Etsy Store open!

crow+seagull is officially off and running! I will be adding things over the next two weeks to fill it up. If you'd like to check it out the address is www.etsy.com/shop/crowandseagull.
I have cards (well, as of right now I have *a* card listed :),scarves,mittens, slippers,felt storage pods,journals,and little stuffed creatures.

Here are my first batch of tags. Now I just need to make things to attach them to!

Celebrate Buy Nothing day!

November 28^th is Buy Nothing Day. It is not a coincidence that it falls on the biggest shopping day of the year. Right now our country is in a financial crisis. We are borrowing billions from China to bail ourselves out. We are using loans and credit to live beyond our means, both at a personal level and as a nation. When we go overboard financially we can get a bailout. What do we do when we run out of nature? There is no more air, water, and soil available. These resources can’t be replenished with a card. They can only be conserved. We can clean up the mess we have and resolve to make no more. We can change our habits. One way that helps with both crises is to buy nothing you do not need. For every ton of things produced there is 20 tons that was used up to make it. This is the part you do not see when you haul your garbage out to the curb. People in the past have resolved to "Make Do and Mend, to “Use it up. Wear it out. Make it do. Do without.” My family is buying nothing new. We are making modest holiday gifts and patching clothes, repairing things or deciding if the item is a need, or just a convenience we can happily do without. It is not about a life of deprivation. It is about being conscious of your time and resources (both your own and the world’s). It is about reclaiming your precious life from amidst the flood of STUFF!