Sustainable Luxury
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What I Learned about My Body after Pregnancy
Postpartum I expected to learn a lot about myself, as a mom of two, and my tiny best friends in our new family dynamic. What has really surprised me is how much I learned about the world around me, courtesy of my body after pregnancy, and how it relates to the world. I’ll say now, as I’ve said for the millionth time this year “I’ve been the same height and weight (give or take twenty pounds) since i was about 13”. I only find myself waxing poetic about this when I’m pregnant because the sudden weight gain always throws me for a loop. I literally can’t remember a time where…
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Cloth diapers for beginners, babes, and babies
Blame it on my hippie soul but even from the beginning, I’ve always wanted to cloth diapers. Albeit on a self-contained farm in view of a mountain range but my NYC apartments served the purpose in the end. There’s so much information on the internet about cloth diapers for beginners, however, I feel like a lot of it is aimed at people who are already deeply entrenched in the community. There’s a heap of cloth diapering lingo that to be honest I don’t have the energy to decipher while attempting to keep two babies alive. If you’re farther along in your journey to cloth diapers or have a specific question…
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Low Waste Living | Trying to raise a Zero Waste Baby
Whenever I think about the glitzy glam that is today’s Zero waste movement I’m moved to tears at just how much this way of living is just ingrained into the lives of immigrant families. There is a picture of my mom in a garden stooping down between a group of children, one of them is my little sister, three others I’ve long since lost contact with, they’re all wearing too-big-for-them-dresses that I have fond memories of playing in myself. Sustainability is now a flashy buzz word but the notion of being zero waste with my baby now just takes a bit of digging low down into my own memory banks.…
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How to be sustainable at home | Eco-friendly bedding
In these interesting new times, we’re spending more time and home and hopefully, more time cuddled up in bed burrowing into the bedding. After what feels like decades of co-sleeping we finally decided to spring for not only a big girl bed but an upgrade to our own situation. It’s been nearly a decade since either of us purchased bedding but it seems only right that its components should be in line with all our other sustainable home goods. So I set out in search of the most eco-friendly bedding. Eco-friendly mattress You spend so much of your time sleeping on your mattress. If you’re like me so much time…
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Baby essentials | Earth Friendly Baby Products for the First 3 Months
The product and gear essentials that you actually need for the first 3 months as a parent is pretty simple. You need a place to lay your baby and a way to carry your baby close to you and a way to feed them. Because honestly, for the first 3 months, your baby really only needs you, or a substitute for you. Choosing Earth friendly products ensures there will be a planet for your baby to pass on to their baby when the time comes. Basinet | I love this natural elephant grass basket Diaper bag| I’m against diaper bags, I’m anti uncute things I’m forced to wear because I’m…
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Sustainable Luxury | How to make conscious choices when shopping for clothing
The goal of the conscious clothing movement is to create a system that can be supported indefinitely in terms of human impact on the environment and social responsibility. It’s most often seen as an alternative trend against fast fashion, and in the perfect world, it would be. Sustainable fashion brands prioritize the sustainability of not only the planet but the people, as much as their bottom line. No one is inherently against these principles, The issue, for most people is that the entrance into the ethical fashion scene comes at a high price point, and rightfully so. Clothing costs more when people are conscious of the people who make it and the effect a…
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Making Zero Waste Handmade Christmas Gifts with Kids
After having so much fun making handmade Christmas decorations I decided to try my hand at making handmade Christmas gifts too. I scoured the internet to find handmade Christmas gift projects that would be fun to make for both adults and kids, and I’m so glad I did. Give these I want my daughter to feel the pride that comes from making something with your own hands. I want her to experience the joy that results from working to bring a smile to the face of others. But honesty Christmas coincides with winter break, which means plenty of free time to fill up with fun things like making handmade Christmas gifts…
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Sustainable Luxury | How to Buy Pre-owned Designer Bags
I love shopping second hand, and the only thing better than scoring preloved vintage dress is a preowned designer handbag. For many brands, the vintage quality far surpasses the current quality, making pre-owned designer bags a better value. For example, the quilting on preowned vintage Chanel is neater and thicker. Vintage Louis Vuitton monogram canvas is more durable. Elements that are considered “extra” now, such as leather lining, were standard in the past. The benefits of pre-owned designer bags go on and on. Having spent many years selling vintage clothing in a past life I’ve become quite familiar with pre-owned handbags and clothing. Now that the whole pre-loved market has…
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A Color Story | Curating Capsule Clothing
I’ve always liked the idea of capsule collections yet couldn’t get on board with them due to their commitment to being Normcore Porn. Every single example told me I needed the perfect T-shirt and black denim skinny jeans. In an effort to combat the need to join the buying frenzies that the holiday season kicks off I decided to compile a list of my core outfit staples. Low and behold my clothing chart began to form a capsule collection of sorts. I am a maximalist’s dream of minimalism. I want to live in a yurt by a ravine, with a trapdoor that leads to my high tech storage vault of…
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Sustainable Luxury | Build your own sustainability starter kit
In an alternate universe in another life, I’ll own a specialty, specialty store that only sells earth tone zero-waste essentials. I’ll read your palm or your tea leaves and glean exactly what you need for your own personalized sustainability starter kit. Till I step through the appropriate Stargate in order to make that happen I’ll just continue to build my own, and share what I’ve learned. I’ve scoured the internet and stared longingly at premade bundles of sustainable essentials, but they either cost more than I care to spend, don’t support my color story or they don’t have everything I want. As with all things, the key to building your…
