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Friday, December 30, 2005

The Newest Issue is "in the mail"

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The Essential Herbal Jan/Feb issue is in the mail. It will be a little while before it starts arriving at the homes of subscribers, but it...
Tuesday, December 27, 2005

Brown With Envy

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From the very first issue of The Essential Herbal (Jan/Feb '02), an article by Beth Bender Walters: BROWN WITH ENVY I shall confess...
Sunday, December 25, 2005

Rudolph the wonder Dog

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Rudolph the wonder dog belongs to my brother in law, Bob. He's the family pet, but there can be no doubt that his heart belongs to Bob...
Monday, December 19, 2005

Shop the local stores!

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I always try to do as much shopping in privately owned shops as possible. As as previous shop keep myself, its important to me (and should ...
Friday, December 16, 2005

pink tree... pity me.

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A couple of years ago we found this tree, and thought it was just crazy enough to be cool. Molly kept it in her room, holding beads, hats, ...
Thursday, December 15, 2005

El Rodeo with Steph and Valerie

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Every now and then I get together with some buds from my old work-place (now known as "the printer"). A fairly new restaurant ope...
Monday, December 12, 2005

More Natural Ornaments

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From The Essential Herbal WAX POMANDERS 1 ounce beeswax 1/2 cup applesauce 1-1/4 cup assorted powdered spices (cinnamon, allspice, nutmeg, c...
Sunday, December 11, 2005

Hoar Frost for the holidays

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Today was a gorgeous day - in a sort of otherworldly, foggy dreamy kind of way. I drove up the back roads to the shop, trying to avoid icy ...
Tuesday, December 06, 2005

Simply Natural Ornaments

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We're pretty busy putting the finishing touches on the next issue, so I thought I'd post something from The Essential Herbal holiday...
Friday, December 02, 2005

Today in the waiting room

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I took my older brother in to the hospital for day surgery. The waiting room is huge, and it is the same room I spent 3 days in last March w...
Wednesday, November 30, 2005

Frankincense and Myrrh

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In my imagination, things were going to slow down once the shop finally got finished and open. Yes, I can hear you chuckling, and as the wh...
Monday, November 28, 2005

opening weekend

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We opened our little shop doors on Friday. It was a fun weekend, even if I'd forgotten what hard work retail can be. The weather turne...
Friday, November 25, 2005

The shop and stuff

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Well first, I thought I'd share an image of Thanksgiving at my sister's house yesterday. Her dining room and kitchen are open and th...
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Black Friday.... and they're off!!!

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We've spent the last couple of months whipping up all sorts of goodies to put in the shop along with our books, jewelry, and soaps. Tod...
Tuesday, November 22, 2005

Design your own postage!

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Ok, this is totally off topic, but I saw the coolest thing ever today! At photostamp.com you can make real postage stamps with the photo o...
Sunday, November 20, 2005

product review heaven

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There are a lot of pros and cons to editing a magazine. One of the cons is trying to be fair. Here at The Essential Herbal , there are time...
Monday, November 14, 2005

Why Blog? ... and some shop shots

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The other day I was talking to a friend who started a blog, but can't get into it. The conversation made me think about how much fun thi...
Saturday, November 12, 2005

Meeting Mary Ellen and the Juniper story

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The other day we headed up to The Rosemary House again, this time because one of our regular writers, Mary Ellen Wilcox (left) of SouthRidge...
Thursday, November 10, 2005

Leaves and 10,000 Villages

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This morning I noticed that the leaves lying on the ground are spectacular this year. Some of them seem to have borders around them of dif...
Tuesday, November 08, 2005

salt soap recipe

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The following article appeared in the July ’05 issue of The Essential Herbal Magazine , written by Maryanne Schwartz . The original idea was...
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