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green & natural living

Silver & Gold, Vol VI

by gidget green & natural living

Silver and Gold is a series where I’m sharing my favorite blogs with you, the old and the new. This week’s edition of Silver and Gold is all about my fellow contributors over on Simple Organic. I say it all the time, but it seriously such an honor to be on a team with these [...]

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Wardrobe ReFashion: the Pledge

by gidget green & natural living

I’ve been getting a lot more into repurposing/refashioning lately. So, I decided it was time to make a committment. I headed over to Wardrobe Refashion and signed the pledge for four months. That means that from September until the end of 2010 I am pledging to not buy any new clothes. I will repurpose, refashion, [...]

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Today on Simple Organic…

by gidget green & natural living

Interested in how you can get “new” clothes, for free? It’s easy with a clothing exchange! I’m talking about what it is and how to organize one over on Simple Organic today.

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Tending to Eden {Book Review}

by gidget green & natural living

Photo by newbeatphoto Can you believe it’s been six months since the big earthquake in Haiti? I can remember praying fervently as a fellow blogger attempted to get out of the country, forced to leave behind the son she was trying to adopt (he eventually came home to the US thanks to Humanitarian Parole). The [...]

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A Natural Approach to (In)Fertility

by gidget family

As any of you who have been reading my blog for very long know, I have dealt with my own journey of infertility (recurrent pregnancy loss in my case). At this stage in the game, I am very thankful for the path that has lead my family to where we are now. I’m content with our family [...]

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A Summer Cold (lame-o!) and Refashioning T-shirts

by gidget green & natural living

I hate being sick in the summer!! It’s the worst! I started fighting a cold Saturday night, prayed to make it through my first time singing in our church’s worship band on Sunday (God answered those prayers and I was blessed to be able to sing), and started really feeling it that afternoon as we [...]

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Gettin’ a Little Homemade

by gidget food

What’s going on in the Gidget household, you ask? Both kids are quiet for one thing (have I mentioned what a lifesaver LeapPad is?) after a not-so-pleasant grocery run. We did have a lovely morning at our new favorite place, though, the San Diego Botanical Garden. Oh, and the photo above is from our blueberry [...]

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That Time of The Month, Part 2

by gidget green & natural living

~this post is for women only!~ Those of you who’ve been here for a while, know that I’ve been gradually going more au natural– you might even say green– in all areas of our family’s life. A while back I posted about a cool company making green products for our special time of the month, [...]

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food-related lovin’

by gidget food

My daughter has become quite the storyteller. Today we sat together over yogurt and “chatted”- mostly she just told me some nonsensical story full of very grown-up {and improperly used} phrases. It’s very cute. Speaking of yogurt, our new favorite snack is a little plain greek yogurt whipped up with a little all-fruit jam and/or [...]

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Earth Day Blog Update

by gidget green & natural living

Happy Earth Day! I’m still adjusting to life as a mom of two and figuring out how I can still squeeze in my blog reading and writing. Today as I was frantically trying to catch up on my reader I remembered that it’s Earth Day! I figured that I at least needed to post something [...]

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