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Twenty sewing projects for home decor and accessories inspired by the Japanese aesthetic that appreciates the beauty of imperfection.Capture the essence of Japanese style in your sewing with this collection of projects inspired by the wabi-sabi concept of "e;perfect imperfection."e; This collection of twenty sewing projects for home decor and accessories is based on the popular Japanese aesthetic of wabi-sabi which celebrates the beauty in the ordinary and imperfect.The projects are grouped according to how we live, for example: living; sleeping; eating and exploring. Sewing and quilting expert and fabric designer, Karen Lewis, has used a limited palette of earthy tones and the best quality natural fabrics including linen, cotton, denim and wool to create a stunning collection of simple, sewn projects.Try out some simple wabi-sabi style sewing techniques such as hand piecing, sashiko embroidery, big stitch quilting, and visible mending to create unique items for your home whether it's a full-sized bed quilt, simple coasters for your favorite mug or a stunning scarf to wrap up in.

When did my life start sounding so cliche? On my thirty-first birthday, I discovered my wife with the pool boy and immediately packed up and moved back to my hometown to lick my wounds. Where do I go from here since being divorced was never in my life plan? And when did Titus develop into a tough and ripped college guy from a gawky teenager? More importantly, why do I find it so difficult to look away from him?

Sign Language Made Simple will include five Parts:Part One: an introduction, how to use this book, a brief history of signing and an explanation of how signing is different from other languages, including its use of non-manual markers (the use of brow, mouth, etc in signing.)Part Two: Fingerspelling: the signing alphabet illustrated, the relationship between signing alphabet and ASL signsPart Three: Dictionary of ASL signs: concrete nouns, abstractions, verbs, describers, other parts of speech-approx. 1,000 illustrations. Will also include instructions for non-manual markers, where appropriate.Part Four: Putting it all together: sentences and transitions, includes rudimentary sentences and lines from poems, bible verses, famous quotes-all illustrated. Also, grammatical aspects, word endings, tenses.Part Five: The Humor of Signing: puns, word plays and jokes.Sign Language Made Simple will have over 1,200 illustrations, be easy to use, fun to read and more competitively priced than the competition. It''s a knockout addition to the Made Simple list.

How I Got Over: A Testimonial of Hope and Survival After Repetitive Child Loss is a very open and honest testimony about personal experiences that many women the world over have faced, and are still facing today. This writing is not just geared towards telling what happened, but how what transpired through the pain and trauma strengthened the faith of a woman of God who yet dares to believe in spite of. How I Got Over was written to equip the reader with encouragement, inspiration and a challenge to grow their faith in God regardless of past or current traumatic experiences. This book resonates the heart of a woman of wisdom and war, inviting and compelling all who dare believe for their breakthrough to stand their ground with boundless faith! Evangelist Karen Lewis resides in Rochester, NY with her beloved husband and daughter. A woman of small stature, but BIG faith in the saving and delivering Gospel of Jesus Christ,who has spent many years ministering to the lost, with a sincere desire to see lives changed bysharing her own brutally honest and heart wrenching testimonial. "How I Got Over" is a testament to the grace, mercy and the undying love of God, that Karencontinues to enjoy. Her transparency revealed will encourage others to allow God''s will to bedone in their lives for greater faith and healed victorious living.

Do you love the idea of printing your own fabrics at home but don't know where to start? This comprehensive guide to screen printing shows just how easy it is to create beautiful, hand printed fabrics at your kitchen table and then turn them into stunning projects for family and friends.

How charter schools have taken hold in three cities—and why parents, teachers, and community members are fighting backCharter schools once promised a path towards educational equity, but as the authors of this powerful volume show, market-driven education reforms have instead boldly reestablished a tiered public school system that segregates students by race and class. Examining the rise of charters in New Orleans, Chicago, and New York, authors Raynard Sanders, David Stovall, and Terrenda White show how charters—private institutions, usually set in poor or working-class African American and Latinx communities—promote competition instead of collaboration and are driven chiefly by financial interests. Sanders, Stovall, and White also reveal how corporate charters position themselves as “public” to secure tax money but exploit their private status to hide data about enrollment and salaries, using misleading information to promote false narratives of student success.In addition to showing how charter school expansion can deprive students of a quality education, the authors document several other lasting consequences of charter school expansion:    • the displacement of experienced African American teachers    • the rise of a rigid, militarized pedagogy such as SLANT    • the purposeful starvation of district schools    • and the loss of community control and oversight A revealing and illuminating look at one of the greatest threats to public education, Twenty-First-Century Jim Crow Schools explores how charter schools have shaped the educational landscape and why parents, teachers, and community members are fighting back.