Time 4 a Fash Bash!

These are some friends from Ottawa; they're a pretty diverse group who's interests include play therapy, cuban music, graphic design, aboriginal rights, date squares, and prancing (!) They also happen to be some the participants in the FashBash I put on when I was still living in Ottawa! A Fash Bash is a party, in which we bring together a collection of stuff from our closets that we don't want anymore, and share it. Consumption of snacks and drinks are also a main feature.
It's a nice way to connect with friends, clear out the closet, and to keep clothes out of landfills.... all the leftover clothes are donated to charity when the party's over.
We all scored a few items that were really unique that night (a vintage dress/ shirt, a brand-new item that didn't fit the 1st owner, etc...) In the end, we ended up donating about 70-80% of the clothes we dug out from our closets.
Spring cleaning that's fun, and eco :)


(miss you guys!!!)

As promised....

At Forty two million beats, one of our passions is the environment. We're going to explore eco-logical tips for better living.
What is"eco-logic"? It's using your bean:) Eco-logic tips are usually creative and thoughtful. They consider ways to reduce your environmental impact, save $$ and rejoice in creativity and sheer ingenuity.
Some of my best tips have been handed down from my gram... looks pretty good for her eighties, non? Well as attractive and lovely as my gram is, she won't be chaining herself to an endangered redwood anytime soon. Having lived through Great Depression however, she's learned to be creative with resources. She is generous with family and at the same time very frugal.
The following tip is one of hers. So without further ado:

Today's eco-logic tip, inspired by grammy k.

Lip Love!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Ever get to the end of a particularly scrumptilescent lip product and notice that there's still lots remaining- stuck in the bottom of the tube? That simply won't do!
O.K. let's get serious. One of my guilty pleasures is Aveda liptints and those suckers are like $15 bucks! Why throw away about 15% of the product?
What I've done is hang on to the "finished" tubes until I have about three of them.
If you look at the example above, all that's needed is a small tin or jar leftover from a previous makeup item (in this case, a Burt's Bees snappy metallic tin). I then harvested (i.e. scrapped out) the contents of a couple tubes of the "finished" lipbalms and lipsticks, blended it together with the back of a spoon and put it in said container- ta da! brand new product!
This new creation is amazing! Because it's a mixture of my favourite lipbalms and lipsticks it moisturizes and provides just a bit 'o colour... I love it more than what I started out with!

Here's the rundown, by doing this tip yourself, you're:

-keeping a tin or jar out of a landfill
-extending the life of products you thought were used up
-bringing down your consumption
-expressing your creativity and lip artistry
-also, once you've gotten all that good stuff out of the old tubes, many of them are recyclable

Have fun! Tell me how it goes:)