coffee driven

My friend Byron Holcomb who is the Atlanta sales rep for Counter Culture Coffee has been bringing me the most beautiful coffee bean sacks I have ever seen.    Many of them are hand painted.  I started by doing my own bags and then ended up doing some projects for the company like using the coffee sacks to make business card holders for all the reps.   I just finished a wall hanging that is a collage of many of my favorite coffee sacks.  I did some hand stitching embellishment in my most favorite places.

Counter Culture Coffee

I like meat, cheese, and heady stuff

I read Kathy Freston’s book Quantum Wellness recently.  She talks about “leaning” into change a lot in there.  Also becoming vegan, although she doesnt expect us to do this overnight. Thats what she means about leaning.  I admire these vegan people.  I really dont want to do any harm either, but when Im eating on the run in the middle of nowheresville after climbing all day and my choices are just to sit and eat plain tortilla chips to do no harm or a beef and bean burrito to make me feel human again I dont care about leaning into anything.  First of all even the two months I made it not eating meat, dairy or eggs I could hardly call myself a vegan anyway.  I mean, I make leather bags people!  Leather bags + leather shoes= so not vegan.  I hardly have any plans to stop making my bags out of leather.  you know how long that stuff lasts?  I have been leaning into better sources of my leather.  I have always used scraps and working on getting all vegatable dyed without the use of nasty chemicals in the tanning process.   I dont want to do any harm!!!!  If I sit down to a juicy pot roast and bless and give love and thanks to the cow that is helping make my body strong and healthy maybe that helps reverse the bad vibes of doing harm?  I know most vegans dont think so, especially the hard core ones that wont even eat honey cause its rough on the bees taking the honey.  WHAT?  Honeybees make honey.  It is their purpose.  I love to eat honey.  It could be my purpose.

I actually really love Kathy Freston’s books.  She really needs to work on her cover shots though.  Her book The One, is my favorite relationship book even though I had to tear off the cheesy cover before I could read it.  I have also given it several people who agreed that its best to tear.  I guess the cover makes it look like the process will be easy and fun and you will be engaged very soon.   But really the book is much more spiritually sophisticated than that and focuses most on your relationship with yourself. You are really The ONE she is talking about…SEE, heady stuff.  I like heady.

Heady quote that I like:

“just before you break through the sound barrier is when the cock pit shakes the most”

-chuck yeager

doctor said….

In 2003 I got a dog named Tula. One by one she found and destroyed my pretty panties. Ive heard this is pretty common with puppies. I was already at a point where I wore underwear about half of the time anyway, so I just never bought more and then one day I realized, I DONT GOT NO PANTIES. Its become so natural for me that I forget that most people might find it a little odd that I dont own ONE pair of underwear. The last time I did wear underwear I was already so use to just pulling down one layer to go pee that I only pulled down one layer and sat down and peed while the underwear were still on my body. I realized it right away of course, but it was to late.

I told my doctor about my commando style and she told me thats its actually very healthy for the vagina to get that free flow of air all day. Fresh air=good smells below. Its actually recommended for women who keep it (the vag) couped up tightly all day with panty hose, spanx, or whatever to sleep without underwear to give the girl some air. One thing thats important to remember though about choosing the commando path is remebering to grab a bikini bottom for your purse if you are going to be trying on cloths. Bare crotch on dressing room cloths isnt healthy vagina behavior!

I just googled commando to make sure I was spelling it right and found a page on Wikipedia about GOING COMMANDO. The page actually mentions the possible origins of the term and the health benefits. Seeeeee, I know some stuff.

The white one is Tula.

Family Fly by Nagore

nagore

nagore

nagore

Remember the shoes from Spain I told I wanted. These are them. I was just revisiting the site since I have a few extra dollars in my account this week. I need to buy leather to make more bags though, not leather already made into something. I had to email the company since it doesnt seem that they have an online store anywhere. I wish could speak Spanish. Do you know any spanish? I actually was considering taking Spanish I at Emory this fall.

Oh yeah, they used recycled and vegetable tanned leather.

Link to treehugger’s article on Nagore

Bamboozle

Has someone in a store tried to sell you a bamboo t-shirt? Its so sad, I mean its not their fault they dont sit at home enough googling stuff and reading treehugger (while I should be working) to know that more than likely the bamboo shirt they sold that susposedly is sustainable eco-heady-everything is actually evil. Id would just sound like a modern jackass if I tried to summarize the things i have read about the dark side of bamboo fiber production, so I’ll post the link to the most informative article I have read about this material. Basically, the bamboo is a superstar plant in a long list of ways. It appears it could kick cotton’s ass. Hemp could probably kick all their asses, but thats a different story. The processes that come after the harvest of the bamboo are where it can get really ugly. DOESNT HAVE TO, but you know how those dollars work. Their are new certification labels to look for when purchasing bamboo, so that you know if it is evil bamboo or clean bamboo you are buying and of course supporting.

check out the article

BAMBOO:the facts behind the fiber

helmets are attractive

ribcap head protection

So, this warm hat actually hardens with impact to protect her head. Its some new material called d30 technology. I mean wearing a helmet is really cool and attractive and everything, but this is a really great alternative if you don’t quite need a big bulky helmet, but still don’t want a concussion.

You can get them now on amazon for $99.00

Here is a link to a You Tube video showing how these hats protect a watermelon. Notice the demonstrator doesnt test on his own head.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tKQxDoXqc_I