Category: Green Living

Green holiday gift wrapping

  I’m so excited about the wrapping for my gifts this year. Usually I stick with brown kraft paper or kraft paper wrapping with a holiday print on it so it can easily be recycled. Wrapping paper with shiny parts, foil, and glitter often cannot be recycled. Mindful Momma’s Instagram post inspired me. She wrote […]

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How to make a barn door

I have loved barn doors from afar for a while now. Eyeing them on Pinterest just wasn’t enough. So, when we got the chance to totally rethink our bedroom I found a way to work it in. As I mentioned in the bedroom reveal post, we wanted to have more space and the sliding doors […]

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Sam’s Stuff: Tacoma Artist, Blogger, and Etsy Seller

Connecting with other people and putting yourself out there is so important to growing your network, skills, and business. That’s why today’s blog post is featuring Sam’s Stuff – a local Etsy seller and blogger right here in Tacoma. Shelley and I met in an Etsy forum for Puget Sound sellers. We both love and […]

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Prepare for Summer Entertaining

This will be the nicest week of the year so far in the Pacific Northwest. With our wedding rehearsal being held at our house in about 5 months, we have been hard at work making our lawn, gardens, house, and garage look nice. Here are some ideas I’m thinking about implementing in our backyard – depending […]

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Happy Earth Day!

In undergrad, I was president of GREAN (grass roots environmental action now), which was the student environmental club. The project I was most proud to be part of was instituting the student green fee fund, which raises about $70,000 per year for green energy credits and sustainability projects. The first major project was subsidized Nalgene […]

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Cheese Grater Jewelry Holder DIY

This is an easy and useful project for your spare cheese graters.  Somehow we acquire many cheese graters and other small kitchen tools.  I hate throwing useful things away, so they either go the Goodwill or turned into a new use. Materials Cheese grater Paint Steel S-Hooks for Plants & Towels     Instructions All […]

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