Flowers & Plants Can Be More Than Just Pretty.

Did you know some flowers and plants can give us better indoor quality, reducing toxins? I didn’t. 

The first time I read about it was on The @Honest Company Blog, and a few weeks later also

read about it on the book Healthy Child Healthy World by the author Christopher Gavigan, also one of the Founders of the Company. 

If you are curious to know more about the book, you can access the link bellow:

http://outdoorfunbrazil.blogspot.com.br/2014/02/hi-all-i-have-great-tip-for-you-all.html

It’s really nice when you know your favorite flower can not only just give your house a better look, but also a better indoor quality.

Gerbera Daisy

Here is a list from the @Honest Company Blog, of the best plants that can improve your indoor air quality:

• English Ivy
• Spider Plant
• Golden Pothos or Devil’s Ivy
• Peace Lily
• Chinese Evergreen
• Bamboo Palm or Reed Palm
• Snake Plant or Mother-in-law’s Tongue
• Heartleaf Philodendron
• Elephant Ear Philodendron
• Red-edged Dracaena
• Cornstalk Dracaena
• Janet Craig Dracaena
• Warneck Dracaena
• Weeping Fig
• Gerbera Daisy or Barberton Daisy
• Pot Mum or Florist’s Chrysanthemum
• Rubber Plant

You can read the Blog here:

http://blog.honest.com/the-best-houseplants-to-purify-indoor-air/#.U0ff0lVdUxB  

Quick reminder:

Be careful with Pets, some plants can be poisonous to them. 

Here is a list of these plants:

http://www.aspca.org/pet-care/animal-poison-control/17-poisonous-plants
(via @ASPCA )

You can have them around the house, just make sure too keep it away from the reach of your beloved Pets.

If  you are looking for more tips, or want to learn more about indoor and outdoor air quality, you can learn a lot here on Moms Clean Air Force Website:

http://www.momscleanairforce.org/

They do a very great and beautiful work in behalf of kids and families health.

Happy Weekend!

x 

Win Win Situation!

It’s been one year since I stopped eating meat. And with that and the many facts I already wrote here about, I also discovered the joy of cooking. 

It’s really fun and feels really great to eat something you know how was made.

I’m not an expert in the kitchen, but I can feed myself and my family sometimes. lol

My mom always made sure to cook us vegetables. And only now I realize how much I’ve learned by only watching her.  

 

Happy Wednesday!

x

Animals: Angels on Earth

I feel very blessed to be surrounded by
them. 

 ♥

Visiting my laundry...

  My neighbor's Horse & Baby horse

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Baby, Flicka & Snow.
My friend's dogs.
♥

I was distracted and this cute dude ate my lipstick at the Bus Stop.
lol ♥

Jr.

Adopted by us couple weeks ago.

♥

 Had a nice meeting with this beauty while photographing the
Nature in one of my mornings outside.

 ♥

Mom & Son.
Our babies
♥

  

Look who wanted to say hi...

♥

Saw this beautiful bird while having a nice walk
with dad.
♥

  

Nina, my bff's dog.
♥

Great meeting at the Park last month in
Belo Horizonte - Minas Gerais
♥

Léo, also one of our babies.
♥

There's no need to say more, right?

Goodbye Summer, Welcome Back Autumn!

Summer is my favorite time of the year, I had a great one,
 but it's over for now.

So, let's stick with the good memories and enjoy
the next Season.

 Welcome Autumn, with your beautiful colors!

Happy Weekend everyone!
Enjoy!

x

Living Gratefully - David Steindl-Rast

Here I was, looking for a TED Talk to watch on this lazy Sunday of mine, when I came across to this words:

Want to be Happy? Be Grateful.

 “It is not happiness that makes us grateful. It’s gratefulness that make us happy.”
David Steindl-Rast

Couldn't have asked for better start of a new week.
Truly amazing & Inspiring.

Carnival Gift ♥

Hi all!

As some of you know, last weekend we had Holiday Carnival here in Brazil.
I do love Samba, but I’m not great on the dance part and neither my friends haha, so we enjoy this Holiday playing The Corrs and Irish Music. Also, because Carnival lasts for 4 days, so we can have plenty of time together, since we live in different parts of the Country.

As much as I would love to talk about “Corrnival” and my great friends, today I’m here to talk about something really awesome that happened to me during one of those days in Belo Horizonte. 

We were playing in a public place, the environment there was awesome. Irish Music by our side and Samba by the other. Sometime on that afternoon a mom with her baby boy holding her hand approaches me and says: “He wants to see your musical instrument”. We smile at each other, I kneeled in front of him, showed him and told him to play and hold the instrument, as he did. While we were talking, playing, there was this group getting ready to perform, with this awesome and big percussion instruments called tambores. When they start to do the check sound, the little boy, scared, jumped in my neck, hugged me really tight and I hugged him back. The mom looked at me and whispered: “Thank you”.  After this, the place started to get crowded and I couldn’t say goodbye to them, but that hug was one of the best I had so far, and is really touching how kids trust in everyone and anyone. 

Wish we could all be like them.

Happy Weekend! 

Inspiring book - Christopher Gavigan

Hi all! I have a great tip for you guys this week.

Last night I finished reading the book Health Child Healthy World, by Christopher Gavigan.

Who is Christopher?

Christopher is the former CEO of Healthy Child Healthy World, and Founder and Chief Product Officer of The Honest Company. 

https://www.honest.com/

He holds degrees in Environmental Science and Geography from the University of California, Santa Barbara, and has worked as a children family specialist.

What is Healthy Child Healthy World?

It’s a nonprofit organization, dedicated to protecting children’s and families well being from harmful environmental exposures. 

To know more about Healthy Child Healthy World, access the link bellow:

http://healthychild.org/

By the title of the book, you might think: Oh… Ok, this is a book for parents, I’m not a parent yet.

Do not put the book back on the bookstore shelf, do not let the words or your first judgment fool you. This is a book, reading for everyone. From newly parents to longtime parents, roommates, and to the ones who still lives with their parents, like me, because I’m sure you love the people around you, so you will feel the need to protect them.

Christopher’s writing is truly inspiring, he knows what he is talking about. His writing makes you feel like you are sitting and listening to it in front of him.
The book is very enlightning and very easy to read, (even for me who English is not my first language).

Of course we are not aware of all the chemicals, their names and what they can do to our body. But this book is here to show us, not scary us, to show us, to open our eyes.

You might feel a little scared, overwhelmed of what chemicals are capable of, and how they are in our house everyday, and how Companies don’t even give us the proper information about it. But, besides all of that, you will feel very happy to know, to be aware of all of it, and also excited to do big changes in yours and your family lives.

But remember, don’t try to get everything done at once, or you might not getting any. 

As Christopher says:

“No one can do everything but everyone can do something.”