Angela K. Nickerson
content creator | gardening + home
Angela K. Nickerson, leading a WILD REVIVAL, one garden at a time
As a child, Angela K. Nickerson daydreamed about being able to cut bouquets of flowers just like Anne Shirley and the other characters in her favorite books. But like so many other children, she had a lawn – fun for playing soccer on sometimes, but devoid of much else. So she daydreamed of having a home surrounded by flowers and orchards of apple trees, filled with singing birds and butterflies and ladybugs. She dreamed of reading under a tree on a warm afternoon, eating apples and devouring books. She dreamed of picking huge bouquets and filling her home with flowers.
As a grown up, Angela's dreams aren't all that much different, actually. But faced with the declining populations of fireflies and Monarch butterflies and songbirds, she realized that her dream was actually part of a solution: a hyperlocal solution to a much larger climate change problem. So, girded with science-based gardening knowledge and guided by the wisdom of the likes of Doug Tallamy, Monty Don, Piet Oudolf, and Sarah Raven, she set out to cultivate that dream garden – and to inspire others to do the same.
Angela leads a WILD REVIVAL – a rebellion against the lawn as a default construct, a rejection of the same old landscaping schemes, and an embrace of abundant, thriving ecosystems. This WILD REVIVAL transforms outdoor spaces into living spaces and redefines the American idea of going out into nature. Nature exists all around us – we just have to make room for it, acknowledge it, and embrace it. And transforming our yards and patios and balconies into gardens makes connecting with nature easy. This is a WILD REVIVAL!
At WILD REVIVAL (formerly Mid Modern Mama) Angela writes about her successes and failures as a gardener. She teaches, answers questions, shares project advice, and makes recommendations. And she advocates for changes that support wildlife, ensure food security, promote clean air and water, and make gardens waterwise while saving money, too. She is a passionate advocate for native species while also delighting in dahlias. She grows some plants from seed and buys starts for others, always acknowledging that gardening comes in many, many forms. And fundamentally, Angela advocates for conservation – using fewer resources for the greater good. This is a WILD REVIVAL!
In addition to creating WILD REVIVAL, as a writer and content creator, Angela has written for glossy magazines and publications like Apartment Therapy as well as creating content for brands including Botanical Interests, Lowe's, Speakman, Toja Grid, Tanzite Decking, and Epic Gardening. She has also been a featured columnist in local newspapers and online publications and is the author of two books. She is a frequent public speaker and guest of book and gardening clubs alike.
"I hope this WILD REVIVAL invites you into a new era of gardening. In embracing our outdoor spaces and transforming them, we gain a new perspective. There is joy in bugs and bees and birds – a joy which inspires a love for every living thing, a joy which can change the world, if we allow it."
Books
This listing is for The Nice List Christmas Workbook + The Nice List All Year.
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Free Gift with Purchase: The Nice List books are designed so that they can be used in a Traveler’s Notebook -- a simple way to keep them together. For a Limited Time we will include a FREE handmade, upcycled traveler’s notebook with each purchase of The Nice List Bundle (while supplies last).
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Christmas is a busy time, particularly for parents. With school performances, parties, shopping, baking, and decorating on top of the normal busyness of life, I know many people find the Christmas season to be… overwhelming.
But it doesn’t have to be.
Over the years I have developed a system that helps me stay on budget, on time, and sane! And now with The Nice List, I am sharing that system with you so you can have a more organized and more beautiful Christmas season.
The Nice List Bundle includes two separate notebooks:
The Nice List All Year: a gift-giving tracker to last for years to come
The Nice List Christmas Workbook: a planner for the entire Christmas season to keep you organized and help bring a little sanity to your holiday season
Both are available individually or together as a bundle.
The Nice List Christmas Workbook includes:
How to Use The Nice List
How to Use The Christmas Workbook
November Calendars: weekly and monthly (undated)
December Calendars: weekly and monthly (undated)
Weekly To Do Lists for November and December (undated)
What Sparks Joy for You? Setting priorities for the holiday season
Budgeting worksheets: to establish a budget for your Christmas season — and for each gift, too
Coupons & Codes: tracker for holiday sales and discount codes
Giving Lists: to help you prioritize where you spend you money and on whom
Thoughts on Thoughtful Giving: ideas for gift giving and reducing the stress of the holidays
Thank You Note Tracker
Holiday Card Tracker
Menu Planners
Baking Planners
Shopping Lists
Blank pages for notes and planning
With a little planning and some careful thought before a gift is ever purchased, The Nice List can help you keep Christmas from spinning out of control and help you find the perspective you need. The Nice List helps you set deadlines to avoid high shipping charges and has a tool for tracking all of those promo codes and sale codes that start to flood your email inbox, too.
The Nice List All Year gives you a place to track all of the gifts you give the loved ones in your life -- not just at Christmas time. It is designed to be used for multiple years and can be purchased separately if you have more than 15 people in your life to track.
The Nice List All Year includes:
How to use The Nice List
How to use The Nice List All Year
Giving Records for 15 people covering multiple years
The Nice List All Year is also designed to be used by anyone -- not just people who celebrate Christmas. From Hanukkah to Lunar New year, Kwanzaa to Eid, and birthdays, Father’s Day, Valentine’s Day and more -- record every gift you give and make notes for coming occasions, too.
Plus, when you use The Nice List All Year year after year, you develop a record of your gift-giving, so you never give the same gift twice!
Not only is The Nice List a beautiful planner, but it also comes with online tools including an extensive giving guide with gift suggestions in every budget for every person on your list — parents, inlaws, kids, friends, teachers. We have suggestions for them all and exclusive discount codes as well.
I love the Christmas season so much I have written what my husband described as my “love letter to Christmas” — The Nice List!
Order your copy of The Nice List today, and give yourself the gift of a very organized and holiday season!
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A NOTE ABOUT RISOGRAPH PRINTING:
Garden Notes is produced using a Japanese Risograph printing duplicator. Imagine an old-fashioned printing press and a fancy copy machine had a baby -- that’s the Risograph. Each color of soy-based ink is laid down separately -- like a printing press -- on rich, toothy paper. Like screen printing, each page must dry completely before the next color is applied -- a process which takes days.The soy inks are applied like paint, and occasionally some smudging may occur. This is to be expected. And as with any handmade product, imperfections are part of the charm! The result is a beautifully printed, handmade product with rich colors and an artistic feel.Owl and Ember produces each printed product in small batch runs at our headquarters in Menlo Park, California. All Owl and Ember products are printed on FSC Certified papers.If for any reason, you are dissatisfied with your purchase, please contact us so that we can make it right.
ABOUT THE CREATORS:
Angela K. Nickerson (@midmodernmama), author, and Holly Kennedy (@messymamaholly), designer, both love office supplies, planners, stickers, and creative living. They have been producing The Nice List, their first journal product, since 2016 and have been collaborating on projects big and small for almost 15 years. Together they are @owlandember and owlandember.com.
All designs © Angela K. Nickerson and Holly Kennedy, 2015-2025
Reproduction rights do not transfer with sale of items.
From St. Peter’s Basilica to the Capitoline Hill, this unique resource—part biography, part history, and part travel guide—provides an intimate portrait of the relationship between Michelangelo and the city he restored to artistic greatness. Lavishly illustrated and richly informative, this travel companion tells the story of Michelangelo’s meteoric rise, his career marked by successive artistic breakthroughs, his tempestuous relations with powerful patrons, and his austere but passionate private life. Providing street maps that allow readers to navigate the city and discover Rome as Michelangelo knew it, each chapter focuses on a particular work that amazed Michelangelo’s contemporaries and modern tourists alike.
This is a digital download.
Angels & Demons has blockbuster written into every page; no wonder it was made into a hit movie! Part of the appeal lies in the setting. As Langdon and Vittoria dash around Rome, they face a fictional villain in real places. The College of Cardinals convenes to select a new pope in the most famous room in Rome: the Sistine Chapel. Tourists posing for photos in Piazza Navona may recall the battle between Langdon and the Hassassin in the Fountain of the Four Rivers. Langdon and Vittoria take their first wrong turn at the Pantheon. Dan Brown skillfully weaves together the familiar and the mysterious into a thriller that transcends the centuries.
Angels & Demons’ Rome: The Insider’s Guide embraces the mixture of fact and fiction that Brown delivers. Slipping between the world of conspiracies and the solidity of a travel guide, Angels & Demons’ Rome: The Insider’s Guide offers travelers a new perspective on the city. Biographical information about the book’s key historical figures—Raphael, Galileo, and Bernini—places them in a historical context, while practical tips afford the traveler an insider’s guide to the Eternal City and maps and photographs help readers see Rome the way Langdon and Vittoria did. Used as an itinerary or as a companion to the novel, Angels & Demons’ Rome: The Insider’s Guide takes the reader into a world of intrigue, imagined and real.
Angela K. Nickerson regularly leads tours to Rome. She is also the author of A Journey into Michelangelo’s Rome.
ISBN: 978-09777429-9-8
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