A journal to fill with your own garden musings, writings, observations and sketches. Each page starts with a quote from arcane to modern about gardens and gardening, giving you something to ponder as you exercise your green thumbs writing about your own adventures in horticulture. A great way to keep track of your gardening trials and triumphs, a journal about your garden in it's own book makes a great reference. An excellent way to scrapbook, you can add your findings over the summer to the back of the book for next season's garden or write them down as you go along. You and your family will enjoy looking through it and remember the recipes you made with the food you grew, marvel at the pictures you saved of the arrangements that graced the table.

A cozy horror novella where the 'Walking Dead' meets 'Watership Down', Samuel has finally left the zombie-laden cities for the "Meadow" - the Three Pillars' recreational preserve before the apocalypse. But the dangers of the cities and even worse threats await him in the seemingly innocent bucolic setting where small town politics and rolling hills hide deadly secrets that "could never happen."

Learn how to scrimshaw without knowing how to draw, using two hundred year old techniques of the whalemen with easily accessible modern tools and materials While the whaling industry has ceased to exist, the art form of the whaleman continues on into the twenty first century. Using ancient mammoth ivory, natural "vegetable ivory" or other materials, you can create beautiful works of art the way the sailors did, without needing to lean over the port bow A great way to de-stress, scrimshaw will bring you into a world of art you may never have thought possible to achieve. "Scrimshaw? But I Can't Draw " has links to just about everything you need: fossilized ivory "vegetable" ivory tools pigments preparing tools and materials techniques for shading polishes and preservatives, and more. Great book for beginners and who can and cannot draw, "Scrimshaw? But I Can't Draw " will walk you through the simple steps that many of the top scrimshaw artists use today.

Looking for inspiration for creating a piece of scrimshaw, a drawing or a painting? The Scrimshander's Secret Scrapbook of Whaling Era Illustrations is over 180 images from the late 19th and early 20th centuries featuring sea-faring and whaling images originally created as woodcuts, lithographs drawings and paintings. The illustrations cover the range from catastrophes - where skiffs of sailors get "fluke slapped" by angry whales to the fabled "Kraken" - the giant squid of the deep! With this many period illustrations, one is sure to find inspiration for their own masterpiece on what ever medium they choose - be it mammoth ivory, old piano keys, canvas, or a vintage tattoo!