Lizzie asks…
Where can you find the wallpaper featured in Better Homes and Gardens February 2010 issue?
Its part of the color made easy section. Its called dream room on page 46. I saw the wallpaper and i love it but i don’t know where to find it. Help!
GardenersCardiff answers:
They usually have a resource section at the rear of the magazine. Otherwise, call the magazine’s editorial department and make a request. This happens all the time so they should be happy to help. Additionally, if the article lists the designer or location, you can try calling them.
James asks…
I MUST find this bedding set from one BHG book?
I went to the library and got the book COLOR SCHEMES MADE EASY by Better Homes and Gardens.
On page75 there is the most gorgeous bedding set. I MUST have it. I can’t find anywhere in the book where it lists the design or company name for it, nothing. I can’t find anything helpful on the BHG website.
Does ANYONE know where I can find this bedding?
it’s the NEW colors schemes made easy 2008 edition
GardenersCardiff answers:
You could contact BHG customer service and give them the details of the item and the book you saw it in. Try emailing them at this email address:
http://www.meredith.com/contacts.html
Good luck.
Ellen
Betty asks…
Have you ever made soap from scratch?
I was telling my freind who works in a meat plant about us wanting to try making soap after I read about it in a homesteading book, and He Got 25 pounds of beef fat for me to try it with, It looks easy enough, if you have all the stuff, How did it go for you? My Honey wants to use some herbal teas to fortify it. we have all that stuff in the garden. I need to get the lye still, Hardware store? We are kinda freaky this way…
I thought about making the lye from wood ashes, too, but… well, maybe next time.
GardenersCardiff answers:
I’ve never made soap with Tallow before (tallow ends up clogging your pours in time)…
But here is a recipe for vegetable soap and help to make it:
This is the basic recipe we use when we test out the fragrance oil samples our labs send to us. This will make a nice 4 pound batch of long lasting, hard, bubbly soap.
Palm Oil 520 grams
Olive Oil 440 grams
Coconut Oil 400 grams
Lye 210 grams
Distilled Water 500 grams
Add Lye to Water (never water to lye) very slowly – wear protective eye ware and plastic gloves, set aside to cool.
Best place to add lye to water is outside. Make sure you don’t breathe the air in right over top of your bowl – it’ll blow your lungs out.
Heat Oils together & set aside to cool.
When both Oils and Lye/water have cooled to approx. 100 to 120 deg. F., slowly pour lye water in to the oils.
Stir with either a wooden spoon or use a braun handblender.
When the soap looks like pudding and leaves a TRACE (dribble the soap and if it stays on top like a little mound where you just poured – this is called Trace) then you’re ready to add in some herbs, botanicals, ground REGULAR oatmeal (NOT the quick rising) and/or colourants.
Once you add these in, stir and stir (at this point you need to work a little fast ’cause the soap is starting to harden).
Once you’ve stirred these in, add in your fragrance oil (or you can keep unscented, your choice).
Pour into molds.
Tap molds on the floor or counters to get rid of any air pockets in the molds.
Set soap aside for 24 to 48 hrs.
Unmold.
Cure/dry this soap for 3 to 4 weeks.
The longer you cure your soaps, the harder the bars will get, and the longer the bars will last.
Good luck.
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