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Finally the winter is nearly behind us.  The early bulbs are poking their heads out and the snowdrops are looking beautiful, having only just missed the snow.

EcoCharlie offers a great selection of eco-friendly gradening provisions.  They offer value birdseed and organic plant feed and ever fancied growing your own mushrooms?   I love the recycled tubtrugs and the natural biodegradable bamboo pots.

Hello and Happy New Year to one and all, thanks for all your support in the last two years. You have made ecoccasions what it is today.

If you are like me and fed up with the snow and yearn for some glorious sunshine, then look no further than Responsible Travel. They are my absolute favourite travel agency when looking for an eco holiday. Maybe  I will join you?

Hi all, I’m back …I know it has been a hell of a long since I made my last post.  Life has flown by with kids, family and travel being responsible for my sabbatical.  From here on in I intend to pick up the baton once again.

A dear friend of mine has created a fabulous website for all discount seeking shoppers, it’s in the voucher codes market place.  I highly recommend you check it out

Tips to make your Halloween more eco-friendly:

Make your own Halloween costumes – check out what you have around the house or check out charity shops for items to use.  Use face-paint or make your own masks.  Use card board, alluminium, bin bags, unwanted material – black velvet is great.

Apple bobbing is a firm favourite.  It’s fun and healthy!  Just float apples in a large bowl of water and take turns trying to take an apple out with your teeth – mind the face paint! 

Bake cakes and anything else but add weird and wonderful food colouring.

Pumpkins are a great eco-friendly decoration.  Cut faces out of pumpkins and insert a candle and after use they can be thrown on the compost!  And in the future why no consider growing your own!  

Use up all the sweets you accumulate during the year for dishing out to trick or treaters.  We have about three jars by the time Halloween comes along and otherwise they’ll be thrown away.  Alternatively buy fair-trade, organic and natural ingredient sweets or dish out a variety of fruits, small toys and crayons.

Have a spooky time!

I know that I am not the only one who believes Halloween has turned into the huge farce in our celebratory calender.  Not only can you not walk into a shop without being affronted with every kind of costume, consumables, decorations and now spooky music CDs (quite absurd I thought) but the time shops are stocking up is almost as ridiculous as for Christmas.

Hey, now I don’t wish to be a party pooper, but as you may have gathered – there is a better way!

I was brought up on Halloween parties!  My mum used to black out our front room and create a ghost tunnel using mainly blankets and string…   I know I was spoilt!

The history of Halloween is ancient and interesting and makes you appreciate it all the more.

Check out our eco-friendly Halloween tips coming soon.

As featured on the Dragon’s Den the Tiny Box Company is going from strength to strength.   Ecoccasions support any company with the vision to use their business sense to help reduce waste and protect endangered species and forests. 

Shame on you Deborah Meaden – excuse for not getting involved being that the consumer did not yet provide a big enough market – surely with an environmentalist sympathy and portfolio you are in an ideal position to start changing perceptions and help market growth!

Whether you require a box for postage, wrap or tissue of the recycled persuasion check out what the Tiny Box Company has to offer!