Nurtured Earth

Today I want to share with you a poem, written by Suzi, of Nurtured Earth. I found Nurtured Earth the other day, when I spotted her wooden buttons in a treasury we were both featured in. Suzi offers a beautiful selection of solid wood buttons (among other beautiful buttons), which she has rescued from the [...]

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shopping green

There is a new green shopping site and I am excited to be one of the founding members.
Cosa Verde is a place to shop all things organic, recycled, sustainable or otherwise ecologically friendly and with planet loving intentions. The innovative and artistic team of Liz and Jeff, have been working on the site for 8 [...]

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Green Toe

A while back I gushed a bit about Simple’s fresh, new, more environmentally responsible approach to shoe making. Well since then, I went and bought myself a new pair of shoes! I hadn’t planned this, but within days of my last post about Simple, my boyfriend found a Simple deal online (yep, he is a [...]

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InfusionFibers.com + Eco Web Hosting

One of the most exciting Christmas gifts I received this year was quite intangible and lasts a whole year (and beyond!).
My sweet, thoughtful, wonderful and amazing boyfriend set me up with web hosting for infusionfibers.com : )

I purchased my domain name back in June, but have simply had it forward to my etsy store as [...]

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Eco Sneaks

I don’t usually post this kind of thing, but my sister came over today and had on a pair of these super cute boots by Simple. She said she got them at a sidewalk sale in Old Town and she wears them all the time… they are “made of recycled stuff.” I, being way into [...]

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Eco Wool

I just received my Eco Ull from AYarnOutlet (who was very nice to work with and has a huge selection of yarns). I purchased 2 skeins of Natural and 2 skeins of Charcoal. It is even more beautiful than hoped! Amazingly soft, buoyant and substantial and I love the natural colors. They have a depth [...]

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Wrapping Packages. Eco Consciously. Busily.

So my intent was to post a few fun and inspiring ideas over the last few weeks about wrapping gifts this season more eco consciously. But  I have been SO DARN BUSY! So, in the midst of my busy-ness I have been at least trying to take some photos of what I have been up [...]

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Tis the Season…

As the holidays approach, many people will be buying gift wrap, bows, ribbons, cards, etc. I thought I would offer a bit of encouragement to get creative and, rather than create more waste, let’s make less… while having fun AND saving money too. It doesn’t get much better than that!!

This is wrapped with re-used brown [...]

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Eco Etsy Auction Reminder

Hi everyone, I wanted to remind you that bidding has begun on the eco etsy Auction For A Cause. Bids will be accepted until October 30th. (See below for my earlier post, if you missed it). As of this morning, there are 10 bids and the bidding is at $100. Below is a very small [...]

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Auction For A Cause

What is it:
The EcoEtsy team (of which I am happily a part of!) is putting on a non-profit, benefit auction in support of The Nature Conservancy. There will be 60 individual items, each of which are handmade and are eco friendly in some way – whether they be made from recycled, upcycled, repurposed, organic or [...]

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