Designer Stella McCartney has announced plans for a new line of clothes to debut later this year at GapKids and babyGap. “For years now I’ve wanted to create a collection for kids, it’s something I’ve often been asked about,” McCartney revealed to Vogue magazine. “I believe that this one off collaboration will be a great way for customers to be able to participate in the Stella McCartney brand.”
No news out yet on whether the new line will be as animal-friendly as McCartney’s past creations. The vegetarian designer supports PETA and does not use fur or leather in her designs, although she does design with wool, silk and other non-lethally derived animal fabrics. The forecast is favorable for affordability: “I believe that kids clothing should be more accessibly priced, which is particularly important at the moment given the current climate,” she said.
It’s June, and that means two free weeks for new clients at BlueBonnet Diaper Service. The new service is now serving Dallas, Fort Worth and the Denton triplex area, including Frisco, Plano, Little Elm, Corinth, Lake Dallas, The Colony, Flower Mound, Lewisville, Keller, Southlake, Trophy Club, Grapevine, Colleyville, Bedford, Hurst, Euless, Watauga, North Richland Hills, Sanger, Aubrey, Pilot Point and Gainesville. (Whew! That’s a lot of dirty diapers!)
BlueBonnet also sells cloth diaper supplies, including Thirsties diaper covers, Happy Tushies Wonderbags, Snappi fasteners, 54-quart diaper pails and Citrus Circles deoderizing discs. Diaper service plans start from economical basic monthly plans to extended service plans and gift plans that include all the supplies you’ll need to start cloth diapering. [click to continue…]
What makes a home green, comfortable, healthy and inexpensive to maintain? Find out on June 20 when Terry Jensen speaks in the Trinity River Audubon Center in Dallas on achieving personal energy independence in a green, comfortable and healthy home.
“As energy rates continue to rise, achieving financial independence must include achieving energy independence, too,” Jensen says. “This means understanding and implementing renewable energy, energy efficiency and energy conservation in your house. Come understand practical renewable energy for residences and then learn what is important and what is not important when building or remodeling green.” [click to continue…]
This word just in from Fort Worth doula Hannah Reasoner on a new movement to support the future of natural childbirth in Tarrant County: a birth network similar to the one at BirthNetwork.org. The fledgling Birth Network of Tarrant County needs help getting started from local birth professionals. “We are planning a meeting for later this summer for birthing professionals (doctors, midwives, doulas, childbirth educators, chiropractors, lactation consultants … the list goes on),” she explains. ” In addition, we are looking for professionals who are actively practicing the 10 Steps of the Mother-Friendly Childbirth Initiative. ”
If you or a birth professional you know would be interested in being part of creating the Birth Network of Tarrant County, e-mail Reasoner with your contact information.
Give your child the essential tools for conscious and creative living with Conscious Kids Camp, from the North Texas Peace Learning Center in collaboration with Pure Wellness Intl. Conscious Kids Camp is designed to celebrate heart-centered creativity, consciousness and presence natural to childhood.
This camp, held in Uptown Dallas for children ages 3 through 12, run Monday/Wednesday/Friday mornings for four weeks, offering fun and meaningful activities designed to help children thrive and adapt appropriately to their environment. [click to continue…]
Believing that it is vital that the leaders of tomorrow develop peaceful problem solving skills today, the North Texas Peace Learning Center is offering not one but five different peace camps this summer.
Peacemaker Day Camp sessions are five mornings of fun, creative and meaningful activities, immersed in nature and designed to help children develop the skills necessary to live a peaceful life. Throughout the week, children learn and practice peaceful problem-solving with a different focus each day.
- Monday: Peace for me The importance of inner peace
- Tuesday: Peace for us Daily relationships, cooperation, communication
- Wednesday: Peace for everyone Justice and peace among communities
- Thursday: Peace for the planet Planetary care and appreciation
- Friday: Peace among nations Raising interpersonal peacemaking skills to the international level
Also Friday: a Peace Party! [click to continue…]
Do failing grandparents and kids mix? Some 20 million Americans today fall into the category of the Sandwich Generation –- families caring for both elderly parents and young children. In these multigenerational households, grandparents and children joust for priority. Parents who assumed their households would expand to accommodate their parents as easily as their hearts swelled to accommodate second and third babies discover a different world.
Camp Building Bridges is an Oklahoma camp seeking to support teens who are growing up in the middle of the sandwich. North Texas Natural Family heard from Linda Ross at the Dallas chapter of that Alzheimer’s Association with news of a young boy who needs community help to get him to camp this summer.
“I am working with a family comprised of a 64-year-old early onset grandmother who is the primary breadwinner for her 41-year-old disabled daughter and her 13-year-old son, who is an honor student, animal lover and a great kid,” she writes. “He is having a really hard time with both the women in his life being in need of so much help. He needs help!
“We are trying to raise funds to send him to Camp Building Bridges in Oklahoma this summer. It is a camp for children with Alzheimer’s disease in their families, a place where they can be with other kids struggling with the same issues and also just be kids for a week. We are seeking to raise the $600 camp fee for this young man to attend. Any ideas?” [click to continue…]
New parents-to-be alert: Join local lactation consultant Sharon Mattes of Natural Beginnings for an in-depth, research-based class on breastfeeding tools and techniques, designed especially for parents. This personalized small-group experience on June 20 in Garland is the perfect prenatal introduction for expectant mothers and fathers.
You’ll learn about today’s best, freshest tools and techniques to make breastfeeding easy, including DVDs, videos, baby dolls for siblings, pillows and accessories and breast pump demonstrations. [click to continue…]
Do you find it as tough to block out the hype about chemical-saturated sunscreens as we do? Let’s not even bring up the greenwashing imposters who gussy up their products to look like healthy, green alternatives—all based on topping off the chemical cocktail with a drop or two of aloe vera or tea tree oil. No, we’re talking about the full frontal assault from the big guys. These guys are the ones who make it sound like we’re all going to drop dead if we’re not slathered up with the latest high-tech chemical to offer SPFs in the triple digits.
It’s more likely to be the other way around. Many sunscreen chemicals are potent free radical generators. leading to increased cellular damage and changes that could actually lead to cancer. Hormone-mimicking parabens wreak havoc with their potent estrogenic effects. The skin soaks up synthetic chemicals that end up stored in ever-increasing concentrations in fat cells. [click to continue…]
Let’s keep this real: Do you know any little girls who actually want muted organic designs for their bedrooms? We’re betting there are more young fans of pink (fairies, flowers and unicorns, anyone?) than girls who are begging for the kind of earthy, tonal shades usually associated with organic bedding.
Fill those cravings with an injection of color from Amy Butler Design. [click to continue…]
