Navigation

Author Archive | Jennie Lyon

Republic Bike – Design your own Dutch or Fixie Bicycle

October 21, 2010 0
I am smitten with Republic Bike. This fun site allows you to design your own Dutch or Fixie bike – complete in a large array of colors. This would be the perfect bike for cruising to the beach! {daydreaming} And for only $399 + $49 shipping!

That seems like a great deal for a bike that you can design.

Do you have a Republic bike? If so, I would love to hear about it!

Earth Friendly Etsy: Fickle Faerie

October 21, 2010 11
When you go grocery shopping, are you still using produce bags? Every year billions of produce bags are thrown away after one use. How wasteful is that? This is a great way for your to help save the Earth and isn’t a hard thing to do. We stopped using those flimsy produce bags years ago, instead we take our own smaller reusable grocery bags and fill it with our produce. Recently I have seen great reusable produce bags that are great colors and can be used over and over again. Sometimes, we won’t have enough reusable bags to put the fruit in so I will be investing in a set for myself. If only to keep the lemons from rolling all over in the back of my car. lol.

This weeks Earth friendly Etsian is Fickle Faerie. Fickle Faerie is owned by June, a mom to three grown up daughters who has been sewing for over 40 years. June makes reusable and biodegradable produce bags. So far, June has sold over 8,000 produce bags. She estimates that if each one of her bags was only used once a week for a year that 416,000 bags would be saved from the landfill and her goal is to reach 1 million bags saved this year. {applause}

June is offering ONE of my readers a fantastic set of 6 reusable produce bags in your choice of color.

{How to Enter}

1. Subscribe to Sweet Greens (if you haven’t already) and confirm the subscription in the email from FeedBurner.

2. Visit Fickle Faerie and leave me a comment telling me which color you would want your bags to be?

3. Complete this form.

{Rules for Entry}

* Please leave a valid email address so I can contact you if you win.
(Your email address will be strictly protected and will not be shared with anyone without your prior consent.)

* Contest ends June 10th @ 12am EST. Winner will be chosen at random using a random number generator and will be announced the following day. (Please response to my email within 72 hours or I will need to choose another winner.)

Enjoy.
xo.

* Update: Winner:: one4earth. Congratulations. Enjoy.

Green Community:: Denver Art Museum

October 20, 2010 2

Last Tuesday, Eben and I went to the Denver Art Museum with some of our amazing friends. The Denver Art Museum is a huge multi-level and multi-building collection of some of the most fabulous art that I have ever seen. There are currently 2 buildings with 11 levels total. The kids love the museum because there are different children’s activities on all of the levels. If you are ever in the mile high city, stop by the Denver Art Museum, purchase your tickets and make your way to level 2 in the Hamilton Building to pick up a family backpack. The backpacks are full of everything you need to create art, play games and piece together puzzles throughout your visit at the museum.

On our visit the kids had a great time exploring Africa in the Modern and Contemporary art collection. They really enjoyed listening to the African music, playing the make your own African music game and watching the animated adventures of an African mask in the movie nook.

There are many other adventures for the kids to explore at the Denver Art Museum, including, doing an Oceanic Sculpture Puzzle, an architecture view master game, play the Wild, Wild Western Games, Chinese Animal Eye Spy and much, much more.

The kids really enjoyed the Modern and Contemporary Art Collection including the Fox Games and Quantum Cloud XXXIII. However I do think their favorite part was playing tag outside in one of the sculpture gardens.


{of course that is my Eben laying horizontally.} See more of the pics here.

Do you visit your local art museum?
Which are your favorite museums?
xo.

Shē Essential Beauty: Seek Beauty, Find Peace

October 20, 2010 12
I have said this before and will say it again, what you put on your body is as important as what you put in it. Choosing products that are good for the environment is also great for your body. I love to try new beauty items and tell you about them. I have been using Shē Essential Beauty Products for 2 months now and I have found a winner.

Shē Essential Beauty is an amazing line of organic and natural beauty products that integrate the ancient philosophy of Chinese medicine with modern research to bring a lush blend of aromatic ingredients formulated with Chinese herbs. Shē means luxury. (what more is there to say?)

Shē Essential Beauty was founded by Laura Kauffmann and Beth Hooper. They are both licensed acupuncturists and Chinese herbalists. All of their products are organic and natural and all come packaged in excellent reusable amber jars (used to preserve the quality of the products) that are also recyclable.

I received the Facial Serum and Lemongrass-Mint Sugar Scrub and both are fabulous. The Lemongrass-Mint Sugar Scrub smells delicious (Eben told me he wanted to eat it). It is very invigorating and super moisturizing and the Facial Serum, well it is amazing. I workout everyday and because of the sweating, I tend to break out along my hairline (above my temples) I rubbed the serum in before I went to bed and it took all of the inflammation out and my skin looked much clearer than usual. I thought to myself that maybe it was my imagination but when I went down for coffee in the morning, Jayson said, “your face looks great, what did you do?” I was like, what? excuse me? I wasn’t imaging it? I will be a fan of Shē from now on.

Try Shē Essential Beauty out and tell me what you think.

Beth @ Shē Essential Beauty has been so amazing to offer ONE of my lovely readers a Lavender-Lemongrass Sugar Scrub.

{How to Enter}

1. Subscribe to Sweet Greens (if you haven’t already) and confirm the subscription through the FeedBurner email.

2. Visit Shē Essential Beauty and leave me a comment telling me which item you would love to try.

3. Complete this form

{Rules for Entry}

* Please leave a valid email address so I can contact you if you win.

(Your email address will be strictly protected and will not be shared with anyone without your prior consent.)

* Contest ends June 8th @ 12am EST. Winner will be chosen at random using a random number generator and will be announced the following day. (Please response to my email within 72 hours or I will need to choose another winner.)
Enjoy.
* Update: Winner:: SaraSophia. Congratulations.

Do you Have Fall Family Traditions? Here are 6 to Get you Started

October 20, 2010 0
Since I am so smitten with Autumn, I decided to write about Fall family traditions this week on my blog at Cascadian Farm. I think family traditions are so important because they build memories that will last a lifetime and create a unique, strong bond with our forever friends – our families. And Fall is the perfect time to start a new family tradition.

My 6 Fall family traditions are budget and Eco friendly, you can pick just one and start building your family traditions tonight.

Older posts Newer posts