New on the Scene – Founded by self-professed perfume-aholic, Amanda Walker, A Perfume Organic offers a fine array of unique scents by blending only the finest USDA certified organic botanicals, hand-poured in small batches to maintain purity.

Manhattan-brewed, these 100% organic blends come in four original flavors:  Green, Urban Organic, Perfumed Wine – Rose, and White Magik.  With a citrus, lavender and grapefruit mix – Urban Organic sounds like my cup of tea.

Say good bye to those big box perfumes, most of which are formulated entirely with cheap chemicals, which are bad for both your body and the air we breathe.  A Perfume Organic bottles are petite, and they look pretty enough to keep.  They’re packaged in flower seed-embedded boxes – who knows, if you plant the box, you just might be able to step back and smell the roses while smelling great, too.  Take your pick @ aperfumeorganic.com.

Need to add a reading room, yoga studio or mini-office to your home?  How about a factory-built prefab addition? Texas-based Interloop designed this prefab addition for a client who wanted to expand his home by attaching a reading room to his master bedroom and more fully appreciate the surrounding trees and yard.

“Have you tried these?! They are the LOUDEST chip bags ever!!”

My friend had no idea what I was talking about on our most recent grocery shopping trip to Ralph’s.  If anyone hasn’t noticed (or heard) yet, Sun Chips has come out with the first 100% compostable chip bag.  The company has guaranteed the bags to be able to break down in active compost bins in just 14 weeks, voila!

These bags are notoriously (and might I say annoyingly?) loud, but for good reason; they are made of corn-based plastic (polyactide, PLA) instead of the traditional petroleum-based plastic (biaxially oriented polypropylene, OPP) and are much more pure to nature because of their comparatively more sustainable resource.  And while Frito-Lay admits that not many Americans have composting bins in their backyard, it’s safe to say that these compostable bags are better than the OPP bags filling up our landfills.

So get yourself a bag and let it be heard!  It’s the same great taste now with an extra crunch before you even take a bite.

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