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

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

We strongly believe in paying a fair & honest wage and wholesale price for beautiful treasures. This is honors the entrepreneur and supports socially conscious and aware purchasing and gifting!

Our ‘hippy love welcome to the world’ bundle is our ’signature treasure’ and I used it to show the hours of ‘woman time’ that go into this gift of love.

This love bundles includes the following treasures with approximations of time:
- a baby jacket made from vintage chenille ~ 6 hours of labour
- a bamboo blend baby towel ~ 1 hours of labour
- tie dyed onsie ~ 1 hour of labour
- Ayurvedic Aromatherapy oils for mama & baby and soap and shampoo ~ 4 hours of labour, including wildcrafting the herbs
- hand-made toy ~ 1 hour of labour
- a bamboo blend wash-cloth ~ 1/2 hour of labour
- Dream Child CD ~ 1 hour of labour
- packing, promoting, marketing, wrapping and shipping ~ ~1/2 hour of labour

Total: minimum of 15 hours

Sending this love bundle to a special baby not only makes a unique & extraordinary gift; it also supports women entrepreneurs who are paid a fair wage for their beautiful works!

See more of our treasures at our hippy grandma eco-tique.

peace, namaste & hippy love for generations,

Zoey ~ founding hippy

Are you a heart centered, soul-filled & green shopper? Have a look through our on-line eco-boutique. 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 sisters!
www.hippygrandma.com

This month our “far out and fab” featured treasure is our “Mother Earth Bags”. Hand-made by Janet Auty-Carlisle, these versatile bags are made from re-cycled sari fabric and have a multitude of uses.

Janet donates the proceeds from her sale of these bags to programs devoted to helping women and children who have suffered abuse.

Join our facebook group and add a wall post to enter to win one of these fabulous bags, or you can puchase one directly from our on-line boutique to help a wonderful cause!

peace, namaste & hippy love for generations,

Zoey – founding hippy of hippy grandma eco-boutique

Are you a heart centered, soul-filled & green shopper? Have a look through our on-line eco-boutique. 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! www.hippygrandma.com

This isn’t actually my family but I love this picture of the three generations and the beautiful grandma!

My two sets of grandparents were very very different! On my dad’s side, my grandpa was very strict and very stern, of stoic Swedish stock. They were farmers on the Canadian Prairies. I remember feeling a bit scared of my grandpa. They were quite religious and didn’t drink or smoke or read much other than the Bible. My grandma died when I was quite young, she was softer and made wonderful cookies.

My grandparents on my mom’s side were the polar opposites. They were both German and spoke only German until my mom was seven. My grandma had dyed jet black hair and wore bright red lipstick and sold make up door to door. She made amazing hazelnut cakes, poppy seed loaves and always had coconut candies in the freezer. My grandpa drove a moving truck and smoked a pipe.

Both of my sets of grandparents and my parents lived on farms during the depression. I don’t think I will ever imagine the hardship of this and the struggles of having huge families and very little food, clothing, warmth or shelter.

I am very grateful to my parents and grandparents!

peace, namaste & hippy love for generations,

Zoey - founding hippy ceo of hippy grandma

Are you a heart centered and soul-filled & green shopper? Have a look through our on-line eco-boutique. 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! www.hippygrandma.com