So green it's almost red

Want to out do the hippiest of your hippy friends? Here's how!

Bicycle Window Box- For the transient gardener. - More cool how to projects

Happy International Year of Natural Fibres!

Well I am a little late on finding out about this, but 2009 is International Year of Natural Fibres. You can tell it's international by that spelling of Fibres. This week's fibre is hemp, yay! I don't own any hemp articles so I'll have to find another way to celebrate. Hemp is great because it is very fast growing, requiring little to no pesticide and is super strong...and hemp milk is delicious and nutritious.

More fun facts...the first American flag was made of hemp and the U.S. Constitutuion was written on hemp paper. It was illegal for a time for American farmers to NOT grow hemp. It is so functional and can also be beautiful. I'm a big admirer of Julia Smith's line, lots of hemp silk blends and ethically manufactured. Well done.

In Honor of all Mothers

In 1870 Julia Ward Howe first proclaimed Mother's Day as a day for mothers everywhere to stand up together for peace. Don't forget to call your Mother and talk about peace.

Arise then...women of this day!
Arise, all women who have hearts!
Whether your baptism be of water or of tears!
Say firmly:
"We will not have questions answered by irrelevant agencies,
Our husbands will not come to us, reeking with carnage,
For caresses and applause.
Our sons shall not be taken from us to unlearn
All that we have been able to teach them of charity, mercy and patience.
We, the women of one country,
Will be too tender of those of another country
To allow our sons to be trained to injure theirs."

From the bosom of a devastated Earth a voice goes up with
Our own. It says: "Disarm! Disarm!
The sword of murder is not the balance of justice."
Blood does not wipe out dishonor,
Nor violence indicate possession.
As men have often forsaken the plough and the anvil
At the summons of war,
Let women now leave all that may be left of home
For a great and earnest day of counsel.
Let them meet first, as women, to bewail and commemorate the dead.
Let them solemnly take counsel with each other as to the means
Whereby the great human family can live in peace...
Each bearing after his own time the sacred impress, not of Caesar,
But of God -
In the name of womanhood and humanity, I earnestly ask
That a general congress of women without limit of nationality,
May be appointed and held at someplace deemed most convenient
And the earliest period consistent with its objects,
To promote the alliance of the different nationalities,
The amicable settlement of international questions,
The great and general interests of peace.

introducing.....sachets

made from vintage fabric and ribbon, each unique sachet contains rice, dried lavender and sage with a few dashes of jasmine and bergamot essential oil. sachets can be used in drawers or under your pillow for sweet smelling clothes or sweet dreams. now available, along with my soy candles, at the adorable new Red Hook boutique Tiburon