Okay, I don’t usually do a lot of giveaways, but I couldn’t resist offering up this one. Jess of Storied Yarns is offering a $10 digital gift certificate to her store to help me celebrate 1000 fans. She’s also having a sale through today – 20% off with the coupon code SUMMERTIME11 at her Artfire [...]
Archive for the ‘Reviews’ Category
6 May
Can consuming make you healthy and wealthy?
Our culture of consumerism is damaging to both our earth and our wallets. One of my goals with this blog has been to document our steps away from the greed and gluttony of first world society and toward a more sustainable life – both monetarily and ecologically. Fortunately they go hand-in-hand. I haven’t approached this [...]
22 Oct
Review: Seventh Generation Laundry Detergent
One thing about my family: we go through lots of laundry. Clothing, sheets, towels, quilts, mattress pads – if my boys don’t spill food or pee on it on a daily basis, we’re doing better than normal! When I got to Minnesota, I intended to go out to buy our own laundry detergent, which was [...]
24 Jul
Coolest. Diaper. Cake. Ever.
Okay, it’s not a cake: I got a diaper cake when I was pregnant with my first, and I thought that was the coolest thing ever, too. It didn’t take me long to use up all those newborn and size 1 disposables! But this really takes the cake, if you’ll forgive my pun. I’m not [...]
8 May
Trimsies Diapers
There are days when I want to reach for the disposable diapers and there are days when I’m truly motivated to continue cloth diapering. Today is one of the motivated days! A lot of people don’t like cloth because it can get messy. Me? I don’t like them because I can’t fit E’s clothes over [...]
27 Jan
“Are You Green?”
That’s the question ModernMotive is asking Etsy sellers (and others) on her blog in the next couple weeks. From people like me, who look for ways to skip disposable products to people who use only recycled materials to handcraft their wares, it should be interesting to see what creative ways people are helping conserve resources [...]
