Saturday 25 April 2009
I'm lovin' Recycled Gems!
I couldn't help but notice that those awesome folk at Peopletree have brought out some fabulous recycled goodies in the form of kimono tops, dresses and jewellery. Check them out now(I'm lovin' the recycled newspaper & metal bead necklace; which would make an awesome gift for a female family member or girlfriend!
Wednesday 22 April 2009
Happy World Earth Day to All Earthlings(Be The Change You Want To See In The World:)!
An excerpt from Paramahansa Yogananda's revelatory commentary on the original teachings of Jesus.
'Be the change you want to see in the world' Gandhi
....The ordinary man thinks of the world,his family, and his work as his business; but the spiritual man knows that the duties to parents, children, family ties, the business world, and all else are to be carried out as service to God. Everyone should help to maintain the well being of the world by a universal consciousness of love and service, rather than a selfish man whose actions are compelled and actuated by instinctive blood ties and greed.
Businesses should be spiritulized; everything should be done with the consciousness of God within. Man should endeavour in his works to please God by harmonizing all things with His ideals. Businesses that conform with God's divine laws is of lasting benefit to mankind. Moneymaking enterprise that cater only to human luxury, and to false or evil propensities, are bound to be destroyed by the working of divine law of the survival of the worthiest. Any businesses that harms the real spiritual comfort of people does no real service, and is bound to meet with destruction by the very nature of activities.
A successful life must begin with spiriual culture, for all the material and moral actions are governed by spiritual laws. Noble parents, lovers of God, should wish the first interest of their children to be in God's business. They should start their children on the right road in life by showing them the way to be proficient in contacting God and doing all things with God-consciousness. A life can be successful, healthy and complete - balanced with wisdom and happiness-when activity is guided by God's inner intuitive direction.
In expressing the proper attitude toward his parents - that though duty to parents is important,it is secondary to one's first and foremost duty to the Heavenly Father - Jesus spoke not only of his own divine dispensation, but the truth that every man should remember: 'God first'.
Wise words expresed by the Yogi!
Love, light and abundant unlimited blessings to all:)
xoxoxoxoxo
'Be the change you want to see in the world' Gandhi
....The ordinary man thinks of the world,his family, and his work as his business; but the spiritual man knows that the duties to parents, children, family ties, the business world, and all else are to be carried out as service to God. Everyone should help to maintain the well being of the world by a universal consciousness of love and service, rather than a selfish man whose actions are compelled and actuated by instinctive blood ties and greed.
Businesses should be spiritulized; everything should be done with the consciousness of God within. Man should endeavour in his works to please God by harmonizing all things with His ideals. Businesses that conform with God's divine laws is of lasting benefit to mankind. Moneymaking enterprise that cater only to human luxury, and to false or evil propensities, are bound to be destroyed by the working of divine law of the survival of the worthiest. Any businesses that harms the real spiritual comfort of people does no real service, and is bound to meet with destruction by the very nature of activities.
A successful life must begin with spiriual culture, for all the material and moral actions are governed by spiritual laws. Noble parents, lovers of God, should wish the first interest of their children to be in God's business. They should start their children on the right road in life by showing them the way to be proficient in contacting God and doing all things with God-consciousness. A life can be successful, healthy and complete - balanced with wisdom and happiness-when activity is guided by God's inner intuitive direction.
In expressing the proper attitude toward his parents - that though duty to parents is important,it is secondary to one's first and foremost duty to the Heavenly Father - Jesus spoke not only of his own divine dispensation, but the truth that every man should remember: 'God first'.
Wise words expresed by the Yogi!
Love, light and abundant unlimited blessings to all:)
xoxoxoxoxo
Tuesday 21 April 2009
Be The Change YOU Want To See in The World(World Earth Day 22nd April 2009:)..............
Be The Change You Want To see in The World...........
In Celebration of the magnificence of Mother Earth we all need to pool our collective conscious energy together to minimize the effects of destructive human behaviour for our children's sake. The Polar ice caps are melting (life-blood to polar bears, penguins etc.) sea levels are rising, Temperatures are rising, droughts, storms, unusually colder temperatures and all other freaky weather is not the norm; it is the collective consciousness. We are also creating a constant stream of environmental homeless refugees.
WORLD EARTH DAY 22nd April 2009
'Wisdom become knowledge when it becomes your personal experience'
In Celebration of the magnificence of Mother Earth we all need to pool our collective conscious energy together to minimize the effects of destructive human behaviour for our children's sake. The Polar ice caps are melting (life-blood to polar bears, penguins etc.) sea levels are rising, Temperatures are rising, droughts, storms, unusually colder temperatures and all other freaky weather is not the norm; it is the collective consciousness. We are also creating a constant stream of environmental homeless refugees.
WORLD EARTH DAY 22nd April 2009
'Wisdom become knowledge when it becomes your personal experience'
Monday 20 April 2009
Gabriel Garcia Marquez has lived to tell the tale!
I've just finished reading one of Colombia's finest literary export's autobiographical memoirs, 'Living To Tell the Tale'. I found the prose and dialogue descriptively-smooth, fluid and sublime. This biography is a sheer delight from start to finish.
A simple Divine reading experience from this talented and sensitive much-beloved writer. I cannot praise this book highly enough. Go out and read it today!
A simple Divine reading experience from this talented and sensitive much-beloved writer. I cannot praise this book highly enough. Go out and read it today!
Saturday 18 April 2009
The Original Ecological and Biodegradable Cleanser from a Tree in India!
Completely natural & biodegradable. No excess packaging & No harmful waste products. Saves you money: More than 50% cheaper than other washing products & No need for fabric conditioner!
100% Natural Soap, great for washing Moon Times pads and panty liners!
Nut trees live up to 90 years. The wood and foliage are also used, making Soap Nuts a sustainably cultivated product. Our Soap Nuts are shipped from India reducing our carbon footprint through air miles. No processing goes into this product making if far more environmentally friendly than other ‘eco washing detergents’.
Allergy Free: Good for sensitive skin including eczema and psoriasis. No added perfume or chemicals at all! Great for gardeners: Soap Nuts have a mild insecticide, one of its uses in Ayurvedic medicine is for head lice, it is effective when sprayed on household and garden plants as a deterrent against bugs and insects.
How to Use Soap Nuts:
Place approximately 4-6 Nuts in the small cotton laundry bag and add to washing machine with laundry and wash as usual.
After washing place the bag in a small jar with a little water- essential oils can be added to give clothes a scent.
When fully used up Soap nuts can be composted. Also when possible store your soap nuts in a dry place, they may become sticky when damp, though this does not effect their performance.
My Verdict: They clean(and soften:) beautifully:)
100% Natural Soap, great for washing Moon Times pads and panty liners!
Nut trees live up to 90 years. The wood and foliage are also used, making Soap Nuts a sustainably cultivated product. Our Soap Nuts are shipped from India reducing our carbon footprint through air miles. No processing goes into this product making if far more environmentally friendly than other ‘eco washing detergents’.
Allergy Free: Good for sensitive skin including eczema and psoriasis. No added perfume or chemicals at all! Great for gardeners: Soap Nuts have a mild insecticide, one of its uses in Ayurvedic medicine is for head lice, it is effective when sprayed on household and garden plants as a deterrent against bugs and insects.
How to Use Soap Nuts:
Place approximately 4-6 Nuts in the small cotton laundry bag and add to washing machine with laundry and wash as usual.
After washing place the bag in a small jar with a little water- essential oils can be added to give clothes a scent.
When fully used up Soap nuts can be composted. Also when possible store your soap nuts in a dry place, they may become sticky when damp, though this does not effect their performance.
My Verdict: They clean(and soften:) beautifully:)
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Sunday 12 April 2009
Consumer Power!
I've seen the corpses: it's a cost I don't think anyone should pay for a £6 skirt
By LIZ HOGGARD
With high-street chains using cheap labour abroad to slash prices, fashion has become an ethical issue. Here, Safia Minney, head of green style label People Tree, gives Liz Hoggard the lowdown on the industry's dirty tricks and the real reason Jane Shepherdson left Topshop.
'SOME people think nothing of spending £600 on a handbag, then boast about spending only £6 on a Primark dress," Safia Minney, founder of ethical fashion label People Tree, tells me. "But it is changing. Where the average British woman once didn't fuADVERTISEMENTlly understand the whole labour rights issue behind fast [mainstream] fashion, she is now beginning to."
Once upon a time, eco fashion was all sludgy colours and hairy textures. But today Minney is looking radiant in a bright pink dress by the cult New York designer Thakoon. The Fairtrade cotton dress - designed exclusively for People Tree - is part of People Tree's new designer collection.
It's been a remarkable year for the label, voted one of Britain's coolest green brands by Vogue this month. Sales are growing by 40 per cent a year. Its clothes are stocked by Topshop and Timberland. Although it spends little on marketing and never pays celebrities to wear its clothes, you'll see Sienna Miller, Lily Cole and Minnie Driver in People Tree dresses.
And this summer Minney pulled off the fashion coup of the year by signing ex-Topshop supremo Jane Shepherdson as a consultant for the label. In fashion terms, People Tree is a minnow (this year's turnover will be £4 million) but this move left rivals reeling. Minney says Shepherdson will bring a funkier vibe to the collection. "Jane will keep pushing the boundaries forward with Fairtrade fashion. So we can provide livelihoods not just for 2,000 people, but hopefully for 20,000." Shepherdson has just appointed a new head designer for the label: Carole Robb, formerly of Boden and Monsoon.
We meet at the label's east London HQ, an airy loft space full of rails of wispy dresses and sculptural, ruffled shirts. Minney knows Fairtrade won't work if it's not gorgeous. Her core customers are female and aged 25 to 40. "Women tend to be the green consumers," she says.
Minney may be glamorous, but she is also uncompromising when it comes to labour rights. She believes we should put pressure on high-street chains to ensure workers are protected in factories in developing countries. "What's really exciting is that kids are now questioning the ethics of fast fashion. Whether it's my daughter of 11, or my son who's 14, there's a sense of: 'That ra-ra skirt at £2.50, it's less than a sandwich, isn't it mum? How do they make it?'"
For Minney to preach about the rights and wrongs of buying dirt-cheap clothes is easy. She is married to a wealthy banker, James, and never has to worry about clothing her children. Yet few can sniff at what she has achieved: a large number of her 63-strong staff, both here and in Japan, defected from international fashion companies, including an ex-manager from Ralph Lauren. "People are really cheesed off with incredibly short lead times, they're fed up with shouting at suppliers on the phone to deliver in unreasonable time frames, with terms and penalties that they know will undermine the person they're talking to. They want to work with integrity."
It is, she says, common practice for designers to cut up or burn a collection at the end of the season to maintain the brand value.
Her other great achievement, of course, is bagging Shepherdson. When she left Topshop last October, people assumed Shepherdson was piqued by her boss Philip Green's decision to give Kate Moss a design contract. But I couldn't help noticing she left shortly before a major investigation alleged that Green's clothing empire, Arcadia, used Third World sweatshops where migrant employees worked 70-hour weeks for 40p an hour. Green denied the allegations, asserting that the factories complied with Arcadia's code of practice.
Was Shepherdson (and Topshop's MD Karyn Fenn, who subsequently quit) sick of exploitative industry practices? Certainly Minney says they had talks about her joining the company a year and a half ago. "We met at the launch of the Fairtrade cotton mark in February 2006. At that point I suggested to her that we work together. We just corresponded, and she said, 'I'll come in for a cup of coffee,' and was very happy to come and help."
Minney knows first-hand the horror of the sweatshop. Accidents happen when corners are cut to keep prices down and employers flout basic health and safety regulations. "In 2005 I was in Bangladesh when the Spectrum factory collapsed. It was about 30 kilometres from the centre of Dhaka, and one of the contracted factories that was working and producing for Zara and other European brands. Seventy-four workers were killed and hundreds trapped under debris after the nine-storey building collapsed."
Poorly constructed on swampland, the building had been approved for four storeys, not nine. Previous worker complaints about cracks in the factory walls went ignored. After the tragedy, Inditex (Zara's parent company) ended up paying compensation to the families of the dead.
So people are dying to make a £6 skirt? She pauses carefully: "Having seen the pictures of crushed and bloody corpses in and around Dhaka, it's a cost I don't think anyone should be expected to pay just to make a skirt." By contrast, People Tree is all about using fashion as a development tool to help people on the bottom of the economic pyramid. It pays 50 per cent advance payments on orders so that small groups can trade. Its lead times are six to eight months, rather than the typical four to six weeks. The idea is for workers to be able to stay in their villages with their families, rather than move to the city and work in sweatshops. "It's about quality of life, in the same way it is for you and me," says Minney.
She has always been interested in green spending. "When I was 25 and got engaged, it was in the middle of the anti-apartheid movement, so you wouldn't buy your engagement ring with diamonds and gold from South Africa. You'd go to an antique store instead." It's not the kind of dilemma most of us grapple with, but Minney is in a privileged position. She married James and in 1989 they relocated to Japan because of his work. "I wanted to carry on buying organic food, being vegetarian, shopping for clothes in second-hand shops and recycling. But back then Japan was a very corporate, consumerist society. There was a stigma attached to any kind of green work."
It was very much a homegrown business. She went into labour with her son just after a shipment of Fairtrade goods had arrived from Bangladesh. And she took two days' maternity leave with both children. In 1997, she launched her People Tree fashion collection, using eco textiles. She designed the leaflets and catalogues, and even modelled the lingerie.
People Tree operated from her home for the first nine years. In 2001, they launched the label in the UK. Shoppers were starting to get to grips with Fairtrade and organic food, but the concept of an ecologically sound jumper was still radical. By 2004 it had a range in London's fashion-forward Selfridges store, which also stocks the likes of Alexander McQueen, Prada and Marc Jacobs. Prices are very accessible (T-shirts £12, dresses from £38). And the clothes are beautifully crafted. Minney hoots with triumph as I stand up and two buttons drop off my own (mass-produced) dress. "This makes me so excited to see because, you know, we struggle in the villages to make everything just right, and then you go into - I won't say where - and the buttonholes are tatty and it's selling for 400 quid."
Minney is convinced there is a growing hunger for Fairtrade fashion. Not only are consumers shocked by the dirty, unglamorous side of fashion, but clothes are a sensual pleasure: we want to know their provenance. "Consumer power is our only salvation, it really is," she says.
• www.peopletree.co.uk.
The full article contains 1394 words and appears in The Scotsman newspaper.Page 1 of 1
Source: The Scotsman
Location: Edinburgh
By LIZ HOGGARD
With high-street chains using cheap labour abroad to slash prices, fashion has become an ethical issue. Here, Safia Minney, head of green style label People Tree, gives Liz Hoggard the lowdown on the industry's dirty tricks and the real reason Jane Shepherdson left Topshop.
'SOME people think nothing of spending £600 on a handbag, then boast about spending only £6 on a Primark dress," Safia Minney, founder of ethical fashion label People Tree, tells me. "But it is changing. Where the average British woman once didn't fuADVERTISEMENTlly understand the whole labour rights issue behind fast [mainstream] fashion, she is now beginning to."
Once upon a time, eco fashion was all sludgy colours and hairy textures. But today Minney is looking radiant in a bright pink dress by the cult New York designer Thakoon. The Fairtrade cotton dress - designed exclusively for People Tree - is part of People Tree's new designer collection.
It's been a remarkable year for the label, voted one of Britain's coolest green brands by Vogue this month. Sales are growing by 40 per cent a year. Its clothes are stocked by Topshop and Timberland. Although it spends little on marketing and never pays celebrities to wear its clothes, you'll see Sienna Miller, Lily Cole and Minnie Driver in People Tree dresses.
And this summer Minney pulled off the fashion coup of the year by signing ex-Topshop supremo Jane Shepherdson as a consultant for the label. In fashion terms, People Tree is a minnow (this year's turnover will be £4 million) but this move left rivals reeling. Minney says Shepherdson will bring a funkier vibe to the collection. "Jane will keep pushing the boundaries forward with Fairtrade fashion. So we can provide livelihoods not just for 2,000 people, but hopefully for 20,000." Shepherdson has just appointed a new head designer for the label: Carole Robb, formerly of Boden and Monsoon.
We meet at the label's east London HQ, an airy loft space full of rails of wispy dresses and sculptural, ruffled shirts. Minney knows Fairtrade won't work if it's not gorgeous. Her core customers are female and aged 25 to 40. "Women tend to be the green consumers," she says.
Minney may be glamorous, but she is also uncompromising when it comes to labour rights. She believes we should put pressure on high-street chains to ensure workers are protected in factories in developing countries. "What's really exciting is that kids are now questioning the ethics of fast fashion. Whether it's my daughter of 11, or my son who's 14, there's a sense of: 'That ra-ra skirt at £2.50, it's less than a sandwich, isn't it mum? How do they make it?'"
For Minney to preach about the rights and wrongs of buying dirt-cheap clothes is easy. She is married to a wealthy banker, James, and never has to worry about clothing her children. Yet few can sniff at what she has achieved: a large number of her 63-strong staff, both here and in Japan, defected from international fashion companies, including an ex-manager from Ralph Lauren. "People are really cheesed off with incredibly short lead times, they're fed up with shouting at suppliers on the phone to deliver in unreasonable time frames, with terms and penalties that they know will undermine the person they're talking to. They want to work with integrity."
It is, she says, common practice for designers to cut up or burn a collection at the end of the season to maintain the brand value.
Her other great achievement, of course, is bagging Shepherdson. When she left Topshop last October, people assumed Shepherdson was piqued by her boss Philip Green's decision to give Kate Moss a design contract. But I couldn't help noticing she left shortly before a major investigation alleged that Green's clothing empire, Arcadia, used Third World sweatshops where migrant employees worked 70-hour weeks for 40p an hour. Green denied the allegations, asserting that the factories complied with Arcadia's code of practice.
Was Shepherdson (and Topshop's MD Karyn Fenn, who subsequently quit) sick of exploitative industry practices? Certainly Minney says they had talks about her joining the company a year and a half ago. "We met at the launch of the Fairtrade cotton mark in February 2006. At that point I suggested to her that we work together. We just corresponded, and she said, 'I'll come in for a cup of coffee,' and was very happy to come and help."
Minney knows first-hand the horror of the sweatshop. Accidents happen when corners are cut to keep prices down and employers flout basic health and safety regulations. "In 2005 I was in Bangladesh when the Spectrum factory collapsed. It was about 30 kilometres from the centre of Dhaka, and one of the contracted factories that was working and producing for Zara and other European brands. Seventy-four workers were killed and hundreds trapped under debris after the nine-storey building collapsed."
Poorly constructed on swampland, the building had been approved for four storeys, not nine. Previous worker complaints about cracks in the factory walls went ignored. After the tragedy, Inditex (Zara's parent company) ended up paying compensation to the families of the dead.
So people are dying to make a £6 skirt? She pauses carefully: "Having seen the pictures of crushed and bloody corpses in and around Dhaka, it's a cost I don't think anyone should be expected to pay just to make a skirt." By contrast, People Tree is all about using fashion as a development tool to help people on the bottom of the economic pyramid. It pays 50 per cent advance payments on orders so that small groups can trade. Its lead times are six to eight months, rather than the typical four to six weeks. The idea is for workers to be able to stay in their villages with their families, rather than move to the city and work in sweatshops. "It's about quality of life, in the same way it is for you and me," says Minney.
She has always been interested in green spending. "When I was 25 and got engaged, it was in the middle of the anti-apartheid movement, so you wouldn't buy your engagement ring with diamonds and gold from South Africa. You'd go to an antique store instead." It's not the kind of dilemma most of us grapple with, but Minney is in a privileged position. She married James and in 1989 they relocated to Japan because of his work. "I wanted to carry on buying organic food, being vegetarian, shopping for clothes in second-hand shops and recycling. But back then Japan was a very corporate, consumerist society. There was a stigma attached to any kind of green work."
It was very much a homegrown business. She went into labour with her son just after a shipment of Fairtrade goods had arrived from Bangladesh. And she took two days' maternity leave with both children. In 1997, she launched her People Tree fashion collection, using eco textiles. She designed the leaflets and catalogues, and even modelled the lingerie.
People Tree operated from her home for the first nine years. In 2001, they launched the label in the UK. Shoppers were starting to get to grips with Fairtrade and organic food, but the concept of an ecologically sound jumper was still radical. By 2004 it had a range in London's fashion-forward Selfridges store, which also stocks the likes of Alexander McQueen, Prada and Marc Jacobs. Prices are very accessible (T-shirts £12, dresses from £38). And the clothes are beautifully crafted. Minney hoots with triumph as I stand up and two buttons drop off my own (mass-produced) dress. "This makes me so excited to see because, you know, we struggle in the villages to make everything just right, and then you go into - I won't say where - and the buttonholes are tatty and it's selling for 400 quid."
Minney is convinced there is a growing hunger for Fairtrade fashion. Not only are consumers shocked by the dirty, unglamorous side of fashion, but clothes are a sensual pleasure: we want to know their provenance. "Consumer power is our only salvation, it really is," she says.
• www.peopletree.co.uk.
The full article contains 1394 words and appears in The Scotsman newspaper.Page 1 of 1
Source: The Scotsman
Location: Edinburgh
Friday 10 April 2009
Happy Easter Everyone(Enjoy your fish / veggie supper:)!
I've just finished reading an extraordinary account of one man's awe-inspiring strengh and vision to promote peace and harmony through education. A 'must-read' book that would leave an eternal / infinite impression on the reader. A most inspirational read indeed! If you read one book this year, read this lovely heart-warming story; you'll be glad you did! Ultimately, it's a deeply spiritual and riveting book full of determination, love, compassion and hope. Greg Mortenson is a avid mountaineer / explorer who courageously conquers mountains quite literately(I loved it:)!
A book for everyone to enjoy(Including non-Muslims, as it give you a understanding to what the true meaning of Islam is really about; love, respect and compassion to all:)
and something for the little people:
Shanti: The Grass-eating Lion www.grasseatinglion.org
A book for everyone to enjoy(Including non-Muslims, as it give you a understanding to what the true meaning of Islam is really about; love, respect and compassion to all:)
and something for the little people:
Shanti: The Grass-eating Lion www.grasseatinglion.org
Thursday 9 April 2009
Remeember! Remember! World Fair Trade Day 2009(You can make a difference:)!
World Fair Trade Day 09 May 09
The impact you make is immense.
A simple thing like buying a product has consequences far beyond feeding your family, making you feel good or giving you something new to talk about. Buying a product, whether it's the fruit of one person's labour or the result of super-efficient mechanization is a vote for the organization that provided you with the product.
To you it’s just a banana, just a T-shirt, or just a bar of soap; to a business it's a response to consumer demand, and money in the bank for investors. But poverty, climate change and financial crisis are the result of the products we buy and the businesses we choose to support.
If you buy Fair Trade products, change becomes inevitable. It's not complicated - if it were there wouldn't be so many powerful businesses in the world. You are powerful. You are the change. You already knew that, didn't you?
World Fair Trade Day 2009 is a salute to the people and organizations who have dedicated themselves to making Fair Trade what it is today, a solution not an issue. Fair Trade is not just about poverty, it's a solution to poverty, Fair Trade is not just about climate change, it's a solution to environmental degradation and bad practice. Fair Trade is not just about protest, it's about change. Change that’s long overdue.
World Fair Trade Day 2009 is dedicated to you and the positive impact you can make in your community, through local and global events, that unite people and opinion, in a voice that can be heard wherever you are, whoever you are. Grassroots to G8.
It’s a Big Day for the Planet. Unite with millions of people and be the powerful voice of positive change. Tell the world you want an end to poverty, an end to climate change and the beginning of sustainable living. World Fair Trade Day is your global stage.
A Big Day for the Planet. 09 May 09
The impact you make is immense.
A simple thing like buying a product has consequences far beyond feeding your family, making you feel good or giving you something new to talk about. Buying a product, whether it's the fruit of one person's labour or the result of super-efficient mechanization is a vote for the organization that provided you with the product.
To you it’s just a banana, just a T-shirt, or just a bar of soap; to a business it's a response to consumer demand, and money in the bank for investors. But poverty, climate change and financial crisis are the result of the products we buy and the businesses we choose to support.
If you buy Fair Trade products, change becomes inevitable. It's not complicated - if it were there wouldn't be so many powerful businesses in the world. You are powerful. You are the change. You already knew that, didn't you?
World Fair Trade Day 2009 is a salute to the people and organizations who have dedicated themselves to making Fair Trade what it is today, a solution not an issue. Fair Trade is not just about poverty, it's a solution to poverty, Fair Trade is not just about climate change, it's a solution to environmental degradation and bad practice. Fair Trade is not just about protest, it's about change. Change that’s long overdue.
World Fair Trade Day 2009 is dedicated to you and the positive impact you can make in your community, through local and global events, that unite people and opinion, in a voice that can be heard wherever you are, whoever you are. Grassroots to G8.
It’s a Big Day for the Planet. Unite with millions of people and be the powerful voice of positive change. Tell the world you want an end to poverty, an end to climate change and the beginning of sustainable living. World Fair Trade Day is your global stage.
A Big Day for the Planet. 09 May 09
More Blessings!
Breastfeeding / baby wearing / co-sleeping AKA natural instinctive nurturing parenting!
Greg Mortensen
Rainbows
Rain
Three Cups of Tea
Good books / reading material (see above:)
Natural resources
Greg Mortensen
Rainbows
Rain
Three Cups of Tea
Good books / reading material (see above:)
Natural resources
To All Book-lovers Everywhere(Three Cups of Tea:)!
I've just started reading an extraordinary account of one man's awe-inspiring strengh and vision to promote peace and harmony through education. A book that would leave an eternal / infinite impression on the reader. A most inspirational read indeed! If you read one book this year, read this lovely heart-warming story; you'll be glad you did!
and something for the little people:
Shanti: The Grass-eating Lion www.grasseatinglion.org
and something for the little people:
Shanti: The Grass-eating Lion www.grasseatinglion.org
Tuesday 7 April 2009
Blessings!
Apples(Green)Alpine air A line dresses / skirts Amphibians Animals apricots Boat-neck tops(so so flattering and comfortable to the female form) Amelie Asanas almonds Amitabh Buchan(Bollywood Legend:) Alessandro / Alessandro / Alex Afrika
Beaches Bananas Blueberries Big cats Blow Monkeys Boo Radleys Brigh Colours Bono Babies buckwheat Bollywood Movies Bible Board games
Cats curries children playing Creativity Chanting
Donkeys Dancing Queen Deepak Chopra pooches(especially Labradors)Dancing Dame Anita Roddick Divine provenance
Elephants Essential oils
Fish 'n' chips Frilly shirt dresses Floppy hats Faith in Nature Fairtrade Fig Trees Fuchsia fun-loving folk
Green vegetables Good Businesses Good friendships Green Tree Frogs Gandhi Good Health
Holidays! Madonna's 'Holiday' Happy Mondays Hemp(so versatile:)House Plants
India Icecream
Jean genius Jasmine Jennifer
Kelp from the sea Koalas Katherine
Love cats Little Miss Sunshine Last Christmas LBD fresh Lillies languages Left-handed males(nuff said:)Lemon Groves
Mary Jane's(Traditional flat with 1" strap and not the modern stiletto type; a moderate block dainty heel is acceptable:) Meryl Streep Mothers everywhere Meditation Mother Theresa
Nice Lovely people:) Naturalist's Rocks! New Zealand Nuts Leala Natural Remedies
Oranges Opal Olives Olive Oil Organic Cotton Oprah Orangutans other half! Olivia
Peaches Plums Pears St Paddy's Day Polka dots Peopletree Preppy Style Pinafore Dresses Princess Diana prince purple Prince William / harry
Quran
Tropical Queensland Tropical Fruitworld
Roses Raspberries Reforests Richard Gere Rewarding Job / Work
Smocks(so comforting:) Savage Garden summer halter tops / dresses Sir Bob Safia Minney Seventies Flares / Era / Culture sunshine singing sabbath Steve Irwin Scrabble
Tea Trainers Thelma & Louise Tambourine Mountain Tunic dresses with big front pockets Trees The Colour Purple The Alchemist Torah
US President Obama and his lovely wife and First Lady, Michelle! U2 Universal God
Victorian buildings Veggie curries Van Morrison Vanilla pods Vijay
Water Wham! William Bradley Pitt
Xylophone
Yellow sunny yellow:) Yoga
Zebra Zesty colours
Beaches Bananas Blueberries Big cats Blow Monkeys Boo Radleys Brigh Colours Bono Babies buckwheat Bollywood Movies Bible Board games
Cats curries children playing Creativity Chanting
Donkeys Dancing Queen Deepak Chopra pooches(especially Labradors)Dancing Dame Anita Roddick Divine provenance
Elephants Essential oils
Fish 'n' chips Frilly shirt dresses Floppy hats Faith in Nature Fairtrade Fig Trees Fuchsia fun-loving folk
Green vegetables Good Businesses Good friendships Green Tree Frogs Gandhi Good Health
Holidays! Madonna's 'Holiday' Happy Mondays Hemp(so versatile:)House Plants
India Icecream
Jean genius Jasmine Jennifer
Kelp from the sea Koalas Katherine
Love cats Little Miss Sunshine Last Christmas LBD fresh Lillies languages Left-handed males(nuff said:)Lemon Groves
Mary Jane's(Traditional flat with 1" strap and not the modern stiletto type; a moderate block dainty heel is acceptable:) Meryl Streep Mothers everywhere Meditation Mother Theresa
Nice Lovely people:) Naturalist's Rocks! New Zealand Nuts Leala Natural Remedies
Oranges Opal Olives Olive Oil Organic Cotton Oprah Orangutans other half! Olivia
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Friday 3 April 2009
Good Businesses and a Jolly Good Bargain to boot!
Peopletree 'Bora Aksu' pinafore dress(A girl can't go wrong with this wardrobe classic and so versatile staple too:)for a bargain price of GBP £35.00(Original recommended retail price 95.00)at asos.com(The very last one too:). Even more fitting as this will be my very last clothing purchase online(Compared with the average gal I don't have closet's full of garments, but I do have enough stuff!
In my lifetime, I would love to see ALL(well the majority really:) businesses to be GOOD BUSINESSES(Big up Peopletree:). Check them out (and the dress:) at: peopletree.co.uk!
Love, light and unlimited blessings to all blessings to all beings:)
In my lifetime, I would love to see ALL(well the majority really:) businesses to be GOOD BUSINESSES(Big up Peopletree:). Check them out (and the dress:) at: peopletree.co.uk!
Love, light and unlimited blessings to all blessings to all beings:)
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