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Fishkill Farms’ Peach on Easy Canvas Prints

I have been meaning to put up some photographs of fruits and vegetables on my kitchen walls. After all, I’ve been taking photos of farms and farmers markets for a few years now but the photos are just parked in my computer. But I haven’t seen any frames I liked yet so I’ve been stuck on finding the right ways to display them…until a company called “Easy Canvas Prints” contacted [...]

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Scotch Naturals Review and Giveaway

GIVEAWAY IS CLOSED I had the “pleasure” of acting like one of “The Housewives of (Blank)” last few weeks, thanks to Nature’s Basin who sent me a bottle of Scotch. Yes, you read it correctly but not that kind. How can you tell me to cook, do the dishes, and clean the house when my nails are this gorgeous and well polished? I took the time to give myself a [...]

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The Caramel Jar Review and Giveaway

I don’t even know how to describe these slow melting, sultry sweetness in my mouth this morning. I can’t find the right words in the English language to describe the salty and yet oh, so sweet message that my tongue is trying to send to the limbic system. I honestly don’t know how I can adequately communicate this sinfully delectable and addicting nature of these caramels to you. Without you [...]

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Maxim Hygiene Products Review and Giveaway

GIVEAWAY IS CLOSED If you haven’t noticed by the big box picture above, this review about women’s monthly ‘thang.’ (I’m not trying to be a sexist but if you are a man, I don’t know if you want to stick around for this. I mean, you can, but you can certainly handover your iPad to your woman instead.) Specifically, it’s about what women need because of our monthly ‘thang’. Yup. [...]

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Newberry Cutting Board and Thyme Chicken Recipe

I have four cutting boards. No lie. One for garlic, onions, and herbs, etc. (Wouldn’t want my apples to smell like onions) One for fruits. (wouldn’t want my lemons to smell like roast beef) One for cooked meat. (This one came with a small stainless steel circular stand with spokes that hold the meat in place while carving.) And one for raw meat. (don’t want raw chicken to touch other [...]

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The Tea Spot Review and Giveaway

The Tea Spot is a company founded and owned by Maria Uspenski, a cancer survivor who sought therapeutic properties of loose tea for healing. In fact, she believes in its healing properties, physical and mental, so much that her goal is to make loose-leaf tea experience, an everyday luxury. Her message, that “tea in its freshest form in loose leaf offers incredible flavor, profound health benefits, and is eco-friendly“, is [...]

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Eco Friendly Handmade Product Search Winner for Ecokaren

I had a great time reading all your comments for my Eco Friendly Handmade Product Search and Review. Thank goodness, I didn’t have to pick the winner because I would still be deciding. (I was never good at picking team mates at a game, whether we were playing soccer or dodge ball. I wanted to pick everyone. This is one of the reasons why I hate those reality shows who [...]

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Looking for Your Eco-Friendly Handmade Products to Review

Do you like eco friendly handmade? I mean, do you love green handmade? I do. I think it’s important to conserve our resources and if you truly recycle and upcycle, there are overabundance of materials we already own that can be used to make things to sell. We don’t need to harvest any more new resources. Yes, sometimes it’s hard. And yes, sometimes it’s time consuming to deconstruct and remake [...]

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Retraction on Made From Earth Review

There’s a first time for everything, right? Remember my review on “Made from Earth” beauty products? I had a “bad” vibe from the beginning that this company was not really up front with me about their products being organic. Maybe some are but I don’t think all of them are and they are using the words like “Organic”, “Holistic” and “Chem-Free” on their bottles and I think they are misleading. [...]

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Herban Lifestyle Shampoo Bar Review and Giveaway

I’ll get to the point. I HATE shampoo and conditioner bottles. They clutter my bathroom and they create so much plastic waste. So when I noticed people talking about shampoo bars on various forums and blogs, I was intrigued. How great is using up something and there’s no waste left afterwards? I cringe every time I have to throw out those unrecycalable shampoo and conditioner bottles because I know they [...]

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Tostitos Natural Yellow Corn Tortillas

…”Made with Certified Organic Corn”, so says the package. I thought I was fooled again by a big corporation, trying to pull my leg, when I came home with this rather expensive package of tortilla chips – 9 oz bag cost $3.99. Holy Tortilla Batman! But if the price wasn’t bad enough, (and the amount of chips in the bag occupied only about 20% of the bag!), the bag said, [...]

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How to Build a Fire Book Review and Giveaway

Well, Erin Bried did it again! She wrote another handy dandy “How to” book. Erin is the author of back-to-basics handbook called “How to Sew a Button and other nifty things our Grandmothers knew“, a book I reviewed in January. I was so impressed by this chock-full-of-’how-to’-info book that I picked her brain a little in an interview about her background and told her how, I think, she should write [...]

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Glass Dharma Reusable Straws Review and Giveaway

Giveaway is CLOSED I admit. I don’t use straws. “Then, why the heck are you reviewing straws?” you say? Before you click off to read other earthier blogs, let me ‘splain. Even if I don’t use straws at home and generally refuse them at restaurants, drinking a cold root beer float or a thick frothy fruit smoothie seems so much tastier with a straw. And the squealing and shhhlurping sound [...]

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How to buy make-up for a teenager. Part 2

This is the second article of a two part series written by my fifteen years old daughter Emily. She wrote in her first article how she learned to “choose” make-up. In this article, she goes to the Mall to actually “buy” her first make-up. On my birthday, my mom and I went to Sephora at a local mall. Make up was going to be my birthday present and I was [...]

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How to choose make-up for a teenager. Part 1

This guest post is written by my fifteen years old daughter Emily, who recently discovered what it’s like to buy make up for the first time. Her experience couldn’t be more timely as “The Story of Cosmetics” by Annie Leonard will be released today. See the video after the article. Many girls start to play around with make up when they are young. But when they become older in their [...]

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Earth Divas Review and Giveaway

I don’t know of any woman who does not have an affinity for accessories, especially bags. My mother is a frugal woman and never buys anything on an impulse… except bags. I’m not as bad as my mom but I am always in the market for a stylish but practical bag that I can tote around, especially if it’s light in weight and eco-friendly. So when a green blogger friend [...]

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Do it gorgeously!

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Have you ever said to yourself, “Ha! I knew that!” Or more often than not, “Why didn’t I think of that before?” And feel like you are one step behind? What do I mean? I would think of an idea but then, someone would come up with the actual product and market it. Take this book, for instance, “Do it gorgeously” by Sophie Uliano. How many of you have a [...]

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Clean + Green Review and Giveaway

Rosey I am a sucker. I gave in and got a dog for my daughter when she turned ten. What is it with kids wanting pets when they reach the ripe old age of ten? Do they think just because their age is now a double digit that they become responsible all of a sudden? My son went through it too but I was able to talk him out of [...]

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Miessence Review on Eco Diva

I am a woman of ‘certain age’ (as one of my dear friends would put it) who woke up one day, and decided to fight the wrinkle war with vengeance. I mean, I don’t smoke, I drink water, I cleanse my face every night (with olive oil), moisturize, and exfoliate regularly – all the good things to prevent wrinkles, right? But I swear, there was one new tiny ‘laugh’ line [...]

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Hometown Seeds Product Review and Giveaway

Remember my poor Hyacinths that I thought I killed? And how I thought I had a “brown thumb” and not a “green thumb”? It turns out, I do have a green thumb. The hyacinths are doing fine and look at these sprouts that came up from my plantings from the Easter weekend. Having said, I honestly don’t think it’s anything I personally did that made these little guys break the [...]

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Ojami Bento and Lunch Tote Review

When growing up in Korea, bento (Dosirak, in Korean but we used to call it “bento” too) was an expression of mother’s love… so it seemed. We always wanted what was in someone else’s bento. We always compared who had the better tasting lunch and whose mom packed – HAM, of all things – and that her mom must love her more than my mom loves me because I never [...]

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Greenwashing: Janson Beckett’s “Certified Organic Cleansing & Toning Duo” on Eco Diva

I had an opportunity to receive a box of Janson Beckett’s “Certified Organic Cleansing & Toning Duo”. I was thrilled because I was running out of my cleanser soon and I was excited to try a new product. And to review and do a giveaway? I couldn’t wait to receive them. Then, they came in the mail. Read what happened on Ecodiva.

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Catching up with Erin Bried of “How to sew a button”

I had the pleasure of reading Erin Bried’s book, “How to sew a button”, cover to cover, for a review and a giveaway while back. I was so impressed by her book that I even convinced the coordinator who organized my recent PTSA talk to raffle Erin’s book as a prize. When the giveaway ended, I wanted to find out why a successful yuppie, living in a city, would want [...]

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Soda Stream Review and Giveaway

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When my kids were in elementary school, I was the “Health and Safety Committee” chairperson for the PTA. I advocated healthy eating, exercise and implemented programs to educate kids about preventing obesity. Now that my kids are older and are in different schools, I no longer hold that position but I still try to maintain healthy eating as part of our lifestyle and my kids have become relatively health conscious [...]

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“How to sew a button” Book Review and Giveaway

I don’t remember who taught me how to sew. I didn’t live near my grandmothers and in fact, my maternal grandmother passed away when I was only six years old. But I heard she made her living as a seamstress so may be it’s in my blood. One thing for sure though; I remember knowing how to sew, by hand and with a sewing machine, for as long as I [...]

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Ojolie Animated eCard Review and Giveaway

GIVEAWAY IS CLOSED I am really excited about this review and giveaway. For the first time last year, I sent my Christmas cards and letters via e-mail. Let me just say this though. I love sending out Christmas cards. It is a tradition in my family where my kids sit and address the envelopes, lick the stamps, and we run to the post office the next day together. Well, those [...]

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New Wave Enviro Products Review and Giveaway

Giveaway is CLOSED Fortunately, I don’t have to pack lunches for anyone these days. I know. Don’t hate me. But I do have to pack water bottles and snacks for sporting events for my kids though, which is just about every day. So when New Wave Enviro Products sent me a bamboo lunch bag, a stainless steel water bottle, and a stainless steel food container to review, I was psyched. [...]

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Equal Exchange Review and Giveaway

GIVEAWAY IS CLOSED I wrote about Fair Trade yesterday and told you that I was contacted to review some products by a company that does great work with numerous small farmers around the world. Let me introduce you to a worker-owned co-op called Equal Exchange Co-op, based in West Bridgewater, Massachusetts. It is founded by three visionaries who wanted to change the way food is produced and how the food [...]

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The Natural Dentist Review and Giveaway

Oral hygiene. I abhor talking about oral hygiene. I hate going to the dentist like going to my car mechanic. When my car mechanic tells me I need a new “timing belt” on my car, I wonder, “What’s a timing belt, and why do I need it?”. Similarly, I have no idea if I really do have a cavity as I try to squint to see a tiny opaque spot [...]

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Turnaround Design Product Review and Giveaway

GIVEAWAY IS CLOSED When Shannon Whealey of Turnaround Design contacted me to review her eco-friendly calendar, I was curious. I thought, “How can you make calendars eco-friendly? Calendars are the epitome of waste – once it’s used up, it’s garbage! You can’t reuse January of last year?” So, you can imagine the delightful smile on my face when I received the nicely packaged calendar printed on recycled paper in recycled [...]

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Ecostore’s Launch at Duane Reade in Herald Square, NYC

I don’t usually meet the people behind the products I review but I had a great opportunity to meet the wonderful people from Ecostore last Friday. Ecostore joined forces with Duane Reade in New York City (NYC) and it launched its line at the newest store on Herald Square, opposite from Macy’s on 34th Street and Broadway. Ecostore products will be in all Duane Reade stores in Manhattan beginning of [...]

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Ecostore Review, Giveaway, and the big launch at Duane Reade in NYC

I was so ready and eager to post this product review two weeks ago because I couldn’t wait to share it with you but then, I found out that Ecostore USA is coming to NYC!! I couldn’t believe it. Ecostore USA will be stocking up the green aisles at Duane Reade Drug Stores all over Manhattan. The big launch is next Friday, October 23, 2009 at it’s brand spanking new [...]

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Zero Water Filter Review

Like most Americans, I used to have bottled water delivered to my home and bought disposable water bottles to carry. That was a few years ago. Of course, I know better now so I don’t buy bottled water anymore but I don’t drink water straight out of the tap either. Why?….because my tap water is contaminated. No, I don’t live in a third world country without clean water. In fact, [...]

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EcoSMART – the safetest organic pesticide review and giveaway

Do you remember your first giveaway prize? Was it a beautiful jewelry? A hand knitted scarf? A tote bag? You know what mine was? A bug spray. Ant and Roach killer, to be specific. Yeah. I was really ecstatic. Seriously. It was truly my first prize I ever won. And I was really excited about it not just because it was my first prize, ever, but because the bug spray [...]

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Kids Konserve Waste Free Lunch System

I know you’ve been reading a lot about waste free lunch bags lately but I wanted to tell you about a particular company I really like. Why? It’s owned by a couple of caring mompreneurs who not only care about the health of your kids but also about the environment. The company is called Kids Konserve. The company carries a full line of waste free lunch system from bags, lunch [...]

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My Favorite Green Products

It’s only been recent that I have been able to find “natural” cleaning products in the local supermarket aisles. I don’t have to go to the “Green Market” to find them anymore. What’s even better, the prices have come down too. Even Clorox makes its own line of “Green Works” now. The big guns are catching up. Finally, they noticed what we want. This is a list of products I’ve [...]

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