Download or read book Pomanders Posies and Pot pourri written by Jessica Houdret and published by . This book was released on 1988-01-01 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Witch of Exmoor written by Margaret Drabble and published by HMH. This book was released on 2012-03-29 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Los Angeles Times Best Book of the Year: “Part social satire, part thriller, and entirely clever” (Elle). It is a midsummer’s evening in the English countryside, and the three grown Palmer children are coming to the end of an enjoyable meal in the company of their partners and offspring. From this pleasant vantage point they play a dinner-party game: What kind of society would you be willing to accept if you didn’t know your place in it? But the abstract question of justice, like all their family conversations, is eventually brought back to the more pressing problem of their eccentric mother, Frieda, the famous writer, who has abandoned them and her old life, and gone to live alone in Exmoor. Frieda has always been a powerful and puzzling figure, a monster mother with a mysterious past. What is she plotting against them now? Has some inconvenient form of political correctness led her to favor her enchanting half-Guyanese grandson? What will she do with her money? Is she really writing her memoirs? And why has she disappeared? Has the dark spirit of Exmoor finally driven her mad? The Witch of Exmoor brilliantly interweaves high comedy and personal tragedy, unraveling the story of a family whose comfortable, rational lives, both public and private, are about to be violently disrupted by a succession of sinister, messy events. “Leisurely and mischievous,” it is a dazzling, wickedly gothic tale of a British matriarch, her three grasping children, and the perils of self-absorption (The New Yorker). “As meticulous as Jane Austen, as deadly as Evelyn Waugh.” —Los Angeles Times
Download or read book New Perfume Handbook written by N. Groom and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 1997-06-30 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first edition of this unique book established itself as an unparalleled source of information on perfume. Although it is primarily aimed at perfumers and others in the perfume industry, it has also found substantial sales among a wide range of others including aromatherapists, botanists, and many others who wanted to learn more about this faceted subject. The new edition is now aimed squarely at perfumery marketing specialists and others in the industry world-wide and covers in particular the needs of publicity/advertising teams and journalists, together with sales people and consultants at the counters who like to have a wide range of information at their fingertips. Changes include: an expansion of the number of profiles of the perfume houses, and of the 50 or so new perfumes worthy of record which have been launched since the previous edition. There is also increased coverage of the essences and the plants and other material from which they are derived. Coverage of perfume containers is substantially expanded and linked to other parts of the book.
Download or read book The Country Diary Book of Flowers written by Carol Petelin and published by Henry Holt and Company. This book was released on 2015-03-17 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the most appealing, as well as one of the easiest, ways of bringing a breath of summer in to the home is to use dried and pressed flowers to make an almost endless variety of attractive arrangements and designs. Pot pourri, made with colorful, fragrant plants and carefully selected herbs and spices, recreate evocative scents to remind us of Nature's fragrance. Carol Petelin, author of the successful The Creative Guide to Dried Flowers, has drawn on her wealth of experience to provide the ultimate guide to drying and using flowers, plants, and herbs in a myriad of creative ways. First, she describes plants that can be most successfully grown, even by those with limited garden space, and explains how to best harvest and dry them. The next section covers the art of dried flower arranging. There is advice on working with different combinations of color and form to create arrangements in containers, bouquets, posies, garlands, and swags. She tells how to gather and press flowers and herbs and offers a variety of imaginative projects for them. The final section is devoted to pot pourri. The author includes recipes for deliciously fragrant mixtures and describes how pot pourri, scented flowers, and spices can be used to make many delightfully fragranced items. There is a list of sources for herbs and essential oils. Lavishly illustrated throughout with Simon McBride's color photographs and decorated with some of Edith Holden's own drawings from The Country Diary of an Edwardian Lady and The Nature Notes of an Edwardian Lady, The Country Diary Book of Flowers will inspire all those who wish to practice the art of dried flower arranging and to make unusual and attractive gifts for their homes and friends.
Download or read book Flowercrafts written by Deena Beverley and published by Lorenz Books. This book was released on 2002 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Celebrating the glories of flowers in the home, this book moves beyond flower arranging to present gloriously original suggestions for fabulous flower effects and floral objects.
Download or read book Flowercrafts written by Pamela Westland and published by Macmillan College. This book was released on 1988 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Potpourri Scented Bouquets written by Anne Effelsberg and published by Crescent. This book was released on 1993 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An illustrated guide for designing and making potpourri and scented bouquets.
Download or read book Glorious Flowercraft written by Pamela Westland and published by Booksales. This book was released on 1994 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Covers everything from growing and preserving to displaying and arranging - over 60 step-by-step projects for impressive and innovative creations - includes arrangements for the home, the garden, special occasions, and gifts all year round.
Download or read book Scented Gifts written by Jane Newdick and published by . This book was released on 1995-03 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This beautiful book contains over 70 imaginative and fragrant gift ideas. (back cover.).
Download or read book Reading Green in Early Modern England written by Leah Knight and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-08 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Green in early modern England did not mean what it does today; but what did it mean? Unveiling various versions and interpretations of green, this book offers a cultural history of a color that illuminates the distinctive valences greenness possessed in early modern culture. While treating green as a panacea for anything from sore eyes to sick minds, early moderns also perceived verdure as responsive to their verse, sympathetic to their sufferings, and endowed with surprising powers of animation. Author Leah Knight explores the physical and figurative potentials of green as they were understood in Renaissance England, including some that foreshadow our paradoxical dependence on and sacrifice of the green world. Ranging across contexts from early modern optics and olfaction to horticulture and herbal health care, this study explores a host of human encounters with the green world: both the impressions we make upon it and those it leaves with us. The first two chapters consider the value placed on two ways of taking green into early modern bodies and minds-by seeing it and breathing it in-while the next two address the manipulation of greenery by Orphic poets and medicinal herbalists as well as grafters and graffiti artists. A final chapter suggests that early modern modes of treating green wounds might point toward a new kind of intertextual ecology of reading and writing. Reading Green in Early Modern England mines many pages from the period - not literally but tropically, metaphorically green - that cultivate a variety of unexpected meanings of green and the atmosphere and powers it exuded in the early modern world.
Download or read book The Book of Dried Flowers written by Malcolm Hillier and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 1986 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the most practical and most beautiful book ever produced on the subject. It contains a complete guide to the techniques of drying and arranging flowers--and also gives advice on how to grow flowers in the garden for drying.
Download or read book Green Living Made Easy written by Nancy Birtwhistle and published by Pan Macmillan. This book was released on 2022-03-03 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'The tips and tricks are just brilliant.' – Jane Dunn, author of Jane's Patisserie 101 eco-friendly home-hacks, tips and recipes from Sunday Times bestselling author and Great British Bake Off winner Nancy Birtwhistle. One change, any change, will make a difference to our precious planet. We all want to do our best for our homes and the planet, but it’s often hard to find the time and energy to think of alternatives. Nancy Birtwhistle makes it easy with 101 indispensable tips, ideas and recipes that will help you to live a more eco-friendly life without giving up on any home comforts. This practical book is the ultimate guide to reducing your environmental impact while saving you time and money. Inside are tips and home hacks on everything from eco cleaning, upcycling and making the most out of your weekly shop to small-space gardening and creative crafts, plus a selection of Nancy's delicious recipes. Clearly explained, accessible and beautifully illustrated with black and white line-drawings, Green Living Made Easy is the perfect guide for anyone looking to pursue a more sustainable lifestyle but unsure where to start. 'Finally, an eco-friendly home guide that's relatable and we can all follow.' – Sophie Liard, author of The Folding Lady
Download or read book Newsletter written by and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Fragrance and Flower Craft written by Joanna Sheen and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Flower Projects for the Home written by Joanna Sheen and published by Rutland Group. This book was released on 1994 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inspirationsbog med blomsterarrangementer, både friske og tørrede. Instruktioner til mere specielle kompositioner som kranse, potpourri og pressede dekorationer
Download or read book Everlastings written by Terence Moore and published by Southwater. This book was released on 2004 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This unique book is highly practical, with over 100 projects demonstrated clearly through step-by-step instruction and visual examples, making even the most complex-seeming creations eminently achievable.
