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Spirit of the Nursery (Spirit of the Home) [Hardcover]

Jane Alexander (Author)
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Spirit of the Home May 1, 2002
Spirit of the Nursery demonstrates how to turn a baby's room from ordinary to special! Readers will discover dozens of creative ideas for bringing in natural light: experimenting with color, bringing comforting scents into the room, and much more. Plus, dozens of full-color photographs offer inspiration as well as ingenuity.

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In her Spirit of the Home, Alexander gave an overview of principles one can use to create a restful, spiritual retreat from the stresses of everyday life. Here she focuses on how to use those principles, which include feng shui and space cleansing, in bedrooms and nurseries. Most helpful is her examination of the function of each room and specific directions for making it restful, which include evaluations of space, safety, color, scent, and sound.
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About the Author

Jane Alexander, author of Spirit of the Home, is a highly successful journalist and writer specializing in natural health and holistic living. She is well known for her writing on all aspects of alternative and complementary health care; self-help; psychology; and mind/body/spirit. She lives in a remote farmhouse in Exmoor National Park in the UK.

Product Details

  • Hardcover: 96 pages
  • Publisher: Watson-Guptill; First Edition edition (May 1, 2002)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0823049027
  • ISBN-13: 978-0823049028
  • Product Dimensions: 7 x 6.7 x 0.5 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 10.6 ounces
  • Average Customer Review: 2.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #473,115 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Jane Alexander is a UK-based journalist and author of over twenty non-fiction titles in the fields of wellbeing, natural health and Mind Body Spirit. She has monthly columns in several UK magazines, often appears on television and radio and is quoted in the press as an expert on natural health and alternative spirituality. She has also ghosted several books for celebrity authors.

Jane's blog, Diary of a Desperate Exmoor Woman (http://exmoorjane.blogspot.com) has a large and enthusiastic following and was shortlisted for the Author Blog Awards. She tweets as @exmoorjane and is active on social media platforms.

Jane grew up in a family which was fascinated by natural forms of wellbeing and the arcane. She learned tarot and yoga from the age of seven and went on to study Kabbalah, herbalism, homeopathy and flower remedies from her teens. She has also trained in past life therapy, shamanism and SHEN.

Jane has a very down-to-earth and pragmatic approach to spirituality and wellbeing. She insists she is no "guru" (despite often being given the label). 'I'm afraid I don't always practice what I preach,' she admits ruefully. 'We live in a busy, crazy world and few people have the time to devote their lives to perfection. So don't beat yourself up. I think making even small changes, little shifts, can make a huge difference. Do what you can and dump the guilt.'

Jane is married (to beer writer Adrian Tierney-Jones, editor of 1001 Beers you Must Taste Before you Die) with a young son and two ridiculous dogs.
They live on Exmoor, a wild and beautiful part of the UK, a place of myth, magic and brooding intensity - an inspiration for her work.

Jane is now turning her hand to writing teen fiction - calling on her knowledge of the arcane and a very clear memory of being sixteen. Her novels blend supernatural romance, horror and edgy realism.










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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Heartwarming and inspiring, July 2, 2003
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This review is from: Spirit of the Nursery (Spirit of the Home) (Hardcover)
I loved this book. I was sick of all the fussy frilly horrors in most nursery books and loved the clear clean cool design of this. Jane Alexander offers practical advice and is particularly strong on the safety aspects of decorating (I hadn't realised how dangerous a lot of common furnishings and furniture are). But she really comes into her own on the psychological and spiritual aspects of creating a nest for your babe. I felt inspired to follow many of her lovely, simple, heartfelt ideas and I'm sure a lot of other moms would feel the same way. Yes, it's a small book but small is often beautiful and a baby's pretty small too. I have bought several for baby showers - they make a lovely little extra gift or a great part of a basket. Truly a little gem.
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7 of 10 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars Useless, May 19, 2003
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This book is good if you are interested in a "new age" baby room. I thought it was useless. There were no great ideas and hardly any photos. Its a small book and not worth the money.
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2.0 out of 5 stars Dull, Stupid, nad not worth it, February 14, 2011
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The reason it got another star was because it was a good laugh for me. Other than that the book was really stupid. I thought it was a nursery book not just on how to decorate, but would explain why modern society uses mainly pink and blue and pastels for babies, or why certain things can help a baby and it environment, history of cribs etc, while showing cute and nifty ideas on how to decorate your baby's room. Instead I got a book that told me to, "Clap out" bad energies from their room. And the Fung Shae they had in there was bogus, it wasn't really based off the real thing. There was really nothing useful about the book, just that it made me laugh when you had to "clap" through a ceremony to cleanse a room for the baby. Goodness, I think I would scare myself doing that.
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