Make this Christmas extra special with the homemade decorations and one-of-a-kind gifts featured in this kid-friendly crafting guide. It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas—and that means it’s time to get crafty. This book will teach you how to make 17 of the cutest things you’ve ever seen. Decorate your home with fun and festive handmade Christmas stockings, wreaths, ornaments, advent calendars and more. Plus, give your family and besties something they can't find at the mall. All you need is paper or fabric!
I've spent months planning a road trip to visit the best Christmas destinations in North Carolina, but at the last minute my boyfriend backs out of both the trip and the relationship. Since my other friends already have plans, I invite Chase to join me instead. Some people call Chase a slacker, but I prefer to describe him as extremely laid-back. He has no clear ambitions, and he's always hanging around, making obnoxiously insightful comments but never taking anything seriously. I've known him forever, and he's never boring, so having him as a travel companion is better than going alone. The trip was supposed to be cozy and romantic, but I've never once thought about Chase that way. Until suddenly I do. Each day of the trip throws my feelings for him into more of a tailspin. I'm starting to see him in entirely new ways, which is only asking for trouble. He's always just been Chase to me. He'll never commit or take life seriously. But ten days on the road with him for Christmas might change everything.
ECPA BESTSELLER • For fans of holiday romances and Amish life comes a new Christmas tale of surprising expectations and discovering miracles. Old Order Amish Ivy Zook is wrestling with her need to shed her community's ways so she can grow the business of her dreams: planning parties. As long as she's stuck living without modernization, she can barely get her business on its feet. But if she leaves too soon, she'd cause trouble for her sister, Holly, who is planning her wedding to Joshua Smucker. All of their plans become twice as complicated when an old car crashes into the storefront of Greene's Pharmacy, carrying a Swartzentruber (ultra-conservative sect) Amish man, Arlan, and his very ill sister. The Zooks take in Arlan and Madga, tending to the woman's illness and Arlan begins helping around the family farm. Ivy and Arlan are on different tracks, one wanting to leave her community and the other to return to his. But both young people are trying to discover what God has in store for their futures and what miracles might lie around the corner this Christmas season.
This book is partially an autobiography and part female mystery adaptation. But first, let me introduce myself: I am Nonni in this book. As I am writing this, I can hardly believe it’s been over thirty years since the depicted events took place. You may not believe in ghosts, and I am not documenting these experiences to convince you. I’m simply writing this book because, when reflecting on these memories in my life, thought they were worth sharing with others, both believers and nonbelievers. Back in the seventies I owned a shop in the basement of a three-story, early 1900s house for three years. Though the area was quite small, I managed to keep it well stocked with hand crafted items representing over one hundred consignors. Above my business was the two-story house that functioned as an antique store. As the strange events began taking place, and then increased in frequency, Cookie, who owned the antique store, and I assumed that someone was playing pranks on us. What other explanation could there be? But that was until we began sharing our experiences with other shop owners and found that they, too, had stories to share. Keywords: Women's Mystery, Supernatural, Ghosts, Paranormal, Chicken Salad, Friends
Summary This book is a captivating story about Arabian and American culture clashing together, during a time when the East and West are transforming into their future.Changes were happening on both sides, such as new music, new fashion, and new foods mingled within a belief system that had to make compromising promises. These changeswould allow new friends and business relationships to develop, hoping to insure a positive future for all nations. The story also speaks of love, life and the choices we make while surviving under the most extreme circumstances of war, foreign marriage and living far away from home. The adventures relayed in the book are based on a true story.
New in Paper Holidays are a perfect time to take photos of family and friends, and with the help ofVanessa-Ann, your snapshots can be part of a fabulous scrapbook worth to treasure forever. Christmas, New Year's, Easter, Birthdays, Valentine's Day, and Mother's and Father's Day: there's an idea for every special occasion. Each charming layout, replete with colorful photographs and lively embellishments, provides endless inspiration. Try using torn photo mats to frame an image, adding pretty eyelets, and making wire letters. Think of including a plastic spider on a "Happy Haunting" Halloween page or building a snowman out of patterned snowflake paper. From "Letters to the North Pole" tucked inside paper pockets to "Our First Thanksgiving," every page will tell a story.
This is supposed to be 16-year-old Paige Race’s year. Paige knows it, her best friend and teammate Savannah (Van) Raguzzi knows it, and even her coach thinks she’ll earn the league title. But when transfer superstar Keith Nicholson beats out Van for a place on the team, Paige’s plans are, well, shot to hell. And Keith? He just happens to be the same arrogant and annoyingly attractive shooter who beat her last year (and was a giant ass about it). All Paige wants is to beat Keith for the league championship and keep her friendship with Van as strong as ever, but with Van off the team and in the arms of a sketchy new boyfriend, their once effortless friendship becomes strained. With the pressure mounting, Paige’s dream of competing at the collegiate level becomes a real possibility and a scholarship for the league champion adds even more ferocity to the competition. The more time Paige spends at the range with Keith, the less time she has for Van (not that she notices). Worst of all, the more time she spends with her former rival, the less loathsome she finds him. When Van doesn’t make it to the winter dance, Paige is forced to make a choice that could cost her the league championship title, her budding romance-even the friendship she’s desperate to save.
