Author: GrayPublisher:
ISBN: 9780995583108
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Magic Gardens
Author: Viva Las VegasPublisher:
ISBN: 9780991225705
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
A midwest preacher's daughter with a sophisticated academic pedigree, Viva could have pursued any career, but chose to become a stripper. This personalized tour of her milieu offers a unique perspective on a thriving industry that is largely condemned or ignored, while painting portraits of women who are passionate, smart, and entrepreneurial. With language that is by turns gritty and glorious, she preaches new paradigms regarding the sex industry and the women who work in it. Part coming-of-age story, part Portland, Oregon, love letter, Magic Gardens makes a valiant case for following one's dreams, whatever they may be.
The Magical Garden of Claude Monet
Author: Laurence AnholtPublisher: Frances Lincoln Children's Books
ISBN: 9781847808134
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
Part of the highly-successful Anholt's Artists series about great painters, which tells the stories of real meetings between world-famous artists and the children who knew them. When Julie's dog disappears into a mysterious garden, Julie follows him - and finds herself in a beautiful garden-within-a-garden where the roses grow like splashes of paint and a Japanese bridge bows over a silent pool. There she finds not only her dog, but also Claude Monet. The famous artist introduces her to his work and his garden, giving her encouragement that the young would-be artist will never forget. Set against the romantic, world-famous backdrop of Monet's garden at Giverny, the story is accompanied by reproductions of the artist's most celebrated paintings and a biographical note on Monet.
Magical Gardens
Author: Patricia MonaghanPublisher: Llewellyn Worldwide
ISBN: 073873229X
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description
Nurture your love of the earth with a garden rooted in your spirituality. In this updated 15th anniversary edition of the beloved classic, Patricia Monaghan offers fresh advice and guidance for creating a magical garden that will nourish your soul. Bursting with ideas and inspiration, this guidebook shows you how to plan, grow, and tend an enchanting garden that is sown with your unique spirituality. Along with gardening advice for every climate and season, Magical Gardens weaves together myth and ritual to help you bring added power and meaning to your garden space. Discover the best plants for your site—being mindful of sun exposure, soil type, and climate zone—and learn about composting, controlling pests and weeds, gardening organically, and caring for plants at all growth stages. Perform meditations based on the year's gardening cycle, and celebrate each season and every milestone in your life with rituals, prayers, and ceremonies. This book features more than a dozen themed designs for sacred perennial gardens that you can re-create in your own backyard or out on your patio. Easy-to-follow designs will show you how to create a garden in honor of: Angels Aphrodite Cats Dragons Fairies Kwan-Yin The Sun And more Praise: "From preparing the soil to preparing the mind, Patricia Monaghan has written an informative, magical, and visionary book."—Connections
The Magic Garden
Author: LemniscatesPublisher:
ISBN: 1633225135
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 35
Book Description
"Chloe lives in a magic garden, but she doesn't know it! Incredible things happen there all the time: caterpillars become butterflies, insects change their colors and light up the night sky, and birds weave their nests. Trees lose their colorful leaves in the fall, but each spring, they grow again--just another enchanting bit of magic that happens year after year in the world of nature"--Back cover.
Fairy Gardening
Author: Julie Bawden-DavisPublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 162636186X
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
Fairy gardens are enjoying an astonishing surge in popularity and now you can begin making your own enchanting miniature landscapes, complete with pint-sized accessories, diminutive plants, and quaint fairy figures. Gardeners Julie Bawden-Davis and Beverly Turner provide you with step-by-step instructions for creating a magical garden that will attract Thumbelina herself! Learn how to design, plant, accessorize, and care for your very own small corner of the world by following seven simple steps, including choosing the perfect container, planting luxurious pint-sized plants, decorating with properly scaled accessories, and telling a story through the delicate fairies you choose to inhabit your magical wonderland. Included are full-color photographs showcasing various types of fairy gardens and accessories, which are sure to inspire the designer in you! And best of all, these perennial gardens are perfect for the busy gardener, as they require less than ten minutes per week to maintain—this could be your new favorite hobby! For the inner child in us all, Fairy Gardening is sure to enchant both the novice and the experienced gardener who wishes to stir up Lilliputian flights of fancy.
The Magic of Children's Gardens
Author: Lolly TaiPublisher: Temple University Press
ISBN: 9781439914489
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
Children’s gardens are magical places where kids can interact with plants, see where food and fibers grow, and experience the role of birds, butterflies, and bees in nature. These gardens do more than just expose youngsters to outdoor environments, they also provide marvelous teaching opportunities for them to visit a small plot, care for vegetables and flowers, and interact in creative spaces designed to stimulate all five senses. In The Magic of Children’s Gardens, landscape architect Lolly Tai provides the primary goals, concepts and key considerations for designing outdoor spaces that are attractive to and suitable for children especially in urban environments. Tai presents inspiring ideas for creating children’s green spaces by examining nearly twentycase studies, including the Chicago Botanic Gardens and Longwood Gardens in Kennett Square, PA. The Magic of Children’s Gardens features hundreds of comprehensive drawings and gorgeous photographs of successful children’s outdoor environments, detailed explanations of the design process, and the criteria needed to create attractive and pleasing gardens for children to augment their physical, mental, and emotional development. Exposing youth to well-planned outdoor environments promotes our next generation of environmental stewards. The Magic of Children's Gardens offers practitioners a guide to designing these valued spaces.
Author: Allan WolfThe Magical Garden
Author: Mel KingPublisher:
ISBN: 9781539163428
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Welcome to The Magical Garden Colouring Book, a mysterious garden filled with fabulous flora, amazing animals, and magical creatures. Choose your favourite colouring pencils or pens to bring the mystical garden to life. Enjoy more than 50 intricate illustrations for you to personalise, and create a magical garden of your own - and you can even colour the beautiful matte finish cover!Prepare to relax your mind from stress and everyday troubles, and unwind with creative art colour therapy. Each image is single-sided which means you don't have to worry about ruining any pictures on the other side of the page, and you can even cut out and frame your picture once you have completed it.Please visit www.melkingcolouringbooks.com for a sneak peek of pages inside this book.Happy colouring!
Magical Secret Garden
Author: Cicely Mary BarkerPublisher: Frederick Warne Publishers
ISBN: 9780723264453
Category : Fairies
Languages : en
Pages : 24
Book Description
When Lily climbs out of her flower for the very first time, she is keen to explore and make friends, but where to start? As she glances around she spies a special poem, written on a leafy scroll, offering clues to help her explore Flower Fairyland and reach the Secret Garden. Flutter with her as she finds new friends to help her solve the riddles and travel with her through the enchanted door to the most beautiful place in all Flower Fairyland. This beautiful gift book contains different pop-ups on each spread.
