A great way to help. The movement starts with us!!

Our beautiful Sandia Mountains with the Rio Grande in the forefront. Viewed from near the Coronado ancient ruins site and campground near the Santa Ana Pueblo just north of Albuquerque.

Earth Justice is a legal group that fights on the behalf of environmental causes. Click on this link and sign the petition that resonates with you. Or better yet, all of them!! We can make a difference!! Any advocacy for a cause that helps the environment and the conservation effort is a benefit to us all! Thanks!https://earthjustice.org/features/2017-earthjustice-year-in-pictures


The path to a better future starts with each of us. We just need to take that first step. 
Peace, Melanie

Thoughts on the term Boho or Bohemian.. Why it fits here

What is Boho anyways?? A short history of the original bohemian, the new bohemian and modern day relevance.. This is something I've been wanting to check out for a while.. I knew the word as it applies to decor.. 70s paisley prints and textile art, macrame.. Or the stereotypical bohemian of the 1950s with their poetry readings and bongos.. But wasn't there more to it??


Czech people with varied ethnic origins who spoke many different languages were called Bohemians in the early 20th century. They frequently intermarried and the term Bohemia came to be used in this area for people with diverse ethnic origins. "Bohemian was associated with a socially unconventional arts oriented person of an unconventional wandering lifestyle focused on literary, artistic or musical pursuits."
The first English usage described the artistic groups associated with anti-establishment views expressed through free love, a distaste for the shallow ideals of a money based society, and sometimes even voluntary poverty. "Bohemians lived outside conventional society, untroubled by it's disapproval."

"What is it then that makes this mystical Empire of Bohemia unique, and what is the charm of it's mental fairyland? It's this; there are no roads in all Bohemia!! One must choose and find ones own path, be ones own self, live ones own life."

Whoa.. Sounds cool!! How can we apply this philosophy to our present? When you hear the word BoHo or Bohemian what image appears?? The BoHo ideals picked up by The hippies in the sixties weren't just a fad, it was an earth based collective growing movement that was so powerful that the government got scared and had to shut us down with mass fluoridation without our consent for our own "benefit." That's another story,  conjecture and my opinion of course, but the timing is notable. The beginning of the mass implementation of fluoride into our water supply was 1970. Summer of love was 1969. Coincidence? Nahhh, not to me..

(Prince, a good example of someone who I think had the mindset of a modern Bohemian๐Ÿ’œ)

These kids were on to something paradigm shifting and monumental. A real change in the collective conciousness that would benefit society and the planet as a whole globally. I say we pick up where they left off.. This is something we all can get behind on a world wide basis. Let's dream big, reach for the stars.. We can all go pick up some crazy idea and change the world๐ŸŒ


Manifesto

๐ŸŽถ"Don't it always seem to go.. That you don't know what you got 'til it's gone."๐ŸŽถ
-Joni Mitchell

Whatever happened to those great political protest songs??
Like Country Joe at Woodstock??
But I'm getting way off track here...
This is my...

๐ŸŒŽ๐ŸŽProject Boho Creative Upcycling๐ŸŽ๐ŸŒŽ

                    ๐Ÿ“ป✌Manifesto✌๐Ÿ“ป

A perfect world to me would be an absolute termination of all manufacturing and production forever. We have more than enough stuff in the world that we don't need. It's time to get consciously creative and repurpose like we mean it!! We would have to approach the project a little differently and practice mindful conservation by using up materials and supplies we have on hand currently and reassess our sourcing. Its not hard at all once you get used to it!! All my projects are eco-minded and practical using recycled and typically thrown away materials with little to no end product waste. A main focus for me when I'm on a project is to make sure 100% of materials are used even if that takes a little extra thought and time. Scraps are saved for future projects. This helps to increase your end product vibration ( and your own energy will resonate at a higher frequency!!)

 You get a few of these high energy craft projects in your home you can change the energy in your whole house. Change your whole house and you can change your neighborhood. Change your neighborhood your can change your state... Change your state you can change your country. And so on...
✌๐Ÿ’—๐ŸŒŸ&๐ŸŒŽ

And anyone reading this that has a favorite upcycled project or idea please leave a link in the comments!! I would LOVE to see them!!
✌&๐Ÿ’—-Mel

This was one of my favorite easy eco -friendly projects. I love the no color color and how well it goes with the deer skull.
These hanging planters are so useful and easy to make with low cost supplies that you probably have at home. EASY!!Easy Knotted Plant Hanger 5 Minute Project If you can tie a knot you can do this project!!๐Ÿ˜Š I believe in you!! Natural fibers look best and are durable and biodegradable. ( cotton or hemp fiber  rope!!)

Manifesting challenging large repurposed meditation tent sewing project.. Success despite Mercury retrograde.. Thanks to a little help from divine timing!!๐Ÿ’ก๐ŸŒŸ๐ŸŽช

12/13/2017
An upcycling sewing project I just completed!! I thought this was going to be a quick finish.. Two weeks and three broken machine needles later I am finally done!! I sourced material from the local ABQ Savers, I didn't have the right kind of fabric on hand and after an unproductive hunt for vintage material that was durable enough to use I was at a loss.. Wandering around the thrift store aisles frustrated and trying to brainstorm (on Black Friday what was I thinking) I ended up in the ladies skirt section, I look over and there is the perfect earth tone paisley, durable weight hippie skirt for $2.99. Ahh!! I then quickly found 4 more in complementary earth tones! And 50% off! When I got home and laid out the skirt fabric I had 40.58 feet of beautiful vintage fabric. I had previously measured the space and needed 40.5 feet. Perfect! I even had enough left for a few pillows and to mod podge an old paper hanging lampshade with the scraps.
#projectboho #meditationtent #upcycle #repurpose #textileart #meditate #boho #hippie #recycle #70s #vintage
A much bigger project than I thought but I love how it turned out!!

I kept the fabric panels separate so it will be multipurpose to use indoors or out. Hoping to take camping and on roadtrips next summer!!

  1. The synchronicities were strong during this project!! Yardage worked out exactly perfect, (I did not measure at the store just did a very rough eyeball estimate) and the buttons from the four different skirt fabrics lined up perfectly to make the tent door.๐Ÿ‘๐ŸŒ™๐ŸŒŸ







Adds a cozy bohemian vibe to the RV!! This was one of my more challenging projects as I had no pattern just an idea in my head. It really was so much fun though and I'm very happy with the end result.

Just enough left over fabric scraps to Mod Podge an old paper hanging lamp that had large tears and was previously unusable.  

Conservation Meditations

Just wanted to pass this along... VERY CONCERNING!!!!  Anything we can do to reduce plastic use even one thing to start with would be a huge...