Betheltown, Alaska: Where Christmas is a BIG deal. Everyone decorates, everyone participates. In a town seemingly overflowing with Christmas spirit, something nefarious lies beneath the bright lights and holiday cheer. No one wants to be the one with the least amount of Christmas decor...not in Betheltown. Not in a town where the phrase "Santa Claus comes tonight" is spoken in a whisper and is viewed as a threat, not a reason for cheer.Jump in bed, cover up your head 'cause Santa Claus comes tonight
A Christmas story of family, faith, and finding out that sometimes the mall Santa is more than meets the eye The last thing Colin expected this holiday season was to find himself without a job. More so, he never could have foreseen the interesting events that begin to unfold following; beginning with holding the door for a beautiful woman at the coffee shop. It just may be that Colin's misfortune is the blessing in disguise he didn't know he was waiting for. Will he return to his tried and true life, or take a chance on a new beginning?Nora is on her chosen career path and feeling...stable. She works, she volunteers, she hangs out with her cat, Artemis; nothing has shaken up her world in quite some time. That is, until a chance encounter with a handsome, stranger.Crossing paths with Nora sparks Colin's interest, but could a woman like that ever look at him as more than the nice, blue jeans wearing guy at Starbucks...especially if she found out he was also the mall Santa?Take two strangers whose paths can't stop crossing, and sprinkle in a little art, coffee, and an opulent holiday party. Mix it together, and you have been whisked away to the scenic Great Smoky Mountains for a cute, clean holiday romp AUTHOR'S NOTE: This is an stand-alone story with an HEA ending Story is a clean romance with no offensive language. I hope it gets you in the holiday spirit
All Proceeds for November and December Donated to My Families Who Lost Everything In the Paradise "Camp" Fire They and their families are safe, but escaped with the clothes on their backs, the vehicles they were driving, and their fur babies - everything else is gone, including the town. 25 single-sided Cartoons, Drawings and Mandalas for your coloring enjoyment.ADDED BONUS - 12 gift tags and 16 cards - a total of 30 pages and 53 drawings. The PERFECT Gift for the beginning colorist (or for yourself )Includes 5 original Hand Drawn cartoon illustrations and 20 mandalas and patterns created using the illustrations. See all images in this collection at https: //www.youtube.com/watch?v=bhGhBYDoll0This special set of Christmas illustrations has its roots in my early graphics and crafts fair adventures. Several of the illustrations in the Santa Season series were originally hand drawn as cards that I sold at one of my first crafts fairs. You'll find the original 1976 copyright mark on them (elves, Santa, angel, wreath, candles). They were part of a show I participated in at California State University in Sacramento, back then known as Sacramento State University, before the shift to CSUs. I could have redrawn them, but decided to just "clean them up" using digital editing programs. I was unable to locate the original drawings, so I scanned the prints into the computer and set to work. The results are less than perfect, but they are presented here for your enjoyment and coloring fun.There are 4 Volumes of Santa Season - collect them all Volume 1 - Santa and His ElvesVolume 2 - Christmas CheerVolume 3 - CandlelightVolume 4 - Stuffed StockingsFull Set - Volumes 1-4The mandalas and patterns are all derived from these original drawings, plus a few more that didn't make it into this book. This book also contains bonus pages with 12 Christmas gift tags and 16 drawing that can be used as cards. Some of these designs are available in a pdf download for 4-1/4x5-1/2'" card size at my Etsy store, in case you'd like to use these images as your personal Christmas cards.The mandala is a spiritual and ritualistic symbol in both Hinduism and Buddhism. In general, it is a microcosmic representation of the Universe.NOTE: Originally available as a pdf in my Etsy shop, some of the images have been updated or enhanced. As a result, they may be slightly different from the preview images. The digital version is still available in my Magical Design Studios etsy shop. The mandala is used to help focus attention on spiritual guidance, and for mindful practices such as meditation. Most mandalas, especially today, are circular in design. The circle has long been a spiritual symbol of wholeness.But the use of mandalas isn't just spiritual. Therapists as far back as Carl Jung have often used mandalas with their patients.For the past 30 years I have used mandalas in my watercolor and silk paintings, as well as my glass jewelry fabrication, my cloth fabric dying, and the quilts I design and construct.Psychologists claim that coloring is the next best thing to meditation. I find mandalas are nearly as therapeutic to create as they are to color.Pick up your coloring book today and reconnect to your own internal universe.Printed Books in my Mandala series include: - Heart 2 Heart- Star Gazing- FloraBunda- Round & Round- Square Roots- Sampler PackThe Mandala series is also available in 5.25x8" Mini - Pocket Sized Take-Along Books, and card sets for you to color and send, or gift to your favorite colorist.Christmas Santa and Elves Coloring pages, Adult Coloring Pages, Coloring page for adults, Grown up colouring page
25 single-sided Cartoons, Drawings and Mandalas for your coloring enjoyment.ADDED BONUS - 12 gift tags and 16 cards - a total of 30 pages and 53 drawings. The PERFECT Gift for the beginning colorist (or for yourself )Includes 5 original Hand Drawn cartoon illustrations and 20 mandalas and patterns created using the illustrations. This special set of Christmas illustrations has its roots in my early graphics and crafts fair adventures. Several of the illustrations in the Santa Season series were originally hand drawn as cards that I sold at one of my first crafts fairs. You'll find the original 1976 copyright mark on them (elves, Santa, angel, wreath, candles). They were part of a show I participated in at California State University in Sacramento, back then known as Sacramento State University, before the shift to CSUs. I could have redrawn them, but decided to just "clean them up" using digital editing programs. I was unable to locate the original drawings, so I scanned the prints into the computer and set to work. The results are less than perfect, but they are presented here for your enjoyment and coloring fun.There are 4 Volumes of Santa Season - collect them all Volume 1 - Santa and His ElvesVolume 2 - Christmas CheerVolume 3 - CandlelightVolume 4 - Stuffed StockingsFull Set - Volumes 1-4The mandalas and patterns are all derived from these original drawings, plus a few more that didn't make it into this book. This book also contains bonus pages with 12 Christmas gift tags and 16 drawings that can be used as cards. Some of these designs are available in a pdf download for 4-1/4x5-1/2'" card size at my Etsy store, in case you'd like to use these images as your personal Christmas cards.NOTE: Originally available as a pdf in my Etsy shop, some of the images have been updated or enhanced. As a result, they may be slightly different from the preview images. The digital version is still available in my Magical Design Studios etsy shop. The mandala is a spiritual and ritualistic symbol in both Hinduism and Buddhism. In general, it is a microcosmic representation of the Universe.The mandala is used to help focus attention on spiritual guidance, and for mindful practices such as meditation. Most mandalas, especially today, are circular in design. The circle has long been a spiritual symbol of wholeness.But the use of mandalas isn't just spiritual. Therapists as far back as Carl Jung have often used mandalas with their patients.For the past 30 years I have used mandalas in my watercolor and silk paintings, as well as my glass jewelry fabrication, my cloth fabric dying, and the quilts I design and construct.Psychologists claim that coloring is the next best thing to meditation. I find mandalas are nearly as therapeutic to create as they are to color.Pick up your coloring book today and reconnect to your own internal universe.Printed Books in my Mandala series include: - Heart 2 Heart- Star Gazing- FloraBunda- Round & Round- Square Roots- Sampler PackThe Mandala series is also available in 5.25x8" Mini - Pocket Sized Take-Along Books, and card sets for you to color and send, or gift to your favorite colorist.Christmas Cheer Coloring pages, Adult Coloring Pages, Coloring page for adults, Grown up colouring page
The story of Santa's Camera, a magical camera made in The North Pole, kept for safe keeping by Santa Claus and Mrs. Claus Elves. This Magical Camera makes the dreams of children come true. Santa's Camera is so popular, Every Kid wants one.
All Proceeds for November and December Donated to My Families Who Lost Everything In the Paradise "Camp" Fire They and their families are safe, but escaped with the clothes on their backs, the vehicles they were driving, and their fur babies - everything else is gone, including the town.25 single-sided Cartoons, Drawings and Mandalas for your coloring enjoyment.ADDED BONUS - 12 gift tags and 16 cards - a total of 30 pages and 53 drawings. The PERFECT Gift for the beginning colorist (or for yourself )Includes 5 original Hand Drawn cartoon illustrations and 20 mandalas and patterns created using the illustrations. This special set of Christmas illustrations has its roots in my early graphics and crafts fair adventures. Several of the illustrations in the Santa Season series were originally hand drawn as cards that I sold at one of my first crafts fairs. You'll find the original 1976 copyright mark on them (elves, Santa, angel, wreath, candles). They were part of a show I participated in at California State University in Sacramento, back then known as Sacramento State University, before the shift to CSUs. I could have redrawn them, but decided to just "clean them up" using digital editing programs. I was unable to locate the original drawings, so I scanned the prints into the computer and set to work. The results are less than perfect, but they are presented here for your enjoyment and coloring fun.There are 4 Volumes of Santa Season - collect them all Volume 1 - Santa and His ElvesVolume 2 - Christmas CheerVolume 3 - CandlelightVolume 4 - Stuffed StockingsFull Set - Volumes 1-4The mandalas and patterns are all derived from these original drawings, plus a few more that didn't make it into this book. This book also contains bonus pages with 12 Christmas gift tags and 16 drawings that can be used as cards. Some of these designs are available in a pdf download for 4-1/4x5-1/2'" card size at my Etsy store, in case you'd like to use these images as your personal Christmas cards.NOTE: Originally available as a pdf in my Etsy shop, some of the images have been updated or enhanced. As a result, they may be slightly different from the preview images. The digital version is still available in my Magical Design Studios etsy shop. The mandala is a spiritual and ritualistic symbol in both Hinduism and Buddhism. In general, it is a microcosmic representation of the Universe.The mandala is used to help focus attention on spiritual guidance, and for mindful practices such as meditation. Most mandalas, especially today, are circular in design. The circle has long been a spiritual symbol of wholeness.But the use of mandalas isn't just spiritual. Therapists as far back as Carl Jung have often used mandalas with their patients.For the past 30 years I have used mandalas in my watercolor and silk paintings, as well as my glass jewelry fabrication, my cloth fabric dying, and the quilts I design and construct.Psychologists claim that coloring is the next best thing to meditation. I find mandalas are nearly as therapeutic to create as they are to color.Pick up your coloring book today and reconnect to your own internal universe.Printed Books in my Mandala series include: - Heart 2 Heart- Star Gazing- FloraBunda- Round & Round- Square Roots- Sampler PackThe Mandala series is also available in 5.25x8" Mini - Pocket Sized Take-Along Books, and card sets for you to color and send, or gift to your favorite colorist.Christmas Candles Coloring pages, Adult Coloring Pages, Coloring page for adults, Grown up colouring page
Mom tells Cathy and Janice the tale of the night Santa lost his guiding sleigh lights. That Christmas Eve the girls find themselves in that exact same dilemma A simple Christmas bedtime story with a bit of drama and a fun punch line ending. Constructed to have younger children request nightly readings. Also aimed at boring the little ones to sleep.
25 single-sided Cartoons, Drawings and Mandalas for your coloring enjoyment. ADDED BONUS - 12 gift tags and 16 cards - a total of 30 pages and 53 drawings. The PERFECT Gift for the beginning colorist (or for yourself ) Includes 5 original Hand Drawn cartoon illustrations and 20 mandalas and patterns created using the illustrations. This special set of Christmas illustrations has its roots in my early graphics and crafts fair adventures. Several of the illustrations in the Santa Season series were originally hand drawn as cards that I sold at one of my first crafts fairs. You'll find the original 1976 copyright mark on them (elves, Santa, angel, wreath, candles). They were part of a show I participated in at California State University in Sacramento, back then known as Sacramento State University, before the shift to CSUs. I could have redrawn them, but decided to just "clean them up" using digital editing programs. I was unable to locate the original drawings, so I scanned the prints into the computer and set to work. The results are less than perfect, but they are presented here for your enjoyment and coloring fun. There are 4 Volumes of Santa Season - collect them all Volume 1 - Santa and His Elves Volume 2 - Christmas Cheer Volume 3 - Candlelight Volume 4 - Stuffed Stockings Full Set - Volumes 1-4 The mandalas and patterns are all derived from these original drawings, plus a few more that didn't make it into this book. This book also contains bonus pages with 12 Christmas gift tags and 16 drawings that can be used as cards. Some of these designs are available in a pdf download for 4-1/4x5-1/2'" card size at my Etsy store, in case you'd like to use these images as your personal Christmas cards. NOTE: Originally available as a pdf in my Etsy shop, some of the images have been updated or enhanced. As a result, they may be slightly different from the preview images. The digital version is still available in my Magical Design Studios etsy shop. The mandala is a spiritual and ritualistic symbol in both Hinduism and Buddhism. In general, it is a microcosmic representation of the Universe. The mandala is used to help focus attention on spiritual guidance, and for mindful practices such as meditation. Most mandalas, especially today, are circular in design. The circle has long been a spiritual symbol of wholeness. But the use of mandalas isn't just spiritual. Therapists as far back as Carl Jung have often used mandalas with their patients. For the past 30 years I have used mandalas in my watercolor and silk paintings, as well as my glass jewelry fabrication, my cloth fabric dying, and the quilts I design and construct. Psychologists claim that coloring is the next best thing to meditation. I find mandalas are nearly as therapeutic to create as they are to color. Pick up your coloring book today and reconnect to your own internal universe. Printed Books in my Mandala series include: - Heart 2 Heart - Star Gazing - FloraBunda - Round & Round - Square Roots - Sampler Pack The Mandala series is also available in 5.25x8" Mini - Pocket Sized Take-Along Books, and card sets for you to color and send, or gift to your favorite colorist. Christmas Stockings and Gifts Coloring pages, Adult Coloring Pages, Coloring page for adults, Grown up colouring page
Santa is ready to leave on Christmas Eve, but he can’t find the reindeer anywhere. Dasher is busy dashing, Donner is dozing, and Cupid is crooning. It isn’t until Santa remembers their annual tradition—reading a Christmas story together—that the reindeer are ready. Reindeer merriment abounds in this charming yuletide tale about honoring the celebration of holiday customs with those you love.
*Includes pictures *Includes Santa Anna's quotes about his own life *Includes a bibliography for further reading "Texas, to be respected must be polite. Santa Anna living, can be of incalculable benefit to Texas; Santa Anna dead, would just be another dead Mexican." - Sam Houston The butcher of the Alamo and Goliad. The traitor who sold half of Mexico. The Napoleon of the West. Mr. Fifteen Nails. The Mother Country's seducer. Almost 150 years after his death, a lot of name-calling is still being directed towards Antonio L pez de Santa Anna, president of Mexico 11 times in the 19th century, and today, the vast majority of his compatriots consider him the greatest traitor in history. It was not like that in his day; actually, there had never been a more popular man in Mexico, or anyone more eulogized and essential than General Santa Anna. In life he was the most famous - and at intervals most infamous - Mexican general and politician. Justo Sierra, the eminent writer and historian who watched him when he was a child, wrote that the masses came to regard him as a Messiah: "The people had a vague confidence that he could do miracles." Sierra wrote that Santa Anna was "the indispensable man, the man for our times of crisis, our deus ex machina." The political factions that rose against him and sent him into exile, a couple of years later were knocking at his door begging him to come back when the nation was coming apart at its seams. Then Santa Anna returned to Mexico, and he seduced her, united the people, and formed armies out of thin air to fight the new threats to the motherland: Spain, France, and the United States. At the same time, just as there are men who embody all the nation s virtues - like Benito Ju rez in Mexico or Abraham Lincoln in the United States - the Mexicans have, according to their official history, a villain by decree, guilty of all the evils except maybe the earthquakes. The most serious accusation is that Santa Anna let go half of Mexico s territory to the United States. "Me? Selling half of Mexico?" says the General in Enrique Serna s brilliant novel, The Mother Country s Seducer. "For Christ s sake When will these childish Mexicans learn that if this ship sank, it was not the helmsman's fault only, but the laziness and ineptitude of the oarsmen? Like all human beings, I have committed mistakes, and some had dire consequences. But from there to the monstrosity they want to blame me for, there is an abyss." The general was not a man of much learning, but he knew how to use the sentiment of the time, which is merely a way of saying that he was a skillful adventurer. He had the air for the office and loved all forms of display. Santa Anna was "The Eagle" - the title of his autobiography - in more than one sense: the eagle is the animal that stands out in the center of the Mexican flag, devouring a snake, the symbol of the enemy that desecrates the national soil. But more often than not he fell in disgrace, suffered the ingratitude of his people, and only by sheer luck was saved several times from being shot. His fortune always was, as so eloquently put in the 13th century poem Carmina Burana, changeable like the moon. Santa Anna deserves a more objective judgment than that of official history. For his sins, he certainly paid, in part by living long past his time. It certainly would have been better for his reputation if he had gone sooner. But either way, his life story is more interesting than all but a select few, and it includes a little bit of everything, including glory, tragedy, intrigue, love, exile, and oblivion. Santa Anna: The Life and Legacy of the Legendary Mexican President and General looks at one of Mexico's most important figures. Along with pictures of important people, places, and events, you will learn about Santa Anna like never before.
*Includes pictures *Includes Santa Anna's quotes about his own life *Includes a bibliography for further reading "Texas, to be respected must be polite. Santa Anna living, can be of incalculable benefit to Texas; Santa Anna dead, would just be another dead Mexican." - Sam Houston The butcher of the Alamo and Goliad. The traitor who sold half of Mexico. The Napoleon of the West. Mr. Fifteen Nails. The Mother Country's seducer. Almost 150 years after his death, a lot of name-calling is still being directed towards Antonio L pez de Santa Anna, president of Mexico 11 times in the 19th century, and today, the vast majority of his compatriots consider him the greatest traitor in history. It was not like that in his day; actually, there had never been a more popular man in Mexico, or anyone more eulogized and essential than General Santa Anna. In life he was the most famous - and at intervals most infamous - Mexican general and politician. Justo Sierra, the eminent writer and historian who watched him when he was a child, wrote that the masses came to regard him as a Messiah: "The people had a vague confidence that he could do miracles." Sierra wrote that Santa Anna was "the indispensable man, the man for our times of crisis, our deus ex machina." The political factions that rose against him and sent him into exile, a couple of years later were knocking at his door begging him to come back when the nation was coming apart at its seams. Then Santa Anna returned to Mexico, and he seduced her, united the people, and formed armies out of thin air to fight the new threats to the motherland: Spain, France, and the United States. At the same time, just as there are men who embody all the nation s virtues - like Benito Ju rez in Mexico or Abraham Lincoln in the United States - the Mexicans have, according to their official history, a villain by decree, guilty of all the evils except maybe the earthquakes. The most serious accusation is that Santa Anna let go half of Mexico s territory to the United States. "Me? Selling half of Mexico?" says the General in Enrique Serna s brilliant novel, The Mother Country s Seducer. "For Christ s sake When will these childish Mexicans learn that if this ship sank, it was not the helmsman's fault only, but the laziness and ineptitude of the oarsmen? Like all human beings, I have committed mistakes, and some had dire consequences. But from there to the monstrosity they want to blame me for, there is an abyss." The general was not a man of much learning, but he knew how to use the sentiment of the time, which is merely a way of saying that he was a skillful adventurer. He had the air for the office and loved all forms of display. Santa Anna was "The Eagle" - the title of his autobiography - in more than one sense: the eagle is the animal that stands out in the center of the Mexican flag, devouring a snake, the symbol of the enemy that desecrates the national soil. But more often than not he fell in disgrace, suffered the ingratitude of his people, and only by sheer luck was saved several times from being shot. His fortune always was, as so eloquently put in the 13th century poem Carmina Burana, changeable like the moon. Santa Anna deserves a more objective judgment than that of official history. For his sins, he certainly paid, in part by living long past his time. It certainly would have been better for his reputation if he had gone sooner. But either way, his life story is more interesting than all but a select few, and it includes a little bit of everything, including glory, tragedy, intrigue, love, exile, and oblivion. Santa Anna: The Life and Legacy of the Legendary Mexican President and General looks at one of Mexico's most important figures. Along with pictures of important people, places, and events, you will learn about Santa Anna like never before.
