Kirjahaku

This book contains ten Affirmation Posters meant to be used for inspirational purposes. Each poster page is printed on one side and can be removed from the book. You can now tape it or pin it to the wall, mirror, refrigerator, cupboard door, or wherever you will see and be reminded of the message it gives every time you pass it by. By looking at it often and repeating the message you are reinforcing the thought, which, if you clear your mind and focus on it, along with feeling it, you should find the positive manifestations showing up in your life. You can frame up all ten of the posters and put them around the house, or decorate a whole wall with them. They also can be given as gifts. The sayings on these posters come from various sources in the New Age and Metaphysical world where Law of Attraction and prosperity are taught.

This book contains ten Affirmation Posters meant to be used for inspirational purposes. Each poster page is printed on one side and can be removed from the book so you can tape it or pin it to the wall, mirror, refrigerator, cupboard door, or wherever you will see and be reminded of the message it gives every time you pass it by. By looking at it often and repeating the message you are reinforcing the thought, which, if you clear your mind and focus on it, along with feeling it, you should find the positive manifestations showing up in your life.The posters were made to be 8 X 10 on purpose, so they can be framed. They also can be given as gifts.The sayings on these posters come from various sources in the New Age and Metaphysical world where Law of Attraction and prosperity are taught.

One day while researching poetry exercises for my poetry class, I came upon the idea of Recipe Poems. This exercise asked the poet to think of a food recipe and write a poem around it, about it, incorporating it - however it would work.I loved the idea, as there is nothing I love more than poetry, except for food So I wrote my first Recipe Poem. Being a vegetarian, of course, I was not going to use a recipe for chicken cacciatore.I fell in love with writing Recipe Poems and turned to the Internet for finding recipes. I Googled "Vegetarian Recipes" and found a ton of ideas. Some of those recipes were from various countries around the world and made for even more fascinating ideas for poems.The recipes and "facts" (like the history of potatoes) fond in these poems are true, and following the directions should result in preparing the actual dish being written about. I used my imagination to make up the stories that are told in each poem. They are not necessarily "true" stories, thought some are based in true facts. But mostly, I tried to imagine emotional themes that would tie in with the food being prepared, like the tears in the "Oregano Baked Onions" and a sick old man in "Old-fashioned Vegetable Barley Soup."

Achieve a healthier mental state. Experience a mental calmness. Eliminate a lot of stress from your life. Be happier and feel more joy in life. These are some of the benefits of having a still mind. Millions of people walk through life everyday with continuous thoughts of worry, fear, doubt, and other negatives, going through their minds. When they are having these thoughts they are not at peace within themselves. Many people wish they could stop the thoughts in their heads, but don't know how.I have written this book to share what worked for me. By following the three simple steps outlined in this book you should be able to completely eradicate all the negative thoughts from your mind. At the very least, the number of thoughts should be reduced.Think about how it would feel to walk through life having a still mind, a mind unencumbered by the thought loops of worry and fear. It is possible. Many people have discovered The Mind Power: Yoga Techniques of Meditation and Relaxation, and now you have the opportunity to take the three steps to having a still mind.

"What if gay marriage were legal in the 1800s and the most popular honeymoon spot was Japan?" I collaged images of Japanese woodcuts created in the 1800's in full color with photographs that were taken in the 1800's of men together.These ten images are like a set of old photographs that were taken as souvenirs of their honeymoons, and the poems let each of them tell their story.

In 2009 I took a 2001calendar that I had bought and had been saving. It was printed in Italy on linen paper. The full color illustrations were of Japanese woodcuts created in the 1800's. I also had coffee table books I had been collecting that were full of old black and white photographs from the early 1900's. I searched through the books of photographs cutting out selected photographs and pasted them into the woodcut illustrations. I found images of buildings to include in each.In the end I saw them as snapshots people took as souvenirs, or memoirs, of their adventures. I titled each to covey this notion.Then I created a story to go with each image. I started with January, and the story grew one month at a time. I hope you enjoy my little fantasy that I have constructed with paper, paste, scissors and words.

Starting with a large calendar (13 1/2 inches wide by 19 inches long) called Architecture, containing images of hand-colored engraved plates of eighteenth century architectural details, circa 1750, printed on heavy linen paper, I combed through numerous books of twentieth century history to find images of movie stars that I could work with. After that it was a matter of assembling them in collage fashion, with cut and tear, layering and pasting.Then I assembled a mini biography on each movie star.