Reducing plastic

This company makes eco-refills... http://www.naturecleanliving.com

Plus their products are better for the environment. NO ANTIBACTERIAL SOAPS HERE. THEY ARE EVIL AND APPARENTLY, DO NOT EVEN WORK. They are extremely harmful to marine life.

I also recently learned that a lot of kids PJ's have flame retardents (by law) but snug fitting ones may not (check the labal). I am searching out some merino wool pjs for a good winter option.

Love craigslist...

Bruce replaced the hand rail on our back deck ages ago as it was not child friendly. Big gaps between the aluminum rails. It was a "marine style" deck rail. I tried to sell it for $50 on craigslist. No takers. Listed it in the free section... it was gone within about 12 hours! Seriously. At least we didn't have to transport it to the dump or Habitat for Humanity Re-use store.

Hawaiian Coco

Coco is really into Hawaiian dancing at the moment. We made a real flower necklace - ???Lea????. She has an instructional video that she got out of the library to watch and practice her moves. Adorable.

Sat morning crafts day

Everyone busy working on their projects...

Fine Arts Certificate

Last class os last course complete!

Really happy with my final project entitled "18 Cellphones". Inspired by the work of Andy Warhol.

Also did a really cool hand mould. Might be a hat hook. We'll see.

Plastics

Wouldn't it be great if we could get some plastic out of our life...

Came across this blog when I was looking at a link to glass drinking straws.

http://fakeplasticfish.com/

Will post more on my efforts to reduce plastics in my life...

The latest from Coco

Coco has been trying out a few new words and concepts...

She says (about her toy person) "He's an animal researcher. He blogs about animals. He buys wild animal movies".

In her Super Science class, they watch a movies or documentaries or episodes about science stuff. Not exactly what you want to be paying a teacher to do, but Coco loves it and she is learning and it is only once per week.