Become a stitching wizard with a collection of designs featuring your favorite fantastical creatures!This fantastic cross stitch collection features a range of designs including the Celtic fairy queen, Chinese dragons, beautiful mermaids, and a majestic unicorn. Glittering metallic threads and gleaming beads are incorporated into many of the designs for a truly magical finish.The projects range from full-sized pictures to cushions, greeting cards, sachets and...

It is 1948 and the lochs and glens of the Scottish Highlands ring to the sounds of jackhammers and gelignite. The Hydro is coming but in the glens of Affric and Cannich Donald Fraser strives to ensure not all the old ways are swept aside. The Chisholm Estate, part of glen life for generations, needs to survive and that is Donald's task. But his peacetime life, regained only after a hard-fought war, remains precarious and a vicious murder, followed by the unveiling of a shocking and unsuspe...

1947, and it is to Cannich, a backwater in the Highlands of Scotland, that Donald Fraser returns. War weary, conflicted and confused after seven years of soldiering, he expects to find the one-horse town he left; a town that offers him no future. But Cannich is booming! The Hydro has arrived, and with it comes wealth and opportunity.High in the glens engineers are building roads and dams, tunnels and power stations. In these new Highlands the drivers and riggers, the tunnellers and ...

The Improv Dictionary: An A to Z of Improvisational Terms, Techniques, and Tools explores improvisational approaches and concepts drawn from a multitude of movements and schools of thought to enhance spontaneous and collaborative creativity.This accessible resource reveals and interrogates the inherited wisdoms contained in the very words we use to describe modern improv. Each detailed definition goes beyond the obvious clichés and seeks a nuanced and inclusive understandi...

Book 2 in the Cannich Series of Novels - Stories of the Highlands in the Days of the HydroIt is 1947, and in the Scottish Highlands, the glens of Affric, Cannich and Srathfarrar find Donald Fraser, gratefully returned from soldiering, meeting head on the challenges of peacetime life. The Hydro has arrived. Massive dams are being built to constrain the lochs and rivers. Long dark tunnels are being blasted through the mountains and new power stations will soon be sending ele...

It is 1948 and the lochs and glens of the Scottish Highlands ring to the sounds of jackhammers and gelignite. The Hydro is coming but in the glens of Affric and Cannich Donald Fraser strives to ensure not all the old ways are swept aside. The Chisholm Estate, part of glen life for generations, needs to survive and that is Donald's task. But his peacetime life, regained only after a hard-fought war, remains precarious and a vicious murder, followed by the unveiling of a shocking and unsuspe...

A Future in the Glens
Book 1 in the Cannich Series of Novels - Stories of the Highlands in the Days of the Hydro1947, and it is to Cannich, a backwater in the Highlands of Scotland, that Donald Fraser returns. War weary, conflicted and confused after seven years of soldiering, he expects to find the one-horse town he left; a town that offers him no future. But Cannich is booming! The Hydro has arrived, and with it comes wealth and opportunity.High in the glens engine...

"Examines our evolving mourning rituals, specifically in relationship to cemeteries . . . a levelheaded report on the death care industry." — Los Angeles Review of BooksIn modern society, we have professionalized our care for the dying and deceased in hospitals and hospices, churches and funeral homes, cemeteries and mausoleums to aid dazed and disoriented mourners. But these formal institutions can be alienating and cold, leaving people craving a more huma...

As they arrived in South Padre Island, Alyn, along with his companions from the fraternity, met up with a sorority in joyous benevolence. That was until strife struck, setting off a series of events--an adventure of treachery and torment, both within and outside their dynamic consortium. They were entertaining themselves with bold distractions, attempting disastrous contemplations, maneuvering toward grand desires. They were figuring out themselves and who they were meant to become while c...

Book 1 in the Cannich Series of Novels - Stories of the Highlands in the Days of the Hydro1947, and it is to Cannich, a backwater in the Highlands of Scotland, that Donald Fraser returns. War weary, conflicted and confused after seven years of soldiering, he expects to find the one-horse town he left; a town that offers him no future. But Cannich is booming! The Hydro has arrived, and with it comes wealth and opportunity.High in the glens engineers are building roa...

Book 2 in the Cannich Series of Novels - Stories of the Highlands in the Days of the HydroIt is 1947, and in the Scottish Highlands, the glens of Affric, Cannich and Srathfarrar find Donald Fraser, gratefully returned from soldiering, meeting head on the challenges of peacetime life. The Hydro has arrived. Massive dams are being built to constrain the lochs and rivers. Long dark tunnels are being blasted through the mountains and new power stations will soon be sending ele...

Sashiko, the traditional Japanese technique of needlework quilting, uses simple running stitch to create beautifully decorative patterns ideal for patchwork, quilting and embroidery. This little book describes everything you need to begin stitching.