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Shelley Chintz: Unlocking the Secrets of the Pattern Books 9 reviews
Kelly L. Moran
Thaxted Cottage Pub, 2000
SHELLEY at it's best
The world of Shelley is full of miracles. The SHELLEY CHINTZ BOOK guides us to the colorful pattern of SHELLEY chintz. It's a pleasure to see the brilliant photos of the items which are imageinatively combined with reprints from the the original Pattern Books and the very informative text. The book encloses the period from the beginning of Wileman & Co in 1885 to the end of the SHELLEY company in ...
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Hot Cottage Collectibles for Vintage Style Homes11 reviews
C. Dianne Zweig
Collector Books, 2008
Hot Cottage Collectibles for Vintage Style Homes- Book Review
In Hot Cottage Collectibles for Vintage Style Homes, author C. Dianne Zweig offers readers a new twist on kitchen, home, and garden collectibles, marrying different periods and styles in a look which is vintage chic, country kitsch, and retro-romantic. It's all about 'cottage style,' a trendy and enjoyable way to both collect and creatively use popular collectibles, antiques, odds and ends, and ...
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The Tasha Tudor Cookbook: Recipes and Reminiscences from Corgi Cottage14 reviews
Tasha Tudor
Little, Brown and Company, 1993
Tasha Tudor's World -- a birdseye view!
Anything by Tasha Tudor is a work of art! Her illustrations, and down to earth practicality, is revealed -- upclose -- in this delightful book! This is the kind of book you can give a little girl of any age -- even 99!
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Cottage Style Decorating9 reviews
Cynthia Overbeck Bix
Sunset Publishing Corporation, 2003
best inspirational book
This is the first book I will pick up to get inspirations and ideals for cottage style decorating. Loads of colorful photographs really set this book apart from other books.
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The Great Lakes Cottage Book: The Photography of Ed Wargin & Essays of and Kathy-Jo Wargin (Legend of the ...8 reviews
Kathy-Jo Wargin
Clock Tower Press, 2000
Fresh ways to see vintage cottages and their contents
Ed and Kathy-Jo Wargin came to the Thousand Islands and photographed our cottages in ways we had never seen them.The sun setting on the cottages, stairways bathed in sunrise light, artfull arrangements and compositons of familiar vacation objects. This book is memories and makes them too. It is interesting to see the similarities of cottage architecture from Minnesota to the eastern most ...
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Sparkle Island (Outdoor Essays & Reflections)10 reviews
Ellen Rosewall
Raven Tree Press, 2000
Why Walloon is such a special place
This book captured the special feelings about Walloon Lake that only one who had spent all one's life there could know. I was surprised to see that Ms. Rosewall was not closer to my age (63) as she enjoyed so many of the places that I did, which unfortunately are no longer there. One of the reviewers compared it to Lake Woebegon, but to me, there is no such similarity. I still feel the same ...
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One Degree Beyond: A Reiki Journey Into Energy Medicine: Your 21-Day Step-By-Step Guide to Relax, Open and ...11 reviews
Janeanne Narrin
Little White Buffalo Publishing Cottage., 1998
Wonderfully written and designed
I love the attention to detail and the beautiful artwork that this book contains. The layout is well done and I find it causes me to be drawn into the text. The exercises are interesting and unique to most Reiki books. Her descriptions make the practice of Reiki easy to understand and the drawings are helpful. The storys add interest and give a refreshing perspective. Certainly a lot of ...
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Dandelion cottage12 reviews
Carroll Watson Rankin
John M. Longyear Research Library, 1982
A Piece of My Family
Reading Dandelion Cottage is like looking at my great-great grandmother and actually knowing her. My grandmother's family was from Marquette and then later relocated to Georgia. As I was growing up I was always told about The Dandelion Cottage and however fictionalized, the characters were modeled after my great-great grandmother and her friends. It's wonderful to know that through the ...
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The Hand-Sculpted House: A Practical and Philosophical Guide to Building a Cob Cottage: The Real Goods Solar ...22 reviews
Ianto Evans, Michael G. Smith, ...
Chelsea Green Publishing Company, 2002
More than a book
It's a guide. No matter if you will be building in cob or not, it' real pleasure to read this book. I recommend it heartfully.
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The Tale of Cuckoo Brow Wood (Cottage Tales of Beatrix Potter Mysteries)14 reviews
Susan Wittig Albert
Berkley Hardcover, 2006
Continues to enchant
If the village of Near Sawrey put out its weekly newspaper about the fortnight during which this story takes place, some of the headlines would read: "Major Christopher Kittredge returns to Raven Hall with his Lovely New Bride" and "Rat Explosion at Hill Top Farm Threatens Village" and "Village Plans May Day Celebration" and perhaps "Stay Clear of the Cuckoo Brow Wood on May Eve." The society ...
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Painting Houses, Cottages and Towns on Rocks8 reviews
North Light Books, 1996
Get ready to get motivated
This is a well written and very specific guide to painting houses on rocks. It is beautifully illustrated and offers very specific, understandable and do-able instructions. It is not possible to read this book without feeling encouraged and motivated to get going.
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Nags Headers5 reviews
Susan Byrum Rountree
John F. Blair Publisher, 2001
An accurate portrait of a wonderful place and time...
My family owns one of the cottages in the area this author writes about, and I've been going to Nags Head since I was just a few months old. Rountree accurately captures the flavor and feeling of the area as I remember it, and as my grandparents remembered it (my grandfather first went to Nags Head in the 1930s.) The book is filled with many black and white photos from as early as 1900, and has ...
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Cyber Love's Illusions5 reviews
Anna Alden-Tirrill
White Cottage Publishing Co., 2007
A Must Have
For anyone who has been scammed, knows of someone who has been or is in doubt of their cyber love, this is the book for you. The authors have dug deep into the research of this book and it explains all that you need to find out if you are dealing with a scammer. It gives you places to go and information about where to send or research your scammer. The stories in this book are real and it is ...
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California Cottage Style5 reviews
Ann Zimmerman, Scot Zimmerman
Sterling/Chapelle, 2003
Nine California Style Cottages
Nine different California communities of well-loved cottages through photographs are accompanied by text to reflect a time, a place, and a need for shelter, as well as available building materials, traditions and collective memories of their builders and owners in this charming 144 page book. You can understand the duel forces of the charm and challenges of cottage living from brilliant ...
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Hawthorne's Cottage6 reviews
Tannenbaum Publishing Company, 2007
Quintessential England
Reading Hawthorne's Cottage is like taking a trip to England--without the air fare or jet lag. Reeves' descriptions are exquisite. I almost tasted the food she 'served' on paper! Her attention to detail when introducing the characters, and escorting us through their homes and cottages, will immediately transport the reader to the quaint village of Appleton-on-Rye and the world of some ...
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Maine Cottages: Fred L. Savage and the Architecture of Mount Desert5 reviews
John M. Bryan
Princeton Architectural Press, 2005
My Great-Grandfather was a GREAT Architect!
Fred L. Savage was my great-grandfather. As a descendent of Fred's only son, Francis Chase Savage, I couldn't be more proud of this beautiful book honoring the history of Mt. Desert Island, and my great-grandfather's place in it. I would only suggest one improvement: I wish that more photographs of Fred and his family would have been included, rather than the multi-page spread of photos of the ...
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The Tale of Briar Bank: The Cottage Tales of Beatrix Potter6 reviews
Susan Wittig Albert
Berkley Hardcover, 2008
Enchanting
How this author can transform herself into this bewitching tale and also be successful in her thoroughly modern China Bayles mysteries - is a bewilderment to me. She is successful at both. If you are an admirer (and purchaser) of all the "Tales" you don't have to be told to suspend your belief system and enter with joy. If you are incapable of shedding your frown - don't read this series. It ...
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Lincoln's Other White House: The Untold Story of the Man and His Presidency5 reviews
Elizabeth Brownstein
Wiley, 2005
A Splendid Contribution
I have read a number of books on the Civil War in Washington...Fine as those books are, they do not accomplish two things that are splendid contributions of your book on the weekend home that the Lincolns made of their cottage at the Soldiers' Home.
First, we often forget the huge personal burden that the war place on Lincoln and his belief, strong in the summer of 1864, that he would be ...
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The River Cottage Cookbook5 reviews
Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall
Harpercollins Pub Ltd, 2001
Back to basics
I hate this book. It makes me so terribly jealous of Hugh's country lifestyle. Filled with good, basic recipes and tons of information on growing foods and basic animal husbandry for anyone from city-dweller to rural smallholder, it is an upscale, up-to-date book in the vein of the old Carla Emery title "Encyclopedia of Country Living".
For city dwellers, in addition to Hugh's simple recipes, ...
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Country Houses and Seaside Cottages of the Victorian Era (Dover Books on Architecture)5 reviews
William T. Comstock
Dover Publications, 1989
Country Houses and Seaside Cottages of the Victorian Era
Is a great visually informative book. It gives the reader a better idea of the way homes were built in the late 19th century. The book covers a wide variety of victorian styles and includes plans, perspective views and elevations from a small 4 room cottage, to a huge 36+ room mansion in the Caribbean. I recomend this book to anybody interested in late 19th century victorian architecture.
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