Have you stopped by Cascadian Farm lately to check out my blog there? I love writing for Cascadian Farm and would be tickled if you stopped by now and then and left me a comment telling me what you think.
How Do You Get Ready for Winter?
Author Archive | Jennie Lyon
My post today is about the ways you can get ready for winter. Do you have special rituals or traditions that you do each year to prepare for the long cold winter ahead?
Keep Your Child’s Quotes in a Journal + 3 Ebenisms
Kids say the funniest things. Eben makes me laugh day after day with the silly, funny and intellectual things that he says to me and Mr. Sweet Greens. I have been keeping a journal of Eben’s loveliest quotes. You can find super cute and Eco friendly journals at Ecojot. I write down what, when and where he said it. If I am having a hard day or just want a good laugh, I will open My ‘Ebenisms‘ journal for a good laugh. Here are some of my favorites Eben quotes:
* While at the pool Eben tried on a pair of goggles and were super tight. He said, “Wow! These goggles hug me better than my own mother!”
* One night Eben asked what we were having for dinner. Mr. Sweet Greens said, “Baked Ziti.” Eben wasn’t sure what that was until Mr. Sweet Greens served dinner, then Eben exclaimed, “Oh, yeah! I remember Baked Ziti, it’s Lasagna’s cousin.”
* While out running errands one day, I made a wrong turn, getting us lost. Eben calmly said, “This is what I love about you Mom, every car ride is like an adventure.”
Do you record your child’s random quotes?
Will you?
I Want to Hold Your Hand: Eco-Friendly Squeeze Me Mittens
Who doesn’t love to hold hands with their little one. Eben is still very lovey dovey with me, so we hold hands all the time. Wouldn’t these Squeeze Me Mittens from Ouef be just fabulous for holding hands with your little lovey on a cold brisk day?
Whose hand do you want to hold?
Earth Friendly Etsy Giveaway: Polarity Recycled Locket
I love jewelry, especially when it is jewelry that is made from upcyling something else. I think that anytime we can take something that no longer works, is old or worn out and make it into something new, is fabulous. You can find some of the most unique and funky jewelry finds when the artist is working with upcycled materials. Almost always you will find that their jewelry is like nothing you have seen before and you won’t see anyone else wearing the exact same piece.
Recently, I found Polarity and this fabulous jewelry company does just that, takes someone old and makes something fabulous. Polarity is a jewelry company owned by a mom named Catherine Ivins and is located on the Jersey Shore. Catherine makes fabulous necklaces from recycled auto parts. The necklaces have magnetic design lids that are interchangeable. This gives you a necklace that can be made into many different necklaces.
Catherine uses repurposed and sustainable materials in unique and beautiful ways all the while, leaving the smallest possible carbon footprint in her wake. To make her wonderful lockets she uses recycled steel parts because steel has many advantages due to its distinctive environmental fingerprint. Catherine says that more than 1/2 of the steel we see has already been recycled from scrap. It takes at least 60% less energy to produce steel from scrap than it does from iron ore. Waste disposal problems are lessened because steel can be recycled over and over again and it’s magnetic properties make it easier to separate in the waste stream.
Catherine has been so great to offer ONE of my lucky readers a Blackoutwell Locket. (mischievous fox and cat design) These lockets are designed by the very talented artist Amy Blackoutwell. This necklace comes with 3 interchangeable lids. (one of each, a fox, cat and the definition of mischievous) Catherine’s lockets are 1 1/4″ in size, have a 30″ 2mm nickel brass ball chain and 3 different lids.
How to Enter
1. Subscribe to Sweet Greens (if you haven’t already) and click confirm in the email confirmation that you receive from Feedburner.
2. Visit Polarity and leave me a comment telling me which item you absolutely love.
Additional Entries
one of each of the below things that you do.
* Share Polarity on Twitter and follow @SweetGreens.
* Share Polarity on Facebook and join Sweet Greens Facebook Fan Page.
* Email Sweet Greens Giveaway to a friend.
* Add Sweet Greens to your Technorati Favorites.
* Blog about Sweet Greens Polarity giveaway.
Rules for Entry
* Please leave a way for me to contact you if you win.
* Contest ends July 22nd@ 12am EST. Winner will be chosen at random using a random number generator and will be announced the following day. (I will announce the winner, if I do not hear from you within 72 business hours, I will pick another winner.)
* Contest ends July 22nd@ 12am EST. Winner will be chosen at random using a random number generator and will be announced the following day. (I will announce the winner, if I do not hear from you within 72 business hours, I will pick another winner.)
* You must leave a comment telling me which item you love in order to qualify.
Good Luck and Enjoy.
Fab Green Find:: Nordic Berries {Giveaway!}
The best way that you can assure that your child is getting the proper amount of vitamins and minerals is by preparing meals for them that include a variety of healthy and yummy foods. This can sound easier than it may be. What if you have a child who doesn’t get all of the nutrition that they need or shuns fruits, veggies or meals that are high in protein and whole grains? Children’s Vitamins may be a helpful resource to make sure that your kiddo is getting the recommended daily allowance of vitamins and minerals. A good place to start is with a multi-mineral/multi-vitamin and an omega-3 fatty acid supplement. Just make sure that the vitamins taste good.
I purchased Eben a bottle of gummy vitamins from one of our favorite stores, I thought for sure since they were gummy that he would gobble them up. For weeks, I thought this is what he was doing. That was until one day while I was cleaning up his bathroom, a rainbow of color in the heat vent caught my eye. I thought to myself that he probably stuck a toy in there and removed the vent to get a closer look. To my horror, it was not a toy, but a huge, I mean HUGE, pile of gummy vitamins. {Thank goodness it wasn’t winter, the heat would have melted it into an even bigger mess. When he came home from school, I asked him about it and he said, “They don’t taste good.” Needless to say, I didn’t give him more of those vitamins.
About a month ago we received a bottle of Nordic Berries from Nordic Naturals in the mail. I opened the box and thought to myself, ” Great more vitamins for the heat vent? ” To my surprise though, Eben loves these ones. He said, ” They taste like orange candies with sugar on top. You know the one’s that grandmas always have at their houses.” He loves them so much, that he asks to have them each morning with breakfast. This is a first in our house. He loves the taste and I love that there are no artificial colorings, gelatin, flavorings, or preservatives and that the vitamins contain only organic tapioca syrup, organic evaporated cane juice, pectin, citric acid, rice syrup solids, natural flavor and sodium citrate. Did I mention that the bottle states that these are for adults and kids alike? I have to admit, I tried them and I like them too. {yum}
The label is cute too and states:: Nordic folklore says, at twilight trolls gather cloudberries found along the banks of the fjord waters. Rich in vitamins, minerals and antioxidants, cloudberries have a delicious sweet and sour taste. The label has a cute picture of trolls collecting the berries. {super cute}
Do you have a little one or could you yourself could use a good multi-vitamin that tastes yummy? I am giving away a bottle of 120 gummy berries to ONE lovely reader.
{How to Enter}
1. Subscribe to Sweet Greens (if you haven’t already) and confirm the subscription in the email from FeedBurner.
2. Visit Nordic Naturals and leave me a comment telling me one other item that you think you or your family would benefit from.
{Additional Entries}
please leave a separate comment for each that you do.
* Share Nordic Berries on twitter and follow @SweetGreens.
* Add Sweet Greens to your Technorati Favorites.
* Email a friend about Sweet Greens: Fab Green Find:: Nordic Berries.
* Add Sweet Greens to your blogroll.
{Rules for Entry}
* Please leave a way for me to contact you if you win. You do not need to leave your email address if don’t wish to share it. Just make sure to check back at the bottom of this post after the contest ends to see if you won.
* Contest ends September 28th@ 12am EST. Winner will be chosen at random using a random number generator and will be announced the following day. (I will announce the winner, if I do not hear from you within 72 business hours, I will pick another winner.)
* You must leave a comment telling me which item you love in order to qualify.
Good Luck and Enjoy.
* UPDATE: WINNER:: #3 one4earth. Congrats! Thank you to everyone who participated.