Holiday De-lights

Go green (or blue or red or whatever color-darlings!) this holiday with LED Christmas lights! They use 90% less energy and you know we need to conserve any way we can!

Oh-So San Francisco Style

So urban hippie chic, Geren Ford is SF's casual-yet-modern-and-earthy style epitomized.

We Scream for Jam!

{ Quick tip for a gorgeous Easter brunch }

Make some pancakes, simple scones or biscuits, then load up on June Taylor organic jams! With flavors like Clementine, Meyer Lemon & Rose Geranium and Rangpur Lime, you'll want to get an assortment for your goodies! And they're from Berkeley!

Favorite Coffee: Small-Batch, Organic, Local

+

= BLISS

Get ready for an undull Easter brunch! Serve your coffee the best way, use a French press like this sleeky chic one from Frieling. It makes having coffee so special! Plus, I love love love local, organic Blue Bottle Coffee {use with the French press!}. Deliciously blissful!!

Favorite Designer

This is Anki. She is a designer. A really really good designer. She lives in New York and makes completely, insanely quality blankets and bedding for kids. Oh, and it's all organic, too. Thank you Anki!

Eco-Fabulous Club

How hot is this idea? Matt Damon recently joined GreenDimes. You can, too.

Here's what it is. For $20, GreenDimes will stop 90% of your junk mail AND plant five trees.

This membership is a gift that keeps on giving!

Eco-Fabulous Tip of the Day

Save the trees! It's SO brilliantly easy.

From now on, whenever you are at the ATM or gas pump, simply decline the receipt. Your transaction is not forever lost. It will show up on your statement!

Save Trees with These

During meals, use cloth napkins (like these from Gumps) or hand towels for the little ones. If they aren't too dirty, I re-use them to wipe the counters in the kitchen. Double duty!

Eliminating one napkin or paper towel daily is a huge tree saver!

Clean House, Clean Planet

Do you (like me) have any leftover Xmas boxes filled with those ultra-annoying styrofoam peanuts?

Here's what you do:

Return them to UPS or any mailbox service store. They'll take them and reuse them. Simple!

Clean Right: No More Nasty Cleaners

Method is another local company with products I adore.

I use the all-purpose cleaner at my home and commercial kitchen. { Pink grapefruit and french lavender are my favorite scents! }

Clean Right: No More Nasty Cleaners

Did you know that when you turn on the heat in your home, the air can become a cocktail of all the cleaning products that you use?

Not my kind of cocktail, that's for sure!

Now is the time to go non-toxic! Here's a local SF company doing their part:

Shaklee has been selling their products for over 50 years! S.F. young "it" couple, Roger & Sloan Barnett, loved the products so much they bought the company! For the rest of this month, you'll get 33% off their products. Love love love that.

Fresh Start: For the Kitties and Pooches

GIVE THIS

TO ME!

Here's such a simple solution to all those once-loved towels, sheets, and worn blankets: Donate them to your local vet or humane society! They'll keep the furry friends, like Pixie, so super comfy.

Fresh Start: Share the Warm Fuzzies

I have two kids born 19 months apart. During my cleaning purge, I discovered an excess of 50 gorgeous baby blankets, like this one from minky. Now that Luca is two years old, I decided to set them free!

So I donated them to his preschool. Now there are more than enough warm snugglies for naptimes.

Ahhhhh.

Fresh Start: Give Clothes a New Home

Time to clean out your wee ones' drawers, girlfriends!

Then donate to local charities or give the kids' nice clothes to friends' kids. { People line up to receive Milan's designer duds! }

Fresh Start: Bye-Bye Hangers, Bye-Bye

Here's another simple tip:

After cleaning the closets, return all those dry cleaner hangers back to the dry cleaner! 

Fresh Start: Purge is the Word!

Something about all those new presents needing places in my bulging closets and drawers is enough to give me a nervous breakdown! So, purge is the word! 

Here's a fabulous eco-tip: Take those heavy duty boxes (my favorites: Tiffany's and Louis Vuitton boxes -- yes, Santa rocks!) and store breakable ornaments and family photos that have been shoved in the drawers. (I also put baby books and photo albums in these fabulous and totally reusable boxes. Perfect!)

Best Bag: Shop In Style

Yes, these are shopping totes!! Be eco-conscious and fashionably fabulous with these from oromono. Love love love love!