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#1 – Holiday Giveaway Week 2010: Flor Fez Rug

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Welcome to Sweet Greens 2010 Holiday Giveaway Week. My first giveaway is a generous one from FLOR. One lucky winner will enjoy a 5×7 FLOR Fez Rug that you can design yourself – worth $100.

Have you heard of FLOR? If not, you are in for a treat. FLOR makes carpet tiles that are thick, soft and luxurious. You can configure the squares into any shape or size to create a custom rug that fits your home and style. If I were the winner, I would design a bright multicolored rug for my family room.

The FLOR Fez rug is made using 80% post-consumer recycled content and each tile of Fez diverts 7 plastic bottles from entering a landfill. Fantastic!

Fez is a luxuriously thick felt – soft and smooth. And with Flor’s easy to use design center and choice of 6 beautiful colors, it is a snap to order your rug – you will have it in time to snuggle up on during your family holiday movie night.

Jump over to FLOR and check out the fantastic Eco friendly options and leave a comment below. You only have 1 week to enter – tell your friends and family so they don’t miss out!

Geekmum is the winner! Thank you to everyone for playing.

Welcome to Sweet Greens 2010 Holiday Giveaway Week

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Welcome to Sweet Greens 2010 Holiday Giveaway Week. Starting today, there will be FIVE giveaways each day November 29-December 3 for a total of TWENTY FIVE fantastic holiday giveaways. The prizes equal more than $1500 total, so you won’t want to miss this. You will find something for everyone on your holiday shopping list! You can subscribe to Sweet Greens now, so you won’t miss a single giveaway!

These prizes are not only Earth friendly, they are lovely and fabulous. Included in these lovely giveaways is jewelry and accessories from Novica and The Hemptress. Lovely things for babies from Zutano, Apple Park, Colour Blocks, and Speesees. Fab things for your home from Flor, Paperwork, Greentainer, EcoZuZu, and Essentia. Fun gifts for the kids from Green Toys, miYim, Stubby Pencil Studio and Rain Tees. Things to pamper yourself or someone you love from Lotus Pad, Dr. Alkaitis Holistic Organic Skin Food, Stem Organics, She Essential Beauty and Tilvee. Fun for family time from The Family Dinner. Paper goodies from Red Stamp and Yellow Owl Studio.

Please help me spread the word about Sweet Greens 2010 Holiday Giveaway Week. Please tell all of your friends and family about it. This is my holiday gift to all of you my lovely readers. The Giveaways will run for 1 week from the day they are posted.

Stay tuned, the first giveaway will be up shortly!

Happy Holidays!
xo,
Sweet Greens

Green Nosh:: Sour Cream Sugar Cookies

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Whenever Eben has a day off of school, we plan on making something together in the afternoon. We may do arts and crafts, draw, paint or bake goodies. This week, we made sugar cookies and they tasted delicious and were fun to decorate. Baking with your children is always fun because you get to chit chat while mixing the ingredients and learn something new about each other.

Do you want to make some yummy sugar cookies with your little ones? These are also great for all of those upcoming holidays.

Here is what you will need::

Sugar Cookies
{Makes 2 dozen}

Ingredients:

* 2 Cups Organic Flour
* 1 Tsp Organic Baking Soda
* Pinch of Salt
* 1/2 Cup Smart Balance Butter Spread
* 3/4 Cup Organic Sugar
* 1 Tsp. Organic Vanilla extract
* 1 Organic Egg or egg replacer
* 1/2 Cup Organic Sour Cream {You cold also use soy milk}

Directions:

1. Preheat oven to 375°F.

2. Combine flour, baking soda, and salt in a bowl and mix together. Cream the butter in a stand mixer then add sugar until well blended. Add vanilla and the egg and 1/2 of the flour mixture. Add the sour cream, remaining flour and a little more sour cream if necessary and mix on low/medium speed.

3. Form into round balls and then flatten with your palm onto the cookie sheet. Bake for 10 minutes and let cool on cooling rack for 2 minutes.


Icing::

Ingredients:
* 2 Cups Organic Powdered Sugar
* 1 Cup Organic Sour Cream
* 1 Tsp. Organic Vanilla Extract
* Organic Food Colorant

Directions::

Mix all ingredients together with a hand mixer. Once cookies have completely cooled, you can add icing and decorations. {We used a hodge podge of decorations that we had in our pantry.}

These cookies are super yummy and will keep for about a week in a covered container…they won’t last a week though, I guarantee it.

If you try this recipe, leave me a comment telling me what you thought.
xo.

Reusable SKOY Cloths Giveaway

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I received a package of SKOY cloths several weeks ago and have to admit when I first opened them, I was a bit skeptical. I thought to myself, how is this going to clean my kitchen? The mister and I tried them out on house cleaning day and Wow! were we surprised. They are fabulous! We love them so much in fact that whenever I open the dish cloth drawer I am a little sad if they are all dirty. Ha!

SKOY cloths are 100% biodegradable, natural and reusable. These adorable little cloths are from Europe and made from a natural cotton and wood-based cellulose pulp. SKOY cloth is a chlorine-free product and are made with water-based colors and inks. After an independent composting test, SKOY cloth broke down completely within 5 weeks.

The SKOY cloth is a durable product due to the reusability factor and that it can last for months. Using a SKOY cloth is equivalent to using 15 rolls of paper towels in an average home. With SKOY cloth there is absolutely no reason you will ever need paper towels again. The SKOY cloth can hold up to 15x it’s weight with liquid. This is perfect if you have a large spill that you want to soak up quickly. I also love the built in scrubbies on the underside these are great for getting sticky messes off my counter tops.

The SKOY cloth is long-lasting because of the wash ability feature. SKOY clothes dry super fast and because of this, they do not become breeding grounds for bacteria. This is my favorite favorite feature. I can clean the kitchen after dinner and shortly after, the SKOY cloth is completely dry.

But don’t take my word for it, I have 2 SKOY packages to giveaway to my lucky readers.

To ENTER: 

* Digg, Stumble or Kirtsy SKOY cloths.
* Share SKOY cloths on Facebook.
* Tweet about SKOY cloths on Twitter.
* Blog about SKOY cloths on your blog.
* Purchase a SKOY cloth.

(You may enter for each of the above things that you do, please leave a separate note for each thing you did)

Contest ends April 24th @ 12am EST. Winners will be chosen at random and will be announced the following day.

* Update: Winners:: ktogonyea and Jubliee. Congratulations.

Great Green Fin: ImagiPLAY Wooden Toys Giveaway

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When Eben was a toddler he loved to play with wooden toys and puzzles. We still have several sets that have been put away for the day that he has children. I love wooden toys because they last forever and are usually simple and classic. I also love that wooden toys usually help to cultivate a very active imagination in a child. I have a set of antique pull along ducks that my mother gave me one year as a gift that I find to be charming and fun, which is just another reason that wooden toys make me smile.

I recently read about ImagiPLAY, a decade old company that creates high quality educational toys that inspire children’s imaginations and the desire to explore. ImagiPLAY’s motto, “Toys with Integrity” really jumped out at me. I love the idea of toys that connect with nature, have Eco friendly sources and hold educational value as well.

Founder and President Barbera Aimes offers a lovely collection of toys that represent her true passion, our Earth. Barbera says, “that if there is one thing she can leave on this earth, it would be to help children appreciate our world.” In her mid thirties, Barbera found the natural beauty of Boulder, Colorado and decided it would be the perfect place to establish her business and her home. I think Barbera has picked a lovely spot, Boulder is around 30 minutes from my home and we visit regularly.

All of ImagiPLAY’s heirloom quality toys are made from Eco friendly materials with fun designs and colors. ImagiPLAY also has a fun Learning Center on their website where your little ones can learn about all different kinds of animals. ImagiPLAY’s line of toys includes rolling toddler toys, bead mazes, food play, puzzles, play sets, blocks, baby toys and games. These would make excellent holiday gifts for your little ones.

Barbera has been so lovely to offer ONE of my lovely readers a Kokopelli Wooden Puzzle Me Up Puzzle. This would make a fun gift or a cute stocking stuffer. I am also giving away a second puzzle on Sweet Greens Facebook Fan Page, so stop by and say, “Hi.”

How to Enter

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

2. Visit ImagiPLAY and leave me a comment telling me which item you think your child would love?

Additional Entriesplease leave a separate comment for each that you do.

* Share ImagiPLAY on Twitter and follow @SweetGreens.* Share ImagiPLAY on Facebook and join Sweet Greens Facebook Fan Page.
* Digg, Kirtsy or Stumble ImagiPLAY.
* Share Sweet Greens: Fab Green Find: ImagiPLAY  Wooden Toys Giveaway with a friend or two.
* Add Sweet Greens to your blogroll.
* Add Sweet Greens to your Technorati favorites.

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 October 12th@ 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.
**UPDATE:: WINNER:: #22 lil’ miss mama. Congrats and thank you to everyone who entered and thank you to ImagiPLAY.
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