A wonderful and wild hippy grandma welcome to you!

To celebrate “Grandparents Day” Sept 12, we are hosting the 3 Day Festival of Funky Hippie Baby Gifts and will be featuring a ‘handmade’ or ‘home cottage crafted’ baby gift each day! Each of these gifts is made by a ‘hippy grandma’ using our definition ie ‘a hip, happy, hippy woman caring for Mother Earth’ and the next 7 generations!

Day 1 Featured Gift:

Wild & Wonderful Handknit Hippie Baby Bamboo Socks

Joan (a real grandma by the way) knits socks for her grandkids and for us! Each sock is lovingly created using bamboo and/or all natural yarns and are colorful, cosy and oh so soft on baby’s feet!

These socks make a heart felt and cool baby gift or are a unique eco-friendly baby shower gift idea! We hope you enjoy them!

peace, namaste & hippy love for generations!

Zoey ~ a ‘lavender happy hippie’ & founding hippy of Hippy Grandma Eco-tique

Find out what kind of hippie you are with our fun quiz!

Are you a heart-centered and “soul-filled shopper”? Know of a new baby arriving or are you looking for hippie baby clothes? Keep the heart, soul & hippy love flowing to your family, friends & Mother Earth with purchases from Hippy Grandma: an Eco-Boutique selling fair trade, one of a kind, earth friendly treasures.

Through your purchases, you help local artisans, hand-crafting grandmas on a pension, women’s fair trade co-ops and programs designed to support vulnerable mamas & babies. You make the purchases & we send the ‘hippy love’ for free! Please share the hippy love news widely and wildly with your soul brothers & sisters (copyright held by Hippy Grandma Ventures Ltd.). www.hippygrandma.com

‘New Moon Magic’ Featured Hippie Baby Gift Basket

Our New Moon featured gift is the “Love Child Baby Bundle”, part of our “welcome to the world” bundle series.

This gift basket contains:
- An exquisite & adorable home crafted and lined “Chenille Baby Jacket”
- ‘Spicebodhi’ Mama and Baba natural massage oil and handmade soap packages
- a cute and eco-friendly Toy
All wrapped up and bundled in a hooded Shoo-Foo bamboo baby towel and shipped using ‘green shipping’.

for more info: click here

This hippie baby gift is a cool & funky baby shower gift idea for both mama and a new baby girl. We hope you enjoy learning about it!

peace, namaste & hippy love for generations!

Zoey ~ a ‘lavender happy hippie’ & founding hippy of Hippy Grandma Eco-tique

Find out what kind of hippie you are with our fun quiz!

Are you a heart-centered and “soul-filled shopper”? Know of a new baby arriving or are you looking for hippie baby clothes? Keep the heart, soul & hippy love flowing to your family, friends & Mother Earth with purchases from Hippy Grandma: an Eco-Boutique selling fair trade, one of a kind, earth friendly treasures.

Through your purchases, you help local artisans, hand-crafting grandmas on a pension, women’s fair trade co-ops and programs designed to support vulnerable mamas & babies. You make the purchases & we send the ‘hippy love’ for free! Please share the hippy love news widely and wildly with your soul brothers & sisters (copyright held by Hippy Grandma Ventures Ltd.). www.hippygrandma.com

Hippy Grandma’s Top Ten Unique, Green & Groovy Gift Ideas For Hippie Babies!

Send ‘hippy love for generations’ to a new baby with these eco-friendly and unique baby gifts and help Mother Earth too!

1. An ‘old fashioned lace or chenille baby bonnet’

2. A pair of ‘lovingly handknit by a real grandma’ bamboo hippy baby socks!

3. A natural bamboo and organic cotton blend baby blanket!

4. An adorable, exquisitely finished & lined vintage chenille baby jacket!

5. Soft & cozy “Shoo Foo” bamboo blend footed sleepers!

6. Spicebodhi Baby Ayurvedic Aromatherapy Package with Handmade Soap

7. Commission an “Angel Heart Art Doll” part of the Kraggelys Family by artist CD Good

8. Bamboo & Organic Cloth Diapers

9. A Dream Child CD including a magical bedtime story!

10. Hippy Love Welcome to the World Bundle!

peace, namaste & hippy love for generations!

Zoey ~ founding hippy of Hippy Grandma Eco-Boutique and life coach for women

Are you a heart-centered and “soul-filled shopper”? Know of a new baby arriving or are you looking for hippy baby clothes? Keep the heart, soul & hippy love flowing for generations with purchases from Hippy Grandma: an Eco-Boutique selling fair trade, one of a kind, earth friendly treasures.

Through your purchases, you help local artisans, hand-crafting grandmas on a pension, women’s fair trade co-ops and programs designed to support vulnerable mamas & babies. Please share the hippy love news widely and wildly with your soul brothers & sisters (copyright held by Hippy Grandma Ventures Ltd.). www.hippygrandma.com

‘Full Moon Magic’ Featured Baby Gift !

At Hippy Grandma, we stay in tune with the moon cycles! During this period of ‘full moon magic’, our featured gift is a ‘hippy love welcome to the world bundle’. This bundle makes the perfect gift for a new hippie baby and her mama and is imbued with the love of many artisans!

Click here for more info!

peace, namaste & hippy love for generations!

Zoey ~ founding hippy of Hippy Grandma Eco-Boutique and life coach for women

Are you a heart-centered and “soul-filled shopper”? Know of a new baby arriving or are you looking for hippy baby clothes? Keep the heart, soul & hippy love flowing for generations with purchases from Hippy Grandma: an Eco-Boutique selling fair trade, one of a kind, earth friendly treasures.

Through your purchases, you help local artisans, hand-crafting grandmas on a pension, women’s fair trade co-ops and programs designed to support vulnerable mamas & babies. Please share the hippy love news widely and wildly with your soul brothers & sisters (copyright held by Hippy Grandma Ventures). www.hippygrandma.com

“To succeed, you have to believe in something with such a passion that it becomes a reality.” ~ Anita Roddick

I love this quote and use it for all elements of my life and business. Anita Roddick certainly exemplified living a passionate life and demonstrated this through her philanthropic work! I have found in both my coaching and with the artisan suppliers for Hippy Grandma Eco-Boutique, that most people joyfully engage in what they are passionate about, if they have figured out what this is! What some folks seem to struggle with is figuring out their passions.

I think the word ‘passion’ even scares people, due to some of the sexual connotations, however, the definition is simply ‘a powerful emotion, like enthusiasm, love or joy’. Of course there can be strong passionate negative emotions too and one can also learn alot about themselves from looking at these states as well.

Passion is very powerful and can truly “fire up” your life and/or business.

To gain clarity on your passions and how these can be integrated into your life or business planning ask yourself the following questions and then design accordingly so your life unfolds in alignment with the answers:

1. What makes me cry?
2. What makes me laugh?
3. What do I love?
4. If I could do and be anything in the world, what would that be?
5. If I didn’t have to work, what would I do?
6. What gives me the most energy?
7. What makes my heart ’sing’?

peace, namaste & hippy love for generations!

Zoey ~ founding hippy of Hippy Grandma Eco-Boutique and life coach for women

Are you a heart-centered and “soul-filled shopper”? Know of a new baby arriving or are you looking for hippy baby clothes? Keep the heart, soul & hippy love flowing for generations with purchases from Hippy Grandma: an Eco-Boutique selling fair trade, one of a kind, earth friendly treasures.

Through your purchases, you help local artisans, hand-crafting grandmas on a pension, women’s fair trade co-ops and programs designed to support vulnerable mamas & babies. Please share the hippy love news widely and wildly with your soul brothers & sisters (copyright held by Hippy Grandma Ventures). www.hippygrandma.com

August has always been my favourite time for summer vacation, and the words “accomplish” and “projects” and “revise website” aren’t in my vocabulary for this month, however, I plan to do alot of celebrating….



I plan to celebrate and enjoy the amazing natural beauty and surroundings of our local area and I plan to join my husband as we celebrate our 25th wedding anniversary on Aug 17th! I also plan to celebrate some exciting new developments for Hippy Grandma.



My plan is to kick back, read, write in my journal and move out of linear time for awhile. I intend to “be” not “do”.

I may bring the word “accomplish” back in September and I may not!

I think the world would be a happier place if we all focused less on “accomplishing” and more on “enjoying”.



Here is an excerpt from one of my favourite children’s books for summer (”The Squeeze More Inn”), by a local author Elizabeth Ferber and it describes a summer holiday beach day perfectly!


”We played there for hours, collecting shells, 
building a sandcastle, pretending we were mermaids, 
and sea monsters and movie stars.  We swam until we 
got wrinkles.  Then we had a picnic while the hot sun 
dried our salty skin.  In the afternoon we picked berries.  
We ate so many our tongues turned blue.  
There were just enough 
berries left for Maureen’s dad to bake us a big juicy pie.  At 
night we had a huge bonfire and roasted wieners.  The moon was 
gigantic and there were a million tiny stars.”

Enjoy your summer day!

peace, namaste & hippy love for generations!

Zoey ~ founding hippy of Hippy Grandma Eco-Boutique and life coach for women

Are you a heart-centered and “soul-filled shopper”? Know of a new baby arriving or looking for hippy baby clothes? Keep the heart, soul & hippy love flowing for generations with purchases from Hippy Grandma: an Eco-Boutique selling fair trade, one of a kind, earth friendly treasures.

Through your purchases, you help local artisans, hand-crafting grandmas on a pension, women’s fair trade co-ops and programs designed to support vulnerable mamas & babies. Please share the hippy love news widely and wildly with your soul brothers & sisters (copyright held by Hippy Grandma Ventures). www.hippygrandma.com

Zoey’s Top Ten Tips for Green Sailing

Having just returned from a 10 day sailing trip to Desolation Sound, BC, where re-provisioning is tricky due to lack of marine stores, I had plenty of practical opportunity to add to my ‘green sailing tip list’. These tips have been gleaned throughout 23 years of sailing in BC waters (most recently aboard our 35 ft Hunter sailboat ‘Orion’) with my husband and daughters.

Here are my top ten tips for green & practical sailing from the first mate and chief cook & bottle washer’s perspective:

1. Sail as much as possible as sailing by nature is ‘green’ as wind is the power source!
2. Use the ocean for composting fruit & vegetable peelings and coffee grounds.
3. Prior to leaving home, pack dry goods in Tupperware containers and zip loc bags to avoid having to dispose of cardboard containers and to save on space.
4. Add an ice block to the freezer/fridge to avoid an excess draw on the batteries.
5. Freeze bottled water at home and use this first as an ice source and then as fresh water once unthawed.
6. Bring solar powered lamps for reading at night.
7. Consider having solar panels and/or wind turbine installed.
8. Use white vinegar as a natural deoderizer for the head and all purpose cleaning agent.
9. Conserve water by washing dishes once/day.
10. Don’t forget the following essentials for the galley which add zest to non-perishable dishes and meals: cinnamon, garlic, sun dried tomatoes, onions, balsamic vinegar and for a special treat towards the end of the trip: Pillsbury biscuits, croissants, cookie dough and finally a box of brownie mix.

peace, namaste & hippy love for generations!

Zoey ~ founding hippy of Hippy Grandma Eco-tique and a happy sailor

Are you a heart-centered and “soulfilled shopper”? Know of a new baby arriving? Keep the heart, soul & hippy love flowing for generations with purchases from Hippy Grandma: an Eco-Boutique selling fair trade, one of a kind, earth friendly treasures.

Through your purchases, you help local artisans, hand-crafting grandmas on a pension, women’s fair trade co-ops and programs designed to support vulnerable mamas & babies. Please share the hippy love news widely and wildly with your soul brothers & sisters (copyright held by Hippy Grandma Ventures) .www.hippygrandma.com

Hippy Grandma’s Intuition: “Women, Intuition and Self-Care”

by Zoey Ryan ~ founding hippy of Hippy Grandma Eco-tique and life coach for women

From my perspective, elder women are sages! Being a sage includes: wisdom, intuition and gentleness, amoungst other qualities.

Intuition is an interesting one to ponder. Much has been written about “women’s intuition”, sometimes from the perspective of appreciation and depth, yet occasionally with a slightly minimizing and patronizing tone, discounting the richness and wisdom inherent in “women’s intuition.” One can sub-categorize this intuition as a “mother’s way of knowing”; “a nurse’s way of knowing”; “a healer’s way of knowing” etc.

Personally, I have experienced a little bit of trickiness when tapping into and planning to take action based on my intuition. This is also a “trickiness” that has been expressed by a number of my coaching clients. Since our egos/pain bodies/gremlins (one can use a variety of words to describe this type “energy field”) love attachment, continuity, the status quo, high drama, judgments etc; the trickiness becomes an interesting dialogue with ourselves to figure out if what we are “hearing” is our intuition or our ego. When faced with this dialogue, which can feel abit like a committee meeting with in us, the following phrase can be very helpful; “the body never lies”.

If you are interested, this week, tap into your intuition, your inner way of knowing. Be attentive to those other voices that may come in. Using your body as an indicator of intuition, where in your body does you intuition reside?

Intuition tends to be soft, gentle, neutral, flowing and centered in your body.

Ego/pain body/gremlin messages tend to feel strident, kind of whiny, negative and scattered.

Play around with this during the week!

Self-care Enchantments:

1. Think of a time that you experienced very strong intuition about something, and acted on it.

2. Think of a time that your ego, or pain body or gremlin was loud and insistent. For more information on “pain body’s” read any of Eckhart Tolle’s work like “The Power of Now”, or “A New Earth”.

3. Consider how intuition and ego feel different for you and learn how to tell the difference.

Peace, namaste & hippy love for generations!

Zoey

Are you a heart-centered and “soulfilled shopper”? Know of a new baby arriving? Keep the heart, soul & hippy love flowing for generations with purchases from Hippy Grandma: an Eco-Boutique selling fair trade, one of a kind, earth friendly treasures.

Through your purchases, you help local artisans, hand-crafting grandmas on a pension, women’s fair trade co-ops and programs designed to support vulnerable mamas & babies. Please share the hippy love news widely and wildly with your soul brothers & sisters (copyright held by Hippy Grandma Ventures) . www.hippygrandma.com

I personally have been ‘clean and sober’ for over 16 years, however, did have a pretty great ‘hippy brownie’ recipe in my younger days.

These days, my favorite cookbook, “rebar modern food cook book” by local BC chefs, Audrey Alsterberg & Wanda Urbanowicz has the most unbelievable recipe, which is my new ‘hippy grandma far out and fab’ brownie recipe.

Check out the ‘vegan fudge brownies’ on page 218 of their cookbook and let me know what you think! While you are cruising through the cook book, also try the ‘wilted spinach salad’!

peace, namaste & hippy love for generations,

Zoey ~ founding hippy at the hippy grandma eco-tique

Are you a heart centered and soul-filled shopper? Have a look through our on-line eco-tique featuring unique, green & groovy baby gifts and treasures. Our suppliers are grandmas on pensions, women solo-preneurs and women’s fair trade co-ops. Your purchases help care for Mother Earth and vulnerable pregnant moms and babies! Please share this information widely and wildly with your soul brothers and sisters!
www.hippygrandma.com

Eco-Tip

This is a very simple, cool tip I just learned about recently from April Farrall of Angelscents Holistic Healing in White Rock, BC, Canada (I had an amazing massage as well)!

If you have a fish in a fish bowl or tank, add some live, curly bamboo, which will live in the water, provide natural aeration and you won’t need to use an electric pump!

Groovy!

peace, namaste & hippy love for generations,

Zoey ~ founding hippy at hippy grandma eco-tique

Are you a heart centered, soul-filled & green shopper? Have a look through our on-line eco-boutique featuring unique, green & groovy baby gifts and treasures. Our suppliers are grandmas on pensions, women solo-preneurs and women’s fair trade co-ops. Your purchases help care for Mother Earth and vulnerable pregnant moms and babies! Please share this information widely and wildly with your soul brother and sisters!
www.hippygrandma.com