New Releases by Marie Browning

"Many herbal tomes profess to act as one-stop crafting ...Browning carries through on that promise."--"Booklist." "Browning makes and packages the fragrant creations of traditional herbalists such as bath oils, potpourri, and culinary vinegars, oils, and syrups....explains techniques, provides recipes, and offers photos showing the gifts packaged for presentation. This excellent, up-to-date summary of herbal crafts is recommended for public libraries."--"Library Journal."

Provides recipes for making soaps, bath salts, bath oils, massage oils, facial scrubs, and bath tea bags, and includes instructions on creating gift packages and labels.

Projects include: wooden photo storage boxes, family heirlooms photo box, photo albums, decorative photo plates, seaside memory & vacation wreath, vintage open book arrangement, three panel desk screen, desk pad and pen holder, flower faces on clay pots, stackable blocks, baby door sign, sleeping elves night light, light switch plates, stack of coasters, collage tray, coaster tray, tile trivet, seaside memory frame, wooden frame for dad, 3-D decoupage photos, memory shadow boxes, photos under glass, photos on canvas.

How-to information for creating folded books; paperback journals; wood covered books; closed spine and open spine books; envelope books; sticky pad notebooks; and novelty books.

With just a few simple ingredients and basic tools you probably own, you can produce high-quality, all-natural, fragrant homemade soaps in fabulous shapes and sizes! Twenty recipes yield marvelous hand-milled soaps like Peppermint Refreshment, Milk and Honey, Mango Mint Shampoo Bar, and Lavender Citrus. Then go on to bath salts, bath oils, bubble baths, facial scrubs, therapeutic and aromatic soaps, bath tea bags, and more. Glorious photos will inspire you to design and make them for your home or as a personalized gift. Try the brilliant ideas for decorating and wrapping them too! 128 pages (all in color), 8 1/2 x 10.