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Earth Friendly Etsy – Lil Fish Studios: Brooch Giveaway

October 13, 2010 1
This week’s Earth Friendly Etsy giveaway will add a little style and class to your fall wardrobe. Isn’t it fun to add new pieces of jewelry into your collection during the changes in the season? Lil Fish Studios is a beautiful shop full of nature inspired home decor and accessories. Lil Fish Studios is located under the poplar and pine in rural Minnesota and was created by Lisa Jordan. Lisa is giving a lucky reader a birch bark and wool brooch. This brooch is handmade using felt that has been fitted into a frame that she made from birch bark. The birch bark was cut from a branch that had fallen in her yard. The back of the brooch is covered in felted garment wood. If I won this brooch, I would wear it everyday in the fall!


Lisa is drawn to natural materials, wool, wood and stone – but has a fondness for vintage buttons! Lisa uses only recycled or sustainable materials in all of her creations. Wool from sweaters and coats is turned into felt, buttons are snipped off thrifted garments and bark is harvested from the trees that fall in her woods. How lovely is that?


Lisa is inspired by nature – she literally lives in the middle of the woods, so she is surrounded by what inspires her to be creative everyday. Lisa lives about 30 miles from town, so she only shops a couple of times a month. She has a large veggie garden and a makeshift greenhouse – made from recycled materials. Lisa life is by definition: sustainable.

When Lisa isn’t creating beautiful pieces for her shop, you will find her watching her four children run wild in the sun, covered in mud and catching bugs and frogs. Or she may be snuggled up with one of the lovely animals on the Jordan Homestead. Lisa loves to cook, incorporating wild foods into the weekly menu and on a quiet Saturday morning, you may find her laying on her belly in the woods – taking photographs of moss and mushrooms.

Rush over to Lil Fish Studio and pick up something special for yourself or someone you love. Make sure to check out her lovely ornaments – wouldn’t they look adorable on the Christmas tree this year? And leave a comment to enter to win!

*You can also share on Facebook, Twitter, Technorati, Digg, Stumble Upon or Kirsty for another entry – just leave a seperate comment. I will pick a winner on November 3rd.

ps: Do you have an Etsy shop? Would you like to be featured? Email me at mysweetgreens at gmail dot com.

** Update: Winner: FloatingInk. Yay! Congratulations and thank you to everyone for playing.

Night Owl Paper Goods – Ghost and Bat Plushies

October 13, 2010 0

Do you remember the super sweet Owl Plushies from Night Owl Paper Goods? Guess what? Just in time for Halloween – they now have Ghost and Bat Plushies and they are adorable! Handmade by local artisan, Lori Nichols these one of a kind sweeties are made using repurposed and thrifted materials.

Wouldn’t these make a fun Halloween gift?

Welcome New Sponsor: Tiny Prints

October 12, 2010 0
Please join me in welcoming Sweet Greens’ newest sponsor: Tiny Prints. Tiny Prints has a collection of high quality, fashionable products including stationary, invitations, announcements, greeting cards, photo books, calendars and gifts.

Tiny Prints is a Bay Area Certified green business that uses Luxurious Eco Friendly paper with beautiful designs. What was started by three friends with big dreams and a passion for beautiful paper – has quickly grown into a booming online retailer with fabulous designs for every occasion.

There is still time to order your Halloween cards. I wish that I was having a Halloween party this year. If I were, I would order the Crow’s Nest Invitations. And wouldn’t this Sparrow Surprise – Persimmon card be perfect for an older child? Eben would get a kick out of this Night Watcher card – he loves owls.

And don’t forget the winter holidays are right around the corner – rush over to Tiny Prints to order your chic holiday cards in an assortment of fun designs, beautiful colors and sweet layouts – that will fit any budget!

A huge thank you to Tiny Prints for sponsoring Sweet greens. Would you like to learn more about becoming a sponsor? If so, please click here.

I Want to Live In a Cob House

October 9, 2010 8
 

The mister keeps telling me that he is going to build us a house in the woods. I recently told him about a cob house that I had seen – he was intrigued. A cob house? Yes, cob is a centuries-old method of building with earth, straw, and other natural fibers. The cob is mixed by foot and applied in globs (a.k.a. cobs). Cob homes can be very creative because building with cob is so free form – think of a hobbit house. You can make arches and niches quite easily and the finished product looks so organic.  Plus, it dovetails seamlessly with the other eco-friendly tactics we use to keep our carbon footprint down, such as utilizing different types of reusable bags and recycling. With a cob house, our efforts would be even more helpful to the planet!

Would you live in a cob house?

photo courtesy of Patrick at Cob Works

Earth Friendly Etsy: Debby Arem Circuit Boards Designs Giveaway

October 9, 2010 32

I thought it would be fun to find an Earth Friendly Etsy shop that takes a found object that has no use anymore and upcycles it into something fantastic.

Debby Arem Designs has a collection of “geekery” jewelry and office products called three ring circuits (3RC). Three ring circuits is a line of recycled circuit board products that takes “found objects” and transforms them into something fun, unique and useful. The collection consists of jewelry, clipboards, key chains, magnets, bookmarks, picture frames, sun catchers and clocks.

Three ring circuits currently has several of their repurposed green office products on permanent exhibit at Chicago’s Museum of Science and Industry as part of their Smart Home 2009 Exhibit. Very cool. This exhibit is sponsored by WIRED magazine, and includes Three ring circuits pencil boxes, a circuit board clock, a mouse pad and several clipboards, all of these items are made using recycled circuit boards.

Your children would delight in a fab circuit board clipboard for back to school. These are very cool and will definitely be a conversation starter, which is always perfect for breaking the ice on the first day of school.

Debby Arem Designs has been so lovely to offer ONE of my readers a Recycled Circuit Board Clipboard.

How to Enter

1. Subscribe to Sweet Greens (if you haven’t already) and confirm the subscription in the email that you receive from FeedBurner.
2 . Visit Debby Arem Designs and leave me a comment telling me which item you would love to have.

Additional Entries
please leave a separate comment for each thing that you do.

Rules for Entry

  • Please leave a way for me to contact you if you win.
  • Contest ends August 26th @ 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!

UPDATE: WINNER:: Tom Tuttle from Tacoma #26. Congratulations and thank you again to everyone who entered.

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