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Around the Web with Peggy & Jennifer

Jennifer — Thu, 22 May 2008 20:15:05 +0000

So, it’s been awhile since we did one of these round-ups. We’re due. Here’s the green we’ve been writing elsewhere that may interest Tree Hugging Family Readers.

Building, buying, or remodeling your own green home:

Home & Living:

Architecture:

Baby:

Eco friendly baby shirts
Easy ways to go green with your baby
Organic baby clothing
Sweet organic baby tees
Happy summer organic baby finds
Cutest baby babble story ever – note that this is not so green, or even really useful for human parents, but it’s so darn cute I keep spreading it around. Sorry.

Work related:

Miscellaneous stuff:

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

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And the “You Make My Day Award” goes to…

Jennifer — Sun, 09 Mar 2008 17:00:25 +0000

Recently, Marye from Kettle & Cup was kind enough to give Peggy and I (and Tree Hugging Family) a “You Make My Day” award.

Marye awarded it to ten people, so Peggy and I are supposed to spread the love to ten new people. We decided the best thing to do would be for Peggy to award 5 people and ditto for me. The post right before this was Peggy’s award post, and she gave out some love to some great green bloggers.

Now I get to choose some worthy winners; and I think that I’m going to divert from greenies. Just for this post.

Let’s see now; who manages more often than not to make my day….

In no particular order:

Gayla from Supernanny Rules: Now, Gayla is a good friend to have, and an excellent blogger, but more importantly, she’s our kick %$@ Lifestyles Channel editor here at b5media. Which may lead you to believe that I’m a kiss up. But believe you me, I’ve had dozens of blog editors, and the bad ones make your life miserable day in and day out. The good ones make all my days easier. Since Gayla is one of the very best editors I’ve had, she’s getting an award.

Liberty aka the Snarkstress is getting an award because she always remembers to check in with me (even when I slack),she remembers the holidays, and little facts that matter. She’s one of those funny, real, always nice people that you’re lucky to get to know, so she’s getting one of my award slots.

MoCo Loco should get an award. I think that they have many bloggers, so I guess this award goes out to the blog in general. Mainly because I don’t think I’ve ever seen a bad post there. Every day I visit, it’s a great day. There’s a new house to drool over, some mod bookshelf/couch/plant stand I love, or just oodles of shiny artistic goodness.

Tracee from Blog Fabulous gets my next award. For mostly the same reason that I always mention her, she cracks me up – hard core. Not every day, some days she makes you think as well. I also think Tracee deserves the award because she shares. I’m a big blog sharer, I like to talk about my son, share pics, and info. Some bloggers shy away from sharing the more personal stuff, but Tracee always shares, and I really enjoy blogs like that.

Last but not least, miss Deb from various places, but maybe you know her from Simply Thrifty, gets an award. Deb may be the one blogger I talk to daily, and she’s always got something good to share. She sends me jobs, is an excellent cheerleader, and she pretty much gets where I’m coming from. She’s an all around great friend day in and day out so she obviously gets an award.

So, to everyone above, thanks for making my day – now it’s your turn to go and spread some award love.

Here are the original rules:

“Give the award to 10 people whose blogs bring you happiness and inspiration and make you feel happy about blogland. Let them know by posting a comment on their blog so they can pass it on. Beware you may get the award several times.”

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Green Link Love for the Week

Jennifer — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 02:43:55 +0000

What am I reading – and what should you be reading? Well…

25 Alternative Energy Strategies from a green blog I was just introduced to, Wise Living Journal. Very homestead related, which I adore.

Hilary over at Eco Friendly Driver is in a mood this week (that’s ok, so am I). She’s got some cool rants about why people can’t just work together to get one flippin’ safety bill passed and all the whining GM is doing lately about the Volt auto.

Keetsa has the scoop on eco-friendly buses.

If Valentine’s day leftovers have you asking,”How can I reuse or recycle chalky candy hearts?” Well, How Can I Recycle This? knows the answer.

The Not Quite Crunchy Parent has a great list of item names you may see in cosmetics and body care products and what they mean. Good if you’d like to have cleaner, greener, personal care.

And last but not least, Eco Child’s Play has an outstanding looking book that all green (and somewhat hippie) mamas need for their kids.

Enjoy.

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These are a few of my favorite things… at b5media

Jennifer — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 14:33:31 +0000

Something about me that most people don’t know is that I am seriously addicted to musicals. Seriously. Even the corny ones like Sound of Music — hence my holiday festive title.

Tuesday seems like a good time for some link love. I usually spread the love from all corners of the web but today I’m going to focus on b5media blogs because lately our network is overflowing with amazing posts. And now, on to the links…

Happy Joyful Links:

First up, maybe the most important posts you’ll read this whole holiday season are from Kate at Babylune. You may have noticed that yesterday I posted about Big Brothers & Big Sisters of America for Kate’s contest challenge, The Generous December Group Writing Project.

Kate’s goal is to get people writing about their favorite helpful organizations and charities. So far she’s done a great job and received many entries which she bundled together in easy to read packets. I highly suggest that you go take a look — Kate has a part one and a part two up. If you write a contest post you could be included in part three.

Please give a warm welcome links:

Two of my favorite girls in the blogsphere launched new blogs here at b5media this week. Please head over and give them a nice warm happy welcome. Both blogs are great holiday reads.

All Holiday Cafe: All holidays all the time! What a clever concept. My super swell pal Liberty is manning this blog so it will be amazing times infinity. You could be there from the start and why not; who knows what holiday you might be missing. You probably already missed “Eat a Red Apple Day” I’d head over before something worse happens.

Kettle and Cup: I already mentioned this one I believe, but it’s worth mentioning again. Coffee, tea, pots, and water; all kinds of coolness related to our favorite warm beverages. You’re going to need a drink to go with all the holiday cookies so go visit.

DYI Links:

Need ideas for stuff to do? b5media has got you covered.

Create a herb garden gift for a friend.
Make gingerbread men with the kiddos.
Make Champagne Bubbles! (what?)
Get those kids in the kitchen and make some cute treats.
Master gift buying for someone with Alzheimer’s disease.

Two links that rock my world:

Blog Fabulous says women are powerful in many forms and I agree. Do you?

13 Sources of Workplace Irritation: Very funny stuff; in a sure makes me glad I work at home kind of way. Although, oddly, even working online and at home you run into some of this stuff.

Shameless Self Promotion — plus win stuff just cause I like you link:

I’m having a month long contest at another blog of mine, Offbeat Homes. Why. No reason. Mainly, I guess, because I don’t do contests at Offbeat and since it is the holiday season and since I do adore my Offbeat readers I figured why not give stuff away. Think of it as a holiday spirit / reader appreciation deal. If you aren’t already an Offbeat reader you should be. Offbeat will liven your days with oddness, beauty, and form. Nice. Here’s a sneak peak of the kind of stuff you’ll see at Offbeat Homes…

What are you reading and loving? Let our green families know in the comments.

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Tasty Green Links

Jennifer — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 00:12:14 +0000

I’ve been saving up some green link love and figured it’s hump day so I’ll roll it out…

Frequent visitor and fellow green blogger Peggy from Light Green Stairs has an interesting read about something that you may not have considered when it comes to recycling.

Long-time favorite EcoStreet has 5 of the best green and ethical social networking sites — perfect for getting your social green groove on.

The Environmental News Network has the lowdown on new resources for carbon neutral shipping — with the holidays coming you can’t afford to miss it.

Resource Shelf is reporting on everything you need to navigate the new MSN Green Channel .

The next few links are all from the same place — but I can’t keep up. I think Deb at Simply Thrifty is trying to out-green me. That’s cool though; the more green the better. Some fine reads from her include:

33 Things You Can Recycle
How to install a rain barrel
And a post that everyone in the country should read right this second: What People Spend on Food. This post may seem more thrift minded than green minded but it’s super eco-important. Follow the links in Deb’s post to learn more. You will be astounded. Remember the first green step is use less and waste less.

By the way; you can actually get your very own lovey green heart dish like the one pictured above (or other cool pieces) from Firework Studio.

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