Sentences with phrase «piles of books around»

The little piles of books around the house are a nod to those treasured times.

Even if you're doing all the right things — reading to your child regularly and keeping piles of books around the house — make sure the teachers are doing their job.

Not exact matches

A pile of books might seem like a good emergency option, but they'll likely get slid and kicked around in a most distracting way.

Worthman flipped open a book and showed me photographs of big families piled into large, sprawling huts, little kids peeking up from the arms of Mom, older generations wrapped leisurely around the fireplace.

While you're creating a glowing atmosphere in your home, find some things that warm your soul as well: piling into the living room for movie night or reading a good book, brewing your favorite drink, inviting friends over and gathering around a pot of something delicious.

Piled around his sickbed were a variety of books: tomes on Stalin and on German atrocities in the Second World War, a study of English labourers in the nineteenth century, a few Thomas Hardy novels, some early Evelyn Waugh.

On the colder days, she will be found curled up with a book, with at least half of the furkids piled on and around her.

In these small works there are bricks, bottles, and shoes flying around a barren landscape; engulfing waters in which figures are immersed; interiors with overstuffed chairs, dangling light bulbs, mirrors, and framed pictures; objects and books stacked up in piles; rolled - up compacted clusters of «stuff» extruding fingers and gun barrels; suns and balls on the horizon.

This is a fictional image of the sophisticated French collector: not only artworks are gathered into his space (it has a distinct sensation of being a man's apartment), but LPs, books, travel souvenirs from around the world, and piles of wrapped manuscripts.

In this work, a ramshackle tarp tent is erected in the gallery space, accompanied by a Radio Flyer wagon full of books, with more piled around the tent.

My Christmas decor is just fine and perfectly placed and gorgeous...... BUT, I decided to redo my daughters room right in the middle of all the holiday rush so, between all the perfectly placed Christmas decor are BOXES of stuff pulled out of her room, book shelves in the tiny hallway we are squeezing around, piles of clothes and everything else under the sun that will need to go back in that room when I'm done painting!!!

What I love about fall: My thoughts turn from gardening to snuggling up in front of a warm crackling fire, a good book and mug of hot chocolate piled high with whipped cream... When it's still 80 degrees and it feels and smells like fall... The sound of the school bus ambling down our street on the first day of school stopping at the corner to pick the precious cargo of squealing kids... As I walk through our yard hearing the crunch of crackling leaves... Chunky winter sweaters - every September I buy a new one... Watching our resident squirrels scurrying around our yard gathering and burying their winter stash... Replacing summer flowers with purple and white cabbages.