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

“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

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

Our wonderful suppliers, Lorraine Pond and Robyn Hardy (Bobs & Lolo) have received a Juno nomination for their wonderful ‘Action Packed’ CD! Far out and Groovy!

“Bobs & Lolo are dedicated to connecting kids to the natural world with music, movement and make-believe. Sharing musical stories that engage, inspire and educate, they teach kids to care about themselves, their neighbours and the planet.

Robyn Hardy – Bobs
With a background in teaching and linguistics, Robyn is an enthusiastic and caring individual with a passion for conservation education. On stage she loves to sing, dance, clap, snap and tap!

Lorraine Pond – Lolo
As an environmental educator and kinesiology major, Lorraine is an energetic performer with a flare for creating connections between young audiences and the natural world. On stage she loves to sing, dance, wiggle, slide and glide!

Growing up on Vancouver Island, Robyn and Lorraine have always shared a love of the natural world and a passion for working with children. Creating the dynamic duo Bobs & Lolo has allowed them to combine their diverse academic backgrounds with a mutual love of teaching and the creative arts.”

(from www.bobsandlolo.com)

Lorraine & Robyn, we want to send you a big green & groovy shout out on your nomination! Send a Bobs & Lolo CD to your fav hippy kid from our on-line store!

peace, namaste & hippy love for generations,

Zoey – founding hippy ceo (chief enthusiasm officer) at hippy grandma & life & biz coach for women

Are you a heart centered and soul filled shopper? 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 Hippy Grandma widely and wildly with your soul brothers & sisters.
www.hippygrandma.com

February is all about “the heart”! We have Valentines Day and Heart month with the Heart & Stroke Foundation, not to mention our ‘far out & fab fan contest’ for February!

As some of you know, I had a heart “attack” in September. My heart attack occurred after receiving a serious health diagnosis for my husband and after meditating on opening the heart and “walking right into the sharp point of the pain”. There could be numerous discussions about the timing of all of this, however, today, I want to tell you more about the type of heart attack I had, as many women I talk to have never heard about this kind.

A “heart attack” or myocardial infarction (MI) by definition, occurs when the blood supply to a part of the heart muscle is cut off because of an “occlusion or obstruction”. Most of us know about coronary artery disease and about “fatty plaques” that can block or occlude blood vessels in the heart and lead to a heart attack. This is the only type of a heart attack I knew about, even after being in “health care” for over 20 years in a “previous life”.

The type of heart attack I had; occurs predominantly in women, is likely under-reported, is not very common (thankfully) and seems to be associated with hormone levels. I want to tell you about it so you will have personal awareness and be attentive to your body, even if you are healthy and do not have heart disease! I had what is called a “spontaneous coronary artery dissection” (SCAD) and what happens is that a few layers of the artery wall pull away or self dissect, creating a “flap” which then pulls away from the artery wall and stops the blood flow. Upon investigation, my arteries were completely clear of “plaques” and I do not have “heart disease” in the way most people think of it. The symptoms of both types of heart attack are the same though.

Here are the symptoms I experienced; for about 2 days prior, I felt a tightness in my chest, which felt like I was developing bronchitis; I felt abit light headed, during the “heart attack”, I felt like a 50- 200 lb dog was sitting on my chest and I had difficulty breathing, this sensation would ease for a while and then it would resume. I had the “heavy dog sitting on my chest” sensation, three times or so and it lasted about 20 minutes each time. I had very little pain! My reference for physical pain is childbirth and relatively speaking, I had virtually no pain, just a slight discomfort in the right (not left) side of my neck, shoulder and arm. I felt pretty calm and relaxed until I googled “symptoms of a heart attack for women” and found I had about 8 out of 10. At this point, I decided I should go to the hospital, still thinking I was being very silly and melodramatic. Very sensibly, I did not drive myself to emerg, I had my daughter drive me. When I arrived in emerg and told them I was having chest tightness & heaviness and difficulty breathing, I was whisked right in. My blood pressure was “sky high”.

My story has a very happy ending; I am healthy, happy and alive. I did not need a stent or bypass. I received incredible medical care and attention. In my recuperation, I was exhausted for about a month and then my energy started to return, although I could resume my walking program almost right away (with my Dr’s OK). I had “critical illness” insurance, so could relax and not worry about finances. I have since talked to another woman who had a very similar experience and apparently there is a North American research study going on about SCAD, let me know if you want more info.

Here is my big “surprise”; I really didn’t experience significant pain, it was more discomfort, heaviness and chest tightness!

Here is my learning: trust my body’s wisdom, listen to the messages of my heart, do not minimize intuitive concerns, know what a “healthy body” and organs feel like, understand the mind/body connection (I was feeling pretty stressed about my husband), know the symptoms of a heart attack, understand that a heart attack doesn’t always contain a lot of “pain” as I was used to thinking of pain, ask for help and don’t drive if I think I am having another heart attack! This experience also re-validated the importance of self-care, a healthy lifestyle, loving relationships and the importance of living each moment fully present and in the now.

Please share this information with your women friends!

peace, namaste & hippy love for generations,

Zoey – founding hippy & ceo at hippy grandma

Are you a heart centered and soul filled shopper? 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 Hippy Grandma widely and wildly with your soul brothers & sisters.
www.hippygrandma.com

These are the jackets and this is the entrepreneur, who inspired me to create “Hippy Grandma”! For me, the 60’s are represented by my peach chenille bedspread and what a green & groovy way to pass on a legacy by gifting a hippy baby with a chenille jacket?

Joyce says…

“I began my business in 1978 in order to be able to stay at home and raise my daughter. I began making baby and children’s hair accessories and continued along that path for 25 years. This led to sewing Heirloom Baby Bonnets which also opened the door to Kozy Koats. I have always enjoyed creating beautiful treasures for babies and children. I enjoy searching for unique fabrics and especially searching for vintage material to give them new purpose. I love babies, can you tell”?

Joyce is an amazing seamstress. She creates her baby clothes from a home based studio and imbues her products with spirit grandma love.

peace, namaste & hippy love for generations,

Zoey – founding hippy & ceo at hippy grandma

Are you a heart centered and soul filled shopper? 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 Hippy Grandma widely and wildly with your soul brothers & sisters.
www.hippygrandma.com

Christmas Morning 2009 in Hippy Heaven, Yelapa, Mexico

Hotel Lagunita, Yelapa

By Zoey Ryan

The gentle waves muffle the Mexican “rancho polka music” which has started again after a brief respite. The music plays all night on Christmas Eve and for me is a strange blend of irritating and slightly hypnotizing. Earplugs simply take the edge off. Earplugs plus pillows, with my head sandwiched, seem the most effective method of muffling, which I successfully utilized at 4:17 am.

I sip my coffee, wishing it were organic Chiapas blend but enjoying what we brought from home. The roosters interject an occasional crow, although their additions are less frequent since sunrise.

I hear a water taxi leaving, a dog barking. The tiny hummingbird hovers at the brilliant red flower spindle. I hear the slap slap of flip flops on the stone stairs. I would have said ‘thongs’ a few years back but my daughters have trained me otherwise.

The temperature rises and a black and yellow striped butterfly glides in front of the tiled patio. The musky wet smell of the jungle intermingles with wood smoke, sea water smells, manure, diesel, fragrant flowers and a waft of laundry detergent. The air is wet and each breath seems to bath individual bronchioli.

I saw a furry little mouse this morning, hiding behind the dish soap (bright orange “Salvo- mi Salva Detergente Liquido Concentrado para Platos”). I startled it and so fast I wasn’t sure I had actually seen it, the tiny thing squeezed under the brown and gold Osterizer blender we use to make fresh fruit smoothies (our favorite is a papaya, banana, coconut, yogurt blend). Or, maybe, what I saw was a gecko.

The mama grey whale and her calf are quiet this morning. Perhaps they too are exhausted after the marathon night of music.

The ‘gang of teenagers’, my phrase to describe the flock of wild canaries who swoop and chatter in the morning, following the sun along the trees, scream by. They are quite unruly.

I notice a new flower has opened, yellow with saffron orange streaks and a fragrance that is mildly spicy. A lime plops to the ground. A velvety brown bird comes for a visit, perching on the iron railing at eye level. I hear chacalacas in the distance. Their sound is identical to their name. I am waiting for the pair of military macaws to cross high overhead in their daily fly by. It is said that there is a tree up river where many macaws roost and if you get there by 5 am you can see them. I’m not up that early here.

My mosquito bite itches, even with a thick pink coating of calamine lotion, glop, glop. The smell of the lotion transports me to my childhood on the Prairies and hot, lazy summer days playing in the fields and flushing out gopher holes. I wonder if I will get Dengue fever and am mildly concerned. Would it be gopher karma?

The church bells rang early this morning, calling the community to mass. I counted 16 bells, with a pause and then another bell. I may have miscounted.

The ants are busy this morning, scavenging the crumbs from the banana bread we ate out on the patio yesterday. A bright orange butterfly floats by and another magical Yelapa Christmas Day begins.

Our family in Yelapa (minus one)!

I hope you enjoyed my “Yelapa day” as much as we enjoyed our holiday. I’m back now, excited about 2010 and doing some great values based business planning.

peace & namaste,

Zoey – founding hippy & ceo at hippy grandma

Are you a heart centered and soul filled shopper? 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 Hippy Grandma widely and wildly with your soul brothers & sisters.
www.hippygrandma.com

The 13 Days of Green & Groovy Christmas Shopping From Hippy Grandma: A Fair Trade Earth Friendly Eco-Boutique. Hippy Love for generations- gifts from the heart!

Day 13

On the thirteenth day of on-line shopping for a green & groovy Christmas, hippy grandma reminded me:

* Wise women of all ages love a lunar based calendar, it taps into ancient wisdom and cycles and The 13 Moon Calendar makes a groovy gift for any type of hippy!

This calendar is lunar based and like the farmer’s almanac incorporates celestial, biological, agricultural, mythological and chronological processes. Women, who are naturally cyclical beings tend to love re-calibrating to natural time. The new year in the 13 moon calendar starts at the end of July. Regular price: $20

Blow out price for final 6 months (7 moons) : $10

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Enjoy your heart centered and soul filled shopping! 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 Hippy Grandma widely and wildly with your soul brothers & sisters. www.hippygrandma.com

peace & namaste,

Zoey – CEO & founding hippy at hippy grandma

Zoey Ryan
life, business & leadership coach for women
inspiration * clarity * wisdom * enchantment
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604-323-3700

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