Vegan Momma

This past Christmas season was the first time that I have ever decorated our house for Christmas. It’s true. I went out and purchased a small tree and set it up for Aiyana. Naturally she was extremely excited. Since I was looking for an environmentally way to decorate my tree and home with lights I did my research. I was looking for lights that were beautiful and did not make a huge dent in my electric bill.

The search was over when found LED mini lights to decorate our tree. Not only do LED lights use 90% less energy than your typical incandescent Christmas lights they generate very little heat. It’s one degree above ambient temperature. Aiyana will attempt to get up close and personal with anything that interests her and the pretty lights that decorated our Christmas tree had her complete attention.

LED lights are extremely durable since they are encased in nearly indestructible epoxy plastic. They don’t contain fragile parts like your incandescent bulbs.
I put our tree up after we arrived home from Thanksgiving holidays, and it stayed up until the New Year. My daughter loved the pretty lights and would comment often on the pretty tree so I let her enjoy it.

A recent EPA report stated that if 20% of Americans used Christmas lights during the 30 day holiday season it would save 400GWh of electricity. Holiday LED’s offers a variety of Christmas lights to beautify your home and reduce the cost of your energy they also give you tips on saving energy for the holidays.

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This bowl is exquisite! It’s a pedestal bowl. It’s lead free. It’s also food and dishwasher safe. This is the picture that greeted me when I logged onto JacarandaStyle this morning.

I’m a crafter. I make jewelry and design clothing. I always enjoy seeing the crafts made by others. I rarely buy gifts I usually make something for an individual for me it makes the gift special when I cannot make something you’ll usually find myself shopping at stores that specializes in hand made crafts.

Jacaranda Style Supports Artists And Artisans

How does JacarandaStyle support them? They provide them with meaningful employment. The beauty in their craft is evident as you browse through the website. I’m impressed that Jacaranda Style sense of commitment to the community. JacarandaStyle realizes that they should share in the companies success.

Part Of Your Purchase Supports Physical Disabled & Visually Impaired Children

I’m also happy that a portion of my purchase goes to the Ethembeni School in South Africa. Ethembeni means “place of hope”. This school serves as a place of hope for 300 physically disabled and visually impaired children. Each year a few of the students from the Ethembeni school comes to New York City so they can run in the New York City Marathon.

About the JacarandaStyle’s Curator

Dori Rootenberg is the sole curator for JacarandaStyle. She has earned a BA in art history from Drew University. She’s traveled extensively to South Africa and met and married a South African citizen. Jacaranda Style was founded in 2002.

If you love beautifully hand crafted items or you would like to give them as a gift log onto JacarandaStyle and check out what they have to offer.  Not only will the item be ordering a one of a kind item part of your purchase will also be used to support the Ethembeni School.

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