Bloumebaby: Sustaining the Earth and Our Babies

   
 
     Handmade Organic Crochet Deer                                          Yoga Mat

Leave it to a California mom to come up with a retail line for babies that provides healthy, sustainable products without losing style or quality.  Manhattan Beach resident Annie Totten has really come up with a gem with Bloumebaby.   The on-line company offers products that cater to a modern, green lifestyle, ranging from high quality apparel to toys to bedding to bath products.  We particularly love the smart way she organizes the sales categories: Dress, Play, Eat, Sleep, Bathe, Travel and....finally For Momma. Yes, we moms need babying sometimes too! 

Shez Got Baggage

                         Laptop Carrier $116                                           

Rebagz Eco-Chic Handbags are forward thinking and fashion forward, transforming everyday items headed for the trash heap into pretty handbags, wallets and totes. The bag line, made from recycled juice packs and nylon rice sacks, kicked off in July 2007. Already, it’s sold in more than 400 stores including celebrity hotspot Fred Segal in Los Angeles.



Unique Sustainable Gifts

We are sick of getting mounds of catalogs - with the same stuff each week. How many times can one look at Restoration Hardware lamps, Pottery Barn sheets , and J. Crew khakis?  Are people suddenly running low?  Boring! But we recently got a catalog that stood out and it wasn't just the smaller, ecologically sensitive size.  Uncommon Goods offers handmade items by talented artists using recycled and organic products.  If it ended there, we'd toss the catalog in the recycle bin - how's that for sustainable!  But the catalog offers some really cool, unique items like mittens (20$) & a scarf (25$) featuring a  peace symbol (above) and these