Archive for the ‘HOME’ Category

As we’ve been re-vamping our offices over the last couple of months, we thought we’d share with you some of the chic little desk things we love. If you’ve found chic office essentials or accessories you love, we’d love for you to share them with us!
1.Non-disposable drinkware: I’m Not A Paper Cup, Starbucks Ceramic Tumbler, Ikea Slom Bottle, Customizable Love Bottle, Berd & Bee Monogram Mug.

2. Power-saving made simple and sleek: Belkin Conserve with Remote Switch

3. Naked soup cans make surprisingly glam pencil holders.

4.Invest in the last pair of scissors you’ll ever need with a lifetime guarantee:  Gingher G-8 Shears

5. Classic design gone green: Michael Roger Cherry Blossom Decomposition Book, made with 100% Post Consumer Waste Recycled Paper and  Bio Gas derived energy.

6. Elegant & sexy:  refillable Parker Jotter Pens &  Pencils.

It was love at first sight with these vintage jewel adorned push pins from sfvictoriangirl. I used them to hang my jewelry in a shadowbox frame. They’re also great on a fancy paper covered framed cork board like so…

This New Year, I resolved to GET OFF THE BOTTLE! Watching the Fiji bottles pile up in the recycling week after week, shelling out $2.00 a bottle, and considering the carbon footprint with the distance from Fiji those bottles must travel, the guilt finally took it’s toll. My “conversion kit” consists of PUR faucet mount and dispenser filters and four fabulous, pricey-but-worth-it, Sigg reusable aluminum bottles.
Worth noting, Fiji, no doubt in response to growing public scrutiny, launched Fiji Green this year. Judging by their website, they’ve put considerable effort into this program, pledging to become Carbon Neutral, promote recycling, reduce packaging, and to preserve the Viti Levu rainforest with their Fiji Water Foundation. Now when I do need to buy a bottle of Fiji water on the road, I just might feel a little less guilty!

Pottery Barn, Crate & Barrel and Ikea added organic cotton linens and FSC Certified furniture products to their catalog this year but no other furniture or home retailer has even come close to commiting to the green and social causes like ABC Carpet & Home. With their ever expanding selection of lustworthy organic and sustainable furniture, linens & decor, their own line of green organic cleaning products, solar power panel installations, and their Home & Planet Foundation, ABC won this one hands down!

At $55 a pop, beautifully designed, long lasting, and powerfully scented Diptyque candles have long been my very un-green guilty pleasure. They were irreplaceable by any organic soy wax candles on the market which are usually homemade looking votive or pillar candles that are always only available in the same five scents; lavender, jasmine, vanilla…yawn. How terribly unfabulous!
Now there’s Dirt Candle Co. Their $24 candles are made with organically grown American soybeans, scented with essential oils available in 24 intricate aromas & come in beautiful recycled glass jars.
Current favorite, Nitty Gritty, contains organic soil, ripe tomatoes, fresh Mediterranean sage, Malabar grass and celery seed.