A Green & Simple Halloween: Costumes 101

October is here and with it comes Halloween.  Start planning now for Halloween and keep stress away!  If you're tired of the same old routine of hunting for costumes for your kids—change it up! Get downright creative and make the costumes this year.  Repurposing what you have on hand is VERY economical and environmentally friendly too!

Now don't let that suggestion freak you out!  I am not talking about doing any sewing!  Why, I can hardly sew curtain panels together!  I am talking about creatively constructing costumes for your kids.  Get them involved in the process and create a new family night activity!  Read on for simple costume suggestions…    

Green Spotlight Shines on Local Non-Profit!

Harmony All Natural Aromatherapy's Spotlight shines brightly on a charity we proudly support…

An Angels Road to Success

This awe-inspiring, non-profit organization was started by a woman named Dawn, who thinks of herself as an "everyday" kind of person which just goes to prove that the most inspirational of people can be just like you and me.

What's the Mission? 

Dawn's passion and that of An Angels Road to Success is to help disadvantaged individuals through both long and short term assistance obtain and keep gainfully employed jobs.

What's the Strategy?

·        Education:  Six months of classes are offered covering basic math skills, life skills (properly filling out applications, preparing for interviews, understanding credit scores…), basic English (as needed), geometry (if in the carpentry program).  Financial assistance is provided for these classes.

·        Trade Skills programs:  Right now auto mechanics and carpentry are offered.  Classes are given in each respective field as well as hands on training.  Financial assistance is provided for those in either program.  

·        If clothing is needed for job interviews, An Angels Road to Success assists.

·        Steel-toe boots are supplied for those in the carpentry program.

Who's in Support?

·        Local area auto mechanics and carpentry businesses are hiring those in the trade skills programs; giving them on-the-job training to prepare each enrollee with the skill sets needed to live an independent and sustainable life in their particular trade.

·        HG Labs, LLC's Harmony All Natural Aromatherapy Cleaners proudly supports Dawn and An Angels Road to Success. We are glad that Dawn not only has such care for the disadvantaged and is doing something about it; she also cares about the environment and has chosen cleaners that are 100% all-natural and non toxic. An Angels Road to Success uses our sister company, Brightly Green Concentrate Cleaners for the purpose of training individuals enrolled in programs how to measure and mix the all natural concentrate cleaners into  "Ready to Use" bottles which they sell to area businesses, gaining skills in sales.   

** An Angels Road to Success, as a charity receive special consideration from HG Labs, LLC.

How can YOU get involved?

If you are interested to learn more, contact Dawn at:  anangelsroadtosuccess@yahoo.com

To make a donation to An Angels Road to Success send donation to:

Margaret Hank Memorial Cumberlain Presbyterian Church in Paducah, KY.

An Angels Road to Success is a separate entity from Margaret Hank Memorial Cumberlain Presbyterian Church, but was graciously given space to operate out of the church facility.

Establishing Green Clean Routines

 

It is a "no-brainer" that cleaning is a necessary part of life.  The challenge is staying on top of it! 

Have you ever had guests show up unexpectedly and you've said, "My house was clean this morning."

If you are the parent of preschoolers, toddlers or infants; special grace is extended to you!  Young children can sweep in like a tornado; destroying any clean and organized space.  For the rest of us, we may be running out of legitimate excuses. 

Staying on top of a clean environment requires establishing routines.  We have routines for work, we just need to transfer the concept of routines to our home environment.  In fact, it has been said that maintenance is always more effective than a big cleanup.  Maintenance can save up to two thirds of your time than doing a big cleanup.

So in light of the benefits of maintenance, what routines would be most helpful for you?  Answer that and then you will be prepared to set up a plan of action.

Three Tips to Green Clean & Organize Back to School

 

Hopefully you have been able to get your summer de-cluttering finished, and are winding down on other summer projects.  With your children starting a new school year, it is the perfect time to establish new organization routines that teach responsibility for life skills. If your children's organizational skills waned over the summer months, now is the time to get those habits back on track.

One area that seems to be a struggle for many moms I know of is in the area of keeping kids backpacks and school papers from becoming misplaced or even lost.  It is good to teach your children how to be organized and care for their belongings.  Teaching them this responsibility goes a long way!

The following tips are easy responsibility chores your kids can do to keep their school supplies organized as well as cleaned naturally:

Clutter Free Living: To Keep or not to Keep?

 

Once you've committed to the idea that "this is it, I need to be clutter free", it becomes a matter of getting in there and doing it.  The next hurdle is knowing what to keep and what to get rid of.

Over the course of several years, I have talked with numerous people concerning their issues with clutter.  The number one question most have had was determining what to get rid of vs. what to keep. 

If you struggle with this dilemma ask yourself:

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No sample sizes at this time

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Our All-Natural Green Disinfectant is…

Safe for children

Safe for pets

Safe for earth

 

Our All-Natural Green Disinfectant can be used on...

Multiple hard surfaces

Children's toys

Sports equipment, such as helmets & pads

 

What else makes our All-Natural Green Disinfectant simply amazing?

Read on….

Clutter Free for Life: (Part Two) Launching into Motion

 

Summertime can be a great time to get things in order that is why we are spending the time talking about sustaining a clutter-free home and or office. What roadblocks keep you from launching out and making your home or office space clutter free—for good?