Coffee + Tea Brands We Love And Buy

Eco + Conscious Living

There are many questions, concerns, and things people think about when buying coffee and tea in a more conscious way. Like so many of these things there’s not a “right”…

My 10 Skincare And Makeup Favorites From Beautycounter

Eco + Conscious Living, lifestyle

The links are affiliate links so I make a commission if you click through and end up purchasing, you don’t pay any more and it lets me take a bit…

For Easy Conscious Shopping: 20 Ethical Clothing Brands We Choose

Baby, Eco + Conscious Living, Gift Ideas

In buying clothes, as with everything we bring into your home, we want to know about our purchases. To know that they are caring for people in the production process,…

A Trimester One Round Up

Baby, lifestyle

At the time of writing, I’m 4 months pregnant with our third child! As we go forward in this journey together, I wanted to let you in on the behind…

Thinking About Keeping Bees? Read This!

Eco + Conscious Living

Firstly, YES to you thinking about the idea of keeping bees, it’s a brilliant, rewarding and much needed journey. 80 – 96% of angiosperms (plants that flower and bear fruit)…

A Week’s Grocery Plan + Spending

Eco + Conscious Living

Alright, this week I’m taking you through exactly what we buy, spend, and eat in a week! the picture above is most of what we purchased, and there’s a full breakdown of…

How to do a Rubbish Bin Audit + Throw Less Away!

How to do a Rubbish Bin Audit + Throw Less Away! Ok a rubbish bin audit might not sound like the coolest thing in the world BUT, sending as little…

My Tips for Second Hand Shopping!

Eco + Conscious Living

If you’re like me, secondhand shopping doesn’t come naturally. Actually, clothes shopping doesn’t come naturally. Kezia secrets: Style hasn’t been something that I’ve ever felt really confident in and so…

How I get up at 5am and find my work time during the week!

So many people have asked about work schedule and getting up at 5am so here’s a chat on how and why I fit in my work hours with kids and…

My Top 10 from Beautycounter

Gift Ideas, Health and Wellbeing

It cracks me up sometimes that I have a big world with Beautycounter, cos I spend most of my days wearing zero makeup and in dirty clothes playing with kids…

Starting out with bees: Checking the Hive

At the time of recording it’s September, our bees have been here a month! And as they prepare for winter and store away honey, I went in to check the…

11 Things You’ll Need to Start the Bee Journey

Eco + Conscious Living

Before reading this, know that if you’re a beginner I’m only about one step ahead of you! But I want to share the journey from the start to make it…

WHO MADE MY CLOTHES? HOW WE SHOP MINDFULLY FOR ETHICAL CLOTHING

Eco + Conscious Living, Eco + Conscious Living

Clothing was one of the first places I started asking: Where did this come from? Who made this item? In so many areas we’ve moved far from the origins (and…

DIY Elderberry Syrup

Eco + Conscious Living, Health and Wellbeing, Vegan

This is really just an update on my process rather than a recipe or a good how to because I’m a total novice! But if you want my elderberry process…

The Green Edit: Home

Eco + Conscious Living

SHOP THE GREEN EDIT WHERE YOU ARE: UK Canada Australia    The Green Edit: Home, my first hardback book in real life print is now available in the UK, Canada, and Australia….

The start, the messy fumble forward, and the still messy now.

UPDATE

Let’s chat.  I wanted to chat a little as we launch into a new school year – those always feel like the beginning for me! When I’m coaching people on using…

Where We Shop for Clothes: Directory

Eco + Conscious Living

This can be an overwhelming journey to go on so take it one step at a time! Use what you have, budget well, and don’t jump straight to the expensive…

Some more of my journey.

This space online has always been my journey, so I’m going to tell you about another piece of my journey in the last two years. I’m always happy to be…

My 10 Beautycounter Faves (while there’s 20% off for new customers!)

Eco + Conscious Living, Instagram Live Notes, lifestyle

Beautycounter has been my go to for 2 years now.  Initially I placed an order feeling totally overwhelmed by cleaner makeup options but knowing I cared, anyone else?! I was…

FOOD BUDGET MONTH: WEEK 3/4

WEEK 3 (For weeks 1 and 2 and and intro see THIS post) Well it took me all the way to week 3 or 4 to realize that given the…

FOOD BUDGET MONTH: WEEK 2

lifestyle

WEEK 2! For an intro and week 1 click HERE! To see a tour of the haul with ideas on how we use the items click HERE. For the highlights…

FOOD BUDGET MONTH (UK)!

lifestyle

Well yes, it’s taken us 7 months across moving to get real with our budget again. We pretty budget strictly in all areas of life because it actually takes away…

The Better Christmas List 2019

Eco + Conscious Living, Gift Ideas

click here for my Better Gift Guide for US Shoppers  click here for my Better Gift Guide for UK shoppers    Each year writing these lists is one of my…

Working with Beautycounter: 1 Year in I’m answering your questions (and all of mine!)

Eco + Conscious Living, Health and Wellbeing, lifestyle

Here we go! I said was going to do a one year on recap and Q&A on Beautycounter and you all sent me your questions so here we go. A…

The Fall + Holiday Lines from Beautycounter Reviewed

Eco + Conscious Living, Gift Ideas, Health and Wellbeing

Two weeks ago the new seasonal fall/holiday line of safer products from Beautycounter arrived at my door. I’ve been working with the safer skincare company for 10 months now as…

Jeans: “It’s not me, it’s you.”

Health and Wellbeing

A year ago Everlane sent me these jeans and they fit really differently, more loosely.  Right at that time I posted a 9 months in and 9 months out photo…

Pregnancy + Parenthood Blog Post Roundup!

Baby, lifestyle

I wanted to do a round up of all the pregnancy post partum and child related posts so that they all pop up in the same place for easy access….

Budget 3: The 8 things we do to save every day!

The biggest single move that helps us save money is … just budgeting. I’m not kidding. By doing nothing strategic except being aware of what is coming in and going…

My Favourite Things (The English Version!)

Eco + Conscious Living, lifestyle

Alright! Now we’re here in England I’m making up for all the times I’ve posted a blog and my links haven’t worked for all of you in the UK! Going…

Budget 2: Why Why Why?!

If you missed the first email about budgeting I talked all about our overall system for breaking down what we make into allocated areas to let us know we’re living…