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Your Cozy Life

DIY Nesting Skills for a Sustainable Home

by Raleigh Briggs (Author)

Save money, save the planet, and craft a sustainable domestic life without relying on smelly, toxic, expensive consumer products. This handwritten and hand-drawn book of charming tutorials for natural housekeeping and home repair, organic gardening and food preservation, herbal first aid, and mending clothes is both fun and accessible. It's full of simple skills that anyone can and should learn. From creating healthy tinctures and salves to preserving excess food to fixing a leaky faucet, this book is great if you're looking to live more simply, create a comfortable nest, and truly do it yourself.

SUBJECT: DIY / Microcosm Published / Sustainability / Adulting / Home

PUBLICATION: Mar 18, 2025

PRICE: $19.99

ISBN: 9781648414831

FORMAT: paper over board, 5x7", 288 pages

WHOLESALE: $11.99

CARTON QTY: 30

ART: b&w illustrations

Marketing Notes

Sales of Raleigh Briggs' popular books are over 100k
Gardening, particularly growing food and herbs, is growing in popularity in the US - 80% of US Americans participated in a gardening project in 2022; Gen-Z and millennials spend the most money and time on gardening
WGSN’s proprietary data suggests that conversations surrounding fashion 'cores,' which includes cottagecore, have gained momentum in recent years

Raleigh Briggs is a bodyworker, mother of two, and the best-selling author of Make Your Place: Affordable, Sustainable Nesting Skills, and of several other books and zines on DIY culture. She lives in Seattle.

A small, innovative publishing house, Microcosm Publishing specializes in work designed to make the reader feel good about being alive, take an active role in bettering their life, and impact the world around them. Microcosm has developed a reputation for teaching self-empowerment, showing hidden histories, and fostering creativity through challenging conventional publishing wisdom with books and zines about DIY skills, food, politics, and art. Our books are printed in the USA.