Celebrate Green Blog

by Lynn If you read this blog, you know that our focus is almost 100% on green and eco-issues, but we do make exceptions and our review of the iSafe bag line is one of them. Why? We believe whole-heartedly in supporting eco-friendly choices and companies. But as we like to say, you have to start somewhere [...]

I used to buy frozen French toast sticks for my boys. They were easy to heat up, and the boys loved them. Then I started reading nutrition and ingredient labels. High fructose corn syrup and a host of unpronounceable ingredient names made me think twice about buying them (take a look at the ridiculously long [...]

by Lynn and Corey Even though we’re not big shoppers, we love going to trade and craft shows where we discover clever or new-to-us ideas by people who are moving toward sustainability. Last year, at one show, we came such a company, Namaste Glass. Loved the name and loved that they are making glass items on their [...]

by Lynn Watch out! I’m on my soapbox today! I’m 65 years old and delighted to be alive. Unfortunately, many friends didn’t make it this far, so I refuse to complain–much. But something has me a bit upset lately. It’s the lack of eco-friendly styles and clothing for women of a certain age and accompanying–normal, if [...]

This standing up in front of the world and admitting my addiction to shopping bags has proved to be therapeutic in many ways, but mostly because fellow bagaholics have come out of the woodwork! Thanks to all of you who read posts 1 or 2 in this series and along with me, admit that you [...]

I am still on my slow cooker in the summer kick. If you remember a few weeks ago, I shared with you a recipe for Slow Cooker French Dip that my family loves. The slow cooker is on right now making something for tonight’s dinner, but that’s not what I’m going to tell you about [...]

If you remember a couple of weeks ago, I told you about the abundance of basil growing in my garden. I’ve made countless caprese salads and lots of pesto. Now it’s time to start thinking about preserving some of the basil as well as the chives, parsley and mint in my garden before it all [...]

I planted lavender almost as soon as we moved into our house five years ago. But in all these years, I’ve never cut any except to grace a few bouquets. Inspired by our recent visit to Purple Haze Lavender Farm (lots more about that to come), this evening, I went out to cut some. Four [...]

I thought I’d share with you one of my family’s all time favorite meals today. I’ve been doing a lot of seasonal recipes lately, but this is one that can be made year round. I really hate heating up my kitchen in the summer to cook, so I’ve take to using my slow cooker not [...]

One of the first people we “met” online when we were first starting our Celebrate Green! journey was Joyce Kushner of Coco-Zen. Joyce hand makes chocolates using fair trade and organic ingredients and they are fabuloso! But if you are looking to go beyond truffles, or, like Lynn, are the kind of (self-named) strange person [...]