Category Journal

UNDER CLOTHESLINE LIVING

Considering that this is coming from the apron lady, this will be understandable: I am so happy about my clothesline! If my mother read this, she would think I went mad. What’s so special about the clothesline? They are everywhere.…

SUNDAY FLEA MARKET

I have been waiting to go to the flea market since February. The weather just wasn’t good enough. Not on weekends! So we ended up spending a lot of rainy days in the McDonald’s playspace. I know, I know. Finally,…

ALL NATURAL, NO WORRIES

These are my beautiful natural soaps that I just received in the mail. I just had to take a photo -they look so pretty in their little cloth packaging. And they are handmade. The scent that I am in love…

THE MAHOGANY IN OUR BACKYARD

Our beautiful deck is finished. Let me tell you the whole story. It all starts a few months ago, when we moved into our new home. It is a house that we loved from the moment we walked in, a…

THE STORY OF HENNA

One of my greatest pleasures, in the past, was dyeing my hair. I liked the expectation, the new colors, the compliments, the whole change. I have been coloring my hair for around 15 years. I don’t think I used the…

THE GARDEN AT THE HEART OF ME

We do gardening with a joy we never felt for other work before. It seems weird at times. I come from a family of gardeners and farmers but my husband never touched a seed before this year. His family has…

MY CHILD’S TOYS TRY TO BE NATURAL

I remember going to Whole Foods once and seeing there a teddy bear–non-toxic, organic materials. It was lovely. Also, it was 30 dollars, for a relatively small bear. I did not buy it for my child and I could never…

THE NON-PLASTIC BABY

It’s here! Meet baby Rupa. Still feeling guilty after not buying for my very sensible child a small, cheap toy that she wanted, I went ahead and created a more natural version of the plastic baby out of flannel and…

A MORE NATURAL PERFUME

Perfume … there is something magical about it, isn’t it? Something wondrous about the  worlds it brings to life–the memories, the sensations, the desires. It was long ago that I read Perfume by Patrick Suskind, but, bizarre as it was,…