A Natural Home

We are looking at trade shows to do in 2007.  We are doing a local show at oeffa.org in Ohio, which we have done for the last 4 years. It is great fun, talking with organic farmers and being real.  In fact this year Susie is going to talk about simple ways you can make your home more natural and organic.  It is a small show and we do not see many non Oeffa members. Spreading our wings would be a good thing for 2007.

We have been looking at the green festival, in Chicago, which is not too far away.  They have a nice kids area, which might fit in well with our cribs.  We are doing ABC show in Las Vegas in September, but we are not sure what Green shows to do. There is the mix of consumer show or merchant trade show. Which one would be the best fit?  A consumer show does allow us to sell retail, but a wholesale trade show can allow more dealers to see us, which I think would be a good thing.

We want to get out there more with our organic furniture and baby mattresses and cribs, but are not sure where else we should be this year. 

I am going to do a little more research out there and see what other shows might be good to do. Maybe OTA has something interesting, or HIA?  I will have to look.  If anyone has some great suggestions, please feel free to drop us a line and suggest away. 

I love my organic wool pillow.  It calms me at night and makes me stop thinking so darn much.  It keeps my head warm in the winter and cool in the summer. 

I had an organic cotton one and it was great for about 3 months and then it started getting flatter and flatter. I mean if you like a flat pillow then an organic cotton one is great.Of course if you are a vegan, then you will not want a wool pillow at all, but if you are not vegan or allergic to organic wool (which is rare) then an organic wool pillow is great.

Now my kids love their shredded rubber pillows, they take them in the car and over to friends homes.  I had one, but I did not care for the smell.  The neat thing about shredded rubber pillows is that you can wash them in the washing machine. Which is great since how often can you wash a natural pillow?

Pillows are such a subjective thing, if you like one you might not like another.  Since there are so many types of pillows out there (includig synthetic poly pillows, and feather pillows), you can buy he one that works for you.

For years people were asking us to make cribs.  So finally after dealing with a long arduaous process of obtaining insurance, we finally started making baby cribs.

We started with simple crib with a flexible mattress level that can be adjusted as the child gets bigger.  Of course the Simply Affordable crib does not covert to a toddler bed, but then by the time that your toddler is ready for a bed, you can purchase one of our natural toddler beds, or move your child into a twin or twin Xl bed.

The baby crib that you put your baby in should be of solid wood and all natural. You spend good money to buy an organic baby mattress, why put your baby in a plywood poly finished crib.

Our cribs are made from solid wood in ash, oak, cherry or walnut. Upon occasion we do them in maple, when ask politely.  We use all natural tung oil, from eco-house.com. This is the best tung oil finish that we could find, and we will not use anything else, unless someone suggests something better.

Feel free to call us and ask us about our easy to put together natural Amish made cribs.