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I’ve been doing a lot of “what I want” lately. I hope you all don’t mind the quiet too terribly much.
One of the things I’ve been doing is making food appear out of nowhere by carefully watering and (naturally) fertilizing my garden. I now have my first self-made food: a radish.
I almost have enough greens for a salad, and when I do, it’s ON. Success!
In other news, sitting on my doorstep yesterday afternoon was a pile o’ nail polish – well, a box, to be more accurate.
Using Zoya’s Earth Day Polish Exchange, which is going on through the end of this month, I traded nine of my old, toxic nail polishes for brand new, non-toxic ones. (From left to right: Penny, Sam, Loredana, Robyn, Ginger, Goldie, Nicole, Posh, and Jo.) But what’s that over there…
…a second Penny!
Zoya told me not to mind the mix-up – it’s not worth the shipping cost to return one bottle – so it looks like I have something else to give away in the next month or so…yay!
This has been an awfully scatterbrained post, but it does have a purpose: I’ve realized, over the past few weeks, that I can do so much more to open my eyes without losing my aesthetic. Gardening hasn’t ruined my nails (see today’s post at The Demoiselles for proof) and avoiding chain stores whose policies and practices I disagree with doesn’t keep me from buying great clothing – it means I pay better attention to what I choose to buy…and don’t regret a trendy, fall-apart purchase two days later.
The truth is, “going green,” when done without guilt or stress, is not nearly as hard as people pretend it is.
When I moved back to the Midwest from Seattle, people told me that it was impossible to live here without a car. But those gas-guzzlers are something I simply can’t have in my life and I’ve proven that it is quite simple to live in an area where you can walk or bus to where you need to almost 100% of the time. I’m proud of myself for believing that I could do this when everyone disagreed with me. Now they are all shocked and amazed.
New post at Awakened Aesthetic: Sustainability, Surprise, Success! http://ow.ly/1qAZim