DIY Cinnamon Star Anise Wreath & Wrapped Beeswax Candles
/Learn how to make beautiful decorations for your home and gifts with cinnamon sticks and star anise!
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Little Herbalists and Healthy Families
Learn how to make beautiful decorations for your home and gifts with cinnamon sticks and star anise!
Read MoreThis guide has complete instructions for how to make bath salts, aromatherapy spritzers, shea body butter and salt & sugar scrubs for gifting. There is also a little guide to essential oils included to help you with your blending!
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I can’t decide if it is my Cancer Moon or something else that drives me to this craziness… It’s just that sometimes I feel like I could live in the bathtub. All it takes is a good book and some warm, salty, herbaceous water to make me feel right at home. It is so relaxing and restorative.
Read MoreDo you love to craft? It is such a wonderful way to become familiar with herbs and most important for having fun and being creative! I hope you have as much making these crafts and we did!
Read MoreWe used the most colorful sand, all the colors of the rainbow in fact, each scented with it’s own special essential oil to create our latest works of art. All the colors and scents make for a very richly sensory experience. The kids simply loved this project!
Read MoreIf you have followed my blog for long, you know that I absolutely love sharing the magic of herbs with children. I find that most kids truly enjoy learning about and working with herbs especially if the learning is fun! So if you know a child who loves herbs, or maybe you have a special little person in your life that you want to introduce to the magical world of herbs, then this is for you!
Read MoreBathing in water infused with the goodness of herbs, essential oils and other healthful ingredients is a lovely, healing way to care for yourself or another. These five different methods for making an herbal bath are easy to do, allowing you to customize your healing experience. And most of all to have fun! All of these baths can be packaged and made into wonderful gifts (with the exception of the fresh milk baths) for friends and family.
Read MoreTo me the scent of wild things, of plants and flowers is truly enchanting and brings great joy to my life. Essential oils and hydrosols capture a bit of that magic for us humans to enjoy any time. Hydrosols are the aromatic water that is created during steam distillation of essential oils.
Read MoreA cool rainy afternoon is a cookie baking afternoon at our house. A time for ruminating in the kitchen over a delicious, comforting delicacy. Because the heat of summer has been so intense this year, I know we must seize this particular cool afternoon... it could be the last one like it for a while.
Read MoreHerbs for kids and families! Crafting, learning and projects for children, parents and teachers including herbal crafts. Also natural living ideas for healthy families.