Win 200 business cards from 24 Hour Print

It's time for another business card giveaway.  Thanks so much to 24 Hour print for offering 200 business cards to one winner at our blog.  The prize details are as follows:

200 Business Cards for one (1) Winner
2×3.5 Standard Business Card Size
Quantity: 200
Colors: 4/4 Color Both Sides
Paper Options: 14 pt. UV Coating on Front or 14 pt. UV Coating on both sides
Ready To Ship In: 3 Business Days
Free US shipping only

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#1 DAD Father's Day Soap Sets by Aquarian Bath

Need a special gift for the #1 DAD in your life?  Check out our new gift sets.   New soaps to choose from for these sets include Key Lime Patchouli and Cedarwood.

For dad and made by dad.  Special thanks so our Aquarian Bath's VP Scott who is now weighing all the oils for the soap batches at Aquarian Bath.  He loves our deodorant formula so much, he wanted to include it with the gift set.  Choose from Unisex, Teat Tree or Spearmint.  Sets are available with just soaps and deodorant or with soap, shampoo bar and deodorant, plus 2 handmade cedar soap decks.  We ship fast with USPS priroity mail.  Check out the soaps sets at AquarianBath.com.

Scenery from Washington Oaks Garden

We recently enjoyed a trip to Washington Oaks Gardens.  The roses smelled wonderful.  

There was a lovely collection of colors and shapes, yellows, whites, pinks, and reds.

An the beautiful blue Salvias caught my eye.  

On our next visit we may bring the fishing poles along.

Grow Sustainable Quinoa for your Kitchen

Quinoa has become trendy food worldwide, but at what cost? In Bolivia where it cultivated the demand for this super food is leading growers to abandon traditional land management practices.  Crops are not being rotated, and farmers are over planting llama grazing area.  The llama manure is required to organically fertilize the quinoa.  Poorer people in Bolivia and Peru, where the Quinoa is also grown, are no longer able to afford this traditional staple grain.

I recently planted a little raised bed of Quinoa from a seed trade.  Mine were planted a couple of weeks after these flowering and seeding Quinoa plants at the Bonner Center Community Garden. They are a lot like Amaranth, but seem to be more dense with seeds. If you like eating Quinoa, you can grow your own.  Or if you know someone who loves Quinoa, let them know they can grow their own  Seeds are available from SustainableSeedco.com.  If you have never winnowed grains before I it very easy and best to do on a breezy day.  Check out this how to webpage for winnowing seeds.

Man with Winnow by Vincent van Gogh

Here are some other beautiful flowers that were blooming when I took the Quinoa photos.

Zinnia

Wild growing Phlox

Aquarian Bath Welcomes Bitcoin

Aquarian Bath has recently added bitcoin as payment method in our main online store at AquarianBath.com. All product prices are now listed in USD and Bitcoin.  

Shop now for for ecofriendly handmade bath and body products.  We ship internationally within 1-4 business days, but usually next day.  Our products have been featured in the book Plastic Free by Beth Terry and British Vogue.

If you haven't heard of bitcoin, check out this trailer for the new film The Rise of Bitcoin.  And here is a little introduction from Wikipedia:

"Bitcoin (BTC) is a digital currency first described in a 2008 paper by pseudonymousdeveloper Satoshi Nakamoto, who called it a peer-to-peer, electronic cash system.   Bitcoin creation and transfer is based on an open source cryptographic protocol and is not managed by any central authority. Each bitcoin is subdivided down to eight decimal places, forming 100 million smaller units called satoshis.  Bitcoins can be transferred through a computer or smartphone without an intermediate financial institution."