Guest Post: Celebrate Holidays the Eco-Friendly Way
September 1, 2010 by Brenda
Filed under Featured Posts, Green Living, Guest Posts
For those of you who like to be super-organised, here is our first post of 2010 thinking ahead for the upcoming holidays. Celebrate Holidays the Eco-Friendly Way For most people, the holidays are an all-out, over-the-top, smorgasbord of spending, eating, and yes, throwing away. Sadly, the season that fills us with hope, joy, and resolutions [...]
Guest Post: Hoarding and Planning
January 8, 2010 by Brenda
Filed under Eco & Green Tips, Featured Posts, Green Living, Guest Posts, Things To Do, Top Picks
Hoarding and Planning I’m getting braced to take down Christmas decorations tomorrow – always more of a task than putting them up – but also, before things are put away for the year, to sort through all the packaging and waste to see what might be useful in some way either for making new decorations [...]
Charity Christmas Cards
December 16, 2009 by Brenda
Filed under Featured Posts, Green Living
I have bought charity christmas cards for many years, I have thought about maybe this year sending e-cards, which would be the greenest way of sending out my christmas and new year wishes, but not everybody I know is online. So I feel buying charity cards is the next best thing. 1 ShelterBox – you [...]
Christmas Craft Activities for Children
December 16, 2009 by erica
Filed under Babies & Toddlers, Family, Kids & Teens
The schools will break up soon and activities for pre-school children seem to dry up in the school holidays too. To keep your children occupied in the week before Christmas, how about some art projects? Petit Artisan have this fab nativity set suitable for 5 years and upwards. All the figures and the stable are [...]
Eco-friendly Party Ware
December 15, 2009 by erica
Filed under Green Living, Lifestyle
We’re really getting into the Christmas party season now and you are probably thinking about how to organise your party (if you’re brave enough to be hosting one that is). In an ideal world, we’d all use plates, cups, etc. that can be washed up and reused again and again, but sometimes that just isn’t [...]
Beautiful Welsh Jewellery
Sue writes… I love beautiful jewellery and its always nice to find unusual pieces that are made in the UK. Just Bazaar sell a gorgeous range of silver jewellery produced by La Jewellery in Wales. All the materials used are ethically sourced and production methods are as green as possible. These beautiful Elegance earrings cost [...]
