Sundressing


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"Featuring 10 women's dresses and 11 dresses for girls, and ranging from toddler to plus-size, each project starts with instructions for a bodice and a skirt, but from there, it's up to you! From the simple and pretty lines of the classic Primrose sundress to the edgy and stylish shape of the city-chic SoCo dress, you'll find the instruction and inspiration you need to make your own unique and custom-fitted dresses. Change the skirt length or style, try different fabrics and prints--make each dress a one-of-a-kind piece!"--Page [4] of cover.




Bukowski in a Sundress


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“Somewhere between Jo Ann Beard’s The Boys of My Youth and Amy Schumer’s stand-up exists Kim Addonizio’s style of storytelling . . . at once biting and vulnerable, nostalgic without ever veering off into sentimentality.” —Refinery29 “Always vital, clever, and seductive, Addonizio is a secular Anne Lamott, a spiritual aunt to Lena Dunham.” —Booklist A dazzling, edgy, laugh-out-loud memoir from the award-winning poet and novelist that reflects on writing, drinking, dating, and more Kim Addonizio is used to being exposed. As a writer of provocative poems and stories, she has encountered success along with snark: one critic dismissed her as “Charles Bukowski in a sundress.” (“Why not Walt Whitman in a sparkly tutu?” she muses.) Now, in this utterly original memoir in essays, she opens up to chronicle the joys and indignities in the life of a writer wandering through middle age. Addonizio vividly captures moments of inspiration at the writing desk (or bed) and adventures on the road—from a champagne-and-vodka-fueled one-night stand at a writing conference to sparsely attended readings at remote Midwestern colleges. Her crackling, unfiltered wit brings colorful life to pieces like “What Writers Do All Day,” “How to Fall for a Younger Man,” and “Necrophilia” (that is, sexual attraction to men who are dead inside). And she turns a tender yet still comic eye to her family: her father, who sparked her love of poetry; her mother, a former tennis champion who struggled through Parkinson’s at the end of her life; and her daughter, who at a young age chanced upon some erotica she had written for Penthouse. At once intimate and outrageous, Addonizio’s memoir radiates all the wit and heartbreak and ever-sexy grittiness that her fans have come to love—and that new readers will not soon forget.




Sweet Daisy Sundress


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This flowing, lightweight dress is perfect for spring and summer. Embroidered daisies (embroidery instructions included) and a ribbon tie are girly touches that will make this dress a favorite. Whether you crochet it for a special occasion or everyday wear, it’s sure to become a family heirloom. Suggested materials include 1/super fine yarn, size D-3 (3.25mm) and E-4 (3.5mm) crochet hooks, 3 buttons 3/8" (9mm) in diameter, and satin ribbon 3/8" (9mm) wide. Fits chest sizes 0–6 months (20"), 6–12 months (22"), 12–18 months (24"), 2–3 years (25 1/2"), and 3–4 years (27").




Ready to Test, Grade 6


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This 256-page workbook helps sixth grade children learn to follow directions, understand test formats, use effective strategies to avoid common mistakes, and budget their time wisely. This workbook includes actual test questions in reading, language arts, and math; tips on test preparation; strategies and techniques for answering different kinds of questions; full-length practice tests; and a complete answer key. Test questions feature up-to-date content aligned with the Common Core Standards. The Ready to Test series boosts confidence and helps learners improve their test scores by offering children the preparation they need for standardized tests.




A Midsummer Sundress Sexcapade


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It's sweltering hot at the midsummer music festival, but Cassie and her friends know how to keep cool: wear sundresses and kilts, and nothing else! Before long, they're flashing and being flashed in a playful game of public exhibitionism. But when another hot trio invites them back to their tent for the evening, the frolicking threesome becomes a sex-fueled sixsome!




Stitched with Personality


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Embark on a sewing odyssey that transforms every fiber and thread into a personal expression of style with "Stitched with Personality"—the ultimate eBook for sewing enthusiasts looking to infuse their creations with flair and individuality. Whether you're brandishing a needle for the first time or threading through experience, this guide is your golden ticket to mastering the art of sewing in all its textured glory. From the hum of the machine to the intricate dance of the needle, "Stitched with Personality" is your seasoned guide through the realms of fabric, pattern, and imagination. Navigate the initial steps of choosing your trusty sewing machine companion and learn the intimate secrets of its components. Allow your hands to become an extension of its purpose as you thread your way through readiness into action. Journey into the colorful universe of fabrics—unfold their stories, understand their labels, and prepare them to play their part in your sartorial symphony. With your chosen fabrics whispering secrets of transformation, you will select and tailor patterns to sketch the outlines of your upcoming masterpieces. Every stitch counts as "Stitched with Personality" delves into the artisan's arsenal, detailing the essential tools to carve your craft. Through chapters dedicated to the essential stitches, seam finishes, and closures like zippers and buttonholes, embrace the fine art of detail that elevates simple cloth to wearable wonders. Capitalize on newfound skills with hands-on projects, from elegantly simple tote bags to custom-fit personal panache in skirts and tees. Ascend to the nuances of fit and alterations—because a masterpiece is as nuanced as the individual it adorns. Conquer textiles from the commonplace to the exotic. Learn to tame knits, capture the essence of textures, and summon the boldness of trims, marrying durability with your distinctive mark. Step forward as "Stitched with Personality" guides you to shape your own sewing style, echoing your individuality through fabric and thread. As the seasons roll, so too will your repertoire expand—summer sundresses to winter woolens—each project becomes a thread in your own evolving tapestry. With sustainability in heart, embark on projects that repurpose and reverence the past while sewing a future punctuated by your personal touch. Beyond the needle and thread, this eBook empowers you to document, share, and continue your sewing journey. It's a comprehensive, inspiring, and intimate foray into the world of sewing, from first stitch to last press—tailored to those who see not just garments, but possibilities. Prepare your space. Gather your materials. Thread the needle. "Stitched with Personality" awaits to turn your sewing dreams into stitched realities. Embrace your needlework narrative—where every thread tells your story.




The Art of Useless


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Since embarking on economic reforms in 1978, the People’s Republic of China has also undergone a sweeping cultural reorganization, from proletarian culture under Mao to middle-class consumer culture today. Under these circumstances, how has a Chinese middle class come into being, and how has consumerism become the dominant ideology of an avowedly socialist country? The Art of Useless offers an innovative way to understand China’s unprecedented political-economic, social, and cultural transformations, showing how consumer culture helps anticipate, produce, and shape a new middle-class subjectivity. Examining changing representations of the production and consumption of fashion in documentaries and films, Calvin Hui traces how culture contributes to China’s changing social relations through the cultivation of new identities and sensibilities. He explores the commodity chain of fashion on a transnational scale, from production to consumption to disposal, as well as media portrayals of the intersections of clothing with class, gender, and ethnicity. Hui illuminates key cinematic narratives, such as a factory worker’s desire for a high-quality suit in the 1960s, an intellectual’s longing for fashionable clothes in the 1980s, and a white-collar woman’s craving for brand-name commodities in the 2000s. He considers how documentary films depict the undersides of consumption—exploited laborers who fantasize about the products they manufacture as well as the accumulation of waste and its disposal—revealing how global capitalism renders migrant factory workers, scavengers, and garbage invisible. A highly interdisciplinary work that combines theoretical nuance with masterful close analyses, The Art of Useless is an innovative rethinking of the emergence of China’s middle-class consumer culture.




Surgical Wing


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“In Surgical Wing, you will find yourself in phone booths, county fairs, fishing boats, and among ghosts. Strange birds will enter hospital waiting rooms. You will be seduced by knot-makers. You will witness illness, grief, and healing. Finally, the book itself will become the wings that steer you to a greater understanding of yourself and the world.” —Anna Silver In Surgical Wing, surrealistic poems visit an experimental hospital ward, manifesting visions of winged angels and medical tests, as we bear witness to a doctor’s’ meddling and miracles. Robertson’s poems challenge the internal and external metamorphoses of the human condition and the juxtaposition between death and life by personifying the soul through images of birds. From “You’re About to Fold a Paper Airplane”: Build evidence of air. Pull the results of your blood test from the mailbox. Fold in half: you have wings already. Abnormal? Fold again. You can’t see the inner-workings of an aircraft. And when you’re folding, you can’t study much else. Book your tumor markers a flight to Bora Bora. Vector, Victor. Clearance, Clarence. On any scrap of paper write carry. Write heavenward. Write I choose this over you. Replace this. With flying. With peregrination. Or write I can’t fear you another morning. And fold. Kristin Robertson is a native of East Tennessee, and she graduated with a PhD in creative writing from Georgia State University in Atlanta. Her poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in Harvard Review, Indiana Review, TriQuarterly, Third Coast, and Verse Daily, among other journals. Kristin lives outside Los Angeles and teaches at the University of California, Riverside.




The Bora-Bora Dress


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Lindsay reluctantly wears a dress to Aunt Fiona's fancy party but discovers the fun of twirling in it when the dancing begins.




Jaw


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Giving us an inside look into microaggressions in America, JAW presents American and Filipino cultures side by side as they grapple with immigration, identity, and family.