Soapmaking is the perfect union of chemistry and craft. And making soap at home allows soapmakers of all levels to transform the functional into the fantastic. In this book, the author shows how to make beautiful handmade soap through full-colour step-by-step visual instructions and 31 recipes that make it easy to navigate the process.
Combines prayers from around the world and across time that are culled from a diverse array of sources: holy books, poetry, songs and spirituals, letters, novels, plays and more. This book is organised into broad categories of praise, entreaty, contemplation, mourning, and grace.
Contains 50 recipes that reflect the popularity of strongly hopped India pale ales and American pale ales as well as the interest in brown ales, imperial beers, English bitters, porters, stouts, wheat beers, and Belgian ales. This title also contains mashing guidelines and a review of ingredients and materials.
Presents 62 cabin design interpretations that range in size from a cozy 100 square feet to a more spacious but still economical 1,000 square feet, and include sleeping accommodations, kitchen and bath facilities, and a heat source. This title provides floor plans with suggestions for designing the space for optimal use.
Shows how common kitchen staples - pits, nuts, beans, seeds, and tubers - can be coaxed into lush, vibrant houseplants that are as attractive as they are fascinating. This book offers growing instructions for over 50 plants in four broad categories - kitchen vegetables; fruits and nuts; herbs and spices; and more exotic plants from ethnic markets.
Reviews the natural behaviour and temperament of cattle. This book describes low-stress methods for moving cattle on pastures, paddocks, and feedlot pens. It features plans for various things from gate latches to chutes, corrals, and sorting pens for full-scale facilities.
Two at once one one circular needle.
Uses twelve short, thought provoking exercises that effectively force the reader to look at what his or her work really is, and find ways to change the mix. This title helps you assess your personal bad-good ratio; tap into the power of role models; and analyze those moments when work turned into a flow.
Can you gallop like a horse? Can you strut like a rooster? Can you run like a dog? Can you spring like a cat? Can you soar like an eagle? Can you swing like a chimp? Can you flutter like a butterfly? Can you swim like a turtle? Then take a bow and smile: you twinkle, like a star! Then take a bow and shine: a star is what you are.
All animals move, but how they move - whether they waddle, stomp, or fly, is a source of endless fascination for children. Suitable for children, this title uses 'scanimation' technology to simulate movement by the simple turning of a page.
Includes equipment requirements, instructions for creating wall foundations, coping with drainage problems, and hints for incorporating gates, fences, and stiles.
An album that has a theme of a baby's life and features a colour border. It provides room for photos and miniature pasted-in envelopes in the back. It is slipcased for gift-giving and safekeeping.
In response to fans of Cavitch's popular "The Natural Soap Book", she now presents this "big book on soapmaking", the most authoritative, comprehensive handbook around for making natural, vegetable-based soaps. Two-color throughout. Line drawings. Glossary.
Presents a collection of 45 building plans for chicken coops. This title features designs that include basic easy-to-assemble hoop houses, A-frames, and multi-storied wooden structures, as well as larger models for small commercial farms. It shows photos of many of the featured coop plans, as well as some kits and coops built from recyclables.
Annie Proulx, the novelist, first wrote this guide to making cider in 1980. It is a comprehensive, illustrated overview of the process and includes recipes for using the finished product in cooking. Proulx and Lew Nichols also discuss apple presses, glass bottles versus wooden barrels and storage.
The definitive resource for making vegetable-based soaps from scratch, from buying supplies to cutting the final bars.
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