All girls t shirts are now fully listed online for the first time ready for:
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5th February 2013
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Showing posts with label organic. Show all posts
Showing posts with label organic. Show all posts
Friday, 1 February 2013
Monday, 14 January 2013
Comments on Start of the Week 14th January 2013
Is our population split in half into those who agree in climate change and those who do not. Or do the majority agree but eyes aren't opened and we're just too busy to change our ways...
My husband was someone who was just too busy, and now we have solar panels on our roof and a gas bill that has halved, bikes, we travelled from Sao Paulo to Santiago by bus and now its more part of our day-to-day. But how can more of it become part of our day-to-day and what next is the big thing that we can do to reduce our carbon footprint.
In the last 5 years we've had three children, I only ever really wanting two for ecological reasons but then we were blessed with twins! So our car grew, our toy consumption has grown and there is the challenge of reducing food waste with a very fussy eater! Their impact on our home has aged furniture, carpets and walls at a phenomenal rate and trying to encourage a small child to cut something out the edge of a piece of paper seems almost impossible, and I find myself ranting about unnecessary waste. How do you avoid the cheap plastic 'stuff' and toys that last no more than a day. How can we afford the more expensive that can be handed on or will last ten years or more, or have the time to buy second hand.
And I wonder why our precious resources are used to pay for plastic windows that are only designed to last for ten years yet those same resources could be used to make windows that would last for 50 years. Do we need to pull in resources to subsidise resources that must me used with a higher moral and ethical purpose.
Yet our capitalist society means that we must have choice and we can still pull out the trump card that global warming is a myth, and for as long as the American Republican movement has a voice funded by oil the rest of world seems to remain in denial or apathy. So soon may the day come when Nature and its resources can support our economies, we won't recklessly purchase quick hit/fix cheap ephemeral stuff that doesn't last, we'll all be able to afford it! Will that day come too late?
Tony Juniper seems to be a great optimist, so lets open our ears and see what he has to say...
My passion for the natural landscape combined with being a Mum has led me to set up a business that makes, by hand, children's clothing with an environemental conscience using organic-fairtrade farbic, using 100% renewable energy and aiming to be producing zero-waste.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01ptbwt
SarahSidders.co.uk
My husband was someone who was just too busy, and now we have solar panels on our roof and a gas bill that has halved, bikes, we travelled from Sao Paulo to Santiago by bus and now its more part of our day-to-day. But how can more of it become part of our day-to-day and what next is the big thing that we can do to reduce our carbon footprint.
In the last 5 years we've had three children, I only ever really wanting two for ecological reasons but then we were blessed with twins! So our car grew, our toy consumption has grown and there is the challenge of reducing food waste with a very fussy eater! Their impact on our home has aged furniture, carpets and walls at a phenomenal rate and trying to encourage a small child to cut something out the edge of a piece of paper seems almost impossible, and I find myself ranting about unnecessary waste. How do you avoid the cheap plastic 'stuff' and toys that last no more than a day. How can we afford the more expensive that can be handed on or will last ten years or more, or have the time to buy second hand.
And I wonder why our precious resources are used to pay for plastic windows that are only designed to last for ten years yet those same resources could be used to make windows that would last for 50 years. Do we need to pull in resources to subsidise resources that must me used with a higher moral and ethical purpose.
Yet our capitalist society means that we must have choice and we can still pull out the trump card that global warming is a myth, and for as long as the American Republican movement has a voice funded by oil the rest of world seems to remain in denial or apathy. So soon may the day come when Nature and its resources can support our economies, we won't recklessly purchase quick hit/fix cheap ephemeral stuff that doesn't last, we'll all be able to afford it! Will that day come too late?
Tony Juniper seems to be a great optimist, so lets open our ears and see what he has to say...
My passion for the natural landscape combined with being a Mum has led me to set up a business that makes, by hand, children's clothing with an environemental conscience using organic-fairtrade farbic, using 100% renewable energy and aiming to be producing zero-waste.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01ptbwt
SarahSidders.co.uk
Monday, 7 January 2013
Christmas is over, the house is all bare
Minimalism returns and out with the glare
A coming of age, once felt sad to see it go
Yet now as a Mum, relief, put away the tinsel and fake snow!
Looking forward to spring for fresh inspiration: green gardens, flowers emerging, watching nature in its rush for new life and collecting and observing for new ideas. With January here children are returning to school, new collections are being designed and new colours of organic fairtrade fabric have arrived.
The fondness for the bird designs is growing - with the oyster catcher skirt, for ladies and children being ever popular. The 2013 design will be with an orange spot lining.
Happy New Year from Sarah Sidders Designs
Minimalism returns and out with the glare
A coming of age, once felt sad to see it go
Yet now as a Mum, relief, put away the tinsel and fake snow!
Looking forward to spring for fresh inspiration: green gardens, flowers emerging, watching nature in its rush for new life and collecting and observing for new ideas. With January here children are returning to school, new collections are being designed and new colours of organic fairtrade fabric have arrived.
The fondness for the bird designs is growing - with the oyster catcher skirt, for ladies and children being ever popular. The 2013 design will be with an orange spot lining.
Happy New Year from Sarah Sidders Designs
Sunday, 28 October 2012
Hambledon Gallery collection
Hand sewing corsages out of contrasting fair trade organic velvet, cotton and liberty lawn ready to sew onto velvet skirts and T shirts to go into the Hambledon Gallery tomorrow.
Available from 6-12 months to 6 years. Corsages available separately to order.
Sarah Sidders Designs
Available from 6-12 months to 6 years. Corsages available separately to order.
Sarah Sidders Designs
Saturday, 27 October 2012
Into the shed and new lines for winter 2012
Making lovely organic fair trade baby cord skirts in sumptuous navy and soft purple, ready for sale at Designed in Dorset next week
Look at other skirt designs made out of organic fair-trade fabric on the website
www.sarahsidders.co.uk
Look at other skirt designs made out of organic fair-trade fabric on the website
www.sarahsidders.co.uk
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