O’s elephants

My little son O really has a thing for elephants (or maybe it his mother/father that are trying to introduce elephant to be to his liking). Just watch this: 

Cute son in Elephant body from Cubus.

Organic Elephant bed clothes, from Åhléns.

Elephant Welcome-to-the-world-card from O’s english grandma Rachel.

Elephant baby towel, from Åhléns.

  And at last, the elephant Tim Adam and I bought when we where in Edinburgh last year. Maybe not O’s own thing, but it goes good with the theme. I am sure when he gets his own room, it will be full of elephants.

Trading Day – A new (old) kind of shopping

Last saturday, it was the national trading day here in Sweden and as I get most of my clothes from trading days, I (of course) participated in this, and got 7 nice new things, 5 for me and 2 for Adam to renew our closets with. As it is good both for the environment and your wallet to trade clothes you’re tired of for “new” ones, I thought I was going to share with you some photos of my latest trading day. Trading days are a new (old) kind and fun way to shop things.

The day started off with that I woke up super early, a few hours before Adam, made breakfast and wrote Adam a note so he would know that I went out.

I had Ådi with me as company, plus a bag of clothes I was bored of and have not used for several years. As my closet is a real black hole, I do not even remember owning a few of the items I brought with me.

Around 11 I arrived at the trading day. As this is a informative post about trading days, I shall talk a little about what you do here. Normally you leave in your items between a certain period of hours (here between 10-12). You get a note saying that you have left in X items, which means that you can trade for that amount of items. If you leave in 5 items, but only find one you want to take home, you can of course only take that one thing with you. A normal thing is that a person who doesn’t  want more then a certain amount of items give their note away to other people.

A trading day is mostly a fun event, but I have been to one-two of them where people have been wild and grabbed everything they could, pushed and swore at each other. This is not okey I think, but it is up to the event leaders to have control over the situation. But if one person are rude, I normally tell them off, as it is not okey to push people around. The trading day I went to was calm though and people were considerate.

My finds on this day was a dress, a blazer, a skirt and two shirts for me. I also found Adam a jacket and a t-shirt which did suit him well. Fully satisfied with myself, I walked home, but passed the park instead, so I could see all the cherry trees blossom. A good ending on a good day.

 

Dirty Internet

Image belongs to the GreenPeace organisation. 

GreenPeace, an organisation which I support monthly has came up with a new campaign about the dirty energy used by big Internet companies like Apple and Microsoft. The energy being used to secure that Internet keeps running is mainly coal based, which is one of the most dirtiest kinds of energy that exists. Every click you make on Internet uses up this energy, making the world dirtier. A company that change their energy use to sustainble forms like sun energy and wind is Facebook. Facebook was using coal energy before, but stopped with it in a former campaign from GreenPeace (which I also participated in). That if something shows how easy it is to get your voice heard.

Just sign the petition here, and make your clicks a little greener.