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This book has proven and award-winning recipes that will have you making natural, organic, homemade soaps at home today. You are just moments away from soft, supple, and moisturized skin! There simply is no replacement for homemade soaps. Manufactured soaps (even those that claim to be all natural) can never be as good for you as the soap you can make at home - and it's easy and fun to boot!

Relax and rejuvenate your body, mind and soul! Discover the healing power of essential oils, aromatherapy and other natural treatments. Get your energy back naturally, relax, stimulate weight loss, create natural beauty treatments and give yourself a well-deserved break whenever you need it!

Creating your own homemade beauty products can be a fun, practical and rewarding hobby. But where do you begin, and how can you create all the products you’re interested in? Inside this ultimate guide, you’ll discover everything you need to know about making all-natural homemade cosmetics, including body lotions, skin creams, herbal balms, whipped butters, and much more! Covering all the basics, from must-use natural ingredients to step-by-step recipes, this book is your ticket to the wonderful world of homemade beauty products!

People who craft know things. They know how to transform piles of yarn into sweaters and scarves. They know that some items, like woolen bikini tops, are better left unknit. They know that making a hat for a newborn baby isn't just about crafting something small but appreciating the beginnings of life, which sometimes helps make peace with the endings. They know that if you knit your boyfriend a sweater, your relationship will most likely be over before the last stitch.

Anyone can pick up a pair of needles and a ball of yarn. And everyone can be mindful. Mindfulness in Knitting casts fresh light on this renowned calming craft, and reveals how the act of “knit and purl” can be the epitome of conscious living. Ethical textile artist Rachael Matthews unpicks the threads of this popular pastime to explore how knitting connects us to each other and to the world around us. Through personal anecdote and expert insight, she unravels the true value of what it means to craft, its therapeutic benefits, and the joys of mindful making.

Let's start with the simplest. A knife is made up of two main parts, the handle and the blade. The blade has a tip, which usually determines its use, style, and connotation. The upper part of the blade is called the spine, and in its union with the handle is its greatest thickness. I have written this book to provide comprehensive information about knife making for beginners.

A Zero Waste Family is a gentle 30-day guide highlighting the lessons Anita learned during her first year navigating motherhood, while also studying medicine and still trying to reduce her waste. Here she shares innovative ideas about how families can work together to decrease their household waste and make their lives easier, richer and more purposeful and less full of clutter and distractions. As parents we are constantly juggling the needs of children, work, chores and money. This audiobook is not designed to add to the guilt that we already feel.

Wire wrapping is a popular jewelry-making technique that offers varieties of beautiful jewelry designs, without the need for many tools. These techniques can incorporate anything from gemstone beads, gemstone cabochons to charms, and just pure wirework. Using wire is a fun and creative way to make jewelry, and once you've mastered the technique, there's no stopping it! Learn how to make a basic wire wrapped including cabochon pendant, ring, bracelet, and other intricate designs with this complete jewelry wire wrapping guide for beginners.

Good games don’t emerge out of thin air. Game design is a craft, and as in any other craft, there are skills and knowledge, acquired through study and practice, that accelerate progress toward better games. You Said This Would Be Fun explores these skills, explaining how great games exhibit qualities that designers of all experience levels can strive to emulate.

Ready to make some memories and learn the easy steps of making your own albums of any season, event, or holiday? How about figuring out how to become the best at it, in a short period of time? How about all the different kinds of options to making your scrapbook shine? How about the ins and outs, from accessories to checklists? This author walks you through the steps, from start to finish! The complete walkthrough guide, from basic to expert designs!

In this audiobook, you'll be introduced to a brief history of gardening for fairies, discover an in-depth look at each component of a fairy garden, and find inspiration for the design of your own. This book will answer every question you've had on the subject and probably even a few that you didn't have.

Blending memoir and nature writing at its finest, Ingrained is an uplifting meditation on the challenges of working with your hands in our modern age, on community, consumerism, and the beauty of the natural world – one that asks us to see our local trees, and our own wooden objects, in a new and revelatory light.

Transform your ordinary bath with amazing bath bombs to bring some fun, color, and amazing scent into your daily routine. Included are easy-to-follow recipes for great bath bombs for kids with hidden toys; Halloween bombs that change color; bombs to make you feel good; soothing, scented bombs; and bombs that detox your skin.

Welcome to the captivating world of bladesmithing and the art of crafting your own knives! Whether you're a seasoned craftsman or a curious beginner, this guide is your passport to the exciting journey of creating functional, beautiful, and personalized blades. Making your own knives can be a rewarding and satisfying endeavor.

In House Romantic: Curating Memorable Interiors for a Meaningful Life, Haskell Harris explores what makes a personal and meaningful home, revealing how designers and creatives authentically style their spaces, drawing inspiration from the important moments and people in their lives. Bringing in words of advice and gorgeous interiors from the people who inspire her, Harris explores the many different ways of embracing romanticism in interior design.

This book is an exploration into the history, theory, and practice behind lost wax casting, as well as other related methods of creating jewelry.

Struggling with depression and feeling lost after the birth of her daughter, Florence St. George began experimenting with a small lump of clay on her kitchen table. Pot by pot, bowl by bowl, she discovered that as her hands became busier, her mind grew calmer. In just a few years, Florence went from complete beginner to contestant on The Great Pottery Throwdown, discovering some important lessons along the way: that pottery is the perfect antidote to internet overload, that creativity doesn't have to be expensive, and that the hands-on process can ground you like nothing else.

You’re a maker, a creator, an expert at your craft. Building a profitable jewelry business doesn't have to be a dream any longer if you know how to connect with your audience and create desire for your brand. Whether you want to grow a six-figure lifestyle business or a multi-seven-figure empire, now more than ever, consumers want to support emerging talent and small businesses like yours. They just need to find you.

In this book, I explain how to make soap and give you a few simple recipes too. But I hope that is not why you bought this book. My goal is to explain how to create great natural and organic soaps and not just make soaps. There is a difference. You will get to see that difference when you understand each of the ingredients and how they interact and react with each other. You will not have a great business if you are just making carbon copies of a few soaps of other people which your customers can go buy from any local stores.

These essays are ultimately designed for long term members of 12 step fellowships to help them be better sponsors and to help them be of service to others without allowing it to become their whole identity. In recovery, we get a chance to help others, but, in attempting to do so, we end up making mistakes, and coming face to face with our own characters defects. Service to other is a chance for us to exercise our own personal demons.