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A magical book of adventures and appreciations written and illustrated by the author of Roots, Shoots, Buckets & Boots this award-winning title was published by a small press in Colorado in 1991. The reviews say it all: A fetching primer on gardening for children. . . . Irresistible (The Smithsonian). What child, or indeed adult, would not be delighted? Lovejoy's recollections are wonderful, as are the illustrations (Victoria).
Celebrating the lore of the garden and the joy of interacting with nature, Sunflower Houses is a unique garden lover's miscellany, a collection of memories, poems, activities, garden plans, crafts, botanical riddles, stories, games, and planting projects. There are inspirations for a Floral Clock Garden, A Child's Own Rainbow, Faerie Tea Parties, and, of course, the Sunflower House. Plus, from garden lovers, stories of favorite flowers. Throughout are the artist's warm and appealing watercolors of a life in gardening remembered.
Customer Reviews:
Sunflower Houses Review.......2005-10-22
Incredible! I loved it from start to finish. Great ideas for a gardening Grandmother to share the garden with her grandchildren. I especially liked the personal history aspect of each idea.
If you have "Roots, Shoots, Buckets and Boots" don't bother.......2004-05-21
Sharon Lovejoy's "Roots, Shoots, Buckets and Boots" has the a lot of the ideas that are in "Sunflower Houses". It's almost as if she wrote "Sunflower Houses" first, thought of better ways to illustrate and do the gardening plans, and then wrote "Roots, Shoots..." (I didn't check the publishing dates - so maybe this is true?)
I bought both of these books through Amazon, and got "Roots..." first. It's a better book, with amazing illustrations. I thought "Sunflower Houses" would be just as good but when it came I was disappointed. It is really a repeat of much of the same stuff with less illustrations, and actually a lot less ideas. Illustrations are still really nice, and if you don't have the other book, you will like this one.
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The Magic of Childhood.......2002-03-29
Childhood is captured in this wonderful little book by Sharon Lovejoy. There are few books that make it into my "Magical Books" category, but this book by Sharon fits the bill. If you want to revisit childhood, or create a wonderful experience with your child or grandchild, this book is a must have.
If you like to garden or like to explore nature, have a child in your life you'd like to share that with, and like things that are child-like, this is a good book to have. It teaches you things like how to make clover chains and hollyhock dolls, it tells you when certain flowers bloom, like Four O'Clocks blooming at four o'clock. Or moonflowers, which bloom, big and white, in the light of the moon. The book is filled with wonderful illustrations to help you recreate magical childhood moments with your children or grandchildren.
Many adults experienced or remember those fun little things, but many of those things that we did as children are being lost, and it's amazing that a lot of kids these days have never done things like making a clover chain/necklace/bracelet. It's as if a part of childhood heritage is being lost. This is a fun book to share if, like me, you want to pass some of that heritage on to your children.
Let your inner child play..............2001-07-05
How many of us take our gardens and nature for granted? I certainly do when I get caught up in day-to-day survival mode. I discovered Sunflower Houses almost a decade ago when my sisters introduced me to a store called Heart's Ease in Cambria, California, which was owned at the time by Sharon Lovejoy. It wasn't long thereafter that I invited Sharon to be my guest on television. A faerie tea party was the theme of the segment. I was captivated by Sharon's ideas and views of the garden - transforming acorn tops, leaves, walnut shells and Japanese lanterns into the perfect faerie tea party. Vivid childhood memories came flooding back to me of blowing dandelions to the wind, climbing trees, rolling on the lawn, trying to catch butterflies and playing Red Light Green Light and Mother May I.
As I thumb through this 10th reprint of Sunflower Houses, I am reminded of the magic right outside our doors. In Sharon's words, "May you always remember that the most joyous and important experiences in life are not to be bought, but grown and nurtured in our homes and gardens." Winter, spring, summer or fall, the outdoors hold grand adventures for us! -Tiffany Windsor--
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Here's a mammoth resource that belongs in the library of everyone who owns a garden. It's a colorful treasure trove of the best backyard projects ever, from decorative to functional, from walls to walkways. All the various planning stages--design, technical considerations, tools and materials--receive comprehensive coverage, and there are solutions to every possible garden problem. Need to enliven an ordinary setting? A garden floor can do the trick. Follow the instructions for making one of brick, ornamental gravel, stone, or concrete. Want to define a space? Add a beautiful pathway. Find out how to put up a fence for extra flair, or choose one of 30 garden seating ideas, including a trestle swing. How-tos, photos, drawings, and patterns make construction easy.
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Outdoor Rooms II: More Designs for Porches, Terraces, Decks, and Gazebos (Quarry Book)
Anne Dickhoff
Manufacturer: Quarry Books
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The Outdoor Living Room: Stylish Ideas for Porches, Patios, and Pools
ASIN: 1592532993 |
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Outdoor Rooms II is an inspirational look at what one can do to create beauty and comfort in any outdoor space. Increasingly, homeowners are spending more money on their yards, not only to extend the physical space of the home for entertaining, but also because they have been shown to greatly increase resale value. For aspiring outdoor room creators, Anne Dickhoff takes readers on a guided tour of the worlds finest terraces, porches, patios, gazebos, sunrooms, and garden rooms created by today's top designers and architects. With few books covering as many facets of outdoor living as Outdoor Rooms II, this book provides ideas for all types of outdoor living situations presented in page after page of idea-inspiring design.
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50 doable project ideas with deck planning, building, and maintaining explained in easy-to-understand steps.
Tools and Materials chapter teaches such essentials as using a circular saw, measuring and leveling, and choosing the right lumber.
Explains how to upgrade existing deck with railings, planters, built-in seating and sun screens.
Shows how to craft custom designs—such as wraparound, multi-level, and entry decks.
Full-color photos of finished deck projects and full-color illustrations lead readers step-by-step.
Customer Reviews:
exactly what we were looking for.......2007-04-10
We saw this book in Lowe's one day and we were looking for a plan that would not get us in trouble with the local permit police. The plan in this one fit our needs. It has a modular deck that is made of modules of about 2 feet by 2 feet joined together that are placed on a stone bed. Just your imagination can stop you from finding ways to use these modules, but it shows a simple square deck made of these components. We plan on building it this summer after my husband has an operation this spring. We needed something not to demanding and simple. All the other books have nothing but complex plans and the easy ones show them built with those concrete engineered blocks, and our township won't allow them even though they sell them in the Home Depot less than a mile from our city limits.
Good but not update for building with laser levels........2004-11-10
In general this book seems to be pretty good. The only complaint I have is that laser levels are wonderful tools and really obsolete a lot of the other leveling techniques. This book does not cover using a laser level at all.
Customer Reviews:
Disappointing.......2003-01-06
I found the patio designs ugly and unimaginative. Don't waste your money on this book.
Review of the Complete Patio Book.......2000-05-07
Excellent book for the do-it-yourself gardener. Book addresses all aspects of patio construction, making patio furniture,arbors and planters.
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The Complete Outdoor Building Book: Patios, Decks, Fences, Landscaping, Etc.
L. Donald Meyers
Manufacturer: Prentice Hall
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Binding: Hardcover
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ASIN: 0131552767 |
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Most of us don't have the wherewithal to create conservatories and sunrooms on the extravagant scale of the ones documented here, but even those who are just looking to spruce up a little porch or carry the outdoors feel into living and dining areas will find plenty of inspiration in the lush color photos that fill this gorgeous volume. Text is minimal, providing only a very general overview of design considerations and no real specifics about the plants themselves. For a more instructional approach, you'll have to look elsewhere, but for a visual feast to get the creative juices flowing, this is a delight. --Amy Handy
Book Description
With elements from both indoors and out, a garden room serves as a link between house and garden. No longer limited to the Victorian-style sun room, these glassed-in spaces can be kitchens or dining rooms, studios, small studies or garden retreats, even entire homes-in short, virtually any area that receives plenty of natural light.
Starting with background information on the evolution of glass rooms and the basic elements of the style, the book examines each variation on the successful garden room. Chapters cover the effect of the garden outside, color, entertaining, wicker, and other furniture, pools and fountains, antiques and statuary. The more technical considerations of wall and floor finishes, heating and lighting, rugs and blinds-and of course, planting under glass-are all discussed in detail for a well-considered room.
Filled with inspiring color photographs of relaxed interiors, Garden Room Style is a sumptuous guide and idea book for everyone who has a sunny, light-filled haven-and is a vivid wish book for readers planning for the future.
Customer Reviews:
beautiful book.......2000-01-18
I am considering putting an addition/sunroom on my house. This book is full of inspiring photos and ideas. Every page is full of large color photos and descriptions/ideas. Well worth it.
Absolutely Lovely!.......1999-12-01
A visually stunning book with lots of inspiration for indoor garden or sun rooms! Definitely worth my money...also giving as gifts.
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Decks: Your guide to designing and building (Do-it-yourself)
Better Homes and Gardens Books
Manufacturer: Better Homes and Gardens
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Garden Book and Greenhouse: An Illustrated Guide with Activities for Indoor and Outdoor Gardners
Wes Porter
Manufacturer: Workman Publishing Company
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Book Description
African Violets, prickly cactus, popping corn, and prizewinning pumpkins. With The Garden Book & Greenhouse, kids can grow their own, and catch the gardening bug. A fully illustrated field and garden guide nestled inside a sturdy working greenhouse, this book is written by a horticultural consultant who has taught gardening to children for over 25 years.
The book teaches young botanists the secrets of plant life from flower to root, chlorophyll to photosynthesis. It explains how to set up a growing greenhouse, germinate seeds from petunias and pansies, peas and peanuts. Here's how to transplant seedlings, and sow a first garden-even if it's only in a windowbox. Activities include raising flowers you can smell and eat, writing your name in watercress, learning to read seed packages, and being a plant doctor to your creations.
The see-through shatterproof greenhouse has a removable growing tray for easy drainage and cleaning, and is the perfect plant nursery-or year-round terranium, cactus bed, herbarium or sprout factory. Together, the book and greenhouse yield a harvest of fun. Selection of the Book-of-the-Month Club and Scholastic Book Services. Suitable for ages 5-10. 20,000 copies in print.
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Doomed Grooms: Gay Husbands of Straight Wives is a self-help book both for women who discover that their husbands are gay and for gay men who are ready to come out to their wives. Written by counselor Bonnie Kaye, the national expert in the field of straight/gay marriages, Doomed Grooms is a follow-up of her first book, Is He Straight? A Checklist for Women Who Wonder.
Topics covered include women's sexual and self-esteem, the effect of the Internet in luring men into the world of homosexuality, the controversy of changing a gay husband's sexuality, the myth of bisexuality, and the mourning stages after a marriage is over. Doomed Grooms also contains interviews with members of Kaye's online support group from different parts of the world, as well as interviews with two of Kaye's gay male peer counselors who help gay husbands in coming out to their wives. She also shares heart-felt letters from both straight wives and gay husbands to show the emotional impact on both sides.
It is estimated that over 3 million women in this country are or have been married to men who are homosexual. Doomed Grooms allows women to come to a sense of closure by helping them understand the different aspects of homosexuality their husbands display.
Customer Reviews:
Wish I had read this four years ago!.......2007-06-01
This book was healing therapy for me. It has helped me to realise my bitterness is fading away and I can once again get on with living. Bonnie is writing about the fall out when it is revealed a spouse or significant other is gay. It was comforting to have a voice through her writing.
THIS BOOK IS ME..........2006-10-15
I am a gay married man who is at the crossroads of his life. After 14 years of living with a woman who is loving, kind, and understanding, I have decided to make the most difficult decision in my life to date--namely, be honest with her. After reading the book "Straight Wives, Shattered Lives," by Bonnie Kaye,I realize that the longer I withhold this truth from her, the more damage I am doing to her life. When I read some of the stories of these women in the book, I was faced with the reality of what I am doing to my own wife. I have fought these feelings of male attractions for many years. I wanted to be the husband my wife needs. I never meant to hurt her. I take my marriage vows very seriously. I married her because I was in love with her, and I still love her so much. But now I realize that I can never love her in the way she deserves to be loved--totally and completely. I know this because I have read the book "Forbidden Love With a Married Man: Email Diaries" by Dennis Schleicher. In his story, I saw the kind of relationship that I too desire with someone of the same sex. Between these two books, I realized I had to be honest with myself before I could be honest with my wife. I know my life will never be the same after I reveal this news, but I don't want to keep hiding behind a lie. Wish me luck.
Great and Informative! An Eye Opener.......2006-07-31
I am a bisexual man. This book should be required reading for any bisexual man or straight woman who is contemplating marrying a bisexual male. I am not a faggot. I like men and I think that other men like me are sorely misunderstood. Think your guy is gay? Read this book and learn the difference.
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