Unique Gift & Favor Ideas for Every Occasion
This past year I started making my own liquid handsoap and was totally impressed by how easy and inexpensive it is. It’s so practical, in fact, that I now use only my own liquid handsoap at home. Recently, I used baby-mild soap along with the joyful sent of grapefruit to make a fabulous and useful…
When someone is sick, you make them chicken soup, right? Well, when someone is really sick—a la post cancer surgery and undergoing six months of chemotherapy—you make them a super soup: nutrient dense, easy-to-digest, chicken bone broth, mushroom decoction and simmered vegetable soup. Not only is it uber nourishing, but the processes to extract the…
It’s that time again to recover from the holidays. Over spending, over eating, and otherwise indulging a bit too much all around can have you feeling the need for a boost of healthy energy. I’ve been adding a superfood mix of chia seeds, hemp hearts, buckwheat groats, and unhulled sesame seeds to my cereals at…
Winter brings snowflakes, chilly mornings, hot cups of cocoa, snuggly sweaters and, yes, even the winter blues. Getting sick is inevitable, and there’s no better way to pick up a friend’s spirit than to drop by with a cute miniature-sized get well package. Here I used a mini take out container (found at the craft…
What’s better than finding relief from that annoying wintertime cough? Finding relief in a truly delicious, simple and inexpensive syrup, of course. A few years ago, Rosemary Gladstar, renowned herbalist, shared the recipe for her go-to cough remedy via the blog of one of my favorite herb purveyors, Mountain Rose Herbs. I watched her video…
I am a big tea drinker, especially on cold winter days when I want to stay warm. This tea is one of my favorites – a delicious herbal blend of chamomile, peppermint, lavender and roses. I made up a big batch of this loose-leaf blend to enjoy this winter and also to give as gifts….
