Romance on a budget

I’m happily away from home right now. I’m back at my parents for a short break and I’m enjoying every minute of it. Only problem is, my husband isn’t.  He isn’t here with me, he’s back home and it’s become quite obvious he hates being at home alone...So he’s cut me a deal, if I cut my trip short by 2 days he’ll have a surprise waiting for me at home!

Well it does sound more like bribery but I’m not complaining. In fact I have an elaborate ...

Banana Silk

Bananas...when you hear that word what comes to mind? Are your thoughts drifting somewhere along the lines of:

1.    Monkeys swinging from a tree 2.    Tropical paradise where banana trees form a beautiful silhouette of fans 3.    Yummy sensational ice-cream 4.    A dieter’s friend or foe – depending on if you’re a fan of carbs and the banana diet or not
But what if I told you ...

Eco Shopping Bags

Shopping bags...you really can’t do without them unless you plan on hand carrying/juggling your groceries. Plastic makes them light and convenient but hardly a good thing on the environment. Sure there’s the bio-degradable plastic bags option but avoidance/reduction of the overall use of plastic bags is still the best. So we turn to reusable bags...but how many among us are turned off reducing our use of plastic by carrying those green coloured bags with the large recycling logo printed on it (not implying that plastic bags look ...

10 things to Reduce, Reuse & Recycle in your Kitchen (Contd)

Continuing from yesterday, here are the other 6 items you can green from your kitchen:

5. Coffee Grounds
Coffee is safely assumed to be a must in any normal household (it’s a generalisation, not implying that you aren’t normal if you don’t have any at home) and that generates pounds of waste grounds each month. So instead of letting it all go to the landfill, why not use it in your garden. Coffee grounds make great fertilizers and are excellent for rose bushes.

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10 things to Reduce, Reuse & Recycle in your Kitchen

Reduce, reuse and recycle. Those are the simple and golden rules of green living. Yet when people think of saving the environment, it has to be through huge acts such as volunteering to clean up wildlife after oil spills. But fact of the matter is, oil spills don’t happen every day (thank goodness!) and they aren’t exactly the main contributors of pollution or deterioration of nature either. The real problem lies with our daily lives and how we are insensitive towards the knowledge ...

Recycling Spectacles

Let us face facts, the modern society of today and our youths do not have great vision. Children as young as 5 are walking around with spectacles powered to 300! I’m not an expert on the matter and by no means an eye specialist but I think that’s pretty severe vision deterioration for a child. But that’s quite beside the point I’m trying to strike out here today.

The idea here is that many people need vision correction or vision aid. It’s a worldwide epidemic in its own right and that just means thousands of people across the globe wear spectacles. And what was ...

What's Holistic anyway?

Are you puzzled by the word Holistic? You see it everywhere, almost as though it were a prefix/adjective  to every single noun out there– Holistic Medicine, Holistic Food, Holistic Nutrients, Holistic Interior Design...the list is endless. But what exactly does it mean?

Honestly I used to think it was just about using everything natural – you know all without added chemicals etc but instead turning to herbs, plants, flowers (basically all things botanical) for the solution. But one thing got me thinking, if Holistic ...

The Free Samples Post

Have you ever found yourself in this same situation - you know the one where you are completely sold by the promises and representations of manufacturer over the super abilities of their product only to find that they don't quite work for you? Well I do and you have no idea how many times I'm bought over by packaging- fancy unique packaging and I'm not just talking about conventional products, I'm also talking about eco-friendly ones.

So what’s the one true way to find out if something will work the wonders it claims – have it tried out. But that will prove quite the expensive ...

Eco Irons

If you are as good as I am at ironing then you know you just hate this chore. It’s not that I’m not connected with my inner domesticated side, it’s just that I’m really bad at it. I takes me between 15-30 minutes to iron out a shirt and let me confess that even then it will not be a perfect press.

Under normal circumstances I’d tell myself so what if you can’t iron well and it’s okay to be lousy at it but thinking it through that’s not exactly true. Gone are the days when we used coal, gas ...

Plant Love - Colours for your lips

Take a peek into a woman’s handbag and chances are, 9 out of 10 times you are going to find a tube of lipstick amongst some many other colouring tools. And as important as cosmetics has become in the lives of the fairer sex today, lipstick has made its’ mark as a basic foundational need in the cosmetics family. Women generally own some ‘colour’ with the most common being lipstick.

And often enough these luscious lip colours come packaged in the most amazing tubes – plastic tubes ...