This and That.

I missed it! Two posts ago was my 50th bloggiversary. Don't worry, I'm still accepting gifts.

I love to blog, it is very different than journaling. While I dare to say journaling
is more personal, I don't think it has to be. Thus why I bear all...well, a lot to you, a fellow human who is at least semi-interested in what I have to say (love to you for that). Also, I already talk to myself so why should I write to myself as well?

Is anyone sick of the cheesy Christmas music yet? I like spirit of Christmas and all but here's a few things to consider in your song choices:

Santa Baby? What a who....man. What a whoman...

Frosty the Snowman? "Oh hey congrats on your wedding" "Ya it was the best day of our lives" "who did the wedding?" "Frosty the snowman. The marriage certificate was scrolled with a carrot and isn't legit but hey, we're hitched..."

Santa Claus is Coming to Town? 'He see's you when you're sleeping, He knows when you're awake...' as a child I was more afraid of an obese senior in a red jogger hidding in my closet than our neighbor with the binoculars across the street. Hi Mr. Johnson!

By the way, yesterday I went to my aunts house to hang out with the cousins. Somehow we started talking about santa and Tarynn says: "Right, I believe in "santa" ". I turn to little sweet Rhys, "Ya menga, "Santa" (in quotations with their little hands". I tried to salvage any crumb of belief they had left but they know. "Santa" is not "real". Such relief. Now I can have sensible conversations with these kids. I fail to see why we lie to our children annually.

I'm done... sort of...

Okay I'm not. I'll sweeten the rant by telling you my favortie Christmas song.

Baby it's cold outside. An inapropriate classic I absolutely love.

That is all.

Love.

My Little Gnome

So as promised from my "morning thoughts" post, I said I would update on the gnome as she progresses. Here she is straight from the oven:

























See how similar she looks to a gnome?:




Precious.

Mixed tape, please

http://coolpeoplecare.org/

If you subscribe to this website they send you a small email daily worth 5 minutes of caring for something other than yourself (ie. people, poverty, the planet). Kari suggested it and I like it!

Todays bite size do good article was about recycled gifts. There are some pretty cool things made out of old items within the links of the article. My favorite is the the furniture made out of bottles and bathtubs and the very sweet pop can style charm bracelet.

Take a peak at the link above! If you happen to check it out another day, you can go back to todays date in the archives.

I like homemade gifts , let's do more of that mkay?

finger gun,

Meaghan

MMMmmm...

You're back! So nice of you to join me.

Where have I been? Oh, around.

Calgary is becoming a busy space for me. I like that. It's not at the agenda keeping stage but it has its potential.

I have to tell you something (silence)










I'm learning to love alone time.























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It's very, not me... and a big thanks to Calgary for that. I'm also congratulating Calgary on having a better french radio station than Edmonton and that is the only wiggle room I'll give to this city in my heart.

It's about time I learn to sit still, however.

Time alone. I actually look forward to my room, my incense, my bed and a book. For sure time out with people will always trump this but home is nice too.

I have fallen in love with the dim light of my bedside lamp and time to waste away. The humming strings of my guitar paired with words from my real place and an audience of none is quite beautiful.

The posibility to spend thousands and thousands of delicious minutes in my pyjamas with my blankets and pillows scattered all willy nilly on my bed, just the way I like it, sends me into a coma of comfort.

The gratification of knowing I'll wake up rested, even too rested spreads a smirky grin over my face like soft butter on a warm tea biscuit. hahaha. That's dumb.



I'm smitten with me.It's ...lovely.

A little something from the Lord.

"We can rejoice, too, when we run into problems and trials, for we know that they help us develop endurance. And endurance develops strength of Character, and character strengthens our confident hope of salvation" Romans 5:3-4

Thanks, Lord.

Love,

M

What do ya think?

Hey Readers,

Let's review this website together:

http://free2work.org/home

Take a peek around and let me know what you think! If anyone gets the app, do share your opinion.

I think I'm going to do a little digging around at the mall some weekend and look at labels.

I know my blog is becoming a little bit of an activist, but so am I, so I hope you are enjoying this little transformation.

Love,

M

Updated Fair Trade List

*Global Girlfriend
*American Apparel
*The hunger site
*NOVICA
*Justice clothing
*Autonomie Project Inc
*TOMS (shoes)
*Ethletic (shoes)
*Justshirts (just shirts)
*Marigold
*People Tree (the most beautiful clothes)
*Fair Indigo
*Ten Thousand Villages (home decor/goods)
*Global Exchange
*No Sweat Apparel (now only selling wholesale)
*Mahadevi Design
*Body Shop
*fashin&earth.com
*dearlildevas.com
*bluecanoe.com
*birchclothing.com
*patagonia
*one mango tree
*gretchenandgrace.com
*haorganicclothing.com
*indienousdesigns.com
*juteandjackfruit.com
*noenemy.org
*thezenlily.com
*threestonesteps.com
*farwestcanada.com

THIS JUST IN! STORES THAT MANUFACTURE OVERSEAS BUT HAVE AN ETHICS POLICY. READ MORE ON EACH WEBSITE ABOUT THIER CODES OF ETHICS:

*la senza
*Marks work wearhouse
*REI products (though they sell other brand names at their stores, they are only responsible for rei products
*ll bean
*Levi Strauss
*Adidas Group (though they claim to have an ethics poilcy it is not detailed on their website)
*Timberland

I am excited about getting behind companies who are fair trade or have an ethics code. The more of us doing it, the better to make a change.