Heirlooms from Loving Hands: Making Memories to Cherish Forever

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Summary: Heartwarming look at passing love on to future generations!
Review: Being someone who has always loved to craft and sew and make things with my hands, I am so thrilled to find this book which has managed to put into words the feelings that I have felt as I work on each piece, whether it be a gift (which it usually is) or for myself and my own family. The author has defined in this book what heirlooms really are...and that is far different than the well-polished, antique store variety that we often think of. Our heirlooms are all around us...those small things passed down from our grandparents to our parents to us...they may not be beautiful, they may not be enshrined and on display...they may very well be things we still use today. The common thread is that their origins are steeped in the love that materialized through the hands that created them generations ago, as well as the hands that made use of them down through the years. I will never look at the things I make in quite the same light again...whereas they may seem like "just gifts" today, this book reminded of how much more they really are.

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Summary: FANTASTIC BOOK that touches the heart
Review: I was given the book by a friend and absolutely loved it! I was surprised at the vehemence of the lady from NY -- evidently she was looking for a "how-to" book (she's looking for Martha Stewart, not Sandy Clough), and didn't realize that Heirlooms from the Heart is a gift book, meant for sharing and inspiration. This book is a book that can be picked up any time, savored over a cup of tea, or during personal time for reflection on the good things in our lives put there by loving hands. It made me appreciate my childhood spent with my mother and grandmother, their passing on their knowledge of womanly arts and working to make one's family and friends feel loved and cared for.

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Summary: FANTASTIC BOOK that touches the heart
Review: I was given the book by a friend and absolutely loved it! I was surprised at the vehemence of the lady from NY -- evidently she was looking for a "how-to" book (she's looking for Martha Stewart, not Sandy Clough), and didn't realize that Heirlooms from the Heart is a gift book, meant for sharing and inspiration. This book is a book that can be picked up any time, savored over a cup of tea, or during personal time for reflection on the good things in our lives put there by loving hands. It made me appreciate my childhood spent with my mother and grandmother, their passing on their knowledge of womanly arts and working to make one's family and friends feel loved and cared for.

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Summary: Very disappointing -- no directions!
Review: This was a huge disappointment. It was all lengthy reminiscences,etc., rather than directions for making heirlooms. For example, many of the ideas were inane things I can't imagine doing; others were so common you'd have had to be newborn not to know already. That's definitely not what I want in a book.