Saturday, August 29, 2009
Welcome new members!
We have two new members this week! Please make sure to check them out and heart them!
Thursday, August 27, 2009
I Love a Good Sale
I love finding a good deal and lots of cute things are on sale now from Vegan Etsy team members including....
Buster Kitty from sass and peril:
Cupcake earrings by eat your greens:
Cyanide Lemonade bracelet by Goth Cupcake:
the owls are not what they seem purse by Dang Argyle:
-Kala (Vegancraftastic)
Buster Kitty from sass and peril:
Cupcake earrings by eat your greens:
Cyanide Lemonade bracelet by Goth Cupcake:
the owls are not what they seem purse by Dang Argyle:
-Kala (Vegancraftastic)
Today is the greatest, day I've ever know! Well maybe the second or third greatest. I got a huge package of Vegan snacks from Sweet Fritsy!
So, we all know by now how much I adore Sweet Fritsy so when they contacted me and asked to do another trade, I was enamored! What did I choose? I chose the vegan donuts and the vegan peanut butter carmel cups! Soon after I placed my order and started to count down the days until delivery I saw these and I was inspired to ramble about them on my facebook page, in a post I made about my birthday wishlist.
Vegan tasted, vegan approved! HAH
Today was the big day, I checked the tracking number bright and early this morning and awaited the arrival of our yummies!
When I opened the box, everything was so nicely packaged and I noticed one of the boxes said "Vegan Smores Brownies" on it along with a sticker that said "HAPPY BIRTHDAY".
Oh joy, you have no idea how excited I was and how quickly I tore into that box. I didnt even think about the donuts and carmels until after I sank my teeth into a vegan smores brownie. Was the brownie all it was chocked up to be? Did it make my 27 birthday totally awesome? All that and more, the brownies are like camping with friends, minus the bugs....they are like seeing an old friend you havnt seen in forever. They are amazing! So much so that I was talking to a good friend this morning and he had to go buy his own, hah.
Along with my birthday wish coming true and getting those delicious brownies, sweet fritsy sent a nice birthday card and some yummy carmel corn (that came in a super cute box!). Totally sweet and made an otherwise crummy birthday, crumby! Sometimes my cheesiness even makes me wanna gag, so dont be shy about making fun of it.
Thanks so much Sweet Fritsy for such a great trade and making my birthday wish come true! Now lets just see if any of these goodies make it until my actual birthday!
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Monday, August 24, 2009
Breakfast? Sure! Lunch? Sure! Dinner? Um...
I know, I promised you a full analysis of the one and only vegetarian restaurant in New Orleans, Cafe Bamboo. Alas, as my amazing timing would have it they were closed for the week I was there - open only through a late night window out back serving a quite limited menu. So all I can actually tell you is that their mock chicken rocks the house.
So instead, we discuss meal planning! Weee! Ready set go.
* * *
Since I was maybe twenty, I've been trying to figure out how to eat meals. This perhaps sounds stupid, but I'm sure I'm not the only person to have this problem. It's the paradox of choice: with so many food options before us, it actually becomes more difficult to make good decisions about eating. When combined with the daily trials of modern life, this can lead to some ridiculous eating habits, and three squares goes right out the window for many of us. The wisdom of the three-meal-a-day eating structure is of course debatable, as many to most of us will benefit from eating smaller meals more frequently. But for a person like me who became totally lost in the food forest, it's a good place to begin when trying to find some gustatory structure.
Breakfast.
A while back I worked out breakfast. It's not a complicated solution either: it's cereal. Now, granted, I'm picky. I don't drink soy milk because I don't want to have a constant stream of soy in my diet. There are may other types of "milks", like rice and oat and hemp and mixed grain and every kind of nut you can think of, but they frequently have high sugar content - often 15 grams per cup or more. (Soy milk of course also has this issue.) It took me a long time to discover the miracle that is unsweetened Almond Breeze almond milk, now my breakfast cornerstone.
Then of course there's the matter of the cereal itself. Talk about added sugars! Naturally I want something whole grain, multi-grain, and prefer a cereal that features little if any wheat. Lately I've been eating Barbara's Shredded Spoonfulls, which has an acceptable sugar content and is composed largely of oats as well as corn, rice, and a few other staples. I try to switch it up so that I get a variety of nutrients. Quantity of course matters - I do half a cup of cereal and half a cup of milk. In the winter I sometimes like cooked things like the Bob's Red Mill cereals; I find the warm meal really sustaining when it's freaking fifteen degrees outside.
Alright, I'm fed, I can leave the house.
Snacky!
If I tried to wait until 1 pm, my work-designated lunch hour, to eat again, I'd pass out. So I have my 11 am snack: Whole Soy & Co. vanilla yogurt. The fruit flavors have way too much sugar, and the plain is too blah. I like this company, or at least I like it way better than I like Silk, who at this point I downright hate. I tried eating other items here, like granola bars or fruit, and for whatever reason they just didn't do the trick. The yogurt seems to have just the right amounts of sheer volume, indulgence, and I dunno, maybe plain old fat and sugar to get me through till lunch.
Lunch.
Recently I finally, finally got lunch together. This has taken years! The inspiration came from a silly "health food" take-out place called The Pump. From them I was purchasing overpriced meals which consisted largely of a bed of rice smothered in some type of bean, and topped with hunks of baked tofu, or variations on that theme. Well it didn't take long for me to realize that I do not have to spend ten bucks a pop for this type of dish, and that it's easily recreated at home.
So lunch becomes a meal that is based usually in brown rice, rarely in pasta, or occasionally in steamed vegetables - or sometimes a combination of steamed vegetables and one of the first two starches. Then is added veg chili or lentils or black beans or something of the like. And finally there's usually a protein (not that there isn't plenty of protein in the beans, but I mean something more dense) like smoked tofu, or seitan maybe, added on top. Vegetables are often mixed in, really, in the form of spinach or steamed broccoli or diced tomatoes - they add lots of flavor and texture and other goodness. For flavor I use tomato sauce or peanut sauce - something in the sauce genre really. Sometimes if there's enough fresh tomato in the mix and it's good enough tomato, that alone provides plenty of flavor. Lemon is also a good booster, and pepper.
The only thing to really watch out for here is salt content, and to make sure that I'm not eating the same items every single day. Ideally I will begin to experiment with other grains here too, like barley and maybe wheat berries. Love those. Ooh, and quinoa. I've have some fledgling success with that one. I believe that one of the keys to good nutrition is variety, so I don't want to eat brown rice five days a week.
Home from work - more snacky!
Here's where I start getting into trouble. I get home from a long and grueling day. I've just used public transportation with a few hundred thousand other tired grumpy New Yorkers. I'm exhausted. I'm annoyed. Various parts of me hurt. And I start looking for sugar. If it's here, I'm going to eat it - as much of it as I can get. Newman's O's? Half a package without blinking. Pint of Tofutti? A pint becomes a serving. This is bad news.
You're thinking, there's an easy solution to this! Don't keep sugar in the house - done! Oh, but you don't know me too good. See, there's a grocery three blocks away. And when the craving is bad enough and there's nothing in the house, I'll just go get the cookies. It's kind of like when a smoker wants a cigarette. Will he sit there not smoking, or will he find the nearest Quickie-Mart? Don't get me wrong - I don't make a habit of keeping junk food around the house. But we get things sometimes. And because of this tendency of mine, we may have to stop entirely.
One good solution I have found to this is frozen fruit bars. They have enough sugar in them to satisfy the craving, but not so much that I'm really wrecking myself. I get the kinds that really are made with fruit juice and don't have high fructose corn syrup in them. Sure they have sucrose, but it's still a far cry from eating a whole box of Tofutti Cuties. (Oh yes I would. I have. There are witnesses.)
What also helps - and this is going to sound silly, but I'm serious - is drinking a large quantity of good water. It's not a cure, but it makes me feel nourished. And I need to drink more water anyway.
Dinner...? Like, every day?
Once I'm at home and settled, I need to think about dinner pretty quickly. On a good day I get home at 6, and often I don't get home until 7 or 8 or even later. My man and I have a bad, bad habit of procrastinating, and we end up not eating until 9:30 or 10 at night. This is ridiculous for so many reasons. Eating an hour or two before bed is never a good idea. Waiting for eight hours after lunch to eat again is also bad. And so on. The other half of the problem is that by that point we're often just ordering Thai delivery. While tasty, it's pretty much entirely starch, salt, and fat - and way more than enough of each. It's a stupid pattern of behavior that we've got to stop.
But in order to stop behaving this way, we have to have some system to replace it with. Jonathan and I comprise a very modern American household, with all of the problems that presents. By the time we get home at night, we're tired. He carries stress particularly badly, and I have a host of physical problems. Often, neither of us feels up to spending an hour or even a half hour in the kitchen preparing a meal. We can never decide what to eat. Having very different metabolisms and palettes, he tends to want to make dishes with lots of salt and fat while I insist that foods are whole and fresh and healthy. All of this is what leads to the procrastination in the first place, and it makes dinner seem like a very hard thing to do.
But I believe, perhaps, we've stuck upon a solution. It's going to sound absurd. And yes, it is going to take some self discipline, and us doing some work in the kitchen when we might not want to. But it might work. And it's... salads! Not just green salads, because often I can't eat raw greens. But all kinds of salads. Black bean and corn salads. Pasta salads. Potato salads. Tofu salads. Chickpea salads. Whatever kind of salad you can think of, on a cracker or not.
We will, of course, also eat all-vegetable salads, including green salads. Especially when our landlady has brought us bags of arugula and radicchio and fresh tomatoes from the backyard. There's also tomato and cucumber salad, a personal favorite. And I'm sure we can think of others. Vegetable salads that incorporatef ruits and nuts are wonderful...
I know. It sounds a little ridiculous. But I think it'll work maybe. While it's still warm out at least. And when it starts to get cool, we're going to get a slow cooker. Then we can have stews and such, with I believe just a bit of prep time in the morning or the evening before.
* * *
So that's the plan. And I hope to enact it just as soon as I can eat solid foods on a regular basis again - right now my IBS is rockin' and my daily food intake is more like a little bit of miso soup and maybe a few crackers. *Sigh.*
Ah, eating. So basic, so complicated.
Until next Monday,
hearts,
Melissa Bastian.
So instead, we discuss meal planning! Weee! Ready set go.
* * *
Since I was maybe twenty, I've been trying to figure out how to eat meals. This perhaps sounds stupid, but I'm sure I'm not the only person to have this problem. It's the paradox of choice: with so many food options before us, it actually becomes more difficult to make good decisions about eating. When combined with the daily trials of modern life, this can lead to some ridiculous eating habits, and three squares goes right out the window for many of us. The wisdom of the three-meal-a-day eating structure is of course debatable, as many to most of us will benefit from eating smaller meals more frequently. But for a person like me who became totally lost in the food forest, it's a good place to begin when trying to find some gustatory structure.
Breakfast.
A while back I worked out breakfast. It's not a complicated solution either: it's cereal. Now, granted, I'm picky. I don't drink soy milk because I don't want to have a constant stream of soy in my diet. There are may other types of "milks", like rice and oat and hemp and mixed grain and every kind of nut you can think of, but they frequently have high sugar content - often 15 grams per cup or more. (Soy milk of course also has this issue.) It took me a long time to discover the miracle that is unsweetened Almond Breeze almond milk, now my breakfast cornerstone.
Then of course there's the matter of the cereal itself. Talk about added sugars! Naturally I want something whole grain, multi-grain, and prefer a cereal that features little if any wheat. Lately I've been eating Barbara's Shredded Spoonfulls, which has an acceptable sugar content and is composed largely of oats as well as corn, rice, and a few other staples. I try to switch it up so that I get a variety of nutrients. Quantity of course matters - I do half a cup of cereal and half a cup of milk. In the winter I sometimes like cooked things like the Bob's Red Mill cereals; I find the warm meal really sustaining when it's freaking fifteen degrees outside.
Alright, I'm fed, I can leave the house.
Snacky!
If I tried to wait until 1 pm, my work-designated lunch hour, to eat again, I'd pass out. So I have my 11 am snack: Whole Soy & Co. vanilla yogurt. The fruit flavors have way too much sugar, and the plain is too blah. I like this company, or at least I like it way better than I like Silk, who at this point I downright hate. I tried eating other items here, like granola bars or fruit, and for whatever reason they just didn't do the trick. The yogurt seems to have just the right amounts of sheer volume, indulgence, and I dunno, maybe plain old fat and sugar to get me through till lunch.
Lunch.
Recently I finally, finally got lunch together. This has taken years! The inspiration came from a silly "health food" take-out place called The Pump. From them I was purchasing overpriced meals which consisted largely of a bed of rice smothered in some type of bean, and topped with hunks of baked tofu, or variations on that theme. Well it didn't take long for me to realize that I do not have to spend ten bucks a pop for this type of dish, and that it's easily recreated at home.
So lunch becomes a meal that is based usually in brown rice, rarely in pasta, or occasionally in steamed vegetables - or sometimes a combination of steamed vegetables and one of the first two starches. Then is added veg chili or lentils or black beans or something of the like. And finally there's usually a protein (not that there isn't plenty of protein in the beans, but I mean something more dense) like smoked tofu, or seitan maybe, added on top. Vegetables are often mixed in, really, in the form of spinach or steamed broccoli or diced tomatoes - they add lots of flavor and texture and other goodness. For flavor I use tomato sauce or peanut sauce - something in the sauce genre really. Sometimes if there's enough fresh tomato in the mix and it's good enough tomato, that alone provides plenty of flavor. Lemon is also a good booster, and pepper.
The only thing to really watch out for here is salt content, and to make sure that I'm not eating the same items every single day. Ideally I will begin to experiment with other grains here too, like barley and maybe wheat berries. Love those. Ooh, and quinoa. I've have some fledgling success with that one. I believe that one of the keys to good nutrition is variety, so I don't want to eat brown rice five days a week.
Home from work - more snacky!
Here's where I start getting into trouble. I get home from a long and grueling day. I've just used public transportation with a few hundred thousand other tired grumpy New Yorkers. I'm exhausted. I'm annoyed. Various parts of me hurt. And I start looking for sugar. If it's here, I'm going to eat it - as much of it as I can get. Newman's O's? Half a package without blinking. Pint of Tofutti? A pint becomes a serving. This is bad news.
You're thinking, there's an easy solution to this! Don't keep sugar in the house - done! Oh, but you don't know me too good. See, there's a grocery three blocks away. And when the craving is bad enough and there's nothing in the house, I'll just go get the cookies. It's kind of like when a smoker wants a cigarette. Will he sit there not smoking, or will he find the nearest Quickie-Mart? Don't get me wrong - I don't make a habit of keeping junk food around the house. But we get things sometimes. And because of this tendency of mine, we may have to stop entirely.
One good solution I have found to this is frozen fruit bars. They have enough sugar in them to satisfy the craving, but not so much that I'm really wrecking myself. I get the kinds that really are made with fruit juice and don't have high fructose corn syrup in them. Sure they have sucrose, but it's still a far cry from eating a whole box of Tofutti Cuties. (Oh yes I would. I have. There are witnesses.)
What also helps - and this is going to sound silly, but I'm serious - is drinking a large quantity of good water. It's not a cure, but it makes me feel nourished. And I need to drink more water anyway.
Dinner...? Like, every day?
Once I'm at home and settled, I need to think about dinner pretty quickly. On a good day I get home at 6, and often I don't get home until 7 or 8 or even later. My man and I have a bad, bad habit of procrastinating, and we end up not eating until 9:30 or 10 at night. This is ridiculous for so many reasons. Eating an hour or two before bed is never a good idea. Waiting for eight hours after lunch to eat again is also bad. And so on. The other half of the problem is that by that point we're often just ordering Thai delivery. While tasty, it's pretty much entirely starch, salt, and fat - and way more than enough of each. It's a stupid pattern of behavior that we've got to stop.
But in order to stop behaving this way, we have to have some system to replace it with. Jonathan and I comprise a very modern American household, with all of the problems that presents. By the time we get home at night, we're tired. He carries stress particularly badly, and I have a host of physical problems. Often, neither of us feels up to spending an hour or even a half hour in the kitchen preparing a meal. We can never decide what to eat. Having very different metabolisms and palettes, he tends to want to make dishes with lots of salt and fat while I insist that foods are whole and fresh and healthy. All of this is what leads to the procrastination in the first place, and it makes dinner seem like a very hard thing to do.
But I believe, perhaps, we've stuck upon a solution. It's going to sound absurd. And yes, it is going to take some self discipline, and us doing some work in the kitchen when we might not want to. But it might work. And it's... salads! Not just green salads, because often I can't eat raw greens. But all kinds of salads. Black bean and corn salads. Pasta salads. Potato salads. Tofu salads. Chickpea salads. Whatever kind of salad you can think of, on a cracker or not.
We will, of course, also eat all-vegetable salads, including green salads. Especially when our landlady has brought us bags of arugula and radicchio and fresh tomatoes from the backyard. There's also tomato and cucumber salad, a personal favorite. And I'm sure we can think of others. Vegetable salads that incorporatef ruits and nuts are wonderful...
I know. It sounds a little ridiculous. But I think it'll work maybe. While it's still warm out at least. And when it starts to get cool, we're going to get a slow cooker. Then we can have stews and such, with I believe just a bit of prep time in the morning or the evening before.
* * *
So that's the plan. And I hope to enact it just as soon as I can eat solid foods on a regular basis again - right now my IBS is rockin' and my daily food intake is more like a little bit of miso soup and maybe a few crackers. *Sigh.*
Ah, eating. So basic, so complicated.
Until next Monday,
hearts,
Melissa Bastian.
Sunday, August 23, 2009
Interview-Strange and Violent
Todays interview is with Erika of Strange and Violent.
How did you choose the name of your shop and how long have you been a member of Etsy?
I have been a member of Etsy since January 2009. The name for my shop, Strange and Violent, actually comes from an interview with Jeff Goldblum right around the release of Jurassic Park. A reporter asked him what he thought the world would be like if dinosaurs actually did come back, and he paused thoughtfully before answering "strange... and violent." My boyfriend told me this story and I thought it was pretty funny, and I kind of liked the combination of those two powerful words.
What kinds of items do you sell in your shop and what inspired you to start
creating them?
My top-selling items are my reusable cotton flannel menstrual pads. I was first inspired to start making them years and years ago when I had trouble justifying the price of reusable pads in the health food store. Friends became curious and started asking questions, and were so happy with the pads I made for them that I decided to try my hand at selling them!
In general, I also like to create functional designs with sustainability in mind. I try to create objects from recycled or salvaged materials, or objects from new materials that can be reused over and over again in order to minimize personal waste. A lot of my goods are created out of curiosity and experimentation- sometimes I don't really know what I'm doing, I just let the process take over.
Do you donate to any charities or do any volunteer work?
I'm happy to say I volunteered at (and baked for) the San Francisco Vegan Bakesale, which raised $3,000 for two different animal charities a few months ago!
What are some of your favorite things about etsy?
I love that Etsy is an accessible platform for artists of all skill levels, backgrounds, and locations to showcase their wares and introduce themselves to a wide audience.
Do you sell your items outside of etsy, either online or in retail shops?
At the moment, my pads are only available online or at the Biofuel Oasis filling station in Berkeley, CA. I also make one-of-a-kind knit hats for Herbivore Clothing Company in Portland, OR out of recycled damaged T-shirts; I have a new batch arriving there soon! I am also in talks to sew one-of-a-kind aprons to be sold on the Post Punk Kitchen website. Keep your eyes peeled!
Have you been featured anywhere?
Only in other awesome Vegan Etsy Team members' treasuries!
Do you have any future plans for your shop?
More pads in more cute patterns, and a lot more glassware! I put out a request among my friends to collect empty kombucha bottles for me to clean, etch, and re-purpose. I didn't count on my friends being such kombucha freaks- I have at least three dozen waiting to be etched now! Ideas for slogans are welcome, I have plenty of canvasses!
What kinds of hobbies and interests do you have?
I quite like sewing and being crafty in general- at the moment I'm fixing a half-finished vintage dress I bought for myself from a thrift store in Stockholm. I also love reading and film, and of course eating lots of delicious vegan food!
Do you have any animal companions?
Yes! I have had Molly, an 8 year-old boxer/pug (bug) mix for just over a year now. She is adorable, hilarious, sassy, and loving, and has the world's most awesome lopsided underbite to boot!
Do you have any websites besides your shop that you would like to tell us
about?
I do a weekly (well, usually) podcast named The Cosmopolitan Hour with my awesome ladybro Jordan Pattern. We talk about a range of stuff from the absolutely absurd to the very serious through a feminist vegan lens. I'm making it sound far more distinguished than it is- it's basically us making silly noises for an hour. http://thecosmopolitanhour.blogspot.com
How long have you been vegan and what made you go vegan?
I've been vegan for nine and a half years now, and I'm planning a big party for my ten year veganiversary! I went vegan after reading Carol Adams' The Sexual Politics of Meat. I was lucky to have a supportive network of vegan friends, and at the time I was living in Philadelphia, which has a lot of vegan options and vegan culture.
Do you have any favorite vegan things, like books, websites, stores, etc.?
I have a million favorite vegan things, and I'm terrified I will forget one. My favorite vegan websites are the Post Punk Kitchen, Suicide Food, The Urban Housewife, Too Vegan To Function, and Vegansaurus. Favorite store is Herbivore of course!
What are your favorite foods?
Seriously, how long do you have, cause I could go on forever! I love Indian food, especially South Indian food. I also like Japanese- Cha-Ya in Berkeley and San Francisco are amazing. I also love some good old-fashioned junk food, which is why deep-fried battered seitan and french fries or hellfish tacos at Weird Fish in SF are awesome. Don't forget the beer!
Is there anything else you would like to add or share?
Thanks for this opportunity, and Team Vegan Etsy rules!
How did you choose the name of your shop and how long have you been a member of Etsy?I have been a member of Etsy since January 2009. The name for my shop, Strange and Violent, actually comes from an interview with Jeff Goldblum right around the release of Jurassic Park. A reporter asked him what he thought the world would be like if dinosaurs actually did come back, and he paused thoughtfully before answering "strange... and violent." My boyfriend told me this story and I thought it was pretty funny, and I kind of liked the combination of those two powerful words.
What kinds of items do you sell in your shop and what inspired you to start
creating them?
My top-selling items are my reusable cotton flannel menstrual pads. I was first inspired to start making them years and years ago when I had trouble justifying the price of reusable pads in the health food store. Friends became curious and started asking questions, and were so happy with the pads I made for them that I decided to try my hand at selling them!
In general, I also like to create functional designs with sustainability in mind. I try to create objects from recycled or salvaged materials, or objects from new materials that can be reused over and over again in order to minimize personal waste. A lot of my goods are created out of curiosity and experimentation- sometimes I don't really know what I'm doing, I just let the process take over.
Do you donate to any charities or do any volunteer work?I'm happy to say I volunteered at (and baked for) the San Francisco Vegan Bakesale, which raised $3,000 for two different animal charities a few months ago!
What are some of your favorite things about etsy?
I love that Etsy is an accessible platform for artists of all skill levels, backgrounds, and locations to showcase their wares and introduce themselves to a wide audience.
Do you sell your items outside of etsy, either online or in retail shops?
At the moment, my pads are only available online or at the Biofuel Oasis filling station in Berkeley, CA. I also make one-of-a-kind knit hats for Herbivore Clothing Company in Portland, OR out of recycled damaged T-shirts; I have a new batch arriving there soon! I am also in talks to sew one-of-a-kind aprons to be sold on the Post Punk Kitchen website. Keep your eyes peeled!
Have you been featured anywhere?Only in other awesome Vegan Etsy Team members' treasuries!
Do you have any future plans for your shop?
More pads in more cute patterns, and a lot more glassware! I put out a request among my friends to collect empty kombucha bottles for me to clean, etch, and re-purpose. I didn't count on my friends being such kombucha freaks- I have at least three dozen waiting to be etched now! Ideas for slogans are welcome, I have plenty of canvasses!
What kinds of hobbies and interests do you have?
I quite like sewing and being crafty in general- at the moment I'm fixing a half-finished vintage dress I bought for myself from a thrift store in Stockholm. I also love reading and film, and of course eating lots of delicious vegan food!
Do you have any animal companions?
Yes! I have had Molly, an 8 year-old boxer/pug (bug) mix for just over a year now. She is adorable, hilarious, sassy, and loving, and has the world's most awesome lopsided underbite to boot!
Do you have any websites besides your shop that you would like to tell us
about?
I do a weekly (well, usually) podcast named The Cosmopolitan Hour with my awesome ladybro Jordan Pattern. We talk about a range of stuff from the absolutely absurd to the very serious through a feminist vegan lens. I'm making it sound far more distinguished than it is- it's basically us making silly noises for an hour. http://thecosmopolitanhour.blogspot.com
How long have you been vegan and what made you go vegan?I've been vegan for nine and a half years now, and I'm planning a big party for my ten year veganiversary! I went vegan after reading Carol Adams' The Sexual Politics of Meat. I was lucky to have a supportive network of vegan friends, and at the time I was living in Philadelphia, which has a lot of vegan options and vegan culture.
Do you have any favorite vegan things, like books, websites, stores, etc.?
I have a million favorite vegan things, and I'm terrified I will forget one. My favorite vegan websites are the Post Punk Kitchen, Suicide Food, The Urban Housewife, Too Vegan To Function, and Vegansaurus. Favorite store is Herbivore of course!
What are your favorite foods?
Seriously, how long do you have, cause I could go on forever! I love Indian food, especially South Indian food. I also like Japanese- Cha-Ya in Berkeley and San Francisco are amazing. I also love some good old-fashioned junk food, which is why deep-fried battered seitan and french fries or hellfish tacos at Weird Fish in SF are awesome. Don't forget the beer!
Is there anything else you would like to add or share?
Thanks for this opportunity, and Team Vegan Etsy rules!
A BIG smile from a little dog.
Here is Maggie. She's getting on a bit now, as her grey hair shows. She's a bundle of fluff on legs. She was brought home from an animal shelter. She had been treated very cruelly and didn't know what it was like to go for walks, or sit on a sofa, or run around. Those days are a long time ago now. Just one look at her happy smiling face tells me how secure she feels, and how much she enjoys her life now. My precious little Maggie is so cute. She likes to sit on my lap, facing outwards, so she can see the room and all that's going on. She can be a cheeky little madam when we're out, and thinks nothing of going up to big dogs and barking (well yapping really), then running to hide behind me. She makes us laugh.A couple of times a year, I get her coat cut, as it's very unruly. She then looks like a little teddy bear, and it seems to change her personality, she behaves like a puppy. Maybe she's glad to get all the weight off her. I'll post a picture when she's next 'clipped'. The 'salon' we go to, is lovely. The people who work there are very friendly, and love dogs. And the dogs love going there. They seem to know when they are going there, as they jump out of the car and run up to it, tails wagging. Not at all like when we they go to the vets.
Ah, Happy Days :)
Saturday, August 22, 2009
Aunt Flos Pads my brand spankin new etsy handmade shop!
My reusable menstrual items were taking over Holistically Heather, and we are in the process of selling my pads at a few co-op groceries in the area. So we figured, no better time than now to start a seperate website for our reusables!
Never tried reusables? Here are a few things people have said about my pads:
So soft and comfortable
I forgot I had a the hemp fleece pad on, it is like sitting on a pillow
Thank you so much for the exceptional service! The pads are perfect & very well made. I couldn't be happier! Shipping was fast, I got all of the information I needed for using & cleaning them and all of my questions were quickly answered. Thank you so much!!!
Just a few responses to give you an idea!
What do I offer in my new shop? Where can you find it?
In my new shop you will find a variety of reusable menstrual items: pantyliners, all in one pads, envelope style pads (where you can adjust the thickness based upon flow, and pull apart all sections to wash individually), cramp pillows you can heat up or keep in the freezer, and coming next week organic cramp massage oil!!
Aunt Flos Pads
Mention Vegan Etsy Team in notes to seller, wait for a revised invoice and receive 10% off your entire order!!!!
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