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Felted Wool Fashions by Vivian Peritts

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Vivian Peritts had a strong desire to be a stay-at-home mom, so she quit her job as an art teacher. Soon she started making and selling soft sculpture dolls, which she sold at craft fairs and stores to bring in a little extra cash. Today, Vivian is a nationally acclaimed craft designer whose work is often featured on HGTV and DIY. She’s the author of numerous craft titles, including “Felted Wool Fashions” published in 2008 by Sterling. She also works as a consultant for leading manufacturers in the craft and hobby industry, sharing her creativity through inspiring projects and ideas.  Learn how to create some the remarkable projects from Vivian’s book from Google Books.  There are complete instructions for making all types of flowers, a caplet and an adorable vest.  Leave it up to Google to have such an innovative idea that allows us to look at several projects from a book and then decide if we would like to own it or not. These are complete patterns taken from her book “Felted Wool Fashions”.  If you decide to buy this book it is available on Amazon.com.

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Book Review: Off to the Nursery

One of the best things about the return of warmer weather is getting to plant new flowers and starting the vegetable garden if you have one. Off to the Nursery by Alice Oehr is subtitled “a celebration of gardening, plants and seasons,” and it’s also a celebration of diversity (because gardening is for everyone) and caring for the earth.

The book starts with the work of getting the garden ready for spring, pulling out the old plants and spreading compost made from kitchen scraps. They grab tomatoes and peppers, learn about zucchini and eggplant and explore the tasty world of herbs.

They also look through the seeds, succulents, berries and fruit trees, flowers and aquatic plants, talking about the benefits of different plants and how fun they are to grow. Maybe you can relate to the family buying what seems like way too many plants?

The book was originally published in Australia, so some of the flowers mentioned might not be familiar to your or your kids, but that’s kind of fun, too. You can also use this as an opportunity to talk about which plants in the book can grow where you live and that just like animals, plants have preferred habitats, too.

Illustrations are colorful and the book combines a standard font and a hand written font to make it feel more like a journal about the garden. The illustrations include fun facts and growing tips such as always planting mint in a pot or germinating seeds on a wet paper towel before planting.

If you want to introduce kids to gardening or just talk about what kind of plants can be grown at home where you live (yes to tomatoes, probably no to the kumquat tree), this cute book is a great addition to your spring reading list.

About the book: 30 pages, hardcover. Published 2025 by Scribble US. Suggested retail price $18.95.