Country Living Crafting Candles At Home

Handmade Candles shows how you can create beautiful candles, with just a few ingredients. It reveals, for example, how to roll a sheet of beeswax into an elegant taper, how to scent your candles with your favorite essential oil, and how to dip and mold. Here are step-by-step instructions for wonderful candles that will enhance your decor, light a poolside party or barbecue on the beach, illuminate an elegant dinner, and create just the right ambience for a romantic evening for two. There are also candles specially designed for seasonal centerpieces and celebrations, to accent the festivities in an individual and original manner. Many of the projects make excellent rainy-day activities that children will love.

Here’s everything you need to know about creating fabulous fragrant and rich-lathering soaps that use only natural ingredients and essential oils. Whip up each batch using seven recipes for either the cold-process method or the melt-and-pour (or “hand-milled”) technique. Pamper the face with Patchouli Complexion Soap; bathe in the sensual aroma of a Sandalwood Body Bar. There are also recipes for laundry, dishwashing, and household cleansers.

This book shows how you can create beautiful candles, with just a few ingredients. Here are step-by-step instructions for wonderful candles that will enhance your decor, light a poolside party or barbecue on the beach, illuminate an elegant dinner, and create just the right ambience for a romantic evening for two. There are also candles specially designed for seasonal centerpieces and celebrations, to accent the festivites in an individual and original manner.

Have yourself a merry little Country Living Christmas with this gorgeous guide to decorating, cooking, and celebrating the best holiday ever! Country Living knows how to make Christmas memorable, and that’s why this spectacular book will become your new go-to resource every year. It’s filled with more than 200 beautiful decorating ideas, recipes, and crafts, plus tips galore. Stunning photos show festive table settings; splendidly decorated trees; fun and easy Christmas projects, from wreaths to no-sew stockings; gifts from the kitchen; and gourmet-worthy recipes like Turkey Roulade with Sausage-Cornbread Filling, Brown Butter Mashed Potatoes, Slow-Cooker Apple Cider, and sweet treats like Red Velvet Snowballs and Chocolate & Cranberry Fudge.

Packed with step-by-step instructions, useful tips, time-honored wisdom, and both illustrations and photographs, this might just be the most comprehensive guide to back to basics living ever published. Fans of Back to Basics, Homesteading, and Self-Sufficiency have been asking for a one-stop resource for all the subjects covered in that successful series. In response, Gehring has compiled a massive, beautifully presented, single volume that covers canning and preserving, keeping chickens, fermenting, soap-making, how to generate your own energy, how to build a log cabin, natural medicine, cheese-making, maple sugaring, farm mechanics, and much, much more. Whether you own one hundred acres or rent a studio apartment in the city, this book has plenty of ideas to inspire you. Learn how to build a log cabin or how to craft handmade paper; find out how to install a solar panel on your roof or brew your own tea from dried herbs; Cure a ham, bake a loaf of bread, or brew your own beer. This book has something for everyone.

Country Living magazine throws some beautiful light on one of today's most popular decorating items: the candle. Whether for a party or a romantic dinner, these design concepts are truly illuminating. Candles warm the heart and lighten the spirit, so enjoy their soothing effect any time of year, indoors or out, with Country Living's enlightening decorating ideas. Use candles' flickering golden light to brighten a porch, add charm to a table setting, and dramatize a space. Place candles in an alluring array of holders and arrange them on shelves. Gently illuminate a hallway with lighted candles set in traditional sconces. Try a little bathtime aromatherapy with fragrant candles that enhance relaxation. Those who need a helping hand with practical matters will find a special section devoted to the finer points of buying, using, and even making container candles and ice lanterns.

Packed with step-by-step instructions, useful tips, time-honored wisdom, and both illustrations and photographs, this compact guide has everything you need to dive into a more self-sufficient life. From canning and preserving to keeping chickens, fermenting vegetables to soap-making, Gehring covers all the basics in this easy-to-read, approachable collection. Topics covered include: Generating your own energy Herbal medicine Cheese-making Maple sugaring Farm mechanics Building a smokehouse Dyeing wool Composting Disaster Preparedness And more! Whether you own one hundred acres or rent a studio apartment in the city, this book has plenty of ideas to inspire you. Learn how to build a log cabin or how to craft handmade paper; find out how to install a solar panel on your roof or brew your own tea from dried herbs; Cure a ham, bake a loaf of bread, or brew your own beer. This book has something for everyone.