Green Life – The Traveling Homemaker

Best day of the year: Earth Day!

April 22, 2017 Stephy Green Life, Life, Traveling

Happy Earth Day! I hope you have spent it outdoors celebrating this beautiful, wondrous, ever changing planet of ours. Or maybe you’ve spent it traveling getting to know as much of it as possible. In celebration of Earth Day, here are some pics of me exploring different parts of this world. I can’t wait to […]

World Rhino Day

September 22, 2016 Stephy Green Life, Traveling

The whole point of my trip to Africa in the spring of 2015 was to work on a rhino reservation. I chose Nakavango Conservation Programme because of the wonderful work that organization is doing to protect rhinos. On this World Rhino Day and #ThrowBackThursday I am reminded of the time my fellow volunteers and I camped out […]

Peek a boo

August 12, 2016 Stephy Green Life, Traveling

It’s World Elephant Day! And if you follow my blog you know I’m obsessed with nature and animals. I love this picture I took last year while in Africa of this elephant trying to hid in the bush. She’s doing a great job, don’t you think?

Hello Fresh

June 22, 2016 Stephy Cooking, Green Life

I am in a food rut. I’ve been working kind of crazy hours this summer which has caused me to be really lazy about going to the grocery store and coming up with different meals for dinner. Marc works like a madman always so he has no time whatsoever to go to the store, and no one […]

Easy Guide to Animal Cruelty Free Beauty & Home

June 17, 2016 Stephy Green Life, Life

About three years ago I decided that no animal should have to suffer for my vanity. That just does not seem fair in any way with all the suffering we humans inflict on animals as it is. I have always had a bleeding heart for animals. Animal suffering pulls at my heart strings more than […]

The (free!) round coffee table

March 10, 2016 Stephy DIY, Green Life

I love my new free round coffee table for so many reasons: Duh. It was free I saved it from being crushed and thrown out, so: it’s recycled It gave me a project to work on with a product I can be proud of It has opened up the space in our living room so […]

Holiday Roasted Pumpkin Soup

October 31, 2015October 31, 2015 Stephy Cooking, Green Life

Cold fall weather and hot comforting soups go hand in hand like ice cream and summer. What’s better than coming in from the cold to fill your belly with a bowl of warm, delicious soup? And what’s better than being able to reduce, reuse, recycle something you have already purchased for another great use? So how […]

World Lion Day 2015 – In Honor of Cecil

August 10, 2015August 10, 2015 Stephy Green Life, Life, Traveling

Today is World Lion Day and of course this year it’s more emotional and poignant than in others after the brutal death of Cecil the Lion. I was just in Zimbabwe this past March and some of my fellow volunteers visited Hwange National Park, which is where Cecil lived. Protected. They came home to the […]

Almond Parsley Pesto

April 21, 2015April 21, 2015 Stephy Cooking, Gardening, Green Life

You guys have already heard me talk about how much I love parsley. It adds such a great flavor to so many foods. Plus, that little green leaf packs almost as powerful a punch as kale and spinach and even outshines them in some categories. It has more iron than kale and has a crazy […]