So, I debated, I polled my readers and I debated some more. I simply wasn’t happy with the last redesign of the Eco-Office Gals site. So, I re-re-designed it with an awesome StudioPress Theme and I am very happy with the results!

I feel that it’s less busy, has a nice home page that highlights the company and our services more. I also designed a brand new logo, featuring bamboo. Bamboo is a sustainable grass used in so many products, including office supplies, building and furniture. I thought it was a nice fit for Eco-Office Gals since we promote the growth of green and sustainable business.

The new site has also streamlined and separated some of the services available. You will now find that our WordPress Theme design has it’s own page since it is a large area of our business. You can still view all our other green and paperless services on our Services page.

Leave a comment letting us know what you think of the new design and as always feel free to contact us so you can grow your business green today!

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Eco-Office Gals Is Live, again…

Out with the old, I decided it was time for a change. Eco-Office Gals has a fresh look, new theme, new colors, new new new! So take a look let me know what you think. See some thing I missed, don’t see something you wish was here? Leave me a comment or contact me directly!

And yes, I did the design… Love It? Want a new look for your WordPress site? Let’s talk!

PS: Big Thanks to Lisa at Cactus and Ivy for helping me out of my brain drain this morning!

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Brand New Eco-Office Gals!

There is so much to be thankful for so far this month and I would like to take this post to send out some official “Thank You” shout outs!

First, thank you for voting in this incredible election!  Regardless as as to whether the election swayed in your favor or not you made a difference by voting!

Next, to all those that donated to the Eco-Office Gals Relaunch, it wouldn’t have happened without you, please take a moment to visit these wonderful companies:

• Cactus & Ivy
• Green Path Company
• Affordable Mineral Make Up
• Scent-Sations
• Natural n Healthy
• Sarva Natural Artisan Soap
• Truly Organic Beauty
• Bottles Up Designs
• Bonobo Kids

Finally, thank you to all those that have been trusting me with their WordPress blogs.  I have been designing several new cutom WP themes around the blogoshpere.  Hope you’ll take a moment to check them out, let me know what you think of them and contact Eco-Office Gals if you would be interested in one of your own!

• Kidz Comfort
• Organic Yoga Mom
• Florida Condo 4 Sale
• Organise Your Business
• Virtual Blog Tours

Thank You all once again!
Grow Green!

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Thank You! Thank You!

No you are not opening and old post!  When I approached companies to participate in the Eco-Office Gals Relaunch Lisa was generous enough to offer TWO “You’re The Balm” Bags! Thank you to my new Twitter buddy & fellow South Carolinian! Since things got behind due to the feedburner issue this last giveaway will run through the weekend!

Cactus & Ivy is a cruelty free and vegan manufacturer of natural spa, bath and body products.  Cactus & Ivy is committed to offering products free of animal testing, artificial flavors, colors and fragrance. They utilize oils that are high in Omega 3, Vitamin A, C, D, E & F, Oleic Acid, Palmitoleic Acid & Linoleic Acid to revitalize and restore the skins normal balance.

Cactus & Ivy is offering this wonderful “You’re The Balm!” Bag a $29.25 retail value:

• Peppermint Tree Foot Balm – Our signature balm! A soothing blend of oils and vegetable waxes to create a balm perfect for daily moisturizing of your feet. Use this balm as needed or for an intense overnight treatment.

• Butter Me Up Body Balm – A combination of soothing oils and cocoa butter give this balm a nice glide on your skin.  Perfect for after shave use, soothe sun burned skin or an all over intense moisturizer for dry, itchy skin, especially on the knees and elbows.

• Lip Service Lip Balm – Creamy blend of oils, candelilla wax, grapefruit seed extract, vitamin E, plain or essential oils of spearmint and peppermint.

Want to win this “You’re the Balm” bag?  Either visit Cactus & Ivy and come back here to comment on your favorite product, sign up for the Eco-Office Gals updates and comment to let me know you did… or both for 2 entries!  Let others know about today’s giveaway by posting on your blog or Twitter for additional entries.   For each entry leave a separate comment.  Winners will be announced this evening! Good luck!!

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“You’re The Balm” Revisited!

Feedburner messed things up and did not let my post go out until late yesterday, so I am going to run this one another day.  Our final giveaway will be held on a weekend wrap up!  Good Luck!

Meet Lucy. She’s a bonobo and she’s a lot like you! In this story, you’ll learn about Lucy and her family and see amazing photographs that will make you laugh out loud. What is a bonobo? Bonobos are our closest great ape relatives who live in a uniquely peaceful and matriarchal society. Tragically, scientists predict bonobo extinction within 10 years unless humans protect them and their habitat, the rainforests of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) in Africa. YOU CAN HELP! All profits from I’m Lucy go to the Bonobo Conservation Initiative and Jane Goodall’s Roots and Shoots program – organizations working to save the bonobos and the Earth. Learn more on our website: www.bonobokids.org. Login with the special code inside this book for your very own virtual bonobo friend and earn points for helping endangered creatures and our world. Take the Bonobo Challenge by joining our blog community and find out how you can make a real and ongoing difference. Features a special afterword by world-renowned primatologist Jane Goodall!

‘I’m Lucy’ must be purchased from the Bonobo site directly in order for the profits to be donated.

So, since this site site only features one product we are going to switch things up and rally up some social networking luv today!  Visit Bonobo kids and/or the Eco-Office Gals site read something new, find something you love and be social!  Stumble, Twitter, blog, RSS, forums whatever your poison – just spread the word!  Come back here and leave a separate comment for each one you did and for which site. Oh yah, and should you choose to go to the site and buy this book for a great cause… yah, that’s an entry too!

Have fun & Good Luck!  Winner will be announced this evening!

Sorry for the delay in announcing a winner on this.  Since there were only 2 comments I gave the prizr donor the option to choose which of the two comments she would like to award the book.  She responded today and the winner is…

I sent out an email blurb to all my wahm and sahms, friends, family, you name it telling them about Eco-officegals and bonobo website. I showed the website to my girls, ages 5 and 3 1/2 the http://www.bonobokids.org and they loved looking around the website. so we searched more websites for kids about bonobos. and so did a little lesson today about jane goodall. here is the official jande goodall site. ( i do unofficial homeschooling with my girls)… and this website made an excellent informational website as well as topics of discussion for today.
she is an amazing woman. http://www.janegoodall.com/ Go spread the knowledge.
have a great day today.
jennifer f.

Congrats Jennifer!

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Eco-Office Giveaway: Bonobo Kids!

Michele is a representative for Organic and Natural Enterprise Group (or ONEgroup), an Australian based company which creates and manufactures the world’s first Certified Organic skincare, haircare, personal care, health care and cosmetic products.  The range of products stand in a class of their own by being independently certified to international food grade standards by some of the world’s most respected organic certifying organizations, namely, Australian Certified Organic (ACO), the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) and IFOAM (Europe).  ONE Group’s vision is to be an outstanding enterprise of inspiration, conviction, and integrity that is a force for change towards ethical and ecological business practices while making a positive difference in the lives of our Independent Representatives, customers, employees and their families throughout the world.

Michele is giving away a full size Organic Roll-On Deodorant. Stay naturally fresh all day.  No aluminum compounds or chemical antiperspirants.  Based on the traditional remedies of bicarbonate of soda to eliminate odors and aloe vera to soothe.  An effective formula, even for the most active person.  Available in 3 scents – Tahitian Breeze, Ancient Spice & Aroma Free – winner gets to choose.

Enter to win this organic deodorant!  Either visit Truly Organic Beauty and come back here to comment on your favorite product, sign up for the Eco-Office Gals updates and comment to let me know you did… or both for 2 entries!  Let others know about today’s giveaway by posting on your blog or Twitter for additional entries.   For each entry leave a separate comment.  Winners will be announced this evening! Good luck!!

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Here are your random numbers:

4

Timestamp: 2008-10-29 00:58:55 UTC

Congrats Sandy!

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Eco-Office Gals Re-Launch: Miessence Giveaway!

Sarva Natural Artisan Soaps are all-natural luxury vegetable soaps, crafted in artisanal fashion, in harmony with nature.   Sarva soaps are artistic, exclusive treasures from one single artisan who practices her craft in an old-fashioned way, working entirely by hand, in very small batches.  These soaps are getting a lot of attention lately… the Handcrafted Soapmaker’s Guild has chosen to use a photo of Sarva soaps for their ad in the Holiday issue of Martha Stewart’s Body + Soul Magazine!

Sarva soaps are:

• crafted entirely by hand, start to finish, in small batches
• rich in natural glycerin, often removed from commercial soaps
• full of nature’s finest… pampering vegetable oils and luxury ingredients
• scented with carefully selected custom-blended essential oils
• colored with botanicals, spices, and clays
• cruelty free, vegetarian friendly
• fully biodegradable
• packaged in recycled and recyclable materials

Sarva offers you this one-of-a-kind Spa Series Trio, valued at $22.50, a custom creation just for this giveaway!  Packaged in all recycled papers and tied with natural jute twine, this is eco-friendly luxury at its finest.

• Benigara:  The word Benigara refers to a very particular shade of red in the Japanese language, the oxide red stain of traditional Japanese buildings. You’ll find that same shade of red in the speckles in this soap, along with a mysterious, meditative essential oil blend reminiscent of the finest Asian incense. This luxury formulation contains rice bran oil and macadamia nut oil, both very popular in Japanese culture for skin care.
• Oats and Honey:  Sweet mildness! You won’t believe the lather.  Oat flour and nurturing honey in a silky soymilk base, with a heavenly toasted honey-oat scent. (Remember Bit-O-Honey candies? Yep, just like that.) Superfatted with rich apricot kernel oil.  Sarva supports local business and uses local raw Ohio honey.
• Miss Lily: Originally designed as a soap for babies and named after one very special little person… but grownups love it just as much!  Miss Lily has a gentle, abundant, creamy lather. There is just a touch of lavender essential oil, providing a soft, comforting scent.  Calendula-infused olive oil, along with shea butter, creates a wonderfully mild formula. All pigments are natural, so there’s nothing funky going on your skin!

Want to win this fabulous Sarva Spa Series custom soap trio?  Either visit Sarva Natural Artisan Soaps and come back here to comment on your favorite product, sign up for the Eco-Office Gals updates and comment to let me know you did… or both for 2 entries!  Let others know about today’s giveaway by posting on your blog or Twitter for additional entries.   For each entry leave a separate comment.  Winners will be announced this evening! Good luck!!

Here are your random numbers:

25

Timestamp: 2008-10-28 00:46:30 UTC

Jen at Caterpillars Soy Candles Conagrats

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Eco-Office Giveaway: Spa Series Soap Trio

Today’s giveaway is brought to you by Pam of Natural n Healthy, a representative of Shaklee.

At Shaklee they believe cleaning house shouldn’t involve dirtying the earth. Get Clean™ products use biodegradable cleaning agents, which means they break down easily instead of hanging out in the ground for hundreds of years. They also have no phosphates, borates, nitrates, or other stuff the planet doesn’t appreciate. And by making them superconcentrated, we leave you to add water so we can subtract waste. This has tons of implications. Literally. Less weight to ship. Less product to use. Less packaging to throw away. So you can get that clean feeling about your house, knowing you’re keeping the planet clean, too.

Pam’s giveaway includes:

An unbelievable 48 gallons of super-safe, really powerful, double-concentrated clean come out of this one little16-ounce bottle. Can be mixed into about  214 28oz bottles of ready-to-use all-purpose cleaner. Can also be mixed as a Glass and Window cleaner and a Degreaser.

Included are 3 Get Clean handy spray bottles! Each bottle is labeled with instructions for mixing Basic H2 for All Purpose Cleaning (leaf), Glass Cleaning (butterfly), and Degreasing (flower). Bottles have ounce measurements along the side and ‘Get Clean beliefs’ around the bottom.

I’m going to switch things up a bit today and add some friendly competition! To win today’s giveaway be the 100th commenter in regard to one or more of the following:

• You signed up for my RSS feed

• You have viewed Natural n Healthy, comment on the product you liked most

• You have used Shaklee products, comment on your favorite

• Twitter/blog/stumble etc. about this giveaway (leave one comment for each action)

Please leave a separate comment for each entry.  Entries that do not follow the guidelines above will be deleted.  If you are reading this post in your e-mail or feed click here to comment.

Good luck!

Jen

Here are your random numbers:

3

Timestamp: 2008-10-25 23:39:21 UTC

Crunchy Domestic Goddess! Come on Down!

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Eco-Office Gals Relaunch Giveaway: Green Cleaning

Love Candles? Try one that releases maximum scent without the black soot a paraffin candle leaves behind.  A blend of vegetable wax and wicks that are lead free and also core free (no zinc) and are made from 100% cotton.

Today Carolyn is offering one of Eco-Office Gals readers a 16oz jar candle from Mia Bella.

Additionally, Carolyn is offering 25% OFF any of her in-stock inventory and her wonderful Christmas Baskets.  Just mention Eco-Office Gals to receive this great discount before the Holidays! Contact Carolyn for more information about her sale items!

Get your entry in for one of Carolyn’s candles by either visiting Scent-Sations and come back here to comment on your favorite product, sign up for the Eco-Office Gals updates and comment to let me know you did… or both for 2 entries!  Let others know about today’s giveaway by posting on your blog or Twitter for additional entries.   For each entry leave a separate comment.  Winners will be announced this evening! Good luck!!

And the winner is…

Here are your random numbers:

4

Timestamp: 2008-10-24 02:02:31 UTC

Congrats Elizabeth!

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Giveaway: Love Candles?

Now that I work from the comfort of my home I don’t wear as much make up as I used to.  This may be a good thing since I started learning about the… let’s leave it at the generic term “stuff” they put in it.  Mineral make up is great natural alternative to the laundry list of “gunk” we typically put on.

Today’s giveaway is a $25 gift certificate from Tammy of Affordable Mineral Make Up

Affordable Mineral Makeup is for the tween, teen, woman who wants soft, radiant looking skin. Affordable Mineral Makeup™ is for all skin tones & shades & is multi-purpose and very versatile.

Affordable Mineral Makeup™ is formulated using the highest quality minerals; being naturally preservative and irritant-free it is also weightless and incredibly long-wearing.

• No harmful Bismuth in our products
• No fillers or talc
• No cornstarch
• No chemicals
• No parabens
• No petroleum, oils or dyes
• No preservatives
• No animal testing

Want to win this $25 gift certificate?  Either visit Affordable Mineral Make Up and come back here to comment on your favorite product, sign up for the Eco-Office Gals updates and comment to let me know you did… or both for 2 entries!  Let others know about today’s giveaway by posting on your blog or Twitter for additional entries.   For each entry leave a separate comment.  Winners will be announced this evening! Good luck!!

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Here are your random numbers:

10

Timestamp: 2008-10-23 01:17:52 UTC

Congrats Kelly!  See everyone tomorrow!

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Eco-Office Gals: Make Up Giveaway!