Alys and the Avocado Plant

I really enjoyed watching this. I can't wait till I eat my next avocado.

Hot Body Scrub

I feel most awake on the days that I've done a hot body scrub.

Skin is the largest organ in the body and it is responsible for something like one quarter of the body’s detoxification each day. Not to sound too woo-woo (I've been saying that a lot lately) but we're covered in dead skin cells and scrubbing them away makes me feel waaaaaay less clogged up both physically and emotionally.

It's simple: Take a wash cloth and run it under steaming water. Once it's hot, take it to your legs. Rub in circular motions towards your heart and work your way up till you've scrubbed your whole body. Run the washcloth under the faucet every little bit so that the cloth stays hot. Take a shower when you're done. If you don't they say the skin cells will make you itchy, and that's kinda gross.

I want to learn how to do this!

A group of teenage girls made this AWESOME music video at a Spring Break Music Video Camp. It's super fun to watch and it really makes me want to learn how to do some stop-motion animation...summer project!

MAKE YOUR OWN LAUNDRY DETERGENT

This is so easy. It will take you ten minutes. It will save you money*. It's better for the earth. And you will feel cool cause you made it yourself.

YOU NEED:
hot water
1 cup washing soda (available at most grocery stores)
1/2 cup borax
1 bar of soap (nothing that's heavily scented)
10 gallon bucket (you can get these from restaurants or dumpsters pretty easily)

Grate the bar soap (it's fun! it'll look like mozzarella cheese!) Add it to a large saucepan with hot water. Stir over medium-low heat until soap melts and dissolves.

Fill a 10 gallon bucket half full of hot water. Add the melted soap, borax, and washing soda. Stir until all of the powder is dissolved.Top the pail off with more hot water.

Use 1 cup per load. The detergent will gel, so make sure to stir it each time you use it.

*The math has been done. This woman figured it out and said she saved something like $65 a year.

Vagina Cakes pt. 2

When you google image searches "vagina cakes", you will find pictures from my blog and my friend Jill's on the very first page. I'm pretty sure Jill has mentioned that most of the people who find her blog find it through that picture. I recently looked into which pages people come to my blog from. Sure enough, I get about ten hits a day because people want to see vagina cakes!

So, I made another vagina cake! I made it in honor of my friend Mel coming back to the USA (she's the one who made that awesome toothed-vagina cake last year).


I made a vanilla vegan cake with a little lemon extract. The frosting was colored with juice from beets I'd eaten for dinner the night before (again, my favorite food coloring). I added some toasted coconut for the pubic hair and it was ready to go.


It was pretty delicious. Sometimes I think I could go into the vagina cake making business.

Hey, Nettles

I think I've only had nettles once in my life, but after watching this video all I feel like doing tomorrow is foraging for nettles.



The video might be a little woo-woo, but it's pretty charming, and it is definitely convincing.

My Little Lettuce Babies

My seeds sprouted a few days ago and I feel like a new mom. At least, how I imagine a new mom might feel.

First of all, I'm pretty darn proud! When I wake up in the morning, I look at the seedlings on the ground beneath my bedroom window and squeal something like, "I can't believe how big you're all getting!!!" I make sure that whoever else is in the room (Mel, Joel) also sees how much they've grown. I admire the tall, well-postured ones and I pay special attention to the little ones who are lagging behind.


I find myself lying on the ground next to them quite often, holding my breath and watching intently. Sometimes I think that if I could just stop myself from blinking, I might catch them growing before my very eyes.

Seed pots!

The current issues of ReadyMade told me that newspaper could be used to make excellent biodegradable seed pots. So I tried it out.

All you need is some scissors, newspaper, a small glass, soil, and seeds.

I cut the newspaper into strips that were about 3 inches wide and 27 inches long. I took the strip and rolled it around a glass. I then folded the excess paper over the base of the glass, making sure that there were no gaps. I gave the bottom of the glass a little push to secure the base and the pot was good to go!


My cupcake trays are helping out with the vegetable growing. I put plastic wrap over the trays to keep the moisture sealed within the pots.


And now I wait. Anxiously!