Teddy Bear All-Occasion Postcards: 24 Full-Color Ready-to-Mail Cards (Card Books)

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Charming portraits of teddy bears celebrating holidays like Valentine's Day, Christmas, and the Fourth of July, as well as special occasions such as birthdays and weddings.

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Teddy Bears Postcard Book

Manufacturer: Darling & Company
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ASIN: 1883211905

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The teddy bear is, for many of us, the quintessential childhood toy. He (or she) sits in wagons, attends tea parties, loves to listen to stories, rides on the backs of tricycles, stands guard, and best of all, loves to tuck into bed with their owners. They are enough like us humans to be loved as we love our family and friends, and yet different enough to be funny and lovable. Needless to say, they are favorite characters in children's picture books. We offer 30 of our favorite illustrations. Among the included illustrators are: Honor Appleton, Roy Best, Lawson Wood, and Jessie Willcox Smith.

Postcards from Barney Bear (Learn to Write)

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Postcards from Barney Bear (Learn to Write)
Rozanne Lanczak Williams
Manufacturer: Creative Teaching Press
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ASIN: 1591982871

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The Berenstain Bears Postcard Book
Stan Berenstain
Manufacturer: Random House Books for Young Readers
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ASIN: 0679817417
Release Date: 1991-04-03

Teddy Bear Photo Postcards in Full Color: 24 Ready-to-Mail Postcards (Card Books)

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Teddy Bear Photo Postcards in Full Color: 24 Ready-to-Mail Postcards (Card Books)
Ted Menten
Manufacturer: Dover Publications
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Two dozen irresistible photos reproduced on coated postcard stock picture variety of cuddly Teddy Bears—factory-made and handcrafted, European and American, large and small. Here is Teddy as cook, on swing, out jogging, holding a valentine, more. Detach, add your message and mail.

Another Birthday I Can Bearly Stand It Hope Its a Happy One Birthday Bear Postcard

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Another Birthday I Can Bearly Stand It Hope Its a Happy One Birthday Bear Postcard

Manufacturer: B&H Publishing Group
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Antique Teddy Bear Postcards, Vol. II
Beverly Port
Manufacturer: Hobby House Press
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 087588315X

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From the collection of Bevery Port. These 27 reproduced cards share the wonder of the teddy bear as it evolved from a real bear to a jointed teddy bear.

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Bear Postcard Collection
Random House
Manufacturer: Random House UK Distribution
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Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0091762006
Release Date: 1993-08-27

Grizzly/Brown Bear Postcards 25 (Historische werken over Rotterdam)

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Grizzly/Brown Bear Postcards 25 (Historische werken over Rotterdam)
A. J. Teychine Stakenburg
Manufacturer: Donker
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Love Bears Corduroy Collection Heart to Heart Postcard Daybreak®

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Love Bears Corduroy Collection Heart to Heart Postcard Daybreak®

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ASIN: 0310981107

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The Heart to Heart Postcard Daybreak will bring you a warm message of love and friendship each day or week. It also gives you the chance to share your heart with those you love. Detach the postcard and send God's love and your best wishes to a friend! This Daybreak brings 16 different adorable bear photos on 52 postcards with Scripture, poetry and prose about the joys of love and friendship.

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Wabi-Sabi, Huh?????

A good organizational reference book

A wonderful book!

How wabi sabi goes beyond the house

Good ideas, somewhat elitist

The Wabi-Sabi House: The Japanese Art of Imperfect Beauty
Robyn Griggs Lawrence
Manufacturer: Clarkson Potter
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ASIN: 1400050464
Release Date: 2004-11-23

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What is wabi-sabi?

Simply put, wabi-sabi is the marriage of the Japanese wabi, meaning humble, and sabi, which connotes beauty in the natural progression of time. Together, the phrase invites us to set aside our pursuit of perfection and learn to appreciate the simple, unaffected beauty of things as they are. Wabi-sabi can be found in the deep cracks of a weathering pine table. It is flea markets, wildflowers, and cobblestones. Intimately tied to Zen Buddhism, wabi-sabi is an aesthetic that welcomes comfort and a subtle spiritual component into the home. It is not a decorating style, per se, but a mind-set. To create a true wabi-sabi environment, one must slowly strip away excess and learn to be satisfied living in the moment.

The Wabi-Sabi House recounts the rich history of this emerging trend in home design and reveals countless ways to introduce wabi-sabi elements into contemporary living spaces, including tips for gracefully decorating with salvaged materials and vintage furnishings, advice on how to rediscover the lost joy of hand-crafting household items (or supporting artisans who do), and simple solutions for clearing clutter and blocking noise (even with a spouse, kids, and no closet space).

But The Wabi-Sabi House is so much more than a handbook for interior design. With heart and a sense of humor, author Robyn Griggs Lawrence gently reminds us that there is a life in lifestyle books, and she encourages people from all walks of life to slow down and recognize beauty in what may seem ordinary.

Intimate, authoritative, and truly inspirational, The Wabi-Sabi House lays the foundation for transforming any home into a nurturing retreat from a hectic world.

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Wabi-Sabi, Huh?????.......2006-08-19

In answering the question of what Wabi-Sabi means to me, I have to go with the concept that less is more, and it really doesn't matter if the expense of doing something is astronomical or well within one's budget. What does it all say abut you and what your attempting to achieve? Are you talking about your home, your life style, your neighborhood and or your friends and family? What will tell everyone and anyone who just walks in off the street that you are practicing Wabi-Sabi? How can they see that you are not being a whacko or over extravicant and are just showing you that life can be what is just right for you and your place of abode and not be the perfect place to beat all perfection?
If it is imperfection that you are attempting to show/achieve, then less must certainly be more, it is just how you present it in order for everyone else to see how comfortable you are with what and who you are...ED

A good organizational reference book.......2006-02-25

There is so much beauty in simplicity. This book offers many helpful suggestions in how to simplify your decor and your life.

A wonderful book!.......2005-09-19

I have told everyone I know to get this book as a starter to the world of Wabi-Sabi-- a beautiful cover also makes it lovely to look at and I like the sepia pages... I have re-examined my life using some of her practical tips. Get it if you are curious about this art of imperfection...

How wabi sabi goes beyond the house.......2005-07-21

I have read a handful of books dealing with the Japanese concept of wabi sabi (variously translated as "the art of imperfection" or "the beauty of the old and the new"), everything from Soetsu Yanagi to Leonard Koren. This book by Robyn Griggs Lawrence continues in the same vein of trying to put into words for a Western audience an amorphous and ambiguous idea, specifically as it applies to home decor.

For the most part the author gets it right. She gives the reader a little bit of historical background into the idea (its roots in Zen Buddhism and development from the tea ceremony) and then shows examples of how to put it into practice in a Western context. This is not a book about decorating your home in a neo-Japanese style, but rather how to make tangible a Japanese-originated aesthetic philosophy.

In some ways, she goes beyond the strict confines of home decor and discusses wabi sabi in other areas of life, which is appropriate because wabi sabi, as I unerstand it, is really a whole school of thought. In one chapter she delves into crafts, from knitting to woodworking to cooking. I found this interesting because I am a hobby woodworker/furniture maker who is slowly crafting most of the furniture my family lives with.

I realized, in reading this book, that wabi sabi is an aesthetic I have been reaching for in a number of areas without knowing until recently what it was called. For years I have been interested in a variety of topics, including Zen, environmentalism, the voluntary simplicity movement, modern design and architecture, and woodworking. Wabi sabi is the theme that ties these interests together. It is an approach to life, not just a decorating style or, worse, a magical, mystical belief in the power of red satin under your mattress and mirrors above your stove (`a la "feng shui", the popular Chinese-based belief in the flow of energy patterns in a building).

While mostly positive about this book, I do have a couple bones to pick. Griggs Lawrence is a big advocate of shopping in flea markets and antique stores, looking for the piece with just right wabi sabi patina of age and imperfection. Personally, I have no use for other people's old stuff. Just 'cause it's old, don't make it valuable. Why would I want to buy somebody else's history? To me, finding something that is fresh and new, innovative in the way it accomplishes a task, simple and engaging in its design, and gets incorporated into my daily routine is a better expression of wabi sabi than finding an old wash basin at a garage sale and using it as a fruit bowl.

Case in point: Griggs Lawrence has a predilection for a good cup of tea and even takes a swipe at Americans and their need for fancy cappuccino makers. Whoa there! Now she's hitting a little too close to home. My wife and I love a good cappuccino. Last Christmas I bought us what many might consider an extavagant Italian coffee machine. In actuality, it is quite simple (no fancy automatic controls), but it is built like the proverbial Sherman tank. I am quite sure it will survive decades of heavy daily use. After almost a year the gleaming stainless steel exterior has begun to mellow and it has become an integral part of our everyday life. Getting up at daybreak and going through the routine of making my wife a cappuccino with all the love and caring I can has become a sort of daily moving meditation for me. This coffee machine is just as much an expression of wabi sabi as the simple glass vase that displays a single flower sitting on the floating wooden shelf I made in the dining room.

All in all, though, if your are interested in the concept of wabi sabi this is a good book. If you are truly interested in wabi sabi as an aesthetic there are other books that will go deeper into roots of the idea. If you are interested in how the concept has been expressed by artists and craftsmen (perhaps without mentioning the phrase), there are books about that too. Most of these are listed in the excellent bibliography of the Griggs Lawrence book, one of the highlights of the book.

Good ideas, somewhat elitist.......2005-06-27

I admit that I am not sure what to think of this book (and my revisions of this review reflect that).The author works for Interweave Press, whose magazines I purchased for many years, and I have to say that her genuine humility and open-ness shine through the book. The description, and the general idea, sounded wonderful: learn to simplify, appreciate what you have, embrace imperfection, etc. etc. But.....

The "imperfection" referred to here is not the reality that your table has coffee rings on it which you can't get out. It's the subtle irregularities found in really good hand-thrown pottery, for instance, or the slight wavery imperfections found in old glass.This is a huge, huge, difference. Be aware that this book talks mostly about very expensive ways to implement this philosophy, which comes out of Japanese feudal times, and was dictated by the tastes of their nobles. Since the emphasis is upon natural materials and hand-made articles, with mass-produced and mass marketed items frowned upon (however well made or designed), it's not a book for decorating from your favorite mass merchandiser. Note the bit about mass-marketing: wabi-sabi doesn't care if it's in good taste or well-designed. If it's not unique, it doesn'et want it. I fail to understand why good design becomes bad just because other people appreciate it. Nor is it really about appreciating what beauty there is in that couch that your sister passed on to you after it got given to her by someone who was going to throw it out.

And therein is the rub... wabi-sabi attracts those who, like myself, are on quite a budget. Alas, the standards it sets are very high. The author, who is herself on a budget, is free in admitting that she can't make the cut for her ideas of wabi-sabi, and a lot of the book is about her musings on how her own life doesn't meet these standards. There are real gems in here, but they are tned to float around in a sea of recommendations that left me feeling guilty about my home.

For instance, it gives as an example the author spending literally years with a duvet cover sewn from two sheets, until she could afford to pay a group of American quilters to spend three months hand-sewing a quilt. (One is temmpted to ask if the sheets were handwoven, and what about the duvet itself?) The author talks freely about how she does not like her vinyl flooring; during the remodel she did not have the money for the type of flooring she would have liked, and she had to have something to finish it up. It seems to me that something has gone rather wrong with a concept that is supposed to help people simplify and enjoy their lives, imperfections and all, when it leads to more guilt trips over meeting a standard that is just not obtainable by most of us.

The pity is that there are some wonderful concepts struggling to break free of a rigid identification with the tastes of an antique Japanese feudal system. The whole idea about wabi-sabi was for the Nobility of that time to use what was available to them from rustic local producers, instead of items imported from mainland China, which were more expensive, more "perfect", and more colorful. For them, this was simplification. What would be the equivalent for us nowadays? Ideas about quiet and perhaps pulling back on housekeeping perfectionism are worth looking at. Were we to really look at using what is appropriate to our lives (instead of tormenting ourselves because it was made by machine), we'd all do much better.

And I must say that the "inside confessions" of what it is like doing home photo shoots for a magazine (she has directed many) are definitely worth reading. I'm probably going to get a clothesline up (as soon as I can afford one) and knit some dishcloths from the cheap cotton yarn I have hanging around. (The author keeps mentioning knitted dishcloths, and I had never thought about it.) I don't know if it will be wabi-sabi. But it will be what I can do.

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Historical gardening specialist, Erica Calkins gives practical instructions and recipes for plants used by the pioneers. Original homestead recipes offer delicious yet simple dishes. The text is illustrated with historic photographs, drawings and photos of featured plants. A twelve-page section includes full-color garden plans and identification photos of flowers, pioneer roses, and unique plants. A rich resource list is provided for would-be heirloom gardeners.

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Great piece of history.......2004-08-19

This book is an interesting and humorous look at early pioneer life in Oregon and the plants they brought with them for both medicinal and decorative purposes. Even if you don't intend to plant the gardens designed in the book, read it anyway for a neat slice of Oregon's history.

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Everything you need to know in one book

It has everything!

Tons of info I never thought of

This book covers it all.

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But I Don't Feel Too Old to Be a Mommy!: The Complete Sourcebook for Starting (and Re-Starting) Motherhood Beyond 35 and After 40
Doreen Nagle
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ASIN: 1558748288

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The traditional childbearing ages for women have been 20-29. Today, however, the trend to later childrearing is significant, with the numbers of mothers over the age of 35 having grown 75 percent in the last decade, while the numbers in the traditional ages continue to decline. From celebrities to the woman next door, later childrearing is no flash-in-the-pan fad "and isn't going to subside; future trends only show women will continue to delay motherhood," according to the National Center for Health Statistics. But I Don't Feel Too Old to Be a Mommy! is the first and only book to fully address the concerns of the ever-growing but greatly ignored audience of literate, educated women who have delayed motherhood. In this comprehensive work, women who are considering parenting in their 30s, 40s and later-whether for the first time or starting over-will find all the information they need to make informed choices. Author Doreen Nagle, herself a first-time mom over 40, details the risks, rewards, rumors and resources-from making the decision to start a family, to every imaginable way to get there, to the realities of motherhood beyond 35 and 40. Issues covered include infertility, pregnancy, surrogacy, adoptions, the pros and cons of later motherhood, single parenting, and financial and career considerations. Complete with quotes from medical experts, later-in-life moms and their kids, this one-stop book will calm the doubts and fears of women considering motherhood after 35 and beyond 40 by providing supportive yet realistic information.

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Everything you need to know in one book.......2004-08-06

This book is not about humor, or girlfriend-to-girlfriend banter. It states all the facts before, during, and after the decision to tackle motherhood beyond the conventional age. There are resources and facts about fertility options, adoption (the author and her husband adopted a child from Russia) and all the other challenges to be faced. It is very honest about the pros and cons of late-life motherhood, the risks and the rewards, and it is good to have all this information in one volume, rather than having to hunt for the information elsewhere.

It has everything!.......2004-02-15

I've read a few other books for women in our age group trying to become mothers, and they all say practically the same thing. I agree, this book is different and very, very, very complete without being prejudiced or insisting you do it her way! She also writes a weekly column on parenting called Parenting in a Nutshell that also has lots of info. Great Book!!

Tons of info I never thought of.......2003-10-26

This book has lots of info I never thought about. I am in my mid-40s and for the first time I am thinking about becoming a mother. This book helps me think with my head as well as my heart and try to plan for my life. I also realize that becoming a mother is more than just worrying about getting pregnant (you know, can I/can't I?). Parenting a child is what it's about, no matter how I get there (like adoption). Nagle is vey encouraging without overselling. She also doesn't pretend to be an expert on fertility. If you are thinking about becoming a mother in your late 30's or more, this is the book.

This book covers it all........2003-09-11

This book covers literally everything I wanted to know about becoming an "older" mom. It's what every woman in my position would need to think about and know about.Fertility is only a part of this book (I find too many other books for women in this age group focus only on fertility and pregnancy when there is so much more to consider: for instance, would we have to move? Give up my job? There is a huge section on career options including being a stay at home mom). This book covers every possible other way to become a mom -- from adoption (Nagle adopted a boy), surrogacy, even a foster mom which no other book even considers. The book is also loaded with questions to consider about motherhood after 35, and talks with a lot of humor and warmth about what life is really like after later motherhood becomes a reality. There is lots of practical great information. Nagle is realistic and very positive. You can tell she loves being a mom. It is a book written for women: mothers to be and mothers to be again, even though dads are considered in passing. It's a great resource.

Book is misnamed -- should be "The High-Tech Fertility Book".......2003-08-29

If you're looking for what the title of this book promises, look at Sheila Kitzinger's "Birth Over Thirty-Five" instead, a sensitive and far-ranging exploration of many, many issues of interest to the mature woman who is pregnant or thinking about becoming pregnant.

Nagle's book is NOT, by any means, a "complete sourcebook for starting (and restarting) motherhood beyond 35 and after 40." It would be better billed as a sourcebook for information about a wide range of super-high-tech methods for getting pregnant. That is the topic of the bulk of the book. Emphasis is definitely on the high-tech. The existence of natural, holistic approaches is given cursory mention only.

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But I Don't Feel Too Old to Be a Mommy: The Complete Sourcebook for Starting( and Restarting) Motherhood Beyond 35 and After40
Doreen Nagle
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ASIN: B000KXNR70

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