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Book Making Class 2!
Bookmaking 2- This class is for a beginner bookmaker (don't worry if you haven't done it before) learning to make a medium sized journal/ sketchbook. The book will be hand sewn, covered in fabric and have a spine (vs. the open spine style of class 1). The class would be in 4 sessions of 1 1/2 hr length . Class starts the 3rd week of January on Thursday at 7pm . Classes would be Jan. 14th, 21st, 28th and Feb. 4th. Materials included in price except fabric of choice for cover. $25/ student.
Published on January 8, 2010 at 3:43 pm | Permalink
Sufjan Stevens' Christmas Album
You can pick up Sufjan Stevens' fantastic CD box set here for only $19.95! And remember, free shipping kicks in at $25.
I received this for Christmas last year, and it's wonderful. It includes many originals, such as Sister Winter and Put the Lights on the Tree, as well as classics like The First Noel or O Come O Come Emmanuel.
Published on December 1, 2009 at 4:44 pm | Permalink
Thanksgiving Hours
The Silver Chair will be closed Thursday and Friday of Thanksgiving week. We may or may not be open on Saturday (this is a family business!), so call ahead.
Happy Thanksgiving, everybody! And let me recommend ThanksFest to you.
Published on November 24, 2009 at 4:33 pm | Permalink
Tina Davis' Books
from Kimberly
So sorry for the lack of posts. I have been crazy! I started way too many projects as of late. I have pictures to show soon.
Right now I want to blab about some great kids books. 3 books by Tina Davis called : See and Sew, Sow and Grow, and Look and Cook. Renata has See and Sew and we have been slowly going through the projects. We have Sow and Grow in the store and it is really great too. These books are really fun for teaching sewing, gardening and cooking and if you like a vintage look. They are beautiful books with old vintage illustrations and the projects are vintagey too. They make a great present because they are so pretty.
Now besides being pretty they have great content too. See and Sew has simple instructions for basic hand sewing skills like sewing a button and embroidery stitches. Then there are the projects which include sewing a frog pincushion, drawstring bag, baby bib, elf shoes, cat shaped purse, etc. Very cute projects using simple materials like felt. Renata is 6yrs old and she definitely needs me to help her with the projects but you can see her getting more competent with each project. The back of the book includes sewing cards and monograms you can copy. My only critique of the book is that I would have like a few more projects. There are more than I listed and a lot of project suggestions but I still felt like a few more projects would have been nice.
Sow and Grow has more projects in it, but it first begins with introduction pages about sun, water, air, "what is a"... leaf, root,plant,stem etc.. The projects in this one include growing plants from potatoes, avocados, citrus but it also has egg shell gardening, terrariums, potpourri, pressing plants, forcing blooms, etc. It is organized with projects for each month of the year. Very fitting for a gardening book. Now See and Sow is definitely gauged for girls and this one is much more unisex even though the cover has pink on it.
I haven't seen Look and Cook yet but it looks quite nice too. They would make really lovely Christmas or birthday gifts. I'll post pictures soon.
Published on November 24, 2009 at 4:29 pm | Permalink
Pick Up "Collision" Here!
Pick up your copy at The Silver Chair, or order it, with FREE SHIPPING!
Only $17 (okay, so Amazon is $15; FREE SHIPPING!)
From the filmmakers:
"In Christopher Hitchens, [filmmaker Darren] Doane found a celebrated prophet of atheism. Loud. Funny. Angry. Smart. Quick. An intimidating intellectual Goliath. Well-known for bullying and mocking believers into doubt and doubters into outright unbelief. In Douglas Wilson, Doane found the man who could provide a perfect intellectual, philosophical, and cinematic counterpoint to Hitchens' position and style. A trained philosopher and and deft debater. Big, bearded, and jolly. A pastor, a contrarian, a humorist--an unintimidated outsider, impossible to bully, capable of calling Hitchens a puritan (over a beer).
It was a collision of lives.
What Doane didn’t expect was how much Hitchens and Wilson would have in common and the respectful bond the new friend/foes would build through the course of the book tour. 'These guys ended up at the bar laughing, joking, drinking. There were so many things that they had in common', according to Doane. 'Opinions on history and politics. Literature and poetry. They agreed on so many things. Except on the existence of God.'"
Published on November 13, 2009 at 11:19 am | Permalink