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"Educate Your Brain: use mind-body balance to learn faster, work smarter and move more easily through life" In this remarkable book, Kathy Brown explains how the mind-body system has innate intelligence, ready and waiting to be tapped. By following its lead and utilizing a few simple movements from the innovative Brain Gym program, we can resolve even longstanding blocks to learning and achievement. The unique Brain Gym system can help you experience the confidence and self-esteem that come with ability, productivity, and fulfillment. Discover how you can change your own life, and the lives of those you touch. "Educate Your Brain" was a finalist (Silver Award) in the 2013 Benjamin Franklin publishing awards, sponsored by the Independent Book Publishers Association.
Flowers have been used in a culinary context since earliest times. As ingredients for cookery they can provide a range of flavours, from sweet to bitter and all in between. Kathy Brown shows how to choose, cultivate and use flowers in this way.
Following up her previous popular titles, Kathy Brown presents an irresistible collection of quick and easy quilts. Learn to efficiently cut fat quarters into smaller units--with or without Kathy's clever Fat Quarter Cutter ruler--for any quilt pattern that features precut strips and squares. Select from 11 all-new projects for fat quarters or common precuts: 21⁄2" strips, 5" strips, 5" squares, and more Discover appealing patchwork patterns that demonstrate the versatility of fat quarters Get a terrific value on simple yet striking projects ranging from table runners to a few bed-sized quilts
Quilters everywhere love Take 5 patterns from The Teacher's Pet, and this book is packed with them! Simply take five minutes to choose five fabrics (one focus fabric plus four coordinating fabrics), stack them, cut them simultaneously, and you're ready to sew! It's the relax-and-have-fun way to create visually stunning quilts. Choose from 15 designs that look intricate but are very simple to construct--excellent for beginners Take the stress out of selecting fabrics with Kathy's straightforward approach Create a lap-sized quilt this weekend--experienced quilters can finish in a day
Discover 16 stunning quilts that are easy enough for anyone to make. Just stitch strip sets and cut them using the Creative Grids 90° Double-Strip Ruler (or another right-angle triangle ruler with appropriate markings) to create each mesmerizing design. Presents a super-easy triangle technique from the popular author of Take 5 Provides options--quilters can start with precut strips, fat quarters, or yardage Makes it possible to create either scrappy quilts or designs with a more controlled look
Kathleen Brown examines the origins of racism and slavery in British North America from the perspective of gender. Both a basic social relationship and a model for other social hierarchies, gender helped determine the construction of racial categories and the institution of slavery in Virginia. But the rise of racial slavery also transformed gender relations, including ideals of masculinity. In response to the presence of Indians, the shortage of labor, and the insecurity of social rank, Virginia's colonial government tried to reinforce its authority by regulating the labor and sexuality of English servants and by making legal distinctions between English and African women. This practice, al...
In this follow-up to her popular Strip-Smart Quilts, Kathy Brown provides an astonishing collection of 16 quilt patterns--all based on the same cut from a single ruler. Smart indeed! Create mesmerizing designs with speed and accuracy using the Creative Grids 90° Double-Strip Ruler (or another right-angle triangle ruler) Make intricate-looking projects easily using fat quarters, precut strips, or yardage Find visually appealing quilts for all skill levels, from beginner to experienced
Ning is a boy and Keppy is his teddy and together their wild imaginations take them on adventures throughout the house. One day, as they are sitting together day dreaming, a postcard lands on the mat. It says “Follow that string.” Baffled but intrigued, Ning and Keppy set off on the trail of the seemingly endless piece of string. Join them on their surreal journey and find out what happens at the end of that string — if indeed there is an end! Children will love tracing the string throughout the book.
"Beneath Seattle's gray skies and emerging grunge era, a runaway subculture has taken root in the shadows of the city. A time before Amber alerts and mind numbing technology, kids roam the streets relatively unnoticed. They dress in black, call trailer parks and abandoned buildings "home" and without consciously knowing it, form the undulating engine that is Seattle's rising music scene. There are no rules for these outcasts and it's this antisocial lifestyle that makes them perfect prey for a serial killer.Kathy Browne's suspenseful book, "My Emerald City," depicts her provacative childhood and her harrowing journey into homelessness and substance abuse at the advent of Seattle's alternative music scene and her brush with the most prolific serial killer in American history.
Teaching how to sew decorative and functional bedrunners, this quilter's resource is specifically designed for projects using pre-cut fabrics, such as fat quarters, charm squares, Layer Cakes™, Jelly Rolls™, and Turnovers™. This guide takes first-time bedrunner makers through the steps of measuring, creating, and personalizing a bedrunner. Featuring 10 projects, the patterns in this collection can be tailored to fit any bed size.