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Cottage Witchery: Natural Magick for Hearth and Home
by Ellen DuganHandmade and home-grown, the natural magick of the cottage Witch makes use of the bounty of the world around her-a leaf from a tree, a flower grown in the yard, herbs from the pantry, a candle from the cupboard. Whether cottage, condo, or carriage house, a magickal home is one that makes the people inside feel secure, comfortable, and loved. Ellen Dugan, the author of Garden Witchery, now turns her attention indoors in Cottage Witchery. With her trademark down-to-earth humor and hands-on approach, Ellen shows you how to bring the beauty of nature and its magickal energies into your home. This charming and creative guidebook is ideal for cottage, hedge, or green Witches, as well as anyone who just wants to add a little magickal sparkle to her home. From planting begonias for protection to casting a maple leaf spell for happiness, Cottage Witchery is filled with practical advice, personal stories, and hearth witchery lore and magick, including: home blessings & protection spells fireplace & hearth magick creating sacred space warding your doorways house-cat magick kitchen conjuring spice rack sorcery floral & herbal spells hearth goddess charm working with household faeries tea-leaf reading houseplant magick hex signs for your threshold
Herb Magic for Beginners: Down-to-Earth Enchantments
by Ellen DuganA friendly field guide to herb magic Stir up passion with violet or nab a new job with honeysuckle. From parsley to periwinkle, people enjoy herbs for their aromas, tastes, and healing abilities, but few are aware of the magical secrets hidden within these marvelous multipurpose plants. Herb Magic for Beginners takes a fresh look at herbal folklore, wisdom, and spellwork. Ellen Dugan, the popular author of Garden Witchery, describes the magical traits of flowers, roots, trees, vines, spices, and other familiar herbs. Under her guidance, you'll learn the basics of magic and spellworking so that you may explore herbal magic on your own. This introductory guide features a chapter on writing new spells that includes an herbal spell worksheet. It also offers charts with magical correspondences for each day of the week-symbols, colors, planetary influences, herbs, themes, and more. With the help of this friendly field guide, you can begin to practice herb magic for health, luck, prosperity, romance, and protection.
The Chihuahua (Learning About Dogs)
by Charlotte WilcoxThis book is a good guide for children who are interested in getting a small dog. It also covers the basic information adults might want to know, although it is geared for young children.
Purple Pinchers and Other Hermit Crabs (World Book's Animals of the World)
by Sheri RedaTopics in the book include how to care for a hermit crab, how it transfers from house to house, and how to care for one as a pet.
Arabians and Other Horses (World Book's Animals of the World)
by Karen IngebretsenIn a question and answer format the author introduces the Arabian horse and also discusses caring for a horse.
Braving Home: Dispatches from the Underwater Town, the Lava-Side Inn, and Other Extreme Locales
by Jake Halpern"every journalist has a niche - it's inevitable - and I was just a few days into my career when I stumbled upon mine. It started as a running joke at the office: I was the magazine's Bad Homes Correspondent. The production department quipped about changing my title on the masthead. I laughed it off, but some of the older writers definitely thought there was something wrong with me. "Did you grow up in some sort of dysfunctional household?" a senior editor asked. No, I told him. "Well, there's got to be something in your past that makes you interested in these stories-you ought to think about it." The magazine I worked for was the New Republic, and my co-workers were a mix of policy wonks, art critics, and political junkies. I was none of these, and instead of trying to pass as one, I set out to write a different kind of story; yet every time I did, it ended up being about some outlandish and often hellish place inhabited by a handful of stalwarts who refused to leave. Iron-willed, unfearing, and utterly immovable, these characters captured my imagination. They were the nation's toughest home-keepers, and I was their aspiring chronicler." A fascinating and witty book.
The Green Pharmacy Herbal Handbook
by James O. DukeIn this handy companion to his best-selling book The Green Pharmacy, leading herbal authority James A. Duke, Ph.D.., delivers the lowdown on virtually every healing herb available in today's marketplace: its description and history, therapeutic uses, medicinal properties, prescription counterparts, dosage options, safety and effectiveness rating, and precautions. Dr. Duke's inimitable folksy tone and friendly manner shine throughout The Green Pharmacy Herbal Handbook, making it as entertaining to read as it is practical. The most thorough,and comprehensive herb reference of its kind, the handbook was culled from the thousands of entries in Dr. Duke's database of the world's medicinal plants. The database, which he began during his career as a top botanist with the USDA, is a lifelong project for Dr. Duke and has become a major reference resource for herbalists worldwide.
Grimoire for the Green Witch: A Complete Book of Shadows
by Ann MouraA personal book of shadows with rituals, terminology, songs, celebrations, recipes, etc.
Grow It Again
by Elizabeth MacleodA great gardening book for kids! Don't throw out those carrot tops and apple cores--grow them instead! Bring your avocado pit and garlic bulbs back to life by growing them again. Turn a snap pea into a vine, an orange into a tree and much more! You can create a garden from last night's dinner, make easy recipes, and decorate your own colorful pots and planters. YOU CAN MAKE milk-carton planters pressed flowers dish gardens desserts and treats seed jewelry painted flowerpots Illustrated step-by-step instructions make it easy
Solar Water Heating: A Comprehensive Guide to Solar Water and Space Heating Systems
by Bob Ramlow Benjamin NuszSolar Water Heating is a practical solar encyclopedia for anyone interested in installing a solar energy system or in starting a solar energy company. The folksy writing is clear and the numerous diagrams make this book a great resource for everyone from the novice just getting started to the existing solar professional looking to pick up some of Bob Ramlow's many useful observations from a long career installing and maintaining solar energy systems. - Don Wichert, Director, Renewable Energy Programs, Wisconsin Energy Conservation Corporation HEATING WATER WITH THE SUN is almost as old as humankind itself, and it is done all over the world. Yet there are few resources in North America for those who want to install such systems themselves. Solar Water Heating fills this gap. It reviews the history of solar water & space heating systems from prehistory to the present, then presents the basics of solar water heating, including an introduction to modern solar energy systems, energy conservation and energy economics. Drawing on the author's experience as an installer of these systems, the book goes on to cover: Types of solar collectors, solar water and space heating systems and solar pool heating systems, including their advantages and disadvantages. System components, their installation, operation, and maintenance. System sizing and siting Choosing the appropriate system. the book focuses especially on the financial aspects of solar water or space heating systems, clearly showing that such systems can save significant costs in the long run. Well-illustrated, the book is designed for a wide readership from the curious to the student or professional. [this book] will be required reading for all of our new installation personnel since it provides a complete and comprehensive history, guide and information about the type of work we do every day. - Richard Lane, Managing Partner, Solar Mining Company
Herbal Rituals
by Judith BergerHerbal Rituals is about connecting with Nature and the plant world in order to keep us near to the ground of our own souls. The book records, month by month, a yearlong journey in to the earth's natural cycle. Each monthly section describes a facet of the earth's temperament, offering us an opportunity to immerse ourselves in Nature's unique expression of birth, growth, fruition, decay, death and regeneration, the primary cycle that weaves a thread of continuance through our lives. Even in an urban environment, the constant presence of the elemental natural world and the use of herbs can be a touchstone to bring both body and soul back to a natural cadence. Each monthly chapter discusses one herb in detail - what it's like, how it grows, what it does - as well as presenting recipes for teas, lotions and foods, along with rituals appropriate to the season that can bring your life into harmony with the moods of nature. For thousands of years, humans have used herbs and trees for just this kind of medicine, in addition to calling on the plants as a source of nutrition, remedy, heating, shelter and magic. These are the old ways.
How to Grow Herbs in the Midwest (3rd Edition)
by Ann CaseA small guide to growing some of the more common herbs in the tricky climate of mixed zone 5 & 6.
Easy Guide to Vastu
by R. VenketeshVastu Sastra is the ancient Indian science of buildings. This book teaches in simple ways across gradual steps how to make your building your trusted ally, and unleash the power of your living space.
Easy Guide to Feng Shui
by R. VenketeshThe principle of Feng Shui is to achieve unity and harmony in terms of home and man. Using this science many buildings enhance maximum positive energy flow. This book teaches across gradual steps on how to make your building your trusted ally.
Emily Post's Wedding Etiquette (Fourth Edition)
by Peggy PostPractical advice for the contemporary wedding planner from a renown etiquette columnist. The author is Emily Post's great-granddaughter-in-law.
Green Witchcraft: Folk Magic, Fairy Lore, & Herb Craft
by Ann MouraLearn the basics of Witchcraft from a third-generation Witch raised in a family tradition. Positive, practical, and easy to use, Green Witchcraft brings together the best of both modern Wicca and the author's family heritage of herb craft and folk magic. Green Witchcraft explores the fundamentals of the Wiccan religion, providing magical training for the independent thinker. Step-by-step instructions on a wide variety of magical techniques as well as basic rules of conduct make this the ideal book to get you started. Green rituals for self-initiation, rites of passage, seasonal celebrations and activities provide an excellent foundation for your own magical tradition. Discover the fine art of spell-casting, the magical uses of herbs, divination with the tarot and more. Explore the Sabbats, Esbats, and other rituals attuned to the cycles of nature and the universal powers. Find out for yourself what this organic approach to Witchcraft is all about.
Communicating Family and Consumer Sciences: A Guidebook for Professionals
by Elizabeth J. Hitch June Pierce YouattCollege textbook designed for professionals who will be communicating with students or clients in both formal classroom and less formal settings . For use by students and professionals in community and human services.
From Concept to Form in Landscape Design
by Grant W. ReidFrom Concept to Form in Landscape Design provides vital, functional techniques that make the transformation easier and more effective.
The New Organic Grower: A Master's Manual of Tools and Techniques for the Home and Market Gardener
by Eliot ColemanThe simple way to growing top-quality organic vegetables.
The Herbal Home Spa: Naturally Refreshing Wraps, Rubs, Lotions, Masks, Oils, and Scrubs
by Greta BreedloveThis book tells all about how to make easy, affordable, and effective herbal spa treatments at home. Covers treatments for the hair, scalp, skin, cosmetics, body lotions and wraps, and more. Gives hints on where to find the ingredients, basic uses of herbs and other ingredients, and hints on ways to "tweak" the recipes to make them totally personalized to your needs and for gift giving.
Absolutely Amazing Ways to Save Money on Everything
by James ParisTips on saving money on dining out, health care, home repair and much more.
Learn New Stitches on Circle Looms (Loom Knitting)
by Anne Bipes9 new designs and 10 new stitches that can be done using circular or knitting looms.
Learn to Knit on Circle Looms (Loom Knitting)
by Denise Layman10 fun and easy patterns plus instructions and techniques for beginners of the knitting looms.
Nuisance Animals: Backyard Pests to Free-Roaming Killers
by John Trout Jr.We commonly experience problems with wildlife because of our expansion into the animal's domain. Many mammals must now share our busy world and learn to survive alongside of man. From the urban districts to the rural areas, we must cope with animals and learn how to prevent and control wildlife damages. When Animals Become a Nuisance... A Practical Wildlife Guidebook for Everyone Learn how to... keep animals out of the garden and away from crops keep animals from destroying property keep animals away from valuable shrubs and trees avoid animals that stalk humans protect pets and livestock from predators :- identify problem animals, tracks and sign prevent and control wildlife damage Nuisance Animals takes a close look at several wildlife species and the damage they cause: Deer, beaver, rabbits, squirrels, woodchucks, muskrats, raccoons, coyotes, black bear, mountain lion, bobcats, wild pigs, skunks, fish-eating birds and prairie dogs are among the 40 species of animals discussed in this book.
Yarn Harlot: The Secret Life of a Knitter
by Stephanie Pearl-McpheeAn obsessed knitter who can't seem to put the needles down, author Stephanie Pearl-McPhee reveals the tangled and sometimes maniacal path of her knitting triumphs and disasters in this sometimes funny, sometimes sad, but all true story. Stephanie talks about the importance and method of stash, how to set reasonable goals for yourself for knitting, what happens when your family doesn't want you to knit, and the many pitfalls that might befall a knitter.