Tend Magazine: Winter

The Winter issue of Tend Magazine has hit the (online) news stand! This issue is 189 pages of mindfulness, handmade and homemade gift recipes for everyone on your list, craft, beauty, and the coziness of home. My Whole Foods and Herbal Health section alone is 60 pages! We have had such a great group of contributors in each and every issue, and this winter issue is no different. Kirsten has a terrific article about Fermenting Cranberries, with several festive seasonal recipes using them. Kimberly has a delicious gluten-free matzo ball style dumpling which is perfect after being out in the cold. Brice shows you how to set up your own home hydroponics system so that you can grow fresh herbs, greens, and microgreens all winter long. Elke has great gifts for the forager. Evie again has fabulous baking recipes - this time cookies which are perfect for giving, cookie exchanges, or even your holiday table. Debbie has a great easy to make caramel corn recipe.  I contributed some great gift giving recipes like homemade vanilla glycerite, aromatic spice blends (garam masala, to name one!), not to mention a beard pomade and solid perfume. 


And that is just the food and herb section!

Heather has several adorable crafts for your wee ones, Debbie (the Tend Mastermind) outdid herself on the  knits and paper crafts and adorable sewn kitty pattern with outfits and whale projects (and more!),  Laura helps you find your sparkle with little ones, and the artwork by Angela is so, so beautiful and the perfect accompaniment to the poem by Brooke. And there is more! Really!  So much wondrous holiday spirit and warmth and joy. So many amazing contributors, with words and crafts from the heart. Here is to a joyous and meaningful winter and holiday season. xo
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ISSUE 4: Table of Contents

SAD: the winter blues
Celebrate Moving into Light

Parenting
Finding the Sparkle: winter days with little ones

Poem
House Tomten

Preschool
Beeswax Ornaments
Salted Dough Ornaments
Winter Journal and Story Telling Prompts for Children
Winter Scavenger Hunt

Craft
Snowfall Curtain
Mantel Village
Sewing Project: Betsy and her Kitten, with clothes and bed
Sewing Project: Whale and Shark Softies
Knitting Project: Knitted Mittens for all the Family
Knitting Project: Chevron Blanket
Five Minute Craft: Gift-Wrap Tidy

Education
Whales
Experiments
Whale activities

Whole Foods and Herbal Health
TEND gift guide
Edible Gifting: Caramel Corn
DIY Vanilla Glycerite
Kitchen Staples that Make Great Gifts {spice blends and infused sugar}
Cookie Jars: 3 Perfect Cookies for Gifting or Your Holiday Table
Fermenting Cranberries: 3 Seasonal Recipes
Handmade Holidays: Beard Pomade and Solid Perfume
Food for Free: Gift Ideas For The Forager
Easy Winter Growing with Hydroponics
Gluten Free Matzo Balls

Be sure to head over to the Tend Magazine website to see all of the sneak peeks Debbie has posted - and a few freebie recipes will be posted over the next few weeks as well! 

And here is a 20% discount code for you which is good until December 22:  

DCWIN20 

VISIT Tend Magazine>> {Tend Magazine Winter 2014}
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Happy Winter!