Happy Earth Month everyone! Hope you got a chuckle from our April Fools Day post last week 🙂 This week I’m super excited to have Kristen Hess the co-founder of CompoKeeper here to share information on our challenge this week-composting!!! Here’s her awesome guide to start composting- thanks Kristen! Compost is an organic gardener’s dream. […]
Our new neighborhood’s informal recycler piled a load of flattened cardboard boxes and crumpled newspaper on his wheelbarrow and hobbled off. He relieved us of our packaging after an exhausting series of moves between small towns and the big city. It was such a relief to discard those boxes that had held everything while we […]
Hello everyone 🙂 Happy last Wednesday of February! This month as part of the Waste Less and Be Green in 2015 Challenge we’ve been looking at ways to pamper ourselves with safe ingredients we can purchase in bulk. I gave you my favorite homemade body butter recipe, homemade body scrub ideas, and ways to take nourishing baths […]
The winter chill at least sent the mosquitoes south, but other critters still seek a warm refuge in our home. Our knee-jerk reaction at the sight of a creepy crawly is too frequently to reach for the can of bug spray under the kitchen sink and douse the intruder with a chemical bath. Insecticide literally […]
You could say I’m a bit of a word nerd. When my husband makes a clever play on words in Spanish, it’s almost as if he’s saying “te amo”. Nothing says “olive you” on Valentine’s Day like a corny pun on a cutesy card, along with a heartfelt message, and chocolate, of course. For inspiration […]
I’m no longer offended when Colombian men call me a “female monkey” (mona), realizing it’s an affectionate term for us rare natural blondes (most are fake chemical dye jobs). Did any of you darker-haired ladies try out last week’s tip for naturally highlighting hair by recycling coffee grounds? Let us know how your locks look! […]
Every month some of us go through a few days of Cramps! Finding the solution that works for you is the trick to a happy girl. Here are a few suggestions that we’ve gathered: Bananas …are rich in Potassium that will help relieve cramps they are also loaded with vitamin B-6 that will help with […]
Before we get started Why don’t you go make yourself a nice hot cup of coffee? I’ll wait… By the time you finish reading this, the pot will be cool and the grounds ready to be NOT thrown into the trash… but rubbed all over your beautiful body. Ladies, wake up and smell the coffee! […]
Snow flakes, skin flakes Baby, it may be cold outside, but at least we’re cozy inside. Not roasting chestnuts by the fireplace, but with our indoor centralized heating system. Who needs romanticism when we need warmth? Exposure to those blasts of dry heated air all winter long turn our puckers into scaly, flaky, totally unkissable […]