been a most beloved flower. There's a wealth of practical advice here, from choosing and maintaining healthy plants to proper cutting technique (don't use regular scissors--they squash the stem).
Once summer arrives and your garden is bursting with blooms, you'll be amazed at just how many crafts await you! This goes far beyond the standard potpourri (although there is a great recipe for that too), diving into special drying techniques, concocting your own rosewater and hand cream, and even flavoring pound cakes and teas. The "Wedding Confetti" is an especially great idea now that traditional rice is so frowned upon--what could be prettier to throw than rose petals? The arranging section provides a wealth of new ideas and inspirations--as the author says, it's "hard to make roses look bad in any container"--but bringing out the best in your blossoms certainly can be fun and creative work!
Stunning photographs fill this book, making it a wonderful visual experience. You'll find it easy to add the essence of your summertime garden to your home year round. --Jill Lightner
Book Description
A rose can be so much more than a rose!
In
Roses for the Scented Room, best-selling author Barbara Milo Ohrbach presents entertaining, gift-giving and decorating ideas celebrating the beauty of roses.
Beginning with the basics, Barbara de-scribes the many varieties available, from old-fashioned roses to modern hybrids, and explains how to choose the best roses from a florist or from your own garden. She offers dozens of simple how-to ideas for using them in the home or giving them as gifts. "The Rose Pantry" opens with a selection of delectable recipes, including Jasmine Rose Tea, while the chapter "Lotions and Potions" includes a Rose-Petal Face Splash and Aromatherapy Oils. As the author of
The Scented Room and
Simply Flowers, Barbara is known for her potpourris, and here she provides her favorite rose mixtures. And in "Entertaining," she shares some clever creations, such as Rose Ice Cubes, a Rose Ice Bucket and rose-petal Wedding Confetti.
Barbara concludes her book with a comprehensive Source Guide, listing dozens of the best rose gardens around the world, along with her favorite flower-filled hotels, rose-garden tours, books, suppliers and catalogs. Filled with hundreds of gorgeous color photographs, Roses for the Scented Room is a glorious celebration of the grace and beauty of roses.
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Roses for the Scented Room, best-selling author Barbara Milo Ohrbach offers a bounty of inspiring uses for the world's favorite flower. With her trademark style and grace, Barbara brings together easy projects, tips and recipes for gift-giving, entertaining and deco-rating with roses. Also included is an international guide to her favorite rose gardens and the best rose-related products, books and catalogs. Lavishly illustrated with gorgeous color photographs, Roses for the Scented Room is a true bouquet of beautiful ideas for any rose lover.
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Roses for the Scented Room: A Scrapbook of Ideas, Recipes,.......2000-03-25
Like the other books that have been put out my Ohrbach and Milo this book is joy! It is filled with beautiful photos of ways to use one of natures most beautiful creations - the rose. It includes recipes for things such as teas and potpourri and includes other ideas for lovely items that make perfect gifts or decorations for your home. The imformation is presented in a simple and thoughtfull manner so that it is relatively simple to complete the projects shown. The ideas are realistic - they are things that you really would do . There is also good information on how to care for roses in the garden and as well as great arrangement suggestions. All in all I really love this book. I'll be ordering at least 2 more since it will be the perfect mothers'day or easter gift. A must have for all of those who appreciate the beauty of roses!
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From real roses displayed in a rose-patterned crystal vase to rose designs on fabric and rose petals in sachets, there are dozens of superbly illustrated ideas for using them to decorate, entertain, and craft. Dreamy suggestions range from redoing a room to setting a holiday table to assembling a rosebud and ivy pomander.
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Beginners and experienced floral designers will find inspiration and practical instructions in this beautiful, full-color project guide to gorgeous, decorative rose designs for your home, office, or that special gift.
Includes more than 30 projects—simple arrangements, wreaths, topiaries, potpourris, and framed roses
Tips for selecting and growing roses as well as preserving them
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"Gorgeous!" said The Anti-Crafter........2005-04-30
I dare you to open this book and not get sucked in by the creativity and beauty of these ideas. Forget Martha Stewart! Ellen Spector Platt came up with pages of unique, stunning, and simple projects that leap off the page. My mother and I have done several of the projects, our favorite being the floral loom, which now hangs above the bed in her newly redecorated bedroom. The pictures are so beautiful, you almost don't want to try to recreate the projects on your own (for fear they won't turn out as good), but the directions are comprehensive and clear, making all of the projects possible for anyone. I call myself "The Anti-Crafter," but I couldn't resist trying some of this stuff. It's too beautiful and too clever to resist.
More than 30 projects one can undertake .......2004-12-09
Ellen Spector's Beyond The Garden: Easy & Elegant Rose Design is a beautiful guide illustrated throughout with full-color photographs by Alan Detrick of more than 30 projects one can undertake to add floral color and life to one's home. From simple arrangements to wreaths, topiaries, potpourris, framed roses and more, Beyond The Garden: Easy & Elegant Rose Design is a superb resource for gifts, crafts, hobbies, or simply freshening up one's house. A selection of tips for selecting, growing, and caring for roses as well as preserving them rounds out this first-rate guide which is especially recommended for rose gardening enthusiasts.
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- Great book that you'll use again and again! Great for brides
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Arranging Roses
Manufacturer: Hermes House
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ASIN: 1840381957 |
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One of the joys of gardening is bringing cut flowers into the house, enjoying their colors, textures, and perfume close up. No flower is more beloved than the rose, so it always seems as if the growing season for roses is far too brief. Arranging Roses: How to Create Glorious Fresh and Dried Displays contains a variety of ideas for making roses last and enjoying them indoors in far more innovative ways than the typical florist's dozen long-stemmed red roses (not that there is anything wrong with that, either).
Full-page color photos provide inspiration, and close-up detailed photos illustrate techniques for making garlands, swags, corsages, table arrangements, and wreaths out of fresh and dried roses. The ideas range from the simple to the more elaborate: dried roses wrapped with raffia packed into a colorful olive oil tin, rosebud candle rings, or an autumnal bundle of orange roses wrapped with leaves. Tiny rose buds mixed with eucalyptus are wired onto hair combs, red roses and lavender are tightly packed together and tied with ribbons to make a fragrant old-fashioned tussie mussie, and pale pink roses are laced with conifers for a holiday swag. A wide variety of other garden materials are mixed with the roses in these projects: leaves, cones, pods, wheat, lavender, moss, and dried fruit expand the range of decorating styles from the classic to the modern.
How to handle the roses is explained in great detail, from steaming and drying to wrapping and wiring. If you long to bring your garden inside and enjoy your favorite flower every month of the year, you'll enjoy making these innovative yet simple arrangements. --Valerie Easton
Book Description
A celebration of the rose in exquisite and beautiful displays. More then 60 inspirational ideas for arrangements of all kinds.
Customer Reviews:
Great book that you'll use again and again! Great for brides.......2002-06-12
The book is perfect for the home designer, or whoever is interested in making rose arrangments. I love my copy because I live in San Diego, CA where I have roses all year round and always like to find soemthing to do with them. If you are a bride or know someone who is going to ne, this book has everything you need: party-table-edge swag, centerpiece arrangments, heart-shaped wreaths, wreaths for around candles, bridal bouquet, victorian bridal posey, bridesmaids posey, bridesmaid head crown and bride head crown, and bridesmaids baskets. There are also corsages, the popular rose tree sculptures and much more. One of the great ideas was for a centerpiece that goes around, say a nice tub of ice with champagne or etc. This is great for decorating any event. The only thing that would have made this book alot better is if the editor had included window treatments. The pictures are good, and the directions are clear. It's simple to follow and fun. This is a book you'll get use out of time and time again!
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Arco Julia Clements Book of Rose Arrangements
Julia Clements
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- Mostly Dry History, Little Arrangements
- Flora Domestica - Blooming Marvellous!
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Flora Domestica: A History of British Flower Arranging, 1500-1930
Mary Rose Blacker
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For centuries people have been using flowers and plants to decorate their homes. In a lovely book that combines practical how-to advice with informative social history, Mary Rose Blacker details the use of flowers and plants in houses throughout Britain, Europe, and North America-from the delicate bouquets of the 16th century to the extravagant displays of the Victorian and Edwardian periods.
Just as recipes culled from old cookbooks provide a taste of the past, so flowers and plants enhance the authentic appearance of a period room. Stunning photographs of specially commissioned floral arrangements, shown in the houses and great estates preserved by Britain's National Trust, offer ideas and step-by-step instructions for arranging Elizabethan wedding bouquets, Georgian-style garlands, Victorian table decorations, and much more.
200 photographs, 165 in full color, 8 3/4 x 9 5/8"
MARY ROSE BLACKER has worked with Britain's National Trust for 30 years, and was research assistant to the noted architectural historian Gervase Jackson-Stops. Blacker, who grew up in Ireland and whose family includes such knowledgeable and well-known gardeners as Lady O'Neill of the Maine, was instrumental in re-creating the famous 18th-century flower displays at the Trust's Osterley Park in 1985.
ANDREAS VON EINSIEDEL is an acclaimed photographer of interiors whose work has appeared in such magazines as House & Garden and Architectural Design and in Abrams' Historic Interiors of England, Wales, and Northern Ireland.
Customer Reviews:
Mostly Dry History, Little Arrangements.......2006-04-19
Mostly dry historical text, and most of the "photos" are not of the recreated new arrangements, but of ancient paintings and old drawings about history. Of the very few recreated arrangements, most look rather ordinary, with some photos even too small to tell. There were only 4 or 5 that I'd say were truly original and outstanding.
Flora Domestica - Blooming Marvellous!.......2000-06-13
I had this book recommended to me by a college. As it's a new book I thought I'd have a look. Having studied Floristry and Flower Arranging I am now Lecturing in Floristry and have been looking for a new book to recommend to my students. This book has long been awaited by students and teachers alike. A lot of books covering this subject have been written, but are now out of print. This will fill the gap. A beautiful book. I can't recommend it enough. Blooming marvelous!
flora Domestica.......2000-06-13
It is rare to discover an auther who has focused on the topic of flower arranging from a sociological perspective. By placing flower arranging in the social context of it's time, the reader is better able to appreciate the use of particular flowers, artistic design and color combinations. Also, by looking to England, we here in the U.S. can better appreciate our colonial era of flower arranging.
flora Domestica.......2000-06-13
It is rare to discover an auther who has focused on the topic of flower arranging from a sociological perspective. By placing flower arranging in the social context of it's time, the reader is better able to appreciate the use of particular flowers, artistic design and color combinations. Also, by looking to England, we here in the U.S. can better appreciate our colonial era of flower arranging.
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With so many choices in lighting, how can you make knowledgeable decisions? Get the best how-to-design lighting book!
This book is unique. It is the only book that covers residential/commercial and indoor/outdoor lighting for owners or renters. It is the only book with an illustrated glossary and is the only book on choices for daylight and electric light. This is the only book covering quick, hand- and computer-generated calculations. Originally published in 1984, it is now completely updated with 77 new pages and 90 new illustrations. It has a long bibliography, which can be a basis for self-study and an index with 376 topics. It distills the highly technical field of lighting into easily understandable, how-to information for knowledgeable decisions about all kinds of spaces - conference rooms, churches, computerized offices, kitchens, and baths.
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