Eco-Friendly Dolls
August 31, 2009 by admin
My daughters and niece love their matching Poot & Boogie dolls. They are unique, funky, cuddly, eco-friendly, handmade and colorful. The dolls are individually handcrafted, pre-washed and pre-shrunk, made with 100% cotton and 100% wool materials. They’re stuffed with eco-friendly fiberfill derived from EcoCraft corn. They are “handcrafted with love and smiles” in a small house on a hobby farm in Aldergrove, BC.
Poot & Boogie accepts requests for custom orders– how fun would it be for your child to have a doll with the same features as her own!
Kiwi Magazine
August 28, 2009 by admin
Kiwi magazine is my one of my favorite parenting magazines, and here’s why:
“KIWI is dedicated to helping parents raise their children the healthiest way possible. Our charge is to introduce families to the latest in natural and organic living—showing how to practice this lifestyle on an everyday basis.We know that achieving the right balance between the real world and the ideal world is often difficult. Our lives are busy and our family’s schedules are often simply out of our control. So, our mission is to help you make the best choices, with the best information available, in the shortest amount of time.
Look for articles in KIWI on serving the safest and most nutritious foods along with the latest in family wellness—what’s good for your family and what’s not. Our environmental emphasis will help moms and dads raise children with an eye to the future of their planet. We’ll bring to light important social issues that affect our families. And, we’ll help to guide our readers in teaching their kids to care about people in their neighborhood, their country and the world. In short, we hope to inspire parents to achieve new heights in family growth without missing a beat.”
Organic Flower Arrangments
August 26, 2009 by admin
image courtesy of CaliforniaOrganicFlowers.com
We are a family that sends flowers to funerals, mothers in the hospital, for Mothers Day, or just because. To be honest, I still have not found a great online source for ordering and buying flowers. I haven’t been thrilled with any of them and just now realized I should have been looking for an organic flower source. We strive for everything else to be organic. Why not the flowers we send as gifts?
I started browsing the web in search of these companies and am excited to share with you the list I put together:
1. Your local Trader Joe’s and Whole Foods Market might carry organic flower arrangements. Here in Utah, we aren’t lucky enough to have a Trader Joes and the Whole Foods near me does not carry them. But they do in thousands of other locatinos, so be sure to check that option out.
2. California Organic Flowers is a beautiful and (gasp!) affordable online ordering and delivering service for organic flower arrangements. This is a wonderful company that prides itself on growing and then selling their own organic flowers from their farm. They also go by the motto that, “Flowers are our way of celebrating nature, and celebrating ourselves, so they just have to be grown in a way that cares for the environment or it defeats their whole purpose.”
3. Organic Bouquet is a company that has been around since 2001 and works with their partner farms in providing their customers with organic and beautiful flowers to deliver. The company has played a key role in “the transformation of the floral industry by promoting and living up to the highest social and environmental standards—developing the most eco-friendly floral packaging, initiating the industry’s first carbon offset program, and growing our flowers in a way that is gentle on the earth and that safeguards the ecology and the well-being of wildlife and farm workers”
Be sure to check out these store and online websites the next time you think of sending flowers. Sending flowers is such a beautiful gift, and now you can take it to the next level by sending them in their truest healthiest form.
Art Days
August 24, 2009 by admin
I hosted our first Art Day Outing a while back and it was such fun! In Salt Lake City they have these amazing murals painted by the 377 Project Artists.
The project is called the Urban Gallery and we found it at Neighborhood House (1050 West 500 South), but there’s a good chance it’s no longer there. On June 12th and 13th, ten of Salt Lake City’s best artists were given a garage door and 18 hours to repaint it. The audience picked one artist to win a $1000 prize!
“Altogether, it was one of the most exciting nights of art we’ve experienced, and we’ve put a good many miles into the monthly gallery stroll. Once again the 337 Project has delved into Salt Lake’s underground creativity and brought up gems most of us didn’t even know were there.” –Salt Lake Magazine
If you are in the Salt Lake City area, do a drive-by and check it out. Not in Utah? Find out if there’s something like this in your area and bring some friends along!
Listen
August 21, 2009 by admin
I have a simple to-do list for you to accomplish today with your children:
Image from www.realtater.com
To Do:
- Ignore your other to-do lists for a bit
- Go outside
- Be still
- Listen
- Listen to the wind, birds, crickets, rain
- Listen to the sounds of summer
- Be still
- Listen
- Relax
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