In addition to purses and scarves I love hats….especially handmade hats!
I just love the knit hats from Pixiebell and have added their website to our favorite vendors list.
Head on over there and get your order in now as there is a lead time on some of the hats.
This one is one of my favorites!
Pixiebell Knit Hats
Rebecca
Country Meadow Ltd.
Eco Friendly Shea Butter Spa Products
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Tomorrow is the 9th anniversary of 9-11.
Tonight, as I have done every year since then, will be watching the specials on tv highlighting September 11, 2001.
I still feel its the least I can do to honor and remember those directly affected.
May peace be with you.
Rebecca
Country Meadow Ltd.
Eco Friendly Shea Butter Spa Products
www.countrymeadowltd.com
Las Vegas Bars Recycle Glass Bottles Into Building Material
by Trey Granger
Have you ever ordered a drink at a bar or restaurant and wondered what happened to the bottle it came in?
On the Las Vegas Strip, these bottles may end up as the facade for buildings when mixed with recycled cement, according to the Las Vegas Review-Journal.
The material is known as Green Stone, and currently 200,000 pounds of it are being applied to the headquarters of Realm of Design, which manufactures Green Stone.
The other key players are Luxor and Mandalay Bay, which provide glass bottles from their bars and restaurants, and Evergreen Recycling, which collects and transports the glass.
While Green Stone actually costs more to manufacture than raw building materials, it provides a reuse for glass bottles that would otherwise need to be landfilled or shipped to recycling centers in other states.
According to the Review-Journal, Evergreen Recycling hopes that finding a local demand for the material would increase the likelihood that a glass processing plant is built in the area.
One of the other advantages of this process is that the glass bottles are essentially downcycled into sand, so there’s not as much of a concern about the condition of the glass. While glass bottles can be recycled into new bottles in about a month, this process requires color separation and removal of any broken pieces, since you can’t make new clear glass bottles with brown or green glass. That places more responsibility on recyclers and collectors of the material.
It’s estimated that only 25 percent of glass is recycled in the U.S., and of that material 60 percent is downcycled instead of recycled into new glass bottles. A main obstacle toward increasing the amount of recycled glass is the availability of processing plants that will purchase the material from recycling programs.
Rebecca
Country Meadow Ltd.
Eco Friendly Shea Butter Spa Products
www.countrymeadowltd.com
Wowza!
Everything you could want and then some!
Check out Shop Bakers Nook for just about everything you need for fall baking!
Rebecca
Country Meadow Ltd.
Eco Friendly Shea Butter Spa Products
www.countrymeadowltd.com
15 Double-Duty Decorating Ideas
Spruce up your décor with new uses for old things.
Note: The above site is a slow-load!
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Use Earrings as Pushpins
Face it: That long-lost earring is probably gallivanting with a wayward sock in Ye Olde Land of Misplaced Items. (What a stud!) Let its lonely, abandoned mate rebound as a pretty thumbtack on a bulletin board.
Courtesy of reader Bailey Mulholland of Appleton, Wisconsin
Cupcake Foils as Votives
The best part of using foils to hold tea lights: No cleaning up the dripped wax. Simply toss the cupcake foils when the wick is snuffed.
Cake Stand as a Platform for Candles
Use cake stands to display votive and pillar candles in assorted sizes. Place a doily under the candles to protect the plate from wax.
Salt and Pepper Shakers as Bud Vases
Screw off the caps of spare salt and pepper shakers (or empty jam jars or perfume bottles) and use the receptacles to display flowers on a bedroom night table or a guest-bathroom sink. You can also put potpourri inside.
Cake Stand Candle Holder
Rebecca
Country Meadow Ltd.
Eco Friendly Shea Butter Spa Products
www.countrymeadowltd.com
Labor Day Sale and Blog Break!
Country Meadow will be closed the following days for the Labor Day holiday.
Closed from Wednesday, September 1 through Monday, September 6, 2010. We will reopen for business (and blogging) on Tuesday, September 7, 2010. All orders will be processed in the order received starting September 7, 2010.
Receive a whopping 30% off your entire order!!
You MUST enter the discount code: LDay10 during checkout to receive discount. (No code=No discount).
Discount cannot be combined with any other discount offer and is not valid on clearance or sale items, sales tax (if applicable) or shipping costs.
Discount is not retroactive.
Discount is valid for in-stock items only.
Discount is valid from:
Wednesday, September 1, 2010 and ends on Monday, September 6, 2010.
Free Shipping:
Don’t forget we offer Free Shipping on all orders over $75.00 (valid in the lower 48 states only-no international orders) so get your friends and family together and make one big order!!!
I look forward to taking a few extra days off…
It’s not that I will be doing nothing….
More like catching up!!
Rebecca
Country Meadow Ltd.
Eco Friendly Shea Butter Spa Products
www.countrymeadowltd.com