One of our baby's favorite books and toys. This is the one book your baby can chew without damaging the book. My husband is a high school teacher who thinks this is also an excellent pedagogical model for english classes -- how to summarize a book into 16 words.

My daughter loved to chew on this book. She takes it everywhere, even into the bath. It still looks great after everything she has done to it unlike board books.

If true murder mysteries are your thing, this book may well become one of your favorites. I literally had to read the entire book the very day I purchased it, trying more than once to put it down. Having lived within 20 miles of the actual murder scene while attending college in the late 90's, I was drawn into the mystery like none other. Worth every penny!

Tawra's written another frugal winner. My 15 year old daughter took it and read it first! She loves Not Just Beans as much as I do, so she knew this would be fabulous too!

The recipes are so fantastic. They're fun and easy to follow!

There are lots of practical recipes and frugal tips in Pretty For Pennies.

Buy this book, you won't be disappointed and it won't take too much effort to SAVE on homemade beauty products, what you spent on the book!

Thanks Tawra for another time and money saver!

Incredible telling of how thoughtless people, especially those in government, constantly seek to destroy beauty simplely because they can't be bothered to make the effort to understand anything more complex than a pet rock. This time the target is the historic beauty of Bath, England. I currently have a front row seat to the sack of Savannah, Georgia by the ignorant and the self-absorbed. Just more proof that if we don't learn history's lessons we are doomed to the whims of the clever and the determined. The pictures are fantastic!

I would STRONGLY reccomend this book, especially if you are a resident (new or old) of San Francisco. I have walked the Sutro Baths ruins many times, and the pictures provided in this book allow me to reconstruct them in my mind. And it makes me sad that they were long gone before I was old enough to visit them when they were still open!

It's a tradgedy that these baths are gone---and looking at these pictures, you'll agree. Gone are the days of grand architecture of this kind. Ms. Blaisdell also did a book on "Playland by the Beach" also a San Francisco treasure long since gone. I believe her husband was the developer that bought the property and demolished Playland...

ANYWAY, BUY THIS BOOK! It's a fabulous compilation of photos.
You won't be sorry.

It isn't all that often that excellent research, great writing, and wonderful illustrations go hand in hand. However A Shipyard in Maine manages to get all those into one book.

I would suggest this book for anyone one with an interest in ships, sailing, Midcoast Maine, or the city of Bath, ME. Also it looks very imposing of coffe tables ;-)

This book is great! It's simple step-by-step, pictures are very colorfull, instructions are laid out very nicely, and there are some great techniques in the back. All the supplies are listed at the beginning of the project and the yardage includes a half-inch seam allowance. I picked up the hard copy at the library, and I liked it so well that I'm getting the book for myself.

I got this book after my Son loved the author's other book, "Leap the Frog." Both are wonderful and many times go straight from the bathtub to the bedroom to be read again and again!

Be forewarned--this "soapdish" edition book really is about the size of an average bar of rectangular soap. If you want a big tome full of glossy color photos and 10 page soapmaking recipes, look elsewhere because this book is simply illustrated and to the point. This doesn't mean the book is plain looking. The illustrations are lively and colorful and the small type size is actually comfortable to read. The book's broken into the following chapters:

1. Intro: Quck and Easy Recipes for the Bath
2. Sumptuous Soaps and Scrubs
3. Scented Body Rubs, Scrubs, and Soaks
4. Refreshing Facial Cleansers, Masks, and Splashes
5. Lotion, Potions, and Powders
6. Epilogue: Great Gift Ideas

A lot of the book's recipes use shortcuts. For example, rather than cooking soap from scratch, readers are instructed to add oils, herbs, flowers or other desired ingredients to an unscented, mild, or natural store bought soap that's been grated and melted down. Another example is adding oil and a few other ingredients to an unscented shampoo to make shower gel/bubble bath. Other recipes are made totally from scratch, like the bath salts which require baking soda, epsom salt, a scented oil and crushed flower petals/herbs. There are some shower gel/bubble bath recipes made from scratch too. From very simple to complex, natural to not so natural, there are many recipes to choose from in this book. 96% of the ingredients can be bought at a typical grocery store or drug store. The other 4% could be picked up at a health foods store.

I get a lot of use from this book despite being a shower person. I don't even buy shower stuff from Bath and Body Works or Victoria's Secret anymore! Pretty much any recipe but the bath ball/tablet and tub tea/soak will work in a shower. I usually give this book as a gift along with some veggie glycerin soap and bath salts.

Finally, I don't think this book is long enough or involved enough to require reading while in the tub, but the waterproof pages did allow my copy to survive a coffee spill.