Ojolie.com contacted me to use and review their E-Card site, which features the hand painted works of Frederikke Tu.

I was especially interested in this, as I generally wait too long to send cards for occasions to my friends and relatives in Canada, and then they usually don’t get acknowledged for their birthdays or other occasions at all (oops).

Frederikke Tu spends weeks designing the ecards, and you can tell.  There is great attention to detail in her work.  After she hand paints many of the parts, they are then scanned, combined with Flash animation and voila, you are presented with a visually stunning story.

What sets Ojolie.com apart from the other dozens of E-card sites out there, is the originality of the flash cards they offer as well as the designs.  These aren’t your basic e-cards that most of the other sites offer, they are truly artistic and when you view them you will see what I mean.

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I admit to not having "tough" laundry loads. Meaning that except for food stains (I do have sloppy eaters in my home), I don't have a lot of outdoors or grease type stains to deal with when I do laundry. Maybe that's why laundry is my favorite household chore! It's always a good thing when I can find a detergent and stain removal products that don't just work and smell good, but are also friendly on the environment.

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Recently I was able to try a couple of eco-friendly products from ecostore USA.  Completely natural with no chemicals, their products are all safe for your home and family.
One of the products I got to try was the Auto Dish Powder.  Ecostore USA's Auto Dish Powder only requires 1 tbsp. to do a full load of dishes.
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When I clean I generally use microfiber towels. I have ones about the size of a hand towel (but square) and use them for virtually every cleaning task in my home.

Ultimate Cloth is made from MiraFiber™ Technology, which has open spaces between fibers that act as millions of tiny 'scoops' that pull dust, dirt, oil & other contaminants into the cloth and hold them until washed away with mild soap or detergent. (Can also be bleached for disinfection.)
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Today is American Recycling Day!  In one year, Marcal takes 200,000 tons of recyclable paper and makes products for your home from that.  Incredible!

I had seen Marcal on the store shelves in the past, but had never purchased them before.  Then I noticed one time going down the aisle, that it had new packaging and it was called Small Steps, and I thought "Sure, another company jumping on the green bandwagon."

But often my assumptions are wrong, as they were in this case.  After talking with someone at Marcal, I found out more information about Marcal's history and what they are all about as a company.

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