Books: Home and Garden
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Book Review: Knitwear by Sasha Kagan— Knitwear is geared towards more advanced, more traditional knitters.
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Book Review: The Little Box of Socks by Charlene Schurch and Beth Parrott— The perfect gift for the knitter in your life.
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Book Review: Pot Culture - The A-Z Guide to Stoner Language & Life by Shirley Halperin & Steve Bloom— A fun book that every toker should get their sticky green fingers on.
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Book Review: Twinkle's Weekend Knits by Wenlan Chia— Bulky, fashion-forward knits are great for a quick project, but don't offer much in the way of unique designs.
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Book Review: New Ideas for Today's Knitting by Jean Leinhauser and Rita Weiss— This isn't your grandmother's knitting... but it isn't yours, either.
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Book Review: Glamour Knits at Home and Classic Knits at Home by Erika Knight— Two new books offer stylish and unique knitted decor.
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Book Review: Simplify Your Time by Marcia Ramsland— Is making better use of time your new year’s resolutions? This is the book for you.
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Book Review: Hip Tastes - The Fresh Guide to Wine by Courtney Cochran— Curious about wine? This chatty book reveals everything you need to know.
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Book Review: Sensual Knits, Edited by Yahaira Ferreira— Sensual Knits offers classic, wearable knits, perfect for the new generation of knitters.
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Book Review: Ecohouse: A Design Guide, 3rd Edition, by Sue Roaf, Manuel Fuentes, and Stephanie Thomas— A beautifully designed, well-written, thorough guide to the ecohouse. Much recommended as both an inspiration and a technical guide.
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An Interview with Norma Lehmeier Hartie, Author of Harmonious Environment— You can create a beautiful, healthy home while treading lightly on Mother Earth.
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Book Review: Married to the Military: A Survival Guide for Military Wives, Girlfriends, and Women in Uniform by Meredith Leyva— A book for a military spouse trying to get used to being a part of something greater than themselves.
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Book Review: Everlasting Matrimony by Sheryl P. Kurland— In a sampling from many different viewpoints, the author shares the wisdom and advice of 75 long-married couples from various faiths, backgrounds, and ethnicities.
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Book Review: A Seed is Sleepy by Dianna Hutts Aston and Sylvia Long— A lushly illustrated educational book for children about the life of seeds.
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Book Review: Animal, Vegetable, Miracle by Barbara Kingsolver— If we are what we eat I would want to come from Barbara Kingsolver's garden...
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Book Review: Xochitl and the Flowers/Xochitl, La Niña de Las Flores by Jorge Argueta— A beautifully illustrated bilingual book about pursuing your dreams and making them happen.
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Periodically Speaking: GreenPrints— A leisurely magazine about gardening as a happy sanctuary.
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Periodically Speaking: The Glittering West— Two regional magazines from the American West that focus on the good life.
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Book Review: Big Girl Knits by Jillian Moreno and Amy R. Singer— Tired of knitting tents? Big Girl Knits isn't just for big girls.
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Julie & Julia Wins First Blooker Prize— I hope that the winners' books sell, but that the neologism doesn't catch on.
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Magazine Review: Back Home— A colorful bimonthly about sustainable living: gardening, energy conservation, animal husbandry, ecology, home maintenance and more.
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Book Review: The Botany of Desire by Michael Pollan— The plant is the dominatrix, we are its slave.
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A Weed Grows In Brooklyn— ...
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Review - The Company We Keep, Reinventing Small Business for People, Community and Place— This book tells the story of a building company operating on what you might call the anti-Wal-Mart model.
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Funky Halloween: Hellish party treats for your tricks— If you want your party guests to really shake dem Halloween bones, here's what to dust off now to get their dancing knees a-clacking.
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Book Review: Julie and Julia: 365 Days, 524 Recipes, 1 Tiny Apartment Kitchen
— The spirit of Julia Child takes Julie’s agonizingly unfulfilling life and turns it into something wonderful through liver and marrow.
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Food: Hand Made Tortillas— The tortilla is the staple of Mexico. They taste good and travel badly. Make your own easily.
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Pets - The Second Generation Effect Part II— Now don't get me wrong, I like having chickens around, but I don't love 'em like I love my dog.
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Book Review: Review: Live Well in Mexico By Ken Luboff— Ready to change your life? Retire? Mexico could be the place of dreams or nightmares. Read, study, visit.
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The Country Side of Life— When you move from the city into the country, a considerable number of municipally peripheral things suddenly come into your life in a big way,
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Book Review: Like a Watered Garden— ...
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All Natural Beauty— I guess this all started with my Mother who made her own candles from scratch in different colors, scents, shapes and sizes.
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"All-natural deodorizer also kills germs"... No, for real this time— ...
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Pollan: The Botany of Desire—Valentine for a Dozen Roses
— The Botany of Desire examines mankind's domestication of plants, asking "who has domesticated whom?"
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Interior Desecrations: Hideous Homes from the Horrible '70s— There is some amount of pleasure in being too little to truly remember the 70s. Sure, I was eight when the decade came to an
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My nose pressed upon the cyberwindow— Meet George Jetson's House
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I Was a Teenage Cult Leader— Naturally, we interpreted any criticism or attempt to restrict our flower distribution (ie complaining when we piled hundreds of dandelions on an annoying teacher's desk
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Mainlines in Modest Spaces— ...
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Garden School— ...
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The Rural Life by Verlyn Klinkenborg— ...
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On The Bleeding Edge Of Home Theater— If you're new to the idea of home theater, or if your media room is starting to look a little long in the tooth, "Home
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Martha Stewart gets screwed— She has a unique big name celebrity CEO status, and some prosecutors plan on making big names for themselves by taking her down. This
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Smart Homes for Bloggers— A terrific guide to getting started with home automation gets an upgrade.
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