Look at these placemats!

The new Eco-Ware line from Lightly – 100% recycled cork and rubber placemats and coasters. Heat resistant, made of reconstituted wine corks, biodegradable, and lovely. In fact, so lovely I think you could even use them for your green wedding! Designs include Tree, Club, and Sophia – all are very cool, but I like the tree design above best.

Sophia coasters and mats:

See, I always told everyone that brown is beautiful – why everyone goes for red and blue is beyond me. See many more amazing objects at Lightly.

Click here to learn about all the current contests, themes, and green challenges going on at Tree Hugging Family in May 2008[images via Lightly]

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Ok, so in reality Kelly is a nice, non-scary sort of Tree Hugging Lunatic, a person who designs cool stuff like shirts, reusable bags, and mugs, but it just sounds so cool to say lunatic (how often do you get to use this fun word).

Check out this awesome shirt from Tree Hugging Lunatic… (I picked the one I would get – I like tanks, but they also have tees, sweats, and much more).

Check out the quote on the shirt, “We are here on Earth to do good to others. What the others are here for, I don’t know.” Too funny, and often, to be frank, how I feel on a bad day.

I also maybe need a ringer like this. My last cool ringer tee was some crazy thrift store find that said SPEEDO. I loved it but worse, all my friends loved it. Everyone loved it so much that people would steal it and borrow it (guys and gals). Long story short, my poor cool fave ringer died long before it’s time. This one would do because I love ringers and I love trees. Plus I look nice in yellow

Now, here’s what I suggest to Tree Hugging Lunatic. Get some sustainable fabrics going on! Maybe some earth friendly dyes. ASAP. They have some organic choices, but none that I liked as much as the ones above. It would be cool to have an all organic company going on here. However, sometimes words are good. And don’t forget small steps are so much better than none at all. Plus, it’s fun to see someone having so much fun with eco topics.

Visit Tree Hugging Lunatic to see all their products.

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You can actually change it up just like a real bonsai; only this of course you don’t clip or water. Or, at least I wouldn’t recommend it. My favorite part is actually the cardboard dish.

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Now, obviously dressing in earth friendly clothing is only one small step. But if your tee, or in this case your little one’s outfit gets someone thinking than that’s a good deal. Plus how cute are baby tree huggers?

All of these baby items are organic and ultra cool so if your family has some tiny tree huggers (or are expecting some) I’d hit this shop. These outfits would also make great baby shower gifts.

Organic Think Green Onezie on sweet pea

Organic Cotton Treehugger Onezie on forest or sky blue

Organic Cotton Love Your Mama Baby Onezie

Don’t know a little — no worries. Soul Flower has clothing for the older of us and also neat gifts.

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Still, I had to say something because the first thing I thought of when I saw these was “how cool” and the absolute second thought to flash in my mind was, “Snarkstress will hate these.”

Now about the dresses. Both are wedding dresses from Threadhead Creations a company that makes eco-clothing to die for. Really. There is this one skirt there that I may die if I don’t get… but I digress.

This first one, Daydream, is a little bright for me but so great if you really want a full-fledged hippie kind of tree-hugging wedding. Sure you can get an eco-wedding dress without the tree; but that wouldn’t make you die-hard now would it. The Daydream dress shown below is a hemp/silk raw blend with a silk lining but you can have it custom made in other fabric choices as well such as organic cotton or bamboo twill. The back has a panel the color of the sky but you can change that up as well. In fact one of the best things about Threadhead Creations is their willingness to customize to your vision of perfect.

I do like the second dress, the Strapless Landscape Dress quite a bit. For a wedding dress featuring a tree I’m not sure they could have done better. This one is shown in ivory hemp/silk charmeuse and lined in 100% silk. Here are the stats on the beautiful front panel:

“The landscape panel was handcrafted using many lovely colors of hemp/silk charmeuse. Over forty pink blossoms accent the intertwined tree limbs. The flowers are sewn to the dress only in the center, allowing the petals to add texture and dimension. Small glass pearls and swarovski crystals accent the center of each blossom; each bead was sewn on by hand.”

I think it’s very pretty. And a nice choice for tree-hugging brides. In any case whether you’d wear them or not the idea and fabrics are wonderful ideas.

Alas, in case you don’t agree why not visit some other great b5media fashion blogs (and by great I mean the ones I adore, but you’ll love them too).

• First, shout out to the afore mentioned Snarkstress – visit her for some fun looks at fashion disasters with a splash of sarcasm (and vodka). Seriously visit; maybe she’ll go easy on me for the dresses.
• Chic By Nature features clothing and accessories that do tree huggers proud. It’s all eco-fashion all the time! A really wonderful green-minded blog.
• I also like visiting The Daily Tee when I’m in a casual mood (most of the time). Who knew how much fun a blog about tees could be?
• If you have little kids you have got to visit Style Tots. Too much good kid clothing for just one visit.
• Lastly if you have kids in their tweens or (gasp) teens you will have to check out Teen Style Lounge. You’ll find that this blog is a safe place to direct your fashion minded teens to. It helps to know where they’re shopping.

Now, if you were a fashion blog what would be your title?

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Here’s a view of the whole tree tower: 

And there are tiny sleeping branches!

You can get it with leaves, flowers, and butterflies as well. Learn more at Sitting Pretty Kitty.

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Just amazing. Props go to The Design Blog, a site that always has cool items like this up and available for your viewing pleasure.

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Imagination in Metals is a company in Florida whose tag line is, “If you can imagine it…We can create it” which I whole heartedly believe. They create beautiful hand crafted wrought iron designs for homes and other places and also completed some specialty tree projects and here are three I love.

Tree of Life Designed in Copper, Iron and Glass

A lovely gate

And such a cool staircase…

Visit Imagination in Metals to see more.

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Design Milk suggests it would be perfect for a child’s room which is a great idea. It does look kind of cool with the green books — sadly I fear my book collection is a tad less green and more eclectic in color.

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I LOVE it, but you do not want to know how much it costs.

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