Friday Finds July 9th, 2010

Friday Finds


Quite possibly the best Dr Seuss birthday party can be found over at Annie's Eats. I'd love to have a candy table like that.

Craft Leftovers has a tutorial up on How to make your own frappuccinos I have to try this in the near future.

I love this article by Retirement a Full time job on Is youth wasted on the young - it contains many of the ideas I've been trying to express to people. Why are we working so hard now so that we can retire when we are too old to live life?

Find a great tutorial on Making Strawberry Lemonade smoothies over at Polka Dot Cottage. I'm sure this is better for me than the one's I keep buying from McDonalds.

Now that I'm learning to sew maybe projects like this Skirt from a thrifted sheet over at sew mama sew wouldn't seem so intimating.

This Anthropolgie inspired pendant light from Ashley ann photography.com is amazing. I'm thinking a run to the dollar store is in order. They always have tons of baskets.

I've been crocheting...

Do you ever start a craft project with the intentions of only making one of the particular item and before you know it the project has taken on a life of its own?

Yeah, that’s exactly what happened to me with crocheting baby hats. I started out with simply wanting to make the baby Owen a hat, but after making one I wanted to just tweak the pattern a bit and before you know it I had found four more sites with hat patterns and even created a few of my own. So far Owen has two hats both I’m only semi happy with and a few others I’ll probably donate. The hats are just so easy to make and you can do a full one in about an hour. It was a perfect project for me while I spent a few hours in the recliner.

If you want to make your own hat I used the following links for my patterns.

Hats! Hats! Hats @ Bevs Country Cottage

Newborn Set @ Crochet4fun.com

Raspberry toque @ Canadian Living

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Seventh Generation Winner!

So I was just reminded by Matt that in all the excitement of starting the weekend I forgot to post our Seventh Generation giveaway winner on Friday like I promised.

First many of you answered the question correctly in that there are 63 hazardous products found in the average American home. (according to the Consumer Product Safety Commission).

And the winner of our giveaway was Lois S. who liked the OnOurWay page on facebook

Keep checking OnOurWay because there will be more giveaways coming through the month of May.

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Angie at Baby Cheapskate clued me in to a great deal going on at Diapers.com right now.

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Good Reads 4/23/10

Don't forget to enter the giveaway going on right now for a free Seventh Generation gift pack.

I'm still behind on reading everything in my rss feed but here are a few good things I've read in the last few days.

Sign up for the new Home Made Simple coupon book

Four Atypical things to do before you buy a home from The Simple Dollar

Win a months supply of Marcal Small steps products from The Northern Cheapskate.

Get Rich Slowly Can you afford to go Green?

How to make a tshirt apron from Craftzine

Ten tips for having a successful garage sale from money saving mom

Seventh Generation natural cleaning GIVEAWAY!

Thanks to myblogspark.comand Seventh Generation I was able to try out a few of their environmentally friendly cleaning products and so can you!



Seventh Generation sent me (and maybe you);

2 Jumbo rolls of 100% recycled paper towels
1 bottle of disinfecting multi surface cleaning (Lemongrass & Thyme scent)
1 bottle of disinfecting bathroom cleaner (Lemongrass & Thyme scent)
1 bottle of disinfecting wipes
The book “The Conscious Kitchen” by Alexandra Zissu
And a nice carry all to keep it in.

I absolutely love the disinfecting multi surface spray. With our first little one on the way I like the fact it kills over 99% of germs naturally, including influenza A and H1N1. Since the cleaner is natural you can use it on anything including high chairs and children’s toys, a feature we’ll be using in the near future. The disinfecting spray isn’t something Matt and I would have even though could be all natural so we would have never tried it without this opportunity.

I also however really like what I’ve been able to read in the book. “The Conscious Kitchen” by Alexandra Zissu – I’ve only had time to flip through it so far but I can tell I’ll be using this book for reference a lot in the future. She list things to buy, foods to look for and questions to ask while you’re shipping. My favorite tip so far is her advice to start small. Don’t switch out all your cleaning products right away – instead start with just one, preferably the one you use the most. And she’s right I’m not ready to swap out everything right now but I can definitely start the change by buying the Seventh Generation multi surface cleaner for now on.

So now on to the giveaway!

There are four ways to enter and you can do so until next Thursday, April 29th at midnight.

Option 1: Leave a comment answering the following question.
“ According to the Consumer Product safety commission how many hazardous chemical products can be found in the average American home?”
*Take your best guess – answers do not have to be correct

Option 2: Become a fan of OnOurWay on facebook from the link HERE
Or leave a comment letting me know you already are

Option 3: Sign up to receive new post via email or RSS feed
you can sign up along the left hand side of the blog – or let me know if you already receive our updates

Option 4: Post about this giveaway somewhere and include a link back here
It can be a forum you visit, facebook twitter or your own blog – just make sure and leave me a link back to your post if possible.


Pick any of the four ways to enter or enter four times by doing all of them but just make sure for each entry you leave a comment with your contact info so I can contact you in case you win.

Remember you can enter until Thursday, April 29th at midnight. I’ll post the winner on Friday the 30th.



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