Mary Englebreit A Homeowner's Journal and Project Plann

This hardcover, enclosed spiral bound book includes a collection of more than 40 embroidered projects in Mary Engelbreit's signature style. Featuring a variety of embroidery, fabric appliqué, and colored marker techniques, the book is divided into three sections: home, baby, and gifts to give. Patterns are tucked conveniently in a pocket on the inside cover.The book invites fans of Mary's whimsical artwork to:. Stitch a tote, mobile, bib, fabric "booky", stuffed giraffe, or framed piece for baby.. Create a fabric banner, accent pillow, throw, table linens, hot pads, tea towels, and an apron for the home.. Give the perfect gift to a special friend with a sampler, hand towels, bread cloth, quilt, jewelry roll, rice filled neck roll, sewing kit, or pincushions.

These darling alphabets from Mary Engelbreit just beg to be stitched and used to embellish tote bags and more! 5 alphabets: Dotted Swiss Alphabet Floral Checked Alphabet Fried Egg Flower Alphabet (caps and lowercase) and Motif Alphabet. 8 projects: LOVE pillow Makeup Bag Fabric-Covered Box TOO CUTE Framed Piece ''A" Framed Piece Apron Beach Tote and Yarn Tote.

Mary Englebreit has "visited" readers' homes for years. Her charming and homey illustrations have graced millions of cookbooks, calendars, journals, home accents, and greeting cards. Home Sweet Home offers readers the chance to peek at the prolific artist's inspiration-her own home in St. Louis, Mo. Home Sweet Home is a beautifully photographed and lovingly narrated tour of the cozy home Mary was meant to live in.The tour offers a rare glimpse at Mary's vibrant kitchen (classic Mary: black and white and red all over) with its warm, rich hardwood floors, and the soft, buttery tones of her living room, which opens suddenly and dramatically into an airy space that almost seems to be outdoors.Countless nooks and crannies are peppered with Mary's many favorite collections-clearly the inspiration for her art.In addition to the hundreds of sumptuous photographs and plentiful practical decorating advice, Home Sweet Home explains the method behind Mary's decorating genius, dispels common decorating myths, and gives insight into Mary's fairy-tale world.Home Sweet Home will inspire even a novice decorator to create a home that is distinctly her own.

This new edition of the Memoirs of Mary A. Maverick, until now unchanged since the first in 1921, is carefully reedited, has new illustrations and, for the first time, an index and extensive annotations to put the leading characters and subjects in perspective for present-day readers. As the young wife of Samuel A. Maverick, a Yale-educated landholder whose name has entered the English language, Mary Adams Maverick came to Texas less than two years after the fall of the Alamo. In her diary she recorded her eyewitness views of the tumultuous decades that followed. She also described the joys and heartbreaks of raising a growing family in the uncertain shadow of Indian raids, military invasions and deadly diseases. A youthful sense of wonder comes through in her wide-ranging accounts of fleeing an invading Mexican army, of making do with living quarters in a corncrib, of meeting generals and presidents—even a German nobleman, Prince Carl of Solms-Braunfels, who serenaded her group from a boat near her home on the Texas coast. Sprinkled throughout are other memorable vignettes--of a grand procession to San Antonio's church of San Fernando behind "twelve young girls dressed in spotless white" and a platform-borne statue of the Virgin of Guadalupe; of a dance in which the president of the Republic of Texas, Mirabeau B. Lamar, has trouble getting his arm around the waist of the rotund wife of San Antonio's mayor, Juan Seguin; of the deathbed vigils for two beloved daughters. Indeed, as historian Paula Mitchell Marks writes in the foreword, these memoirs form “a valuable record of Texas history and a personal story of endurance and grace.”