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  <title><![CDATA[Mrs. Sharp's Traditions: Reviving Victorian Family Celebrations Of Comfort &amp; Joy]]></title>
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  <default-description>&lt;P&gt; The seeds for the ground-breaking &lt;I&gt;Simple Abundance,&lt;/I&gt; Sarah Ban Breathnach's hugely successful bestseller, were first planted in &lt;I&gt;Mrs. Sharp's Traditions.&lt;/I&gt; In this revised, redesigned edition of her charmingly illustrated Victorian style- and sourcebook, Sarah introduces to her legions of new readers the old-fashioned pleasures of family, customs, and home.</default-description>
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  <original-publication-year type="integer">1990</original-publication-year>
  <original-title>Mrs. Sharp's Traditions: Reviving Victorian Family Celebrations Of Comfort &amp; Joy</original-title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Sarah Ban Breathnach]]></name>
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  <read_at>Thu Sep 03 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book will make you want to live in the Victorian era!  It is wonderfully written with fascinating details about life in the early 19th century.  Ban Breathnach's ideas for borrowing Victorian traditions are almost inspiring.  I think this book would be better suited for larger families, or at l...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/67690499">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <date_added>Wed Nov 04 13:50:12 -0800 2009</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[Absolutely loved this book.  It's meant as a reference as ideas to do from month to month.  Old fashioned, Victorian, simple holiday, festive, and day to day ideas to do each month to make bring the family closer together and have a more loving, united family environment.  I'm going to buy it to hav...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/76728049">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <recommended_for><![CDATA[parents, waldorf inclined, people searching for traditions]]></recommended_for>
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  <read_at>Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2001</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Mon Mar 17 22:34:24 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I found this book in the store and picked it up on a whim.  Many of the traditions I had already &quot;read&quot; as someone had plagerized a number of them and posted them on her blog, but I didn't know it at the time.  I loved the ideas when I read them on the blog, in fact copied a few to incorpo...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/17992180">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2001</read_at>
  <date_added>Fri Jan 16 18:47:16 -0800 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Fri Jan 16 18:48:20 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is such a fun book!  I go back to it regularly when I need help with a celebration, or an excuse to plan a party for my family.  Everyone should have this book.  ]]></body>
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    <review id="49726526">
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  <date_added>Wed Mar 18 19:29:42 -0700 2009</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[Simple Abundance,Sarah Ban Breathnach]]></body>
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    <review id="31982292">
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    <body><![CDATA[This books is filled with seasonal ideas for family togetherness.  The ideas are sweet, some are based on Victorian traditions, some are based on more recent ideas.  Her seasonal living traditions are worth looking at, and some are even worth doing ;)]]></body>
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  <read_at>Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2004</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I love reading about Victorian traditions and the origins of our holidays. It has given me ideas of how to create special days for my kids--from birthdays to forgotten holidays such as Candlemas. A charming book.]]></body>
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    <review id="13988174">
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    <body><![CDATA[This is just a fun, fix a cup of cocoa and sit in the tub read. It's written from the perspective of a Victorian age woman giving advice to mothers. She talks a lot about Victorian traditions. It's just fun.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I LOVE this book. It is full of old family traditions and how to bring joy back through them. It is an easy read that goes by month. I recommend it for everyone that wants to create happy family memories.]]></body>
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  <read_at>Thu Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Was looking for ideas for traditions. This book had many good ones and it was really fun to see how Victorian life was from a homemaker's point of view.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Fun things for a mom to incorporate in celebrations and activities. ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book is great, but her other books are said to be new-age(y).]]></body>
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