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Motherlove Green Salve Giveaway

UPDATE: CONGRATS TO OUR WINNER, AMANDA!

About two weeks ago I received a sample from Motherlove Herbal Company to test. Motherlove just celebrated their 20th anniversary — they have been making natural, safe and effective products (without toxins!) for women since before any other company thought it was necessary. When you visit your favorite store today and [...]

Elderberries!!! Come with me to the Harvest!

I am so excited! Thanks to the wonderful people at Wildlands Inc. I have arranged for 10 lucky people to attend an elderberry harvesting field trip on one of their mitigation sites. “Wildlands is a habitat development, land management, and environmental planning company with projects throughout the Western and Southeastern United States. Established in 1991, Wildlands [...]

Week Night Reversible Dress

I have been wanting to make Claire this reversible Candy Stripes dress for about 3 months now. Ever since I got Absolutely A-Line: 1 Easy Pattern = 26 Adorable Dresses for Girls  But I kept putting it off. I don’t have the time to sit down a make a dress in one shot. Finally, I decided it [...]

Congrats! You’ve won Earth Mama, Angel Baby!

Congratulations Sandra! Claire has pulled your name out of the cup to win the Earth Mama, Angel Baby giveaway! I will send you an email with a link to redeem your prize. Thanks to everyone who participated.  For those of you who did not win, you can check out their wonder full products by CLICKING HERE. [...]

Mark’s Meat Matrix: Grass Fed Beef

First we got the chickens (CLICK HERE for Urban Chickens post), then we investigated GMO foods (CLICK HERE for Got GMO-free Milk post).  Now we are making a run at Grass-Fed Beef, local style.  After watching the “scare you away from McDonald’s” documentary called Food Inc. earlier this year, and reading Michael Pollan’s

The Omnivores [...]

Earth Mama, Angel Baby Giveaway

I was approached last month about doing a giveaway with Earth Mama, Angel Baby. I had seen their products on the shelves, but had never tried them. So I asked if I could get some samples to review before participating. (Earth Mama Angel Baby provided this product for my review at no cost.)  They sent me [...]

Father’s Day Potluck Bourbon BBQ

We celebrated an early Father’s Day with Mark’s family on Sunday with a great bourbon and cherry inspired potluck BBQ. Fresh organic cherries were only $3.00 per pound at the farmer’s market this week and we also have plenty of bourbon left over from Mark’s birthday dinner at the Grange restaurant in Sacramento, so I thought [...]

Sewing for Spring!

So about a month ago my friend Blithe (Hi, Blithe!) got together for a day of sewing! We were very focused and only stopped to pick up the kids at school and eventually to feed them dinner (sort of, Mark really helped out there). We each got about 80% of the way done with these cute [...]

Natural Spring Cleaning

For those of you who made it to the Natural Spring Cleaning Workshop at ArtBeast, thank you for coming. I really enjoyed meeting you. For those who could not make it I decided I would provide the basic information we went over in the workshop.

Basic Ingredients

Baking Soda: Baking Soda is slightly alkaline. It neutralizes acid based [...]

Natural Spring Cleaning Workshop

I am very excited to announce the very first Natural Mom, Healthy Child Spring Cleaning Workshop. This workshop will provide knowledge of some of the simplest and cheapest ways to clean your home naturally, without harsh chemicals and toxins. This is especially important for families that suffer from allergies and asthma. But we all could so [...]