as my son gets bigger and louder everyday, i am forced to deal with the fact that he is not a baby any more. worse than that, i am forced to deal with a whole lot of baby items that are of no use any more. if you find yourself in a similar [...]

ok, cheesy tag line. but in light of all the stores i have been through recently that are already pushing the holiday to its maximum shopping days potential, i don’t think it’s too early to start planning a less wasteful holiday. can you think of one other holiday that produces so much garbage? [...]

want to do something simple to save energy? according to an article on thedailygreen.com, switching back to a corded phone from a cordless can save loads of electricity! the old-fashioned corded phones use only a tiny bit of energy that comes through the phone line, while their new fangled energy hog cousins use [...]

though i’ve seen many recipes for tofu nuggets, i prefer to make them with items i keep around the house. i invented this recipe for josiah because kids like foods they can eat with their fingers, and they LOVE to dip! today’s recipe: miso tofu nuggets! these take a little bit of [...]

it just occurred to me the other day that i have never mentioned my vegan “source of power”, as it were. i am speaking of the site vegweb.com, a user submitted vegan recipe site that will put thousands of yummy recipes with helpful reviews and tips at your fingertips. you see, when i [...]

i have been using an electric crock pot (slow-cooker) since my gramma bought me one as a wedding gift many moons ago. it has been a wonderfully useful tool, especially on sundays when no one wants to wait to eat after church, but we don’t want to spend the money to eat out. [...]

my own recipe, for those of us who love indian food but couldn’t cook it authentically to save our lives. this week: curried whole wheat couscous w. raisins & cashews! i made this to be fairly mild on purpose so that my son would have no trouble eating it (and he didn’t!), but [...]

perusing one of my favorite blogs (veganlunchbox), i came across a message from glueandglitter. if you know me, you know my crafting talent stops at knitting crooked scarves, but darn it, i LOVE crafts from people who know what they are doing! so is the case with the little lady who runs glueandglitter; [...]

ok, so i just recently gave you an awesome recipe for homemade play dough (anyone else try it yet?). i’m not trying to be redundant, but all kids and moms know there is a big difference between play dough and modeling clay. so for those times when you would like to have your [...]

just finished reading an interesting article on recycled oddities. as the first inspiring piece of literature i’ve come across in several weeks, i thought i would share with you some highlights:
HOTEL SOAPS – many large chain hotels and motels have starting recycling the old bits of soap you leave in the shower there by [...]