Pet Project: huey&wah @ Etsy
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* May the party of boo-ing begins! *
I know. I have missed so many posts on the supposedly daily green steps. This is the first thing on my New Year’s Resolution and within a month, I’ve already failed. Boo.
So I thought, perhaps it will be easier for me to keep up if I make it a weekly post. And WHY DIDN’T I THINK OF IT WHEN I MADE THE DARN LIST?!
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I’ve been owning this pair of reusable chopstick since quite a while ago. I don’t remember bringing it out together much but I’ve been improving on that lately. I’ve rejected quite a number of disposable chopsticks when I ate out. Just like the tiffin carrier, it could be a little inconvenient at first, but it’s really just a matter of making it into a habit. After all, it’s our own health and earth that we are eating.
There is still a huge pile of banner scraps that we can work on. I wonder how long will it take for us to at least clear half of them – or maybe never, since we are continuously getting more and more banners?
Here is a new project that I’ve been working on for the past few days. Still need a little modification and so. A library mini card, for birthdays, anniversaries, thank yous, or just to say hi. :D
Front part of the banner card. The lines are sewn on so you can write on it just like you are writing on your old school notebooks.
Back of the card.
Some time last month when we were at the Little Penang Street Market, we met another Malaysian Etsian. She makes totes and yoga mats in her shop here. When I was browsing her blog I noticed that she makes soap too! How cool is that! I’ve been looking for handmade soaps in Penang for like, very long. Now I did get to know more and more people who are actually doing it locally, but WHY CAN’T I FINISH THOSE COMMERCIAL SOAP BARS that Wah had bought since months ago?!
Anyhow. She was very kind and gave me a sample bar for free! *wink wink* A mung bean soap bar, with all natural ingredients like mung bean, coconut oil, palm oil, and olive oil. Sounds good – and yummy. That’s the best part about handmade soap for me – they always sound so yummy!
It stated on the package that I should only use it after 18 Jan 2010 – which I believe is for the complete curing purpose. So on 19 Jan, I opened it up and almost fell in love immediately with the lather! And you think the shape of the soap bar looks familiar? Well I can tell you, it fits just nicely in your palm and you could just rub and rub and rub – although with the rich lather, you really don’t have to. LOL!
So why is this a green step? Green because all natural ingredients were used in the making of the soap (probably except lye which is a must?). Green because it’s less harmful to the nature. Green because, well, lesser chemicals and additives mean better for the skin. :)
You can find her selling her soaps on Etsy here, or on her blog here.
Urgh… How many days have we missed? I’m not even sure if I could count properly with my 10 fingers so let’s forget about it. Well the good news is, we are back… kind of. :P
Last week was a crazy one. Thanks to everyone sales started to pour in and we were swamped – no neither of us were complaining, so please continue to flood us babe! :D
And yesterday we realised that our website’s bandwidth exceeded (not sure if this is the correct way to say it, I’m so damn not geeky). Now we would seriously like to thank Yew Jin from Shooweb.net for lifting our bandwidth and for you-know-why! :D
OK so back to the green steps. Mum suggested that I could use her making-of-enzyme photos. But I was too busy packing stuffs when she was doing it so I’ll only have the enzymes in bottle to share. She made this out of those vege and fruit waste and out of the many many many use, I know she use it to clean the floor. It was said to be ant-proof. Not sure how true is it though since I’m still seeing ants in the house once in a while. :D
My mother has been avoiding packing take-away food in polystyrene foam or any other disposable containers. I’ve been following her steps for a while now. True enough that at times, it’s a little inconvenient. But that is just because we are too spoilt with all the disposable utensils in our lives. Knowing that the little inconvenience is doing good for the nature and ourselves, it’s just worth the effort.
This evening we have take-away fish noodle for dad. :)
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