Green Living
Dear Community,
Our tech team has launched updates to The Nest today. As a result of these updates, members of the Nest Community will need to change their password in order to continue participating in the community. In addition, The Nest community member's avatars will be replaced with generic default avatars. If you wish to revert to your original avatar, you will need to re-upload it via The Nest.
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Note: This only affects The Nest's community members and will not affect members on The Bump or The Knot.
Our tech team has launched updates to The Nest today. As a result of these updates, members of the Nest Community will need to change their password in order to continue participating in the community. In addition, The Nest community member's avatars will be replaced with generic default avatars. If you wish to revert to your original avatar, you will need to re-upload it via The Nest.
If you have questions about this, please email help@theknot.com.
Thank you.
Note: This only affects The Nest's community members and will not affect members on The Bump or The Knot.
Eco Friendly Baby Shower
We are throwing a baby shower for my sister this summer. She is extremely environmentally conscious in everything she does, lives very "green". We wanted to do an eco friendly shower, with an earthy theme, just looking for ideas. We are having all local organic food, and compostable tableware, and asking guests not to wrap the gifts. Anyone have any other suggestions?
Re: Eco Friendly Baby Shower
I just saw a blog where they used empty cans (beans, veggies) as a mini-pot for a flower. Decor and favor in one.
Depending on the size, using real dishes and silverware is better than compostable. That only works for a small party, though.
Skip silly decorations - streamers, balloons, plastic crap. If it's summer, perhaps someone has fresh flowers from their garden?
If the mom has a cloth diaper registry, point people to it! I would have loved to get some cloth diapers.
Best sound ever: baby's heartbeat! (Heard @ 10w1d)
Ask for the gift wrap to be "old newspaper" instead, or most guests will ignore the direction because they will be afraid to be the only one showing up with a bare box (unless she has super-green friends as well). This is what happened at my bridal shower.
On a side note - my friends attempted to throw a "green" shower for me which was a total disaster. Since my friends have no idea what that is, and often make fun of me for my efforts - It was the total opposite of green! Good luck, it sounds like you are really committed to the theme and I am sure your friend will love her shower!
I got gifts wrapped on receiving blankets, towels etc. It was awesome!
Can you do evites instead of paper invites and have the RSVP's be via phone and email?