A Natural Home

Throw out the plastic toys.  Who knows what they have on them.  Paint? PVC? other nasty bits, the sky’s the limit.

In this day and age of recall after recall, do you really want to take that chance?  We are now offering a nice quite line of natural wood toys. NO stains, no finish, just simple.

Wooden push mowers, natural wooden doll houses, natural farm toys, blocks, stacking crates, wooden play kitchens, wooden tables and chairs, wooden pull horse, wooden pull cow , and wooden pull dog.  For the boat person in your life, a wooden pull boat!

So cut down on the plastic and things that make tons of noise, enjoy the quiet of a natural toy. 

WE are super excited to be moving the warehouse… going from a smaller space that was cluttered and disorganized,we are moving to a larger space with easy access to our store.

Because of this we will now be open from 8 am to 8 pm eastern time answering the phones and packing up orders, PLUS if you are in Ohio you can stop by anyy day of the week and shop at the showroom!

We have organic cotton pillows, organic wool pillows, shredded latex pillows, organic cotton mattresses, organic latex mattresses, baby cribs, natural sustainable beds, asian style furniture, organic pet toys, organic cat and dog beds, and all natural wood amish made toys 

Last week we went to LAs Vegas. Here I am 6 months preggers and I am schlepping a mini chair on the air plane as we forgot it at the last minute. Kenny (shipping guy) has packed it up nicely for us, which was super.

WE got off and went straight to the convention center, where there were tons of people unloading things and setting things up. They would not let our shipping guy unload in the proper place so we had to unload it ourselves and hand carry everything in. It was exhausting. Jayna and I set everything up and it looked great.

There were 2 floors on the show this year and it was huge.  4,000 vendors were there and I think the buyers were overwhlemed. We were told that 10,000 plus buyers were going to be there, but apparenlty only 3100 showed up. They were exhausted and the vendors, we were all feeling a tad desperate.

I know we personally were agressive with what we were selling, but since we were one fo the few places that was organic and NOT made in China, we had an upper hand on things.  I love saying ”made in the USA” or “made in Ohio” it was great. 

We had many people interested in what we were doing, and many more asked questions.  I think all in all it was a great show and one we will do again in the future despite the annoying union guys that were useless and not competant. 

If you expecting a new baby you are probably thinking about baby furniture.  There are tons of things to choose from, cribs, cradles, bassinets, half cribs, toddler beds, convertibles and that is just what the baby can sleep in.

Then there are changing tables, armoires, and more… We have a variety of changing tables that covert to dressers an then just changing tables that act like changing tables and do nothing more.

We also have dressers, armoires and mule chests… so if you are really looking at decking out your baby’s room, we can help you.

If you are looking for custom baby stuff, we can help with that too. You might have to wait, but if you are looking for a certain style crib done in sustainable wood tung oiled or beeswaxed finish, we can accomdate you.

As much as I like getting away and having a little vacation, I miss my organic cotton sheets, which is why this time I brought them with me when I went up to the lake at lake erie.

I despise the 50/50 blends that b and b’s and hotels use on their sheets, so we thought it would be a nice change to bring our own sheets. I am sure people thought it strange that we drug in sheets and pillows to our little cabin/ hotel, but since I was not going to get to sleep on my organic latex mattress I wanted to make sure that I got to sleep on my organic cotton sheets and organic wool pillow.

I have to say I slept pretty well. The air was cool, the water was nice, and the sheets were great.  Next time you go on vacation and think you are going to miss your organic cotton sheets, consider packing them along… you might just sleep better.

Lily our little siamese office cat loves her organic cotton bed.  She cuddles into it and when it gets dirty (as she loves to go outside) we throw it into the washing machine and dryer and it is clean a fresh (untill she gets it dirty again).

We have sold many of this organic cotton machine washable kitty beds to people and their feline friends all over and they all say they love them.  Having something that does not smell like petrol is nice and to have it machine washable is even better.

Of course Lily also gets to play with organic cotton fish and hemp balls stuffed with organic catnip and she loves those too. 

If you kitty is looking for a healthy bed that is easy for you to take care of, consider our organic cotton machine washable cat bed.

I personally like the look of dovetail, both the full on option and the half option.

The full on option is where both sides are interlocking and they show thru either side of the drawer. It is a strong hinge and you need very little if any glue.

This style is particularly lovely when you have two types of wood, so that each can show thru, we have done this with a cabinet that was done in walnut, ash, and cherry, it was quite striking.

The half option is where only 1/2 of the drawer has the dovetailing thru it, so that you can see the joinery on the side of the drawer but not the front of the piece.  It is strong, but not as strong. The advantage to this however is if you are using say poplar for the drawer sides and back and have another species in the front.  You want to avoid adding on an extra front to the drawer adding more weight and having to buy special screws.

Of course in our simply affordable dresser, we use screws as we want to keep this piece as low as possible in price.

If I had my druthers I would have all of our stuff done in dovetail, but sometimes time and money are hindrances to any project.