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  Soap Making - The Complete Guide...

  Polly J Valiant

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  If You’ve Ever Wanted To Make Soap… Read On! 
   Are you… 
  ✓ suffering from a skin condition and wondering if your store-bought soap is to blame? 
  ✓ in love with all things natural? 
  ✓ looking for an exciting start-up idea? 
  Then you should consider making your own natural organic soap! 
  In fact, you never know exactly what stuff they put into store-bought soap. There are all kinds of scents and other chemicals that you can’t identify closely – while they’re very likely to harm your skin if you turn out to be allergic. Even if the label claims that the soap contains organic oils, that could easily be a concentration of one drop in a literal ton of soap. 
  So how do you know exactly what you’re putting on your skin? By making your own soap! 
  This may sound very complicated but THIS organic soap making book will explain the process in great detail. It contains step-by-step instructions that will guide you through creating different kinds of natural soap – from the most basic bar to fancy soaps filled with exquisite natural ingredients! Once you’ve followed a few recipes from the book, you can start experimenting with essential oils and other components to create your own unique soaps!Here’s what you’ll learn: 
  ·    The basic ingredients in natural soap and the safety guidelines you need to follow 
  ·    How to make a your first soap bar (it’s no-frills but already better than store-bought options!) 
  ·    How to experiment with essential oils, clays, and other natural ingredients to discover the perfect texture and fragrance 
  Are you ready to be squeaky clean, and smelling like an exquisite garden?Get Your Copy Now!

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  Textile Creativity Through...

  Jeanette Appleton

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  New ideas for working with nature to nurture creativity in felted and embroidered textile art.
  Immerse yourself in nature and rewild your creative practice with inspiration from textile artist Jeanette Appleton. With a focus on the versatile medium of felt, she takes readers through a series of ideas for working with nature to boost creativity, inspire, and make us more sustainable as artists. The book covers:
  • How to capture the nuances of nature through creating exciting felt surfaces – lines of sea, frosted puddles, hedge and grass – and how to translate them into subtleties of texture and stitch.
  • Transforming recycled cloth by bonding memories, mixed-media and found objects into your work.
  • Cutting and repairing techniques: making cuts and slits in the layers of fabric to reveal the secret strata of nature beneath, echoing the planet's fragility.
  • How to make the best use of sketchbooks, maps and mapping to record inspiration from time spent in nature.
  • A variety of strategies for overcoming artist's block, from revisiting past diaries and sketchbooks to interacting differently with your local environment. 
  Throughout, the author constantly challenges the felt process, discovering a new creative working practice through connecting with the outside world.
  Richly illustrated with exciting examples of the author's beautiful and reflective work, this inspirational and practical guide will appeal to textile and felt artists of all levels.

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  Olivewood & Embers - Soulful...

  Celeste Arden

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  Olivewood & Embers: Soulful Cooking with a Touch of Smoke, Spice, and Story 
   Author: Celeste Arden 
   Narrator: Isabelle Holman 
  Step into the warmly crackling heart of Olivewood & Embers, where every recipe carries the scent of smoke, the rhythm of spice, and the weight of a well-lived story. Written by Celeste Arden and brought to life through the evocative narration of Isabelle Holman, this audiobook invites you into a soulful kitchen shaped by generations of fire-kissed flavor and heartfelt tradition. 
  From slow-smoked lamb rubbed with za’atar to ember-roasted vegetables steeped in garlic oil, each dish is more than a meal—it’s a memory, passed from hand to hand, flame to flame. Celeste weaves together culinary heritage, old-world techniques, and tender reflections with every chapter, guiding listeners through rustic feasts, smoky suppers, and spice-drenched comfort foods that awaken the senses and stir the soul. 
  Perfect for slow mornings, golden hours, and fireside evenings, Olivewood & Embers is a celebration of food that tells a story—seasoned with warmth, patience, and deep-rooted love. Let your kitchen become a place of connection, where flavor lingers and stories rise with the steam.

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  The Cider Revival - Dispatches...

  Jason Wilson

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  Cider is having a major moment, and The Cider Revival charts its history, resurgence, and a year with the vanguard makers of heritage cider 
    
  Cider is the quintessential American beverage. Drank by early settlers and founding fathers, it was ubiquitous and pervasive, but following Prohibition when orchards were destroyed and neglected, cider all but disappeared. In The Cider Revival, Jason Wilson chronicles what is happening now, an extraordinary rebirth that is less than a decade old. 
    
  Following the seasons through the autumn harvest, winter fermentation, spring bottling, and summer festival and orchard work, Wilson travels around New York and New England, with forays to the Midwest, the West Coast, and Europe. He meets the new heroes of cider: orchardists who are rediscovering long lost apple varieties, cider makers who have the attention to craftsmanship of natural wine makers, and beverage professionals who see cider as poised to explode in popularity. What emerges is a deeply rewarding story, an exploration of cider’s identity and future, and its cultural and environmental significance. A blend of history and travelogue, The Cider Revival is a toast to a complex drink.

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  Travel At Home Gazette - A...

  Mr Punch

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  Join us on a fascinating ramble through the towns and villages of the British Isles during the last four hundred years in the company of some of its most illustrious chroniclers, including Jane Austen, William Cobbett, Daniel Defoe, Sir Walter Scott, Virginia Woolf, Francis Kilvert, Celia Fiennes, Chips Channon, Fanny Burney and many others. Told entirely in the words of those who were there. 
    
  Performed by an outstanding company of award-winning actors including Dame Eileen Atkins, Cheryl Campbell, Nigel Davenport, Alex Jennings, Richard Johnson OBE, Hugh Laurie CBE, Michael Maloney, Geoffrey Palmer OBE, Michael Pennington, Prunella Scales CBE, Samuel West, John Wood CBE & full supporting cast. 
      
  Also available as part of The Gazettes Collection, a six-volume edition creating a vivid portrait of British life through the centuries. 
    
  It is a highly enjoyable collection. Some pieces are just dazzling. Independent on Sunday 
    
  An extraordinary series... deserves a medal. The readers are all excellent and many of them distinguished. The Spectator 
    
  From the same stable that produced The Chronicle, my favourite audio this year, I've just listened equally spellbound to a compilation of travellers' tales at home. The Guardian 
    
  Time travel as well as the geographical kind is offered in this anthology, which takes extracts from books, journals, letters and newspapers to form a collage of impressions and details of the British Isles over the past 400 years, with a cast of big-name readers. Sunday Times 
   
  ©2022 Mr Punch Audiobooks Ltd. (P)2022 Mr Punch Audiobooks Ltd

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  All-American Dogs - A History of...

  Andrew Hager

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  From historian-in-residence at the Presidential Pet Museum, Andrew Hager, comes a fond, fascinating, and often surprising look at the dogs who were the best friends of the presidents, featuring unforgettable photographs. 
   
  President Biden’s German shepherds, Major and the late Champ, are the latest in a long line of presidential dogs. Dating all the way back to George Washington, dogs have been constant companions to nearly all of America’s presidents. Of the past 46 presidents, 31 have had at least one dog at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. 
  Organized by historical eras, All-American Dogs will take readers through the captivating history of the White House’s four-legged friends, the impact they had on their owner-in-chiefs, and, ultimately, American history. From the assassination of President’s Lincoln’s dog after Lincoln’s own death to President’s Hoover’s Belgian shepherd, King Tut, who helped President Hoover win the election after appearing in a campaign photo, these furry members of the first family often had a lasting impact on the administrations that kept them. 
  As historian-in-residence at the Presidential Pet Museum, Andrew Hager will include original research and rare photographs from the National Archives to trace the history of America’s first dogs. From post-Revolutionary dogs, to Civil War era dogs, to Cold War dogs, Hager will show the differences and similarities of how our nation viewed man’s best friend. 
  Readers will learn not only past presidents’ dogs in each historical era, but also the cultural history of dogs as pets, and the ways in which Americans’ relationships with dogs has evolved over the past two centuries. 
  Supplemental enhancement PDF accompanies the audiobook.

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