Facial Friday Go Green With Orange

Fom's new Orange Blossom Facial Cleanser

One company, Fom Cosmetics has this delightful smelling Orange Blossom Facial Cleanser . It's described as a natural botanical with  anti aging properties. It helps moisturize and removes your eye make up! 

So many times beauty products contain harsh chemicals (usually in the first few ingredients if we ever take time to read the label) that actually cause more harm than good. Stringent cleansers or soaps can actually strip the skin and cause allergies. Fom boasts their orange blossom facial cleanser is a natural product and has no alcohol, is skin friendly,  and packed with natural actives.  The items is also non allergic and non fragranced. So how does it smell so scrumptious?  They said, "It has a luxurious scent of orange blossom as we use floral hydrosols!"

Note: According to Wikipedia, hydrosols are herbal distillates , aqueous products of distillation. The are colloidal suspensions of essential oils as well as water soluble components obtained by steam distillation or hydro distillation from plants/herbs! 

You can't get much fresher than that.



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Renew Your Kitchen the Eco Friendly Way

KitchenDoorCentre offers this great way to repaint your kichen cabinets and save the landfills!

Painting Kitchen Doors and Painting Kitchen Cabinets

A company in Bristol, UK has been in the furniture refinishing biz for over 20 years. They are urging people to become more eco friendly and green by refacing their own kitchen cabinet doors via paint. That's right, saving your cabinet faces rather than ripping them out and replacing them. 


Painting Kitchen Cabinets according to them, is way to restore and renew your kitchen to brand new, without taking out your old kitchen and throwing it away. 

Support the Local Economy and Your Own Maneuverability

Let's face it, most of us have our kitchens completely figured out. It's this-goes-here and that-goes-there and we can function just fine. What if you could take that dull and drab kitchen and give it a cosmetic makeover?  What essentially happens is:

•  You are saving the cabinetry from going into a landfill  (you've just gone green)
•  Restoring the originality of your home (you've just kept it's charm)
•  Supporting a local business by hiring them to handle the renovations (you are practicing sustainability)

Sounds good to me.  My only complaint?  I just wish these guys were in the USA.  If you are in the UK, call the Kitchen Door Centre for a Free Estimate    0800 157 7405  or  0117 318 0848

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Our first Craft show by THE WEEPING WILLOW'S

We did our first craft fair last Sunday and it was fantastic. It was held in a little seaside town near us called Lancing. The fair was actually held in the theatre on the actual pier with stunning views out to sea and it was a beautiful sunny day.

Me and my mum got together on the Saturday to finish off a few things that's we thought would only take an hour or so..............well, it took a lot longer! So the first lesson we learnt is to prepare a little better and not leave the packaging until the last minute.

On the morning of the craft fair everything was running smoothly until I dropped a huge box of tiny seed beads on the pavement outside the venue.....we both saw the funny side, hunched over on all fours at 8am with everyone watching us whilst we picked up tiny beads! Lesson number 2....put lids on EVERYTHING!

We had not set up a stall before but had lots of fab ideas and the stall next to us did not show up so their table was added to ours at no added cost which was fab. Lesson number 3, always bring extra material in case that happens again as only our first table had our lovely turquoise material on it.

We sold things from 3 of our shops.

The Weeping Willow's
House of Willow
Willow's Wool
anyway, here are some photos of our set up:

Things like these offered in our Etsy shop located here.

Overall we had a great day and it went well. We made quite a few sales but more importantly got out there, meeting people and getting a really good response. When you work so hard on your Etsy shops you don't get the experience of face to face sales and they really are amazing.

We feel confident now and have already made a booking for a second craft show in the same venue next week.......

We had such a great response to our 'use again' and 'recycle' products....it was really nice to see.

top tip: Put everything into one of those soft suitcases on wheels because you can then just tip it up slightly and wheel all of your things in and out really easily instead of carrying box after box!