Vancouver Family Portrait Photography by Nomayne McIntosh

my shipment of japanese craft books came today! all i have to say is GET THIS BOOK!!!!! you won’t be disappointed! embroidery works by naoko shimoda everything from couching, ribbon, applique, smocking, beading, redwork …. super duper inspirational! here is a page from her book

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i don’t have a green thumb… ask my neighbor, she’ll tell you! my husband tells me the plants that i ignore seem to thrive and the ones i try to ‘nurture’ (coerce into living?) usually end up yellow, shrivelled and dead…. but i love this book! the author writes little paragraphs about each room and...

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    i’ve never seen snow white so beautiful. the voluminous hair, big blue eyes and a very full lower lip pout…  the illustrator, Monique Gorde is fantastic with her watercolors! this book was given to hannah from one of our clients. i have claimed this book as mine because i don’t want it ruined...

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a couple of years ago, i bought this book at a used book store in the dunbar area of vancouver. i knew i had to buy it albeit the high price…. now, every print and pattern i look at can be found in these pages…. i wonder who N.B. Caryll is or was….

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