June 18, 2019
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As many of you know, we teamed up with
Settler Hives for the release of our beautiful Rusty Patch Bumble Bee Pjs, giving away a packet of their glorious seeds with each bee pj order. Now, Hayley and Roger have been kind enough to chat to us about all things flower, bee and tips for the novice bee keeper.
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March 11, 2019
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Faced with the prospect of looking for new skin care products in glass packaging, I decided instead to just go without and see what happened.
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October 14, 2018
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Here is the thing though. What if I don’t want to get to where they are today? What if I am happy to have a small business that just pays me a wage?
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July 24, 2018
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For about 6 years now I have chosen to use GOTS organic cotton when producing my clothing, but to be honest, I have never fully understood it or all of the other myriad of fabric options available. What is good, what is bad, what to believe, what is just greenwashing. After looking at a tag the other day with 100% Tencel listed as the composition and googling the pluses and minuses of this new player in the market, I decided perhaps a blog post was in order – after all, if I am lost, perhaps other are too. So here it is, my round up of a number of the most common fabrics we see used in our clothing today. I have tried to explain what each is, as well as the benefits and downsides to each.
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July 06, 2018
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Bees are getting a lot of air time lately, and for very good reason - bee populations around the world are in trouble and they are vital to continuing life on earth. Not something we want threatened then! The good new is there are small things we can all do at home that will have a hugely positive impact on bee populations and chances are your kids will love these activities too. Here is a list of 5 easy things you can do at home to help save the bees.
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June 12, 2018
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From the beginning of my journey as a business owner, I never really sat down and asked myself what I wanted my business to be........but I think that is totally normal - what we want evolves over time and half the time we don't even know what we want until we are in the thick of things.
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April 17, 2018
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I decided to write a blog post on the cost of manufacturing our organic cotton pj’s in Australia – something I have been meaning to do for a long time. Transparency is something that is so close to my heart. If more businesses showed transparency in what they do, I think the world would be a very different place.
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March 21, 2018
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Every time I find myself thinking "Oh I need this, or that. New undies, a new saucepan, a bucket, a scarf, new winter shoes". Anything at all really. I put it on a list with a date next to it. I then see if I can manage for the next month without it. Do I already have something that will work just as well? Do I actually really need that thing? In the space of that month, who knows what else I will find to use, or find I can actually do without. At the end of that month I look at my list again - have I found a substitute, did I actually manage without that item? If so, can It perhaps wait another month?
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