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Introductory Sponsorship Offer and a Giveaway

I am offering an introductory sponsorship rate and a giveaway for a TWO FREE 2×2 Etsy Mini or Artfire or 125×125 Badge ad spaces. (They must be for two different sponsors.) First, about the introductory advertising opportunity. The following inexpensive rate will be effective until September 30, 2009. I will match the total ad revenue collected in September and it will be donated to a charity – I am down [...]

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Fabulous Friday Featured Seller – Electricbluebird

Cats or dogs? A rescue of any kind. Star Wars or Sleepless in Seattle? Star Wars. Fruit or chocolate? Fruit. Favorite color? Neon pink. Favorite meal? Sushi. City break or weekend in the country? I live in the country so city break! Soaps or documentaries? Documentaries. Bath or shower? I am a bath junkie. Dress or jeans? Jeans, hands down. Your favorite material? Salvaged items. How is your shop eco-friendly? [...]

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BPA in Sigg Water Bottles

Yep. You read it correctly. Just when you thought you were doing the right thing by buying reusable aluminum bottles to avoid BPA in plastic bottles, now the story hits the news about Sigg bottles having liners with trace amounts of BPA. What now? Well, according to the letter from the CEO of Sigg, Steve Wasik, these old aluminum Sigg bottles that were manufactured before 2008 were lined with epoxy [...]

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Wordless Wednesday – Plastic invades Niagara Falls

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Backpack safety tips for children

Carrying heavy backpacks are common among school age children and that’s a problem. According to a study conducted by the Simmons College Graduate Program in Physical Therapy, over 55 percent of teenagers carry backpacks that are over 15% of their body weight, a limit that is recommended by American Chiropractic Association as well as American Academy of Orthopedic Surgeons. By the end of their teen years, for example, more than [...]

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Fabulous Friday Featured Seller – Fiveforty

Fiveforty I am a modern rug maker. I have been weaving for over twenty years. It was only a few years ago that I started, after thinking about it for many years, weaving rugs from recycled textiles.  I started weaving on a frame loom, which limited the size of rug I could weave. I have now adapted a tapestry loom to weave with rag warp, so I can weave runners. [...]

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Green Cleaning Your School

When I had my chiropractic practice, one of my patients was a preschool teacher. She had horribly cracked hands. She told me that she’d use Clorox mixture to clean and disinfect the tables and chairs every day. And when a child was diagnosed with Strep throat or pink eye, the cleaning procedure would involve the toys and everything that kids would touch. Well, I remember thinking, if the cleaning products [...]

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Wordless Wednesday – Brewster, MA

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