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The Handmade Mama is the how-to book for today¿s new Mamas. With easy-to-follow recipes and simple how-to instructions, an expecting or new Mom can learn to make natural, healthy foods for baby or mama, natural and soothing skin care products, and crafty items that will make your lives more colorful, fun, and comfortable.
List of contents
Table of Contents:
Introduction: Mamahood
Chapter One: Why Go Handmade?
Chapter Two: Materials & Techniques
Chapter Three: Mama
Chapter Four: Bath & Body
Chapter Five: Feeding Baby
Chapter Six: Play Time
Appendix
- 1 Sewing Patterns
- 2 Resources
- 3 Shopping Lists
- 4 Contributors
- 5 Index
About the author
Mary Helen Leonard is a natural lifestyle writer and educator living in Austin, Texas. She has spent ten years working in the natural skin care industry, formulating do-it-yourself recipes for the popular natural skin care blog, www.NaturalBeautyWorkshop.com. Mary Helen also writes about food, family, and DIY at www.MaryMakesGood.com. When she¿s not in the kitchen whipping something up you can find her snapping photos, sewing freestyle quilts, or snuggling up to her son, Charlie.
Summary
The Handmade Mama is the how-to book for today’s new Mamas. With easy-to-follow recipes and simple how-to instructions, an expecting or new Mom can learn to make natural, healthy foods for baby or mama, natural and soothing skin care products, and crafty items that will make your lives more colorful, fun, and comfortable.
Foreword
- Targeted comp mailing to websites and blogs part of the modern natural family movement including Mothering, Baby Center, Café Mom, What to Expect, Mom.me, Scary Mommy, The Bump, Circle of Moms, and Momtastic.
- Targeted comp mailings to parent magazines including Parents, Parenting, Pregnancy & Newborn, Gurgle, Today’s Parents, Family Fun, and The Green Parent.
- Targeting comp mailings to green living magazines including Mother Earth News, Kiwi, Natural Child World, The Green Parent, Green Child Magazine, Holistic Parenting Magazine,
- Mother’s Day promotions and giveaways
- Trade ad campaign in PW and Library Journal
- Regional bookstore tour focusing on Texas, NM, AZ, and CA
- Social media promotion through Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, LinkedIn, and Pinterest.
