Simple to stitch, perfect for gifts: Make your Christmas crafty with handmade ornaments, stockings, tree skirts, and more! American Homestead is back again—this time with charming small projects you can sew anytime, anywhere. Ellen Murphy shares twenty-one embroidered felt and quilted designs for the holidays in her signature folk-art style. These classic patterns can also be stitched up in alternate colors to be suitable all year round. Festive projects, from all-new felt ornaments to cheerful stockings, make beautiful tree trimmings and treasured gifts for family and friends.

Simple to stitch, perfect for gifts: Make your Christmas crafty with handmade ornaments, stockings, tree skirts, and more! American Homestead is back again—this time with charming small projects you can sew anytime, anywhere. Ellen Murphy shares twenty-one embroidered felt and quilted designs for the holidays in her signature folk-art style. These classic patterns can also be stitched up in alternate colors to be suitable all year round. Festive projects, from all-new felt ornaments to cheerful stockings, make beautiful tree trimmings and treasured gifts for family and friends.

Presents a collection of over fifty favorite Christmas songs accompanied by illustrations.

27 quick-sew Christmas quilts and small projects to add whimsy to your holidays, from the bestselling author of Black & White, Bright & Bold. From tree skirts to table toppers, decorate your entire home with Christmas cheer! Featuring 27 Christmas-themed quilting projects, this book by bestselling author Kim Schaefer includes cheerful coasters, pretty place mats, and gorgeous gift tags. Fans of patchwork and appliqué will love Kim’s joyful mini-quilts and little gifts. Also includes banners, wreaths, gift tags, pillows, runners, and more. Enjoy this must-have collection of quick-and-easy Christmas keepsakes. Praise for Merry Christmas with Kim Schaefer “This [colorful] book is filled with fun Christmas projects that are all quick and easy to make. Included are patterns for three tree skirts, six placemats, two table toppers, two table runners, two wall hangings, one lap quilt, two Christmas wreaths, two banners, coasters, gift tags, four pillows and an ornament tree. Perfect to decorate your home or as gifts for loved ones.” —Down Under Textiles

Use this activity-centered, literature-based approach to get students excited about social studies. These 32 units have summaries of books, social studies topic areas, lists of content-related words, curricular perspectives, and critical-thinking questions, as well as myriad activities. Fredericks also gives you an excellent annotated bibliography of children's literature and a list of social studies resources.

A book to challenge the status quo, spark a debate, and get people talking about the issues and questions we face as a country!

Learn how to live sustainably in the city, the suburbs, or the country Many people are cutting back on consumerism and trying to simplify their lives, realizing that the "new way" isn't necessarily the best way. The sustainable living movement goes beyond a desire to protect the environment and practice green living; it's about rediscovering simple survival skills that, in an earlier time, were known and practiced by almost everyone. The New American Homestead gives you a wealth of information about homesteading—a lifestyle of simple, agrarian self-sufficiency—from raising chickens, bees, and other animals to gardening in earth-friendly ways to canning, preserving, home brewing, and cheese making. The book does not assume that you have a sizable parcel of land in the country; author John Tullock's techniques can be put to use in virtually any space, even a small urban plot. The book appeals to anyone who has a yard, courtyard, deck, or porch with room for gardening; wants to spend less money maintaining a household; and desires to reduce his or her carbon footprint through sustainable living The author emphasizes cultivating foods of all kinds in spaces of one-third of an acre or less, with consideration given to costs, family needs, available space, and the pleasures of the table Includes advice for achieving sustainability in other aspects of urban/suburban life Whether you're dwelling in the country, suburbs, or the city, The New American Homestead shows you how to live a more sustainable life.

In the early 20th century, postcards were one of the most important and popular expressions of holiday sentiment in American culture. Millions of such postcards circulated among networks of community and kin as part of a larger American postcard craze. However, their uses and meanings were far from universal. This book argues that holiday postcards circulated primarily among rural and small town, Northern, white women with Anglo-Saxon and Germanic heritages. Through analysis of a broad range of sources, Daniel Gifford recreates the history of postcards to account for these specific audiences, and reconsiders the postcard phenomenon as an image-based conversation among exclusive groups of Americans. A variety of narratives are thus revealed: the debates generated by the Country Life Movement; the empowering manifestations of the New Woman; the civic privileges of whiteness; and the role of emerging technologies. From Santa Claus to Easter bunnies, flag-waving turkeys to gun-toting cupids, holiday postcards at first seem to be amusing expressions of a halcyon past. Yet with knowledge of audience and historical conflicts, this book demonstrates how the postcard images reveal deep divides at the height of the Progressive Era.