BEAUTIFUL ORGANIC GARDEN SPACE

                                   Photo and text by Marian Fisher at Facebook   
"A lawnmower pollutes as much in one hour as does driving an automobile for 45 miles. 30 to 60% of urban fresh water is used for watering lawns (depending on city). $5,250,000,000 is spent on fossil fuel-derived fertilizers for U.S. lawns. 67,000,000 lbs of synthetic pesticides used on U.S. lawns. 60,000 to 70,000 severe accidents result from lawnmowers. 580,000,000 gallons of gasoline are used for lawnmowers. $25,000,000,000 is spent for the lawn care industry. $700,000,000 is spent for pesticides for U.S. lawns. 20,000,000 acres are planted in residential lawns. Powered mowers contribute to noise pollution and hearing loss." 

Origins Oregon

HAND MILLED ORGANIC SOAP- ORIGINS OREGON

 Sourcing the best of Oregon...

Origins Oregon marketplace offers an array of organic hand milled soaps from Rogue Valley Soap Company. These soaps have pure essential oils and natural botanicals, our Shea Butter soap is rich in emollients that moisturize the skin, bringing back your skin's baby soft quality.

My favorite is the organic Cranberry Citrus soap, for it's purity, it leaves your skin scented with the essence of cranberry citrus, infused with olive, coconut and palm oils, I would describe this soap as amazing and invigorating.

Our comeback soap, Patchouli, is like a walk back in time, scented with essential oils of Patchouli, with a warm, down to earth scent, this soap is especially good for dry, maturing skin, and gentle enough to be used daily.

The Lavender and Lemon Grass soap, has an aroma that envelops your senses with relaxing lavender essential oil, and invigorates your skin with lemon grass, your whole body will respond to it's therapeutic benefits.
Try these soaps, choose your favorites out of the sixteen different scents, you will never want another soap again. Long lasting because these soaps are hand milled, infused and scented for comfort, aroma and beauty. Your bath time will be the most relaxing and aromatic time of your day or evening.
So, relax into the bath and be soft, scented and beautiful.
Be well and happy ~ Holly

REUSE ARTIST PORTLAND OREGON@ GLEAN

*GLEAN*

crackedpots, Recology and Metro invite you to check out the GLEAN 2013 program.

With the goal of bringing awareness to excessive waste generation and consumption, five artists @GLEAN have been chosen to have full access to unique materials discarded at “the dump,” and are allowed to glean materials for the creation of art.

In addition to gleaning privileges, artists will each receive a $2,000 stipend and 80% commission on art sales generated from a public exhibition held in September of 2013 at Disjecta Gallery.

This beautiful example of supporting the Arts and reuse artists in Oregon, is what keeps us happy and sustains our lives at Origins Oregon ~ Be well and happy !

Watch our website for our Local Artist Spotlight, and get into the flow of ART....

Butterfly Butterfly

Butterfly, Butterfly

Hoping to catch your eye
Circling around you, oh my
Butterfly, butterfly, come into the light
Oh, what a beautiful sight
Flying so gracefully
Into the sky, the butterfly
Trying to catch a butterfly
Fly, fly, fly, butterfly
There he sets upon the mums
I'm having so much fun
Here's another on the sill
Your standing so still
You go to touch him
There he goes, the butterfly
I hear a tapping on the window
It's the butterfly, fly, fly, fly
There he goes into the sky
Flying so high, the butterfly
I'll see you another day
Butterfly, butterfly, away